Ginga Tensei!
Announced at SDCC with coverage via Powerrangersnow, we just have confirmation that our friends over at Shout! Factory will be releasing Seijuu Sentai Gingaman on DVD with English subtitles.
Gingaman began airing in 1998 and would later become the basis for Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Price and the exact release date wasn’t disclosed, but we can expect this to hit shelves early 2018.
Everyone’s favorite boat-faced Kamen Rider: S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Snipe Simulation Gamer Level 50 was announced as the next entry of Bandai’s Kamen Rider Ex-Aid S.H.Figuarts releases, the pre orders began for this piece during the news bombshell that was SDCC and with that, we have pricing and release date.
S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Snipe Simulation Gamer Level 50 is a P-Bandai online shop exclusive slated for release in December with a price tag of 6,480 yen before shipping and middleman fees.
FUSION UP!
Joining along side Kamen Rider 1 and Takeshi Hongo for our December Tamashii Pick-Up, we have S.H.Figuarts Ultraman Orb Spacium Zeprion, first shown at Tamashii Nation Shanghai sometime ago.
Price for this piece is currently unknown, but the image gallery does show he’ll at least include one effect part.
RIDER….HENSHIN!
After being teased in various magazines toy shows, the Granddaddy of all Kamen Riders is finally going to be released in the S.H.Figuarts line!
Coming in the December batch of Tamashii Pick-Ups, we have S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider 1 joined by his human identity: S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo, rendered in a close likeness to actor Hiroshi Fujioka. Apparently, both will be mass retail releases with only Rider 1 having a known price of 6480 yen, the price on Takeshi Hongo and any included accessories are currently not known as of this writing.
After an exciting teaser earlier this year, the iconic Jaeger Gipsy Danger from fan-favorite monster/robot action movie Pacific Rim is officially joining the Soul of Chogokin action figure series!
Designated as release number GX-77 in the Soul of Chogokin lineup, Gipsy Danger is recreated in exquisite detail, featuring a variety of screen-accurate weapons (including the carrier ship used as an impromptu club at one memorable moment). An electronic feature is also included- lights are planted in Gipsy’s head, chest and plasma-cannon arms.
GX-77 Gipsy Danger is currently scheduled for release in February 2018! The price is a sound 27000 Yen (or roughly $243 USD at current exchange rate). This figure is now available for preorder at all major tokusatsu retailers!
Another entry in the GARO universe is coming to theaters in 2018!
Officially titled Garo: Kami No Kiba this film will once again follow the adventures of Dogai Ryuga as the Golden Knight! Actor Wataru Kuriyama returns once again as Ryuga, finally concluding his character arc that began in 2013’s Garo: Yami o Terasu Mono.
But Kuriyama is not the only familiar face among this cast-
*Junya Ikeda (Gokai Silver) reprises his role as Makai Knight Takeru
*Tsunori Aoki (Kamen Rider Duke) returns to play the Makai Knight Aguri
*Masahiro Inoue (Kamen Rider Decade) once again portrays the villain Zinga
An all-star lineup for GARO & tokusatsu fans!
Franchise creator Keita Amemiya will direct this new film, but sadly no other release information is available at time of writing. Stay tuned to Tokunation as we keep you up to date on all GARO reveals!
One of the items on display at this year’s San Diego Comic Con was the upcoming EFX Collectibles Mighty Morphin Green Ranger helmet. We took a full gallery of this gorgeous item – check it out by clicking the title of the story.
Toy company Jada had the Metallicfigs Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on display at their booth at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out our full gallery by clicking the title of the story.
The first teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising has been posted online!
This brief video gives fans a history of the iconic Jaeger Program that saved humanity during the Kaiju War of Pacific Rim and features new lead actor John Boyega encouraging fans to join the Program & save the world once again!
But that’s not all for Pacific Rim today- a new viral marketing campaign has been launched, via GoJaeger.com that will provide fans with new information about the film and its universe as we move close to its release.
Stay tuned to TokuNation for all Pacific Rim news!
As SDCC 2017 rages on and our news crew fights valiantly to bring us news & reveals, they’ve popped into the Power Rangers panel to snag us all the cool info this year! Here’s the highlights of what Kickback and the gang saw and heard at the panel
If you’d like to see the entire panel, you can! Just check out this tweet!
Stay tuned to TokuNation here and on twitter (@Tokunation) as we continue our LIVE coverage from the SDCC 2017 show floor!