Nickelodeon has recently aired a special new promo highlighting the long-awaited return of Power Rangers Dino SuperCharge!
This brief video gives fans an early preview of some new allies, new villains and new Megazords-
Power Rangers Dino SuperCharge begins airing new episodes on Saturday, August 20 2016!
Thanks to Bandai America we have our first look at this years Power Morphicon Exclusive figure!
This years exclusive will be a Black & Gold repaint of the popular Legacy 6.5″ Megazord Build A Figure! Limited to only 500 these will be a hot commodity at this years show. Be sure if you’re head out to PMC to keep an eye out for this elusive exclusive.
Most importantly of all, enjoy the con! We’ll begin our news coverage from the ground as soon as it opens. As always you can follow @rankal (AKA Kickback) for on the fly updates and be sure to stay up to date with the official @TokuNation account for news as it breaks!
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And we’re back to kick off a new month of toy galleries with another classic character from 1990’s Tokkei Winspector! Earlier this year we took a look at the team leader of Winspector with S.H. Figuarts Fire. Today we get to examine one of Fires’ two robotic partners, S.H. Figuarts Bikel!
Bikel builds on the already solid design and accessory count of Fire, and gives us just a little bit more. Managing to have a ton of personality, Bikel is one of the more interesting robots you could have in your collection. His wild & rambunctious attitude in the show is conveyed perfectly in this excellent figure. Bikel includes his Daytric M2 Sidearm, his signature Bispears in multiple forms, 4 sets of hands, and even a tiny to scale figure of Demitasse, the Winspector’s tiny robotic ally!
We’ve attached a selection of images to this post but you can click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to view the entire 70+ image gallery! We’ll be back next week with another ghostly addition to our galleries as well!
KAIGAN!
Premium Bandai’s latest Ghost Change release was revealed earlier today, GCPB02 is a set that will contain Dark Ghost along Napoleon and Darwin Damashiis from Ghost’s summer movie. In addition, the set will also come with Necrom’s Gan Gun Catcher and Deep Spectre’s Deep Slasher, both accessories which were missing from their respective Ghost Change releases.
GCPB02 will be released this January, with a retail price tag of 6,804 yen before any middleman fees and overseas shipping charges.
Toho just registered a rather curious domain name; listed as Godzilla-Anime.com. A Godzilla anime could be in the works, but there’s not a whole lot of info to go on at the moment so unfortunately we don’t know if the project will be an OVA, movie, series, or somehow tied to the Neon Genesis Evangelion cross promotion that’s been going on as of late.
Godzilla’s first anime appearance was in a crossover episode with the Crayon Shin Chan series, prior to that was the 1998 Animated series which aired on Fox Kids well over 17 years ago!
Stay tuned and we’ll be sure to bring you more up to date information as soon as it becomes avalaible.
With the Official Power Morphicon less than two weeks away, the team has posted their tentative panel schedule online! It is always subject to change but this year features something not seen before – NO DUPLICATE PANELS! That’s right – the crew this year has organized such an awesome event that there’s literally no room to do the same panel twice. We’ve highlighted some of the panels we thought were very interesting. Check out the full schedule by clicking here – and check out some of the “do not miss” panels below!
Friday
6:00pm – Writing and Producing Power Rangers with Judd “Chip” Lynn
7:00pm – Scripts, Props, and Costumes: Making Power Rangers
8:00pm – Making Fan Films
Saturday
11:00am – Saban Brands presents Power Rangers Dino Supercharge
12:00pm – Saban Brands and Bandai Special Presentation
2:00pm – Zyuranger – Dino Fantasy
5:00pm – Inside the Studio – Ticketed Event
8:30pm – Cosplay Contest
Sunday
11:00am – The Super Sentai Legacy
12:00pm – Suits and Stunts
3:00pm – Bulk and Skull Bring Down the Con
4:30pm – Closing Ceremonies
We’ll be at the show with some free TokuNation.com and Talkin Toku swag to give away! Details soon! See you in Pasadena!
This past month we took some time getting back into the swing of things and after a lengthy hiatus and some technical difficulties we’re slowly but surely getting back to bringing you great content! Including your favorite toy galleries of recent releases and vintage favorites. For July 2016 we took a look at 4 very unique releases:
S.H. Figuarts Kabuto Extender
S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Ghost Ore Damashii
S.H. Figuarts Body-Kun DX
S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Chaser Mach
From Kamen Riders Kabuto, Ghost, & Drive, with a little hint of something off-beat, we wanted to bring you a warm up round of galleries to prep things for the coming months. We’ve attached one image from each of these galleries to this post, but follow all of the links above to be taken to each of these extensive photo shoots in their entirety. Beginning in July TokuNation.com’s Photo & Content staff will be working harder than ever to bring you what you want. Be sure to stay tuned!
We thought it was important to highlight the guests that have had to cancel for this year’s Official Power Morphicon in their own update in case they were tops on your list of autograph and photo-ops. Check out the current list of cancellations below.
We are sad to see these guests not being able to attend. Most of all, we are sad that the opportunity to have all six Power Rangers Time Force Rangers in attendance, along with the villains, is no longer possible. But there’s still great photo opportunities out there so please head to the Official Power Morphicon site and pre-register for your photo-ops!
UPDATE! Danny Slavin will now be appearing on Friday and Saturday at Power Morphicon! Great news for those who were upset that he had cancelled earlier.
New guests have been added to the Official Power Morphicon guest line-up! Check out whose coming on our list below!
The Official Power Morphicon is coming very soon – less than two weeks! The show runs August 12th through the 14th. Please join us here at TokuNation.com in attending the event. Hope to see you at the show!
TV-Ashai has updated with an official listing for the 18th Heisei Rider, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid!
Now at last we have some details about the minds behind this new series-
*The head writer for Ex-Aid is Yuuya Takahashi, a veteran of several anime projects including Lupin III, and Tiger & Bunny
*The main producer will be Motoi Sasaki whose resume includes Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Kamen Rider Gaim.
*And the director for Ex-Aid is Shojiro Nakazawa, who has directed multiple episodes of Super Sentai from Timeranger through ToQGer.
Furthermore, the background information promises to “go all-out” with Kamen Rider Ex-Aid’s videogame theme- supposedly including health bars and proper sound effects.
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is scheduled to premiere on October 2, 2016! Be sure to join in our Ongoing Ex-Aid Discussion Thread to share your thoughts & fears about this upcoming series!