Toei has opened their Official Page for this years’ summer movie double-bill, featuring Kamen Rider Ghost and Dobutsu Sentai Zyuohger!
No story or crew details are revealed at this time, but both films will serve as anniversary projects celebrating 45 years of Kamen Rider AND 40 years of Super Sentai.
A minor teaser video has also been posted online:
Ghost & Zyuohger will premiere in theaters on August 6, 2016! Stay tuned to TokuNation for further details!
Time to start toy hunting! The new Legacy Movie Morphers, inspired by the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie, have shown up at Barnes & Noble of all places. This would lead one to believe that these are obviously not Toys’R’Us exclusives first as the previous releases have been.
Happy Hunting collectors! Be sure to swing by our Sightings forum, which is broken down state by state, so you can help your fellow collectors find the stuff they need! Special thanks to our buddy @TheRangerTalk for giving us the heads up that this was found in the wild.
Premium Bandai has just revealed a brand new Vinyl set to tie-in with the currently airing web series Kamen Rider Amazons! An exclusive 2-pack featuring both Amazon Alpha & Amazon Omega!
This unique and dark series has already gained a pretty significant fanbase. Enough of one that Bandai is apparently teasing S.H. Figuarts reveals for both of these characters at next months Tamashii Nations event (May 21-22). But for now this gorgeous vinyl set will whet the appetite of collectors for a very affordable 3780 yen!
Orders for this vinyl set are open from April 28th until June 27th with the set being released in September. As a Premium Bandai exclusive you’ll need to go through a middleman to secure an order for this one. We suggest getting with your preferred service as soon as orders are live.
Hyakujuu Gattai!
On occasion TokuNation has the opportunity to share galleries of rare items that aren’t often seen in the toku collecting communities of the world, and today is no different. For your viewing pleasure we’ve assembled a gallery of a rarity from Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, the gorgeous DX Silver Chrome Gao Gorilla!
Silver Gao Gorilla was a promotional release from 2003, 2 years after Gaoranger ran in Japan, & distributed exclusively by Bandai Asia/Hong Kong. It wasn’t an item regularly available for retail sale. Numerous sentai release in varying chrome colors have made their way to market in this nature over the last 2 decades. This rare piece pops up for sale on occasion but is still notoriously hard to find. The 4th of 5 versions of the Gao Gorilla Power Animal mold, Silver Gao Gorilla will add some serious bling to your collection, and especially to your Gao Muscle or Gao Knight display!
We’ve attached a selection of images to this post but you can check out over 30 which await you in the full gallery/review thread. Just click “Discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post to see them all.
Continuing on with the Kamen Rider W theme of Converge, two new Premium Bandai sets have gone up for pre order.
First, we have the Converge Kamen Rider W Max Edition a set that contains Cyclone Joker, Heat Metal, Luna Trigger and a separation gimmick which allows them to be combined into any of Double’s 9 alternate combinations.
The second one is the FFR set, which contains Cyclone Cyclone and Joker Joker from W X Decade Movie Taisen, though the pictures don’t indicate if this set retains the half change gimmick.
Either way, both sets will be released in September, the W Max Edition will retail for 6,480 yen while the FFR W set will be slightly cheaper at 1,899 yen.
The third instillment of the Kamen Rider Converge series’ been fully revealed. Converge Vol.3 Kamen Rider will contain fan favrioute Kamen Rider W Cyclone Joker, Kamen Rider Accel, and the Utopia Dopant.
Continuing with the police theme that this assortment seems to be going for, we’ll also be getting Kamen Rider Drive Type Speed and the Heart Roidmude. Converge Kamen Rider Vol.3 will be released in this September.
Tsuburaya Productions has officially revealed the newest Ultra Hero, Ultraman Orb!
This new series will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Ultraman franchise. Ultraman Orb is portrayed by Hideo Ishiguro, whom fans may recognize as Kai from Kamen Rider Den-O.
By inserting Ultra Fusion Cards into his henshin device, the Orb Ring– Ultraman Orb can transform for battle! Each of Ultraman Orb’s forms revealed thus far combines abilities from previous Ultras-
*Specium Zeperion is a fusion of the very first Ultraman and the fan-favorite Ultraman Tiga.
*Burn Mite unites the powers of Ultraman Meibus and Ultraman Taro.
*Hurricane Slash combines the strengths of Ultraman Zero and Ultraman Jack.
Director Kiyotaka Taguchi (who previously worked on Ultraman X) will return for this new project. Currently, Ultraman Orb is scheduled to begin on July 9 2016 and run for 25 Episodes.
Stay tuned to TokuNation for more details on this exciting Ultra project!
This year, celebrate 15 years of Power Rangers Time Force with a true reunion as Kate Sheldon, known for her role as the villain Nadira, joins the core 6 Power Rangers Time Force actors as well as Vernon Wells, aka Ransik, as special guests at this year’s Official Power Morphicon.
Check out the full list of new guests below!
This year’s Official Power Morphicon takes place August 12th through the 14th in Pasadena, California. Don’t miss out on this once every two year convention! Click here and begin your registration process!!
Toei has put up a new page detailing a special Blu-Ray double release for two special Kamen Rider films: Kamen Rider The First and Kamen Rider The Next!
Written by tokusatsu veteran Toshiki Inoue, these two films offer a unique retelling of the original Kamen Rider story.
This Blu-Ray set is currently scheduled for release on August 3 2016 with a price of 12500 Yen.
Kamen Ride,
DECADE!
It’s time once again for TokuNation to take a look at a brand new update to a classic (if divisive) character with S.H. Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Decade! The 5th release in Bandai’s line of high end, premium style figuarts, Decade seeks to rectify the mistakes of the previous 2 releases this character received.
In every aspect where the original Decade figuarts failed, Seihou Decade succeeds perfectly. This figure has proportions, colors, features, & accessories that outclass the old release in every way. We finally have a Decade figuart with not only an accurate head, but a functioning Decadriver (that’s properly painted too!) but also quality Rider Cards to use with it. Decade also comes with all 3 forms of the Ride Booker, he even comes with hands for any situation including for use with the previously released S.H. Figuarts Machine Decader! topping off this selection Decade includes his alternate evil Violent Emotion head from Movie Wars 2010.
We’ve included a selection of images of this fantastic figure with this post, but over 60 await you in the full gallery/review thread. Just click “Discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post to see them all.