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The next batch of items being billed as Legendary items are the upcoming 5″ figures of the Red Rangers and a select few popular 6th Rangers from various seasons of Power Rangers. Thanks to our friends at Samuraicast Blog as well as Megaforcecast Blog and Gallery for finding these great images, it’s your first look at these highly anticipated figures! High resolution images of the following anniversary figures are included in this news post!

  • Zeo Gold Ranger
  • Samurai Gold Ranger
  • Dino Thunder Red Ranger
  • Jungle Fury Red Ranger
  • Lightspeed Rescue Red Ranger
  • Mystic Force Red Ranger
  • RPM Red Ranger
  • Samurai Red Ranger
  • SPD Red Ranger
  • Wild Force Red Ranger
  • Ninja Storm Red Ranger

 
And don’t forget – we’ve already seen images back in December for the Legacy 5″ Mighty Morphin Red, Green, and White Rangers! There should be more to come soon as we saw even more than that at Toy Fair 2014 … (come on Titanium Ranger, where are you?). Click the title of the news story to check out all the images! Again, a special thanks to Samuraicast Blog and Fury Diamond for the find on these images.

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Wanting a piece of the huge success that is the LEGO Movie, competing toy company Mattel (best known for their major properties Barbie, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and Masters of the Universe) has reached an agreement to purchase Mega Brands, the parent company of construction block company Megabloks, for a cool $480 million dollars. The construction block company Megabloks is best known for their popular series of LEGO-competing construction toys such as the Halo, World of Warcraft, and Power Rangers series of toys. They had also just launched their Call of Duty line for the company.

For fans of construction toys, this now brings a major financial powerhouse to back future projects for Megabloks against LEGO and Hasbro‘s fledgling (and now Toys’R’Us exclusive) KRE-O lines of construction toys. What this means for the future of Power Rangers Megabloks is unknown – it could go on as normal, it could be given increased financial backing, or it could be left behind in favor of promoting Mattel-owend properties such as Masters of the Universe and Hot Wheels.

This story was first reported by our sister site ToyArk.com, but articles can be found all over the Internet now as this deal is all but final. Discuss with us and share your thoughts!

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It’s time for the ultimate Den-O/Baltmatrix team-up that no one demanded but you all deserve!

The 38th Super Sentai has officially entered the station, and with it comes an avalanche of new toys! From Ressha Sentai ToQger today’s gallery is of the DX ToQ Oh! Composed of 5 Ressahs (train cars) DX ToQ Oh is a great example of what Bandai of Japan’s toy engineering can accomplish when they really try. It’s a fantastically efficient and intelligently designed toy. It’s solid as a stand alone set, and in conjunction with the role play toys.

Neither pictures nor video reviews can really convey how awesome it is. You need it in hand to really get on board the imagination train! Click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to check out our full 80 image gallery!

And speaking of video reviews our good buddy and photo & content staff member Baltmatrix has one to share! Check out his video review of the DX ToQ Oh below! And stay tuned as he and I will be collaborating in the coming weeks on more ToQger product as well!

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Check out the official images for the Arms Change AC 10 Kamen Rider Gaim Jinba Arms!

As speculated, and confirmed earlier this week, the Jinba arms contains the powers of all 4 Energy Lock Seeds! Based on which lock Gaim uses in conjuction with Orange, the Jinba Arms itself rotates to reveal the pattern of that energy Lock. So contained in this one toy are Jinba Lemon, Jinba Cherry, Jinba Peach, & Jinba Melon!

Magazine & catalogue scans have confirmed the upcoming appearance of Jinba Cherry and Jinba Peach in show. So th eonly odd one out right now is Jinba Melon. THough this weeks events on Kamen Rider Gaim could change that…

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During a special screening today in London, director Gareth Edwards presented roughly 20 minutes of footage from the upcoming “Godzilla” film. The few critics lucky enough to see this footage have given near-universal appraisal, suggesting a very promising return for the King of the Monsters!

While we will try to avoid major spoilers, the footage contains five very interesting scenes:

*The first clip involves Bryan Cranston’s character in a nuclear power plant, then the second cuts to 15 years later with Cranston trying to deal with the fallout of that incident. Both scenes highlight Cranstons’ impressive talents as a dramatic performer.

*Scene number 3 is the official reveal of Godzilla, said to be the largest incarnation of the character to date (over 350 feet tall according to Edwards). The report from BleedingCool sums up Godzilla nicely: “What I will say is that he honestly looks magnificent. They nailed this.”

*The final two scenes involve military personnel reacting to Godzilla’s arrival, with special emphasis on the HALO Jump sequence featured in both major trailers.

Finally, the major critics that had a chance to view this test footage have all been “sworn to secrecy” regarding at least one plot point in this film. Could that mean another monster appearance? A secret twist on the origins of Godzilla? We’ll have to wait until May 16 to find out!

Check out the full breakdown of test footage via the critical perspectives at:

*IGN

*TotalFilm

*BleedingCool

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Fans of Godzilla were blown away by the magnificent new trailer that went online this week, and now the film’s director Gareth Edwards has ]sat down with Empire Magazine to offer several special insights regarding the trailer and drops some key hints about the film!

Edwards describes the story as “Man VS Nature” centered from the perspective of a family divided by natural disasters. The film supposedly contains a number of very emotional moments within the expected action sequences-“If you don’t get close to tearing up in this film, then I’ve failed” says Edwards.

The full breakdown can be viewed HERE via Empire Online.

There are several other hints and suggestions to the overall plot of the movie, which we will not reveal here out of respect for those who want to go in unaware. Godzilla premieres in theaters May 16!

under Conventions, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, TokuNation, TokuNation Site Updates, Toy Fair

After the release of Episode 04, “The Longest Hiatus”, the hosts of Talkin Toku at the Nation vowed to never let such a long hiatus happen again. And then Kickback’s computer blew up, and an unintentional delay occured – creating the new longest hiatus. To make up for it we’re bringing you an episode crammed full of discussion on the things you want to hear us talk about! After being challenged by a listener and a good friend, there is no dedicated talk to Kamen Rider Gaim in this episode. That’s right – NO JUICY FRUIT. Instead, we focus on the bigger items that occured … Toy Fair 2014 with Sentai Tamashii, who was there and provided a ton of the information and images that we put up! We spend the most time discussing Power Rangers Super Megaforce and its first episode premiere – and end the show tasting the trainbow with discussion on the premiere episode of Ressha Sentai ToQGer! Here’s a more specific run down!

 

  • Kickback’s computer woes
  • A News Brief to touch on a few items we didn’t have time to discuss in full
  • Sentai Tamashii’s first hand experience of Toy Fair 2014
  • Why Sentai Tamashii can’t be allowed to attend conventions anymore
  • Power Rangers Dino Charge and the skipping of Tokumei Sentai GoBusters
  • Our thoughts on the premiere of Power Rangers Super Megaforce
  • Our thoughts on the use of the suits of Gosei Sentai DaiRanger
  • Tasting the Trainbow with Ressha Sentai ToQGer’s Premiere
  • An inappropriate conclusion involving Super Mega, Sentai Tamashii, and his wife

 

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By now you know that Kanpai Senshi After V will be a Super Sentai parody in the same vein as the awesome Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger. It follows the Golden Warriors Treasure V in their off time exploits of drinking and palling around after a long day of fighting villains for justice.

Well it looks like our 5 main heroes weren’t the first and only ones to protect their world! Revealed today is the veteran hero of the team, the appropriately named, Treasure Gold! Treasure Gold will be played by Kintaro Hara who doesn’t appear to have any previous toku roles to his credit.

Also some additional scans from the upcoming series have surfaced showing the Treasure V members hanging out and having drinks, doing karaoke, and just generally having fun after hours. We also get our first good look at the henshin brace used for this show, which is very reminiscent of 70’s/80’s sentai  like the costumes themselves.

Kanpai Senshi After V will begin it’s televised broadcast April 7th 2014. Here’s hoping the usual sub groups decide to pick this one up!

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If you thought the king of monsters would only be in CG this year then you were wrong!

In a pretty off the wall commercial for Snickers candy bars, we see an actual “classic” Godzilla suit used, even though it’s promoting the 2014 reboot movie featuring the CG redesign of Godzilla! Watch the full 46 second commercial to see Godzilla, riding ATV’s, playing Ping Pong, Pranking his friends, picking up the ladies, water skiing, destroying the city, and enjoying a tasty snickers bar!

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Bandai’s official youtube Channel brings us a promotional video of the up coming DX Durian&Acorn Lock Seed Set and Arms Change Bravo figure. Except this one is special; Actor Metal Yoshinda whom our fandom will know fondly as Mr.Dangerous himself appears to promote his own toys while completely in character as Oren.

 

Check out the video in the box below: