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A new Super Deformed crossover game is in the works, similar to the Lost Heroes, Heroes VS will feature characters from the Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Mobile Suit Gundam franchises in a chibi style.

The game will play similar to a fighting game, with some action and RPG elements involved. 18 Heroes and villains will be made playable, each will have unique and independent story. Here’s the so far confirmed character roster:

Ultraman:
-Mebius
– Zero
– Nexus
– Kaizer Belial
– Alien Empera
– Dark Zagi

Kamen Rider
– W
– OOO
– Den-O
– Eternal
– Dinosaur Greed
– Nega Den-O

Gundam
– 00 Riser
– God Gundam
– Turn A Gundam
– Reborns Gundam
– Master Gundam
– Turn X

Developed by Spike Chunsoft, the game will see a release date of Febuary 7 2013 on the PSP, retailing for 6280yen. You can see the preview in the link below:

under Kamen Rider

Yet another preview for Bandai Namco’s Super Climax Heroes video game has been released.

The new PV show cases the game’s long roster, which features Eternal, Zanki, Todoroki, Garren, Chalice, Leangle, Delta and Gills, in addition to new characters: Kamen Riders Skull, Joker, Saga, and Wizard Flame Dragon form.

Previous Rider actors have been confirmed to reprise their roles such as Ren Kiriyama who played Shotaro in Kamen Rider W will return to voice Kamen Rider Joker.

To see the new preview trailer, check it out in the link below:

under Power Rangers

The first piece of Megaforce merchandise has apparently hit retail!

Reviewer HAVortexDude has picked up this Hot Wheels Action Set and provided an excellent first look at 20th Anniversary toys, including the first glimpse of the character “Gosei” from the sets’ box art.

Check out the full review HERE:

under Super Sentai

While we saw several new Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger items at the 5th Anniversary Tamashii Nations event a few weeks back, there was one thing that seemed to slip under everyone’s noses. Among the recent Amiami facebook page update to their gallery of the event, they have uploaded an image of a 1/1 scale Deka-Wapper, the inordinate power of the Dekarangers and first component to the inordinate cannon!

Will the Deka-Wapper see release, along with the Akibaranger ranger keys and various other new items seen at the event? Only time will tell, but in the meantime check out the full sized image after the jump!

under Network News and Updates

From time to time we like to post news from our 2005 Network sites that we are a part of – TFW2005.COM, HissTank.com, ToyArk.com, and Thundercats.WS. That being said, there’s a major rumor circling the Internet today and we wanted to share it with everyone here … seeing as there’s some history in the world of Tokusatsu when someone mentions the House of Mouse, or Disney.

From MTV Geek News:

“OK folks, take this one with a grain of plastic for the time being. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard that Disney acquired Lucasfilm for roughly $4 billion last week and Marvel for around the same price a few years prior. Well, we have it on good authority that serious discussions are happening at the highest levels of both Disney and Hasbro to fold the largest toy and game company on the planet into the Mouse.

From what we’re told, these are still just discussions at this point, but serious enough that something could be announced at any time and create ripples throughout the entertainment industry. “

The company Hasbro Inc. is the owner of two major franchises that our 2005 Network covers – Transformers and G.I. Joe. Whereas when Disney purchased the Saban Entertainment library and got Power Rangers television rights out of it, Hasbro is the sole owner of Transformers, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, and more. Not only that, Hasbro makes the toys for those said franchises (not to mention both Marvel and Star Wars). To sum it up, it would be like if Disney purchased TOEI, Bandai, and Saban Brands in one foul swoop.

Share your thoughts and your comments for our Transformers and G.I. Joe fans! Should they be excited about this possible development? Or should they fear that Disney is going to end the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, as well as G.I. Joe and COBRA, forever?

Discuss!

under General Tokusatsu News

Nearly half a year ago the Tokusatsu fan community was ablaze over a new show that seemed to mimic Super Sentai from the country of China. We saw some behind the scenes images of new heroes, new “zords”, and in all honesty, they looked pretty good.

Then there was silence.

But now there’s some images of the figures and mecha from Taobao.com!

Taobao.com has uploaded numerous images – all six of the new heroes (Red, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Black, Yellow, Green) as well as three combinations of zords (Giant Team Robot, Sky Team Robot, and Earth Team Robot) as well as the henshin devices (scrolls). All in all, it looks pretty good!

Jushen ZhanJiDui is said to air sometime next year in China. Click the title bar of this story to check out all the images!

CREDIT: Tekmen of the Tokunation.com forums!

under Godzilla

As always, Bandai‘s Tamashii Nations keeps a rotating display of current and upcoming figures in their Akihabara showroom. This weekend happens to mark the 58th birthday of everyone’s favorite radioactive dinosaur Godzilla and the showroom display had a nice surprise in store for the Big G to celebrate.

Here we have our first look at S.H. MonsterArts Destoroyah, not only in the already-announced Final Form, but the Aggregate and Flying Forms! There are no details known beyond the figures existing, but considering the usual MonsterArts release pattern, these figures likely compose a new Tamashii Web Exclusive release in Japan while being offered by Bluefin in North America!

Join our discussion and the birthday celebration for Godzilla by hitting the Reply button. We will be sure to update you here on TokuNation.com as more details are available!

Source: Figsoku Blog
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Amazon.co.jp have started taking DVD and blu-ray orders for a director’s cut edition of the final two episodes of Kamen Rider Fourze. This is the not only the second time the final two episodes of a Kamen Rider series have been put together into one episode and given the director’s cut treatment (Kamen Rider OOO), but also the second director’s cut DVD/blu-ray released from Fourze as episodes 31 and 32 were also released this way last month.

What differences these versions of the episodes will have is still unknown. The DVD/blu-ray will be released on February 21st, priced at 5040 and 6090 yen respectively.

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Though its still a while yet before you can get your hands on these two, the Bandai Tamashii webstore has updated with new galleries for the SH Figuarts Groundain and Skydain – stars of the Kamen Rider Fourze: Space, Here We Come! movie. The two are also updated versions of characters of the same name that originally appeared in the 1976 series Space Ironman Kyodain.

Both are Tamashii Web Exclusives and due for release in March 2013. Groundain is priced 4410 yen, while Skydain is 4200 yen.

Check out the images after the jump!

under Super Sentai

Even after Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger finished airing it seemed that the release of ranger keys would continue with the Legend sets. However after a few months of no further news, it seems Bandai might be rounding things off with a Tamashii web exclusive Ranger Legend Edition keyset that contains a total of 30 keys!

The keys included in the set are as follows;
Goggle-V: Goggle Blue, Black, Pink and Yellow
Maskman: Yellow Mask, Black Mask and Pink Mask
Turboranger: Blue Turbo, Black Turbo, Yellow Turbo and Pink Turbo
Dairanger: Shishi Ranger, Tenma Ranger, Qilin Ranger and Houou Ranger
Ohranger: Oh Blue, Oh Yellow and Oh Pink
Megaranger: Mega Blue, Mega Black, Mega Yellow and Mega Pink
Gingaman: Ginga Blue, Ginga Green, Ginga Yellow and Ginga Pink
GoGo Five: Go Blue, Go Green, Go Yellow and Go Pink

This, along with the release of Gashapon Key sets 04 and 05 in December/January will mean that all 199 ranger keys will have been released in one way or another.

The set is priced at 9765 yen and is due for release in March 2013.