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The long awaited, highly anticipated mighty morphin’ S.H. Figuarts Red Ranger, AKA S.H. Figuarts Tyranno Ranger has finally been revealed(in color!)! Bluefin Tamashii Nations USA has posted the 1st image of it on their Facebook page. Rejoice, and onward to the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers 20th Anniversary! Stay tuned for more coverage throughout the week as Tokunation.com is at New York Comic Con 2012, ready to cover and ready to deliver!

ITS MORPHIN’ TIME! TYRANNOSAURUS!

S.H. Figuarts Red Ranger

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Welcome to another round of Let’s Watch Wednesdays at Tokunation.com! This week we discuss the following:

Click on the above links to discuss the what trouble Philip, Shotaro, and the Jetman team run into!

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The long-awaited Space Sheriff Gavan finally makes the jump to S.H. Figuarts! Unfortunately he didn’t jump far enough- Gavan is a Tamashii Web Exclusive Gavan will come with an alternate head to simulate the look when his eyes are light up, one regular sword and one with translucent blade to simulate the power up.

S.H. Figuarts Gavan is scheduled for release in April 2013 at a cost of 4,200 yen

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Bluefin’s setup booth at New York Comic Con has given us the first glimpse of a new Super Robot Chogokin entry- Daibouken from Boukenger!

The convention has only just begun so stay tuned to TokuNation and Bluefin’s Official Page for more updates!

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One could claim that it was the 10th member of the Kamen Rider Club, Yuki’s trusty puppet Hayabusa-Kun is being given away via a lottery system at a Bandai event, but fret not for those who can’t attend the event in person, Bandai is allowing people to purchase a chance to buy a lottery entry via their Bandai premium shop for a chance to own this hand made 1:1 Hayabusa puppet. The lottery costs 2,625 yen per entry, the deadline is Nov. 12th 2012 at 3:00 PM, and the winner will be contacted a week after the deadline. Winner needs to be a Japanese resident unfortunately.

source: Bandai premium
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Rangers together, Samurai forever!

Hey fans of Power Rangers Super Samurai! The final episodes of this series begin airing Saturday, October 13th on Nick! And after what feels like a decade of nothing but reruns, the first trailer for the beginning of the new season aired today!

Special thanks to our friends at the SamuraiCast Blog for uploading this trailer.

Go Go Samurai!

Don’t forget to keep it tuned here at TokuNation.com as we bring you news, pictures, and more from this year’s New York Comic Con which begins TOMORROW!

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This just feels like a great week to be a Power Rangers fan doesn’t it? Ron Wasserman, the original composer for all the music heard in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has uploaded the “finalized” versions of all of the “redux” tracks – the completely redone versions of your favorite songs from 1993!

The track-list is as follows:

  • Go Go Power Rangers
  • 5-4-1
  • We Need a Hero
  • Combat
  • Cross My Line
  • Fight
  • Go Green Ranger
  • Hope For the World
  • Lord Zedd
  • Unite
  • I Will Win

The mixes are final (unless Ron wants to tweak it) and should be sent off for mastering sometime next week, with a tentative release date for Power Rangers Redux on various outlets (BandCamp.com, iTunes) not long after that.

Click here to check out a preview of Power Rangers Redux!

Don’t forget to stay tuned in here at TokuNation.com for our coverage of this year’s New York Comic Con which starts TOMORROW!

It’s morphin’ time!

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A magazine scan shows two new Riders have been added to the Super Climax Heroes roster. Joining the fight is The Bee from Kamen Rider Kabuto, and Eternal from the Kamen Rider W A to Z movie!

In addition, a new preview trailer of this game was uploaded to Bandai’s official youtube channel Check it out in the link below:

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ICv2 recently published an interview with Bandai marketing manager Danny Satyapan, who revealed the company’s plans for a Power Rangers Trading Card Game to coincide with the release of Power Rangers Megaforce.

When asked about the game, which is due for release in February, Mr Satyapan had this to say:

The theme of Power Rangers in 2013 is called Megaforce and it’s the first time in the history of the Power Rangers franchise that the theme is about cards. Basically the Power Rangers use all of their cards, insert them into their morphers and through magic and other sorts of things, it makes them morph into different things, activates their Mega Zords and vehicles, all sorts of things.

We’re going to be creating a Power Rangers Trading Card Game that plays off of that. It’s probably the most support we’ve offered behind a CCG ever for Bandai, because it’s basically our flagship brand for the company.

Fans of Megaforce’s Super Sentai equivalent Tensou Sentai Goseiger will know that it also had a similar tie in game – the arcade/collectible card game Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O.

You can see images of the card game after the jump. Stay tuned to TokuNation.com for more Power Rangers Megaforce news in the run up to the franchise’s 20th anniversary celebration!

Image source: Samuraicast

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The first week of filming for Power Rangers Megaforce has just finished and Samuraicast have kindly collated all the news that has come from it. As well as cast images, it includes some info about what we can possibly expect from the latest Power Rangers series!

First up comes the news of a high-school setting being the primary location for Megaforce. Mr Yellow of RangerCrew tweeted an image of the school set to be used, which is Mount Albert Grammar School in New Zealand.

Secondly, Ciara Hanna (Yellow Megaforce ranger) tweeted that she met a special guest on set. Could veteran rangers be appearing early in the series before the switch to Super Megaforce?

Finally, Namihei Koshige, a veteran Power Rangers stunt actor, had this to say about one of the scripts for Megaforce:

In the previous season, “Samurai”, the story was pretty much the same as it was in the Japanese version, so they used a lot of places that looked like Japan. Even a few of the action scenes were taken from them. Regardless though, I went to First Unit today. Went to the Kanji consultant and the action director to go over what we had to do. I didn’t really get a chance to perform at all. “I wonder if today’ll be more of the same”… is what I thought.

But then I peeked at the script. Although it had a picture of “Goseiger”, it was mostly a fairly original story with lots to do!! So it’s been non-stop action everyday…

What else will Power Rangers Megaforce have in store? Stay tuned to Tokunation.com to find out!