Toy Company Funko have revealed that they will be releasing a collection of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers vinyl figures in their Pop! Television line. With the announcement came pictures of the Red, White and Pink rangers, but it is unknown whether the remaining four rangers will also be released.
The figures are due out on November 29th, with the price yet to be announced. Check out the images after the jump!
Source: The Official Power Morphicon Facebook Page
Power Rangers fan site Samurai Cast has been given an exclusive seven page preview of the forthcoming PaperCutz Power Rangers Super Samurai graphic novel “Terrible Toys”, written by Stefan Petrucha and illustrated by Paulo Henrique.
The evil Master Xandred has a new plan to take over earth: use his small Monster Nighloks to pose as toys and infiltrate the houses of children everywhere. The Power Rangers track the source of the plot to a lone warehouse on the edge of the city, uncovering a conspiracy larger than they could have imagined. They must race against the clock to defeat the evil minions and save humanity.
We’ve mirrored the images for your convenience, which you can check out after the jump. “Terrible Toys will be released on October 16th.
This week Tokunation takes another look at the ratings for Kamen Rider Wizard and Tokumei Sentai Gobsuters! Gobusters has limped it’s way along up until recently when it’s last several episodes received a decent ratings boost, most likely because of the shift in plot and thanks to the premiere of Kamen Rider Wizard.
Now it seems that after a decent showing the past 2 weeks that Gobusters has dropped once again to 4.6%. That’s significantly down from last weeks 5.2% ratings. With Mission 30 having tied up the majority of loose plot threads (aside from a certain sleeping beauty ;) ) and a crossover with Gavan Type G coming up, it’s anyone’s guess as to how things could change. Kamen Rider Wizard on the other hand scored a 6.4% rating which is also down from it’s previous 2 episodes. But this series is still quite early in so we can expect a bit more fluctuation from it.
As Gobusters’ story and pacing improves along with it’s catchy new theme song and Wizard begins to take its’ place in the pantheon of riders we can expect to see these numbers change quite a bit. Will Tokumei Sentai Gobuster become the worst rated sentai in history? Will Kamen Rider Wizard push forward and keep above the low ratings suffered by Fourze? Stay tuned to Tokunation.com to find out!
Credit: Rising Sun tokusatsu
The new Samurai Gigazord has been released. This toy was sighted both at Toys R Us and at Walmart. Unlike the larger Samurai Megazord and auxillary zords, this smaller Gigazord cannot break down into individual zord components. However, what it can do is combine with the other zords! For example, it can combine with the following:
The Toys R Us Exclusive Power Rangers Retrofire line gains a new addition with the Retrofire Claw Battlezord. Admittedly, it was difficult to see if there is elbow articulation, and if so, what kind of joints were used, as the elbows are bent in package. Here’s the articulation that could be seen:
Do you enjoy putting plastic models(plamo) together? Sure we’ve seen candy kits of Sentai mecha before, but what we have here today is something somewhat different. Out now at Toys R Us stores by Bandai America(and possibly designed by Tsuyoshi Nonaka of PLEX) are kits for:
Enjoying the Godzilla Comics by IDW Publishing? If so, check out these 2 new previews we have for you!
Godzilla #5
Boxer and his team decide it’s time to turn their sights to the big game-Godzilla!
A perfect plan goes awry when a billionaire adventurer gets his hands on Mechagodzilla. The result? Utter monster mayhem!
Godzilla Half Century War #2
The year is 1967 and Godzilla is on the move… to Vietnam!
With a war underway, Godzilla is the last thing the country needs. Lieutenant Murakami follows Godzilla to try out some new tech on the monster, but a super-sized foe named Anguirus might just be the most effective counter-measure.
It’s a rumble in the jungle, don’t miss it!
Read on to preview these new issues, due out tomorrow!
According to a recent post on Facebook, Tsuyoshi Nonaka of PLEX will be in attendance at the Pacific Media Expo(PMX)! PMX will be held from November 9-11 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. In addition to being part of PLEX(which designs Super Sentai toys!), Nonaka is also an accomplished animator, having worked on such series as Shin Mazinger Z! Here is more info from PMX:
“His masterpieces are Toei “Metal Hero Series” and “Super Sentai Series”. (a.k.a Power Rangers) It is needless to say that Tsuyoshi is known as the original designer of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (a.k.a Kyoryu Sentai Zyu-Ranger) in Japan as well as several Kamen Rider series. In addition, he has also created a successful toy series-brand for adults in Japan called “Chogokin-Damashii (a.k.a Soul of Chogokin) and recreated his childhood favorite character Mazinger Z (a.k.a Tranzor Z) as part of collectible die-cast Robot toy series towards the collector, high-end market which are still growing today.This year, he has shifted his creative base from Asia to North America where he has become the head of “PLEX International Design, US division” working on Power Rangers, Ben 10 and Thunder Cats toy designs for Bandai America Inc. (Cypress CA). The Classic Lion-O (Thunder Cats) figure distributed at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 was designed by him.”
This year marks the 2nd time that Nonaka will be in attendance at PMX. He will be taking part in an autograph session and focus panel. What could he be working on for the 20th anniversary of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers? ….
The popular podcast No Pink Spandex has recently been interviewing several veteran actors from various “Power Rangers” shows, including
These interviews provide several interesting insights into the process of filming and production, definitely worth a listen for all Ranger fans. Ever wonder why Thuy, Walter, and Austin(the original Yellow, Black and Red Rangers respectively) left the cast of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? How Amy had a chance encounter which led to her staying in California for MMPR rather than moving back to New York? Also why she ended up leaving the show? How about Rhett’s musical career? Check out the podcasts to find out more about the cast’s lives during and after their tenure on Power Rangers!
Thanks to musicfighter and Kickback for the heads up!
Power Rangers news blog Samurai Cast has updated with a new post collating all the information we know so far about the 20th anniversary Power Rangers Megaforce series, including some new information concerning the characters of Gosei and Tensou.
While these characters were expected to be the American versions of Goseiger’s Master Head and Datas, Samurai Cast’s sources are reporting that these two will in fact be brand new characters made especially for the series.
Also included in the post are the names for characters that are to be brought over from Goseiger. In case you haven’t heard them yet – Gosei Knight will be Robo Knight, while the Warstar aliens Monsu Doreiku, Buredoran and Dereputa will be named Admiral Malkor, Vrak and Creepox respectively. The grunts for the series are named Loogies.
We’ll keep you updated when there is official confirmation of this news but in the meantime discuss your thoughts after the jump!