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under General Tokusatsu News

Bandai and Tokusatsu/Super Sentai/Kamen Rider/Ultraman/whathaveyou, are pretty much inseparable, with Bandai Japan’s Collectors Division(Tamashii Nations) pumping out toy lines such as:

  • Ultra ACT
  • Super Imaginitive Chogokin(SIC)
  • Super Robot Chogokin(SRC)
  • SH Figuarts
  • SH MonsterArts
We know some of you love taking photographs of your Tamashii Nations toys, and this week on Facebook, Tamashii announced a photo contest; upload your best photos of Tamashii Nations toys to their Flickr page, for a shot at winning free toys! Here are the rules:

To celebrate 1000 followers on our Facebook, we’re holding a photo contest !

Just take photos of your favorite Tamashii products in action; the coolest entries will get a chance of winning some Tamashii products!

(Details of the prizes, will be announced later on)
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To Enter: Go to Flickr.com and sign up or sign in with google / facebook.

Then, upload your BEST 3 photos of Tamashii items to our Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1828129@N21/

Note: Please name your file with the following format “your name-ProductName”

We will then post all your photos on the Bluefin Facebook page for all to see!

Rules:

1) Show us your creativity! A cool pose? A hilarious situation? Let’s see it!

2) Contestants must be reside in U.S./Canada

3) ONLY Tamashii products may be entered

(please see: http://tamashii.jp/ , for the list of Tamashii products)

4) Contest starts from December 7 to December 31, 2011.

5) Winners will be announced on the Bluefin Tamashii Nations Facebook in early January.

6) 1 person can post a maximum of 3 photos ONLY; each photo can feature any number of Tamashii products

7) Entries that are LATER than December 31 will not be accepted.

Best of luck!

under Godzilla

The SH MonsterArts Mecha Godzilla has been released and thanks to Gamu-toys, we’ve got images galore to show you! So how does Godzilla‘s mechanized opponent match up? Is Mecha Godzilla a worthy additiojn to the SH MonsterArts line? See for yourself in the images!

under Super Sentai

Every now and then here at Tokunation we like to point out some cool Ebay auctions. Today we take a gander at an auction by life-lavit, for Minipla Super Muteki Shogun! The set includes both:

  • Minipla Muteki Shogun
  • Minipla Tsubasamaru

While fans stateside were treated to a retooled DX Muteki Shogun(Shogun Megazord) and Falconzord, the Kakuranger Minipla Muteki Shogun and Tsubasamaru were Japanese exclusives. Price for this set is $109.99.

under Power Rangers

While perusing the aisles of Walmart in an unsuccessful attempt to find what I was looking for, I came across the Unmasked Battlized Shogun Ranger. It features a removable mask and is the same price as the previous release(which had no removable helmet), $23.97. Check out a larger image after the jump!

under Kamen Rider

Bandai’s Tamashii website have released new images of the forthcoming S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Fourze Double Rocket States! This movie-exclusive Fourze form will come with two rocket add-ons as well as the S-1 switch used to activate the form.

Double Rocket States is due for release in April 2012 as a Tamashii web exclusive, priced at 3,675 yen.

under Power Rangers

Toys R Us.com has given us a new Samurai Zord, the American version of Shinkengers’ “DaiGoyo.”

Behold the “Lantern Zord” –

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12149039

Currently out of stock but keep checking if you want to add this to your collection!

under Kamen Rider

Looking forward to the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Ryuki Blank Form figure? Who could forget Shinji’s 1st time turning into a Kamen Rider? Well how about some new pictures?

GA Graphic has posted a preview of the upcoming Blank Form figure, check the new images out after the jump!