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Today was one of the biggest announcements yet for this year’s Official Power Morphicon convention. Promising an unbelievable announcement for today’s guest revealing was an understatement – fans of Power Rangers and Super Sentai now have a reason to come together.

Headlining today’s guest announcement is Yuuta Mochizuki, better known as Geki the Tyranno Ranger from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, the series that Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was adapted from. Basically, the original Red Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Tyranno Ranger from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger will be appearing at a convention together for possibly the first and only time.

Also from the press release sent directly from the Official Power Morphicon convention comes the announcement that Hiroshi Maeda, a professional Japanese stunt actor, will be appearing at the show. You’ll know him best as the stunt actor for Tyranno Ranger in Zyuranger, as well as numerous other Red Rangers for the Power Rangers franchise. And last but not least – Yasuhiro Takeuchi, another Japanese stunt actor who played both Dragon Ranger in Zyuranger as well as the Green Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. On top of that, he has also worn many of the Megazord suits for filming.

The Official Power Morphicon convention happens August 22nd to August 24th at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Tickets are still available (but only for a couple of more weeks) – click here to begin your registration process so you don’t miss out!

Please read the full press release after the jump!
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under Garo, General Tokusatsu News, Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai

Have you been following Mahou Sentai Magiranger as a part of the latest Let’s Watch Wednesdays here at TokuNation? You should, but if you haven’t the show and our viewing of it will end one week from tomorrow! So get in on the discussion while you still can. However it’s also time we picked the series for our next Let’s Watch segment! And this time we want to mix things up.

There won’t be any nominations this time around. After digging through the records of previous LWW nominations threads we’ve come up with an all-star list of the toku shows that YOU the community demanded, but that simply never won the polls. These choices are the 10 most frequently requested series that have yet to have a go on Let’s Watch Wednesdays. But now is your chance to make them happen!

 

  • Kamen Rider Faiz
  • Madan Senki Ryukendo
  • Garo (Season 1)
  • Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan
  • Tensou Sentai Goseiger
  • Ultraman Mebius
  • Kamen Rider Den-O
  • Kamen Rider Black
  • Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
  • Power Rangers In Space

Make your decision by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to be taken to our poll! This poll will remain open for 1 week, until Wednesday May 21st at 11:59 PM. Good luck!

under Power Rangers

Former Power Rangers stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt has put up another production video from the filming of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers’ second season in Japan- a collection of footage generally referred to by fans as “Zyu2.”

While there is no sound, this video gives us great detail on the Zyu2 era footage and even includes a number of shots that went unused by Saban!

under Garo, General Tokusatsu News, Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, TokuNation, TokuNation Spotlights

After letting the community throw out some choices for our next segment, it looks like it’s finally time to vote on the 10  we’ve narrowed it down to! The candidates for the next Let’s Watch Wednesdays are:

Mahou Sentai Magiranger
Madan Senki Ryukendo
Kamen Rider Faiz
Garo (Season 1)
Kamen Rider Kuuga
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live action)
Kamen Rider Agito
Power Rangers In Space
VR Troopers (season 1)
Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger 

To cast your vote for the next Let’s Watch Wednesdays, click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” to head on over to our poll thread. This thread will remain open for voting until Tuesday January 21st at 12 Midnight EST. At that point if we have a clear winner then that’s the show we’ll be tuning in to for our next Let’s Watch Wednesdays!

under Super Sentai

Tokumei Sentai Gobusters finally steps into the lime light with the latest magazine coverage from their up coming team up movie with Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. These new scans reveal that the two teams will be joining powers creating a new mecha combination: Tategami Raiden Kyoryuzin!

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger VS Gobusters: Dinosaur Great Battle! Farewell, Eternal Friends will be making the samba jump into theaters January 28th 2014

under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

For the Power Rangers fans who have looked at, dissected, analyzed, and maybe even obsessed over the era that is known as “the final episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 1 and the first handful from season 2″, this is, honestly, akin to finding the Holy Grail. For those of you who do not follow Power Rangers that closely, you’re probably wondering what the heck “zyu2” means. Well, let’s get in to that real quick.

When Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first hit the airwaves, no one expected it to become the huge pop-culture phenomenon – not Fox, not Saban, and not TOEI. The thing was it DID become the huge major success that has lasted 20 years now. Now for a bit of a history lesson.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was an adaption of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. The Sentai show lasted 50 some episodes, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers took just about every usable piece of footage they could from its Sentai counterpart. And that’s when the unthinkable happened – there was no more Zyuranger footage to use – and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had become the biggest toy line and kids show of the 1990’s. Frankly, Saban couldn’t afford to let the show end. It was at that time that Saban reached out to TOEI (the creators of the Super Sentai franchise) and they struck a deal – new footage would be filmed by TOEI for use in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Saban then negotiated the rights for use of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, which result in both the Thunderzords and the White Ranger, as well as all the monsters.

That footage that TOEI created became known to the fandom as Zyu2 – short for Zyuranger 2 – and for years fans have speculated on a literal frame-by-frame analysis. See, there’s a number of monsters from the Zyu2 period that were filmed fighting the original Megazord and Dragonzord, but Saban introduced the Thunderzords early (yay toy sales!), meaning a handful of monsters at the tail-end of the Zyu2 footage had cut/paste battles (ie: you see the Thunder Megazord throw a punch, then cut to the monster who sparks and falls back). The editing was sloppy and at times you can easily make out the original Megazord in the battle when the Thunder Megazord is what the show is intending you to think is fighting the monster. Or in some cases, the monster didn’t grow to super-size to fight the Megazords, which was almost a 100% certainty in the show.

And an announcement came from GrnRngr of GrnRngr.com that he has come in to possession of never-before-seen Zyu2 footage and will release it via his website soon. To prove his point, he released a short video clip show-casing the Bloom of Doom and Invenusable Flytrap growing for a Megazord battle – something they didn’t do in the actual episodes. The footage is in forms of episode blocks, and he states that for each block, there is anywhere from 20% to 50% brand new footage that has never been seen. This could be anything from fight scenes with the Power Rangers to Megazord battles with the Dino Zords and Dragonzord that was cut out in favor of copy/pasting Thunder Megazord footage.

It’s kind of a big deal for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans. You have to see it to believe it – click here to check out the GrnRngr.com teaser! So what do you think? Are you excited about this never before seen footage? Do you care? As GrnRngr.com updates the fandom on the Zyu2 footage, we will feature his updates. Until then, check out his site – it is an excellent resource for toys and Zyu2 and Zyu 1.5 footage.

under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

Another image from Figuroh magazine has surfaced. While this page might be featuring the forthcoming Figuarts Black RX and Acrobatter renewal releases the scan reveals that following Mammoth Ranger, the next of the Zyuranger and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers figures will be none other than Tricera Ranger!

Unfortunately, the image is so small that none of his release details can be made out more on that when it becomes available.

under Super Sentai

After tons of teasers, short previews, images, and casting news we finally have the full minute long trailer for Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: Great Dinosaur Battle!

Currently the video is only being hosted at Kyoryu-gobus.jp so you’ll need to follow this link to check it out.

“Kyoryuger VS Go-Busters” premieres January 18, 2014 and will be released on Blu-Ray & DVD on March 19, 2014

under Super Sentai

The latest teaser for the upcoming special “Kyoryuger VS Go-Busters” is now online!

This gives us our first look at returning Dino Heroes, TyrannoRanger and AbaRed!

“Kyoryuger VS Go-Busters” premieres January 18, 2014 and will be released on Blu-Ray & DVD on March 19, 2014

 

Source: JEFusion

under Super Sentai

The upcoming movie coming out which has been labeled Kyoryuger vs Zyuranger vs Abaranger and oh yeah I guess GoBusters maybe too has a brand new promotional image out to continue causing your mouth to water.  It’s a pretty sweet image and we’re just going to dump it here.

Click on the ”Discuss on the Tokunation forums” link to join our on-going conversation about this upcoming movie.  We’ve seen everything from past generals from the classic shows returning to the Megazords all fighting together in one big battle at the end.  It’s exciting.  So come discuss the upcoming Kyoryuger vs GoBuster movie!