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For a while, news on NECA’s Pacific Rim Toyline was pretty sporadic. 18″ figure there, 7″ figure prototype there, et al. However within the last week, there’s been more pictures and information let out. With the movie premiere date coming sooner and sooner, what better time than now to catch up on toy news?

I’ve read comments from folks who’ve seen the new trailers, wishing for toys of various Jaegers revealed recently. Same goes for the Kaiju. In this update we get to see both! Now onto the updates, courtesy of our sister site The Toyark:

Read on to catch up with the images!

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Excited for the American tokusatsu movie Pacific Rim? There’s been some interesting news lately, and we’re here to fill you in! Nothing like seeing some footage so check out the Japanese trailer:

According to NintendoLife, Yuke’s is both developing and publishing the Pacific Rim video game. No word on which consoles but considering the source is a Nintendo site, it could be for the 3DS and/or WiiU.

Thanks to I Am Rogue, we can have a look at the huge banner made for Pacific Rim!

Just a few more months until Pacific Rim hits theaters!

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You may have heard of a little film called Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro which sees the return of the Daikaiju genre to the west! Exciting news indeed for kaiju and mecha fans far and wide. However, have you heard of the tentatively titled Atlantic Rim/From the Sea?

Well mockbuster production company The Asylum (infamous for such borderline knockoff films as Snakes on a train, The Day The Earth Stopped, Transmorphers, Titanic II, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, and much more) is busy producing this latest entry. Shooting has begun for the film in the Pensacola, Florida area and walks the line of the plot for Pacific Rim. As told by the films Second Unit Director:

The storyline is that these monsters come from the sea. The sea floor opens up and these things come out. They terrorize the East Coast from Miami to Washington D.C., and the good guys send them back packing.

The Asylum is notorious for their almost exclusively straight to DVD films, their ongoing legal battles with major studios, and their tendency to walk the line of legality when making these mockbusters.

Credit: Dread Central

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Total Film has posted an exclusive look at new Pacific Rim Concept Art. The images are from the newest issue of Total Film(#204), which is out now. We’ve mirrored the images here. The rest of the concept art(along with an interview) is in the magazine itself. Here’s more info about the images:


You can see two of those exclusive pieces by Doug Williams right here. The first puts the overwhelming scale of the Jaegers into perspective, as a Russian collosus stands guard, dominating the skyline. The second features a freaky Skull Temple that’s fused with its derelict urban surroundings.

Click on the headline to check out the concept art from Pacific Rim!

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Thanks to our sister site The Toyark for the heads up that the Pacific Rim Movie Facebook page has posted the 1st images of the NECA Pacific Rim Toyline! These highly detailed figures will be on display at Toy Fair 2013, so stay tuned for our images and info!

In the meantime, check out the Pacific Rim Toys by clicking the headline.

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While interviewing Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro, Indiewire let out that there is a sequel being worked on, in its early stages:

Indiewire: You’re in the very early stages of a “Pacific Rim” sequel. If you do that would you shoot it in native 3D?
Guillermo del Toro: Yes. Provided, at that point, that the technology is becoming easier and easier…

He then talked about 3D conversion:

Indiewire: Initially you didn’t want it to be converted…
Guillermo del Toro: Even then they were super respectful. By then we were already getting ILM shots. I was realizing that out of 100 shots, maybe 10% of the shots were risky. They said, “If we go 2D on those shots, we can do it.” Then I gave them my list of conditions. They spent twice of what they normally spend on [this process], because they gave me the chance to pay ILM to do every single shot in native 3D. They aren’t being converted. So all the big 3D effects shots are being done by ILM from the get go. Normally they give a movie a 14 to 16 week conversion time [for 3D]. I started the conversion back in September. So it’s six months for conversion. It’s very classy.

Also attached is a blueprint image of the Pacific Rim Strike Eureka, because it looks cool!

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Not even 24 hours since the release of the awesome Pacific Rim trailer and the Internet already seems ablaze with excitement and anticipation! This incredible film of Kaiju emerging from a portal in the Pacific Ocean and the giant robot Jaegers built to defeat them, is currently set for a July 12, 2013 release but there’s already plenty to whet your appetite on the official site Pan Pacific Defense Corps such as schematics of multiple Jaegers and even a viral video complete with voiceover by Transformers alum David Kaye.

If you’ve been living under a rock, we here at TokuNation are happy to help out! Check out the trailer for yourself below!

Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo del Toro and stars Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kituchi, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman and comes out in what may feel like the longest seven months ever! Stick with us here at TokuNation.com for more Pacific Rim news!