The first movie toy, exclusively at New York Comic Con, will be a limited-edition Legacy Collection Movie Red Ranger with his sword and power coin! Only 1,000 have been made and each day, there will be limited quantities available at Bandai’s booth, #1628.

Here’s a first look at the Red Ranger’s sword for the Power Rangers movie coming out on March 24, 2017:

Directed by Bat in the Sun and starring Michael Rowe in the title role of Ninjak, the 6-8 episode miniseries will feature the warrior doing battle with many of the Valiant stable’s other marquee players, including Bloodshot, X-O Manowar and Timewalker.

Fans can pick up the Top-Secret Project Jason David Frank Variant of Bloodshot #14 at the New York Comic Con during Frank’s signing session on Friday, October 7 at Valiant booth #1635.

(Courtesy: Lord Stop The Pain from Rangerboard)

Bandai America is coming to New York Comic Con (October 6th-9th) with two exclusive offerings including the first-ever toy for the upcoming Power Rangers movie. Details on the figure aren’t available at this time but we do know that it will be limited to 1,000 pieces at a price point of $40.

Also available will be a limited edition Tokyo Vinyl figure of the Dino Megazord from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. This figure was designed by Japanese vinyl artist TOUMA and will only have 500 pieces in circulation. Priced at $60, both the Dino Megazord and movie figure will be available for purchase at the Bandai America booth #1628.

(Courtesy: Bandai America)

Panel will be held on Saturday, October 8th at 2:00pm at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Lionsgate has said that we will be getting a “first look” at the movie. Since we’ve had many looks via pictures, one would assume that we’ll be getting a teaser trailer at the very least. Hope springs eternal!

This year at New York Comic Con 2013, the Bandai booth displayed their upcoming toy line for 2014 including the Legacy Dragonzord and the Legacy Dragon Dagger. Check out the pictures below!

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(Courtesy: SasukeSkywalker via YouTube)

On Thursday, July 12th at San Diego Comic-Con, the “Power Rangers: 20 Years and Beyond” panel was moderated by Brian Ward (Producer, Shout! Factory), and included panelists Elie Dekel (President, Saban Brands), Walter Jones, Paul Schrier, Tony Oliver (Writer/Producer, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Alex Heartman (Jayden, Power Rangers Samurai), and surprise guest Jason Narvy. Here are the pictures from the event:

(Courtesy: Zimbio)

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting any Power Ranger-y events at SpringFestNY 2012. It’s a free, anime convention ran by the anime club at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn, NY. No offense, I had low expectations. I was somewhat surprised.

The morning was a bit slow. There were attendees there, but it’s as if everyone wasn’t thinking about showing up until noon. For a one-day convention on a Saturday, that surprised me. But then I remembered that I’m in New York. We get up when we feel like it!

So for a Power Ranger fan, the start of the day was really dry. Why did I go again? Geek cons are a rare breed in New York City. Everyone thinks we’re the hub for everything and anything, but geek conventions are slim. I’m not talking about your occasional club here or meetup there. I’m talking straight-up convention. So if there’s are con here, I try to support them as much as possible. Unfortunately for me, my support was running low midway until my friend and companion for the weekend Shana started talking to people. Then I talked to people. And that’s when it clicked.

We both had a lot of postcards to promote No Pink Spandex Live 2012 (with guest Jason David Frank), so that became the ice-breaker. There are a lot of Power Ranger fans. A lot. One girl literally squealed with joy when we mentioned NPS Live to her. We had another conversation with two vendors about good-looking Power Ranger men.

Seeing a Power Ranger cosplayer made my day! It’s an anime convention and he could have cosplayed as anything else, but chose the Black Ranger. Thank the Lord Jesus!

Then at 3:30pm, there was a Tokusatsu panel. Shana had never seen a lick of Sentai, so this was conversion time! And if anyone knows me well, it’s really weird coming from me to covert someone into a Sentai viewer. She’s lucky Go-Busters is awesome, lol!

The panel itself was rough. Again, I like to support my fellow brothers in Toku but I have to keep it real. It was hard to get through. The guys did show excerpts from Kamen Rider and Sentai, so that helped a lot. And the great ending to this story is that Shana is gonna check out Go-Busters. That’s all I needed to hear!

After the panel, we did talk with the guys and it was just good to talk with Power Ranger fans. That’s what made this convention for me. I didn’t need a guest or any event to enjoy myself. All I did was talk with people with like interests and had a good time. That’s my advice to you at conventions: Go out and talk to people. And carry an ice-breaker!