Beast Saga toys hit preview mode – Beast Fight Collection

Some of the completed Battle Beasts line from TakaraTomy has hit far enough down the line it is showing up in catalogs, and instead of being under Beast Saga it is listed as Beast Fight Collection. Whatever the final name of the line and game ends up being (Beastformers, Battle Beasts, Beast Saga, or Beast Fight!), it will be awesome. Thanks to RobotKingdom‘s facebook page, we got the images! Here are a few, more on the Facebook album. The pictures also show that the chests will contain dice for the game that goes along with the figures. And this is not the full line, because the tiger figure from the prototypes is no present in this image collection.

Beast Fight - Beast Saga - Beastformers - Battle Beasts
Beast Fight - Beast Saga - Beastformers - Battle Beasts

From Dragonautes via LittleRubberGuys

The Rockford Files making their way to the screen

It’s time for classic detectives to get rebooted, not only is Sherlock Holmes running around in several formats, but we got Jennifer Gardner as Miss Marple, and now Vince Vaughn will be Jim Rockford in the new Rockford Files film! The Rockford Files series featured a detective who preferred to talk his way out of trouble, and he worked mostly cold cases to avoid troubles with the police. This could go either way, Vaughn can talk and talk his way out of things and it would be interesting to see how it goes. Hopefully it works out good, because this has potential.

Via Deadline

Rockford Files Yellow Pages

Everyone wants Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: The Movie

Or at least Disney does, because that’s the next theme park ride to become a film. Remember, the ride Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is based on the animated film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, which is based on Kenneth Grahame’s book The Wind in the Willows. So we got some sort of odd circular phenomenon going on here. You might even call it a wild ride, of a Mr. Toad variety! The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise can be blamed again, which has also spawned the Country Bears film and the Haunted Mansion movie (which is also being rebooted!)

Now, The Wind in the Willows is an awesome book (the book contains the word “ass”, which is always awesome when you are 7!), and I loved the stop motion animated film when I was a kid. Can Disney top this? Will this be Speed with a toad? Find out when we do, years from now!

via CinemaBlend

Wind in the Willows

Beast Saga full prototypes

Here are the full pages of the prototypes of the Beast Saga toys, posted by lord on the LittleRubberGuys board and on his Dragonautes 2010 site. No one is certain what will be in the chest area, it may be a device similar to the Transformer Botshots toys, or it might be some sort of dice or shooting cube. Besides Lionga, you can see toys for Goldar (the Tiger) and the 3D model for the Alligator.

Beast Saga Prototypes
Beast Saga Prototypes
Beast Saga Prototypes

The Eight Rangers

Kanjani8 is a boy band that has fun with their whole persona, putting on a huge stage show called Kanjani Sentai Eight Ranger, where they essentially do a musical Power Rangers (Super Sentai) tribute/parody. These shows have been going on for years, and have become popular enough that they’re being turned into a film called The Eight Rangers. Kanjani8 will star in the flick as they battle against the evil terrorist organization Dark Crusade. There is a whole lineup of supporting stars: Model/actress Becky will play a female detective, Hiroshi Tachi will play legendary hero Captain Silver, Renji Ishibashi as chairman of the Hero Association, Misako Renbutsu, Naota Takenaka, Ryosei Tayama, Ryuhei Ueshima, and Noriyuki Higashiyama as the leader of Dark Crusade.

Yukihiko Tsutsumi will direct, and July 28, 2012 will be the drop date for theaters!

via NipponCinema

Eight Rangers

Eight Rangers...or Infinity Rangers???


Becky the Eight Rangers

Last names are for losers!