The 38^th season of Super Sentai, Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger, begins on February 16, 2014. With trains as their motif, this team “drawn from imagination” must protect the “Rainbow Line” from the evil “Shadow”! 

Let us know what you think of the new team and their costumes in the comments below! 😀

The name “Ressha” means train, but the kanji “re” in the pronunciation, which normally means “line” as in train line, has been replaced with a different kanji with the same sound that actually means “violent/extreme/fierce/intense”.  The Tokkyugers are nearly yelling TRAINS!!! at us with this playful twist in their name.

The five-member team (red, blue, yellow, green, pink) are named for their numbers instead of their colors this time around: Tokkyu Ichigo, Tokkyu Niigo, Tokyuu Sango, Tokkyu Yongo, Tokkyu Gogo, and use their arm bracers, Tokkyuchangers, in combination with their Resshas, to transform.

Although the entire phrasing is not quite legible, the Tokkyuchanger will have a voice like that of a train announcer, stating something similar to “Transformation in progress, please step away from the transforming person”, a play on the “please stand clear of the closing doors” of a real train announcement. There are also specific sounds for color-change transformations.

In the most surprising bit of news, this team will be able to swap colors! As shown in the scans, Tokkyu Ichigo, normally red, can also become, instead, Tokkyu Ichigo Green.

The five trains can combine to form the Tokkyu-oh, which can also use other trains as interchangeable arms. In toy form, the robot will be 275 mm tall, and the length of the combined trains will be over 1.2 m long. The full robot (price undecided) will release in the first wave of toys on February 1^st, along with the Tokkyuchanger (retail 3900 yen), the Tokkyu buckle (2500 yen), the Tokkyu blaster (4500 yen)  and the action figures of Tokkyu Ichigo, Niigo and Sango (3000 yen each), which can swap numbers to perform the color transformations featured in the show. The five vinyl figures (600 yen each) also release February 1^st, but can’t switch numbers.

The shared weapon, the Tokkyu Blaster, has two modes: uchimasu mode (shooting mode/Blaster Mode) and kirimasu mode (slashing mode/Sword Mode). The five members also have unique individual weapons:  Ichigo has the Rail Slasher ( a sword), Nigo has the Home Trigger (a gun), Sango has the Shingo [traffic light] Hammer, Yongo has the Tunnel Axe and Gogo has the Tekkyou [rail bridge] Claw.  These five can combine into the Rentetsu (Wrought Iron) Bazooka that fires the engine Resshas, and will be released as a set (5500 yen). The blaster, the buckle and the bazooka also come with other train cars that can attach to Tokkyu-oh, the Scope Ressha, Shield Ressha, and Energy Ressha, respectively.

A second wave of toys will be released on March 1, beginning with some extra interchangeable train arms, including a light blue train, Tokkyuressha 6, which is a tank Ressha with a boxing fighting style( 1500 yen) and an orange train, Tokkyuressha 7, a car carrier Ressha with a scoop mode that uses car energy (1500 yen).

 

 

Special thanks to Ekala for scan translations!