Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Captain Planet and the Planeteers Fight a New Era of Dangers

Dynamite Entertainment Captain Planet 001
Earth's ultimate protector returns for a new era of stories, as Dynamite and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products present Captain Planet in an epic new comic series starting this April.

"Every comic creator has their own personal white whale — that singular property they’ve been itching to make their mark on — and for more than a decade Captain Planet has been mine," said writer David Pepose.

Five ordinary young people from around the world must become humanity's last hope after being chosen to wield elemental rings of Gaia, the High Priestess of Earth. Each Planeteer suddenly finds themselves equipped with abilities aligned with one of the world's elemental forces: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart. And in the most dire circumstances, the five can combine these powers together to summon the globe's greatest champion — Captain Planet!

Kawaii Monsters Unleashed - Learn to Draw 75 Cute Kaiju

KAWAII MONSTERS UNLEASHED


Seventy years after its origin, Kaiju-themed books, movies, TV shows, and video games are proliferating and a part of mainstream pop culture. In Kawaii Monsters Unleashed, learn how to draw 75 fiercely adorable, preternatural creatures inspired by this sci-fi and action-filled film genre through easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials. 

Silos Bridges The Gap Between Hard Rock + EDM On APOCALIPS

Silos Band
Bridging the gap between hard rock and EDM, Silos has announced their upcoming record, APOCALIPS, due February 21 via Judge & Jury Records.  The thirteen tracks on the record, painstakingly selected, reflect many important topics including his sobriety journey while other lyrics communicate falling in love so deeply. In addition to the album announcement, the band released a performance music video for their interpretation of “Save Tonight”, made popular by Swedish musician Eagle-Eye Cherry in 1997.

Universal Stella Nova Resort Celebrates Its First Guests

Universal Stella Nova Resort - Lobby Seating
Universal Orlando Resort’s newest hotel, Universal Stella Nova Resort, is now officially open – transporting guests to the center of marvelous galaxies for a resort experience unlike anywhere else in the universe. Brought to life by the award-winning Universal Creative team and co-owned and operated by Loews Hotels & Co, the new hotel joins Universal Orlando’s current collection of magnificently themed hotels and offers 750 rooms, cosmic-inspired dining options and out-of-this-world amenities.

Toy Fair 2025: BTHA Announces Top 30 Hero Toys

UK Toy Fair 2025 Hero Toys Amazing Flip Spidey
Toy Fair is back for its 71st year and organiser, the British Toy & Hobby Association (BTHA), is delighted to announce the top 30 Toy Fair’s Hero Toys for 2025. TV personality, Anna Williamson hosted the prestigious awards ceremony live at Olympia London, on the 21st January, posing with winners as they collected their certificates.

Curated by a panel of independent retailers with many years’ experience in buying and selecting toys, the Toy Fair’s Hero Toys winners were specially selected from a total of more than 310 submissions and represent some of the most innovative and inspiring toys coming out of Toy Fair 2025.

Toy Fair 2025: WereBears Sink Their Teeth Into UK Toy Fair

UK Toy Fair 2025 WereBears 002
Mere days ago we were alerted to the return of an elusive creature who hides among your day glow Teddy Bears until, under the light of a full moon, it is TRANSFORMED into a snarling, bitey defender of skittish children across the globe! Yes, folks, WEREBEARS are back, and from the look of things at UK Toy Fair this morning, they are brilliant!

Saturday, January 18, 2025

McFarlane Unleashes a Flavor Flav Action Figure

McFarlane Music Maniacs Flavor Flav Action Figure 003
YEEEEEAAAAAaaaaaa Boyyyyyy!! When McFarlane Toys announced the return of MOVIE MANIACS, our expectations were of horror's most sinister icons blissfully recreated in 4 dimensions of plastic and paint. What we got...wasn't that. After the Jumanji Movie cast, Buggs Bunny, the 40 Year Old Virgin, The Dude from the Big Lebowski, Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber and the pedo from Dazed and Confused, characters like Freddy and Jason seemed a universe away. Now, McFarlane explores a different kind of maniac. ...The kind who demolish hotel rooms and light stages on fire across the planet. And they make music too!

Rewrite Reality In Boonie Bears: Time Twist

Boonie Bears: Time Twist

Check out the new trailer for Boonie Bears: Time Twist, starring Chris Boike, Patrick Freeman, and Kieran Katarey, coming to theaters across North America on January 24th, 2025 from Viva Pictures!

Time falls apart in this wild adventure as Vick, a hero to forest animals, races through his fractured memories to save his friends and stop the collapse of the time-space continuum in the all-new movie...

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Mad Cave's BLADE FORGER

Mad Cave's BLADE FORGER
The discovery of CORUM, a never seen before energy source, led to a bloody world war for its control. After years of destruction, the Lords of the Lands agreed to negotiate a ceasefire for lasting peace. The BLADE FORGERS TREATY was born from that meeting. This treaty established that the mining of Corum would be centralized through one government, led by a neutral Emperor. The Emperor would have to be a BLADE FORGER, a mystical swordsman, and claim the title in a tournament called The Tournament of the Five Rings. Every five years Blade Forgers from every corner of the Empire would fight for the possibility of becoming the new Emperor. A young Blade Forger named Owada challenges the Emperor in the name of the forsaken people. This is the story of what happens next.

Werebears Return!

WereBears Plush Toys
Leading US plush supplier The Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Company (BHTB) has confirmed Character Options as the distributor of the nostalgic and gritty WereBears brand, which is due to relaunch this autumn in the UK and Eire.

The WereBears series of teddy bears was originally released in the United Kingdom in 1983. Philanthropist, author and cartoonist George Nicholas created them so that boys could embrace the teddy bears culture without the worry of teasing. 42 years on, the original characters that have both soft and sinister sides will appeal to both boys and girls with their wacky personalities.

Championing WereBears’ resurgence and with demand for 80s toy brands never being higher, Midco Toys’ David Middleton decided it was time to bring WereBears back to life and, together with Intertoy, encouraged the partnership between BHTB and Character Options.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Marvel & Star Wars Hitting Stores from Diamond Select

Diamond Select Marvel Animated-Style Spider-Man Chimney Statue 001
It’s Wednesday, which means new collectibles are at your local comic shop courtesy of Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant LTD! An animated-style Marvel statue and two Star Wars statues hit stores this week, and you can find a retailer near you at comicshoplocator.com! No store nearby? Pre-order at gentlegiantltd.com!

Marvel Animated-Style Spider-Man (Chimney) Statue

A Diamond Select Toys release! The Web-Slinger returns! Perched atop a metal chimney pipe, Spider-Man crouches and overlooks the city he’s sworn to protect in this mini-statue based on the Young Marvel cover artwork of Marvel Comics. 

Get To Know Brubaker & Phillips' CRIMINAL Before TV Premiere

Image Comics Criminal
The bestselling, fan-favorite Criminal series by multiple award-winning team Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Reckless, Houses of the Unholy, Fatale) will get a glow up this year with trade paperback reprints featuring new cover art and design from Phillips and published by Image Comics.

A television adaptation of this iconic series was in production most of 2024 with Brubaker serving as showrunner, and is coming to Amazon Prime later this year, starring Charlie Hunnam, Luke Evans, and Emilia Clarke. The first season of the TV show will cover the first two story arcs of the comic book series, Criminal, Volume One: Coward and Criminal, Volume Two: Lawless.

Cyberpunk 2077 x Opera GX Hub

Cyberpunk 2077 x Opera GX Hub
Norwegian browser company Opera [NASDAQ: OPRA] is unveiling the Opera GX hub, a new feature designed to blend the universes of its users’ favorite games directly into the browser. Starting with the Cyberpunk 2077 hub, this new addition to Opera GX brings players closer to their favorite titles than ever before, making it possible for them to use the web while never leaving Night City. They can now browse with the full Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack playing in the background, have webpages displayed in the dystopian Cyberpunk 2077 style, and get direct access to streams, modding guides, news from the game and much more – all within the browser. 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

New Clips for Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare: in Theaters 1/13/25-1/15/25 Only

Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
From Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, the makers of Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1 & 2, comes Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, a new entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe. Written and directed by Scott Chambers, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare arrives in theaters for three days only starting January 13, 2025 until January 15, 2025 only from Iconic Events Releasing.

The newest entry into the Poohniverse follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Along the way she meets a twisted Tinkerbell, who is hooked on what she thinks is fairy dust.

NetEase Games Announces April 17 Global Launch for Rusty Rabbit

Rusty Rabbit Video Game
NetEase Games and Nitroplus Co., Ltd., announced today that Rusty Rabbit, an exciting new 2.5D side scroller, will launch on April 17, 2025 for PlayStation®5, PC (Steam®), and Nintendo Switch. In addition to the updated release timing, NetEase Games has also announced an update to the planned pricing of the game, which is now set at MSRP $19.99 /€19.99/ £15.99. The game will launch simultaneously across PlayStation®5, Nintendo Switch, and PC, with pre-orders for PlayStation®5 and Nintendo Switch starting today.