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The most powerful and, perhaps most ostentatious of all Mega Man X video game series armor designs is set to get the action figure treatment from Bandai as part of its ongoing D-Arts series... and fans probably won't even have to enter a secret code or wait until the year 21XX to get one...

Movies: The first stills from Zack Snyder's 300: Rise of an Empire are... shiny and full of ab. Gaming: Though Iron Man 3 probably won't be getting a current generation console tie-in video game, a new Grand Theft Auto IV Liberty City mod dubbed "Iron Man IV" may help tide over fans...

Movies: Director Bryan Signer has Tweeted a first look at Beast as portrayed by actor Nicholas Hoult in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Awesome: Counter656 is back with another insanely rad Dragon Ball Z stop motion animation using S...

Movies: The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special is set for release on Blu-ray and DVD on July 9. Lego: New images of the Lego DC Universe Super Heroes "Superman: Battle of Smallville" set have arrived online, with possible Man of Steel spoilers...

Custom Toys: While it's unlikely that Lego will ever get around to making individual versions of ALL of Tony Stark's many Iron Man 3 suits, customizer Minh Pham is hard at work on some awesome customs. Movies: Robert Redford is in talks to star as a high-ranking SHIELD agent in Captain America: The Winter Soldier...

Toys: The newest images of Bandai's D-Arts Blastoise indicate that it will, indeed, be a (s)hell of an action figure (pardon the stolen TMNT pun) when it drops around June. Gaming: It's Cyborg vs. Aquaman and Green Lantern vs. Solomon Grundy in the latest Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Arena vids...

With the Bandai D-Arts Mega Man now available in the US, Tamashii Nations has rolled out images of the first proper Robot Master the Blue Bomber will have to contend with on collector shelves. Perhaps surprisingly, it's not the usual Proto Man...

Animation: Director Alex Zamm has posted footage from a canned Marvin the Martian CG/live action short, along with a Hong Kong Phooey CG demo on his Vimeo site. Upcoming: Fantagraphics has posted an online preview of the upcoming Messages in a Bottle, which will collect the best comics by Bernard Krigstein...

The final evolutions of each of the three starter pocket monsters from the original Pokémon Red/Blue video games -- plus the title's mightiest mutant -- will all be getting hyper-articulated action figures as part of Bandai's D-Arts line in Japan in 2013. Shown...

Bandai churns out scads of serviceable Power Rangers/Super Sentai toys every year in both the US and Japan, but its S.H. Figuarts line is where collectors go for the cream of the crop. A variety of rangers from some of the most recent series from the tokusatsu franchise have made their way to the US -- namely a pair of Power Rangers Samurai imports -- and now those two could be joined by two of