D-Arts

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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: 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...

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...

Just in time for the Mega Man's (or Rockman, as he's known in Japan) 25th anniversary, Bandai is bringing the classic version of the hero, his robo dog Rush and a Metall/Met into its D-Arts line of articulated action figures. Set for release in Japan in early 2013, the figure will stand 105 mm (a little more than four inches) tall and retail for ¥3,675 (about $47 USD). Fo...

AHHHH!: Redditor ozLebowski shares a sonogram of he and his wife's unborn child, who may or may not be an alien symbiote. Movies: The Wolverine has an official release date: July 26, 2013. Manga: Nook and Nook Color users now have access to essentially up-to-date runs of several Viz series including One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Bakuman and more...

Gaming: This fall Power A will release batarang-flavored controllers for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in honor of Batman: Arkham City. Awesome: Gamma Squad's put together a super fun gallery of actors meeting their action figure selves that you will want to see, pronto...