SuperHeroTimes has some nice pics up of the Icons wave 2 figures along with the variants. I have mirrored the images below. Wave 2 includes Venom and the Incredible Hulk. The variants are Grey Hulk and unmasked Venom. The wave has recently had many sightings so keep an eye out! I saw the Grey Hulk last week.

   

You may remember me posting a piece of news that the Four Horsemen were offering a seventh minotaur from their 7th Kingdom FANTastic Exclusive series. After just 78 hours of being available for pre-order the seventh exclusive minotaur, the Mynothecean Royal Guardsman, has sold out. That didn’t take long. The figure was limited to 250 pieces.

It was also stated that the previous six minotuars will be shipping in the next few weeks and everyone who ordered any should keep an eye out. I should be getting a set of 6 that you can look forward to getting a glimpse of in a future PowetToys episode. I, unfortunately forgot about the Royal Guardsman’s preorder and missed out, as I’m sure many others did as well.

TFW2005 is reporting that the toys for the Transformers movie are going to be released June 2nd, 2007.

Here comes another shot at Sony for their criticism that the 360 wasn’t truly “high-def”.  Just as they’re announcing that many of their games have been bumped down to 720p, Microsoft announces that they’re going to start supporting 1080p.  The best news is that is that there is no new hardware to buy, it’s all supported within the console itself via the Fall update.

Update:  According to this afternoon’s article at Gamespot, Microsoft is claiming that ALL existing Xbox 360 games will support 1080p after the update.  Needless to say, that’s pretty impressive.

Today brings us a few bits of news on the X3 DVD release.

• The X3 DVD site has launched here.
• DVD to launch October 3rd
• Brett Ratner is working on a special edition to come out shortly after regular edition.
• Apparently Wal-mart will have an exclusive disc packed with the regular version that includes a 50 minute diary from Ratner on the making of the movie that Europe will be getting standard with their regular edition.

Marvel updated their site yesterday with a brand new Civil War trailer. It’s available HERE and it’s the perfect lead in for issue #4, which hits stands today. And while the idea of a video trailer existing for print media seems a bit off, the results remain badass.

Jon Favreau posted this somewhat crazed-looking image of him sitting with Peter Billingsley (Iron Man’s executive producer) at a table loaded with crazy huge guns onto his MySpace page. Obviously, this are at least related to the Iron Man movie, if not actual props. In fact, I kind of hope they are props, because man, who let them have all those giant guns?