Cross posted from zacshipley.com

A lot of movies and video games seem to come with cardboard sleeves around the plastic cases. These seem like something to hold additional materials, or maybe as a box for multiple discs (such as a season of a TV show). More often than not I end up with boxes that are just for a single movie in a single case. Maybe they help the movie stand out on a shelf in a store?

What do you think? Do you keep these sleeves? Do you keep your cases at all?

SOPA, So what? You still get a new episode of the Powetcast today. We’re going to talk Tebow in this episode. No really. Not really.

This episode we talk some TV, including Napoleon Dynamite, Workaholics, Portlandia, Alan Gregory, and Martin Luther King Jr. Crazy brings us toy news with Kinnikuman and the latest Matty collector foul up.

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Direct Link:Powetcast 112: In The Air, Tonight.
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The other day I saw this trailer for Soul Calibur V and thought “Oh, I bet the folks over at Powet would like this” and made a mental note to post it.

Well, it has only been a day and another trailer is already up. Soul Calibur V will be released at the end of this month.

If you want to see a hands on preview of the game, Sean played it in Tokyo and liked it!

Back in September, we found out Star Trek The Next Generation was being refreshed for a Blu Ray release. More than refreshed, it is being completely recut from the original negative since the masters were all done on video tape.

This video shows a side by side comparison of the show as it was originally presented (and already released on DVD) and the new version.

The sampler disc containing “Encounter At Farpoint,” “Sins Of The Father,” and “The Inner Light” will be released on January 31. The remainder of the series will be coming, but will take years.

Zac, aDam, Ernie, and Captain Genius reteam after the podcast took an unintended month long hiatus.

Enjoy some talk about video games, comics, and toys! The second half of the show is dedicated to dissecting the trailers of the movies of 2012.

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Powet is a multicultured and multinational website, but of course we all celebrated the grand December 23rd tradition of Festivus.

Festivus is a holiday celebrated each year on December 23, as an alternative to over commercialized and/or religious days.

Read the history of this glorious day, gather round the Festivus pole, and be sure to tell all your family members the ways they’ve disappointed you, followed by feats of strength.

You don’t have to give Festivus gifts, but if you’d like…

A decade after Peter Jackson first took us into the world of Tolkien, we now have a look at the original story that began The Lord Of The Rings.

Will this be a worth addition to one of the most celebrated film series of this generation? Does Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth mean he’s recovered from missteps like King Kong and The Lovely Bones?
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Spike TV’s Video Game Awards are running live right now, but if you missed the show (probably better off if you did), the next chapter of Transformers had its theatrical premiere.

Fall of Cybertron continues the fight from 2010’s War For Cybertron and adds several favorite characters to the mix. See some Decepticons combine and then a Dinobot challenge them!

The name of the song included in the video is “The Humbling River” by the band Puscifer.