Tomopop was on location at C2E2 this past weekend and got some nice shots of upcoming minimates based on the Marvel vs Capcom 3 game. Included in some of the images were Deadpool, Super Skrull, Dormammu, C. Viper, Morrigan and more. I did not see any accompanying information regarding release or assortment pack outs for the figures. Design sheets for these new figures leaked just before Valentine’s Day. Those can be seen here. It looks like many of the Marvel characters will be leveraging existing tooling, while most of the Capcom characters are getting the full treatment including Amaterasu!

    

The Geek News blog over at MTV posted some of the first images of the lions from the new Voltron Force cartoon coming to NickToons later this year. No Yellow Lion to be seen, unfortunately, but all the rest are here. We’ve seen some of these images before in various forms of completeness as teasers on the VoltronOfficial twitter feed. Its nice to see them completed and colored though. Things are definitely shaping up for the series so far.

   

Botcon 2011 registration went live yesterday afternoon. There were some minor hiccups having to do with traffic at the outset, but that was brief and lasted less than 5 minutes. There were also some not so minor hiccups with the Hall of Fame dinner not included as an option. The dinner costs about $45 to attend, but was never an option to choose for about the first half hour of the registration. The Botcon twitter feed told everyone to hang tight and not try to re-register. They will have a fix shortly to allow those affected to circumvent the $6 fee to cancel a registration before re-registering. When that is ready it will be announced, so watch the Botcon twitter feed for updates.

Anyone who still wants to qualify to receive a ‘first day’ pin with their registration has until 5:30 PM EST to register.

See you at Botcon!

This trailer is a bit old at this point, but cool nonetheless. It features several new mutants previously unknown to appear and even shows Sean Cassidy (Banshee) using his vocal powers. Pretty cool.

Jackson Publick, one of the show-runners for the Venture Bros., has posted on his blog news that the Venture Bros. show has renewed its contract with Adult Swim for two more seasons, in addition to a special 60 to 90 minute special.

We’ve recently signed a new contract with adultswim to produce two more seasons of The Venture Bros.

Doc and I officially started writing last week. Though, in truth, we technically started writing season 5 last year when we accidentally brainstormed a handful of (we think) pretty hot new stories while we were writing the season 4 finale. Our goal is to have enough scripts to comfortably begin pre-production by June.

But wait…that’s not all!

Our contract also includes a long-form (60-90 min.) Venture Bros. special. Don’t ask me when we’ll make it, what it’s going to be about, or whether it’ll be on TV or direct-to-DVD, because we don’t have a clue yet. Nevertheless: good news!

Tell them what else they get, Jackson…

We’ve been secretly working on an 11 minute Venture Bros. special for the past couple of months. A sort of light-hearted, one-off little aperitif we’re producing and animating entirely in-house at Titmouse Studios in NY and LA. It will premiere some time this summer.

We’ve been left in limbo for quite some time over the fate of the show, so its great to hear this news. The Powet staff are big fans and look forward to the continuation of this series.

Lego Star Wars III and Crysis 2 look like the big releases this week. Check out plenty more after the jump and click those links before buying to let us know you care!

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