For those who are avid collectors of the Marvel Legends line of action figures from Toy Biz, it should be known that there was a production error in the early batches released to stores. The error pertains to the Maestro figure (future version of the Hulk). Maestro comes with one of Apocalypse’s arms, however in the early batches he is missing the tube connecting the back of his arm to his lower back. So when purchasing Maestro make sure you see the tube coiled up in the packaging before taking it to the register.

If you already have one of these Maestro figures missing the tube, you can either return it and get the correct one or you can call Toy Biz Customer Service at 1-800-728-2018. I was told it would take 4-6 weeks to arrive, but it came in 2 weeks.

The Toy Biz site itself has a note on this here.

It has been brought to our attention that the bonus piece that comes with Maestro Hulk is missing. The missing piece is a tube that connects Apocalypse’s left arm to his torso. If you have recently purchased a Maestro Hulk and are missing this tube, please contact our Customer Service department at 1-800-728-2018 for replacement. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers to Toy Biz for addressing the matter in such an accommodating way.

Electronic Arts has posted the gorgeous trailer for Superman Returns on Xbox 360. In light of the lack of a new trailer for the movie and the fact that the game features a giant boss fight with Metallo, this is pretty cool.

Brett Ratner’s bid to doom the franchise!
Ok, maybe not. Take away what I know about the movie from spy reports and this actually looks good. Not as killer as that first X2 teaser with Holst’s “Mars” playing over the footage of the army invading the masion all with Magneto’s voice-over… but its still decent. Nerd note: Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut in Magneto’s army doesn’t make sense since he isn’t a mutant. But if we got organic webshooters, we’ll get this and no-one will probably care too much.
The Xverse has some nice caps of the trailer if you can’t watch it for whatever reason. I already made myself a new desktop celebrating the infamous Magneto quote from the X-Men Arcade game: Welcome To Die!

New Game Informer magazine (Splinter Cell cover) has a 6 page story about the X3 game from Activision. 3 playable characters: Wolverine (obviously), Iceman (cool!), and Nightcrawler (huh?).
The game itself bridges the gap between 2 and 3, and will feature missions returning to Alkali lake to salvage bits from Stryker’s Cerebro to fix the one damaged during the assault on the mansion. Wolvie also meets up with Deathstryke who’s survived, and will go to Japan (Silver Samurai?). His levels will be brawlers, taking on many enemies and taking cover only long enough to heal before pounding through more enemies.
Iceman gets very fast paced levels as he’ll race around using that ice surfing trick I loved so much from the old Spiderman show. Looks like his levels will use some Sonic the Hedgehog type stuff. one of the screen shots show him using an ice blast against a fire engulfing a nuclear plant (likely Pyro’s handywork).
Nightcrawler’s levels will supposedly set his story out away from the action of X3, hopefully explaining away why he’s not in the movie. He gets *bamf* around people, kicking them in the back and also sneak around.

Movie games are SO hit and miss these days, which is better than they used to be, which was all miss. Though I know I should prepare for another ass game linked to what may very well be an ass movie, x2 was too kind to me to just abandon it now. I still saw Batman Forever after all, but learned my lesson by Batman & Robin.

Superman Returns teaser trailer is finally available. But is this really a teaser for the new movie? It uses music from the original movie as well as Marlon Brando’s voice for Jor-El. The clips are clearly the new movie, but its a kinda confusing deal.
For the first time I’m wondering if Singer’s boyish love of the Donner original might be more detrimental than helpful. Bah, nothing can keep me away from this movie…