Good news for French Canadian Anime fans! We could be seeing the return of some of our favourite old school Anime shows.

Le journal de Montréal has this article discussing plans for 2 new Canadian TV stations “Teletoon Retro” to debut in English in Spring 2007 and “Télétoon Rétro”, the French equivalent, in French in Fall 2007.

The channel will be featuring animation dating from 10 years back and older. It’s mentioned that they are attempting to secure the rights to old classic Anime such as Albator and Goldorak.

Albator is the French dub of Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock (or Herlock as the Japanese insist on calling him). It came in 2 series. Albator 78 is a 42 episode series translated from the 1978 series “Space Pirate Captain Harlock”. “Albator 84” is a 22 episode series translated from “Endless Orbit SSX” from 1983. The numbers denote the year of their French dub rather than their Japanese release.

Goldorak is the French version of Grandizer (Grendizer to the Japanese) and aired starting in 1975.

Both shows were wildly popular among French Canadians in the late 70s and early 80s.

It needs to be mentioned that Teletoon in both it’s English and French incarnations is notorious for horrible programming due mainly to the fact that they’re incapable of affording to pay for anything the least bit desireable. They generally get the scraps that better channels like Comedy and YTV don’t want. Whether or not this goes through really depends on the financial feasability of securing the rights to these shows.

Anime News Network mentioned this story on Friday but claimed the rights to the series had already been optained. This confusion was probably just lost in translation.

Thanks to Powet antagonist Dave aka Soundowaivu for finding this article.

Game Trailers has posted a video in their Top 10 series detailing Top 10 Video Game Weapons, and its hard to argue with the results.
Although, I’m disappointed how many FPS games there are on the list. Doom’s chainsaw defines the game, and Half Life 2’s Gravity Gun innovates beyond anything else on the list, but did we really need anything from Turok on there? Still, covering Metroid’s Ice beam and Mario Kart’s red shell makes the list a pretty well balanced one, if not for the oddball #10.

If you need a brush up on Superman before he Returns, enjoy Superman the Movie in 30 Seconds. With Bunnies. Voices are even provided by Returns writer Michael Dougherty and director Bryan Singer.
Angery Alien productions has many, many more shorts like this on their website.

Buffy and Firefly creator Joss Whedon answers the question “Why do you create strong women characters?” for Equality Now, his favorite charity, and the benefactor of Can’t Stop The Serenity, a theatrical charity re-release of the big screen continuation of Firefly.
After watching this, is it any wonder he’s one of the most popular writers/creators in movies, tv, and comics?

Al Gore has more news about our climate crisis, but he’s been interrupted in this video by an obnoxious heckler.

Marvel’s Iron Man will be making his cinematic debut May 2nd, 2008. We mentioned a while back that Jon Favreau will be directing. From the press releases, it sounds they’ll be changing his origin a bit from the original. It sounds like the direction they’re going sets up a pretty good replacement origin, though. Judgement will be made in May of 2008!

He-man.org has announced that the original He-man series will be seeing its next DVD release in September with Season 2 Volume 2. This volume will complete the series allowing for 2007 to bring us The New Adventures of He-man. While not the favorite series of the fandom, its good to see that more than just the original series is coming to DVD.

There are a number of statues coming from Diamond Select on the horizon in addition to the Age of Apocalypse busts we posted yesterday. First and foremost, I’m extremely pleased to say that Colossus of the X-Men is getting a new kick-ass Marvel Milestone statue reenacting the cover of Uncanny X-Men issue 122. The item description of their page talks about a motorcycle which is clearly the wrong info, so I wouldn’t go by most of it. It appears the statue will retail for about US$ 175. I’m not normally one to get excited over a statue, but I make exceptions for Colossus and his total kick-ass-ness.

Next up is the Dark Phoenix Saga: Phoenix Medium Statue. Phoenix is displayed in her red costume with flame detailing around her. She measures 14″ tall and is limited to 3000 pieces. Each base is hand numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Considering this is a Phoenix statue, Dark Phoenix no less, I would have liked to have seen a LOT more flame. The statue will be retailing for about US$85.

The Green Goblin will also be added to the 5″ line of Marvel Icon Busts retailing for about US$45. A Ghost Rider movie bust is also on its way for about US$60 limited to about 5000 pieces. A replica of Wolverine’s Astonishing X-Men mask is being made available in a special display case. The mask should retail for about US$89.99 and is limited to 1000 pieces.

Cover from UncannyXmen.net