Last weekend was ToyFair 2009 in New York. It was a busy weekend and we were deluged with announcements of upcoming merchandise. Fellow Poweteer and avid Joe fan, Tigerpaw32, sent in a full write up of GI Joe news:

Yo Joe! It’s that time of year again. Time for toy companies to show off their upcoming products and for me to do a write up of the G.I. Joe offerings. This year, the G.I. Joe line’s main focus will be on toys to support the upcoming feature film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Figures will be released in 12 and 3 ¾” formats as well as a brand new format: The Sigma Six-esque Action Battlers. The cute miniature Combat Heroes line will be continuing under the movie banner. Brand new role play, Mr. Potato Head, and todder toys will also be available. Add to this a few more non-Movie 3 ¾” items coming out before the Movie as well as a ton of other movie-branded merchandise and one huge Duke figure and you have a year filled with G.I. Joe action.

Our first order of business is to wrap up the rest of the 3 ¾” releases that will be hitting before the Movie toys come out. The remaining releases prior to the movie can be divided up into two sections: The Hall of Heroes and Online Exclusive packs.

Thanks to Rich for all the good news!
Really looking forward to that Cobra 7-pack and the Night Raven.
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This week sees the release of the highly anticipated Street Fighter 4. To celebrate, Powet presents a special 2-part $20 Game of the Week/Lost Classics/Maximum Letdown Special on some of the highs and the lows of the franchise. This is part one, in which we will feature the original Street Fighter (as an example of why you can’t go home again) and the two games based on a certain movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme which just so happens to have a name and cast of characters similar to Street Fighter. This weekend we’ll take a look at Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix along with one of the more under appreciated bright spots of the franchise.
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Need help with the Digital TV conversion this year? Powet.TV has the answers in this handy video!

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Join us this week as we discuss the news coming out of Toy Fair and NYCC. Also, I think there were a series of gas leaks in all of our apartments. Next week; Powetcast goes weekly! (For a week or two…)

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This past weekend, those that braved the theatrical remake of Friday The 13th got a peak at the full 2 minute teaser for the anticipated Tranformers sequel. Now Yahoo has the video online for view in High Definition.

Also at the Chicago Auto Show, Director Michael Bay delivered an additional 90 second video focused on the Chevy Autobots.

Get the cast lists for both videos after the jump
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2001 was an interesting year for pro wrestling to say the least. The once mighty WCW, who in its prime had dominated the WWF in TV ratings for over 80 weeks had clearly seen better days. Thanks in no small part to backstage politics, fallout from the AOL-Time Warner merger, god-awful angles, and even worse booking, the company that had been home to superstars such as Diamond Dallas Page, Lex Luger, Bill Goldberg, and Sting was on its last legs. With fans deserting the promotion on a weekly basis, the company losing millions of dollars a year, potential investors pulling out, and advertisers pulling ad space, WCW was clearly running on borrowed time. Meanwhile in Philadelphia, Paul Heyman’s ECW was undergoing a similar financial crisis. Since its inception in the early 90s, ECW’s bloody matches, homegrown superstars, and controversial storylines have gained the promotion a cult following, and was credited with supplying the blueprint for what made the WWF popular during its Attitude era. Even so, the fact remained that Heyman just didn’t have the money nor the muscle to compete with McMahon or Bischoff. The loss of their TV deal and the constant talent raids by WCW and the WWF did little to help matters. With worker’s paychecks bouncing on a regular basis, and wrestlers departing for the big time, ECW too would be shortly be becoming just a memory….

…until Vinnie Mac saved both brand names by buying out both companies for next to nothing and retaining some of their better workers. After that, Vince screwed up the whole thing by eschewing the dream matches fans wanted to see and instead presenting some of the worst inter-promotional booking ever seen, but that’s another story. Vinnie Mac had finally done what he had set out to do: monopolize mainstream North American pro-wrestling by either absorbing or eliminating his competitors. No one believed that anyone would ever step up to take on McMahon at his own game ever again. No one that is, expect for Jerry Jarret and his son Jeff Jarret.

Now Jeff was not new to the wrestling business. In fact he was a longtime performer for the WWF after gaining popularity as a local star. He was also part of WCW during its final days, where he even had a run as the world champion (before losing it to David Arquette. Yes, that David Arquette.). Instead of rejoining the WWE after the WCW buyout, the Jarretts began work on an all new promotion. Though it would begin life as an offshoot of the NWA, Jeff’s goal was to introduce an all new style of wrestling, one based around total nonstop action. Thus, TNA wrestling was born (not exactly my first choice for to name my newly created wrestling promotion, but I digress). The promotion would feature a six-sided ring, a revamped cruiserweight division (known as the X-Division), a more respectable women’s division, and a mix of new superstars and veterans. The promotion started out small, but then grew bigger, and gained a TV deal with Spike TV, as well as a video game deal with Midway, which brings up to this week’s $20 GOTW.
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Warning: the following video is NOT safe for work!

The Lonely Island released their first CD this week, and I considered doing a review to tell you all how funny it is, but I’m afraid my review would be me repeating lines and laughing for 5 minutes.
So with that in mind, watch the above video and then buy the CD.