Marvel’s got a bunch of news that came out today – after a slow, slow, slow week – so here’s the roundup’s rundown:

• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance finally ships this week. Just to remind us that it’s happening, here’s a slick new trailer for it! I’m looking forward to this game. And the trailer looks pretty good too.
• To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Heroes Reborn nonsense and the Onslaught mess that spawned it, Marvel’s putting out a mini starting in November called “Onslaught Reborn.” In true celebratory fashion, it’ll be written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Rob Liefield, as they both played a large role in the original Heroes Reborn launch. Here’s the new trailer!
• And, just because Marvel trailers are all the rage today, here’s the one for the upcoming Guiding Light crossover. It made me laugh a lot. Probably wasn’t supposed to though.
• There’s been a lot of photos shown online for the wedding scene on the roof for the Fantastic Four 2 movie. But the newest set of photos looks pretty interesting, largely because they show Jessica Alba stopping a helicopter with some sort of invisible powers! One of which is mirrored here.
• Lastly, Rich Johnston confirms that Stuart Immonen is the new artist taking over on Ultimate Spider-Man, following Mark Bagley’s insane stint of 110 issues. Please note – none of those issues shipped late, he all too often shipped more than 12 issues in a year, and they all looked fantastic. Immonen, you’ve got big boots to fill.

ACADEMY-AWARD(R) NOMINEE TERRENCE HOWARD SIGNS ON TO MARVEL STUDIOS’ IRON MAN

Joins Robert Downey Jr. in Super Hero Action Adventure Film Being Directed by Jon Favreau and Distributed by Paramount

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Fellow geeks it’s time to celebrate the 3rd greatest holiday of the year in style. Carve up your pumpkins in a way that only us geeks can truly appreciate. Characters from movies, tv, comics, games or whatever you geek out on are welcome. Come Halloween night we’ll showcase them all with a post here on the front page.

Post your submissions in this thread in the forums.

There is a much rumored, not confirmed, and not denied new series in the works for Transformers that has been referred to as Transformers: Heroes. A number of other sites have reported on it, but thats about all they reported because nothing else was known really. Voicecasting is happening in LA. TFW2005 brings us news the David Kaye has confirmed he has been cast as Optimus Prime.

For those who don’t know who David Kaye is, he voiced Megatron in Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. It seems like a curious choice as Optimus Prime, considering his past with Megatron.

By way of TFormers, Digital-Toys has come out and said that the next Masterpiece figure from TakaraTomy will be Megatron.

We’ve just received official word from Takara that the next entry in the Masterpiece line will be MP-05 Masterpiece Megatron to be released March 2007 for only $99.95 Pre-order yours today….
http://www.digital-toys.com/transformers.html

Also, Takara has officially DENIED the rumors that TFC 06 Megatron will be re-released in December.

Mike @ digital toys

www.digital-toys.com

It should be interesting to see how this turns out if this is true. Having only seen 2 Masterpiece figures so far and those two figures being so very different, Megatron is really going to be a crap shoot. The real question is, what will the alternate mode be?

Thanks to Blanktoe for the heads up!

[Update – Crazy: TFW2005 is reporting he will be released in March 2007. Their source was a different vendor than Digital-Toys so its looking like this is more legit than just a rumor.]

Both Toys R Us and Gamestop/EB are pushing free games when you buy 2 this week.
Toys R Us is selling new games in store and online. The usual rules apply: the lowest priced game is the free one. This goes for anything excluding pre-orders, so you may be able to get some real steals if you grab 3 premium priced $50 or $60 games. I’m going to use this as an excuse to grab Mortal Kombat 7 and maybe some DS games I’ve missed….

Gamestop and its still completely seperate but identical sister store EB Games are running the same sale but only on USED product. This again might yeild some pretty incredible deals, as its possible you might grab 3 massive current gen games for under $20. You can also use the sale on DVDs, but the last time I saw a DVD I liked in Gamestop it was one I traded in the week prior.

Well, someone over at AC Toys seemto have picked up the upcoming TF movie preview toys, which are Optimus Prime and Starscream. Included are some inpackage shots (front and back) and some out of package.

Regular readers might’ve noticed that the site went offline without notice yesterday afternoon, and then looked kinda messed up until a few minutes ago.

This was completely my fault, and I promise to read the instructions on how to upgrade wordpress before I erase the entire site again.

As always, I encourage all to stop by the Powet Forum and if you notice anything weird about the site not working, report it in my I broke the site thread.

Now you may cower at the sight of this fully operational powet station.