In the grand tradition of Spaceballs: The Movie, Spaceballs: The Book, and Spaceballs: The Documentary; a new animated series has been greenlit for G4, set to debut in the fall of 2007. The series will include a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, though oddly, the pilot is set to pretty much retell the story of the movie, with Lone Starr and Barf being hired to save Princess Vespa from Dark Helmet, complete with his scheme to steal the air from Drudia.

I suppose this is less of a surprise with the revelation that the fantastic Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan – two of the movie’s three writers – are writing the pilot. Meehan will also take a story editor role, wherein he will possibly write some individual episodes, but oversee the writing of them all. And to my pleasant surprise, the show even boasts Brooks doing the voices for Yogurt and President Skroob!

All in all, for once, I’m sad I don’t get G4.

SuperHeroTimes has some nice pics up of the Icons wave 2 figures along with the variants. I have mirrored the images below. Wave 2 includes Venom and the Incredible Hulk. The variants are Grey Hulk and unmasked Venom. The wave has recently had many sightings so keep an eye out! I saw the Grey Hulk last week.

   

You may remember me posting a piece of news that the Four Horsemen were offering a seventh minotaur from their 7th Kingdom FANTastic Exclusive series. After just 78 hours of being available for pre-order the seventh exclusive minotaur, the Mynothecean Royal Guardsman, has sold out. That didn’t take long. The figure was limited to 250 pieces.

It was also stated that the previous six minotuars will be shipping in the next few weeks and everyone who ordered any should keep an eye out. I should be getting a set of 6 that you can look forward to getting a glimpse of in a future PowetToys episode. I, unfortunately forgot about the Royal Guardsman’s preorder and missed out, as I’m sure many others did as well.

TFW2005 is reporting that the toys for the Transformers movie are going to be released June 2nd, 2007.

Here comes another shot at Sony for their criticism that the 360 wasn’t truly “high-def”.  Just as they’re announcing that many of their games have been bumped down to 720p, Microsoft announces that they’re going to start supporting 1080p.  The best news is that is that there is no new hardware to buy, it’s all supported within the console itself via the Fall update.

Update:  According to this afternoon’s article at Gamespot, Microsoft is claiming that ALL existing Xbox 360 games will support 1080p after the update.  Needless to say, that’s pretty impressive.

Marvel updated their site yesterday with a brand new Civil War trailer. It’s available HERE and it’s the perfect lead in for issue #4, which hits stands today. And while the idea of a video trailer existing for print media seems a bit off, the results remain badass.

Jon Favreau posted this somewhat crazed-looking image of him sitting with Peter Billingsley (Iron Man’s executive producer) at a table loaded with crazy huge guns onto his MySpace page. Obviously, this are at least related to the Iron Man movie, if not actual props. In fact, I kind of hope they are props, because man, who let them have all those giant guns?

No, it’s not old news–it’s a week old rumor confirmed!  Game Informer did some peeking around Nintendo’s Offical Japanese Wii site and found some interesting info.  They list over 100 titles in development for the console including ‘Animal Crossing’, ‘Kirby’ and a “Gun Shooting Game” from Sega.  It also lists two new first party titles called “Forever Blue” and “Eye Shield 21”.