Hard to believe, but Cartoon Network has been running their “Adult Swim” lineup for 10 years now. In our roundtable, we discuss the best, the worst and the just plain weirdest shows that have run during the night time hours and its evolution from a once a week special to a nightly ritual.

In addition, aDam will talk about The Secret Circle, Genius loses his mind over Guardian Heroes, and Crazy takes his Toy Soldiers to war.

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Some of the icons from the Adult Swim lineup of shows will soon be making their way to retail in the form of KID ROBOT‘s small vinyl figures. Each are packaged individually and blindboxed, with 25 in each case. Below is an image from Action-Figure.com of the side of the individual box. It shows the line up and case breakdowns for the series. It appears if you buy a full case, you will be missing either Lil, Mad Scientist or Ignignokt & Err. If I bought a full case and didn’t get the Mooninite duo, I would be enraged.

Below are the links to Action-Figure.com. They had an article for each group. Unfortunately, their case was missing the Mad Scientist.
Robot Chicken
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Frisky Dingo
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Moral Orel
Metalocalypse
Squidbillies
The Venture Bros.
Assy McGee

Midway has sent out a press release concerning the long-awaited video game version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

This is of course the “combat golf game” we heard about last month. Its not due out until fall, and theres no screen shots yet, but we can’t blame Midway for wanting to strike while the iron’s hot for Aqua Teens with the movie.

I only hope and pray the game fully respects the show’s low budget quality. I want sprites and limited animation!

Keep reading for the full announcement and the box art.
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We’re finally back to where we were 20 years ago when Transformers is turned into all sorts of wacky other stuff. Joe Moore from TFW2005 was just sent an image of Transformers Lite Brite Patterns With 50 Pegs.

The patterns included are of Sideswipe from Generation 1 and the Decepticon logo. There’s probably more in the box, but thats all we can see for now.

Man, if Boston was scared of the Mooninites, imagine they’ll poop their pants when they see Decepticons are coming…
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This is perhaps the best movie poster we’ll see all year. Reminiscent of the work of Drew Struzan, it’s got a classic quality and fully conveys how ridiculous this movie will be. Do note that all credits at the bottom say “BLAH BLAH BLAH.” Thats not placeholder text, thats the real deal.

Our favorite animated extra value meal will also appear on Playstation 2 with… a combat golf game. It’ll be written by series creators Matt Mallerio and David Willis, Midway will publish. Apparently Frylock has been admitted to a country club to play golf, but Shake and various villains from the show ruin your game with traps and boss attacks. If games based on comedy series in the past are any indication, this has the makings of a terrible game. Of course, it couldn’t be any worse than Home Improvement, and with the talent behind the show actually writing it, it may at least be funny if not fun to play.

Newsarama has a note up saying that Jim Samples, the head executive officer at Cartoon Network resigned on Friday due to fall out from the guerilla marketing campaign gone wrong in Boston for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. In an internal memo to the company, Samples stated that he hoped his resignation would allow this event to be put in the past and allow the company to move forward. The article goes on to say that he had been with the company for 13 years.

You can read the rest of the internal memo in the article here.

Speaking as a Bostonian, this is another footnote in an embarassing chapter of history for the city of Boston.

A skillfully done video edit, if I may say so. National Lampoon, which hasn’t been funny since Chevy Chase was, is apparently responsible.

It was the biggest security scare in the United States since September 11, 2001. Officials stopped traffic on a major highway, and cordoned off areas after “suspicious devices” were found under a steel beam and in other areas around Boston.

Boston law enforcement leapt into action after “suspicious devices” were reported bearing magnetic lights. In the shape of a Mooninite. Waving a middle finger. Boston bomb squad detonated 8 of them before someone from Turner called up and explained it was an ad for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, not some elaborate terror plot. A terror plot from the Moon.

Heroic Boston police have captured Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, employees for the marketing company Interference Inc., under a law declaring it a crime to place a hoax device that causes a panic. Turner has also issued an apology. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino calls the situation “outrageous” and has not ruled out a lawsuit to Turner to pay for the millions in stupidly wasted man-hours.

Why was there a panic? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia all had these same exact signs and no one lost their crap in those cities. I mean, just look at the sign! Aside from Ignignokt flipping the bird, theres nothing remotely threatening. Its a sign, posted to a beam. It lights up.

I’m surprised Turner and the marketing company are catching hell for this. Boston police should be ashamed for being so damn jumpy and sicking the bomb squad on a bunch of LED signs bearing the visage of a cartoon character.

Video of the signs being posted after the break

Full CNN report
CBS 4 Boston TV report
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