Boomerang Launches as Cartoon Streaming Destination

Time Warner’s Turner and Warner Bros. announced today they have partnered on a new standalone domestic premium video subscription service – Boomerang – that will launch in the Spring. This will be the first time the two companies have offered the massive Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes and MGM animation library of over 5,000 titles on a streaming platform. Boomerang will provide audiences instant and exclusive access to both brand-new original series and timeless franchises like Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, The Jetsons and The Flintstones among many others. Launching with a vast number of episodes, new content will be added weekly for kids, families and animation lovers of all ages to enjoy.

Strange 80s Benefit Concert with Weird Al, Tenacious D, Sarah Silverman and More

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund is proud to announce "Strange 80s," the inaugural annual benefit concert set to take place on Sunday, May 14th at the Fonda Theater. Hosted by Finn Wolfhard of the Netlfix hit "Stranger Things," "Strange 80s" will feature performances by Finn and a rotating cast of rock stars & celebrities covering the timeless anthems of the 80s! Tickets for "Strange 80s" will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 10th at 10am PT, with VIP tickets being sold at a later date via CrowdRise. All proceeds will go to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund to provide financial assistance to career musicians and music industry workers in need due to illness, disability or age-related problems. For more information, please visit: http://sweetrelief.org/.

Performers include: Tenacious D, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Sarah Silverman, plus members of OK Go, Taking Back Sunday, Velvet Revolver, Steel Panther, Filter, Anberlin, Goldfinger, Sugarcult, Anthrax, Precious Kid, Filter, and Honey Honey, plus TV stars: Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, Hayley Orrantia (from The Goldbergs), and Chelsea Telmadge (from Stranger Things), with additional performers to be announced over the next few weeks!

The Extended Deadpool 2 Movie Teaser from Logan

Logan. I have a lot of thoughts. Most of them include phrases like "missed opportunity" and "same as always"...but we'll get to that later. Aside from some expletive filled banter between Logan and Professor X, the best (and most fun) part of the film was a teaser for the second Deadpool film with Ryan Reynolds back in the lead. While it is quick leaves an audience in agony, screaming for more, it still manages to contain more plot twists than the actual Logan movie. Amazing. Watch belowwww...

The New DuckTales Cartoon Is Weird... and AWESOME

The last we heard from Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, we got to sing along with the cast and realize we still knew every word to the super catchy theme song. Also, the 10th Doctor was involved...so all was right with the world. Now we get a look at the very modern art style used in this new cartoon series, and get re-acquainted with Donald Duck and his nephews as well as Scrooge McDuck, Webby and Launchpad McQuack. ...It never occurred to me there were so many Scottish ducks in this cartoon...

Humans, Orcs and Elves Coexist in David Ayer's BRIGHT

From the director of Suicide Squad and End of Watch, David Ayer, comes a new film starring Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, and Noomi Rapace.

Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds.  Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, an orc (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine night patrol that will alter the future of their world as they know it.  Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a young female elf and a thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.

Batman: The Animated Series Almost Got ’Im Card Game by Cryptozoic

Cryptozoic Entertainment, leading creator of board games, trading cards, and collectibles, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, announced the release of the Batman: The Animated Series Almost Got ’Im Card Game. The 5-8 player social deduction game is based on the classic “Almost Got ’Im” episode of Batman: The Animated Series in which Gotham City’s most infamous rogues play poker and tell stories about almost defeating Batman, not knowing one of them is actually Batman in disguise. Players take on the roles of various DC Super-Villains of the Caped Crusader, one of whom is secretly Batman. The action centers around participants gathering the poker cards needed to activate special abilities. The Super-Villain players use their abilities and guile to try and figure out which of them is Batman, while the Batman player tries to defeat the Super-Villains before they discover his or her identity.

Toy Fair 2017: Just Play & Comic Images Get Retro with Nickelodeon

These days, there are a lot of what we call "casual collectors". While these folks may have significant collections, they just sort of wander through a toy show looking for non-specific things that spark the heart bubbles above their heads, taking them back to their childhood where Saturday morning cartoons ruled all. Just as the sellers at toy shows strive to fill their tables with flashbacks, toy companies have caught on and are actively seeking out 80's and 90's properties to transform the retail aisles into way back machines. You'll find Strawberry Shortcake with The Bridge Direct...Madballs with THREE different companies..and now Just Play and Comic Images join in on the fun!

deadmau5 and WeTransfer Offer Free Download of 'stuff i used to do'

This is the part where we scream FREE STUFF and you come running. It doesn't happen often these days, so you'd best get it while the getting's good! Today, Friday, February 24, for one week only, deadmau5 has teamed up with WeTransfer for the release of "stuff i used to do", a collection of 16 previously unreleased tracks.
 
The collection--available to all via WeTransfer's homepage--celebrates deadmau5 as an independent artist at liberty to offer fans free music.  The full track listing for the free download is as follows:

Kaiju Epic Will Eat Your Other Comics

KAIJU EPIC! is the newest title from publisher Big Dog Ink, and a pet project for lead writer, Tom Hutchison. Kaiju Epic! is grounded in the campy, fun-loving genre of the giant monster, such as Godzilla or Gamera, but this particular story also adds a bit of “real” kaiju to the mix, as well as legends of the end of days from around the world. Readers will find monsters they may have heard of, like the Kraken or even Quetzalcoatl, roaming the pages of Kaiju Epic!, but there will also be all-new monsters created just for this series.

Kaiju Epic! will be a 5 volume series each with two separate stories. These stories will take place on opposite ends of the globe and give a real feeling of the end of the world, rather than the destruction of a specific city. Tom is joined by co-writer Kari Castor. Kari is known to BDI fans as one of the writers of the hit mini-series, Shahrazad.

Kaiju Epic! is no standard comic book, either! This is a huge 48 page monster sized comic book!

Toy Fair 2017: The Four Horsemen Conquer with Mythic Legions

The most fantastic thing about the times we live in is the fact that there seems to be a multitude of ways to live out our dreams. Case in point; The Four Horsemen. Here's a group of gifted artists who have worked on their favorite childhood properties and then imagined a whole new world, fully supported by the fans who love them. Now eyebrows deep in their second very successful Kickstarter for the Mythic Legions action figure line and celebrating with massive piles of stretch goal offerings, the Four Horsemen pave the way for independent toy companies to realize their own dreams. Let's take a look at Mythic Legions 2.0 with 4 days left for you to buy in!

Toy Fair 2017: Sniffly & Sleep Deprived But Still Uploading!!

So this year I decided to get convention crud BEFORE the actual event...you know..just to be different. I'm also rocking coverage out on a tiny netbook that seems to have the collective brain power of a Speak and Spell, so the processing of images we are gathering every day at Toy Fair 2017 is slooooow going, but it's going! Just a reminder that, for the sake of speed, some categories might go straight to Flickr image galleries, so check there for updates of the awesome plastics you crave.
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Toy Fair 2017: Funko Preview

HAPPY TOY FAIR EVE!! Yes, it's true...we don't celebrate like this before the UK or German Toy Fairs, but none of them require me to pack up my life and relocate to New York for nearly a week. YOU'RE WELCOME, TOY FREAKS!! This year, we've got an incredible team of Idle Hands allstars old and new, all dialed in to show you the latest collectibles from toy companies across the globe. They will haunt our dreams until their release, but together, we'll get through it. On the eve of this massive geek gathering, we thought we'd kick things off with a look at some completely random Funko products. LET'S GET INTO IT...

Toy Fair 2017: Big Chief on Doctor Who

We've seen a lot of new licenses from Big Chief Studios in this year's Toy Fair 2017 coverage, and now we jump back into a property that is, not only well known to Big Chief 6th Scale collectors, but amazingly, profoundly British. DOCTOR WHO!! The future of the Doctor on his BBC TV show seems uncertain, but his toy counterparts will never stop replicating and marching on. Let's catch up with Matt Booker of JediNews at UK Spring Fair 2017 and see how many Doctors you can fit in a camera phone...

Playmate's Voltron: Legendary Defender Brigs Lionbots Home Again

So Playmates rings up and says WE HAVE THE VOLTRON LICENSE!! We want to send you Voltron toys!! Obviously there is YAYing and happy dancing. I make suggestions including "Let me know when that big sucker is coming because i'll need to book a plethora of time to pour over it and table a thousand pictures. Exactly 1 thousand." Then they say they can only send over the basic figures, you are getting 2 of them. ENJOY!! This can be a real bummer, as I am a poor lad and can not afford the fancy massive Voltron gracing store shelves...but then I have a flashback when the toys actually arrive. Remembering being poor little Paul who also couldn't afford the giant Voltron, but managed to save up some squirreled away arcade moneys for what was most likely a bootleg Voltron from the Te-Amo on the corner of 15th and Avenue U. He wasn't a massive, interconnecting robot, but he was mine.

Toy Fair 2017: More McFarlane Previews: Attack on Titan, Destiny, Titanfall 2 & More

Back into Toy Fair 2017 coverage as we are TWO DAYS away from the New York leg of our tour! We previously dove into McFarlane's releases with some early concept art for several of their Color Tops action figures and a fair share of similar art for their Construction lines. Now we take a look at a small pile of action figures just about to hit store shelves as well as a video game line that generated a fair amount of buzz when we first talked about it...