Now on DVD is Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Season 2 Volume 2 brought to you by Gaiam vivendi entertainment. This 6 episode DVD continues the adventures of Young Tony Stark and his friends James Rhodes and Pepper Potts as they face the evils who stole Stark’s Iron Man technology. The series features familiar characters such as Doctor Doom, Hawkeye and Black Widow; along with Nick Fury, Mandarin and others—allowing Marvel fans to see their favorite heroes and villains.

Iron Man: Armored Adventures is shown on the Nick Toons channel and is animated in mostly flat CG with 3D …

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Coming to DVD on October 16th 2012 is Big Bad Beetleborgs. A Saban series from the 90’s from SHOUT! Factory that takes older Japanese footage and mixes it with original footage from the 90’s series.

VERY cheesy and aimed at children with physical slap-stick comedy (which can be funny) and the stiff action that resembles Power Rangers and VR Troopers. Beetleborgs is filmed in such a way that it appears to be a living comic book by having impact effects pop onto the screen during battle as they did in the Batman series of the 1960’s (biff, bam pow)!…

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…So, what happened to the August figure you might ask? There wasn’t one… So here we go, the September figures are in and here is what we have.

Dragon Blaster Skeletor is just awesome, he was probably one of my favorites growing up and I had him a few times because I guess I used him in play too much.

Packaged, Dragon Blaster Skeletor looks kind of messy, but I didn’t leave him on the card for long.

Dragon Blaster Skeletor has a great piece of armor that is pretty much like the original 80’s figure. The forearms and lower legs …

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Coming to DVD on October 2nd 2012 is Transformers: Rescue Bots-Roll to the Rescue. Aimed at younger kids, this Shout! Factory Kids DVD is enjoyable for both the young and more mature.

A family of “First Responders” are teamed up with 4 Autobots to keep the Griffin Rock island off the coast of Maine a safe place for its inhabitants while learning about team work, heroism and mankind.

Transformers: Rescue Bots includes a great cast including LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow and Star Trek fame, Lacey Chabert from Tart and Mean Girls, Steve Blum; Cowboy Bebop’s Spike and of …

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Coming to DVD on October 2nd 2012 is Saban’s VR Troopers. This SHOUT! Factory DVD features 26 episodes on three DVDs.

The following is a synopsis:

Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B., three adventurous friends who study martial arts, find themselves the unexpected defenders of humanity in this action-packed series that pits them against a criminal mastermind and his invading army from another dimension.

A very popular show when it aired in the mid 90’s VR Troopers rode on the popularity of Power Rangers until it was ultimately cancelled in favor of Big Bad Beetleborgs. Thanks to syndication, this mishmash of …

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Coming to Blu-ray on September 25th 2012 and brought to you by SHOUT Factory, is the complete first season of G.I. Joe Renegades, the HUB channel’s awesome cartoon featuring all (or most) of your favorite characters!

G.I. Joe Renegades still features the “Regular Joes” fighting for freedom wherever there’s trouble—just in a different form. In a world controlled falsely by Cobra, five “Regular Joes” travel the country in search of evidence to prove that Cobra is not who they say they are—a family company who is looking out for the best interests of the people.

As the Renegade …

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Welcome to Airlandia, you have 3 options to live here. The first is to join Emperor Aerozar and his Tyrants of Wind, where you will be his lackey soldier who collects taxes, oppresses people and you will probably have to thwart the rebellion or die; once you are with Aerozar, you don’t get away. The second option is to live in one of the cities as a citizen. Citizens are required to pay taxes on the air they breathe and do everything that either Aerozar or his Barons want you to. The daily lives of a citizen include being down …

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Coming soon to DVD is Volume One of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. Featuring 13 episodes of the live action series on two disks and brought to you by SHOUT Factory.

Ninja Turtles is a very weird show; made by Saban who brought us Power Rangers. I’d go on to say that it’s cheesy and such, but I think that is obvious just by the DVD box art.

Ninja Turtles is filmed in Canada and features a vast selection of Canadian voice actors who are in the cast of many cartoons and the voices are very recognizable. The characters–in …

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From Cartoon Network is The Amazing World of Gumball, a mixed media cartoon starring a blue cat and goldfish with legs. I was very put off by this cartoon because of the advertisements and the fact that it is created with mixed media. However, it seems that watching the commercial free DVD has found me a new show to enjoy!

The Amazing World of Gumball is very funny and features some good messages for the kids, it is comedy based so it is full of slapstick—falling on their faces and other bruising impacts for these poor characters.

The main character …

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Squidbillies, the most screwed up animated show from Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim evening block was rather enjoyable for someone like myself who has never watched it before the DVD. Although I saw many commercials, I just didn’t have interest in it mainly because as a fan of Anime, I’ve become an animation snob and don’t care too much for something so primitive.

Unbelievably funny, Squidbillies can take a non-fan to a constant watcher after just one episode. VERY adult and probably something to keep away from the kids without parental guidance, this animated will split your sides as you laugh …

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