Comic Images has secured the rights to produce trading and photo cards for the upcoming American Idol season.

The original Ultraman TV series will be coming to DVD in the U.S. sometime later this year.

WotC is releasing Monsters Menace America , a B-Movie monster board game.

The classic 'kaiju' warrior Ultraman , created by Eiji Tsuburaya (aka the father of Godzilla ) in 1966, is coming to the U.S. courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.

Toy company Bandai America has unveiled its 2003 lineup, and there was a hidden announcement of importance for pop culture retailers.

Bandai StudioWorks' first series of collector figures, which are based on the popular Japanese live action series Kikaida will be released in the U.S. in the spring of 2003.

We've seen the first two episodes of this series and feel that it has both the style and imagination to make it of interest to older fans.

4Kids Entertainment, which won the bidding war to take over the four-hour Saturday morning block on the Fox Network, has announced two programs that will be airing on Saturday mornings beginning September of 2002.

Here's more of the McFarlane Toys lineup for this year, including the Movie Maniacs, rock and roll, H.R. Giger, videogame, and Spawn lines.

4Kids Entertainment, the American licensee and packager of Pokemon, announced the production of three Japanese series for the American market.