BCI has acquired the video rights to the 1966 Ultraman live action 'kaiju' series.

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.

Funimation Productions has released its schedule of DVD releases through February, and it includes the first volume from the new series Kiddy Grade as well as uncut episodes of Ultraman Tiga.

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.

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.

This Halloween will see the debut of the first-ever English language magazine devoted to the culture of Japanese live action science fiction and fantasy character toys-- Super 7.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be returning to American television on Fox in January.

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.

4Kids Entertainment, the company that packages Pokemon , Yu-Gi-Oh , and Cubix, outbid both DIC Entertainment ( Sailor Moon ) and Nickelodeon for the four-hour Saturday morning block.