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NYCC Animation Panel Rundown

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the scheduled animation related panels happening at next week’s New York Comic Con.  From Super Hero Squad Show and Marvel Anime to Young Justice and the Green Lantern Animated Series, there’s plenty of entertainment coming our way!

SATURDAY

10:45 – 11:45 AM MARVEL VIDEO GAMES – Room 1A06
1:30 – 2:30 PM MARVEL TELEVISION PRESENTS: THE AVENGERS EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES – Room 1A08
2:00 – 3:00 PM – Young Justice Signing at the DC Comics booth #2243
2:30 – 3:30 PM Green Lantern: The Animated Series Presentation/Q&A – Room 1A14
3:45 – 4:45 PM Young Justice Video Presentation and Q&A – Room 1A14
4:00 – 5:00 PM Green Lantern: The Animated Series Signing – DC Comics Booth #2243
6:15 – 7:15 PM MARVEL TELEVISION PRESENTS: MARVEL ANIME – Room #1A24

SUNDAY

12:15 – 1:15 PM MARVEL TELEVISION PRESENTS: THE SUPER HERO SQUAD SHOW AND IRON MAN ARMORED ADVENTURES – Room 1A08

Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes First Minisode Up

Marvel.com has the first Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes micro-sode up, featuring Iron Man taking down some Hydra agents. This is the first of many micro-sodes leading up to the October 20th premiere on Disney XD. Pepper Potts and James Rhodes also make appearances, so head on over and check it out! New microsodes are supposed to be posted daily, so any thoughts on who’s next? Head over to the message board to share your thoughts.

SDCC Super Hero Squad and Avengers Animation Information

Marvel has some more Super Hero Squad Show and Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes information to reveal this weekend at SDCC, along with previews of the Iron Man Anime, and more!

Friday, July 23

12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Marvel Animation Panel

Hosted by an all-star cast of Marvel Animation talent including Tom Kenny (SpongeBob) and Charlie Adler (Transformers), and featuring a special guest of legendary proportions, this interactive game-show panel will get you more than excited about Marvel’s new and continuing animated series. Here’s your chance to snag some sweet Marvel merchandise! Come be a part of the action, showcasing all new seasons of “The Super Hero Squad Show” and “Iron Man Armored Adventures,” as well as new footage from Marvel Knights Animation, Marvel Anime, and other upcoming Marvel Animation properties. Room 6BCF

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Super Hero Squad Cast Signing

All-star talent from The Super Squad Show will be signing items at the Marvel booth, including a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive “Marvel Super Hero Squad The Infinity Gauntlet” poster for the all-new video game from THQ releasing November 16th, 2010. On hand for the signing will be Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Charlie Adler (Transformers 1&2), Steve Blum (Spectacular Spider-Man, Wolverine and the X-Men), and Tara Strong (Teen Titans, Fairly Odd Parents). Booth #2329

8:15 – 9:15 p.m. Iron Man: Anime Screening

Witness the dawn of Marvel Anime as we WORLD PREMIERE the highly anticipated, full-length pilot episode of “Iron Man!” In addition to the screening, we will be featuring an exclusive first look at upcoming designs produced by the world-renowned Japanese animation studio MADHOUSE, whose notable films include hits such as Ninja Scroll and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (to name a few). Room 6DE

Saturday, July 24

4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Marvel Animation: Avengers Panel

Enter the Avengers Mansion and become a part of the team! JARVIS (Phil LaMarr, MadTV, Futurama) will introduce you to top-secret Avengers files, including never-before-seen footage, imagery, and the WORLD PREMIERE of two full-length episodes from the all-new “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” animated series premiering on Disney XD this fall! The road to the Avengers starts here! Room 6DE

Meanwhile, Marvelousnews goes one better, explaining that Super Hero Squad Season 2 features Thanos battling Nebula for the Infinity Gems… ahem… “Infinity Stones”, and has this to say about the Marvel Anime concept:

“Madhouse will produce four all-new series for Marvel Animation: WOLVERINE, IRON MAN, X-MEN, and BLADE, all reimagined by Warren Ellis!

Marvel Anime IRON MAN, follows Tony Stark’s adventures in Japan. Featuring the cutting-edge style of Japanese anime with an eye toward bringing Tony Stark and IRON MAN to a whole new audience, this collaboration is the start of a whole new era for the classic Marvel character. “

Super Hero Squad Show Toys at Burger King

The next big Burger King promotion is… Super Hero Squad Show toys! Four Super Hero Squad Show related Burger King kids meal toys are out there, consisting of Shield Flying Captain America, Gamma Glow Hulk, Real Scene Silver Surfer, Iron Man’s Light-Up Unibeam. They’re not “real” figures, and the Unibeam doesn’t actually have any figure at all, but for collectors of all the wild Super Hero Squad miscellaneous merchandise (and of course, both kids and collectors alike) it might be a great addition.

Spectacular Spider-Man Season 1 in July

Season 1 of Spectacular Spider-Man will be in stores at the end of July, and TV Shows on DVD has the front and back box art.

Super Hero Squad Casting Info: Reptil and someone cosmic?

Continuing the sporadic announcements of the Super Hero Squad animated show’s casting information, IMDB now has a listing for Antony Del Rio as “Reptile” (presumably Reptil), while Mikey Kelley’s blog has been updated with this post reminding fans to catch him as Kamandi in Brave and the Bold (or, Batman and Friends if you will) and mentioning that

“One of these Heroes is going to sound – COSMIC!!!

Coming Fall 2009″

So with Thor out of the running (already voiced by Dave Boat), Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange are still up in the air, and don’t forget Mr. Fantastic (irradiated by cosmic rays), so we look forwardt o hearing his big reveal. As always, the cast and characters announced so far can be found at our wiki entry for the Super Hero Squad TV series

Newsclips 04/28/09

First off, X-Men the Animated Series volume 1 and 2 are out today! They’re $17-$18 each (Best Buy, for instance, has them 2 for $35), but for those that remember paying $15 per single-episode VHS, they’re a great deal. Want to give it a taste? Marvel has episode 1 streaming along with its other video offerings.

Also, those 3.75 inch Terminator Salvation figures are hitting toy stores (or at least the Toys R Us I saw this afternoon) so go load up on T-800s to teach Wolverine that robots don’t have to be mega-sized to be deadly!

Fans of Joss Whedon’s characters may (or may not) be happy that Illyria will be visiting Bete Noire’s Fallen Angel when the title relaunches.