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Last night, companies across America dumped millions of dollars into crafting the world's most perfect commercial. What did their millions dream up? Star Wars gags, Seinfeld, and the apocalypse. Here are the best (and the worst) scifi commercials from the Super Bowl.

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A lot of nifty stuff is hitting the stores tomorrow, but let's just pause for a moment and reflect on the innate weirdness of Alex "Epic Realism" Ross painting Voltron. Goodness, that's bizarre. Not as weird as his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/30 Rock mash-up, but still plum hilarious. On to the comics! More »
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We're accustomed to Voltron being a psychedelic romp about candy-colored cat mecha, but what if the cartoon's heroes met a horrific fate? More »
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Disneyland's It's A Small World ride was never the paragon of normal, what with its chirpy dead-eyed puppets and hypnotically communitarian mantra. But Chinese theme parks take the sing-songy boat ride to new frontiers of uncomfortable. More »
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The indispensable Neil Patrick Harris appears on two different cartoons this week, as a handsome prince and a deadly supervillain — and he sings power ballads both times! Plus there are season finales of Torchwood, True Blood and Futurama. More »
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The man behind Walter Bishop, John Noble, proves that the real world is just as demented as Fringe's bizarre science, as he hosts a new show featuring "twisted but true" stories. MTV gives us C.O.P.S. with zombies and werewolves. And meanwhile, the Doctor ventures into a child's scary bedroom, on Doctor Who. And both True Blood and Torchwood race towards their huge season finales. More »
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A Time Lord may be running out of time, as Doctor Who comes back this weekend. And meanwhile, see the Venture Bros. like you've never seen them before. And somebody finally had the bright idea of giving Summer Glau superpowers! More »
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Why does Fry suddenly look like a member of the Simpson family? You'll have to watch our new Futurama clip to find out. Meanwhile, the Warehouse 13 gang go inside a video game to save Eureka's Fargo...and Claudia's an elf! More »
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Television is about to get interesting again! Doctor Who's coming back soon, and BBC America is celebrating with a look at Matt Smith's tenure as the Doctor. And meanwhile, Firefly's Jewel Staite is back in action, staving off Doomsday. More »
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Television is going to teach us what happened to the dead people on Torchwood, and to the kidnapped children on Falling Skies. We're also going to visit a sinister alternate universe with Phineas and Ferb. And Jeri "Seven of Nine" Ryan comes to Warehouse 13! More »
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Television has many thrills in store for you this week — but chief among them is the return of Lion-O in the Cartoon Network's new ThunderCats series! But he's not alone: There's also a bitchin new Wolverine anime series. More »
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One of the most popular Star Wars video games spawns a TV special this week, as Lego Star Wars tells a story about Yoda, C-3PO and R2D2 battling the Sith. Meanwhile, Lifetime's new J.K. Rowling biopic looks face-clawingly hideous. More »
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This week on television, it's a time for tough choices. Several of your favorite television shows are back this week, plus Syfy introduces its new mutant super-team show Alphas. And Iron Man and War Machine both face impossible battles. More »
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Torchwood is back! The grown-up Doctor Who spin-off is just as intense as ever — but now the budgets are bigger and the action is international. Also on TV this week: Futurama spoofs Tron! Complete with a lightcycle chase! More »
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This week on television, Bender becomes a ghost! And Eric crashes a witch meting on True Blood! But also, they're making Star Wars-themed cakes! And on Falling Skies, the gang decides to bring Pope on a mission, for some reason. More »
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Two of television's great champions return this week: True Blood is shaking things up with some major changes in Sookie's life. And Futurama is shaking up its characters in... a very different way. But Leverage and Burn Notice also return. More »
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With last night's premiere of Voltron Force, the world was introduced to three new cadets who are going to be trained to eventually become pilots. Unfortunately, the three are a psychopath, a speed freak, and a nerd. More »
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Tonight, Voltron returns to the small screen, after an 11-year hiatus, with Voltron Force. But what do we really know about the giant machine made-up of lion-bots? We lifted the lid on Voltron, and here's what we discovered. More »
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How much darker can Game of Thrones get? Find out in the season finale on Sunday! But first, it's time to get together and form...Voltron! Plus aliens conquer the Earth, humans colonize a new world, and a girl gains superpowers. More »
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I am completely in love with this shirt, which the designer points out combines the powers of two great icons of the 1980s. Thankfully, Voltron and Tron will never meet CLUeless, which would combine the powers of CGI Jeff Bridges and late 1990s Alicia Silverstone. More »
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The new Voltron Force series has finally released some footage that doesn't have someone rapping about "Let's Voltron" all over it. Does this new trailer for the Voltron reboot get you pumped for cat robot action? More »
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We usually enjoy the latest SwizzBeats track as much as the next pop rap follower. However, the brand new Voltron Force theme song, which turns our favorite kitty robot into some sort of horrible buzz verb, has us worried. More »
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First there was Voltron Girl, then there was this fantastic movie concept art, now Hollywood is primed and ready to make the 80s cartoon into a movie, and they're battling over the rights to the cat robot! More »
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Voltron and RoBeast tear New York to shreds, in awesome new concept art from the apparently-not-dead Voltron movie. Check out another image below. More »
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These phantasmagorical images from the book Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art depict 16th-18th century patchwork amalgams of man and beast made of smaller creatures. These creatures are like the aesthetic antecedents to the Transformers and giant tokusatsu robots. More »
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Even though we heard reports last week that the Voltron movie had been put down, the producers say there's still life in this old mecha kitty yet. In fact they claim they're very close to hiring a screenwriter. [MTV] More »
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He may have been displaced on most kids' Top Bot lists by the Transformers, but don't count Voltron out just yet: The giant robot has been signed to United Talent Agency, who have big plans for him. More »
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Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green are out to corrupt your Voltron memories with Titan Maximum, their new series about a squad of pilots who must battle a former member of their giant robot team — with sex jokes. More »
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Lego Voltron. I'm not even sure I need to say anything other than that. Lego Voltron, people. You can thank Grand Admiral for his months of work, and click through the gallery to see the evidence of greatness. Voltron [Flickr] More »
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It had to happen: Voltron is getting a live-action big-budget remake, courtesy of the producers who brought you Get Smart, Wanted and The Dark Knight — with a focus on being Transformers, but with added human spirit. Be very afraid. More »
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Not content with Robot Chicken slaughtering any sacred nerd cows that it can imagine and then some, Seth Green, Tom Root and Matthew Senreich are planning a long-form assault on the cartoons of your youth. More »
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Rumors have swirled about a possible live action Voltron movie for next year, but there's one piece of Voltron news that's solid. The cat-fisted giant robot is joining tabletop game Monsterpocalypse next year. More »
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Last we heard, some dude named Max Makowski will reportedly be helming the Voltron movie. (Makowski directed a few Queer Eye for the Straight Guy episodes. And yet, we keep an open mind.) The film is allegedly due in theaters in 2010—but that’s a long time, people! In its stead, we’d like to recommend that Super Robot enthusiasts catch up on that more vivid, violent Voltron predecessor, Voltes V—which debuted in 1977 in Japan and ran for 40 episodes. More »
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Great lion-faced robots — the Voltron script that has been passed around for years finally has a director attached to it. Latino Review discovered that director Max Makowski is now attached to the Voltron project. Which means two things: One, we're getting a director who could go a little crazy on Voltron, and two, we're one step closer to watching the Voltron-versus-Optimus-Prime smackdown of my dreams. More »
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Rumors have been flying for months about the live-action remake of 1980s giant robot series Voltron. But now it looks like we're close to achieving liftoff, with new financial backers who say they want to do the five-robots-make-one-giant robot effects using the B-tech CGI that made 300 look so sweet. But can those effects make giant morphing robots look good? More »
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Has the time finally come for a Voltron movie in Hollywood, thanks to the success of Transformers? Maybe. After all, once you can accept a car that turns into a giant robot, why not a bunch of cat-bots that join together to form a giant people-shaped bot with cat heads for its hands and feet? Cinema Blend has a new script review of Justin Marks' Voltron (Fast Forward) script, which doesn't have a green light yet, but it does have some awesome. Click through for details. More »
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Signs that you can tell that it's getting near San Diego Comic-Con, Part 23: Indie comic publishers start releasing more material, hoping to avoid con glut while making sure that they'll have something to show the eager masses. So while Marvel and DC have relatively restrained Wednesdays, you'll still be able to find alien abductees, classic reprints and members of the Wu-Tang Clan in stores and under the jump. More »
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He's a giant robot made out of robotic lions! He's the evil crazed clown who stars in this summer's The Dark Knight! And together, Voltron and the Joker are teaming up to fight cri - Wait, wait. I'm sorry. I mean, "Together, Voltron and the Joker are teaming up to bring excitement to your local comic book store this Wednesday!" Yeah, I know it doesn't have the same ring to it, but it doesn't mean you won't want to grab two new books this week at your local Android's Dungeon. Find out more about them, and the week's other picks, under the jump. More »
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