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Mattel is a king at Comic-Con, bringing the latest exclusives and creating massive lines and hysteria across the center of the exhibition hall. With collectors and fans crammed together to get the latest creations it is easy to forget that they have other plans for the show.

Here’s a breakdown of the features at the booth.

Thursday – Saturday:

• The Four Horsemen (Jim Preziosi, Eric “Cornboy” Mayse, Eric Treadaway and Chris Dahlberg) – Famous action figure sculptures making appearances and signing autographs, check times at the booth.
• WWE Superstars (The Miz, John Morrison, The Bella Twins, Chris Masters, Melina and Kane – Top Talent from Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown will be signing autographs.

Friday:

• Seth Green and Matthew Senreich - Co-creators of “Robot Chicken” animated television series will be signing autographs
• Rob Dydek – Professional skateboarder and television star who created Wild Grinders will be signing autographs. (Fri and Sat)

Panels:

Thursday:

• Mattel and WWE: The Ultimate Tag Team

Friday:

• Mattel and DC Comics: A Heroic Partnership

Sunday:

• Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Season 2 screening and panel

The flood of Comic-Con news doesn’t stop, Capcom has announced their panels and events for Comic-Con 2010 this year. Check out the list direct from the team.

Panels

Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2, the highly anticipated sequel to Capcom’s hit zombie action video game is here. Dead Rising 2 Executive Producer, Keiji Inafune and Producer, Shinsaku Ohara, unveil development stories and discuss the upcoming Zombrex Dead Rising Sun motion picture. Followed by a Q&A session.
Thursday July 22 12:00-1:00 Room 25ABC

Capcom 2010 and Beyond!
See the latest trailers and get the inside scoop on all of Capcom’s most highly anticipated games for 2010 and beyond: Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Sengoku Basara, Okamiden, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Ghost Trick, Dead Rising 2, and more. On top of all that, hear details on an exciting new game announcement by Capcom legend Keiji Inafune, the father of Mega Man!
Thursday, July 22 4:45-5:45 Room 6BCF

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

The wait is over! After a decade of demand, Capcom delivers with MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3: Fate of Two Worlds! Learn all you need to know about the characters, levels, storyline, fight moves and combos from Producer, Ryota Niitsuma and Special Advisor Seth Killian of Capcom, along with TQ Jefferson, Director of Games at Marvel Entertainment and Frank Tieri, storywriter for Marvel Comics. Then show off your fighting game skills as we pull audience members for some spontaneous challenge matches to win exclusive MVC3 prizes! Followed by a Q&A session.
Friday, July 23 2:00-3:00pm Room 24ABC

STREET FIGHTER

Super Street Fighter IV Producer, Yoshinori Ono, shares his thoughts on SSFIV and presents his exciting vision for the future of the franchise. Experience why everyone can’t get enough of Street Fighter! Featuring Seth Killian, Street Fighter Special Advisor. Followed by a Q&A session.
Saturday, July 24 12:00-1:00pm Room 25ABC

TOURNAMENTS

Marvel Vs Capcom 3 tournaments will be happening in Capcom’s Fighting Ring Thursday through Saturday at 11am -12:00pm and 3 – 4:00pm, and Sunday 11am-12pm. Signup daily at the Capcom Booth from 9-10:00am

Marvel seems to be tightening up their belt a lot this year, reducing interest in movie adaptations, rebooting existing properties and now taking a step back in the gaming realm by doing QA on the games that arrive to market. The quote from Ira Rubenstein was “Actually, wait … we are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore. You can quote me on that.”

Word is that Marvel has been actively watching over Iron Man 2 for development and hopes to raise the bar to levels like with Wolverine, maybe in less of a movie tie-in capacity but still to that action and damage factor. Iron Man for the consoles and pc ended up being a complete nightmare, having a polished horrible handling title for the 360 and PS3 and a PS2 port for the Wii and PC was a complete nightmare that went completely unexplained especially when it came to packaging.

Hopefully Marvel does turn it around, it would be nice to get Super Hero based games that don’t make me want to throw the disc into a fire pit. If we’ll ever get a dedicated BAMFAS review for one is another story, I think our Marvel fan blood might keep us out of the running for now.

I stumbled across the greatest team up in documented history. Pb and J are blown out of the water by This completely awesome pairing.

Of course I am talking about Hasbro and Marvel.

Anyone born in the 80′s was raised on a steady diet of ghost busters, transformers and GI Joe. Of the three, GI Joe by far had the most action pose potential. Marvel toys were never the most agile of figures. They moved like they had all four limbs in a cast. And then over starched their undies.
For years kids just used the Joes and pretended they were comic heroes.

Hasbro had the GI Joe license and the Marvel line was handled by Toy Biz. Hasbro had the superior play quality and Toy biz had the detail…  but it was like playing with a detailed block of wood.

Action figure collector’s prayers have been answered. Hasbro unveiled it’s Marvel Universe line of figures.

Go web go!

Look at that maneuverability!

The first wave includes:
*Black Panther
* Bullseye
* Daredevil
* Human Torch
* Translucent Burning Human Torch
* Extremsis Iron Man
* Stealth Iron-Man
* The Punisher V1
* Silver Surfer
* Classic Spider-Man
* Wolverine (X-Force)

Iron-man and snake eyes? Cobra might as well pack it in.

That is a very nice first wave to start your collection. Finally Iron-Man can take down cobra!