The latest Pokémon Collector’s Tins makes for a great giveaway, and perfect for the holidays.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game 2008 Holiday Collector’s tins come in four specially designed Diamond & Pearl tins. Each tin contains four previously released Pokémon TCG booster packs, one of four new foil promo LV.X cards featuring Mewtwo, Rhyperior, Regigigas, or Heatran, and a great window design for displaying your favorite cards.

Retailing for $14.99 each, all four editions of the tins will be in stores in November!  A must-have for collectors, these Pokémon tins feature highly stylized graphics of some of the most powerful Pokémon in existence.

Pokémon USA sponsored 3 (three) Pokémon tins to give-away! I’ll make it easy for you to join -

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Heroes graphic novel #97: “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration”

OK, so she’s faster than Hiro, but is she faster than time itself?

Since “Heroes” introduced the Speedster aka Daphne Millbrook (Brea Grant), Hiro has referred to her as his Joker, his own personal villain. She is so fast that she steals something from the Nakamura safe while Hiro has time stopped. Yes, she’s moving faster than time itself. Does this mean Daphne can run so fast to actually travel through time, like Hiro can? Now that would be the bomb wouldn’t it?

The current Heroes comics #97 “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration” features Daphne’s speeding ticket and what she did to earn it. We also get introduced to another petty thief/middleman the Moroccan Samir Mellouk, a phaser like D.L.

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“Transformers: Cybertron” The Ultimate Collection
Released July 22, 2008
Paramount Home Entertainment

This wasn’t anything like the ’80s “Transformers Animated“, for sure. And that’s the unfortunate truth.

“Transformers Cybertron (Robots in Disguise)” is the last of a three-part series (”Transformers: Armada” and “Transformers: Energon”) but since it makes no reference to the previous series new fans won’t be out of the loop.

The story. The continuous story arc opens with a massive black hole that threatens to destroy Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers. The only means to close the black hole are the Omega Lock and its four Cyber Planet Keys, ancient artifacts that were scattered in different worlds across the universe. An ancient Transformer called Vector Prime tasks Optimus Prime and the Autobots to locating the Keys and save the universe. This is where the Decepticons come in. Megatron plans to use the Keys to re-create the universe in his image.

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“Smallville“ got four nominations for the Teen Choice Awards ‘08, but went home with nothing at all. In fact, none of the Smallville stars seem to have been present (sans photos), unless I missed them in the throng of celebrities that came.

• Instead of Smallville, the Choice TV show for Action Adventure went to Heroes.
• Instead of Kristin Kreuk, the Choice TV Actress for Action/Adventure was Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes”.
• Instead of Michael Rosenbaum, Choice TV Villain went to Ed Westwick of “Gossip Girls”.

Now what’s weird was there was no winner announced for Choice TV Actor for Action/Adventure in which Tom Welling was nominated.

This doesn’t bode very well for Smallville, which is on its last season this year.

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Just Jared has the list of winners.

One of the best things the Smallville execs did was to hire Justin Hartley as a regular cast member. He plays the Green Arrow/Oliver Queen like it was meant for him, and he has such a following that fans really wanted to see more of him since he first appeared in season 6. I think he deserves a spin-off after Smallville.

At the Comic Con, Sci Fi Wire touched based with Justin Hartley about his excitement to play the green archer in Smallville, and included some SPOILERS in the interview.

• In season 8, we get to explore the mythology and origin behind Green Arrow
• Oliver is going to question his motives for being a hero
• Clark starts to embrace his destiny a little bit more

Read the complete interview here, and hat tip to spoiler-TV.

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Is Kristin Kreuk really saying goodbye to Smallville?

The Lana Lang of television admitted that Smallville is the longest relationship she has had in the past 7 years. “And it has now pretty much ended.” As a way to seal the freedom, Kristin Kreuk cut off ALL her hair!

I (Kristin) just went in there on my own and Sarah (she is the key hairstylist on Smallville, and is freakin rad) tied it in a ponytail and sawed the sucker off…

The cut looks great on Kristin, but I’m surprised to find her very thin and haggard-looking in this photo. She looked different at the Comic Con last week. Maybe it’s the stress of filming a new movie.

She landed the title role for the movie adaptation of the video game “Street Fighter 4: The Legend of Chun-Li“. The film is still in productions and very few pictures have appeared… up until now…

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The Smallville cast was actually introduced by Jeph Loeb, who still loves Smallville! Fan-favorite Allison Mack (Chloe) and Justin Hartley (Oliver) were there with newcomers Sam Witwer (Davis Bloome/Doomsday) and Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer). The four new producers were also there - Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson, Todd Slavkin, and Darren Swimmer. No Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, or Kristin Kreuk?!

A preview of season 8 was shown, and a fan captured it on vid. It’s not too clear but we can figure afew familiar spoilers from it -

Allison Mack answered a fan question at the San Diego Comic Con this week. How has life changed for her character? She was with Smallville since season 1, at age 18 and now she’s 26 - “this show was a huge part of (my) growing”. Looks like Allison will be directing episodes 13 or 15.

What? Nothing about season 8?!

The worldwide success of The Dark Knight as a blockbuster is being overshadowed (or possibly enhanced?) by breaking news that lead actor Christian Bale was arrested for suspicious of assault.

Bale’s own mother Jenny and sister Sharon claimed the actor assaulted them on Sunday July 19. The London police interrogated Bale for 4 hours but released him on bail, with no charges filed. They even allowed Christian Bale to attend the European premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Monday.

Christian Bale denied the allegations. His mother and sister at first denied the incident but ‘fessed up after, only to say “there was a family situation… the police are handling the matter… we didn’t call the police to the scene…”

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The CW Network announced the premiere dates of its fall 2008 line-up, including returning shows Smallville, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, and new show 90210.

Smallville season 8 will begin on September 18, for the top Thursday primetime spot 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. It will be followed by Supernatural at 9:00 p.m. which also premieres the same night.

Here is the full list of The CW’s Fall 2008 primetime premiere dates:

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