Next Club Meeting:October 17, 2026,at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
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After discovering the truth about the Spear of Selene, the duck boys blame Scrooge for the loss of their mother and leave their uncle to his misery. Meanwhile, Magica De Spell is close to exacting revenge on Scrooge, so the family must come together and race against time to plan a dangerous rescue mission to save Uncle Scrooge and the entire city from Magica's Shadow War of Revenge!
So what do you get when you mix Hotwheels + Beyblades + Transformers?
S C R E E C H E R S W I L D !
It’s twenty minutes in the future in a blue-sky world, and Screechers Wild competitions are all the rage. Xander and Ringo are brothers who live in Zephyr City where the most important competitions happen, but can't yet compete themselves. Until, one night, everything changes. Watch the First Episode below:
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis Directed By: Andy Serkis
A love-letter to classic games, COIN is a pilot setting up the world of a grizzled plumber tasked to save the world...all of them. Animated by Exit 73 and produced by Polaris.
Need an Adventure Time recap before the series finale? Us too! Which is why we've collected every bit of adventure time lore we can into one video to get you caught up before "Come Along With Me" airs September 3rd!
Xenomorph Biology Experiments Performed by Dr. Church - Explained
BIOLOGY: First in a series of videos investigating Colonel Dr. Church, a twisted scientist obsessed with the Xenomorph, as depicted in the comic Aliens: Labyrinth. This video takes a look at his experiments and studies of the creature's biology, and possible psychic capabilities.
Dr. Church's Survival Within the
Xenomorph Hive - Explained
SURVIVAL: Second in a series of videos exploring Dr. Church, recalling his youth and experiences held captive by the Xenomorphs, which lead to a deeper understanding to the species (From the Graphic Novel, Aliens: Labyrinth).
It will be in the parking lot of Graham Crackers Comics of Naperville, Sunday, August 26th from 2PM to 5PM. The Rickmobile is a mobile one-of-a-kind pop-up shop that offers fans of the show a chance to get their hands on exclusive, custom-designed Rick and Morty collectibles. Quantities are limited and they will only be taking credit or debit, no cash.
In a world where the ground is lost to legend, an emotionally-damaged fighter pilot must defend her floating city from eldritch monsters.
Song in the Sky is a show about loss, trauma, and ultimate, painful recovery, framed against a fantastical backdrop of dogfights, monster battles, and existential mystery. It’s Top Gun by way of Evangelion, set in a world where the ground fell away long ago, and the last floating city fights for survival against the Lovecraftian abyss below the clouds.
Ibuki is the 10-year-old robot child that will haunt your dreams
[Source: TechCrunch] Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro makes robots in Osaka. His latest robot, Ibuki, is one for the nightmare catalog: It’s a robotic 10-year-old boy that can move on little tank treads and has a soft rubbery face and hands.
The robot has complete vision routes that can scan for faces and it has a sort of half-track system for moving around. It has “involuntary” motions like blinking and little head bobs but is little more than a proof-of-concept right now, especially considering its weird robo-skull is transparent.
“An Intelligent Robot Infrastructure is an interaction-based infrastructure. By interacting with robots, people can establish nonverbal communications with the artificial systems. That is, the purpose of a robot is to exist as a partner and to have valuable interactions with people,” wrote Ishiguro. “Our objective is to develop technologies for the new generation information infrastructures based on Computer Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.”
Ishiguro is a roboticist who plays on the borders of humanity. He made a literal copy of himself in 2010. His current robots are even more realistic, and Ibuki’s questing face and delicate hands are really very cool. That said, expect those soft rubber hands to one day close around your throat when the robots rise up to take back what is theirs. Good luck, humans!
How soon are we to this...
"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."
Stand Out. Rise Together. The next generation of Marvel heroes debut in "Marvel Rising: Initiation"
Gwen Stacy AKA Ghost-Spider, wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit, seeks to clear her name and deliver justice. Unfortunately, her dad is not only Captain of the NYPD, but spearheading the manhunt! To make matters worse, other young heroes—Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Quake and Patriot—are after Ghost Spider as well. But, as the chase to uncover the truth winds down, a darker threat looms along the horizon, and very soon, these heroes will need to put aside their differences and work together as a team.
[Source: Gizmodo] All wings, report in! The next animated series set in the galaxy far, far away is just two months away: Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed that Star Wars Resistance is taking flight October 7. And we’ve finally got our first look at the anime-inspired visuals of the next animated chapter in the Star Wars saga.
Confirmed by Lucasfilm and Disney today, Resistance, set in the years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will premiere on the Disney Channel at 10 pm EST on October 7. The series will air on Disney Channel, before also airing on Disney XD at a later date. The series, which revolves around the ace fighter pilots of Leia Organa’s burgeoning Resistance, follows a young pilot named Kazuda Xiono (voiced by Days of Our Lives’ Christopher Sean), recruited by the rebel group to conduct secretive spying missions on the growing reach of the villainous First Order. Here’s the synopsis for the pilot episode:
Poe and BB-8 assign newly-appointed spy Kaz to the Colossus, a massive aircraft re-fueling platform on an outer rim water planet, home to colorful new aliens, droids and creatures. While undercover, Kaz works as a mechanic and lives with Poe’s old friend Yeager, a veteran pilot who operates a starship repair shop run by his crew: Tam, Neeku and their old battered astromech droid, Bucket. Kaz soon finds himself in over his head with his new friend BB-8 as he’ll have to compete in dangerous sky races, keep his mission a secret from his newfound family, and avoid the danger of the First Order.
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Starring Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Disney’s new holiday feature film “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” is directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, and inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic tale.
Monsters and shootouts abound in this animated western comedy following an overconfident kid, his apathetic partner, and a spider-girl with some serious boundary issues. What will it take to save CliffSide from some rather unconventional evil in the surrounding cliffs, and will our hero ever actually learn anything?
Episode 1 - "Pilot"
Getting tangled up with an excitable spider-monster named Cordie who suffers from a validation complex to rival his own, Waylon quickly learns his bold gunslinger talk leads to horrifying actions when put into practice by his new super-fan. Now he’s got some explaining to do and a western standoff or two to perform if he hopes to scrape by without learning anything from this whole ordeal.
[Source: Yahoo!] Here’s the sitch. One thing studios have been known to do is take popular animated characters, and repackage them into live-action movies. And the Disney Channel is no exception to this popular trend, as they just released the first teaser trailer for Kim Possible, the live-action reboot of the beloved animated series of the same name. In this version, fans will finally get a chance to see Kim Possible in the flesh, who will be played by actress Sadie Stanley, whose only other screen credit is a background role on the Nickelodeon show Game Shakers.
The original Kim Possible was a massively popular animated series that ran on the Disney Channel from 2002 to 2007. In it, titular character Kim Possible was a high school cheerleader and part-time crime fighter. In each episode, Kim struggled with balancing a high school life full of assignments, love interests, and schoolyard rivalries, all while trying to stop one evil genius after another from destroying the world.
Kim Possible was originally voiced by actress Christy Carlson Romano, who will make an appearance in the live-action reboot, though it is unclear what role she’ll play. Patton Oswalt, who voiced villain Dr. Dementor in the original show, is set to return for the reboot as well.
Sean Giambrone will co-star with Stanley as Kim’s best friend and sidekick, Ron Stoppable. The original Ron Stoppable, voiced by Will Friedle, was an affable goofball who loved nachos and his pet naked mole rat, Rufus. Ron’s best known for adding laughs to the series, which shouldn’t be a problem for Giambrone who proved his comedy chops playing Adam Goldberg in ABC comedy The Goldbergs.
Though the teaser-trailer is only a few seconds long and not much is known about its plot, fans are still excited for a character, who many associate with their middle school days, to get a new generation of followers.
Kim Possible will be released on the Disney Channel in 2019.
New ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Clip Reveals Gal Gadot as Shank
[Source: Collider] Giving us a horrifying glimpse into the future where Disney buys Warner Bros. and Wonder Woman officially becomes a Disney princess, Gal Gadot has joined the cast of Ralph Breaks the Internet,the sequel to the 2012 animated hit, Wreck-It Ralph. Gadot provides the voice for Shank, the gritty, leather-clad street-racing star of a video game named “Slaughter Race.” A new clip from Disney gives us our first glimpse of Gadot’s character in action, competing against Sarah Silverman‘s Sugar Rush champion, Vanellope von Schweetz.
The short teaser is fun, and Gadot was practically manufactured in a laboratory to do voice-acting. But the real treat here is the latest look at the assembly of Disney Princesses that this movie managed to pack into one scene, the one moment of this movie that’s basically guaranteed to fulfill the title’s promise. Your mileage may vary when it comes to seeing Cinderella chillin’ with Pocahontas, but the dig at Pixar is admittedly A++.
Check out the clip below. Ralph Breaks the Internet debuts in theaters on November 21.
Here’s the official synopsis for Ralph Breaks the Internet:
“Ralph Breaks the Internet” leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet—the Netizens—to help navigate their way, including Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson), who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of the trend-making site “BuzzzTube,” and Shank (voice of Gal Gadot), a tough-as-nails driver from a gritty online auto-racing game called Slaughter Race.
Tigtone is a 15-minute medieval project from Andrew Koehler and Benjamin Martin, based on their 2014 short The Begun of Tigtone. Focusing on a quest-obssessed hero, Tigtone will combine "highly rendered, hand-painted fantasy art, motion capture performance, 2D animation, and pseudo-3D visual effects," thanks to the folks at Titmouse. The series is meant as a satire of fantasy tropes that one would find in role-playing games, video games, and movies. Blake Anderson (Workaholics) serves as producer and will also lend his voice to the cast.
[Source: Syfy] t's already been reported that Doctor Who's David Tennant will be lending his vocal stylings to the new Rooster Teeth mecha sci-fi series gen:LOCK, but now, thanks to a newly released teaser trailer from the Austin-based company, we have our first official listen to Tennant in the previously teased role of Dr. Rufus Weller (aka "Doc"), the inventor of the technology that features in the show's name.
Tennant joins the previously announced voice cast for the series, including Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther) — who is also producing gen:LOCK through his company, Outlier Society Productions — as lead Julian Chase; Dakota Fanning (Coraline) as pilot and Chase's love interest Miranda Worth; and Koichi Yamadera (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell) as recruit Kazu Iida.
gen:LOCK, part of the next phase of Rooster Teeth's planned animation slate, will revolve around a diverse group of young pilots tasked with operating giant, mechanized robots as part of a fight against class warfare. The story takes place in a dystopian, futuristic version of Earth.
Check out the first trailer released by Rooster Teeth above, which features Tennant in the role of Doc and a new character named Colonel Raquel Marin, voiced by actress Monica Rial (RWBY, Fullmetal Alchemist). From what we can garner, Tennant's Doc has a promising new pilot initiate to train, known as Yasamin Madrani. Unfortunately, it may be a little easier said than done to secure her, as Colonel Marin doesn't feel too inclined to spring the newest recruit free from the Mesa Detainment Center.
What will happen when Madrani and Chase ultimately cross paths? We'll have to find out when gen:LOCK premieres in January 2019, with a planned eight-episode first season.
