It’s a good week for fans of Marvel animation ‘ both new and vintage.
With the release on Friday of the new live-action movie Iron Man 2, fans have a chance to catch up on the adventures of young Tony Stark in Iron Man Armored Adventures: Complete Season One (Vivendi, $29.93). Meanwhile, the Golden Avenger’s previous animated outing gets collected at last on Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Series (Disney, $29.99)
If mutants are more your speed, then this week brings Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 5: Revelation (Lionsgate, $14.98). Unfortunately, Marvel recently announced this series won’t be back for a second season, so check it out while you can. Here’s a preview clip:
Older X-Men fans also will finally be able to complete their collection of the popular 1990s series that started it all, with X-Men: Vol. 5 (Disney, $23.99).
Fans of vintage TV cartoons can revisit the decade of MTV, New Wave and Ronald Reagan with Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s (Warner Bros., $26.99). This follows on successful similar releases for the 1960s and 1970s, and features episodes from 11 popular animated series, including Goldie Gold & Action Jack, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, The Flintstone Kids, Mister T, The Biskitts, Monchhichis, Galtar and the Golden Lance, Dragon’s Lair, Thundarr the Barbarian and the Kwicky Koala Show.
For the kids, four episodes of the popular preschooler series are collected on Go Diego Go: Great Panda Adventure (Paramount, $16.99). Also new for kids this week are Wow Wow Wubbzy: Escape From Dino Island (Anchor Bay, $14.98), Care Bears: Share-a-Lot in Care-a-Lot (Lionsgate, $14.98) and Sid The Science Kid: Weather Kid Sid (NCircle Entertainment, $12.99)
Anime fans better like Dragon Ball, as this week’s releases are Dragon Ball Season 4 (FUNimation, $49.98) and Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box 3 (FUNimation, $59.98).
