Month: January 2012

Last week we posted on some talk that Bandai had Zero Type 2 at the ready for the May releases in Japan. I doubt anyone had a reason to doubt it, but nevertheless it’s really happening. And here is a sweet, sweet promotional image just to show you they mean business. No details are known […]

Over the past few days, there has been no shortage of responses to our posts regarding the news about the addition of Mega Man– or “Mega Man,” if you prefer– to the PlayStation 3 and Vita roster for Street Fighter X Tekken Of course, we’re hardly the only ones on the internet to see or […]

Another week, and time for another edition of Ripot’s Round-Up! To start things off, Magnet Man and Shotoman have informed us that Capcom Unity has announced they will be doing a streaming playthrough of each Mega Man game from the Classic series each month throughout 2012. They began Friday with the original Mega Man, and […]

Hobby Rock is highlighting a lot of the fan-made Rockman models and figures to be showcased at the upcoming Wonder Festival, but they’re far from the only ones who will have wares to show off. A few that I’ve taken a real shine to lately are the above garage figurines of Elec Man, Tornado Man, […]

As you might know, we at TMMN have a little something called The Megacast that we like to put out every month. And we do our best to keep the topics timely and relevant. Well, sometimes things have a way of lining up nicely… On this upcoming episode of the show, we will naturally be […]

Apologies if the title seems a little melodramatic, but it’s the most concise way we could think of to sum up the Mega Man video game front in 2011. You know, following Inafune’s departure, the cancellation of Mega Man Universe, the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3, the character being ditched twice in two consecutive […]

Continuing from this: Doesn’t Pac-Man look just awesome? I can’t wait for that! Sigh… but seriously, NXT got interrupted for this? It gets better, too. In addition to some screens, here is the profile from Capcom Japan’s website: Mega Man Middle Aged Hero! Known as a Digger, a person who digs up relics from the […]

Some early reports are coming out in various places around the internet that Bandai’s planned May release schedule for Japan includes the followup to their previous Zero figure, the D-Arts Zero Type 2. A prototype of this figure was among those shown off at Tamashii Nations 2011 late last year. The corresponding flavor text states: […]

H’ooooooh man. We’re not gonna need to install an age gate on this site are we? Here is the basic color cast of Yama Tai Koku’s Merti garage kit, commissioned by Rockman X manga writer Yoshihiro Iwamoto himself. If you could attend Wonder Fest next month and purchase the kit, this is essentially what you’d […]

Considering the infamy of the line, we’re sure some people will take this the wrong way, but here goes… Capcom published a new Ask Capcom Q&A video yesterday at Capcom Unity, and as one might expect, the subject of Mega Man came up. More specifically, the subject of the 25th anniversary was brought up by […]

We recently got a look at the new tabloid-esque cover to the 13th issue of Archie’s Mega Man comic book, which sports all sorts of intrigue as to what happenings take place within its pages. From the arrival of Dr. Lalinde to the mystery of Emerald Spears to the issue of robot souls, this one […]

For many months, Capcom’s Ucchy-san has been posting video segments of an interview with Naoya Tomita, AKA TOM-PON, a legendary Capcom staffer who was working on Mega Man back at the beginning. However, today things finally wrap up with Capcom Unity’s posting of translations of the final segments. In the new videos (the latest one […]