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While this year’s Comic-Con@Home has been filled with news about upcoming movies and TV shows, Hasbro has revealed something very interesting about its Power Rangers Lightning Collection line that’s available right now.

The latest addition to the Lighting Collection is none other than the Black Ranger from the Dino Charge series. That’s right, you can now add Chase Randall to your collection in his Power Rangers getup. Check out some images below.

Available at Target, the Lightning Collection figures cost $20 each. The Black Ranger comes with alternate heads, Dino Blade Blaster, Dino Saber, and blast effect piece.

The Lightning Collection revealed plenty of new figures at 2019’s Comic-Con, including Kimberly the Pink Ranger, Lost Galaxy’s Magna Defender, and more. However, what stole the show at the booth was the showcase of all the Lightning Collection figures Hasbro had at last year’s show. We got to see Tommy as both the Green and White Ranger, and there was a pretty fantastic-looking Lord Zedd as well.

Speaking of cool toys from Hasbro, the company recently revealed some throwback GI Joe figures, modeled after their ’80s counterparts. If you’re a Transformers fan, there’s a crossover Back to the Future Autobot arriving this October. And finally, Marvel Legends is making its biggest figure yet, a giant Sentinel, which can murder all your X-Men toys.

For more Comic-Con 2020 coverage, stay tuned to GameSpot.

During Adult Swim Con, Toonami had a surprise announcement that it’s once again partnering with Crunchyroll to produce an original anime series. Called Fena: Pirate Princess, the anime will air on Toonami and stream on Crunchyroll in 2021.

Fena: Pirate Princess will run for 12 episodes. Directed by Kazuto Nakasawa (known for directing Netflix’s B: The Beginning and the animated opening for Catherine), Fena: Pirate Princess follows Fena Houtman, an orphan whose mysterious past allows her to break free of her oppressors and set sail in search of a place where she can be free. Her journey leads to a lifetime of adventure and the accruement of a diverse crew of misfits.

“I’m thrilled to be able to announce our next co-produced anime series with our partners at Crunchyroll and bring Nakazawa’s unique vision to life,” Adult Swim SVP and creative director Jason DeMarco said. “I hope you come to love these characters as much as I do.”

“The global anime community is going to love adventuring alongside Fena in this new series setting sail next year,” Crunchyroll head of development Sarah Victor added. “We’re delighted to be working alongside Adult Swim to bring this new series to life.”

2021 is still a ways off so if you’re looking for an anime to watch right now, check out our list of summer 2020 anime you should be watching. Of all our recommendations, Deca-Dence is sure to be the one that will most surprise you.

While the focus of the weekend was Comic-Con@Home, there was another virtual convention over the weekend: Justice Con. The Justice League-themed fan event, which is not connected to Warner Bros., had an interview with director Zack Snyder–who showed off a new scene for the Snyder Cut–and one with Justice League’s Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg in the film. During the panel, Fisher discussed more about the alleged conditions with Joss Whedon–who replaced director Zack Snyder during production–at the helm of the superhero movie.

“What I will say toward the Joss Whedon situation is obviously I put out some pretty strong words and some pretty strong comments about Joss Whedon, and every single one of those words, every single one of those comments, is true,” Fisher explained (via Variety).

Fisher is referring to his comments in early July where he said, “Joss Wheadon’s on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.”

Producer Jon Berg would later deny that he helped enable any unprofessional behavior, which Fisher directly responded to during the panel. “It’s taken me two and a half years to get all the information I need to be able to build that something that’s strong enough so people can’t dismiss it,” Fisher said. “We’re gonna get to the heart of everything. And if anything I said about that man is untrue, I invite him wholeheartedly to sue me for libel, to sue me for slander.

“His denial of the situation, his denial of the enabling of that situation was asinine, it was tone deaf, and it was completely disrespectful to the situation. That man is scared. He should also be, because we’re going to get to the heart of it. And if you keep in mind, he did not deny that there was any unprofessional behavior. He did not deny knowing about any individual behavior. He said that we–meaning, assuming ‘Geoff Johns and myself’–‘we did not enable any unprofessional behavior.’ You can look at that statement and tell it’s a knee jerk statement of an individual who is scared.”

In December 2019, Zack Snyder confirmed the existence of his cut of Justice League, and in May 2020, the Snyder Cut of Justice League was announced for HBO Max–WarnerMedia’s new streaming service. However, it won’t arrive until 2021. The first clip of the movie shows off the villain Darkseid–one of DC’s most powerful baddies. However, this specific cut of the movie won’t be canon with the rest of the DCEU.

You’ll get to see Bill and Ted Face the Music yourself in September when the movie is released in theaters and on digital. However, at the movie’s Comic-Con@Home panel, moderator Kevin Smith shared a truly exciting tease about something that happens in the movie.

While discussing viewing the film for the first time, Smith let slip that George Carlin, who played Rufus in the first two movies, does appear in Face the Music. That is kind of a surprise, given that the comedian passed away in 2008. Rufus is in the final cut, though.

As for how that’s possible, chances are this has been done using archived and possibly unused footage from the first two films. It most likely won’t be a major role in the film, though knowing Face the Music is going to pay tribute to a beloved character–and actor, for that matter–is reassuring.

The panel also included a look back on the years-long journey to get a third Bill and Ted movie made, going as far into the past as Keanu Reeves’ and Alex Winter’s auditions for the initial film. “Keanu and I became friends, to some degree, on the audition process,” Winter said. “We kept getting brought back.”

The duo noted that everyone making the film was young and sort of figuring out how to make the movie as they went, not realizing it would evolve to the point where they became a pop culture phenomenon. Reeves remembered the first time he noticed people screaming “Be excellent!” at him on the street and how cool the experience was.

Now, in 2020, a new film finds Bill and Ted all grown up, with kids and lives of their own. Those kids are played by Samara Weaving (Thea Preston) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Billie Logan), both of whom admitted they’d never seen the original movies before auditioning. In their defense, though, they were both born after the movies came out.

Naturally, they checked out the movies before filming to completely understand the characters, and Lundy-Paine also admitted they watched Winter and Reeves constantly to pick up traits to add to their characters.

Bill and Ted Face the Music arrives on September 1. You’ll be able to watch it either in theaters or on digital release.

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On Saturday evening of Comic-Con@Home, director/writer/pop culture mascot Kevin Smith held his annual An Evening With Kevin Smith panel, where he talked for an hour about his life, movies, and whatever. And he got bleeped (almost) every time he cursed, which was a lot.

In total, throughout the 57 minute and 41 second panel, Smith was bleeped a total of 113 times. If you’ve ever been to one of these events, you know that Smith doesn’t censor himself while talking. He lets the curses fly, and why shouldn’t he? He’s made a living crafting fantastically fun moments of dialogue revolving around 37 acts of fellacio (in a row?), overweight men in Batman costumes “flying,” and transactional songs for purchasing marjiuana that open with numerous mentions of slang for coitus.

And even though YouTube doesn’t have guidelines for cussin’, Smith was bleeped every moment a four or five or twelve letter swear word came out of his mouth. Within the first two minutes of his panel, Smith was bleeped seven times, averaging 3.5 bleeps per minute (BPM) or 210 beeps per hour. At 11 minutes, Smith wracked up 36 bleeps, and he had slowed a bit to 3.27 BPM.

Moving into the section where Smith discussed his current projects, the auteur ramped up a little at the 16 minute mark at 57 bleeps, with a cruising speed of 3.56 BPM. However, when mentioning the Netflix Masters of the Universe: Revelations series he’s producing, Smith slowed down a bit. Between minute 20 and 23, he was only bleeped once, coming in a total of 62–and his BPM at this point was 2.69.

Don’t worry, things picked up again after the MOTU talk. And Smith hit his 69th bleep at 26 minutes and 37 seconds. It was very nice. His BPM was about 2.5 at the time.

However, when Smith was talking about the Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Iron Bob Funko Pop, he swore, but was not bleeped. The audio just went quiet. This was not counted in our final count, nor was the time Smith let the word “s***” slip past the audio editor during that segment as well. Another one slipped by at the 35 minute mark, while Smith discussed the Mooby’s pop-up restaurant.

At 44 minutes, Smith had been bleeped 94 times, which translates to 2.13 BPM or 128 BPH. Obviously, his rate of swearing had slowed down quite a bit. However, the crowning moment came at 46:12 when Smith reached 100 bleeps. There was no grand moment, no confetti, or a “we did it sign.” However, Smith did debut a trailer for the upcoming movie Kilroy Is Here, which you can check out below at the 48:16 mark.

Smith explained that he’s been working on it for a few years, and the film features Chris Jericho–one of the GameSpot wrestling podcast Wrestle Buddies‘ favorite wrestlers. Jericho plays the GaterChaser.

The trailer did have four bleeps in it, but that was not part of the final count, as it wasn’t Smith being bleeped. Interestingly enough, the trailer was incredibly gory and violent, but that wasn’t censored.

Maybe I’m splitting hairs though. Two more curses were silenced and not bleeped as Smith reminisced about Comic-Con’s past. They were not included for the final count.

Smith closed out the panel discussing Twilight of the Mallrats, a film about Brodie Bruce, then discussing breaking his intermittent fast and hit a grand total of 113 bleeps, 3 s*** slips missed by the editor, and 4 audio drops where bleeps should have gone.