Are the days of Superman’s blue, red, and yellow gone in favor of …black and gray? Looks like it, at least according to these screens from upcoming episodes of the CW’s Smallville. Superman always looks best to us in his more traditional Justice League Unlimited suit, but Clark’s Matrix-like look for Smallville this season at least shows that he’ll be trying out some costumes, and getting closer to the animated DC Comics hero we all know and love! Tom Welling, the Dark Superman look, and the rest of season nine debuts on September 25. What’s your favorite Super-style?

TC Digital is releasing yet another expansion set to their Chaotic Trading Card Game for M’arrillian Invasion. The pack, which is called M’arrillian Invasion: Turn of the Tide, is based on the animated series which airs Saturday mornings on the CW cartoon block. Do you own any TCG cards yet?
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This coming Friday, September 12th, you can catch a special preview of the brand new CW4Kids Saturday morning block.  That’s right; Saturday morning cartoons on a Friday!  The preview will run at 4:30pm on your local CW network (For example, that’s channel 11 in most NYC areas).  The preview, called The CW4Kids Brand Spankin’ New Spectacular Saturday Sneak Peek Party!, shows a quick look at all of the upcoming shows.  It’s only a half hour, but they managed to cram in a preview of the full 5-hour-block.  Be sure to check it out!

Sure, Saturday September 13th is the launch of the CW4Kids lineup, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be the same schedule forever!  In fact, only a few weeks later in September, on Saturday the 27th, we’ll see our first alteration to the cartoon block as new shows are introduced.  So, as of September 27, 2008, the CW4Kids Saturday morning block will look like this:

07:00 AM    Will & Dewitt
07:30 AM    Skunk Fu!
08:00 AM    Viva Pinata
08:30 AM    Gogoriki
09:00 AM    The Spectacular Spider-Man
09:30 AM    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer
10:00 AM    Dinosaur King
10:30 AM    Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s
11:00 AM    Chaotic
11:30 AM    Chaotic

It’s here!  It’s time!  The premiere season of The CW4Kids Saturday morning block of cartoons starts up next Saturday, September 13th… but the lineup of shows is available now!  Starting at 7 AM and running through 12 PM, the line up of cartoons on The CW looks like this:

07:00 AM    Will & Dewitt
07:30 AM    Magi Nation
08:00 AM    Skunk Fu!
08:30 AM    Viva Pinata
09:00 AM    The Spectacular Spider-Man
09:30 AM    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer
10:00 AM    Dinosaur King
10:30 AM    Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s
11:00 AM    Chaotic
11:30 AM    Chaotic

The upcoming, brand new Fall season for 4Kids cartoons will soon finally been released! This year is different from other years with 4Kids TV — not only will they program the block of Saturday morning cartoons on the Fox network, but now they will also program the block of Saturday morning cartoons on The CW.  Which one to watch?!  Well, they both start next Saturday, September 13th, so you’d better make up your minds quickly!  Stay tuned to ToonBarn for the full show schedules coming later today!

RollBots will be making its way to the CW 4Kids this fall.  RollBots is a new CGI animated series from Amberwood Entertainment. The series explores the life of robots as they travel at high speeds through the roller-coaster-like tracks of Flip City.  The robots are perfectly round, but they can grow and shrink their arms and legs whenever they want…  would be pretty freaky if we could do that!