A week ago, the full theatrical trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man arrived online and in the midst of all the untold story origin business, web-slinging, and Emma Stone being lovely, it offered fleeting glimpses of the film's villain, that nefarious sonofabitch The Lizard.  While the mutated form of Dr. Curt Connors wasn't kept secret in that trailer, he wasn't put under a spotlight either.  A new batch of pictures snapped at New York Toy Fair provide the best look at The Lizard outside of the Comic-Con or sizzle reel presentations to limited audiences.

Okay, let's be clear that we're dealing with The Avengers spoilers right off the bat.  Spoilers aplenty, folks, so if you're averse to yet more info-nuggets and story beats from the unprecedented Marvel Studios crossover combining superheroes like never before.  While we know that Tom Hiddleston is reprising his Thor role as the villainous Loki, but some new images from the currently in-progress New York Toy Fair give a good look at some tiny figurines representing the villainous army glimpsed very briefly in last week's Super Bowl spot.  Not only that, but some imges of The Avengers LEGO sets and the accompanying official descriptions might just provide some story spoilers.

For all their epic sprawl, tick-tock precise storytelling, and self-seriousness, it's easy to forget that Christopher Nolan's Batman films are still big budget superhero movies.  That means that, no matter how unsmiling Christian Bale's Caped Crusader may inevitably be, The Dark Knight Rises will be accompanied by a merchandising bonanza that includes lunchboxes, stickers, PEZ dispensers, personal pleasure devices, and endless toys.  Today we have a handful of looks at some of those toys, which are varying degrees of ridiculous, but will be greedily gobbled up by fans of all ages nonetheless.

This morning you may have seen some images of an Incredible Hulk action figure or two from The Avengers.  Those pictures came from the floor of Toy Fair in London, and now, the collectible expo has revealed some promotional artwork for products tying in to this summer's other superhero epic, The Dark Knight Rises.

The products in question are from DC Direct, which creates not missile-fired action figures for tots, but higher-end busts and the like for collectors.  For the finale installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, DC Direct is manufacturing some new figures and busts based on Batman, Bane, and Catwoman, played respectively by Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, and Anne Hathaway.

For quite a long time, Sony was doing a tremendous job of keeping the appearance of the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man under lock and key.  As we get closer and closer to the Spider-Man reboot's July release, though, it simply becomes impossible to keep scaly bad guy the Lizard so secret anymore, thanks to the vast amount of merchandising tie-ins that virtually ensure leaks.  A month ago to the day, the first online look at the Lizard's ugly mug showed up in the form of a PEZ dispenser, and now some more The Amazing Spider-Man toys have given another, better peek at what Rhys Ifans will transform into over the course of the film.  That's not all though, because a host of other images from Spider-Man-oriented toys include one that confirms a longtime story rumor and naturally constitutes a spoiler.

Hey, want to see what the villain of The Amazing Spider-Man looks like?  Of course you want a peek behind the veil of secrecy that Sony Pictures has ably maintained around the final mutated visage of Dr. Curt Connors, aka The Lizard, and surely you'd love to lay your famished eyeballs on a high-res image of the scaly menace, who is played by Rhys Ifans when he's still a geneticist.  That will no doubt arrive someday, but for today, you're going to have to settle with a look at The Lizard as a plastic trinket that contains tiny little tart candies.  Yes, your first look at The Amazing Spider-Man's Lizard comes in the form of a Pez Dispenser.  There's also a Pez Dispenser for the heroic Spidey, played by Andrew Garfield, but we've already seen many an image of the new web-slinger, so the real baller/shot caller here is The Lizard.

Over the last few weeks, we've seen plenty of material related to The Avengers make its way online.  There was the new footage shown for the crowd at Disney's D23 Expo, and no shortage of unofficial photos and videos from the Ohio set, where the fair city of Cleveland has been doubling for New York.  Today, we have something a little different in the form of a promotional image depicting the whole illustrated superhero team properly assembled under the leadership of an equally-illustrated Chris Evans as Captain America. 

A lot of folks have been wondering why Pixar would follow up the artistic and commercial high of Toy Story 3 with a sequel to Cars, arguably their least loved film so far.  Well, today Disney announced that merchandise from the burgeoning Cars franchise has generated more than $8 billion in global retail sales.  Perhaps that not-insubstantial figure helps explain why Disney and Pixar are eager to get Cars 2 into a theater near you.