The Kubrick/Bearbrick Mega Man set is actually a Rockman set, but I figured our North American readers might know him better by his bastardized name. Rockman looks vaguely pissed to be packaged alongside a clear blue Rockman fan-bear, but such is his lot in life. Not even swapping out his helmet for flowing hair seems to help.

The two figure set, which Capcom revealed back in October, is the first of two combo packs from Medicom, with a Proto Man set on the way featuring a similarly 1-Upped Bearbrick figure.

The Rockman set will begin shipping to fine toy importers in January. NCSX is currently accepting preorders, with $US30.90 securing your 2.75-inch robot bear pair.

Rockman & 1-Up Bearbrick Set [NCSX]

On his Flickr stream, KodyKoala describes his Guts-Dozer as kit-bashed from the parts of a “Mech Hulk Top” and a “GI Joe vehicle that I used to have as a kid”. I think that’s the “Wolverine”, the missile launcher that Cover Girl used to drive. Once again, I can’t remember the formula for circumference of a circle, but I can recall that. And that’s probably why I write about video games now.

As for HRH Hippo, I thought that 200-pounds-of-suet physique looked familiar. “I used a BLOB build [from the X-Men continuity] figure as the base, and unfortunately I had to make the legs not movable to make it look right.”

Custom Guts-Dozer figure by Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy [TinyCartridge via Go Nintendo]

Snow’s blog on Capcom-Unity showcased the six jumpers, ironed on with Dark Void, a zombie from Dead Rising, Mega Man, Salamander from Lost Planet 2, and the adorable Street Fighter babies (although I don’t think they’re from this piece of work.)

You know, the guy is single, but, I should talk to Seth Killian. I literally haven’t seen him in nine months…

Capcom Baby Swag = Cuteness Overload [Capcom-Unity via Go Nintendo]

Says a Chronicle rep:

Unfortunately this book will not be published, but we are coming out with a Street Fighter book. I let the person who worked on this book know and she is going to make sure that the information gets taken off the website. Thank you for your concern.

Welp, guess there was only room for one Capcom franchise in this arrangement. Go Nintendo notes that this applies to “Complete History.” There’s something called “Complete Works” that still should hit the shelves next month.

Mega Man Complete History Book Cancelled [Go Nintendo]

…500GB hard drive. That’s according to a Russian Doll’s worth of links that point to a company called Etsy which sells hard drives that masquerade as NES cartridges. And they won’t just do fake Mega Man cartridges for $US149. Any game’s possible.

Mega Man Custom Hard Drive Enclosure – 500GB USB [Via Capcom Community Blog]

What we’ve got here is a chart by Capcom community blogger Snow, displaying the grand amount of Mega Man games released by Capcom during the last 23 years.

The horizontal lines represent years. The bunched columns represent lines of Mega Man games. The classic Mega Man games are shown in the left column.

Click through for the full-sized chart, but be warned that one of the reasons I didn’t put it in this post (other than because I’m classy) is because it’s enormous.

Complete Mega Man Game History [Capcom-Unity.com]

Shown off at the recent Wonder Festival in Japan, and crafted by Dimension Diver, there’s exquisite Mega Man, Roll, Samus, Aegis & Metis figures on show. For reference, if you had wanted to buy one of these, they would have set you back between ¥7,000 and ¥12,000 (USD$75-125).

Dimension Diver [Tokyo Hunter, via Tiny Cartridge]

At Evo 2009, Capcom community-mans Seth Killian gets cornered about the final undiscovered secret in Mega Man 9 but vows it does indeed exist, and that it is still out there.

“People have found a ton of amazing stuff in the game that I didn’t think would have been dug up for a long time,” Killian says. But the “final secret” isn’t among that. His questioners try to coax more details out of him, but Seth doesn’t budge.

Last October, someone on the Capcom-Unity boards speculated that the last secret was a weapon, specifically a throwing weapon. S-Kill put the splat on that.

What the hell could it be? After nearly a year, we probably stand a better chance of, collectively, blindly guessing what it is rather than actually finding it. I say it’s a Ghosts N Goblins Easter egg.

EVO 2009 – Seth Killian [YouTube via GoNintendo]

Final Fantasy was released yesterday. It’s the PS1 re-release, which means it’s the original with a few graphical tweaks and CG sequences, and is selling for ¥600 (USD$6).

Mega Man, meanwhile, is a little more complicated. See, Mega Man 9 has only just been released on the PSN in Japan, and to help kick things along, Capcom are running a competition. You win the competition, you get a copy of Rockman: Complete Works, which is a compendium of Mega Man 1-6.

If it helps any, there’s no harm in praying to your God of choice that these will some day be released in the West.