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Toy Story. The Expendables. Together in a trailer mash-up that will rock your world so hard you'll start crying like a kid who just lost their favorite action figure. Stallone may think he's tough, but nobody knows the meaning of the word "expendable" like a toy does. The good folks over at IGN put together what is surely the best trailer for a potential Pixar movie yet. Your mileage may vary, of course, but it is hard to deny.

Depending on whether or not you're a calendar purist, this coming weekend is either the first weekend of summer movies or merely the weekend right before the summer truly begins; either way, there are two big releases coming up in the forms of Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex.

The two aren't exactly in direct competition -- most young children wouldn't be able to handle the sight of Jonah Hex/Josh Brolin's facial scar, much less Megan Fox's acting -- but the gulf between the two movies in terms of the reviews they're getting is shaping up to be an event unto itself: In short, Toy Story 3 has been getting great reviews, and Jonah Hex has been getting reviews so awful, we wonder if it's the next horrible cult movie in the making.

On the eve of Toy Story 3's theater premiere, Ryan Hoffman and Dan Angelucci have given us a mashup that will probably be incomprehensible to the bulk of Toy Story fans, but will make Wire fanatics yelp in joy and recognition: "Toy Wire," a fictitious HBO-Pixar collabo that turns Woody into Jimmy McNulty and Buzz Lightyear into Stringer Bell, among other mirthful swaps.

Fortunately, the mashup is spoiler-free, so if you made it up to Wire Season 1, Episode 4 and gave up because it was too slow but are totally going to get back into it because your friends are pestering you to, you don't have to worry about Mr. Potato Head blowing the Season 3 finale for you.

Check it out:

This is just your friendly reminder to start planning, because Free Comic Book Day is in two weeks! If you don't know what Free Comic Book Day is, dwell in anguish no more:

Free Comic Book Day is the yearly date when you can show up at any participating store (usually one of the closest ones to you) and grab more than thirty comic issues for absolutely free. Yes, they're put out by a great swath of the industry's publishers. Yes, you can have as many as you want, as long as you don't take more than one of the same title. Yes, it is awesome.

Pajiba reports that according to their sources, Joss Whedon is not only in final talks to direct the Avengers movie, he will also be writing the screenplay, and will be given the opportunity to do a final pass on script for the upcoming Captain America movie.

11 years after Toy Story 2, Disney/Pixar hopes to get a whole new generation revved up for Toy Story 3, the new, official full-length trailer for which was just released. Video after the jump: