#adventure time: side quests

[lanae111]

“Adventure time is back”

We all say in unison.

[ferntern]

Can't stop thinking about all that Adventure Time news that was just dropped on us.

[adventure-time-news]

THREE NEW ADVENTURE TIME PROJECTS ANNOUNCED

First of all, it sounds like the Adventure Time movie is finally happening! This was announced way back in like 2013 but never really went anywhere. The plot and other elements ended up getting integrated into various season six episodes. Adam Muto, Rebecca Sugar, and Pat McHale are all involved in the project.

Then we also have two series on the way. The first one sounds like it will be a return to the 6-11 demographic, unlike the recent Fionna and Cake series which had a slightly older target audience. It will be titled Side Quests and will be an episodic show focussing on a young Finn and Jake, serving as a sort of prequel to the original show but without many serial plot elements. The Variety article says Nate Cash will be working on it.

Finally, the second series will be a preschool show called Heyo BMO. Adam Muto and Ashlyn Anstee are both involved. I expect we will hear more in the coming weeks. There might be more info at the Annecy festival by tomorrow.

I will of course be bringing more updates as they come, and will dig around for more info later once I have some more time.

Stay tuned!

[legionofpotatoes]

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[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

Im not gonna lie, im terrified about all the new adventure time projects.

Fionna and Cake season 2????? FUCK YEAH LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adventure time movie???? I dont know about what the movie could be and im a little bit scared but i mean A MOVIE!!!!! ALSO FUCK YEAH LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!

A series about finn and jake previous the og adventure time series????? Ok im starting to panick now, bacuse you see i always wanted to know more about how was their life with their parents, how was their parents death, how they got to the tree house, how it was for jake to raise a little brother that grow so fucking slow (compared to dog's aging process) and so on buttttt a whole series??? I dont know man.

A show about BMO aimed at toodlers??????? I mean, i know BMO design its the perfect cute character for a little kids show but PLEASE NOOOOO. BMO literally used a gun, says "butt stuff" before putting things in their ass and is super cute and silly while being chaotic and sometimes even a little cruel (like with neptor). BMO DOESNT BELONG IN A TOODLER SHOWWW PLEASEEEE I DONT WANT TO SEE TOODLERS BEING LIKE " I LOVE BMO" WHEN THEY SEE BMO RELATED STUFF. BITCH. YOU DONK KNOW BMO, YOU ONLY SEE A FAKE VERSION OF THEM.

I DONT WANT A BMO INFANTILIZATION PLEASEEE NOOOOO.

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today on random languages my brain is going 👀 at is biblical hebrew and biblical greek

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I like her a normal amount. 👉👈🥺

Oh also, I know I'm super late here and this isn't news but:

MIRABELLE. SO REAL.

[fly-pow-bye]

Warner Bros. Discovery announced a bunch of greenlights at Annecy, including a reboot of a certain Craig McCracken show! No, not one involving kindergarten superheroes.

Foster's Imaginary Nursery has a new name: Foster’s Funtime for Imaginary Friends. While Variety says Cartoon Network Studios, the poster shows Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. This is the preschool spinoff of Foster's, which is interesting to see after what they did to Jessica's Big Little World, and we can only hope this doesn't have the same fate. Craig McCracken has promised that it will have the same fun pace, but with a simpler structure and with less cynical humor.

Adventure Time may have had an adult-focused spinoff with Fionna and Cake, but that doesn't mean Adventure Time's original demographic will forever be left out: Adventure Time: Side Quests. Unlike the last few Adventure Time series, these side quests will be episodic, and probably better for reruns.

One greenlight we know absolutely nothing about, and one that came as a complete surprise, is Untitled Regular Show Project. How are they going to continue Regular Show after that regular epic final battle? The only things we know is that J.G. Quintel is still heading it and it will feature characters from Regular Show.

Along with greenlit shows, they announced some projects in development:

We got another Scooby-Doo show in the works. Go-Go Mystery Machine involves Shaggy and Scooby going to Japan, accidentally unleashing a bunch of yokai, and having to get help from Scooby's uncle, a Shiba Inu named Daisuke-Doo and his two friends.

Adventure Time isn't just getting a new school for the kids, it's getting a show for the younger kids, too. Adventure Time: Heyo BMO stars BMO in a new neighborhood with new friends as he goes on a quest to learn and fill his database. (Variety says this is from a description; Cartoon Network's pronouns for a non-binary character, not Variety's or mine.)

Other projects: Untitled Barbara Throws a Wobbler Project. Another one for preschoolers, and one based on a book. The Adventure Time Movie is still going to happen, with Rebecca Sugar of Steven Universe and early Adventure Time fame serving as creator. Bad Karma, a family movie project set in a mythical fantasy world. Finally, the only one in this article that is not a kids show: Lovey Dovey, a show by one of the writers of Harley Quinn about a dove who wants to look for his true love that ends up getting stuck with a bunch of streetwise pigeons who want to, quote, "screw the large bird from a popular kids TV show."

The Amazing World of Gumball has its own panel tomorrow, and Annecy has banners proclaiming that "more Gumball" is coming.

[spicyseal]

OH MY GOD????? NEW ADVENTURE TIME MOVIE AND SPINOFFS?!? AT FANS WE ARE EATING GOODDD!!!!!

[sillybond]

Finally coming around to speculate about the new AT anouncements and just banter about what I think/wish it'll be like.

Side Quest- One of the more interesenting ones in my opinion. It'll take a lot from the first season (character wise, the storrytelling aproach and episodic nature). My main concern is how deep they want to go with it. AT has always had many layers to it (characters, wrold building, emotinal development atc), that were shown as the series progressed. But we get grasps of some of it at the start. And I really want this to continue in the prequel. Just glimses, snippets on some of the most important storrylines that would come later in the timeline. Also the episodic nature doesn't really allow for any big plots. That's cool. But I also want some depth. I want to see the first years of Finn as an adventurer and how he developed his wish to become a hero. I NEED more on the three brothers (Finn, Jake and Jermaine) relantionships with Joshua and Margaret. How did they meet PB?? and the tree house???

Sooooo many things they can launch of off. I wish they do it right and not just make it a random series for 5th graders with the AT logo attached to it

[lanae111]

WE’RE GETTING A MOVIE, A PREQUEL SERIES AND A FEW SPIN-OFFS?!?!?!?

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG KMG OMG OMG

WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WON WE WONNNNNNNNNNN

[prismo-is-underrated]

Anyone else having mixed feelings about the new Adventure Time content that’s been announced?

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Now that we've had some time to process today's announcements, here's a slightly more in-depth breakdown of the three new Adventure Time projects.

HEYO BMO

Heyo BMO will be a preschool show starring BMO. The Animation on Max Twitter account says that it "follows little BMO as he approaches each challenge he faces with his unique brand of enthusiasm and a curiosity to learn and fill his database."

This is the only project of the three for which we have received some promo art so far, which might mean it's the furthest along in development and the most likely to premier first, especially if they used rigged rather than traditional animation as is often the case with preschool shows. This promo art was created by 3D artist Crisppyboat, who has previously worked on a handful of web projects and indie games. I don't think this is the style that the entire show will have, but who knows.

Other people confirmed by Variety to be working on Heyo BMO are Adam Muto, who has been showrunner on everything Adventure Time since season five of the original show, and Ashlyn Anstee, who storyboarded on Obsidian and has written many children's books.

This show is especially interesting given that Adam Muto has often joked about the inevitability of a preschool spinoff of Adventure Time, and now that has finally come to pass while he is presumably still running the show.

SIDE QUESTS

Side Quests will be a "prequel series" to the original Adventure Time, likely meant as a return to the early seasons' storytelling style. It will be mostly episodic rather than serialised, meaning episodes will each tell their own story without much of an overarching plot, and it will target the original show's young demographic. Ice King is confirmed to be returning in this series, but that's about all we know about the plot.

Interestingly, Variety did not attach Adam Muto's name to this project. Instead it mentioned that Nate Cash will be involved. Nate Cash was supervising director on Adventure Time between seasons three and five, often alternating with Adam Muto in that role. So if Nate is producing Side Quests and Adam is producing Heyo BMO, this will be something of a return to form for both of them.

One question that I've seen a few fans ask is who will voice Finn in this show. Jeremy Shada can't really pull off the season one Finn voice anymore, and they've run out of younger Shada brothers to defer to like they did after the pilot episode. So a new casting feels likely to me, with Shada continuing to voice an older Finn in other projects like Fionna and Cake and the movie. Speaking of which...

UNTITLED ADVENTURE TIME MOVIE

This is the announcement that we know the least about. To give some historical context, an Adventure Time movie was announced all the way back in 2015 but never came to anything. There was also allegedly a plan to end season five with a TV movie back in 2014. Elements of these two movies were later recycled into the plots of several later episodes, most notably Something Big, and possibly Distant Lands: Together Again.

This latest attempt involves Adam Muto, as well as Rebecca Sugar and Pat McHale, who were both influential storyboard artists in the early seasons of Adventure Time before leaving to make their own shows; Steven Universe and Over the Garden Wall, respectively.

According to MidouMir on Twitter, who was live-Tweeting the Warner panel at Annecy, a brief synopsis was given as something like "Finn and Jake set out to find a birthday gift for PB but their adventure will lead them to world changing stuff." Other than that we know nothing about the plot.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Adventure Time wasn't the only show to get spinoffs announced today. Regular Show, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, and Scooby-Doo will all be receiving new series too. We don't know anything about the Regular Show spinoff, but the Fosters spinoff will be a preschool show like Heyo BMO.

All of this appears to indicate that Warner's current animation strategy is to recycle characters who have already proven popular in order to try and attract a new generation of viewers. Original fans of Adventure Time are beginning to get old enough to have children of their own who might enjoy something like Heyo BMO, plus since the end of shows like Amphibia and The Owl House there has been a vacuum of popular "fandom" shows for the older children to younger teens demographic, which I imagine is what Side Quests is aiming for.

To be fair they have also announced a handful of brand new projects; Lovey Dovey, Bad Karma, and Barbara are all new shows announced today.

What are your thoughts? Is there anything I missed? Be sure to let me know!

[2194teddy]

Since Adventure Time fans are fed with new Shows and movies, I need to do more Finn or Fionna the "Giant" Human AUs. I am a fan of Finn Mertens, and him as a giant human AU would be so cute!.

[mzminola]

My brother, encouraging me to fix my posture after years of slouching, pulling his shoulders back in demonstration: Stand tall! Me: I'm not even five foot one. My brother: ... Me: I'm very queer too so I can't stand straight either. My brother: . . . Me: I will stand HUBRISTICALLY! My brother: /doubles over laughing/

[absentlyabbie]

played totk for 6+ hours straight and i now emerge with the grogginess of an unplanned 3 hour nap