Each year at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC), new toys and action figures for various franchises are teased. At this year's SDCC, two new Scooby-Doo figures were announced. The figures include Shaggy wearing a frightened look on his face with a bookcase diorama, and The Creeper. The six-inch scaled figures are made by Jada Toys. Thanks to Juan for sharing pictures of the figures! The Fwoosh's site features additional pictures of the Shaggy figure, and the Creeper was found in an X post.
Also at SDCC this year according to the SDCC unofficial blog, there is a collectible Scooby-Doo Pop Art Animation Cel selling for $24.99, featuring Shaggy, Scooby and the zombie from "Which Witch Is Which?"
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Sorry this is a couple of days late. I just got back from traveling to visit some relatives out of state this weekend, and my Internet connection was really spotty, so I couldn't post this on Friday. Courtesy of GamesRadar+, we have the comic solicitations for October 2024. I hadn't noticed this, but previously, Scooby-Doo comics were always released on the first Tuesday of each month. Starting with Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteries #7 back on July 3, DC Comics has switched the release date to the first Wednesday of each month, for both Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries series and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! SCOOBY-DOO WHERE ARE YOU! #130 (Image credit: DC) Written by SHOLLY FISCH Art and cover by VALERIO CHIOLA $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 10/2/24 Scooby and the gang are old hands at pulling masks off phony monsters. But when a werewolf crashes the mayor’s fancy costume ball, blending in amongst several other partygoers, how can the gang tell which mask to pull off? They’d better figure out who’s who—and quickly—before the mayor’s party is ruined! BATMAN AND SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES #10 (Image credit: DC) Written by AMANDA DEIBERT Art and cover by ERICH OWEN $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 10/2/24 When the Mystery Machine gets a flat tire, Batman would love to help, but he’s busy solving a rash of antique car part thefts and a series of heists from local tech labs. Maybe the nice mechanic who just opened a shop down the street can fix up Scooby and the gang instead? And maybe they can figure out what’s up with the ghost car plaguing the outskirts of the city while they’re at it! MULTIVERSUS: COLLISON DETECTION #2 (Image credit: DC) Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER Art by JON SOMMARIVA Cover by DAN MORA Variant cover by SERG ACUÑA 1:25 variant cover by JON SOMMARIVA $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 10/2/24 The Invasion Begins! Relocated from their home dimensions by a mysteri-ous, sinister force, champions from across the multiverse have appeared on the Justice League’s Earth. Now, it’s up to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman to figure out which champions are friends and which are foes—before chaos erupts across the entire globe! MULTIVERSUS: COLLISION DETECTION #3 (Image credit: DC) Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER Art by JON SOMMARIVA Cover by DAN MORA Variant cover by JOEL OJEDA 1:25 variant cover by JON SOMMARIVA $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 10/16/24 Mayhem In The City Of Tomorrow! Metropolis’s newest city-wide battle has everything: Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, a child with a gem on his shiny round tum-tum, a sprite-sized Dark Knight, and…the Head. (It’s that thing where Brainiac’s code gets overwritten by an inebriated scientist who couldn’t be bothered to hang around for the entire issue!) MULTIVERSUS: COLLISION DETECTION #4
(Image credit: DC) Cover by DAN MORA Variant cover by RYAN BENJAMIN 1:25 variant cover by JON SOMMARIVA $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 10/30/24 Start your engines! “The Clown Princess of Crime.” “The Maiden of Mischief.” “PhD.” Call Harley Quinn anything you want, but don’t you dare try to take away her cuddly-wuddly new best friend from another universe! Clear the crosswalks and fasten your seatbelts as Harls leads the Justice League and a skyful of multiversal champions through the streets of Gotham City on a physics-bending, law-breaking, rubber-burning race to the finish…that will leave one champion’s life hanging in the balance! There were a couple of things people shared with me today that I thought were cool, but since they're just short little tidbits, I thought I might as well share them in one post rather than creating separate posts. Yesterday, the annual Home Run Derby was held in Arlington, TX. In the game, one of the players for the Baltimore Orioles, Gunnar Henderson, used a Scooby-Doo bat for the game. The bat used the Mystery Machine colors, orange, green and blue, and featured a picture of Scooby with the words "Ruh-Roh" on it. There's also a clip of him doing a Scooby impression that was posted online. Here is a picture from the game yesterday, and thank you to Greybishop for sharing this! Our second piece of news for the day is that Cartoon Network will be making an exciting schedule change next week according to CNSchedules on Twitter. After airing most of the episodes in an overnight slot for their TV debut, Cartoon Network will be adding Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! back to their schedule Mondays through Thursdays at 11:30am EST. Thanks to Jinkies for sharing this tweet!
Back in April, it was announced that a new Scooby-Doo live action series from Berlanti Productions would be coming to Netflix. Greg Berlanti, CEO of Berlanti Productions, was recently interviewed by Deadline about all of the projects Berlanti Productions is currently working on. In this interview, he shared some additional insight into the upcoming Scooby-Doo live-action series. The biggest news to come from the interview is that the series is that is still in early production. Berlanti mentions in the interview that he "just was working on the pitch for it this morning, for the first episode."
He also stated in another video interview with Deadline that the current plan is to start filming in 6-8 months. (Thanks to Jinkies for finding the clip) Here's the full excerpt from the Deadline interview: DEADLINE: What’s cooking with your live-action Scooby-Doo series? BERLANTI: One of my first jobs in this business was as a temp at Hanna-Barbera. I’d sit with Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna while they autographed animation cels. I would go in the morning and I would retrieve with my boss a bunch of these animation cels. I’d go to Bill Hanna’s office first. He was a very stoic guy. His office was very spare. And then came my favorite part of the day, going to see Joe Barbera. He was such a life force. He would sign the cels, but he would stop and regale me with the greatest stories. He was such a raconteur. DEADLINE: Give us a good one… BERLANTI: He would tell stories of how Scooby was created and what they were thinking, and how it was the late ’60s and kids felt under assault by adults, and they felt overwhelmed and they needed to be empowered. When they pitched it to Bill Paley he was like, you need a dog or something. And that was the birth of Scooby-Doo. Joe was such a special storyteller, and I was so, wow. I’d always loved them as a kid. And again, with any of the properties be they Hanna-Barbera or DC or anything at Warners, you feel lucky to be the historian who helps usher them into a new generation. You just go back to the spirit and the DNA of what makes ’em special. With Scooby-Doo, we went out and heard pitches for a year and a half and finally found one that we really felt really captured it. I just was working on the pitch for it this morning, for the first episode. So we’re really pumped. Back on January 1, it was announced that a talking Velma bust would be released, alongside a book titled Velma's Mini-Guide to Life. There's been radio silence on this since then, but today, the design of the bust was finally revealed on Barnes & Noble's website. The bust can be seen above. In addition, the previous release date of August 6 has been scrapped, and it has been moved two weeks later to August 20. It's also notable that the bust seems to use the font of the Velma series logo, despite that this doesn't seem to have any connection to that show.
Thanks to GamesRadar+, we have our comic solicitations for September 2024. It looks like they've got quite a bit of special things planned for Scooby's anniversary month! (Image credit: DC) Written by MATTHEW CODY Art and cover by DARIO BRIZUELA $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 9/4/24 Copyright © 2024 DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are scared of pretty much everything, especially ghosts and flying. So when Kite Man rebrands as the Flying Phantom of Wayne Tower, his most inept plot yet is terrifying to our scaredy-cats when they all literally get blown away from Gotham’s tallest building. Will they land safely, or have they had their final Scooby Snacks? SCOOBY-DOO GREATEST ADVENTURES (2024) Written by DEREK FRIDOLFS, SHOLLY FISCH, and SCOTT NEELY Art by SCOTT JERALDS and others Cover by DARIO BRIZUELA $14.99 US | 424 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16" | Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-77952-790-5 ON SALE 10/29/24 Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang celebrate 50 years of spooks, scares, and silliness in this all-ages collection of stories from the pages of Scooby-Doo #1, #10, #35, #68, #72; Scooby-Doo Team-Up #2, #5, #7-9, #12, #18, #37, #40; and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #48, #51, #54, #71, #78-79, #83, and #85! Includes appearances by Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Swamp Thing, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and a whole menagerie of super-pets! MULTIVERSUS #1
Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER Art by JON SOMMARIVA Cover by DAN MORA Variant covers by MIKEL JANÍN and RILEY ROSSMO 1:25 variant cover by JON SOMMARIVA 1:50 variant cover by TK $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 9/18/24 Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince, and Clark Kent each wake in a cold sweat, troubled by strange dreams they’ve had about “the rabbit,” “the star child,” and “the witch.” Their investigation into these enigmatic visions brings them to unexpected locales and unusual characters, but none more unusual than the mysterious “rabbit” from their dreams as they find themselves face-to-face with the one and only Bugs Bunny. What the heck is going on here? And who in the name of the Multiverse are “the star child” and “the witch”? The hit video game spills from your screen and into the DCU, and it’s bringing a whole lot of friends from some of your favorite universes with it! A large set of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated storyboards have been posted on eBay following animator Craig Kemplin's death. All storyboards are part of his estate, and at the time of this post, they are posted on eBay for $399.99. The listing mentions that the number of storyboards in this collection are in the hundreds. Notably, the listing has a couple of storyboards that provide new details about a couple of different characters. One storyboard is a character model of Hot Dog Water, which mentions in the notes that she was originally designed to look like an evil version of Velma. Another storyboard confirms a fascinating reference to Gremlins, which is especially timely considering the recent announcement about a script being written for a Gremlins and Scooby-Doo crossover film. Ray's pet, who looks like a Mowgai, is confirmed to actually be Mowgai by the storyboard. Thank you so much to Jinkies for finding this listing!
Today on Instagram, Tracy Mark Lee shared a few pictures of original character designs from various episodes of Guess Who. His post included character model sheets for Cher and the gang, from "Cher, Scooby and the Sargasso Sea." However, most notably, he also shared an early image from "The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament," which was slated to feature a cameo from Crunch (from the Hunch Bunch) in Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. However, Crunch was removed before the episode aired, and he was replaced with a generic hunchbacked man. You can check out the rough design for Crunch above, and also see the other designs on his Instagram page. Thanks to Jinkies for sharing this info!
Some very exciting news was announced today at the Annecy Festival in France! A brand new Scooby-Doo series, titled Go-Go Mystery Machine, will be our next animated Scooby-Doo series. The series will be our first Scooby-Doo anime, and features Shaggy and Scooby accidentally releasing hundreds of mythical monsters while visiting Japan on a food adventure. The series will also feature Scooby's uncle Daisuke-Doo, gadget wiz Toshiro, and their magical friend Etsuko. The Variety article that made the announcement did not mention a release date for the series. It's also worth noting that Fred, Daphne and Velma are not on the series poster.
Series vice president of Warner Brothers Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, Stacy Kim, said this about the series at the Annecy Festival: “We have seen a lot of iterations of ‘Scooby’ over the years, but nothing quite like this one. This is ‘Scooby’ does anime." As of the date of posting this, we are only 20 days away from MeTV Toons launching! MeTV Toons has released their full schedule, and also has created show pages. On the Scooby side of things, it looks like an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! will air every weekday at 6:00pm EST. Each Sunday, there will also be a two-hour block of Scooby-Doo episodes and/or films titled Scooby-Doo! Sunday Specials. You can check out the show page for this here (although it does not give much information). It isn't clear if there will be any consistency to the shows they will play during this block, but my guess based on the generic name of the programming block is that they'll mix it up each week, and play a variety of different episodes, specials and films. That's all there will be right now for Scooby-Doo, but you can check out their full schedule on X.
Thanks to Jinkies for sharing a link to the show page! |
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