Robot Chicken has parodied the Scooby franchise several times. In their 25th anniversary special that was just announced at the Annecy Festival, they will be doing so again. A promotional image from Polygon shows two different Velmas. One of them appears to designed after Kate Micucci's Be Cool, Scooby-Doo version of Velma. The image shows Batman, Johnny Bravo, amongst other Cartoon Network characters, will also appear in the special. The special will premiere on Adult Swim on August 30. It will be available to stream on HBO Max the next day on August 31.

Thanks Fred for the info. Note that the source article includes an image that is not appropriate for younger viewers. Linking the source here, but it is for older viewers only: Polygon.

This past week, the annual Annecy Festival has been taking place in France. Each year, the festival hosts a wide variety of presentations for new animated shows. A few new tidbits about Yokoso Scooby-Doo were shared during Warner Brothers' portion of the presentation.

The series will include "all sorts of monsters" inspired by Japanese culture. According to Cartoon Brew, the show will involve "monsters being caught in balls" similarly to Pokémon, which was animated by the same studio (OLM) as Yokoso will be. Senior Vice President Jay Bastian also assured fans that Scooby's design was changed very little.

“We didn’t really change the design that much. You don’t really mess around with perfection,” Bastian said.

Thanks to scooby dooby dooooooo for sharing the Cartoon Brew article!

A brand new Scooby-Doo Funko Pop is coming this August. The Funko Pop is designed based on a classic scene from the franchise pilot, "What a Night for a Knight." It is based on the scene where Scooby hides from the Black Knight inside a plant vase. The Funko Pop is available for pre-order as of today on Entertainment Earth. It's priced at $14.99 and measures 5 3/4 inches tall. The Funko Pop will be released in August.

Another missing scene from The New Scooby-Doo Movies has been found! A 23-second missing segment from "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes" has been uploaded by YouTube. The scene was uploaded by Chorake, who found "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" scenes in 2020 and 2021, and "The Secret of Shark Island" scene in 2024.

The missing footage found is not highly anticipated the King Kong scene. This brief segment shows Fred, Daphne and Velma splitting up from each other on the set. This resolves a plot hole of where it was never shown how Fred, Daphne and Velma got separated from each other.

The discovered scene is only 23 seconds long, but there was two minutes of missing footage from the episode. This means there is another minute and a half of footage still missing, likely the King Kong scene.

Following last year's Fortnite collab, another unexpected Scooby-Doo video game collab has been announced! The game's producer announced an upcoming Scooby collab yesterday during its 10th Anniversary Broadcast. Instead of having Scooby and the gang appear directly in the game, the game will instead feature Scooby-themed skins. This is likely because Dead by Daylight is a mature horror game involving extreme violence, so WB likely did not want the characters directly appearing (similarly to how they didn't want Scooby in the Velma series). The Scooby skin can be seen above. No date has been officially announced yet. Thank you to ScoobyVerse for the heads up about this announcement!

Some sad news for fans of the Boo Brothers! Ronnie Schell, the voice actor for Freako, passed away on Friday. He was 94 years old, and died of natural causes. Schell was most known as a comedian, and for his role as Duke Slater on Gomer Pyle - USMC. Hanna-Barbera fans may also know him as the voice of Gilly from Goober and the Ghost Chasers. Besides Freako, Ronnie Schell also voiced Colonel Calloway in Ghoul School, and additional voices in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.

Since the news of the merger in December, I've been sporadically giving updates on the WB-Paramount merger. Yesterday saw some big news for the merger, which has needed to go through an approval process. The New York Times has reported that The U.S. Justice Department has now approved the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger. Officially, this is the last formal obstacle the merger needed to go through in order to be approved.

However, some states are considering legal action to block the merger according to BBC . California attorney Rob Bonta has expressed his intent to sue over the merger, arguing that the merger would consolidate power in the Hollywood industry down to just a few studios. Last week, Bonta announced that he would soon decide whether to take legal action.

While the merger could still face obstacles to being approved, in terms of official processes, it is considered a done deal now that the Justice Department has approved it. Unless there's significant likelihood of one of the cases reversing the merger, this will likely be the last article I'll publish about it.

A listing has popped up on Funko's official website for some new Scooby figures! As a part of the Spooky Rides collectible line, Scooby-Doo and the Space Kook will be released as Mystery Minis! They are being packaged alongside Gremlins and Beetlejuice figures. Each figure is $6.99. The figures are being sold in "collect-them-all" style where figures are packaged at random, a la "fast food toys." This means purchasing one may give you a Gremlins or Beetlejuice figure instead of a Scooby-Doo figure, since they are all being packaged together. You can pre-order the new figures here! No release date has been announced yet, but the official site lists them as coming soon. Thanks to Mr Neither for sharing the news!

Update 6/9/26: TV producer Ted Biaselli has confirmed that Scooby will talk in response to a fan's comment on Instagram.

Netflix has shared a couple pieces of exciting news about the upcoming live-action series, Scooby-Doo: Origins. The official Scooby-Doo Netflix page shared a teaser clip showing Scooby will be a real puppy. You can check out this teaser featuring Shaggy (Tanner Hagen) and Scooby-Doo here.

The post caption also revealed another highly anticipated piece of info: the release year! Netflix has officially confirmed the show will be coming in 2027. No specific release date has been announced yet.

A new Scooby-Doo book listing has popped up on Penguin Random House's website. A Golden Book titled Scooby-Doo: Camp Spooky Swamp, will be released on January 4, 2027. It is written by Ally Frame, and illustrated by Robert Islas. No image of the cover has been released yet.

Similarly to the upcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins, the book's plot features the gang encountering a mystery at a camp. The book will feature Funko Pop art, and is written for a target audience of ages 2-5 (although I liked that the book description mentions that it's for all Scooby and Funko fans!) The 24-page book will be available as a hardcover ($6.99) and eBook ($4.99), and is now available for pre-order at the above link. Here's the official description:

Mystery Inc. is going camping! Can they solve the mystery of the spooky swamp monster? Join Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the gang in this Funko Pop! Little Golden Book. Shaggy and Scooby take the gang to Camp Sunny Swamp! But when a mysterious fog appears and a swamp monster chases away the campers, it's up to Scooby and his friends to get to the bottom of the mystery and save the camp from closing down. Join Mystery Inc. on a groovy adventure in this Funko Pop! Little Golden Book! With adorable Funko Pop art, this fun-filled storybook is perfect for kids ages 2 to 5 and Scooby-Doo and Funko fans of all ages.

Credit to ScoobyVerse ​for finding this listing!