Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Nickelodeon to Premiere 'Ryan's Mystery Playdate: Command Center' on Monday, May 3

The Playdate Command Center is coming back, with a digital twist!


Ryan is set to enter the virtual Command Center in the all new fourth season of his hit Nickelodeon preschool series, Ryan's Mystery Playdate! Get ready to play along with Ryan in a whole new way, plus all new playdates that will make you say "woah!" Catch the premiere of Ryan's Mystery Playdate: Command Center, all week at 10:00 a.m. ET/PT starting Monday, May 3, only on Nick Jr. on Nickelodeon!

The new, 10-episode season will follow Ryan and his parents in a revamped Playdate Command Center. Each episode will feature imaginative challenges, animated specials, and celebrity guests. Viewers can travel with Ryan and animated historic pals to different time periods and locations, or watch Ryan’s playdates with WWE Superstars Ember Moon and Kurt Angle, rock band OK Go, professional soccer player Christie Pearce Rampone, PGA golfer Harold Varner III and other notable celebs. Ryan and his family will play games and activities with guests remotely through teleconferencing technology.

Ryan and family with Christie Pearce Rampone. | Source: Nickelodeon

“Ryan’s Wild Safari Playdate/Ryan’s Goal Scoring Playdate” premieres on May 3. The episode will show Ryan and his family pouncing and clawing their way through puzzles and obstacles with a wildlife guide. Then, Ryan will have a sporty playdate with professional soccer player Christie Pearce Rampone, while he learns how to knee-slide and shoot the ultimate goal!

New episodes of Ryan’s Mystery Playdate will air Monday–Thursday at 10 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. It will also air regularly on the Nick Jr. channel Tuesday–Friday at 3:30 p.m. (ET/PT).


Monday, May 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Wild Safari Playdate/Ryan's Goal Scoring Playdate: Ryan and his family get in touch with their wild side as they pounce and claw their way through puzzles and challenges; it's time to knee slide onto the field with Ryan. (#402; season 4 premiere)

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Knightly Playdate/Ryan's Waddling Playdate: Brave Sir Ryan gallops through the land of challenges and puzzles on his quest for hints; Ryan puts on his fanciest tuxedo and tummy-slides his way through chilly challenges and puzzles. (#403)

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Yo-Ho-Ho Playdate/Ryan's Full Swing Playdate: It’s time to swab the challenge-deck and plunder through puzzles for the greatest treasure of all: a playdate! / Ryan swings and drives his way through a freshly trimmed course of challenges for the chance to get a hint-in-one playdate! (#404)

Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Deep Sea Playdate/Ryan's Busy Bee Playdate: Ryan heads below the waves to discover an underwater world of challenges, puzzles, and hints! / For Ryan, the only thing sweeter than honey are hints, and that’s exactly what he buzzes through challenges for! (#405)

Monday, May 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Chocolatey Playdate; Ryan's Silly Sibling Playdate: 
Ryan uses his keen eye and his sweet tooth to chomp through challenges and puzzles for a chance to have a chocolatey playdate; Ryan is going to like and share some awesome challenges for a chance to have a silly sibling playdate.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Mining Playdate; Ryan's Green Thumb Playdate: Ryan's ready to mine the hills for the ultimate gold rush playdate; Ryan tends to the land of challenges, so he can have a bountiful playdate.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Ryan's Prehistoric Playdate; Ryan's Out of This World Playdate: Ryan tries to uncover a prehistoric playdate; Ryan blasts off for outer space challenges.

Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Ryan's Giddy Up Playdate; Ryan's Perfect Slice Playdate: Ryan has a showdown with an Old West playdate; Ryan tosses dough and slings toppings.

New Ryan's Mystery Playdate Episode is revealed!! Command Center is starting on May 3rd! | Ryan's World


New Ryan's Mystery Playdate Episode is revealed!! Command Center is starting on May 3rd!



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Originally published: Saturday, April 17, 2021.

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‘Rugrats’ Voice Actor Elizabeth Daily Recorded Some of Tommy’s Lines Just Before Giving Birth

Throughout the ’90s, Nickelodeon's Rugrats was a TV show phenomenon. Young children and adults all loved to watch what kind of chaos would follow the beloved group of toddlers.


With a kids-eye view of the world, the show’s success helped elevate Nickelodeon to must-watch status. Today, kids from that generation fondly remember watching Tommy, Chuckie, and Angelica navigate their day-to-day life. And while the show was funny, many of the actors voicing the characters dealt with hilarious situations in real life.

‘Rugrats’ background

Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, The Simpsons was a massive hit. Arlene Klasky and her then-husband Gabor Csupo ran the production and animation company working on the show. It was there the characters turned yellow, and Marge got her signature blue hair. The two then went on to create Rugrats, inspired by their two young sons and what would happen if the babies could talk.


In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Klasky said she didn’t want their characters to look like typical Saturday Morning cartoons. “Our aesthetic was offbeat and quirky. I personally didn’t draw the way Disney did. I drew artsy, cartoony, humorous drawings. And Gabor came from traditional animation, but he’s a visionary. We both loved European art and Japanese animation. Some people thought our style was ugly. We thought it was beautiful.”

Csupo agreed, “We started to draw crazy-looking babies. And the more outrageously funny they looked, the more we liked them.”

A hit on their hands

E.G. Daily attends C2E2 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo | Timothy Hiatt/FilmMagic

The show was a (Reptar) runaway success. It was different enough to gain attention but still gave parents peace of mind letting their kids watch it. As the years went on, the characters became more complex, and the show gained even more traction. In 1994, Rugrats went into syndication, and that’s when its popularity really soared. According to The New Yorker, the show had 26 million viewers a week, making it one of the top cable programs.

New shows started up again in 1996, and a slew of movies followed due to its popularity. A 2001 special All Growed Up celebrated the show’s tenth anniversary and served as the pilot for its own spinoff series, All Grown Up!, following the crew ten years down the line. The sequel aired from 2003 to 2008.


In 2018, Nickelodeon and Paramount announced a Rugrats reboot was in the works. Featuring all the original voice actors, along with some new characters, the show plans a return to entertain a whole new generation of fans. The reimagined CG-animated Rugrats series will make its highly-anticipated premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday, May 27!

Most of the voice actors are women

While some of the main characters in Rugrats are boys, their voices belong to women. E.G. (Elizabeth) Daily and the late Christine Cavanaugh are the voices of Tommy and Chuckie, respectively.

That should come as no surprise since Nancy Cartwright is well-known for her role as Bart Simpson’s voice. Cartwright also took over the voice of Chuckie after Cavanaugh retired from voice acting. The success of the show meant Daily and Cavanaugh were always busy. So busy that Daily told an interesting story about one of her most unusual recording experiences.


Mental Floss reports that Daily continued to work while she was in labor. “The engineer was like: ‘Your contractions are coming really quickly now.’ And I was like: ‘No, I’m fine.’ Very soon after that, I had my daughter.” Whew, talk about dedication to her craft! She voiced the Tommy Pickles character for the show’s entire 13-year run and its spinoff series.

While she plans to revive her role as Tommy during the reboot, most recently she was on The Voice. Too Fab reports that she auditioned back in 2013 and stunned the judges. She made it onto Team Blake but lost in the knockout rounds.

Make sure to tune into Nickelodeon's brand new CG-animated Rugrats series, starts Thursday, May 27, exclusively on Paramount+!


Original source: Showbiz Cheat Sheet.
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New 'The Casagrandes' Episode 'Matters of the Kart' Announced

Information for an upcoming brand new The Casagrandes season two episodes has been unveiled!


In "Matters of the Kart", after an old man wins Carl's dream go kart, Carl wants to prove that he's worthy of the prize himself. Then, in "Saving Face," Ronnie Anne and Sid are determined to find out if the new building tenant is their favourite wrestler La Tormenta.

In "Chancla Force," Carl takes Rosa's chancla, setting off the balance of order in the city, and calling the Chancla Force into action. Then, in "Fluff Love", Carlitos goes on a wild adventure to get his favourite stuffed animal from the arcade.

"Matters of the Kart" will premiere on Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday, May 11 at 4:30 p.m. AEST. A U.S. airdate has yet to be announced.

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Originally published: Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mecha Figures in Development by Snap Design and HeatBoys

Nickelodeon has teamed up with Snap Design Development and HeatBoys for a brand new line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mecha Figures! An unpainted prototype for Leonardo as well as art cards featuring concept art for for Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Shredder.were on display at the Tencent QQ “Trend Play” Exhibition which was held at Shenzhen Futian Convention and Exhibition Center in China from May 1st to May 3rd. New images have also been posted by Snap Design on their Weibo page.



They look to be roughly 1/6 scale figures, but exact size of the figures wasn’t revealed at the time of this writing. The Leonardo figure is about 9″ tall, with the Shredder expected to be a little over 8.5″ tall.

The line is reportedly titled Snap Anime Alloy Armor Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Fans may remember Snap Design as DreamEX, who produced a series of really nice looking TMNT 1/6 Scale Figures a few years back.

The Snap Toys Alloy Armor Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Action Figures are the mutant turtles as mechas. Aka, TMNT robots. Though, this isn’t the first time the Turtles have been turned into robots, but these has a lot of Gundam vibe in them.


The TMNT mechas, each about 23 cm ( 9 inches) tall, are posable and boasts alloy material skeleton and outer armor. Each figure will come with a 4-inch, fixed pose “pilot”. Key figures include the four protagonists: Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael. According to Snap Anime, a 22 cm (8.7 inches) alloy Shredder Mecha is also in the pipeline.

Alan Johnson, one of the directors of Warner Bros. and who handles relationships with influencers, revealed an additional photo. There you can see one of the models of these Gundam-style Ninja Turtles, in their prototype form.

Not sure when it hit the markets, but when it does, expect each figure to run you back at “under 1,000 yuan” (or around US$154).





Originally published: Monday, May 03, 2021.

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Oni Press to Release 'Invader Zim Best of Skool' on Tuesday, November 9

It's time to go to Skool in Oni Press' Invader Zim Best of Skool, released Tuesday, November 9!


Invader Zim Best of Skool
by Eric Trueheart, Aaron Alexovich, Warren Wucinich (Illustrator), K.C. Green (Illustrator), Kate Sherron (Illustrator)

A brand new collection featuring four of our favorite stories from the Oni Press comic Invader ZIM highlighting Skool – a place where young, impressionable, human minds are molded into... eh, we're not sure what happens after that. 

But now you can relive all the best moments of ZIM and Dib's Skool days! From incorrect rumors of Ms. Bitters' demise (and origin) to an impromptu class trip to ZIM's fake zoo, to the trials and tribulations of the National Phitness Test, and finally, to a time-honored class assignment: pretending some inanimate object is a baby and trying not to kill it. Heck, you might even learn something! (Learning is not guaranteed.) 

Contains issues 15, 32, 37, and 45 of the Oni Press series Invader ZIM.

Publisher : Oni Press (9 Nov. 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 104 pages
ISBN-10 : 1620109166
ISBN-13 : 978-1620109168
Dimensions : 15.24 x 0.66 x 22.86 cm

Invader Zim Best of Skool carries an SRP of $9.99 (USD) / £7.23 (GBP), and is available to pro-order now on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnes & Noble!
That's not all! Check out this Nickelodeon Loungefly: Invader Zim Gir Pig Doom Mini Backpack, perfect for carrying around all your Invader ZIM comics for doom-on-the-go! Pre-order now!



Originally published: Tuesday, May 04, 2021.
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