13 Classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games return in The Cowabunga Collection!

Two days ago, Konami revealed they are collaborating with Nickelodeon and partnering up with game developer Digital Eclipse to re-release 13 classic TMNT to modern consoles! This collection - titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection - ranges from titles from the arcades, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sega Genesis, and the Game Boy. All of them were inspired and based around the 1987 cartoon that was airing on TV at the time, as well as the original Mirage comic book and even the Archie comic book.

The game list goes as follows 

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)

Additionally, the game will come with their Japanese counterparts as well! The only exceptions are for TMNT (Arcade) and TMNT: Tournament Fighters (NES), which have none. Online support for multiplayer will be provided for TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, and TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo).

The player will also be able to save their game at any point, as well as rewind to an earlier point if they made a mistake somewhere. (This will no doubt prove valuable to some games, such as the notoriously difficult Tournament Fights (Sega Genesis))

The game will also come with extras, such as a Museum that compiles images from the original cartoons, comics, and other TMNT-related content. Additionally, there will also be never-before-seen development artwork, sketches, and game design material.

The game is planning to release sometime this year in 2022 and will retail at $39.99. The game will release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One.

Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles joins Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

As revealed earlier in the day, Shredder is the latest character who will join the battle in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

Making his debut back in 1984 in the original Mirage comic book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder (real name Oroku Saki) was the first villain the Turtles - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo - fought against. Saki's older brother, Oroku Nagi, was one of the best members of the Foot clan, alongside another individual named Hamato Yoshi. Nagi and Yoshi fought each other over the love of a woman named Tang Shen. However, Shen only had eyes for Yoshi, which enraged Nagi. He ended up trying to attack Shen, only to be killed by Yoshi. Yoshi, Shen, and Yoshi's pet rat Splinter would then flee from Japan to America, due to Yoshi being disgraced for killing another member of the Foot Clan.

Saki, who admired his older brother, would swear revenge on Yoshi. He would return to Japan and join the Foot Clan, slowly climbing up the ranks until he was put in charge of the American branch of the Foot Clan. Taking on the mantle of "The Shredder," he took advantage of his new position to hunt Yoshi and Shen down to finally avenge his brother. Unknown to him, Yoshi's pet rat Splinter would manage to escape to the sewers, where he would end up finding four baby turtles and some mutagen that would mutate them into anthropomorphic forms.

15 years later, Shredder would confront the Ninja Turtles in a bloody battle. Leo would manage to stab him, giving Shredder the opportunity to die an honorable death. However, he decided to try to take them all down with a grenade, which Donatello whacked back at him, sending both the grenade and Shredder into the alley below, where the explosion did him in

All of that happened in the first issue, making him the shortest living Shredder among the various adaptions, though he would sort of "live on" through various clones the Foot Clan would try to create. By 1987, the franchise would receive a cartoon adaption with the same name, though it was heavily toned down to be suitable for kids. Here, Saki's origin story was that he was jealous of Yoshi's leadership, and set him up to look like he was planning to assassinate the Foot Clan leader. With Yoshi exiled to America, Saki would rise in the ranks until he became the leader of the Foot Clan, turning the noble ninja into an army of crime. It's also around here he would adopt the alias of "The Shredder."

Discontent with Yoshi's banishment, he moved to New York City to not only conquer it, but also rid himself of his former rival. At some point during this, Shredder would meet an alien named Krang, and the two would team up to try to take over New York City. Upon finding Hamato Yoshi, he would try to use Krang's Mutagen to kill him, only to unknowingly end up mutating Yoshi into a rat, as well as mutating four baby turtles into his worst enemies, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Befitting the Ninja Turtles arch-nemesis, Shredder towers over the other characters, and has lightning-fast moves. Most of his attacks involve him using the claws on his armor to try to shred his foes, though a few attacks also use weapons, such as using a spear and a sword. One of Shredder's moves involves him grabbing a foe in the air and slamming them down into the ground!

Additionally, along with Shredder comes a new stage! Surprisingly, it's not a TMNT stage to go with Shredder, but rather a stage based on one of Nickelodeon's game shows, Double Dare! This stage has green goo below it, which the fighters slowly sink into. Better keep jumping, so you can escape to the upper platforms, unless you want to sink into the depths!

Shredder's alternate costume, which happens to be a reference to Shredder's appearance in Batman Vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Shredder is available to play right now, so if you haven't updated your game yet, you'd better do so! And with that, Shredder is the last free character for the game, with the rest - if any - having to be bought.

Are you happy that Shredder has joined the battle? Are you hoping that one of your favorite Nickelodeon characters can still manage to get in? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

Additional characters, crossplay, and voice acting confirmed for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

During a stream by famous Super Smash Bros. player HungryBox, the art director for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Diego Hernández, hopped on and spoke about a number of features that he and the rest of the Ludosity team are planning on adding.

First of all is that they are working on the final free DLC character. For those who don't know, the game was intended to release with 22 playable characters, but had to drop two of them to get the game out on time. As a compromise, they decided to release them later on for free.

Garfield is one of the two characters. The other one is suspected to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' iconic foe, the Shredder, due to a few interesting files found when players datamined the game.

They also revealed that a couple more characters - as well as stages - are being worked on. When HungryBox asked if the new characters would "grant all of our wishes" or are "gonna blast our minds", Diego simply responded "maybe," which seems to imply that two of the characters being worked on may be Jimmy Neutron and Timmy Turner. Regardless, we'll mostly likely find out who they are as development on them gets closer to completion.

Crossplay is also in development, which will allow players to play against others who own the game, but on a different platform. (Thus, a PC player can play against Nintendo Switch, XBox One, XBox Series X/S, and PlayStation 4/5 users) Diego mentions that he and the team were planning on including this on launch, but felt they needed to test it out more before they included it.

Finally, Diego mentioned that they are adding a "highly requested feature," which was all but outright said to be voice acting. A very common complaint amongst reviewers was that all of the characters are completely silent in the game. While a reason was never given, it's often suspected by fans that voices never happened because of budget constraints, but it seems that the game's success has finally cleared that problem.

While a date for all of these has not been said, crossplay is expected to be released sometime in Q1 of 2022.

Garfield Joins Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

IGN has revealed the newest fighter joining Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl: Garfield from... well, the Garfield series!

Initially published locally as Jon in 1976 and then nationwide as Garfield in 1978, Garfield started out as a Newspaper strip created by a man named Jim Davis. The comic often focuses on humorous interactions between the three main protagonists, Garfield, Jon, and Odie. Other re-occurring characters include the veterinarian Liz, Garfield's on-again-off-again girlfriend Arlene, and the self-proclaimed "world's cutest kitten" Nermal.

Garfield would make his first animated debut in The Fantastic Funnies, where he was voiced by Scott Beach. From 1982 to 1991, Garfield would receive twelve animated primetime specials, where he would be voiced by Lorenzo Music, Garfield's most well-known voice actor. Garfield would also receive a cartoon series, starting with Garfield and Friends in 1994, to The Garfield Show in 2016. In 2019, Viacom would acquire the Garfield License, and in 2020, a new cartoon starring the lasagna-loving cat was said to be in the works for Nickelodeon.

Garfield blocking one of SpongeBob's attacks.

In Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Garfield attacks range from conventional to unconventional. From swiping at his foes with his claws, to throwing a pie, to eating a plate of Lasagna. (Yes, really.)

One of his - presumably special - moves involves him throwing his teddy bear, Pooky, forwards. Presumably pressing the special button again, Garfield then holds his arms out as Pooky comes flying back to his owner, damaging and flinging opponents away. More info on Garfield and his moves is expected to be revealed later.

Garfield crosses paths with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the first second third time.

Garfield will be arriving on December 9th for free on the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation versions of the game. Nintendo Switch owners will have to wait a bit longer to play as Garfield, though.

Alternate costumes arrive in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

As revealed a couple of days ago on the the official Twitter page, alternate costumes have finally arrived in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl as part of a free update!

Leonardo and Michelangelo's alternate costume has them in a black-n-white color scheme, making them resemble the 1984 Leo and Mikey from the original Mirage comic book. Meanwhile, April's costume is based on the "Channel 6 Newsvan" toy.

These range from SpongeBob wearing the #1 Soda Drinking Hat, Purple Reptar, and Leonardo and Michelangelo sporting black-n-white colors to resemble the 1984 turtles from the original Mirage comics!

Zim sporting his iconic "human disguise." Sadly, GIR doesn't wear his "dog disguise" when Zim is wearing this.

The bad news is that each character only gets one. According to Thaddeus - one of the producers for the game -  they had planned to add simple recolors for all of the characters. (SpongeBob, for instance, would've been recolored to have Patrick's, Squidward's, and Mr. Krabs's color scheme) However, for whatever reason, Nickelodeon said no to the idea, wanting the characters to only have "canon alts" instead (In other words, the developers could only use outfits the characters have worn in their shows, or in merchandising.) While it is great to have at least something to help one character stand out from another in mirror matches, a few characters suffer from minimal differences that are hard to spot at a glance.

Survey needs you to spot the difference between Korra's original outfit (left) and her alternate costume (right).

You can check out the video here!

Which alternate costume is your favorite? Tell us in the comments below!

A new Brawler will be announced on the 7th of December for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.

As stated on the official Twitter account, a new fighter will be announced at IGN on December 7th.

It's currently unknown who it will be, but there is some speculation, thanks to a datamine that happened during the game's release. If you don't wish to be spoiled, then stop reading now.

You good? Here we go.

Deep in the game's code, fans have discovered a few unused files. Two of the files appear to reveal two of the characters that were being worked on: Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and Garfield from... well, Garfield. Not only that, fans have also found a partially finished stage that clearly belongs to Garfield, as well as another stage based on the Nickelodeon gameshow, "Double Dare."

Based on this, it seems that Garfield may be the next fighter who will join the brawl. Of course, it could turn out to be someone else, or heck, even Shredder, but as it stands, Garfield seems the most likely.

Who are you hoping will join the battle? Find out the 7th of December!

Win a SpongeBob or Leonardo-themed Xbox Series X Console and controller!

In celebration of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's release, Microsoft is making two custom-themed Xbox Series X consoles and controllers based on two of the playable characters in the game: SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants, and Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

To enter, one must be following the official Xbox Twitter account. After doing so, they must go to this post and retweet it with the text, "#XboxAllStarBrawlsweepstakes". The contest will end October 24th, 2021, where one of the winners will receive the SpongeBob-themed console, while the other one will receive the Leonardo-themed console. Additional rules can be read here.

THQ Nordic announces SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake!

During THQ Nordic's 10 Anniversary Stream, an unexpected surprise announcement was made at the tail end: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is in development!

While gameplay wasn't shown, it's story has been revealed on Steam. SpongeBob and Patrick meet a mysterious woman named Kassandra, who give the duo a vial of Mermaid Tears, which are said to be capable of granting wishes to those of pure heart. Excited at this prospect, SpongeBob and Patrick's wishes start going out of control, eventually tearing a hole in time and space! 

Said hole also begins pouring Space Jelly all over Bikini Bottom, and creating portals to various dimensions called "Wishworlds." These Wishworld portals end up sucking in SpongeBob and Patrick's friends, causing them to get lost in the strange and bizarre lands.

SpongeBob and Patrick now have to head off to not only save their friends, but also to find a way to close the rip in time and space! Meanwhile, Kassandra seems to be off performing her own devious plans...

Meanwhile, the game promises to have 30 spongetastic costumes for SpongeBob to use in his adventure, such as SnailBob and SpongeGar. There will also be a total of 7 distinct Wishworlds, such as Wild West Jellyfish Fields and Halloween Rock Bottom.

Additionally, all of the characters showing up will have their voice actors from the show to voice them in this game. The game will also have a total of 101 songs, one of which includes Sweet Victory, which plays during the trailer.

THQ Nordic is also responsible for the developing the SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated game, so The Cosmic Shake should be in good hands.

The game is still in development, but is planning to come to PlayStation 4, XBox One, and PC via Steam. A Switch port was also confirmed via THQ Nordic's official Twitter.

 Are you excited for The Cosmic Shake? Tell us your thoughts below!

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl release date confirmed, DLC and more in the works!

Yesterday on Game Informer, an interview with the CEO of Ludosity, Joel Nyström, by John Carson was posted. During the interview, Joel talked about their current project, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and revealed some new info!

One such example is that the roster was picked by both the devs of Ludosity, as well as their publisher, GameMill Entertainment. Joel mentions how they wanted fun characters from the shows they liked watching, such as Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys. He also notes that Nickelodeon was okay with their suggestion for characters, though there were a few that were rejected due to global licensing issues, though without specifying who they were.

Joel also revealed that he and his company have noticed that a lot of competitive Super Smash Bros. players have been keeping tabs on the game. He says that he and his team are happy about this, as the game being competitively viable for tournaments was one of their priorities from day one, and was even specifically requested by Nickelodeon. They also made sure to include rollback net code, which will allow players to have a stable connection with others.

When it comes to the game's full roster, it will have a total of twenty characters upon release, with two more coming afterwards as free DLC. He then teased that more DLC characters would be in the works, and for fans to look forward to it!

When asked about voice acting, Joel revealed that it isn't in the game, as they were more focused on delivering the best possible gameplay experience. However, he does note that it could happen later on down the road.

Finally, Joel confirms that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will release on October 5th, 2021. Previously, this was assumed to be the release date due to the Nintendo Online Store listing the game's preorder as such.

What about you? Are you excited for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl? Tell us in the comments below!

Ren & Stimpy join the battle in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

As revealed on GameHill's official YouTube Channel, the iconic duo of the grouchy chihuahua Ren and his idiotic but well-meaning friend, Stimpy the cat,  join the battle!

Ren & Stimpy hail from "The Ren & Stimpy Show," which was one of the three original Nicktoons cartoons that debuted back in 1991, alongside "Rugrats" and "Doug." In their show, the two would often get into comical misadventures. Notably, the show had a unique art style, as in the animators were allowed to draw the characters "off-model," allowing the animators to really exaggerate the characters body and facial expressions.

While the show was pretty popular, behind-the-scenes drama and production troubles prevented Ren & Stimpy from reaching the same heights as Rugrats did, let alone Doug, who was later purchased by Disney. The show would later receive a reboot in 2003, but... well, let's just say that some things are better left forgotten and leave it at that.

Anyway, Ren & Stimpy fight together as a duo, with Ren riding on top of Stimpy. A couple of their moves involve them both attacking. In those cases, Ren focuses on quick attacks that will protect the duo from behind, while Stimpy focuses on slow-but-powerful moves that will hit foes in front of them.

You can watch their reveal trailer here!

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will release on October 5th, 2021. Are you excited for Ren & Stimpy? Hoping that one of your favorite characters can make it in? Leave your comments down below!

SpongeBob's moveset showcased in a video for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

 

Yesterday, the official Gamemill YouTube channel uploaded a video that shows off all of SpongeBob's moves in explicit detail

The person hosting the video is Markus Villalobos, developer at Fair Play Labs. He reveals that SpongeBob is intended to be a beginner character. He has no real strengths, but he has no weaknesses either, allowing SpongeBob to reasonably take on just about everyone.

After showing off all of SpongeBob's moves, Markus then plays a few rounds to show off some ideas and combos players can expect to use.

Notably, a few weeks ago on the official Twitter page, they posted an image of SpongeBob and his moveset. They then showed Patrick's moveset two days later, followed by Sandy four days later. It is currently unknown if Gamemill Entertainment is planning on doing more showcase videos for the other characters

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is planned to be released on October 5th, 2021, for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series S, PlayStation 4 and 5, and PC.

Gameplay for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl revealed!

Today on IGN, four videos were released, one showing off the game's mechanics, while the other three show off some in-game fights.

First, the gameplay explanation, featuring SpongeBob and his pal Patrick! As you can expect with a game inspired by Super Smash Bros., the main objective is to ring out your opponent. Each character has a damage percentage, and as they take hits, the percentage increases. The higher it is, the farther they fly!

The video also explain Light attacks (weak moves that help increase damage on your foes) Strong attacks (which will send a foe flying) and Special attacks (unique to each fighter). Each one has three versions: middle, up, and down. Additionally, if two different Strong attacks hit each other, one will take priority over the other. Down beats Middle, and will cause the opponent to stagger. Middle beats Up, and causes the opponent to turn around. Up beats Down, and causes the opponent to spin out.

Grabs can also be performed not only on the ground, but in the air as well! You can even grab an opponent's projectile attack and throw it back at them! Speaking of which, Strong attacks can reflect projectiles, and each reflect will make the projectile get stronger and faster up to a certain point.

Other mechanics of the game brought up are fighters being able to strafe  (in which the character will always face a certain direction if you hold the left trigger button on certain controllers) and Air Dashing, a move that boosts you in a certain direction, but you can only perform it once per time your in the air. Performing an Air Dash towards the ground will allow your character to perform a Wave Dash, allowing them to quickly slide on the ground and quickly follow up with an attack.

There were also some gameplay footage shown off! First is a fight between SpongeBob, Leonardo, April O' Neil, and Patrick on the Air Temple Stage from Avatar: The Last Airbender!

Next, CatDog get into a fierce battle with Lucy Loud on the Jellyfish Fields stage from SpongeBob SquarePants!

And finally, April O'Neil Vs. Nigel Thornberry on the Jellyfish Fields stage!

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is planned to be released on October 5th. Are you looking forward to getting it? Tell us in the comments below!

CatDog and April O'Neil join Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

At Gamescom, GameMill Entertainment showed off a new trailer for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, revealing that CatDog (from the show with the same name) and April O'Neil (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who was - amusingly - confirmed to be playable in Shredder's Revenge yesterday) will join the battle!

From what can be seen from CatDog's trailer, you can switch which one of two are leading. While they share some moves, such as slamming a fire hydrant on top of anyone in front of them, both of them appear to have their own moves unique to them. Two examples are Dog spitting bones at his foes, and Cat comically strangling Dog while shoving him forward, which can hit anyone in front of them.

In addition to the usual punches and kicks, April can be seen using some of her recording equipment in her attacks. Some of them appear to be able to reflect projectile attacks back at the foe, and one of them seems to have April plant one of them in place. If it's attacked, it'll explode, though it appears to do no damage to the foe, so who knows what the move's actual purpose is at the moment.

Additionally, it's been confirmed that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will also be headed to PC via Steam, so PC players won't be left out on the fun!

What are your thoughts on the revealed characters? Write in your thoughts below!

Two new fighters for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will be revealed on August 26th!

Ludosity has posted a new trailer on their YouTube Channel, revealing that two new characters are going to be announced for the game at the Future Games Show Gamescom broadcast, which will take place later this week on 26th August.

Notably, Ludosity has deleted the trailer for unknown reasons, but one fan managed to snag it and re-upload it to their channel! (Thanks, ManMan!)

UPDATE: Ludosity has re-uploaded the official trailer to their YouTube, while ManMan privated his.

An official Twitter page was also created for the game, which revealed a new piece of artwork as its header image.

It's possible that the two characters may be from the accidental box art leak that happened during the game's initial reveal, but it could also be someone who isn't showing up on the box art. Regardless, who do you think it will be? Tell us your thoughts below!

Get ready to rumble in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl!

Announced a few weeks ago on July 13, 2021, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is an upcoming game that stars various Nicktoons fighting against one another, such as SpongeBob SquarePants from the series that has the same name, Lincoln Loud from The Loud House, Reptar from Rugrats, and Zim from Invader Zim!

From what was shown in the trailer, game play is pretty similar to the Super Smash Bros. series. You pick a character and try to KO your opponent by trying to fling them offstage. The higher their damage is, the farther they'll fly away.

The developers behind the game are Ludocity, who are well-known for making the Smash Bros.-like game, Slap City, so this game should be in some good hands.

Confirmed playable characters so far are as follows

From SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, and Sandy Cheeks.

From Rugrats: Reptar

From The Ren & Stimpy Show: Powdered Toast Man

From Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Oblina

From Hey Arnold!: Helga Pataki

From The Wild Thornberrys: Nigel Thornberry

From Invader ZiM: Zim (with GIR and Minimoose assisting him)

From Danny Phantom: Danny Fenton

From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo and Michelangelo

From The Loud House: Lincoln Loud and Lucy Loud

More characters will be revealed later. From a leaked boxart, it seems that Ren & Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show, Catdog from Catdog, Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Korra from The Legend of Korra will also join the battle.

One notable character that people are hoping for is Hugh Neutron from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, due to him gaining internet fame throughout the years. His voice actor, Mark DeCarlo, is also in support of Hugh getting into the game. as revealed in a tweet. (In fact, Hugh Neutron was even trending on Twitter following the game's announcement.)

I AM READY WILLING AND UBER-ABLE TO SMASH ANYONE THAT DARES CHALLENGE ME TO THIS... uh... video game-thingy duel!!! BRING IT ON... as long as pie is included. https://t.co/vvrCuAK9Af

— Mark DeCarlo (@markdecarlo) July 14, 2021

Though speaking of voice actors, Richard Horvitz, voice of Invader Zim, has revealed that no one from Ludocity has approached him - or any of the other voice actors for that matter - for recording. This suggests that the game won't have voice acting, similar to previous entries Nicktoons Kart Racing and Nicktoons Kart Racing 2: Grand Prix. There's a possibility this could be added in later, but one shouldn't hold their breath.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl will be released sometime in Fall 2021, and will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, XBox Series X/S, and XBox One. You can pre-order the game here.

Any character you're hoping will make it in? Write your thoughts down in the comments below! Personally, this writer is hoping that Dib Membrane from Invader Zim, Otis from Back at the Barnyard, and Snap from Chalkzone will make it in; as well Raphael, Donatello, and Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Perhaps even Garfield, Optimus Prime, and Megatron, since their series - Garfield for the former and Transformers for the latter two - are getting new shows on Nickelodeon.