We don’t know how this got past us, but if we saw the W!LDBRAIN panel on the schedule for the New York Comic Con, we would have most definitely put it on our top five things to do at the convention. Instead, we were pleasantly surprised to see the write-up of the panel this morning on Toon Zone.
The panel discussion was dominated by announcements on the Emmy award-winning, TIME Magazine Top 10 show (and MDIAG! fav), Yo Gabba Gabba . Here are the highlights:
- New episodes of Season 2 will debut in April. Finally!
- Expect more YGG toys this year as part of a “toy aisle blitz”. We are surprised by this news – if the amount of YGG toys sitting on clearance aisles at Target is any indication, we would have assumed they weren’t selling as well as they should. Couple that with the amount of YGG merchandise produced for the holidays and its scarce availability at retailers (read: department and chain store buyers aren’t buying, sending merchandise to secondary sellers on Amazon Marketplace and eBay), and we would have expected the opposite.
- W!LDBRAIN hope to have a comic book deal in place by this year’s San Diego Comic Con, and are developing an online “comic-maker application”. More laptop fun with the kiddies!
- Two more DVD releases are slated for 2009, and they are entertaining the possibility of releasing an official soundtrack to retailers, instead of just to iTunes (and now Amazon). Nonetheless, they say sales of YGG music and episodes on iTunes have been popular.
- YGG will get its own YouTube channel for behind-the-scenes videos.
And the biggest news thus far, work has begun on a Yo Gabba Gabba feature-length film! No specifics other than it will be a 90-minute narrative including all the favorite characters in Gabbaland, and they are aiming to have a line-up of celebrity cameos just like the TV show.
Source: NYCC2009: W!LDBRAIN on “Team Smithereen” and “Yo Gabba Gabba!”