[timeware]

I don't want to be pessimistic.

[WCat2000]

Maybe they expected it to be sooner. If not I have no idea why they did it so far in advance. They should have waited to announce it after FE released.

[mrmichaelt]

Are these coming in 2026 reels set in stone though? I feel like even late 2026 could still be possible.

[timeware]

It would be nice if we get it late this year. I have a feeling well get a preview on Ghostbusters day along with a new movie announcment instead though. Don't quote me but i'll believe it when I see it. waiting near a decade for a new cartoon, you can't call Ghostbusters fans impatient.

(I have no insider information on upcoming releases, this is just a guess on my part.)

[Kingpin]

I believe if it was something that was likely to appear in 2026, we would've seen some material of the new animated series by now...
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 may provide a decent example: because whilst there hasn't been a massive amount of material released for it (and it didn't appear in the 2026 reel), there's been a small collection of still images, behind-the-scenes concept art, and a brief trailer for the show that have appeared in Netflix's media accounts.

Conversely, we haven't even seen the concept artwork for this new series that was mentioned a little while back...
I'd like to be proven wrong, but with how slowly this series has been gestating, I just can't see it making the 2026 broadcast schedule... At this rate, I'd wager either 2027, or even 2028.

I honestly don't want to be so pessimistic so early into the year, guys...

[mrmichaelt]

Yeah, objectively, I could see them revealing more concept art or official design art on GB Day. Even then maybe not. Streamers like Netflix or Prime Video are used to being uber secretive and not showing their cards very often. So what seems like the slowest of drips, there's a lot of work going on that we're not privy, too, even for an animation project.

If they don't show any art at all on GB Day, I can sort of see why. Take Stranger Things '85. It was officially announced to be greenlit in April 2023. 2 years and 7 months later, the first teaser released in November 2025.

This series was officially announced to be greenlit in August 2024 (after at least 2 years of development for this iteration). So if this series is in the same pipeline and speed as ST '85, we may not see a first teaser until March 2027. So, the next big thing. Show more art. So Lower Expectations, but super cool if there's a teaser at GB Day but I'm only thinking more art designs.

But count on June to be good for us in terms of odds of seeing something because there's GB Day, Netflix usually does a first look at their upcoming stuff article, Annecy is in June. We might have a nibble in May from Licensing Expo. But I think June. Plus it marks a year since the showrunner mentioned the series is in full production mode. So if you're a Ghostbusters fan, you know what I'm about to say: more patience.

[timeware]

Patience is a virtue but never pay full price for late pizza. Lol. I'm kind of Irked that a ghostbusters related show called Haunted Hotel complete with Ghostbuster easter eggs got green lit and aired before Ghostbusters. Should they go with the Ducktales 2017 animation style that wouldn't be so bad.

[mrmichaelt]

How can the show be late if no date has been given yet?

Haunted Hotel probably got greenlit sooner because Rick & Morty is hot and anything linked to it (in this case Matt Roller and Dan Harmon) gets a quick thumbs up. But if this GB series is using CG or a mix of, its development and production was going to take longer than Haunted Hotel so... shrug.

[zeta otaku]

Animation takes a WHILE. 2D, 3D, it doesn't matter. If you want any kind of quality, you gotta take your time and who knows what kind of edits, retakes, realignments are coming down from on high. You rush things and just push out whatever, you get fiascos like the current season of One Punch Man.

That said, it would be nice to get SOME kind of update on this project... Maybe we'll hear something in June.

[Kingpin]

I appreciate animation takes time, and that we're usually looking at a two-year development window to get a show's first season from pre-production to the first episode airing... But this animated series was announced in 2022, and at the current rate likely won't be broadcast until roughly half a decade after that announcement, that doesn't seem normal based on the precedent set by other shows either nowadays, or 40 years ago.

In comparison, Voltron Legendary Defender, Stranger Things: Tales From '85 and The Real Ghostbusters either appeared on screens two years, or will appear on screens two years after they were first announced (Extreme Ghostbusters was revealed in early 1996, but likely had a year's production on top of that).

I don't know if it is a sign of a broader trend with any new Ghostbusters media, but Dark Horse's Ghostbusters: Back in Town also took two years to go from announcement at Ghostbusters Day to hitting comic stores, and I wonder if the more substantial delays are the result of the relationship between Ghost Corps and Sony, and that Sony takes its sweet time to green-light anything coming out of Ghost Corps.

[timeware]

The long production time is why some of us are getting nervous. Ghostcorps announced Ecto-Force and nothing came of it not even updates, or behind the scenes art. I think it was only a few years ago we got some concept art based on the 2016 cartoon announcement so yeah, I don't want to get my hopes up only to have the chain yanked away again. The cartoon comes out i'll be super stoked and happy, if not maybe we'll get an RGB reboot for its second 40 year anniversary.

[SpaceBallz]

The new animated series wasn't featured in any capacity in Netflix's trailer for 2026, strongly indicating the project won't be airing this year:

Not surprising, we haven't seen or heard anything about it lately and animated media takes a loooong time to make. If we see any stills or teases, rest assured it'll be 1-2 years from that date before it could be released.

[Light em Up]

Well, it's not the news I was hoping for. I'm starting to miss that momentum we had from 2021-2024. But I'm trying to lean toward optimism. If they need more time to get things right, then hopefully it will be worth the wait.

But if GB Day comes and goes with no updates, then I'll start to panic a bit, lol.

[Dr.D]

Not trying to speak out of turn...but I know the team behind the show is aware things have been moving slowly and I know for a fact they had made some personnel changes with some of the storyboard animators in an attempt to find people who can work at a slightly faster pace...

[camdudetenger2018]

i wonder what the cartoon will be about

[mrmichaelt]

Rumored to be set in the 1990s and tied to Peck's initial run for Mayor.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2026/03/06 ... nd-series/

[Light em Up]

Rumored to be set in the 1990s and tied to Peck's initial run for Mayor.
https://ghostbustersnews.com/2026/03/06 ... nd-series/

The 90s is cool. I'm relieved, because I was expecting something futuristic.

I'd love to see it cover the final days of the OG team, but I feel like it will be a new team. If so, that begs the question of why would the city need a new team if there were little to no ghosts? Perhaps they are what is tied to Peck's campaign. Maybe as part of his bid to get elected, he somehow fakes a supernatural threat, and hires some "fake" GB-types, but then a real threat emerges. Or, maybe it's someone who was told by Egon that their ghost problem didn't matter, and they have to deal with it themselves. Ernie did say recently that he was reprising his role as the owner of the GBs, so maybe this will be told in flashback Citizen Ghost-style.

It's likely none of these, lol. But speculation is part of the fun. I'm feeling better about this new series now.

[mrmichaelt]

The 90s is cool. I'm relieved, because I was expecting something futuristic.

Yeah, since we knew they tried a future show with Ecto Force, we figured that was going to be this show. Plus in 2022, I think Gil Kenan might have been misunderstood when he said, “Between gaming, comics, television, and movies, we are going to tell the untold history of Ghostbusters while reaching into the future with characters you haven’t met from places you haven’t gone.” Thinking "future" was this show but another quote of Gil's lines up, "We’re not done. We’re back in animated television! @SonyAnimation is teaming up with @Netflix to create the next generation of Ghostbusters. This series will navigate an unexplored era of the Ghostbusters Canon."

And in the YHS '24 interview, he did reply yes when asked if there were talks of filling in the gaps between 1989 and 2020 on some medium like movie, animation, or comics. During press he was also asked if bad, unethical GBs, he did laugh and reply "you never know."

I'd love to see it cover the final days of the OG team, but I feel like it will be a new team. If so, that begs the question of why would the city need a new team if there were little to no ghosts? Perhaps they are what is tied to Peck's campaign. Maybe as part of his bid to get elected, he somehow fakes a supernatural threat, and hires some "fake" GB-types, but then a real threat emerges. Or, maybe it's someone who was told by Egon that their ghost problem didn't matter, and they have to deal with it themselves. Ernie did say recently that he was reprising his role as the owner of the GBs, so maybe this will be told in flashback Citizen Ghost-style.

It's likely none of these, lol. But speculation is part of the fun. I'm feeling better about this new series now.

Very intriguing if it's about the last years of the original team. Peck getting into politics in the 90s was unexpected. Figured 00s.

[Light em Up]

Very intriguing if it's about the last years of the original team. Peck getting into politics in the 90s was unexpected. Figured 00s.

I'm glad they're including his first run for Mayor. It makes that turn in Frozen Empire seem less random now. Though, it does make me wonder when he actually became Mayor in this universe. I figured it was some time around the events of Back in Town, since we see a flyer for his campaign. But could that possibly have been a re-election campaign now?

The more I think about it, the show would almost have to take place before the original team officially shut down. Otherwise, it wouldn't really fit the narrative about there not be ghosts in 30 years. If it is does include the original crew, the question of Murray's participation arises. It's a given they will have to recast Egon, unless this takes place after he's already taken off to Summerville. But I'd like the show to flesh out the events that led up to that moment.

[WCat2000]

Love that it’s about filling in what happened before Afterlife but the concept art was said to show a new younger team. So maybe a group that’s involved in the overall plot that spans the entire show before/after they go out of business. Because obviously they didn’t keep ghostbusting professionally.

Ya I hope they elaborate on the Ray and Egon disagreement.

[mrmichaelt]

I'm glad they're including his first run for Mayor. It makes that turn in Frozen Empire seem less random now. Though, it does make me wonder when he actually became Mayor in this universe. I figured it was some time around the events of Back in Town, since we see a flyer for his campaign. But could that possibly have been a re-election campaign now?

The more I think about it, the show would almost have to take place before the original team officially shut down. Otherwise, it wouldn't really fit the narrative about there not be ghosts in 30 years. If it is does include the original crew, the question of Murray's participation arises. It's a given they will have to recast Egon, unless this takes place after he's already taken off to Summerville. But I'd like the show to flesh out the events that led up to that moment.

Either Peck failed in the 90s or he doesn't serve consecutive terms as mayor.

If they're going to use the original cast to voice their animated counterparts. They could always recast all or some roles. Aykroyd and Hudson seem game as they voiced Ray and Winston in the recent games. Considering the anecdotes from voice recording for Ghostbusters: The Video Game vs. the 2016 and era Murray showed up for all the movies, idk if they should ask Murray or recast. Or is Peter even going to be in it. For all we know, he could already be teaching upstate in the timeline of this show and it's Ray, Winston going out on calls while Egon obsesses on apocalypse myths - similar to an Extreme Ghostbusters scenario where Egon is based in the Firehouse researching a solve.

Love that it’s about filling in what happened before Afterlife but the concept art was said to show a new younger team. So maybe a group that’s involved in the overall plot that spans the entire show before/after they go out of business. Because obviously they didn’t keep ghostbusting professionally.

Ya I hope they elaborate on the Ray and Egon disagreement.

Or they could be (re)canonizing the hiring of rookies in the 90s to help with the workload. If Peter's gone already and Egon is going into the field less, Ray and Winston would need more help...

Agreed.

[WCat2000]

Love that it’s about filling in what happened before Afterlife but the concept art was said to show a new younger team. So maybe a group that’s involved in the overall plot that spans the entire show before/after they go out of business. Because obviously they didn’t keep ghostbusting professionally.

Ya I hope they elaborate on the Ray and Egon disagreement.

Or they could be (re)canonizing the hiring of rookies in the 90s to help with the workload. If Peter's gone already and Egon is going into the field less, Ray and Winston would need more help...

Agreed.

Ya that could work. Then they just got laid off once whatever is they stopped in this show and went back their normal lives.

[robbritton]

Have to say i feel much more confident about this premise than I was previously feeling. I've never seen the point in stuff set in the far future, as it's too removed from what makes good Ghostbusters great: funky analogue ingenuity taking on and beating the great unknown. The equipment needs to feel as anachronistic as the threats. Being set in the 90s gives it some grounding i was worried would be lost.

Now, please just let it be funny too...

[camdudetenger2018]

i can imagine if it was made like a 80s and 90s style cartoon

[Light em Up]

Does anyone know where this GBNews thumbnail comes from? I assume it's not the actual image shown at the Tudum event from last year. But I don't recognize the source of these character designs.

[Kingpin]

Enbiggen!



In answer to your question... No idea. It might've been a graphic Jason threw together based on the (then) latest info he'd heard about the project (The Proton Pack silhouettes on the three guys appear identical, so I'm inclined to say it's speculative, rather than actual concept art from the show's development).

[mrmichaelt]

I figured he took inspiration from the Stranger Things cartoon for those silhouettes.

[Chicken, He Clucked]

I thought the latest rumour from that Schneider guy was the cartoon was based on the four guys in the early 90’s?

I hope the art style is more Spiderverse than Stranger Things 85.

[Kingpin]

I hope the art style is more Spiderverse than Stranger Things 85.

What's wrong with the animation style of Tales from '85?
It's comparable to Spider-Verse's, but without the halftone patterning, intentional colour layer misalignment, and depth-of-field blurring at the edges of the screen.
Given what we've heard about the animation style of the Spider-Verse trilogy, having the animation style of Tales from '85 might actually be less time-consuming to render compared to the other.

That said, I'd be happy with either being employed on a new Ghostbusters animated series.

[mrmichaelt]

I thought the latest rumour from that Schneider guy was the cartoon was based on the four guys in the early 90’s?

I hope the art style is more Spiderverse than Stranger Things 85.

The confusion lies with one description from Annecy Festival in June 2025 of concept art showing, "four young protagonists (they were standing silhouetted with their backs facing towards the “camera” on a hill), with other snaps set indoors and outdoors in New York City, focusing on our heroes and monsters. One particular picture had one of the protagonists wading through a New York interior filled with boxes, with a proton pack on their back glowing. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is clearing the blueprint for the animation style, which makes sense given the studio" and hit-or-miss scooper Jeff Sneider saying this past March that the show set in the 1990s and is tied to Walter Peck's initial run for mayor. Sneider said nothing about the original Ghostbusters. John Rocha was confused the show was live action and asked if they're de-aging the original cast then Sneider reiterated it's animated. He didn't really confirm anything about the original Ghostbusters. So if those Ghostbusters seen in the concept art are just stylized 3D animation versions of the originals or new characters is unclear.