The Annecy Animation Festival g??ives animators a stage to showcase their latest projects. There have already been many great reveals this year,? but Cartoon Network has made one of the strongest showings by unveiling a series of upcoming spin-offs/revivals of some of the best shows the channel has ever aired.

All of Cartoon Network's announcements are blasts from the past

Warner Bros. Discovery has been vocal about its plans to pour most of its resources i??nto its pre-existing IPs. While I'm a little frustrated to see yet another company take the safe ??route and fall back on its established brands rather than try something new, I’d be lying if I told you that I'm not excited by all of the projects the company announced at Annecy.

I grew up watching Cartoon Network and its retro-themed sister channel, Boomerang, with my sister and parents. All of the reboots and spin-offs unveiled during Warner Bros. Discovery's showcases are continuations of shows that still hold a special place in my heart as an adult. I was even happier to hear that the show's original creators are in charge of these new projects.

Here are all the new Cartoon Network shows announced at Ann??ecy. Information about these upcoming series is still tricklin??g in, so some of the details I discuss here may change as the shows inch closer to their premieres.

Foster's Funtime for Imaginary Friends

Foster's Funtime for Imaginary Friends is a spin-off of Craig McCracken Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends that aims?? to appeal to pre-schoolers. Bloo, the original series' feckless protagonist, will be educati??ng a group of young imaginary friends, and as fans of the OG can imagine, chaos and hijinks ensue.

According to Variety, McCracken has promised that Funhouse will be as fast-paced as Home but will drop the cynical humor that cr?ept into the show's later seasons. As someone who watched the original show become more mean-spirited as it went on, I can't help but agree with that decision.

Adventure Time: Side Quests

Adventure Time: Side Quest is the latest spin-off of Pendelton Ward's comedy-fantasy epic Adventure Time. Nate Cash, who joined Adventure Time's production team as a creative director before being promoted to supervising director, will oversee Side Quests.

Unlike the more adult-leaning Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake spin-off and the serialized final seasons of Adventure Time, Side Quests sounds like it will return the franchise to its episodic roots, with Finn and Jake embarking on new, self-contained adventures every week. Familiar faces like the Ice King will return, apparently scrubbed of the character development they underwent in the original Adventure Time series.

Unnamed Regular Show Project

J.G. Quintel announced a continuation of the hit surreal comedy Regular Show. Festivalgoers reacted to this announcement with open applause, all of whom seemed happy to learn that Quintel had bounced back after the unexpected cancellation of his last show, Close Enough.

We don't know much about this new project, but since Quintel himself voices Mordecai, I'm willing to bet that ?our favorite slackers will show up somehow.

The clip show was a show-stopper

Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studio, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe also unveiled a clip show comprised of scenes from several in-production animated projects during Ann??ecy. All of these clips were of shows that had already been announced, but they confirmed that the shows are further along the production process, giving us some idea of when they'll be released.

Here are all of the shows that popped up during the ??clip ??show.

• Teen Titans Go
• Gremlins: the Wild Bunch
• Invincible Fight Girl
• Bat-Family
• The Amazing World of Gumball
• Watchman
• Batman: Caped Crusader
• Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The greenlight district looked pretty good, too

Other animated projects were unveiled, with the majority again being vetera?n Cartoon Network IPs continuations. However, a handful were entirely new series, all of which have the potential to become long-running series.

Here are all the new ??shows that got the green light during Annecy.

• Go Go Mystery Machine
• Adventure Time: Heyo BMO
• Throws a Wobbler
• The Adventure Time Movie
• Bad Karma
• Lovey Dovey

Looking at this slate, I'm excited about Cartoon Network's future. If these shows do well, Warner Bro. Discovery may be willing to give new, more experimental?? shows the go-ahead.

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It's Heaven or Hell, Boo Boo

Guilty Gear is a fighting game series where witches with electric guitars can fight against the U.S. Secretary of Defense, wielding an entombed cryptid. But a new ??custom sound pack adds a little extra oddity to the party: the silly, emphatic noises of Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Twitter user "MeowzyKat" has created content for other Arc Systems Works games in the past, like trans flag-colored palettes for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's roster of fighters. With the Hanna-Barbera mod, though, MeowzyKat transforms Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R into a Saturday morning cartoon slap-fest.

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According to MeowzyKat, it took weeks of work and hundreds of sound files to make happen. But as you can see, the results speak for themselves: it's fanta??stic.

Once I saw Sol Badguy lean into his run and heard the Scooby-Doo running noise, the two became inextricably linked in my brain. The sound of pots and pans clanging into one another, spring noises and general cartoon chaos filling the heavy metal-infused world of Guilty Gear works so, so well.

Accent Core Plus R saw a revival of sorts when Arc System Works added rollback netcode to its PC version, making it much easier for players to find matches without worrying as much about geographical distance. And the other plus-side of the PC version, aside from being able to back-add rollback, is modd?ing in cartoon noises.

You can grab the sound pack and add them yourself through MeowzyKat's Twitter. Once you do, it's as simple as placing the files in the sound effects folder and bam, you've got your very own Hanna-Barbera fighting game. Well, kind of. It at least makes me fondly reminisce about eating cereal and watching Wacky Races.

If you're more into the modern Guilty Gear entries, Arc System Works recently announced Jack-O' is coming to Guilty Gear Strive this month. Surely you'd think her minions would work well with the Hanna-Barbera nois?es too, right?

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