Crash Bandicoot Set to Return — as a Netflix Animated Series

Crash Bandicoot looks acceptable for a instrumentality successful animation signifier with a caller bid connected Netflix.

What’s connected Netflix reported that the animation workplace down Sonic Prime, WildBrain Studios, is making the Crash Bandicoot adaptation for the streamer. WildBrain Studios has worked connected plentifulness of animations for Netflix, including Carmen Sandiego, Malory Towers, and the aforementioned Sonic Prime. As What’s connected Netflix points out, this is the archetypal clip Crash Bandicoot volition beforehand his ain series. There is nary merchandise model nor crippled details for the Crash Bandicoot animated bid yet.

As for the Crash Bandicoot video crippled series, it’s been quiescent for immoderate years now. After 2018’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy came out, Activision released Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled successful 2019, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time successful 2020, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! successful 2021, and, astir recently, Crash Team Rumble successful 2023. Support for the second ended little than a twelvemonth aft launch.

Is determination a caller Crash Bandicoot video crippled successful the works? Last year, it was reported that Microsoft, which brought Crash Bandicoot nether its umbrella aft shelling retired $69 cardinal for Activision Blizzard, had reached an statement with erstwhile Crash Bandicoot developer Toys for Bob for the studio’s adjacent game.

In February 2024, Toys for Bob announced plans to rotation disconnected from Microsoft-owned Activision to go an indie developer. Toys for Bob is the developer down Skylanders, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Crash Bandicoot games, but successful much caller years had go a Call of Duty enactment studio.

At the time, Toys for Bob said it was exploring "a imaginable concern betwixt our caller workplace and Microsoft,” adding some Microsoft and Activision were "extremely supportive" of its caller direction. While Toys for Bob's archetypal task arsenic an indie workplace is seemingly "in the aboriginal days," fans speculated it could beryllium a revival of Crash, Spyro, oregon different IP Toys for Bob has go known and beloved for.

As for Netflix, continuing to put successful video crippled adaptations comes arsenic nary astonishment fixed the occurrence it’s seen doing truthful already. It has animations for everything from Splinter Cell to Tomb Raider, Castlevania to Cyberpunk. And of people it enjoyed captious acclaim from the League of Legends animated adaptation, Arcane. It’s present moving connected adapting committee games, with Catan, Clue!, and Monopoly shows successful the works.

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