G:KND-- ANIMATED!!!

Somewhere out there is a Codename: Kids Next Door sooper-mega-ultra-fan who's making awesome use of their time.
How,  you may ask?
By actually  ANIMATING the  Galactic: Kids Next Door animatic!
And it's one hundred and sixteen kinds of AWESOME
Check it:

I especially love the message at the end:

Way to go, Rat Animation!

You've earned a killer promotion in the KND!

Please report to Moonbase for your celebratory ice cream party!

And in case you've lived under a big, dumb and

 very quiet rock that doesn't have an internet connection,

the original 

g:KND animatic is over

HERE!

G:KND-- ONE YEAR LATER

It was one year ago today

that we launched the 

grand experiment that was the

Galactic: Kids Next Door.

We wrote a story.

We drew a storyboard

(well, guy moore did)

Recorded voices

(well, david guerrero and the voice actors did)

An animatic

(well, Dave Courter did)

Made new music and SFX

(steve rucker and lou esposito did it)

Built a website.

(rob eberhardt did that)

We got hacked.

And then made ANOTHER animatic.

And all the while the G:KND hype train 

ran rampant, threatening to crush us all in its wake.

Man, that was 

FUN!

Unfortunately, 

Cartoon Network 

wasn't interested.

Which is a shame.

Because there are lots of stories to tell

in the G:KND universe.

And since it's been so long,

I thought I'd let slip a bit more of that universe.

Or at least one of my favorite characters.

Meet Numbuh 9L.

one of Numbuh One's 

teammates in the G:KND.

She becomes very protective of Numbuh One

as her planet was destroyed by the 

G:KND after it was completely overrun by adulthood.

She's huge.

She has two tails.

And a lot of cool weapons.

And that's all I'm sayin'.

So let the fan art begin!

And if by some chance you're new to what happened,

you can read about it 

HERE!

And thanks to everyone that's 

STILL

signing the 

GREEN LIGHT GALACTIC: KIDS NEXT DOOR SERIES petition

that Trevor Isaacs started last year.

I don't know if it means anything to Cartoon Network.

But 70.5 THOUSAND 

signatures is pretty awesome.

THE G:KND EXPERIMENT (part 9)

So...

Midnight was fast approaching.

Soon it would be April 1st 

and the

Galactic: Kids Next Door

hype train would

roll into the station!

Billions of operatives wondered if tonight

would be the announcement of a new era of

Codename: Kids Next Door!

But it wasn't.

And I knew that.

But you guys didn't.

And that killed me.

I would have liked nothing better 

than to tell you g:KND was happening.

But it wasn't.

So I could only hope that this video

would build enough hype 

to get Cartoon Network interested.

And there we were!

Mr. Moore and Mr. Courter 

busted their butts to 

finish the new animatic and were 

able to get it to

website overlord

Rob Eberhardt 

on the morning of the 31st.

And now he 

sat ready to hand upload the 

NEW

video at

JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT!

Because,

jeez man,

we weren't about to let this one

get hacked, too!

Seriously.

As midnight ticked closer,

we watched the visitors at

www.rainbowmonkeys.com

pile up.

It was only then that we realized we

hadn't really thought about

TIME ZONES!

The East Coast was gonna see the video a good

three hours before the West Coast!!!

And they would invariably 

spoil it

 and 

post it 

via social media.

Which kinda stunk.

We were also fairly certain it

would inflame the age old

East Coast vs West Coast

rapper rivalry.

But at this point there was nothing for it.

We were lucky to even have something new to show.

Ugh.

Tick...

Tock...

The visitors continued to line up!

It went higher and higher

until:

BOOM!

So what happened then? That's a story for next week!
...
...
...

KIDDING!

Let's FINISH this story! 

But to be honest,

there's not much to talk about.

Well, other than this:

Without the announcement of a series there were 

a lot of emotions zinging around:

Sadness

Disappointment

Anger

Shock

Confusion

Denial

There were 

Tears

Screams

Head shakes

Laughs

Threats

Squeeeeeeee's

GG's

Flipping over of tables

And assorted bad words hurled in my direction.

Numbuh Four's epilogue at the end

drove a nail in the coffin of any operative who thought 

there was officially a

Galactic: Kids Next Door

series in the works.

But at least there was some closure to the

weeks of rumours that had been swirling about.

I remained silent for a bit,

just watching the aftermath of our

grand experiment.

But eventually I had to say something.

I couldn't deny involvement any longer.

It wasn't fair to you guys.

Besides, we had to let people 

EVERYONE 

know about the g:KND!

Not just the faithful!

And I loved how 

operatives world-wide rose to the challenge!

You really got the word out!

ESPECIALLY

Trevor Isaacs,

who put together the

petition at 

Change.org!

A root beer float commendation 

certainly awaits you on Moonbase Zero!

Over 28,000 signatures as of right now!

For that I salute each and every one of you!

Just reading the comments

is enough to make me grin like a big dope!

And 

YES!

Some folks at 

Cartoon Network DID take notice.

(with a couple helpful hints dropped by me)

And we talked a bit.

And there was some chatter about bringing up 

g:KND in some meetings.

I mean, there are definitely some pro-KND operatives 

still at CN!

But after a long wait,

I received this:

Sorry to say that sadly, 

there isn’t interest in 

doing more KND 

at the moment.

... sigh ...

...

...

...

I knew it was a long shot,

but I still can't help but be disappointed.

But I still think it'll happen one day.

Missions alter.

Tastes change.

Regimes switch.

So g:KND can wait.

Good things always do.

Anyway...

thanks for taking this ride with me

and all the operatives who made it happen.

If anything, it proved that there are a

ton of KND operatives ready to mobilize at a moments notice.

And one day we'll take over the world.

THE G:KND experiment (part 8)

Madness.

That's the best way to describe what was going on.

The leaked Galactic: Kids Next Door video 

was racking up views on youtube 

(reaching over 350k!!!)

and getting linked to from tons of 

websites, forums and message boards.

Even a Kanye West message board.

(I mean... the connection is obvious, right?)

All of social media
was ablaze
with KND operatives
awakening from decommissioning:

Questions machine gunned in every direction:

Was it a fan video?

Were those the original voice actors?

Was it guerrilla marketing by Cartoon Network?

Was Mr. Warburton involved?

Is this an official announcement of a new series?

When is it starting?

Can I get fries with that?

Some

creative

souls even

took it upon themselves to

post straight up nonsense

about being artists already 

working on the new KND series at Cartoon Network.

Or starting Tumblrs 

spreading false information.

Or that they heard directly from 

Mr. Warburton that the show was

happening.

None of which was true.

(Tsk Tsk)

But the positive response was overwhelming.

There were

THOUSANDS

of comments/notes/videos/messages/and posts

screaming

begging

crying

fist-pumping

dancing

and

jumping up and down on the bed

over a possible 

KND reboot.

Me?

I was still keeping my mouth 

shut about who made the trailer.

And now I had to figure out what to do

without a video to show at the end of our

mysterious alien countdown!

Everyone was expecting a 

HUGE 

announcement!

So after talking it over with Numbuh D20,

we decided to do another animatic

to kind of sort of explain what happened.

BUT THE CLOCK WAS TICKING!

We had less than 10 days!

So I wrote a script on the Friday after the leak.

As usual,

Guy Moore strapped on his

 helmet and waded right in,

storyboard guns

BLAZING:

Meanwhile,

I got on the horn to 

Lauren Tom

(aka Number Three)

Dee Bradley Baker

(aka Numbuh Four)

Dave Wittenberg

(aka Numbuh 74.239)

And

Grey DeLisle Griffin

(aka Numbuh Vine)

and

**SPOILER ALERT**

Lizzie!

We recorded on a Sunday

by the grace of David Guerrero at LA Studios:

And still the hours ticked away!

Once Guy was done with his storyboard panels,

he dumped them over to sooper editor

Dave Courter,

who had to also serve as sound 

effects and music editing guy.

And just one day before the countdown was gonna end...

we got it done.

Holy crap

that was close.

Then

April 1st

came.

But more on that later.

THE G:KND EXPERIMENT (part 7)

The countdown on the secret 

g:KND log-in site

rolled closer and closer to April 1st.

The plan was that after the countdown ended,

our Galactic: Kids Next Door teaser

would run for all to see.

But as the KND often say,

"JEEZ, THAT PLAN DIDN'T WORK!"

Because ten days before the big day

www.rainbowmonkeys.com

got

HACKED!

I was having pizza with my son's 

soccer team that night.

I was on my phone, casually flipping through the usual

top secret Facebook messages from KND operatives,

when I saw one that essentially said,

OMG LOL DUDE NO WAY

JUST SAW THE GALACTIC KIDS NEXT DOOR VIDEO

K THX CYA BYE

Then my phone's battery died.

GAH!

What did that mean?!

What video?!

I was in a total panic and had

no way of finding out what was

happening!

When I finally got home hours later,

I dove onto the computer

and watched the madness unfolding.

There,

on youtube,

was our sooper secret video

under the title

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCED

And it was already approaching

100,000 views!

So I got on the horn:

After a bit of research,

we discovered that someone

had done a little digging

and found the video just sitting in our website's directory.

And then decided to put it up on youtube.

Granted, 

we hadn't thought anything 

like this would happen so we didn't 

take the appropriate precautions. 

So it wasn't very hard to get into the website.

And now operatives
EVERYWHERE

were losing their minds!

Facebook.

Twitter.

Reddit.

and especially Tumblr.

They were exploding

with

cheers

theories

 speculation

and

even fan art!

I sat up for

HOURS

monitoring the 

insanity.

Was I mad about the leak?

Hells no!

A hacker breaking in was

 so 

perfectly

KIDS NEXT DOOR!

We couldn't have

written a better script!

But there was just one problem:

The countdown was supposed to be the launch of the teaser.

Now everyone thought it was leading up to an 

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 

of a 

Galactic: Kids Next Door 

series.

Which it wasn't.

...

So what to do?

We couldn't have

NOTHING

when the countdown ended!

So I did what any 

resourceful 

KND operative would do.

I wrote a script.

THE G:KND EXPERIMENT (part 6)

The mysterious Numbuh Vine

showed up on Facebook sometime in 

March 2015.

He/She/It 

had no friends.

But the creature lurked around

KND fan pages and dropped

little hints of what was to come.

A picture here:

A code there:

The alien was generally ignored until

this was posted:

See that tiny URL

in the top left corner?

That got people talking.

And it answered a question 

we had been asking ourselves:

IF WE BUILD IT...

WILL THEY COME?

We knew KND operatives were smart.

We knew they were resourceful.

Drop a bread crumb 

and they'd follow the trail.

Give them a code and they'll crack it!

Operatives quickly figured out that the countdown

was leading to 

April 1st.

And some took that date to be a sign.

Was this an elaborate 

April Fools joke?

Numbuh Vine remained eerily silent,

only occasionally dropping new cryptic hints.

The countdown continued.

Operatives

begged

cajoled

demanded

cursed

(tsk tsk)

and

cried to

Numbuh Vine

for answers.

And then,

with ten days to go...

Everything changed.

...

But we'll talk about that next week.

THE G:KND EXPERIMENT (part 5)

THE STORY CONTINUES!

So we had our 

Galactic: Kids Next Door 

teaser/trailer/pitch video all done!

Now we needed a website to launch it on.

So I brought in some old school web building talent,

a sooper pal who I knew before 

Codename: Kids Next Door

was even a twinkle in my iced coffee:

Mr. Rob "Bear" Eberhardt.

Mens Corporation File Photo circa 1995

He's the guy that taught me about 

computers and stuff in the first place.

And I think he might have also invented the internets, too.

Or maybe he just showed me where the internets is.

I can't remember.

Regardless... 

he was definitely the right guy for this project.

We decided that if the g:KND

were going to have a secret portal website on Earth,

they'd put it where no one would expect it.

Somewhere sooper round and oh so chunky!

And can you believe that no one

had registered:

RAINBOWMONKEYS.COM

I mean,

REALLY?!

So we registered the heck out of that

and started sending ideas back and forth:

We talked about what the g:KND log-in would look like...

and that's where we started needing mr. moore's

lettering and numbering system!

I built most of the graphics in photoshop

and Rob added awesome animation, 

sound FX and much more to make it rock.

I spent a lot of time writing up the tags and responses for 

all the different log-ins.

Which was sooper fun.

The big idea was that if you typed in the word

GALACTIC

then it would take you to a 

"hacked"

section taken over by anti-g:KND operatives.

There'd be some mysterious alien type

and what looked like a countdown.

And we wanted everyone out there to ask.

WHAT IS IT COUNTING DOWN TO?!

Remember...

this website was just going to pop up

with no explanation.

There was no way for anyone to know that it was 

made to launch a sooper secret show pitch.

We wanted to start a conversation.

We wanted people to ask questions.

We wanted 

HYPE!

But how do you get people to come to a website

without telling them directly?

I'll tell you about that next time.

Right now ima get 

some lunch.