Orrin Scott: Archiving Animation with Home Media - Nickelodeon Physical Home Media Releases

This final entry of my Nicktoon home media analysis has been some work to get to. There have been a lot of Nicktoons in the last 30 years and quite a few series I, surprisingly, had no exposure to prior to researching it for this blog. As far as what I have learned from looking into all these series, a conclusion will have to wait; I plan to jump into Disney’s original television production output and follow that up with the impetus for this project, Cartoon Network, in the next few weeks. Prior to my beginning to look up all these Nicktoons and their availability, I was inclined to say Nickelodeon had done the best job of the three networks at ensuring their series were available for home viewing. At the very least, their early Nicktoons have been readily available. Now, however, I have no idea whether that is true or not and look forward to the number crunching that will come at the end of this project. For now, the most recent six Nicktoons…

The Adventures of Kid Danger (2018) was a one season spin off to the live-action Dana Schneider comedy, Henry Danger. It has not had any home media release

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Kid_Danger

The Adventures of Kid Danger Logo:

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Kid_Danger

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Turtles (2018) is the fourth animated series based on the comic book series of the same name and the second animated series on Nickelodeon. It is currently airing its second season. There have been two DVD episode compilations released for the series thus far; Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mutant Mania.

Episodes released:
Season 1 Episode 1 "Mystic Mayhem"
Season 1 Episode 2B "Donnie's Gifts"
Season 1 Episode 2A "Origami Tsunami"
Season 1 Episode 3A "War and Pizza"
Season 1 Episode 4A "Repo Mantis"
Season 1 Episode 5B "Mascot Melee"
Season 1 Episode 6A "Shell in a Cell"
Season 1 Episode 6B "Minotaur Maze".
Season 1 Episode 7 "Bug Busters"
Season 1 Episode 8B "Hypno! Part Deux"
Season 1 Episode 10A "Stuck on You"
Season 1 Episode 10B "Al Be Back".
Season 1 Episode 13 "The Evil League of Mutants"

Sources:

https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Rise_of_the_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(home_media_release)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles#Episodes

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Turtles Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Rise_of_the_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles

Middle School Moguls (2019) is a four episode miniseries. It has not seen a home media release.

Source:

https://nickelodeon.fandom.com/wiki/Middle_School_Moguls

Middle School Moguls Logo

https://nickelodeon.fandom.com/wiki/Middle_School_Moguls

The Casagrandes (2019) is a spin-off of The Loud House and is currently in its second season and earlier this year has been renewed for a third season There are no home media releases yet.

Sources:

https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-casagrandes-renewed-season-3-nickelodeon-1234583051/

The Casagrandes Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/The_Casagrandes

It’s Pony (2020) is currently airing its first season and this past July announced it has been renewed for its second season. As it is so new, no home media releases have been produced as of writing.

Sources:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nickelodeon-orders-season-2-pony-1302397

It’s Pony Logo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Pony#/media/File:It's_Pony_logo.png

Glitch Techs (2020) most recently debuted its second season. If there was any Nicktoon thus far that could highlight the slow change from cable distribution to internet distribution, besides the weird release history of The Legend of Korra and older Nicktoon reboots, it would be Glitch Techs. Both seasons have been released via Netflix, even though it has been produced in-house by Nickelodeon and bears the Nickelodeon logo on the title.