The Adventure Time Blog

Can you make it through FOUR HOURS of Adventure Time? I mean, four hours IN A ROW?? The fun starts tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. on Cartoon Network.

Thanks to More Panda Power who submitted the above shot to the Adventure Time Tumblr and wrote, “My friend (as LSP) and I (as Finn) arm wrestling at Anime Expo 2010!”

– Eric

Cheesed off ’cause you missed your chance to buy the Hot Topic Adventure Time T-shirt (now SOLD OUT)? Well, don’t hesitate, go to Cartoon Network’s online store now and buy this piece of slick new official merchandise. (Thanks to Uncle Phil Rynda for the tip.)

And man, if you send us a picture of you wearing this or the Hot Topic shirt for our blog, you will be a true hero among heroes.

– Eric

I just got these awesome photos along with this note from Adventure Time p.a. Patrick Seery:

My wife has just discovered needle felting about a month ago and she decided to make a few things for me. Her first creation was a mushroom from the Mario Bros and it turned out pretty well, so she decided to see if she could do some characters from Adventure Time.

So attached are her creations of Finn, Jake, LSP, and Marceline. Unfortunately the only color purple they had for LSP was this grape color, so she’s a bit dark. She’s currently working on Ice King and Princess Bubblegum. I told her I would buy all the wool she needed if she wanted to try and make Lady Rainicorn.

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So if you haven’t yet gotten your Adventure Time T-shirt from Hot Topic, you lose. Thanks to Gronti, we’ve learned the item - so far the only piece of officially licensed merchandise from the series - is SOLD OUT. You snooze, you lose (yeah, I snoozed, I lost, too). The good news? Maybe this success will propel more merchandise to hit the stores sooner rather than later.

– Eric

From “Dungeon.” Phil Rynda is the show’s lead character designer. Nick Jennings is the art director, and Pat McHale is the creative director. On “Dungeon,” Tom Herpich and Natasha Allegri were the character designers, and Mike Collins and Alex Campos handled clean-up. Ron Russell and Simon Simmonds were the color stylists.

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Title card art credit goes to Phil Rynda for designing the rough version, Paul Linsley for painting, and art director Nick Jennings giving the card his final pass. “Dungeon” premieres tonight on Cartoon Network.

– Eric

Background from the Emmy-nominated “My Two Favorite People”

Well, we’re all stoked this morning as news arrives Adventure Time is nominated for a Primetime Emmy in the category of Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. (The honored episode may be my favorite so far, too: “My Two Favorite People.”) So a big pat on the back goes out to Pen and his cast and crew. The award ceremony will be on August 29, 2010. Here’s the competition:

Chowder • “The Toots”
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil • “Racing The Schoolbus”
The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack • “Tee Hee Tummy Tums”
Robot Chicken • “Full-Assed Christmas Special”
“Uncle Grandpa”

Get a load of these Emmy-nominated cartoon creators, Pendleton Ward with Flapjack’s Thurop Van Orman and Chowder’s C.H. Greenblatt, from last years’s Comic-Con. (Thurop and Carl, I hope you guys tie for second.)

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Princess Bubblegum Casual by Pendleton Ward

Here’s a note from Pen: “I’m going to stream live on www.stickam.com/buenothebear on Monday at 8PM PST - drawing requests for anyone who shows up in the chat room. I’m doing this to make up for the re-run of Adventure Time that’s airing on Monday.”

That’s tonight, July 5, at 8:00 p.m., west coast time.

– Eric