Nickelodeon's attempts at creating a Dora the Explorer movie are almost ready to be revealed.

While at the movie theater to watch The Lion King, I saw plenty of trailers for many upcoming movies. Including a live action version of the musical play known as Cats, a trailer for a LEGO Movie copycat called The Playmobil Movie, and a trailer for a movie that I mentioned, a movie that may bring Dora into obscurity and laughability. Dora and the Lost City of Gold.

The trailer featured a clip of a scene showed the classic Dora we all grew up with, where Dora and Diego are eating a meal and say 'Delicioso' and then Dora turns to the camera and asks the viewers, the young ones, specifically, if they can say that same word. The scene then turns what we have always known Dora for and makes a mockery of it and what the original show stood for, teaching the children Spanish, when Dora's father then says the following "She'll grow out of it". And to top it off, the trailers we have seen of the film so far, including this one, feature many things that could be considered against the source material, including a CGI Boots who is missing his trademark red boots, no doubt, Diego being a lot taller than we remember from our childhood, Dora's backpack not being able to talk, and Dora's backpack carrying things that we know Dora NEVER carried in the show, and her mother and father being explorers themselves, when it was only Dora's mom and grandma who had the job of explorer before Dora.

Could this really be what Nickelodeon wants to do with a franchise they've been airing on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr so they could try to make it appeal to modern children? And to further rub salt into the wound, Nickelodeon aired what I consider the final true incarnation of Dora, an animated special and the final episode of the eighth season and the final episode overall, if this film falls as I fear it will, called Dora Saves Fairytale Land, and it features the final time, at least until the movie, that we see Dora as a young girl.

First we learn Nickelodeon is planning on going against the wishes of the dearly departed creator of SpongeBob SquarePants by creating a spin-off that explains how everything got started, and now this. Nickelodeon must be abusive to its staff, like I have heard rumors of, and waited until all this time, when a new generation of kids have started walking the streets, to put their schemes into play. If this keeps up, we may have to start pressuring Nick to either shape up, or close up.