The Nicktoons Film Festival was an indie animated anthology series that aired on Nickelodeon’s Nicktoons Network from 2004 to 2009, and was a landmark in animation. It featured people who fans were all familiar with, such as Eric Fogel of Celebrity Deathmatch, J. G. Quintel of Regular Show, John R. Dilworth of Courage the Cowardly Dog, Alex Hirsch of Gravity Falls, and more; and all of whom entered to win a $10,000 prize. The show was made in collaboration with Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon, with Animation Magazine only having involvement with the first season in 2004.

The whole run of the show needs to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray from Paramount Home Entertainment, who actually released the Animation Show by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt on DVD through MTV in the 2000s. Every disc should contain every screening episode of the series, all of which contained various independent animations from different artists, complete with every intro, bumpers, and end credits for each screening of each season, even after 2004, as from 2005 to 2009, it was met with new names, such as the Nextoons Nicktoons Film Festival (2005), Nicktoons Network Animation Festival (2006-2008), and Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009.

People who grew up watching the Nicktoons Film Festival need the chance to finally relive the show they haven’t seen in a long time, and those who never watched the Nicktoons Film Festival at all, need the chance to finally see what it’s all about. 

Nickelodeon may have lost acknowledgment of the show since 2009, but fans wanna see it again. It would really help to even ask the short films’ rightful owners to give Paramount and Frederator permission to release their short films in a whole box set on DVD and Blu-Ray. And yes, the home media release can have special features. No more will fans miss out. Fans were upset that the show was taken off the air; which is why it would help to at least release it on DVD and Blu-Ray, and maybe even Paramount+ if necessary.