Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall Has Amazing News For Fans

It has been eleven years since we witnessed the dark misadventure of Greg and Wirt as they traversed the Unknown on Cartoon Network in the now beloved series Over the Garden Wall. While there have been various ancillary materials like comic book series that further explored the brothers’ journey, a sequel series was never announced to return to the spooky fall tale. Luckily, it’s clear that Warner Bros has not completely forgotten about the fan-favorite mini-series. Almost a decade since Over the Garden Wall aired on the cable network, the show is finally going to get something that countless fans have been dying to see.

In a new listing from retailer Barnes & Noble, Over the Garden Wall is listed to receive a Blu-Ray for the first time ever. Listed as releasing on April 7th of next year for $30.99 USD, there are no other details regarding the set, but this news on its face is something that fans have been waiting to see. While the Cartoon Network series is available to stream on Hulu, and has a DVD set that is currently available for purchase, many believed that it would never find its way to Blu-Ray. Luckily, much like Greg and Wirt making their way back home from the Beast’s clutches, it was only a matter of time.

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Even eleven years after the series debuted on Cartoon Network, fans have not forgotten about Over the Garden Wall. Most recently, fan animators created a special segment wherein the world of the Unknown was brought back to the forefront with a “ReAnimated” project. Even the retailer Mondo has revisited the series by creating a recent line of figures that depict the many wild animated characters introduced as a part of the fan-favorite animated series.

Last year, to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series, Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale helped to create a special stop-motion sequence that revisited the adventure. In speaking with outlet Entertainment Weekly, McHale further explained the creation of the series, “The show is about this place called The Unknown, and we were trying to make it feel like these lost artifacts of stories and people coming together. We were also trying to do that with music and hopefully introduce audiences, especially younger audiences, to music that maybe they hadn’t heard before. If they are introduced to it in the context of a funny cartoon, then they might absorb it better and recognize it as something nice to listen to, rather than, ‘Oh, that sounds old and weird.’”

Patrick was also happy to learn of how siblings appreciated the relationship between Wirt and Greg, “It’s nice hearing about siblings who had a similar dynamic and could really relate with those characters of Wirt and Greg. I’m an only child, so it came from a mix of observation and thinking about myself as a teen versus myself as a kid, but I was hoping that their dynamic would feel right.”

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