Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years is an upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off prequel series, introducing a 10-year-old SpongeBob at a summer sleepaway camp.

Premise
SpongeBob and friends spend the summer catching jellyfish, building camp-fires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at Kamp Koral, located in the Kelp Forest.

Production
The series is due to commence production in and it will be CG-animated. Ramsey Naito, Nickelodeon’s EVP Animation Production and Development, said: "SpongeBob has an incredible universe to expand upon and the greenlight for Kamp Koral is a testament to the strength and longevity of these characters known and loved by generations of fans around the world."

Of the Kamp Koral announcement, Paul Tibbitt (Stephen Hillenburg's successor as showrunner from ) said: "I do not mean any disrespect to my colleagues who are working on this show. They are good people and talented artists. But this is some greedy, lazy executive-ing right here, and they ALL know full well Steve would have HATED this. Shame on them."

On, Rob Renzetti (another former Nickelodeon employee, creator of My Life as a Teenage Robot) said that he disapproved of the spin-off idea. He also retweeted Tibbitt's statement.

In, storyboard artist Brian Morante said that he started storyboarding the pilot episode. On, it was confirmed by Vincent Waller that Andrew Goodman is writing an episode for the spin-off. In, it was announced that the series will have its UK debut in.

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