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Avatar Aang junior novelization hits shelves

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Random House Books for Young Readers released Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: The Junior Novelization on October 13. David Lewman's 144-page paperback retells the film for readers around 6 to 9, costs $7.99 and includes an eight-page color insert.

It is the first prose version of the movie in regular stores. Abrams' longer novelization by Allison King and Ramin Zahed's The Art of the Movie are both due November 10, although Abrams sold early copies of each at New York Comic Con the week before.

The book joins Meet Team Avatar, a Step into Reading leveled reader tied to the film that Random House released on September 1.

Seven Havens creators say they love Korra and call out the hate she gets

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens opens in a world that blames Korra for the Cataclysm. In the haven of Ellora, people celebrate her downfall and street performers mock her. Some fans read that as a sign her creators had turned on her. The creators say the opposite.

In a fan-question video for Teen Vogue's TikTok, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino laughed off the idea that the show is a veiled attack on Korra and told doubters to keep watching. Konietzko said they both love the character and that he is proud of The Legend of Korra. DiMartino called her one of his favorite characters.

Konietzko said people are free to dislike that series, but that much of the hostility toward Korra comes from misogyny and homophobia. Polygon reports he also pushed back on the old complaint that Korra lost her connection to the past Avatars: "Her uncle did that to her." DiMartino added that there is more to Korra's story than the first episodes show.

The two also explained the twins. Neither Aang nor Korra had siblings, and they wanted to tell a story about sisters finding each other. It wasn't their first idea, but it came early in development. Asked whether one twin is a "Dark Avatar," they wouldn't say.

Episodes 4 to 6 arrive on Paramount+ on October 16.

Korra's voice actor Janet Varney says the Seven Havens premiere left her in tears

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Janet Varney, who voiced Korra for four seasons, says she cried through the first episode of Avatar: Seven Havens.

"I sobbed through this pilot episode. I was shattered," she said on Avatar: Braving the Elements, the official podcast she hosts with Dante Basco. In the premiere, the people of Ellora remember Korra as the Avatar who caused the Cataclysm and celebrate her downfall.

Varney said her first worry was for the fans who love Korra and have defended her for years. After she had time to grieve, she went back and watched the episode again with fresh eyes. The hardest part, she said, was hearing children talk about Korra as if she were a monster. She isn't Korra, she added, but she knows what the character means to people.

She asked fans to keep the faith, since nobody knows yet where the story is going. Forbes' Paul Tassi made a similar case, arguing that the show is setting up Korra's reputation as a mystery to solve, not rejecting her.

Korra's creators have said much the same. Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino told Teen Vogue that they love the character and that there is more to her story than the first episodes show.

Iroh's voice actor Greg Baldwin hits back at attacks on Seven Havens' gay and disabled characters

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens has drawn a small but loud online backlash over two of its characters. Pavi, the new Avatar, is an amputee. Jae, the airbending guard who takes her under his wing, has a boyfriend named Datu. One post on X listed both and complained that Avatar is supposed to be a kids' show.

Greg Baldwin answered on October 12. Baldwin took over as Uncle Iroh after Mako's death and voiced him through The Legend of Korra. Introducing himself as the second voice of Uncle Iroh, he wrote: "So sorry LGBTQ and disabled people exist." When another user replied with an anti-gay slur, Baldwin posted an image of Iroh giving the middle finger. Topher Ngo, who voices Datu, thanked him.

Kotaku reports that most fans have welcomed the couple. In the premiere Datu runs to hug Jae, and Jae kisses him on the cheek in Chapter 3, "The Order."

Major Curda, who voices Jae, talked about the pair at New York Comic Con on October 9. He told The Hollywood Reporter that the representation excites him because the show doesn't make a big deal of it, and called Jae and Datu an example of love is love.

Work on Seven Havens Books 3 and 4 is already underway

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount+ announced Books 3 and 4 of Avatar: Seven Havens only on October 9, but production has already started, ComicBook.com reported on October 13. Executive producer Sehaj Sethi told the site that Saheli Khan and Aishu Devan, who voice the twin Avatars Pavi and Nisha, "already kind of know a bunch of what's going to happen."

The show has been part of both actors' lives for years. It was in development for about three years before the premiere, and Khan and Devan were 10 and 11 when they started. They have recorded in the same room only once. Khan joked that it never happened again because they talked the whole time.

Both described keeping the twin-Avatar twist secret until the premiere as torture.

Book One continues on Paramount+ with Chapters 4 to 6 on October 16, 7 to 9 on October 23 and the last four on October 30. Book Two, also 13 episodes, has no release date.

Seven Havens began as a 2008 idea, and Geet and Ruhi are Konietzko's cats

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens is an older idea than it looks. Bryan Konietzko told BuzzFeed at New York Comic Con that he and Michael Dante DiMartino first thought of it in 2008, right after the original series ended. "It wasn't the right story to tell when we got to make Korra," he said. They picked it back up at Avatar Studios in 2021. DiMartino said it started as a question about what a post-apocalyptic Avatar world would look like and grew into a story about two Avatars.

Konietzko's favorite part of the show is its cat-monkeys. Geet and Ruhi are based on his own cats. He helped design them and credited the French animation studio La Chouette with bringing them to life. Dee Bradley Baker voices both.

The rest of the team named their own favorites. DiMartino picked the sisters' relationship, which he called heartbreaking. Executive producer Ethan Spaulding picked Pavi, and Sehaj Sethi said she is proud of Jae and of what the writers put him through. Spaulding added that every haven needed its own culture and mindset, a big job given how long the team spent on Ellora alone.

Major Curda said he spotted bits of Sokka, Katara, Bolin and Tenzin in Jae when he first read the script. He wanted to honor them while keeping Jae a new character.

Gallery Nucleus sets a 46-artist Avatar Aang tribute show for November

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, will open The Legend of Aang: An Avatar the Last Airbender Art Exhibition on November 21. The show runs through December 6 and features new tribute art inspired by Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender from 46 artists, including the film's director, Lauren Montgomery, and Avatar comics artist Faith Erin Hicks. The pieces will be on display and for sale.

Entry is free with an RSVP. The gallery is open from noon to 8 p.m. and closed Mondays.

Most of the events fall on opening day. A panel and signing with artists who worked on the film runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Tickets cost $15, go on sale October 21 at 1 p.m. Pacific and are limited to two per person. Signatures cost $10 per item, two items maximum. An opening reception follows from 5 to 8 p.m. for $5.

Artwork goes on sale online to the gallery's Patreon members on November 20 and to everyone else on November 22.

Avatar Aang's Blu-ray has Dolby Atmos but no bonus features

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on November 3, and the Blu-ray listing on Blu-ray.com now has the technical details.

The single-disc Blu-ray presents the film in 1080p at its 2.39:1 aspect ratio. English audio comes in Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 7.1, with French and Spanish 5.1 tracks and an audio-description track. It includes a digital copy and comes with a slipcover in its first pressing. List price is $31.99, and Amazon has it for $24.95.

There are still no bonus features listed, the same as when the release was announced in September. The 4K Ultra HD edition, sold only as a SteelBook, follows on February 9, 2027.

The same day, Paramount also releases M. Night Shyamalan's 2010 live-action The Last Airbender on 4K Ultra HD. The listing describes it as an upscale rather than a new 4K scan, with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and a list price of $39.99. No extras are listed for that one either.

The vinyl edition of Jeremy Zuckerman's Avatar Aang score, announced in August, still has no date or price.

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is a headline title at EVO France

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game was one of seven main tournament titles at EVO France in Nice, and its Top 8 bracket was broadcast. Sources list the event dates slightly differently, somewhere between October 8 and 11.

The developers tied the event into Patch 3.0, released October 7, which added an EVO France color for Katara. Uruguay's Pepe Uehara won the bracket playing Toph.

It is the game's biggest competitive showcase since EVO 2026 in Las Vegas in June, where the team revealed the Year 1 Pass characters.

Why seven havens? "There's a reason," say the showrunners

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

At New York Comic Con, Polygon asked Seven Havens showrunners Sehaj Sethi and Ethan Spaulding why there are exactly seven havens and whether their places on the map mean anything. The two traded a look and a laugh. Both said there's a reason. Sethi added that they can't say why yet, but that it is important.

A popular fan theory ties the havens to the seven chakras. In the same interview Sethi noted that chakras, which Guru Pathik taught Aang in The Last Airbender, are a South Asian concept, and Seven Havens draws on South Asian culture more than the earlier shows did.

The episode titles add to the case. The first season is Book One: Survival, and its finale is called "The Root Chakra." In The Last Airbender, the root or earth chakra is the first one Aang opens, and Pathik says it deals with survival and is blocked by fear. A separate Polygon analysis points out that Ellora's motto is about survival, that the city is built from red rock, the root chakra's color, and that both twins are earthbenders.

Nobody on the show has confirmed the link.

Avatar Aang holds at No. 2 on Paramount+ as Seven Havens climbs the series chart

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender was the No. 2 movie on Paramount+ on October 11, according to FlixPatrol rankings cited by FandomWire. That is about 11 weeks after its July 25 premiere.

Avatar: Seven Havens is charting as well. MovieWeb, also citing FlixPatrol, reported the new series at No. 4 on Paramount+ worldwide in its first days, ahead of several Taylor Sheridan dramas.

These are third-party rankings, not audience counts. Paramount has published no viewership figures for either title. Earlier FlixPatrol data had the film opening as the top Paramount+ movie in 28 countries, and Collider reported it at No. 1 on the service's worldwide movie chart over a late-August weekend.

Uruguay's Pepe Uehara wins Avatar Legends at EVO France with Toph

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Pepe Uehara of Uruguay won the Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game tournament at EVO France in Nice, playing Toph. It was the game's first Evo title.

Uehara, who plays for EDEN, came through a 260-player bracket. He beat France's Raymond Buller, a Korra player, in both the winners final and the grand final. EventHubs' bracket log lists one set at 3-2 and the other at 3-1.

The top eight:

Pepe Uehara (Toph)
Raymond Buller (Korra)
Zane (Zaheer)
ScytheLDN (Katara)
Dai (Katara, Zaheer) and Dawn (Azula)
Showoff (Zaheer, Zuko) and Datrex (Ozai)

Uehara took home €11,376. Buller won €5,688 and Zane €4,266.

The game's developers also used the event to show a trailer for its next big update, the Avatar State patch.

Aang and Katara race into Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on October 14

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A downloadable Avatar Legends pack for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds launches October 14, 2026, NickALive reports. It adds Aang and Katara as playable racers, an Air-themed glider and a new course on Lion Turtle Island.

The coverage we reviewed did not include pricing or a full platform list.

The pack is the latest licensing deal in a busy fall for the franchise. Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is still getting regular updates, and the mobile strategy game Avatar: Realms Collide is running its 'Glowworm's Ruse' server-vs-server pre-season through October 30.

Critics love Seven Havens; viewers are more divided

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens launched with strong reviews. Rotten Tomatoes lists 100% positive from 20 critics with an average of 7.9 out of 10, and Metacritic gives it 80 from 11 reviews. Critics saw six episodes ahead of the premiere.

Audience scores are lower. The Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter is 80%, while Metacritic users rate the show 5.5 out of 10 from 63 ratings.

The animation is the main sticking point. GamesRadar+ faulted inconsistent animation and action that can be hard to follow, and Gizmodo called the premiere a little rocky but promising. Kotaku described the reviews as a turnaround for a show some fans had dismissed as cheap-looking after its trailer.

Seven Havens' new look was meant to be "old school anime"

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The most common complaint about Avatar: Seven Havens has been the way it looks. When a clip came out the day before the premiere, some fans called the animation choppy and a step down from The Legend of Korra. GamesRadar+'s review faulted inconsistent animation and action that is hard to follow.

The creators say the new style is deliberate. In an interview with GamesRadar+ published October 10, Konietzko said executive producer Ethan Spaulding has long been the team's expert on 1970s and '80s Japanese animation. Konietzko named Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water as a reference and said they wanted the show to have more of a fantasy feel.

Spaulding said a different look was part of the plan when he joined. Early on, Konietzko suggested leaving shadow layers off the characters entirely, so the show would be more colorful and less dark than the earlier series. Spaulding said the result feels a little more animated than the other shows.

The Hollywood Reporter described the finished series as having a '70s-inspired anime style. Critics have rated the show well above its audience scores, as our review roundup shows.

Seven Havens episodes 1 to 3: the biggest reveals

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Spoilers for Chapters 1 to 3 of Avatar: Seven Havens follow.

The first three episodes set up a world that has spent more than two centuries blaming the Avatar for its ruin. Here is what they established.

A city built on fear Chapter 1 opens on Ellora's festival marking Korra's downfall, complete with a children's play about the Cataclysm and the founding of the havens. Characters describe Korra as vanquished or defeated. Fewer benders are born every year, so Ellora makes every known bender register for the Bending Brigade, which guards the city against the wastes outside. The havens don't trust one another.

The twins Pavi is 9, an amputee living on the streets outside the walls. Jae, a guard, sees her earthbend and then airbend during a tornado. Her twin Nisha has spent three years as the secret ward of Captain Karthik. In Chapter 3, a lullaby Pavi plays on a kalimba unlocks a shared memory of their mother, and the sisters agree to train with Jae and look for their parents.

The storm In Chapter 2 a huge storm hits Ellora, carrying a spirit that can possess people and animals. Variety identifies it as a version of Vaatu, the dark spirit from The Legend of Korra. The episode never says his name, though, and the official synopsis calls it only a strange entity. When the twins trap its glowing red core, they are pulled into a vision of what looks like the Cataclysm. The attack leaves red crystals across the city.

The White Lotus, and a new threat After the attack, Karthik is promoted to commander of the Bending Brigade and tells Jae he belongs to the Order of the White Lotus. Ellora's leaders reject his push to contact the other havens. The last shot shows masked figures looking down on Ellora as their next target. Nobody has said who they are.

Chapters 4 to 6, "The Faceless," "The One Left Behind" and "Night of the Afflicted," arrive on October 16.

Seven Havens Easter eggs: Iroh's song, an older Aang and a White Lotus photo wall

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Minor spoilers for Chapters 1 to 3.

Avatar: Seven Havens takes place more than 200 years after The Legend of Korra, in a world that has lost most of its history. The first three episodes still find room for plenty of callbacks.

Within the first minute, a guard in Ellora whistles "Four Seasons," the song Iroh sings in Book One of The Last Airbender.
Jae rides a hoverboard built on the same idea as Aang's air scooter.
Karthik shows Jae a scroll of past Avatars that includes Kyoshi, Roku, Korra and an older, bearded Aang.
A White Lotus photo wall includes Iroh, Jeong Jeong and Pakku. IGN wonders whether one of the waterbenders is Katara without her hair loops.
Seen from above, Ellora appears to be laid out like the White Lotus tile.
The lullaby that unlocks the twins' memories in Chapter 3 plays over the end credits of every episode.

Karthik also reveals in Chapter 3 that he is a member of the White Lotus.

The Avatar Aang that almost was: a pregnant Katara and an Earthbender king

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender went through several versions before it reached Paramount+. Two recent pieces show how different it might have been.

On September 29, the official Avatar Legends channels posted a Braving the Elements clip titled "Katara Was Pregnant in the Avatar Aang Movie?!" In it, director Lauren Montgomery walks through an early plan, shown in concept art, for Katara to be pregnant with her and Aang's first child and still fighting through the film. The idea first came out at Comic-Con in July. Michael Dante DiMartino said it pushed the characters too far ahead, and The Legend of Korra already makes Bumi their first child. Montgomery, who joined after the idea came up, said the story didn't need it.

The villain changed too. Montgomery told CGMagazine at SCAD AnimationFest that Tagah was the third antagonist the team settled on. One earlier version was built around an Earthbender king. Bryan Konietzko's first pitch had Aang learning something new about his culture. Montgomery's team shifted the focus to Aang grieving as the last airbender, something he never had time to do in the series.

Asked about sequels, Montgomery said the film was made to stand on its own and that there was never a plan to tell three stories back to back. No follow-up film has been announced.

Avatar Legends teases an "Avatar State" patch with new combos and Supers

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has another big update on the way. A trailer for the "Avatar State" patch appeared around EVO France, three days after Patch 3.0 went live.

According to EventHubs, the trailer shows new combos and Super Techniques for existing characters, along with updated visuals, quality-of-life changes and balance adjustments. Some Supers unlock as a character levels up during a match. Nightmare Korra gets a new Level 7 Super with an animation taken from the series.

EventHubs says the patch fills in much of what was missing when the game launched in July, including moves, animations and finishing touches on some characters.

There is no release date or version number. The trailer did not mention Iroh or the other Year 1 Pass fighters, or the Seven Havens costume colors revealed at New York Comic Con.

Seven Havens premieres on Paramount+ with two Avatars at once

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens premiered on Paramount+ on Friday, October 9 with the first three episodes of Book One: Survival. The other ten episodes arrive in weekly batches: episodes 4–6 on October 16, 7–9 on October 23, and a four-episode finale on October 30.

The series takes place about 225 years after The Legend of Korra, in a world wrecked by a disaster called the Cataclysm. Survivors live inside seven fortified havens, and many blame Korra for the catastrophe, so the Avatar is now feared rather than trusted.

The premiere confirms that Pavi, a young earthbender in the haven of Ellora, and her long-lost twin Nisha are both the Avatar, the first time the cycle has produced two people at once. Premiere recaps, as relayed by NickALive from Variety, say the guard captain Karthik found Nisha three years earlier and kept her as his ward. They also say a smaller form of Vaatu, the dark spirit from Korra, arrives in a storm, possesses people and escapes.

Saheli Khan voices Pavi and Aishu Devan voices Nisha. Major Curda, Akshay Khanna, Sakina Jaffrey, Darren Barnet, Dianne Doan and Dee Bradley Baker round out the cast. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko created the show, with Ethan Spaulding as executive producer and Sehaj Sethi as co-executive producer.

The launch is not on Paramount+ everywhere. SkyShowtime's European markets get the show from October 17, and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it streams on Paramount+ as Avatar: Die Sieben Häfen.

Seven Havens renewed for Books 3 and 4 on premiere day

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount+ has ordered two more books of Avatar: Seven Havens. DiMartino and Konietzko announced the renewal at the show's New York Comic Con Main Stage panel on October 9, hours after the premiere.

The original February 2025 order covered two books of 13 half-hour episodes each. Book 2 was part of that order and still has no release date. No episode counts or dates have been given for Books 3 and 4.

Janet Varney moderated the panel, which also featured Ethan Spaulding, Sehaj Sethi and cast members Saheli Khan, Aishu Devan and Major Curda. It included a script-to-screen clip.

Knight Edge Media separately reported that voice recording resumed in February 2026 and speculated that later books could jump ahead in time so the twins are teenagers. Paramount has not confirmed either claim.

Paramount+ orders Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, a comedic prequel about the teenage Water Tribe Avatar

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The next Avatar series heads into the past. At the same NYCC panel that renewed Seven Havens, DiMartino and Konietzko revealed Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, an animated Paramount+ original about Kuruk, the Water Tribe Avatar who came just before Kyoshi.

In the official logline, a rebellious teenage Kuruk breaks with thousands of years of tradition and learns the four elements by travelling the world, staying ahead of an angry teacher, rowdy pirates and chaotic spirits. Konietzko is showrunner, and Avatar Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studios are producing.

Gizmodo and The Comics Beat report that Konietzko pitched the show to the crowd as an action comedy and the most comedic Avatar series yet. His reasoning was that it covers a peaceful stretch of Kuruk's life, before the losses that earlier stories describe.

Paramount+ released first-look art of Kuruk and his pet Nikik, which Entertainment Weekly describes as a koala-otter. No premiere window, voice cast, episode count or animation studio has been announced. Official materials do not give Kuruk's age; the figure of 14 comes from Knight Edge Media's earlier casting reports.

NYCC tie-ins: Seven Havens colors for the fighting game and twice-weekly podcast episodes

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Janet Varney used the NYCC Avatar panel to reveal Seven Havens-themed colorways for every fighter in Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, along with a new stage set in Sonam's temple. No release date was given, and neither was part of the game's October 7 Patch 3.0.

The official podcast, Avatar: Braving the Elements, hosted by Varney and Dante Basco, has shifted to Seven Havens. Its fifth season opened in late September with episodes about the Avatar Aang movie. Seven Havens companion episodes began October 10, and the show will post two a week while Book One rolls out.

The YouTube shorts series Avatar: Chibi Minis also ended its season on premiere day with 'Fight at the Fire Nation Festival!'

Jeremy Zuckerman scored Seven Havens entirely on synthesizers

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Seven Havens sounds unlike any Avatar show before it, and that was Bryan Konietzko's idea. Composer Jeremy Zuckerman told BuzzFeed that Konietzko asked for a score made entirely with synthesizers, a first for the franchise. Zuckerman studied electronic music at Berklee and CalArts, so he said the request wasn't much of a stretch.

The main title took a rewrite. The final version uses konnakol, the spoken rhythm syllables of South Indian Carnatic music, and features the Carnatic singer Varijashree Venugopal, whose voice he uses sparingly. He later brought her onto the Avatar Aang film score too.

Swapping the small chamber group he used on The Legend of Korra for synths let him build bigger, more abstract swells. He also said the new show deals with "some topics I don't think I've seen before in animation," and that those scenes hold many of his favorite cues.

In the same interview, Zuckerman said about 99.5 percent of the Avatar Aang score was recorded live, with Anthony Parnther conducting. No Seven Havens soundtrack album has been announced.

NYCC publishing: a Korra graphic novel trilogy and early copies of the Aang film books

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar's publishers held their 'Fire, Earth, Water, Air: Continuing the Avatar Legacy' panel at New York Comic Con on October 8. Avatar Studios' Joan Hilty moderated, and the panelists included authors Randy Ribay and Allison King.

The biggest comics news from NYCC was The Legend of Korra: The Long Game, a three-part graphic novel written by Michael Dante DiMartino and drawn by Alexandria Monik. It features Korra, Bolin, the Red Lotus anarchist Zaheer and Tokuga, a villain from the Korra comics. NickALive dates the reveal to October 8. No publisher or release date has been confirmed.

At Booth #3429, Abrams sold early copies of two film tie-ins that reach stores November 10: Allison King's novelization of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender ($30, 256 pages) and Ramin Zahed's The Art of the Movie ($50, with a $100 deluxe edition).

Avatar earns six Kids' Choice Awards nominations across four projects

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Nominations for Nickelodeon's 39th Kids' Choice Awards include Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender for Favorite Kids TV Show. Gordon Cormier (Aang) and Elizabeth Yu (Azula) are nominated in the kids' TV star categories.

The franchise shows up elsewhere too: Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender for Favorite Animated Movie, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game for Favorite Video Game, and Avatar: Braving the Elements for Favorite Podcast.

Alex Warren hosts the fan-voted ceremony on November 14, 2026. It airs live on CBS and Nickelodeon from 8 p.m. ET and streams on Paramount+.

Lauren Montgomery on keeping Avatar Aang 2D and making it work for newcomers

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang director Lauren Montgomery is still doing press nearly three months after release. Speaking to CBR at SCAD AnimationFest, she said Paramount's main note was that people who had never seen the series should be able to enjoy the film. SCAD screened the movie with a conversation with the director on September 23.

In an October 5 interview with Cinema Femme, she described the film's look: hand-painted backgrounds projected onto 3D environment models, with Flying Bark's Kit Rigby helping to set the style. She said she asked the animators to keep character movement a little stiffer than Disney-style fluidity, and that an early script was dropped because it played too much like an episode of television.

At Comic-Con in July, she said the team briefly considered a Spider-Verse-style 3D approach before committing to 2D. She told Cinema Femme she hopes this isn't the characters' last trip to the big screen. No sequel has been announced.

New Seven Havens clips introduce Jae's bending squad and the Cataclysm

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount+ put out two more Avatar: Seven Havens clips on October 8, the day before the premiere.

The first, an exclusive at DiscussingFilm, introduces the squad of young benders led by the airbender guard Jae. Alongside Daemin, voiced by Darren Barnet, it brought two new names: Uki and Lan. DiscussingFilm said the scene shows the show's ruined world in a more hopeful light.

The second, titled "The Cataclysm" and posted to the official Avatar Legends channels, sets up the disaster that shattered the world in the centuries after The Legend of Korra.

They capped a promotional run that began with the official trailer on September 10 and included new key art from Paramount+ Australia on September 15. Some fans criticized the animation in a scene released the same week, and the creators have since explained the show's new look.

Avatar Legends Patch 3.0 adds public lobbies, spectating and a rebuilt Ozai

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Patch 3.0 for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game went live on October 7. Lobbies are now public and browsable, hold 2 to 16 players, and support live spectating with rewind and fast-forward. Hosts get moderation tools, and streamers can hide room codes.

Ozai has been fully reanimated and rebalanced, with three new Critical Hits and new combo trials. Ba Sing Se now has background characters, and the early chapters of Story Mode are easier. Story Mode Challenges were removed for now while they are reworked.

The update is out on Steam, PS5 and Xbox, and the developers say the Switch version follows shortly. It builds on September's Patch 2.5, which introduced Ranked Mode.

Reebok launches an Avatar: The Last Airbender sneaker line

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Reebok has released an Avatar: The Last Airbender sneaker collection at reebok.com. NickALive reports four models themed to Appa, Aang and the Four Nations, priced from $110 to $220.

A separate Reebok Avatar shoe was offered as an exclusive at the Avatar Legends booth (#1723) during New York Comic Con.

It's part of a busy season for licensed products. An Aang Tonie audio figure with a story of about 69 minutes came out September 13, and Spirit Halloween is selling adult Aang, Katara and Toph costumes plus an inflatable Appa.

Avatar's parent company closes its Warner Bros. Discovery deal

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount Skydance completed its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on October 6, 2026. The combined company uses the Skydance name in press materials and at skydance.com. Contrary to some reports, paramount.com still runs as its own site.

The deal closed after a settlement with 12 state attorneys general. The divestitures reported by TheWrap, including BET, Comedy Central and VH1, do not include any children's networks. During the European review, Bloomberg had reported that Paramount was willing to sell some kids TV assets.

A memo from David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz warned of layoffs during the integration. No effect on Avatar Studios has been reported. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are still its co-chief creative officers, and three days after the close they announced a renewal and a new series at NYCC.

It is the second ownership change in just over a year. Skydance's takeover of Paramount closed in August 2025. In October 2025, Ramsey Naito, the executive Avatar Studios' leaders originally reported to, left Paramount Animation amid cuts that Cartoon Brew said affected about 2,000 US workers.

The Yangchen novels get an Ultimate Collector's Edition

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Abrams released The Yangchen Novels Ultimate Collector's Edition on October 6. It combines F.C. Yee's The Dawn of Yangchen and The Legacy of Yangchen into one 672-page, $49.99 volume with a foil-stamped cloth slipcase.

It matches the Kyoshi Novels Ultimate Collector's Edition from October 7, 2025, which the Abrams store lists as sold out.

The next new Chronicles of the Avatar novel is Randy Ribay's The Tempest of Sonam, due July 20, 2027.

An Avatar Legends character encyclopedia and an official oracle deck are on the way

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Insight Editions has two more Avatar books up for pre-order.

Avatar Legends: The Official Character Encyclopedia, by comics writer and editor Benjamin A. Wilgus, profiles nearly 100 characters from The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics and the Avatar Aang film, including Avatars and spirits from before Aang's time. The 168-page hardcover costs $40 and ships after December 15. Its listing does not mention Seven Havens.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Official Oracle Deck and Guidebook, listed in early October, pairs 52 illustrated cards with a 128-page guidebook. Amy Chase wrote it and Amanda Wolf drew the cards, which draw on the show's characters, creatures and lore. It costs $24.99 and ships after January 12, 2027.

Insight's own store ships only to the US and Canada. The publisher released The Official Book of Amigurumi, a crochet pattern book, on August 25.

The 20th-anniversary Avatar concert tour starts its final UK run

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert – The 20th Anniversary Tour began a 12-date UK leg in Manchester on October 5. A live orchestra plays Jeremy Zuckerman's score in sync with scenes from all three seasons.

The UK leg ends in Bristol on October 18. London's Eventim Apollo date on October 17 is listed as sold out, and Bristol Beacon showed limited availability.

The anniversary tour opened in the US in September 2025 and played mainland Europe in March 2026. Its next listed dates are in Canada: Montreal on January 7, 2027 and Vancouver on January 16. The same producers start The Legend of Korra In Concert in January 2027.

Avatar Aang's art team breaks down the film's painted look, with a LightBox Expo panel on October 25

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The artists behind the look of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender are explaining how they did it. Production designer Jake Panian and art director Aaron Loftis were the guests on the second episode of Braving the Elements' fifth season, "Creating a New Animation Style for the Avatar Aang Movie," posted October 3.

Loftis will go deeper at LightBox Expo in Pasadena. "The Art of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" runs Sunday, October 25, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Civic Auditorium. NickALive lists Panian and VFX supervisor Jerry Huynh as fellow panelists. Loftis said the talk will cover the film's visual pillars, early paintings and explorations, production art, its compositing style and concept art that didn't make the final cut.

The expo runs October 23 to 25 at the Pasadena Convention Center and ends with a screening of the film in the same room at 5 p.m., right after the panel.

Director Lauren Montgomery has described the style as hand-painted backgrounds projected onto 3D models, with character animation kept a little stiffer than Disney-style motion.

Realms Collide starts its "Glowworm's Ruse" server-vs-server pre-season

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Realms Collide, Tilting Point's mobile strategy game, pushed version 1.7 on September 30. Its headline feature is "Glowworm's Ruse," a server-vs-server pre-season that runs from October 3 to October 30, with worlds competing in rally battles.

Ahead of it, a World Migration Event from October 3 to 7 (UTC) let players move servers.

The update also adds Accessory slots for heroes, starting with a Bracelet, changes the rules for Wall and City Defense battles, and removes the Lord Appointment feature. A follow-up build, 1.7.1017, arrived in early October with the same notes.

Seven Havens' first season is Book One: Survival. Here are all 13 episode titles

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Like the shows before it, Avatar: Seven Havens names each season as a book. Paramount+ confirmed on September 28 that the first is Book One: Survival, and Polygon revealed the chapter titles in batches over the following days, in English and in the show's in-world script.

On the Horizon
Into the Storm
The Order
The Faceless
The One Left Behind
Night of the Afflicted
What Lies Beneath
The Envoys: Part One
The Envoys: Part Two
Ghosts and Spirits
Battle of the Ruins
The Dome
The Root Chakra

Chapters 1 to 3 premiered on October 9. The rest arrive on Fridays: 4 to 6 on October 16, 7 to 9 on October 23 and 10 to 13 on October 30. Book Two, also 13 episodes, has no date yet.

Fans have zeroed in on the finale's title. The root chakra is the first of the seven chakras Guru Pathik taught Aang to open, and it governs survival, the name of this book. The showrunners have since said there is a reason there are seven havens.

Journey of Aang board game now ships to backers in February 2027

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Bad Crow Games has moved backer shipping for its co-op board game Avatar: Journey of Aang to February 2027. Earlier coverage had pointed to mid-October.

In its September 26 update, the publisher said printing starts October 10 and production, including miniatures, wraps around November 24. The games then go by ocean freight in December and clear customs in January before shipping. Samples were planned for display, not sale, at SPIEL Essen in late October.

The 1–4 player game raised more than $635,000 on Gamefound. Players draft cards to help Aang master the elements before facing Ozai as Sozin's Comet peaks.

Braving the Elements returns for Season 5, starting with the Aang movie

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's official podcast, opened its fifth season with an episode on the making of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender. Guests were Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko and director Lauren Montgomery.

Hosts Janet Varney and Dante Basco built the season around Seven Havens watch-alongs, a return to Korra's Book 3 and interviews with the new voice cast. Episodes post on YouTube and podcast platforms.

Season 4, a 30-episode rewatch of The Legend of Korra, ended in December 2025.

Report: Kuruk's first Team Avatar will be all Water Tribe, including an icebender named Hopa

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Before Paramount+ announced Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos on October 9, Knight Edge Media published a run of reports on the show's characters. Its September 24 piece described a teenage Team Avatar made up entirely of Water Tribe kids, separate from the friends Kuruk travels with in F.C. Yee's Kyoshi novels.

According to the report:

Misunka, codenamed "Meebs" in casting calls, is the son of the Northern Water Tribe's chief.
Hopa can icebend but can't waterbend in the usual way, and Kuruk has a crush on her.
Gawose, codenamed "Deela," is Kuruk's middle-aged waterbending teacher, who ends up hunting him across the world.
Fifth Nation pirates are the running threat at sea.

One detail has already checked out. Knight Edge said Kuruk would have a koala-otter named Nikik, and Paramount+ released first-look art of Nikik at New York Comic Con.

Other claims don't match the official announcement. Knight Edge named Migizi Pensoneau as showrunner, but Paramount+ credits Bryan Konietzko. Paramount+ has not confirmed any of the characters above, the cast or Kuruk's exact age. Our Kuruk tracker labels which details are official and which are reports.

Faith Erin Hicks and Peter Wartman's next book shows Zuko becoming the Blue Spirit

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Dark Horse has announced Avatar: The Last Airbender—Enter the Blue Spirit for February 23, 2027. Early in his exile, Zuko and Iroh come across a forgotten Fire Nation colony on the Earth Kingdom coast. When the Fire Nation demands more of the village's ore, Zuko wears the Blue Spirit mask for the first time to protect it.

The 80-page paperback costs $13.99. Writer Faith Erin Hicks, artist Peter Wartman and colorist Adele Matera return from Jet: Rebels and Rhinos, which came out in September. Dark Horse posted its official announcement on October 8.

Dark Horse describes both books as standalones. A fan-wiki summary of Hicks' newsletter says a third villain-focused book will follow, but the publisher has not announced one.

Seven Havens streams on SkyShowtime, not Paramount+, in parts of Europe

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount+ isn't the only home for Avatar: Seven Havens. A SkyShowtime trailer says the series arrives exclusively on SkyShowtime from October 17, eight days after the Paramount+ launch, in that service's European markets. The trailer did not list the countries.

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the show streams on Paramount+ on the original October 9 schedule as Avatar: Die Sieben Häfen.

SkyShowtime is Paramount's European streaming joint venture. A fan wiki says the Avatar Aang film also reached SkyShowtime in August, but we have not found an official source for that.

Avatar Aang returns to the big screen at Animation Is Film on October 17

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is getting another night in a theater. The Animation Is Film festival will show the film as a special event on Saturday, October 17 at 4:30 p.m. at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.

A conversation follows with director Lauren Montgomery, producers Michael Dante DiMartino and Latifa Ouaou, and composer Jeremy Zuckerman. Tickets are on sale through the festival's site.

The festival, run with GKIDS, Annecy and Variety, takes place October 16 to 19 and announced its lineup on September 22. Avatar Aang is one of its special screenings, outside the competition.

The film has had few theatrical showings. It went straight to Paramount+ on July 25 after a one-week run in New York and Burbank, and it screened at SCAD AnimationFest in Savannah in September.

Toph's Metalbending Academy is now a free mini movie on YouTube

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The official Avatar Legends YouTube channel has posted Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy as a "Full Comic Book Mini Movie," free to watch. It went up on September 21 and runs about seven minutes.

The video adapts the 2021 Dark Horse graphic novel by Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman and Adele Matera, in which Toph opens a school for metalbending shortly after the original series. The book is also collected in the Team Avatar Treasury.

The channel hasn't said whether more of the comics will get the same treatment. Hicks and Wartman's next Avatar book, Enter the Blue Spirit, is due in February 2027.

Seven Havens trailer arrives with a three-episodes-a-week release plan

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paramount+ released the official trailer, key art and stills for Avatar: Seven Havens, along with the Book One rollout: three episodes on October 9, three more each following Friday, and a four-episode finale on October 30.

Book 2's 13 episodes were reconfirmed without a date. Some fans criticized the animation in their reactions to the trailer.

The day before, co-executive producer Sehaj Sethi told Polygon, as relayed by Bleeding Cool, that the show is set about 225 years after The Legend of Korra and that the haven of Ellora is named after India's Ellora Caves. DiMartino said he and Konietzko started talking about a post-Korra earthbending Avatar series in early 2021.

DK's Avatar Visual Dictionary is out in the UK, with the US edition due November 10

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

DK released Avatar: The Last Airbender Visual Dictionary in the UK on September 10 for £19.99. The US hardcover from DK Children follows on November 10 for $24.99.

The 160-page book is an in-world guide to the Four Nations, covering characters, places, animals and technology, from Toph's earthbending techniques to the Hundred Year War, hybrid animals and Spirit World creatures. Joan Hilty, executive editor at Avatar Studios, wrote the foreword.

DK has also listed Avatar: The Last Airbender Four Nations Handbook, a 160-page paperback for younger readers, for March 2, 2027 at $14.99. Its description matches the Visual Dictionary's.

Jet: Rebels and Rhinos shows how the Freedom Fighters began

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar: The Last Airbender—Jet: Rebels and Rhinos is out from Dark Horse. After Colonel Mongke's Rough Rhinos destroy his village, a young Jet gathers displaced kids into the Freedom Fighters and chases revenge. When the chance finally comes, he has to choose between vengeance and the family he has built.

Faith Erin Hicks wrote it, Peter Wartman drew it and Adele Matera colored it. The 80-page paperback costs $13.99 and was first announced February 17.

The same team's next book, Enter the Blue Spirit, arrives February 23, 2027.

Netflix dates its final live-action season for 2027 and shows Ozai

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Netflix announced on Tudum that the third and final season of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender will premiere in 2027, and released a first-look image of Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai. There's no exact date. What's on Netflix estimates late 2027 or early 2028.

Season 3 was filmed back to back with Season 2 and wrapped in November 2025. Executive producer Christine Boylan said the Season 2 ending and the Season 3 opening were planned from the first week in the writers' room.

Netflix's article lists seven actors as joining, but only Jon Jon Briones (Piandao) and Tantoo Cardinal (Hama) are actually new. Terry Chen, Dolly de Leon, Lily Gao, Madison Hu and Dichen Lachman already appeared in Season 2. Deadline's May 2025 report that Adam Beach will play Hakoda is still unconfirmed by Netflix.

Avatar Legends adds Ranked Mode and reaches Xbox

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Patch 2.5 for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, released September 2, introduced Ranked Mode 1.0 with cross-play, a PS5 low-latency option and a separate matchmaking queue for players who disconnect too often.

The Xbox Series X|S version, pulled hours before the July 23 launch over a backend problem, was promised by September 3 and was listed as available by mid-September. The Switch 2 version and physical editions are still due later in 2026. A US Amazon listing shows October 28 for the physical Switch releases, but the publisher has not confirmed that date.

At PAX West the team also gave a first look at Tagah, the free fighter from the Avatar Aang film, who still has no release date.

Avatar Aang comes to Blu-ray and DVD November 3, with a 4K SteelBook in February

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender comes to Blu-ray and DVD on November 3, 2026. A 4K Ultra HD edition follows on February 9, 2027, sold only as a SteelBook.

The Blu-ray and 4K editions include a digital copy. No bonus features had been announced as of early September, which disappointed some fans.

Reports disagree on the label. Cartoon Brew credits Paramount+ with Alliance Home Entertainment, while Blu-ray.com names Paramount Home Media Distribution.