In a video posted on Youtube on Wednesday April 13, the emblematic character embarks on yet another quest for the volatile glans.
No obstacle prevents him from seizing it, disconcerted Scrat hastens to swallow it.
End point of a long history of two decades.
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Farewell video
This happy ending hides a sadder reality: Blue Sky will cease to exist.
The studios are behind the
Ice Age
saga , but also
Rio
,
Robots
,
Epic
and even
Ferdinand
.
Disney bought the studios in 2017 and announced their closure in February 2021.
“Given the current economic situation, after much consideration and reflection, we have made the difficult decision to close Blue Sky Studios,”
the carrier had announced. disney word.
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“A few days before the end of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of animators came together to make this final plan. This plan is a farewell. A farewell on our own terms”
, is it specified in the caption of this
The End
video , not listed on Youtube.
“Over the past 24 years, we, like our special character Scrat, have achieved something that sometimes seemed unattainable. (…) Unfortunately, it is impossible to cling to it forever (…) Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having been with us for all these years”
, declared Chris Wedge, the co-founder of
Blue Sky,
in a statement posted on Twitter.
In March 2022, a sixth installment of
Ice Age
was unveiled on Disney+, titled
The Adventures of Buck Wild
.
Only Scrat is not present.
The most famous squirrel on the big screen nevertheless has his own mini-series
The Adventures of Scrat
, broadcast on the platform since Wednesday April 13.
The six shorts focus on the squirrel-turned-father, somehow caring for his son, Baby Scrat.