Spead Racer is a show with a young boy named Speed, and it amazing driving machine, Mach 5. It began in Japan as Mahha Go Go Go, which means, Mach Five Go Go. Speed Racer international intrigue and racing. But that's not all! Joining him are a colorful cast of characters, including his Pops Racer and Mom, his girlfriend Trixie, Spritle his little brother, his pett monkey Chim Chim, the mechanic Sparky, and the mysterious Racer X.

The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival (NNAF) was founded in 2004 to showcase the diversity of worldwide animation filmmaking and is the largest multiplatform animation festival in North America. The festival features the best animated shorts (10 minutes and under) from around the globe. Shorts selected for the festival have the opportunity to be featured on-air, online and to be showcased at the festival's live event.

2008 was the 5th year of the Nicktoons Animation Festival and proved to be bigger than ever!

We received hundreds of entries from all over the globe including Canada, South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Malaysia, Portugal, Israel, and Pakistan, just to name a few. The 2008 Grand Prize Nick Development Award winner was Sung Eun Kim for her short Boogie and Diggie. She also was awarded the Student Award in partnership with mtvU. The 2008 Grand Jury winner was Min Chung Cho for her short "El Mono" and the Producers' Choice Award went to Glenn Harmon and Ben Porter for "Pajama Gladiator". To view all the winning shorts please visit our "View Shorts" page.

NNAF 2008 offered more ways to enter the festival than ever before! For our budding young animators under 18 we had our Greater Creator Contest! The Grand Prize winner was fifteen-year-old Jabril M., for his entry "Chicken Herder". For a full list of all the Greater Creator winners check out our contest page.

New to the festival in 2008 was the "I Got Game" Contest in partnership with AddictingGames. Contestants entered their ideas for a game character with the chance to see their creation become a free online game on addictinggames.com. The "I Got Game" winning character illustration was "Dib's Adventure to Mount Wafers" by Lauren K.

Also new to NNAF in 2008 was the "Built By Me" Movie Contest in partnership with LEGO. Garrett Barati's Grand Prize winning short "Play Nice", won $25k and the opportunity to create a brand new original animated short using LEGO bricks. To see the list of all the LEGO winners check out the contest page here.

Our NNAF two-day live event at the Nickelodeon Studios in Burbank was also a great hit! Over 300 animators and industry professionals attended Creator Night, with the same amount of kids and families attending Kids Day.

All of our festival finalists were showcased on-air throughout the entire month of October, and all of the prize winners were announced during the 'Nicktoons Network Animation Festival Winner's Night Special' on October 30th. All of the shorts are also featured online through out the year.

A year after a mysterious explosion destroyed the Xavier Institute and broke up the weary X-Men an embittered, Wolverine has lost himself on the open road, haunted by the unexplained fate of the missing Professor X and Jean Grey. But his efforts to keep a low profile end when he's brought back into the crasshairs of the Mutant Response Division (MRD) after reescuing a family from feirty train derailment. When the family shos kindness to Wolverine however, they're arrested by MRD, charged with harboring a fugitive mutant. Gabivized in action, Wolverine enlists the help of Beast and together they infitrate the enemy's lair, successfully liberating not only the innocent family, but a dozen captured mutants as well. But Wolverin knows these kinds of problems won't be going away and s o he's left with 1 option, bring back X-Men.

Years ago, and evil yount apprentice, nameed Kong Li, unleashed the power of a magical cookbook, scattering it's dangerous recipes throughout Chinatown. Thanks to an ancient spell, a force fieldwas placed around the city, keeping the magic in. For many years the rest of the world was protected, but now Kong Li has returned to find the powerful recipes. If he succeeds their evil powers will be released and they city will be in grave danger.

Luckily three teenage heroes, who are skilled in Kong Fu, have been trained to stop him.When orphans Sue, Sid, and Tony were recruited by Nana to make deliveries for Wu's Chinese Restaurant, they saw it as a chance to move out of the orphanage and ride cool bikes. Little did they know then, that evening, they would be locked in a lighting fast battle against evil for the fate of the world.