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A blog post by Burnie on the RT site has shared information about the status of Red vs Blue: Restoration’s availability.

Restoration is planned to be added to the site. We will get further news on this later this week. Whether or not it will be publicly available or a sponsor exclusive is not yet known.

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The individual episodes of Red vs Blue seasons 15-18 (15, The Shisno Paradox, Singularity, and Zero) are now publicly available to watch on both the Rooster Teeth website and on the Rooster Teeth Animation Youtube channel. The Completes are still behind paywalls on both sites. Restoration is still not available, though we will be getting information on that shortly.

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The classic "I like me." "It's a Legitimate Strategy" and "It's Lightish Red" RvB T-shirts are available again in the RT store.

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Morning Somewhere put out a podcast on August 7th detailing the relaunch of the RT website. A summary of the relevant information:

The website is now fully open to the public. Everything from the Rooster Teeth archives should be back up and available, including most RvB content.

Rooster Teeth's community site and forums, that were started in 2004 and shut down in 2018, are now back up. All of the old profiles and posts are set to private by default. If you remember your log in credentials you can access all of your old profile and, if you'd like, make it public again.

The old comments sections are also back up and have new sorting capabilities.

The "First" model is gone. The "Sponsor" model is back.

They have been doing a lot of work on removing Red vs Blue from behind the paywall. The show will be available on both the RT site and on Youtube. They're still in the process of getting all of the seasons out, though what exactly that process entails is never clarified. As of August 10th, only seasons 1-14 are available to the public.

The individual episodes of each season are (or will be) available publicly, while the Complete series (the versions that condense the whole of a season into just 1-3 videos) are still going to be kept behind the Youtube memberships/RT site sponsorships. Note that the Complete mini-series have always stayed available publicly.

Not said on the podcast, but Restoration is not up on the site at all, not even for sponsors. It still can only be watched through external purchase.

As also said in their February 9th podcast, they are very certain of the stability of the future of RT and the availability of this content going forward. Archival has always been a major focus of their relaunch.

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I’m hesitant to say this since things are still kind of up in the air right now and as far as I can tell there still hasn’t been any official word on the future of these shows, but it appears that the individual episodes of seasons 2-14 of RvB are available for the public on the Rooster Teeth Animation youtube channel again! Seasons 15+ (so 15, The Shisno Paradox, Singularity, Zero and Restoration) and the completes are still unavailable/membership only, though.

i haven’t checked each episode individually so please let me know if anything is unavailable still. or if there are any other updates!

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For those who haven’t seen: this is what roosterteeth.com looks like right now in honor of April Fools/Red vs Blue’s birthday!

Bonus: the copyright at the bottom that got cut off:

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Burnie’s AMA podcast about Rooster Teeth’s revival is now available to the public and so I’m going to summarizing the relevant questions that were answered here.

Why?

“It’s because we could […] If we don’t do it who will?” Throughout the episode, Burnie also mentioned: not wanting RT to become lost media; wanting to create opportunities for himself/past employees of the company; wanting to work with old properties again; being able to collaborate with new talent; and the Rooster Teeth brand being good marketing. “One of the main motivators for this was preserving the media, and I’m happy to say, it is preserved.”

Also spoken about over multiple questions, Burnie says that Warner Brothers might have been planning to sell off the whole company, including employees etc., and he did not want (/couldn’t afford) to buy it then. It was only after the shutdown, after it became clear the WB was selling off individual shows, that Burnie started trying to buy things. I mention this specifically because I’ve seen a lot of people talk as if the company itself is coming back; it is not. What Burnie owns right now is the brand and IP rights to a lot of the properties. The actual “company” of Rooster Teeth is actually Burnie’s production company “Box Canyon Productions” and right now only has two employees.

What properties does Rooster Teeth still own?

“It’s a very, very long list.” Burnie says they have the rights over 50 shows, some specifically named ones being The RT Podcast, Red vs Blue, and The Know. Most of the shows that were hosted on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel were a part of the acquisition. Nothing from Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, or RWBY are owned by RT anymore. Heavy emphasis was put on AH no longer being under RT’s brand anymore.

Are the scope of these new projects going to be more in line with smaller content like the RT Shorts, or is the hope to try and focus on larger productions like Day 5, The Schedule, or Lazer Team?

“The sweet spot for scale is going all the way back to the early episodes of Red vs Blue.” The focus is going to be on “compelling writing and great characters,” and making projects with smaller productions. Throughout the episode they reiterated that their main focus is going to be on individual projects and shows.

Does this mean there are hopes of getting a complete boxset of RvB?

“I also would love a complete boxset of Red vs Blue.” Burnie says he wants to do this, but doing physical media in 2025 is complicated and a financial risk, so they’re going to have to figure out how it would be done. He mentions possibly doing a preorder for it.

What happens if this just fails again?

“It’s not bulletproof, but I don’t know what it would take for us to have to shutter this thing at this point.” Burnie says that they’re already profitable, that they maintain themselves, and that unless they do something that would put them in tremendous amounts of debt, as long as YouTube still remains a platform that lets them host videos, he’s not worried about the company shutting down.

Could this lead to some of the old RT merch being available again?

“Yeah, it would have to be within the brands we’re talking about.” They talk about there being a lot of old merch, so figuring out how to provide the specific pieces that people want will be a challenge. Burnie how his personal philosophies on making merchandise in a way that does not produce “junk” may also make selling merch more difficult. Ashley says it is going to be a “slow start.”

More questions were answered and things discussed on the episode but this is what I found to be important to share here.

The TL;DR of RvB news: They do own the Red vs Blue IP. There was no confirmation or denial of any future continuations of the show, but we will very likely be getting a boxset and some old merch returning.

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some info from burnie’s podcast:

- they (being him and ashley) just have the rights to rooster teeth itself, not any other productions under rooster teeth (i.e. achievement hunter, funhaus, etc)

- he’s hoping to have a full slate by summer (mentions may specifically)

- does not want anyone to bug old rooster teeth employees as many of them have new “entrepreneurial” ventures (in quotes bc that’s his words not mine)

- is doing an AMA on patreon that will be released to the public on Morning Somewhere next Monday

- his son taught him the term enshittification and he and ashley want to “de-shittify” their corner of the internet

- is partnering with matt hullum to make a tv show they came up with the concept for in the 90s (matt hullum is not “back” though)

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uh. so i have to say, i did not have “burnie buys back rooster teeth and all its remaining assets” on my 2025 bingo card. and certainly was not expecting it to be the first thing i saw this morning when i checked twitter

link to the press release

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meant to post about it earlier, but all of the missing trocadero albums / tracks have now been reuploaded to all your favorite music sites (apple music, spotify, youtube, bandcamp) flying by wire and ghosts that linger not pictured because they never went anywhere

recovery: I and recovery: II cover chorus and season 14/the shisno trilogy respectively

this is a great reminder to support trocadero (and all your favorite artists) on bandcamp so that you can actually have proper downloads of your favorite songs! make bandcamp fridays important on your calendar :)

there’s a bonus album on the way at some point that will have a bunch of scrapped/extra material on it, but no idea when that will come out. and all the jeff williams stuff is still MIA, but (for rvb at least) is easily findable through reuploads on youtube

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UPDATE ON THE MISSING TROCADERO ALBUMS!

EDIT: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: 20th Anniversary IS UP ON APPLE MUSIC/SPOTIFY/YOUTUBE

I should have checked before I hit post on the first version, lol. Deleted and re-posted to try and keep the new version going around. This is the original album + 11 Instrumental Tracks! thank you @joltning for mentioning the auto-generated youtube videos in your tags, which prompted me to look.

The songs with Instrumental versions are

Blood Gulch Blues

Steady Ride (Gunmetal Green)

Spiritual

No One - previously on the s14 soundtrack

A Girl Named Tex - previously on the s14 soundtrack

Space Invader

(617)

Superhero

Vale Deah

Half Life - previously on a chorus soundtrack, I think

Anyways, the rest of the uploads are being worked on, and this will include bonus material as well!

This is coming in the form of three albums;

Recovery: Volume 1, which will be seasons 12-13

Recovery: Volume 2, which will be seasons 14-17

and Recovery: Volume 3 which will be "unreleased orphans & rejects, cues from the show that didn't fit anywhere else."

so look forward to that! still no word on the jeff williams tracks as far as I'm aware, but this is fantastic news.

(Source: Trocadero on Twitter, Link 1 and Link 2)

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Red vs Blue: Restorations will be released physically on Blu-Ray on OCTOBER 8th

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Jenn Tidwell also shared a poster, made by Erin Winn, for Restoration. The poster features a “Retro Convention” and seems to reference Grifball, as well as having… chickens? Perhaps, roosters?

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It is time, my fellow space marines 🫡

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Season 19 release date and trailer dropped! We’ll be getting the FULL SEASON on MAY 7. According to the full press release in the Austin Chronicle, the run time will be 87 minutes. The season will cost $14.99 to purchase and $4.99 to rent.

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Rooster Teeth’s Instagram just posted this. Seems like we’ll finally be getting that season 19 news?

EDIT: we got that season 19 news! Turning off reblogs so people don’t get out of date info

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Okay. So.

On Twitter, Jason Weight, head writer of season 17, tweeted out that he was going to share his unmade scripts, as well as sharing a link to a Grimmons scene and the reveal that he intended for Grimmons to be canon, were he to have written season 18:

Then, the Tumblr account @riproosterteeth shared a post with a Google Drive of Jason’s unused 17 scripts and concepts for 18:

This is not Jason, but I do have confirmation that he is okay with these scripts getting leaked.

The contents of the drive include two episodes of season 17 and many concepts and short scenes for his alternate take on 18, including things like a focus on Wash’s recovery, the return of Junior, Grif and Simmons being “unhappy to learn that they’re gay,” an action heavy Locus B-plot, and the intention to introduce a team of 4 new characters and a “well-liked public figure” to act as the protagonist and antagonist, respectively, for season 19. Along with many more concepts you should read for yourself!

EDIT: To be clear, these scripts were NOT cancelled because of RT being shut down.

I’m seeing a lot of people misunderstand this in the notes. These are Weight’s ALTERNATE PITCHES for seasons 17 and 18 that were not picked up by RT. None of this was ever intended to make it into the show proper. This is NOT what the future of RvB would have been if RT didn’t shut down, it’s a look into an alternate timeline where Jason was hired to write season 18 instead.

None of this is canon.

Thank you.