Marvel Studios' next animated spin-off, I Am Groot, finally has a release date.
Marvel confirmed on Twitter that the animated series of shorts, which features Vin Diesel reprising his role as Baby Groot, will start streaming on August 10. Unfortunately, the initial teaser was not a trailer. Instead, the first official poster shows the titular anthropomorphic sapling laid back on top of what looks like Peter Quill's headphones and his Walkman as he listens to music on a pair of cans.
The most interesting part about the poster is the initial appearance of the two mischievous-looking penguin-like creatures. We haven't seen either of the two in any previous Marvel Studios film, so it looks like they'll be unique to the new series.
According to Marvel Studios, I Am Groot is a show about "Baby Groot's glory days growing up, and getting into trouble among the stars."
Disney nor Marvel is yet to reveal if the other members of the Guardians of the Galaxy will also appear on the show and who will voice them. Although we wouldn't mind watching a show with just Groot and his limited vocabulary (wouldn't that be something?). If nothing else, we can expect I Am Groot to take a page out of Disney's other child-friendly short series like Olaf Presents (Frozen) and Ice Age Scrat Tales (Ice Age).