By Sadhana Bharanidharan and Cole Watson

• The Neopets brand is linking up with publisher Andrews McMeel for Neopets: The Official Coloring Book (March 2025) and Neopets: The Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity (August 2025). Meanwhile, in the toy aisle, Youtooz will release an Aisha collectible, and PhatMojo is launching a range of eight-inch Neopets plushies.

• Disney is teaming up with San Francisco-based publisher Chronicle Books to age down its X-Men characters in a new graphic novel launching next year. American artist and author Jeffrey Brown will illustrate and write Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Fun (pictured), which follows younger versions of Magneto and Professor X as they attempt to teach their teams of baby mutants how to control their powers. Brown has delivered several of these aged-down graphic novels for the Star Wars franchise over his career, including The Mandalorian and Child (2023) and Darth Vader and Friends (2015).