Kamp Koral

Kamp Koral is an upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off prequel series, introducing a 10-year-old SpongeBob at a summer sleepaway camp.

Premise
SpongeBob and friends spend the summer catching jellyfish, building camp-fires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at Kamp Koral, located in the Kelp Forest.

Production
The series is due to commence production in June 2019 and it will be CG-animated. Ramsey Naito, Nickelodeon’s EVP Animation Production and Development, said: "SpongeBob has an incredible universe to expand upon and the greenlight for Kamp Koral is a testament to the strength and longevity of these characters known and loved by generations of fans around the world."

Of the Kamp Koral announcement, Paul Tibbitt (Stephen Hillenburg's successor as showrunner from 2005-2015) said: "I do not mean any disrespect to my colleagues who are working on this show. They are good people and talented artists. But this is some greedy, lazy executive-ing right here, and they ALL know full well Steve would have HATED this. Shame on them."

On June 5, Rob Renzetti (another former Nickelodeon employee, creator of My Life as a Teenage Robot) said that he disapproved of the spin-off idea. He also retweeted Tibbitt's statement.

It was confirmed by storyboard artist Brian Morante that he started storyboarding the pilot episode in July 2019.

On August 23, 2019, it was confirmed by Vincent Waller that Andrew Goodman is writing a episode for Kamp Koral.

Trivia

 * This is the first new entry in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise to be announced after Stephen Hillenburg's passing in November 2018. Hillenburg himself was strongly against spin-offs, crossovers, and "aging down" SpongeBob's character. As such, this has received a lot of negative backlash from many fans and staff of the show. This has also resulted in many petitions trying to get the show canned.
 * In some of the few interviews with Stephen Hillenburg, he recalled that that he was planning to "walk out" completely on Nickelodeon when they demanded that SpongeBob be a school-aged child, "like Hey Arnold! under the sea." He was about to abandon the idea for a full series until he came up with a compromise (putting SpongeBob in a boat driving school so he could remain an adult-aged character).