GTA VI will have its own cartoon series: Macca & Friends premieres November 19 on Weazel

Status: Confirmed. It's the show's official trailer, with the Weazel bug and the premiere date. Rockstar debuted it as an exclusive on DiscussingFilm's YouTube channel; we haven't seen it on Rockstar's own channels yet. Last updated: November 13.

GTA VI will have its own cartoon series inside the game. It's called Macca & Friends, it stars Macca the Gator, the pink gator we've been seeing for months on tees, in the collector's box and at Miami's airport, and it premieres on November 19 on Weazel, Leonida's TV channel. Rockstar showed a first 30-second trailer on DiscussingFilm's YouTube channel, and we went through it frame by frame.

The official description sums it up in one line: the series follows "the adventures of Macca the Gator and his wetland friends across the state of Leonida."

The trailer, shot by shot

• Macca at home. It opens in a wooden shack: Macca, in purple sunglasses and a blue Hawaiian shirt, raises a baseball bat and laughs his head off.
• At the wheel, in the swamp. Then he's in a vehicle with the wetlands behind him, waving both claws around. That's the setting from the official description: "his wetland friends."
• The crab landlord. A pink crab with a mustache and a gold chain that reads "PINCHE" shows up. According to the video's auto-generated captions, Macca says his "little crab landlord" will kick him out if he doesn't pay. That's the trailer's conflict: Macca needs money.
• A sun in shades. A grinning sun wearing sunglasses fills the screen. Florida's postcard image, the Sunshine State, turned into a cartoon.
• Busted. Macca rides in the back of a patrol car with a flamingo in aviator goggles and what looks like a manatee in a fedora. At the wheel, a blond cop with a mustache and shades singing at the top of his lungs.
• The station. A lobby with a boar cop, an orange fish in uniform and human officers. On the floor, the seal of the Vice City Police Department, State of Leonida.
• End card. The whole gang together, the Macca & Friends logo and "Coming November 19 on WEAZEL." Top right, the Vice City logo and a QR code.

Is it made in the game engine?

Some outlets, like LADbible, say the video was captured in the game engine. What's on screen is something else: traditional 2D animation, with hand-drawn lines and painted backgrounds, in the style of adult animated TV shows. What does come from the game is the world: Vice City, Leonida's police and the Weazel bug in every shot.

Not our first look at Macca

• In September, Rockstar revealed The Goodtime State collector's box, with a Macca figure.
• In October, the Macca tee hit the Rockstar Store.
• In November, a Macca & Friends poster showed up at Miami's airport, with the same "Coming November 19 on Weazel." Now we know what it was advertising.

What we don't know

There's no episode count, runtime or voice cast. It also hasn't been said whether you'll be able to watch it all on day one or if episodes will roll out over time. The trailer only gives the date: November 19, the same day as the game.

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