I was peripherally aware of a new cartoon in development. I've so far chosen not to look straight at it, so to speak, for fear of TPTB not handling it well. ~wry~

I had not heard of use of the original characters with the new series. Thank you for the news; that's important. That feeds worry a bit, of course: so many ways it could go.

I'm aware of the grown-up Presto still-in-the-Realm cameo in a professional Forgotten Realms story. I've always taken that as not necessarily canonical to the cartoon, just one possibility among all the possibilities.