Eh, even though the specials are not canon to the strips according to Charles Schulz, I was fine with it, I still find that gag hilarious, and he does kick it
in the special, It's Magic, Charlie Brown due to becoming invisible as a result of Snoopy's magic act going awry.
In the strip though, there was one last strip that had the gag, but it was stopped when Lucy was called in for lunch. Rerun (Linus and Lucy's little brother) is told to hold the ball instead, we see Charlie Brown run towards the ball but in the next panel, we cut to Rerun coming in for lunch as well and Lucy asks him "So, did he kick it? Did you pull the ball away? What happened?" to which he replies with a simple "You'll never know..." and she screams "AAUGH!" and Schulz/Sparky never revealed if he pulled it away or let him kick it. xD
Agreed. I get more excited about it every time there is new info on it.
But with them including the entire or most of the gang... I can see where some of that 100 million dollars came from as Blue Sky had to animate every single one of them.
I can see that, and not to mention judging by the trailer, they added his speech balloons that just contain bird scratches in them whenever he chrips.