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| File:Winx Club Logo.png Winx Club logo for 2009-present. | |
| Genre | Fantasy, action, adventure, magical girl, romance |
| Created by | Iginio Straffi |
| Directed by | Iginio Straffi |
| Composers | Michele Bettali Stefano Carrara Fabrizio Castania Maurizio D'Aniello |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 5 (6 announced) |
| No. of episodes | 113 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Joanna Lee Alfred R. Kahn Norman J. Grossfield Tom Kenney |
| Running time | 19-23 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai Due (2004–present) 4KidsTV (2004–2007) Nickelodeon (2011–present) |
| Release | January 28, 2004 – present |
Winx Club is an animated television series[1] directed, created, and produced [2] by Iginio Straffi [1] and his company Rainbow S.r.l..[3][4] It is part of the larger Winx Club franchise. The series is the first Italian cartoon to be sold in the U.S.[5] According to Iginio Straffi's website, "Winx Club is an action and fantasy show combined with comedic elements. In the mystical dimension of Magix, three special schools educate modern fairies, ambitious witches and supernatural warriors, and wizards from all over the magical universe."[2]
Plot
The story follows Bloom and her five best friends, Stella, Flora, Tecna, Musa and Layla/Aisha, and is situated mainly in the Magical Dimension and on Earth. They call themselves "The Winx Club" and go on countless magical and mystical adventures together. Throughout the story, they discover new evolved much stronger fairy transformations, unlock new secrets and even stronger magical powers, battle against the darkness and support Bloom as she tries to discover her true past, home world, and birth parents.
Fairy forms and transformation sequences
In the first season, everyone is endowed their regular Winx/fairy form. This basic form usually consists of a sparkling cropped top and a sparkling miniskirt or mini-shorts. However, some forms consist of sparkly dress or full piece suit (See Flora and Tecna's Winx/fairy forms). Also, they usually, but not always, bear some sort of accessory on their arms such as wristbands, arm warmers or gloves. They also sometimes wear a matching hair ornament such as a tiara and their hair is occasionally tied while in this form. They also don boots or, most often, heeled shoes and sprout a pair of small, membranous, fluttering wings. It should be noted that Winx fairies cannot cover long distances and they are incapable of agile flight (see picture of the characters with their pixies). It is not the most powerful form, as it only allows a fairy to use basic attacks; but in a special case like Bloom, she can unleash her dragon flame which happens to be very intense; as seen in the final battle between Bloom and Icy in the first season.
In the second season, they get their second transformation and magical power, Charmix. They earn their Charmix by getting in touch with their true selves. They still wear their regular Winx/fairy outfits, but now they have a pin on their chest with a small gem and a small purse or waist bag that sits on the side of their mini skirt or mini shorts. However, in Flora's case, she has a shoulder bag and not a waist purse.
In the third season, they get their Enchantix, which is their full-fledged fairy form. In their Enchantix form, the girls have larger wings, (that are more sparkly and elegant)which enable them to fly higher and longer distances and cleave through strong windstorms, as well out-fly predators and opponents. They also have a fairy dust vial, situated around their neck, usually suspended by a choker, that contains and keeps sealed their fairy dust of healing and spell-breaking properties. Bloom also uses her fairy dust vial to keep the tremendously powerful, magical essences of other worlds stored inside of it, as shown in, The Omega Mission when the Winx and the Specialist's are boarding the ship for flight back to Alfea. An Enchantix typically consists of above-the-elbow translucent gloves and barefoot sandals. They wear a very short dress or a small top with a miniskirt or mini shorts. Their hair grows longer and is elaborately arranged in loose tresses and high bunches; Tecna and Musa bear atypically different hairstyles. A fairy earns her Enchantix by saving someone from her home world, with a great sacrifice on her part (excluding Bloom and Tecna- Bloom willed herself into her Enchantix and Tecna gave herself up for Aisha's home planet, not her own realm, but she did save the lives of everyone on Andros). It should be noted that one does not actually have to be on one's home world when doing this. Enchantix is said to be 'the maximum or final fairy form that leads a fairy to her infinite energy' in the third season; but for some reasons, the Winx manage to achieve Believix and Harmonix, which are even more powerful than Enchantix. Headmistress Faragonda is said to have already reached her Enchantix level.
In the fourth season, all of the Winx move on to their Believix, entering a more advanced fairy stage with larger wings and additional powers, including the ability to make people believe in fairies. The form is earned by making a human believe in fairies. All six Winx girls become Believix fairies at the same time by convincing Roxy, the last fairy of Earth, to acknowledge the existence of fairies and subsequently embrace her own being. In their Believix form, they have three new types of wings with special powers. There is Speedix (much faster wings), Zoomix (short-distance teleportation), and Tracix (visions into the past and, possibly, future). A Believix outfit usually consists of a cropped top and a miniskirt or pants. The girls wear socks and heels and their hair is usually tied. They often wear fingerless gloves. Also, Believix powers have two new sub-transformations (Gifts of Destiny) added; Lovix(which gives them ice powers) and Sophix(which gives them the powers of plant and nature).
In the fifth season, the Winx evolve to Harmonix faries; a power that enables a fairy to accelerate and use it's magic properly underwater. Apart from the other seasons, the Winx got their Harmonix powers from their sirenix guardians, thus, not making the girls perform a specific 'task' to gain a new power. The wings get much smaller,(compared to Enchantix or Believix wings) but makes faries accelerate faster underwater. They get more powerful than ever(more than Believix). The Winx' outfits all look the same, only with minor changes and colours. Their hair is tied with several hair bands and accessories(minus Tecna). The outfits are mostly a dress with a strap that goes on one shoulder, with a belt and a mini-skirt, and a long cape stretching from their waist. They wear heeled barefoot sandals, made of two ribbons attatched around the feet and legs.
Plot
First season
Bloom, a supposedly ordinary girl from planet Earth, and her pet Kiko live a perfectly normal life in the city of Gardenia with her mother and father, until she stumbles upon Stella, a princess from the planet Solaria, who is in trouble. Coming to Stella's aid, Bloom discovers her dormant magical abilities when she dodges a group of monsters and attacks an ogre. Stella persuades Bloom to join Alfea, a collage for fairies in the Magical Dimension. She agrees and leaves Gardenia and her parents. At Alfea, Bloom forms the "Winx Club", whose members are her four friends and roommates: Stella, and the three friends she meets at Alfea: Musa, Tecna, and Flora. Later in the series they encounter and befriend the Specialists: Brandon, Riven, Timmy and Sky, who also become their love interests. They also encounter their enemies, a trio of witches calling themselves the Trix: Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. They are witches from Cloud Tower, a college for witches and dark magic that is roughly equivalent to Alfea, and are in search of the vastly limitless energy and power of the Dragon Fire/Flame, which is supposedly in Stella's magic ring. However, they realize that the "Dragon Fire" is the very source of Bloom's magical strength and powers, which they try to steal from her. They make an army of decay which they sent to Red Fountain and Alfea. The witches from Cloud Tower join Alfea and together the defeat the Trix. During that time Bloom figures out that the Dragon Fire was in her the whole time. Bloom also begins to learn the secrets of her home world Domino/Sparks, birth parents, and magical abilities. Bloom is heartbroken by Brandon, who appears to be Prince Sky as him and the real Brandon switched identities, but she ends up forgiving Sky at the end of the season.
Second season
The Trix are sent to Lake Roccaluce, a place to turn evil minds pure and good. Bloom, Stella, Flora, Tecna and Musa discover a new fairy, Aisha/Layla, the fairy of waves from the world of Andros and she becomes the sixth of the Winx Club. Along with Layla there come lots of other magical, supernatural beings. The pixies, Lockette, Amore, Chatta, Digit, Tune and Piff. The Winx face a new enemy, Lord Darkar, who releases the Trix and makes them stronger. One of Darkar's servants attends Alfea, posing as Professor Avalon, a teacher. Avalon lies to Bloom, saying that he can help find her birth parents-King Oritel and Queen Miriam- and her lost kingdom, and in doing so, he gives her a shadow virus. That virus turned Bloom evil and she began torturing Timmy. After Lord Darkar realizes that he needs more power to open the gateway to Relix, he instructs Avalon to turn Bloom evil once again. That is when he ditches the Trix and accepts Dark Bloom as his main witch. When they get to Relix, he tells Dark Bloom to give him the Ultimate Power. Unconsciously, she does so. In the end, it is Sky's mutually strong and true romantic love for Bloom that saves her and everybody else living.
Third season
Previously banished to the Omega Dimension, the Trix are able to escape with Valtor, an evil sorcerer partially responsible for the destruction of Bloom's home planet, Domino/Sparx. They choose to cooperate and plan to invade several areas in the realm of Magix and seek vengeance on those who imprisoned them, by stealing their exceptionally strong and powerful magical and mystical treasures and immeasurable power sources of each realm. With their newly strong and powerful Enchantix powers, Flora, Stella, Layla, Tecna, and Musa are able to use strong, incredible power and can miniaturize. Bloom, however, cannot miniaturize due to the fact that her Enchantix is not complete. The Winx begin their third and final year at Alfea, learning about their unique Enchantix transformations, acquired by selflessly sacrificing themselves for someone from their home world (or even everyone from every world, in what ends up being Tecna's case) and showing great courage in doing so. With no one from her home planet, Domino, to save, Bloom must acquire her Enchantix form and tremendous power on Pyros,the island of dragons. She also learns more about Domino, as well as the truth about where her birth parents, Oritel and Miriam, are.
Fourth season
Taking place after the events of Secret of the Lost Kingdom, The Winx are back at Alfea, but this time as the teachers. They learn about a new evolved fairy transformation and power called Believix, which can only be accessed when people in a non-magic world (such as Earth) start to truly believe in magic and fairies. Faragonda also teaches them that there are endless infinite stages of fairy evolution and transformation. The Winx Club also bump into the four Wizards of The Black Circle, a group of wizards who had trapped all of the fairies of Earth, and are back to get one they unknowingly left behind. The Winx girls and Specialists have to track the Wizards of the Black Circle to Gardenia, Bloom's Earth hometown, and save the last terrestrial Earth fairy, Roxy-the fairy of animals- while trying to get people on Earth to believe in magic once again by helping the Winx Club to touch peoples heart and inner feelings.
Change in licensing
In the United States, the license for 4KidsTV expired in 2007, and Rai Due sought out a new partner.[6] On 2 September 2010, Nickelodeon announced [7] through a press release that they will be co-producing seasons 5 and 6 of Winx Club.
In early January 2011, it was announced that Keke Palmer will be playing the voice of Layla. In late March 2011, Molly Quinn announced she will be voicing Bloom.[8] Josh Keaton announced that he will voice Valtor in season 3.[9] Ariana Grande announced on 22 May via Twitter that she will be voicing Princess Diaspro, a minor villain, in the new dub.[10] Romi Dames has also announced that she will voice Musa and Helia will be played by David Faustino from Married... with Children.[11] Elizabeth Gillies is playing Daphne and Matt Shively is playing Sky.[12] The first special's broadcast revealed that Amy Gross is voicing Stella, Alejandra Reynoso is voicing Flora, and Morgan Decker is voicing Tecna.[13][14]
According to Micheal's Winx Club Website, the second movie, Winx Club 3D Magical Adventure, is scheduled to be aired in spring 2012. To coincide with the movie, a McDonald's promotion is currently scheduled to appear in April 2013.
Fifth season
Sirenix is said to be the main fairy transformation of the season after Harmonix. Season five, titled "Beyond Believix",the Winx embark on a mission to achieve Sirenix, a water based transformation that is strong and powerful enough to defeat the evil Tritannus and the Trix. There are two new evolutionary fairy transformations in this season: Harmonix and Sirenix. This is the first season to be made with 2D hand-drawn graphics and CGI computer animation. This season is also made in HD for the first time. The Book of Sirenix gave them Sirenix Boxes, and much stronger Harmonix powers. Before they achieve Sirenix, they must find the Gem of Self-Confidence, Gem of Empathy, and the Gem of Courage. There is a dark and evil curse upon Sirenix that left Bloom's older sister, Daphne, a disembodied spirit when she had used its tremendous power to defend herself. Daphne was the last fairy to achieve Sirenix's transformation and enormous power until the Winx Club gain full access to Sirenix, and cross the gate into the infinite ocean itself.
Sixth season
Season six has been confirmed to be co-produced by both Rainbow S.r.l and Nickelodeon. A third movie and a sixth season, airing both in 2013, as well as possibly more seasons since Rainbow mentioned that the fifth and sixth seasons will be beginning of taking Winx Club to "another level." Iginio Straffi has said that the series will continue at least through 2014, which will be 10 years of Winx Club.
Characters
Broadcast history
In Italy, where the series was created, it has been broadcast on Rai Due since 28 January 2004. In the United States, it was licensed and dubbed into English by 4kids Entertainment and was broadcast on Fox's programming block 4Kids TV beginning on 19 June 2004, with a preview episode airing on 22 May 2004. 4Kids TV continued its initial run until 22 September 2007. On 12 April 2008, Winx Club was rebroadcast until 27 December 2008. On 18 July 2009, reruns of Winx Club then aired on the CW's programming block CW4Kids until 17 July 2010. Cartoon Network aired Winx Club in 2005 on their afternoon block Miguzi. Another English dub produced by Cinelume in association with Rai Due has been broadcast in Singapore, season 4 in Australia, and is featured as an alternate English language track on several European DVD releases.
Nickelodeon acquired the rights to the franchise and is producing a new English dub in Los Angeles. Nickelodeon started airing the series with four-one hour specials summarizing seasons one and two. Season three premiered on Nickelodeon under the title "Winx Club Enchantix" and was aired weekdays at 3/2c, then changed to 2/1c during half of the season. The fourth season, "Winx Club: The Power of Believix" premiered in America on May 6, 2012 and airs Sundays with two episodes at 12/11c. The season finale aired on July 29, 2012. The fifth season "Winx Club: Beyond Believix" premiered on Nickelodeon on August 26, 2012.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ a b http://www.chacha.com/question/how-can-i-contact-iginio-straffi-the-producer-of-the-winx-club-series
- ^ a b http://www.iginiostraffi.com/
- ^ http://www.iginiostraffi.com/press.php?id=2
- ^ http://www.gamezone.com/news/konami_4kids_entertainment_and_rainbow_s_r_l_announce_winx_club_license_agreement
- ^ Rainbow S.p.A. "Winx Club". Retrieved 2006-11-15.
- ^ "The next big thing" by Ann-Marie Corven, TBI Kids June/July 2010 p.6-8
- ^ "Nickelodeon and Rainbow S.p.A. Announce Global Partnership for Winx Club Animated Series - NEW YORK, Sept. 2". New York: Prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
- ^ "Molly C. Quinn, Official Fan Site". Facebook. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
- ^ "Josh Keaton". Facebook. 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
- ^ https://twitter.com/#!/ArianaGrande
- ^ https://twitter.com/#!/TheRomiDames
- ^ "Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
- ^ "Winx Club - One-Hour Special Ending". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
- ^ "Winx Club on Nick! (All credits) ~ Winx Club on Nickelodeon: Feel the magic!". Winxclubnick.blogspot.co.uk. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
External links
- Official sites
- Official website Available in multiple languages including English edition currently for the United Kingdom
- Official website for the theatrical films Template:Bg icon, Template:En icon, Template:Fr icon, Template:It icon, Template:Nl icon, Template:Pt icon, Template:Ru icon, Template:Tr icon
- PopPixie Operated by Rainbow S.p.A.
- Winx Club at Nick.com
- Databases
