PopPixie explained
PopPixie is an Italian animated television miniseries created by Iginio Straffi. Its only season aired on Rai 2 for just over two months, from 10 January to 22 March 2011. The show features a cast of pixies, who were first introduced as secondary characters in the second season of Winx Club. PopPixie is aimed at younger viewers, with an intended audience of 4 to 6-year-olds.[1]
The miniseries was first announced in May 2009,[2] and its first episode was previewed at MIPCOM.[3] After Nickelodeon became a co-developer of the main Winx Club series, the company announced that PopPixie would air on its global network of channels beginning in late 2011.[1]
PopPixie is set in a small town called Pixieville, which is inhabited by creatures like pixies, elves, and gnomes. The town is fed from the Tree of Life, an ancient tree that provides the Pixies' MagicPops, spheres that contain good magic related to a pixie's special talent. If a pixie uses her or his talent for good, she or he will receive a MagicPop and become a PopPixie. The Pixies are human kid-like tiny creatures. This show features characters like Lockette, Amore, Chatta, Tune, Piff, Digit, Livy, Fixit, Pam, Caramel, Martino, and of course, Cherie. [4]
Characters
Pixies
- Lockette: Lockette's MagicPop gives her the power to open magical passages and find everything which is hidden. She is the PopPixie of Direction. She works at the Pixie Plaza, the most famous hotel in Pixieville. She is friends with Amore and is annoyed by Chatta. Her assistant is Guzman the monkey. Her signature color is purple.
- Caramel: Caramel is a tomboyish little girl. She runs the most famous bakery in Pixieville, the Molly Moo, and her MagicPop gives her incredible strength. She is the PopPixie of Super Strength and the twin sister of Martino. Her assistant is Tina the pig. Her signature color is yellow.
- Martino: He is the barman at the Molly Moo, his twin sister Caramel's bakery. His MagicPop gives him the power of doing incredible acrobatics, balancing and extraordinary strength. He is the Pixie of Acrobatics. He even helps his best friend Plasto and is Cherie's new fiance.
- Amore: Amore owns the Love Shop, which is the only shop to be specialized in love potions and spells in Pixieville. She is the PopPixie of Love and Feelings. Amore's love interest is Robinson, Pixieville's ranger. Her assistants are Otis the hippo, and Wiki the owl. Her signature color is pink.
- Chatta: Chatta is an optimistic little girl and is the PopPixie of Gossip. She uses her loud gossip as a means of defending herself as well as of attacking her enemies. Her assistant is Blabla the frog. Her signature color is green.
- Cherie: Cherie is the PopPixie of Weather. She loves shopping. She is somewhat a spoiled, cruel, sadistic and selfish little girl. Her MagicPop gives her the power of controlling the weather when she is happy, sad, or angry. Her assistant is Lulu the cat. Sometimes somebody threw food at Cherie when she gets mad enough. Her signature colors are red and rosy-pink. For the most part, she is annoyed by Martino, who becomes her new fiancé.
- Fixit: Fixit is the PopPixie of Technomagic, and works at the Toy Shop of the Gnome Augustus, where he uses his talent to make incredible toys. He is Lockette's best friend. His MagicPop gives him extraordinary intelligence which he uses to make unique inventions combining magic and Technomagic. His assistant is Rico the frog.
- Digit: Digit is also the PopPixie of Technomagic. His MagicPop gives him the power to using Technology. Digit was changed to a boy in PopPixie.
- Livy: Livy is the Pixie of Messages in Winx Club, but in PopPixie, his MagicPop gives him the ability to be super fast. Livy was changed to a boy as well. He is the PopPixie of Velocity.
- Pam: Pam is a beautiful little girl. She works at Dry & Cut, the most famous beauty salon in Pixieville. Her MagicPop makes it very fast. Her assistant is Bamboo the hedgehog. She is the PopPixie of Hand Speed. Her signature color is orange.
- Piff: Piff is the PopPixie of Sweet Sleep and has a rabbit (also called Tina) for companion. She is able to talk, unlike Season 2 of Winx Club, where she only makes noises.
- Glim: Like Piff, Glim is a baby and can't talk. His suit lights up when he wants, resembling a firefly. In PopPixie, Glim is a boy and his MagicPop grants him the power to manipulate electrokinesis. He is the Pixie of Energy.
- Tune: Tune is the Pixie of Vocal Power and her MagicPop gives her the power to be good and to even cry and sing very sharply. Her assistant is Gunnar the squirrel. Her signature color is blue.
- Kara: She is the Pop Pixie of Creation. With a swipe of her paint brush, she can create almost anything. Her brother is Pixienardo and best and childhood friend is Chatta, the PopPixie of Gossip.
- Ranger Robinson: He is Pixieville's park ranger and Amore's love interest. Robinson knows a lot about animals and wildlife.
- Camilla: She is a shy little girl, who has invisible power but also sweet. After she scares Damien the little boy, she's got the MagicPop that turns her into PopPixie of Illusion.
- Camelia: She's the PopPixie of plants. She loves plants, and likes to hang out with her pals, and she's the helpful, caring pixie in the world. Martino falls in love with her, which makes Cherie jealous.
- Mola: Mola digs holes and has the ability to shoot the energy bolts which can create tunnels. She's the PopPixie of tunnels. She is the friend of Chatta and Livy.
- Flower: She is a little girl who doesn't like Chatta at first, because Chatta had spilt coffee all over her. But in the end, Flower thanked her for saving the day after she wrote an article.
- Lola: She flies backwards, but having trouble to fly right, she only appears on "Flying Money".
Elves
- Floxy is a boy with a special talent for spiteful tricks and bad jokes. He is not particularly intelligent and is the most immature of the Elves. There is nothing that he takes seriously and since his organisational skills are nil, he follows Rex faithfully. Floxy is both lazy and greedy. He loves cakes more than money.
- Narcissa is equally lazy and quirky. She dreams of living the life of a great lady, something that Floxy cannot give her. Narcissa pushes Floxy to be better than the others and this often lands her fiancé in situations that she doesn't know how to get out of. For Narcissa, this is a very painful situation, and she reacts in all the wrong ways, feeling inferior to her chums who have better male partners than she has.
- Lenny is wacky and loves taking risks for the sake of excitement, reckless and irresponsible. Although he is unpredictable and independent, he is always the first to follow Rex and Yucca in some new raid on Pixieville.
- Yucca is the fiancé of Lenny. Yucca is frivolous and adores extreme shopping.
- Rex is an arrogant and haughty elf. He admires Maxine and thinks that the rest of the world is not worthy of his attention. Compared to the others, Rex has a more mature and criminal side to his character. This aspect of his character particularly appeals to Maxine, his fiancé who is very ambitious.
- Maxine is very malicious and is the dominating personality of the couple with Rex. As the meanie of the elves, she uses all her charm to keep Rex firmly where she wants him. As Rex is a model for the boy Elves, Maxine is the role model for girl Elves.
Other characters
Aside from Pixies, Pixieville is also home to gnomes and talking animals who help the Pixies.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Nickelodeon Plucks PopPixie. Kidscreen. 12 April 2011. Goldman Getzler. Wendy.
- Web site: License! Global - Rainbow Names Bandai for PopPixie. https://web.archive.org/web/20090511190631/http://www.licensemag.com/licensemag/Toys+%26+Video+Games/Rainbow-Names-Bandai-for-PopPixie/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/597094. dead. 11 May 2009. 8 May 2009.
- Web site: TV Kids: Rainbow S.p.A.. 27 September 2009. Worldscreen.
- Web site: PopPixie . TV Maze . 22 March 2011 . 4 March 2021.
- Web site: PopPixie - Episode List . TV Maze . 4 March 2021.
- Web site: Pop Pixie Episode Guide . Radio Times . 4 March 2021.
