Story

In this spinoff series, the Winx Club girls return to Gardenia, Bloom’s hometown on Earth, where they work as a group of talent scouts on a reality television program to find children and teenagers of various talents. Behind the scenes, they try to save them from being kidnapped by a Talent Thief while hiding their own identities as fairies as well as their unique magical abilities. In the first season, the Winx Club girls achieve the magical transformation, which is called “Dreamix” by Stella.

In the second season, the Winx Club girls receive new missions from the spirit of the dream world. They learn of the Queen’s troubled past and hope to return her to the good fairy she was once by reuniting her with her lost love, Peter Pan. Their transformations and powers are upgraded to “Onyrix”. Jim and Smee at first ally with the Winx Club girls in facing the Queen and her shadow creatures. The winx must also deal with special shadow creatures called Nemesis which are drawn from the essence of each of the Winx girls’ deepest fears.

Characters

Winx Club characters

The series brings back the six fairies of the Winx Club, as well as Roxy, who has a recurring role:

• Bloom (voiced by Haven Paschall): Fairy of the Dragon Fire and leader of the Winx Club. She has orange waist-length hair, light blue eyes and tan skin. Her magic is based on fire.
• Aisha (voiced by Alysha Deslorieux): Fairy of Waves. She has light brown skin, wavy tawny hair and blue eyes. She has the power to create and manipulate water.
• Stella (voiced by Jessica Paquet ): Fairy of the Shining Sun. She has waist-length blonde hair and hazel brown eyes. She loves fashion and shopping. Her magic is derived from sunlight. In season 2, her Onyrix power gives her the ability to look into the memories made at a location.
• Flora (voiced by Eileen Stevens ): Fairy of Nature. The most kind-hearted of the Winx Club. She has waist-length honey-colored hair. Her magic allows her to create, control and communicate with plants, vegetation and the earth.
• Musa (voiced by Kate Bristol ): Fairy of Music. She has waist-length blue hair with bangs and tan skin. She has the power to create powerful ultrasonic waves of incredibly high frequencies and create solid barriers of sound.
• Tecna (voiced by Saskia Maarleveld): Fairy of Technology. Her magic is techno-magic. She can speak to and interact with all types of machinery and electronics. Her hair is colored purple instead of hot pink in this series.
• Roxy (voiced by Suzy Myers): Fairy of Animals who is also from Earth. She works at the Frutti Music Bar cafe. She has a dog named Arthur, with whom she can use her magic to see what he sees from a great distance. She can also detect danger, as well as supernatural artifacts. She helps Bloom in dealing with Detectives Gomez and Evans, and following leads on the Talent Thief.

Major characters

• Ace (voiced by Jason Griffith ): the host of Wow! He has gray hair with white streaks. He always strives to be positive and enthusiastic when he is on camera, but off-screen, he loses patience because the Winx regularly disappears from the show and evade his show’s camera drones . He is especially annoyed by Bloom. In the episode “The Fashion Week”, when she accidentally knocks off her hairpiece in front of the camera, he is so enraged that he fires Bloom on the spot, and replaces her with Lorelei. He is later hypnotized by Smee to put the Winx in a dangerous situation with Smee’s zombie pirates, firing Lorelei when she tries to tell him the Winx are fairies, and reinstating Bloom. ^{Ep. 10}
• Margot (voiced by Samara Naeymi): a judge on the Wow! show. She dislikes all of the acts and always votes against them. She has a dog named Puff who sits on her lap.
• Cliff (voiced by Billy Bob Thompson): a judge on the Wow! show. He tends to be optimistic and votes towards retaining the talent prospects for the finals.
• Queen (voiced by Brittany Pressley): A fairy from the world of dreams. In season 1, she manipulates the shadow creatures to kidnap young people from Earth in order to steal their talents. After abducting upcoming singer Annabelle, she adopts Annabelle’s voice. In the season 1 final, she steals Bloom’s powers to fight the other Winx but is defeated. It is then revealed that she is Tinkerbell from the Peter Pan stories, and that Peter Pan had left her to go to Earth. In the second season, she summons shadow creatures called nemesis based on the darkness of each of the fairies.
• Smee (voiced by Billy Bob Thompson): He first appeared in Episode 10, “Dangerous Waters” as an assistant to the Wow! Show, but he uses his powers to hypnotize ace, as well as control an army of zombie pirates. At the end of season 1, it is revealed he is Mr. Smee from Peter Pan and that he has sided with Captain Hook once again.
• Jim (voiced by Marc Thompson ): An elusive man with dark purple hair, who Bloom and Roxy tried to chase down at the start of the series, suspected of being Annabelle’s abductor. He has the ability to turn invisible. In the first season, he escapes Annabelle’s apartment but drops his pocket watch. ^{Ep. 7-8} He later works with Bloom to try to rescue Annabelle. At the end of season 1, it is revealed he is Captain Hook from Peter Pan, and that he was made young by the Queen (Tinkerbell) ‘s magic. He intends to take over Neverland.
• Gomez (voiced by Wayne Grayson ): An undercover police detective who works with Evans on the case of Annabelle’s abduction. They frequently find ways to spy on the Winx Club. He likes to be casually friendly towards his partner, often thinking of their adventures like dating situations, but does not understand why Evans and women detectives in general are so serious.
• Evans (voiced by Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld ): An undercover police detective who investigates the Winx for the abduction of Annabelle. She is fairly serious, and gets annoyed about Gomez’s casual attitude and incompetence.
• Matt (voiced by Abe Goldfarb ) is the only child and son of Peter Pan. The Winx Club is looking to find him so he can lead them to his long-lost father. He has curly brown hair, and originally lived in London with Wendy Darling and Peter until Peter left. He lives in Paris. Later found by Musa’s sound magic, he was teleported to the dream world, where he put the Queen in the forest and expressed his enduring love for her. ^{[ Episode needed ]}
• Venomya (voiced by Lisa Flanagan ): A critic that dislikes the musical performances put together by the Winx Club, and tries to write bad reviews. She first appears in season 2 where she has long blond hair.

Supporting characters

• Annabelle : a waitress who is recruited as a talent prospect for the Wow! show. She has a beautiful singing voice. Her abduction becomes the main storyline in the first season. In the first two episodes of Season 2, she joins the Winx during their performance in London, New York City, and Paris along with her friend Louise. Her hair is now shoulder-length and has some lines on it.
• Crocodile Man : a servant of the Queen who is an anthropomorphic crocodile. He first appears in the New York City episodes, but later returns to the Queen summons him to go after Jim and the Winx. He is based on the crocodile in the Peter Pan stories.
• Lorelei : a blond-haired girl who joins the Winx on the Wow! Show as a talent scout when Bloom is fired. She likes to be the center of attention. She and Stella do not get along. Episode ⁷ In the episode “Dangerous Waters”, when she discovers that the Winx are fairies, she tries to tell Ace and the Wow! Show but is laughed off and fired.
• The Shaman : a martial artist who works for the Queen to kidnap talent prospects. He uses a set of stones that give him special powers, including allowing him to disappear into a puff of smoke.
• The Spirit of the World of Dreams She is the spiritual manifestation of the world of dreams itself. She summons the Winx Club and her daughter was in danger.

Production

In September 2014, as part of its efforts to increase kids’ programming, it was announced that Netflix had ordered from Rainbow Studios two seasons of World of Winx , each comprising 13 22-minute episodes. ^{[2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2]} The Young and the Restless Netflix at the time has had a pact with Rainbow to show some of the seasons of Winx Club , its movies, and other Rainbow shows such as PopPixie and Mia and Me . ^[2]

Originally slated to premiere in early 2016, ^[2] the series was delayed until later that year, eventually premiering in November 4 as a Netflix original series. ^{[4] [5] [6]} Rainbow promoted the show briefly at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas in 2016, along with shows Regal Academy and Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends . At the event, it was revealed that the storyline involved a Talent Thief who had been capturing children. ^[7] The second season was released on Netflix on 16 June 2017. ^[8]

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Reception

Ella Anders, a regular reviewer of magical girl-themed shows on BSC Kids , had low expectations on the series given that the most recent seasons of Winx Club were shells of their original, but said “So it was all that much stranger when I realized Just how good World of Winx actually is “. She liked that the series made the story meaningful. “Every moment counts, the story is a good one that is tightly woven together.” The humor and heart shines. She was very fond of the Winx girls and was “back to their old selves”. ^[5]

Works cited

• ^ “Ep.” Is shortened form for episode and refers to an episode number inWorld of Winx.

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