The Nickelodeon voice actors confirm via twitter that after Nick finishes airing Season 6 they will drop Winx.
This is sad sad news. But this is only in the US it seems. The big question is what will happen to Winx in the US, will DVDs be released. Are the Rai English Season 1-2 DVDs that are being released this year being released by New Video Group BECAUSE Nick is dropping Winx? If that's the case then will they be releasing the Rai dub for Seasons 3 and 4 as well?
If Winx does get picked up by a different network, how will Seasons 5 and 6 merge with Season 7. GAH I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. We just have to wait for answers.
The Winx Club images on Amazon instant video have been edited with an orange border and a Nickelodeon Logo on the top right corner. At least they are still taking ownership of the series because their lack of promotion really makes the show feel like a special feature as opposed to a show that the network produces.
Grant White from Toonzone reports that Pop Pixie is one of many shows on Nickelodeon U.Ks Summer Line-up.
The main Nickelodeon channel will see the addition of Pop Pixie, a spin off of the popular Winx Club series focussing on the Pixie side characters as they have their own adventures in Pixieville starting this month. Winx Club itself is also set to return for a brand new season soon after. Fans of the show should also look out for new episodes of the similar Mia and Me, starting February.
Pop Pixie is a spin-off of Winx Club starring the Pixies. The Pixies have gone through many changes such as Digit now being a male, the pixies overall body structure and overall seems to be in a different universe from Winx. If I could compare it to any other show it would be Trollz.
Well judging by the fact the "New Video Group" decided to add the word "Original" to this DVD release, It should be pretty obvious that this is the Rai English Dub. Sadly their are a lot of people who seem to think this may be the 4kids dub. Let me give some reasons why I am positive that this is in fact the Rai English Dub.
1.) 4kids doesn't have the Winx license anymore.
When Rainbow revoked 4kids of the Winx Club license they had to cancel the DVD release of Winx Club: Fire and Flame which was the 2nd half of Season 3.
If 4kids couldn't even release the last 13 episodes of Winx that they had, why would they go back and re-release Season 1 which is still easy to find online.
2.) 4KMedia (what is left of 4kids) stated that they are working on Yu-Gi-Oh related products and have not made mention of anything else.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/23540.html
New Video Group is in fact releasing the original 4kids Dub of Yu-Gi-Oh on DVD, but that release is distributed by 4K media while Winx is not.
3.) Netflix has the Rai English dub and episode titles even though it lists the 4kids voice actors.
Amazon.com lists the 4kids voice actors but the episode titles in the DVD's description are from the Rai English dub. The Rai English voice actors aren't exactly well known so It is logical why they are quickly overlooked for the 4kids voice actors.
Also the New Video Group website states that they upload some of their products on Netflix so there is your connection.
http://www.cinedigm.com/our-customers/
4.) The Witches aren't called the Trix in the 4kids dub.
For the 2nd Volume to mention the Trix while the 4kids dub does not call the Witches the Trix should let you know that this is not the 4kids dub.
Notice Bloom and Stella's outfits
So there you have it!
I will be reviewing the DVDs when they are released.
The officiall Website states that Vol.1 will be released on the 11th of March while Vol.2 along with the Box set is released on the 25th of March. Unfortunately all online retailers say that all 3 will be released on the 25th of March, so we will just have to wait and see.
Off Topic: Would you guys like me to review the Totally Spies Season 1-3 Box set too!
So a few months before Season 4 started, Konami decided to release a Winx Club themed Dance Dance Revolution Game. Why they did this, we may never know. However it does show how popular Winx Club is in Europe for Konami to even consider this. As you all may know this game was only released in Europe and since Konami doesn't seem to have the Winx Club license anymore (BandaiNamco I believe now owns the Video Game rights to Winx at this moment.) it is very unlikely that this will be released anywhere else.
I'm going to answer some questions about this game that may have never been answered.
Hey Kendall, Where on Earth did you buy this?
I'm glad you asked! I bought it from here,
You can also buy it with a dance mat but it's not a Winx themed mat, it's just the regular DDR Wii mat.
Is the game in English?
For a short answer yes the game is in English. For a long answer the game has 5 languages but English is the default language even though the game case is in French and German.
Fun Fact: Konami's Winx Club Games were generally in favor of the 4kids Dub (The PC/GBA game, Quest for the Codex, Mission Enchantix and Join the Club) this along with the Diary games have elements from the Rai dub!
So on with the review!
Dance Dance Revolution itself is not worth going into so I'm just going to talk about what this game has to offer, and not from a hardcore DDR fans point of view.
Story
Images taken from neodude's DDR Winx Club Videos
The story for each girl is exactly the same and they say the exact same thing to each other. (oh the lazyness.)
Anyway the story is this, "insert Winx Girl Here" gets a letter from the Specialists attached to a gift. When she reads the letter she quickly finds out that the gift is for the best dancer of the Winx. So said Winx Girl goes all around Alfea and Magix finding the other Winx Girls and challenging them to Dance Battles.....I am serious, this is the story.
In the end after said Winx Girl beats everyone else in dance contests that no one was around to watch she happily opens the gift. Upon opening the gift she wonders if she can accept all the victories.....whatever that means. It's not clearly explained what the gift was but I think it's safe to say that it was multiple invitations to a dance party. She then realizes that the Specialists made them all have fun by dancing and rushed to tell the other girls to practice dancing for the party.....THE END!
GEEEZ.....It didn't help that the girls were acting like stereotypical Japanese Anime Girls.
Anyway you have to dance against the 5 other Winx girls. Here are the songs and stages
You Made Me a Woman - Magical Archives
Stand Up - Main Hall in Alfea
Only a Girl - Alfea Courtyard
Fly - Downtown Magix on top of a water fountain @_@....IDK
Enchantix - Red fountain stage that Musa performed on in Season 2
After you beat the story you unlock the "Dance" outfit (the outfits on the cover of the game) for the Winx you were playing as along with 2 songs
Anyway you have to play through the story a total of 9 times to unlock all the songs and courses.
around the 7th play-through the songs go from basic to difficult to expert.
Now when you are in a dance battle, It's not necessarily a Dance Battle. It's more like you are just trying to pass the song while the other girl is dancing next to you as if you are playing in 2-player mode but you're not. Let me explain, If you are playing in 1-Player free play mode, the other Winx acts as a backup dancer. In 2-Player Mode the the other girl literally dances next to you.
Gameplay
Typicall DDR Wii with gimmicks thrown in and the ability to uses your Wii remote along with the steps (not recommended)
The difficulty, however, has been greatly reduced. This is probably the easiest DDR game in history, not to say that it's actually easy for non-hardcore DDR players. An EXPERT level song is at best a really hard BASIC on other DDR games
If you dance well enough and your dance gauge reaches the max you will be able to transform into an Enchantix Fairy. This will only happen if you have danced so well that it's not possible for you to make a score below a B. To transform in Basic Mode you basically need to have a perfect score on some songs.
Fun Fact: Layla's Enchantix is Turquoise like it was in the first half of Season 3 as opposed to it being green in the second half of Season 3.
Presentation
It's just DDR Hottest Party 2 with Pink slapped all over it.
Graphics
The graphics are what you would expect from a DDR game on Wii. The character Models are better than most Winx games. (Excluding Rockstars)
The girls have 3 outfits, their basic Season 3 casual outfit, their outfits they wear in Season 3 when they go out in Magix and their dancing outfits. You unlock these by playing the tutorial and story mode.
Songs
As much as I love the Winx Club songs featured in this game, they are not fun to dance to. Plus there are only 7 Winx songs along with 20 Bemani songs which adds up to a total of 27 songs. Considering a lot of DDR games push 70+ songs, this is a very short list.
Song list
Video From Neodude
Overall:
This game is perfect for kids since the steps are much easier than other DDR games including DDR Mario Mix. The overall "Winx" feel is very minimal as their are times when I don't feel like I'm playing a Winx version of DDR but instead DDR that just happens to have the Winx girls as character models.
If I had to rate this game I would give it a 6/10
It's not a bad game, but the song list is lacking and their aren't many things to keep you coming back compared to other DDR games.
image taken from official Winx Club Italian website
Today the Italian Winx Club Youtube Page released a sneak preview of Mythix. I personally think it's adorable. It still follows the Harmonix/Sirenix trend of everyone having the same basic outfit but it succeeds with everyone still looking different and a bit unique which is something that I thought Harmonix and Sirenix failed at.
This image shows the girls in their Bloomix with their wands and it looks like they are about to transform. Does this mean that the wands are transformation items?
Hi guys and welcome to my new Blog. I have way too much time on my hands for a college student so I'm gonna spend that time doing something constructive :).....gulp. I hope I can pull this off
