PopPixie

PopPixie is an Italian animated 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 otherwise unconnected to Winx Club, and it is aimed at younger viewers than its predecessor, with an intended audience of 4 to 6-year-olds.[1]

PopPixie
Genre	Fantasy Adventure
Created by	Iginio Straffi
Based on	Winx Club by Iginio Straffi
Written by	Francesco Artibani
Directed by	Iginio Straffi
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	Italian
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26 (52 segments)
Production
Running time	13 minutes
Production company	Rainbow S.p.A.
Distributor	Rainbow S.p.A.
Release
Original network	Rai 2
Picture format	1080i:HDTV
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	10 January – 22 March 2011
Chronology
Related shows	Winx Club

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 village called Pixieville, inhabited by creatures like pixies, elves, and gnomes. The village is fed from the Tree of Life, an ancient tree that provides the Pixies' MagicPops, globes that contain good magic related to a pixie's special talent. Each Pixie has a special talent and when they use it for the benefit of others and in the right way, they will receive a MagicPop and becomes a PopPixie.

Characters

Promo artwork of Chatta and Fixit in a boat.

Pixies

Amore: She owns the Love Shop, which is the only shop to be specialized in love potions and spells in Pixieville. She is the Pixie of Feelings. Her assistants are Otis, a purple Pixie Hippopotamus, and an unnamed owl.

Caramel: She runs the most famous bakery in Pixieville, the Molly Moo, and her MagicPop gives her incredible strength. She is the Pixie of Super Strength and the twin sister of Martino. Her assistant is Tina, a Pixie Pig who is very greedy and keeps on eating too much from Caramel's bakery.

Chatta: Chatta is the Pixie of Gossip, and uses her gossip as a means of defending herself as well as of attacking her enemies.

Cherie: She is the richest pixie of Pixieville, and is the Pixie of Weather. Her MagicPop gives her the power of controlling the Weather,and her assistant is Lulù, an elegant and very efficient cat.

Fixit: He is the Pixie of Technomagic, and works at the Toy Shop of the Gnome Augustus, where he uses his talent to make incredible toys. His MagicPop gives him extraordinary intelligence which he uses to make unique inventions combining magic and Technomagic.

Digit: He is also the Pixie of Technomagic. His MagicPop gives him the power to using Technology. Digit was changed to a boy in PopPixie

Livy: He is the Pixie of messages in Winx Club but in Pop Pixie his MagicPop gives him the ability to be super fast. Livy was changed to a boy as well.

Lockette: Her MagicPop gives her the power to open magical passages and find everything which is hidden. She is the Pixie of Thresholds. She works at the Pixie Plaza, the most famous hotel in Pixieville.

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 Acrobatic Feats.

Pam: She works at the most famous hair salon in Pixieville. Her MagicPop makes it very fast. Her assistant is a hedgehog named Bamboo.

Piff: She is the Pixie of Sweet Sleep, and has a rabbit for companion. She is able to talk in Pop Pixie, as opposed to Winx Club, where she only makes noises like little babies. Although, Piff could be able to talk in later parts of the series.

Glim: Like Piff, Glim is a baby and can't talk, mumbling in Babytalk, like Piff as well. Her suit lights up when she wants, resembling a Firefly. In PopPixie, Glim became a boy and his MagicPop grants him the power to manipulate electrokinesis.

Tune: She is the Pop Pixie of Vocal Power and her MagicPop gives her the power to be Good and to even cry very sharply. Gunnar, a squirrel.

Kara: She is the Pop Pixie of Creation. With a swipe of her paint brush, she can create almost anything. Her best and childhood friend is Chatta, the pop pixie of gossip. Her helper is her pet mouse, Simone.

Elves

Floxy is an Elf with 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. Floxy's animal friend is Billo the polecat.

Lenny is whacky 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. Lenny's partner in crime is Wolfgang the wolf.

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. The Animal who accompanies Maxine is Rodrigo the cobra.

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 friends who have better male partners than she has. Narcissa has a crocodile called Lucilla who is just lazy and tetchy as she is.

Rex is an arrogant and haughty Elf who has a big opinion of himself. 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 which often frightens even his companions. This aspect of his character particularly appeals to Maxine, his fiancé who is very ambitious. The Animal who accompanies Rex is the tiger Cleopatra.

Yucca is the fiancé of Lenny. Yucca is the prettiest and frivolous and adores extreme shopping. Anytime is right to show and she and Lenny make their nights out with the gang an event to be remembered. Yucca 's animal friend is Tito, a bat who loves the night life. Tito sleeps all day but is a "party" animal at night.

Gnomes

Augustus: He is the owner of the Toy Shop where Fixit works. Though Fixit made his shop successful, Augustus is always trying to find a way to cut Fixit's salary.

Grind: He runs the Pixieville Bank. No one has ever seen him smile or give out a loan.

Rollo: He runs the Pixie Plaza, which is the most famous hotel in Pixieville and where Lockette works.

Ronf: He is the laziest Gnome of Pixieville, and is married to an energetic Gnome named Nella. He always wants to sleep.

Animals

The animals have an active part in the society, just like the Pixies and the Gnomes. They have a job and the same rights as the other citizens of Pixieville. Unlike the Pixies and the Gnomes, they live in lairs and in the houses of the forest community in the forest around Pixieville. They like to be cuddled. They never do bad things like the elves, but neither do dishonest things.

Episodes

No.	Italian Title (translation) English Title	Italian air date (Rai 2)
1	"L'invasione verde (The Green Invasion)" "Green Attack"	January 10, 2011
Pam is upset because she still hasn't received her Magic Pop. Meanwhile, the evil elves put a spell on the Tree Of Life, creating a carnivorous plant and preventing the Pixie's magic. Note: Only the Pixies will be in the absence parts. Absent: Fixit; Digit; Livy; Piff and Glim
2	"Un pesce fuor d'acqua (A fish out of water)" "A Pixie Fish"	January 11, 2011
Amore is afraid to talk to her crush, Robertson, who asks her on a date. She obviously says yes. But since she was still very shy and nervous, she creates a love potion for herself to stop it. Unfortunately though, it turns out that it's actually a fish potion she made. It transforms her into a Pixie Fish. Lockette, Livy, Chatta and Fixit must do all they can to get Amore to the Rainbow Lake [Where she was going to have her date] as soon as possible, whilst trying to stop Robertson finding out. In the end, Amore manages to transform back to herself, thanks to the lake, without Robertson finding out what happened. Livy gets his Magic Pop. After, since Robertson had swim to save Amore, the lake makes him lose his memory on who Amore is, making her faint. Absent: Caramel; Digit; Livy; Martino; Pam; Pif; Glim and Tune
3	"Cherie, una Pixie tempestosa (Cherie, a stormy Pixie)" "Crazy Weather"	January 12, 2011
A new pixie with the name of, Cherie, invites everyone in Pixieville to her welcoming party. She is new in town and wants to have the perfect moment. She is the richest Pixie in Pixieville. She hangs out with Chatta and all the other Pixies. But suspicious weather keeps on arriving. Thanks to Martino, it turns out that Cherie is the one that is causing the weather. So whenever she's angry, thunder and lightning comes, when she's crying, rain appears, when she's happy, there's a beautiful rainbow and others more. When a fire breaks out, thanks to a silly dragon, Cherie is able to cry, making it rain. This makes all the fire go away. Thanks to this, Cherie gets her pop and transforms to the Pop Pixie Of Weather. Note: It was thank to Chatta, talking about love, that Cherie cried because she went to Pixieville to find her ex-husband and hopefully be able to be with him again. But it turned out that his heart was already taken by someone else. Absent: Fixit; Digit; Livy; Piff; Glim & Tune
4	"Il segreto di Lockette (The Secret of Lockette)" "Lockette's Secret"	January 13, 2011
Lockette's parents are coming and she enlists the help of Martino to help her trick her parents to believe she is Pixieville's greatest baker.
5	"Le Pixiemonete volanti (The Flying Pixie Coins)" "Flying Money"	January 14, 2011
Chatta, Cherie, Lockette and Fixit must stop the evil elves from taking away all the money from Pixieville. But the question is, can they? Meanwhile, whilst doing this, Chatta is also trying to make a great newspaper/interview, in order to get the job she wants, being a News Presenter. Absent:
6	"L'albero dei gelati di Caramel (The Ice-Cream Tree of Caramel)" "Caramel's Ice Cream Tree"	January 17, 2011
When Caramel has enough of the commotion with the customers, wanting to get an ice cream, she plants a magic ice cream tree. It all goes well at first, but then the ice cream wipes everything out in Pixieville. Using her pop pixie transformation, Caramel must stop all this catastrophe, before it's too late.
7	"L'incantesimo dello specchio (The Magic Mirror)" "The Mirror Spell"	January 18, 2011
Maxine, an evil elf, has this magic mirror that can do many things. She wants to rob the money from the Pixie Plaza Hotel. With Lockette getting angry at Platso for another one of his silly tricks, he gets upset and bumps into Maxine. She, flirting with him, manages to convince him to make her Lockette and Lockette her. But Platso didn't know the truth until after he did wrong. Everyone goes after Maxine [who is actually Lockette]. Luckily though, Platso manages to capture the mirror and break it, breaking the spell. Everyone that was after the actual Lockette, were confused. Later, Lockette thanks Platso for what he did, making him happy again. He gets his Magic Pop for what he did right.
8	"L'intervista del secolo (The Interview of the Century)" "The Big Interview"	January 19, 2011
Chatta has gotten a big interview with a guy she has a crush on. But he isn't concerned. Also, Chatta takes a random potion off Amore, thinking that it's a perfume. But really, it's a hair growing one. During the interview, Chatta realizes her mistake and begins to grow a long beard. With the help of her friends, they try to stop it. But nothing works. In the end though, it turns out that the boy Chatta had a crush on, is bald and doesn't really have hair, which is why he was concerned on many things that had go to do with the interview and Chatta. He asks Chatta to promise not to tell which she takes an acceptance of. Meanwhile, Rollo, invites a gang of gnomes to his hotel who are too bald and want to grow a beard.
9	"Un robot per Chatta (A Robot for Chatta)" "A Robot for Chatta"	January 20, 2011
Fixit builds Chatta a Pixiebot, a robot that will do physically anything but Pixieville runs amok when the Elfs take control of the Pixiebots. Fixit agrees to a deal that sells his Pixiebots in one store but learns his Magicpop allows him duplicate them in seconds.
10	"Il mistero della MagicPop perduta (The Mystery of the Lost MagicPop)" "The Mystery of Lost MagicPop"	January 21, 2011
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11	"Camp Pixie (Camp Pixie)" "Let's Go Camp Pixie"	January 24, 2011
Amore and Lockette visit Camp Pixie to participate in a survival course. Led by the pixie rangers, the group of attendees are given a series of tests, with no magic allowed.
12	"Salviamo le scimmie svitate (Save the Unscrewed Monkeys)" "Save The Bumble Monkey's"	January 25, 2011
Chatta adopts a bumble monkey hoping to impress pop star, Justin Nimble.
13	"Il mio miglior amico (My Best Friend)" "My Best Friend"	January 26, 2011
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14	"La pozione speciale di Amore (The Special Potion of Amore)" "Amore's Love Potion"	January 27, 2011
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15	"Il ladro di giocattoli (The Thief of Toys)" "Super Toy"	January 28, 2011
Fixit creates a new toy but is worried it might be evil. Believing it to be the toy of the century, Augustus does everything to get his hands on it.
16	"I PopPixie tecnomagici (The PopPixie Techno magic)" "Techno MagicPop (Anti virus)"	January 31, 2011
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17	"Un Elfo a scuola (An Elf in School)" "An Elf In School"	February 1, 2011
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18	"Gnomi impazziti (Crazy Gnomes)" "Gnomes Gone Mad"	February 2, 2011
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19	"Un bisticcio tra Elfi (A Quarrel between Elves)" "Lenny & Yucca At War"	February 3, 2011
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20	"Un'epidemia a Pixieville (An epidemic in Pixieville)" "The Silent Curse"	February 4, 2011
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21	"Gli eroi dello scuolabus (The Heroes of the School Bus)" "The Schoolbus Heroes"	February 7, 2011
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22	"Sono anch'io una PopPixie! (I am also a PopPixie!)" "I'm A PopPixie Too!"	February 8, 2011
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23	"Sei licenziato! (You're fired!)" "You're Fired!"	February 9, 2011
When Guzman gets fired from the Pixie Plaza, he tries to get another job but fails at all of his attempts. He then finds Pixie Leonardo's backpack and becomes a great artist. When a spell makes all of his paintings come to life, it's up to him to reverse it.
24	"Capelli selvaggi (Wild hair)" "Bad Hair Day"	February 10, 2011
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25	"Il talento di Martino (The talent of Martino)" "Martino's Special Talent"	February 11, 2011
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26	"L'attacco dei ragni giganti (Attack of the Giant Spiders)" "Giant Spiders Invasion"	February 14, 2011
The Pixies and Gnomes are starting to clean up the Elves' neighbourhood, The Elves are making the spiders grow bigger to take over Pixieville for their revenge.
27	"La corsa all'oro degli Gnomi (The gold rush of the Gnomes)" "The Gnomes' Golden Rush"	February 15, 2011
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28	"Il party perfetto (The perfect party)" "The Perfect Party"	February 16, 2011
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29	"Un cucciolo divertente (A funny puppy)" "A Funny Pet"	February 17, 2011
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30	"Il gran premio di Pixieville (The grand prize of Pixieville)" "The Pixieville Grand Prix"	February 18, 2011
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31	"Un talent show esplosivo (An explosive talent show)" "A Stormy Talent Show"	February 21, 2011
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32	"Lo spettacolo scoppiettante di Jolly (The crackling show of Jolly)" "Jolly's Crackling Exhibition"	February 22, 2011
The Pudgy Pigeons are performing on stage, but then they've eating everything and grow bigger.
33	"Amore e i draghi litigiosi (Amore and the quarrelsome dragons)" "Amore and the Quarreling Dragons"	February 23, 2011
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34	"Un ammiratore per Chatta (An admirer for Chatta)" "Chatta's Biggest Fan"	February 24, 2011
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35	"L'ultimo Gnomo (The Last Gnome)" "The Last Gnome"	February 25, 2011
When they saw the movie, The Elves found the talisman to turn all the gnomes into stone.
36	"L'assalto sotterraneo degli Elfi (The underground assault of Elves)" "The Elves' Underground Assault"	February 28, 2011
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37	"MagicPop in pericolo (MagicPop in danger)" "MagicPops In Danger"	March 1, 2011
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38	"Una giornata elettrizzante (An electrifying day)" "An Electrifying Day"	March 2, 2011
The Elves sabotaging the power station and all the rides at Pixieville Park go haywire.
39	"Tre desideri straordinari (Three extraordinary wishes)" "Three Amazing Wishes"	March 3, 2011
The Elves grand 3 wishes with a magic mirror and unleash the monster to wreck everything in Pixieville.
40	"I Pixie lillipuziani (The Lilluputian Pixies)" "The Lilluputian Pixies"	March 4, 2011
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41	"Il rivale chiacchierone di Chatta (The chatterbox rival of Chatta)" "The Rival of Chattabox Chat (Chatta's Chatting Rival)"	March 7, 2011
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42	"Più in fretta, Pam! (Faster, Pam!)" "Faster, Pam/Hurry up, Pam"	March 8, 2011
Nappa the Snail Queen uses the slowness curse on Pam, Lockette and Chatta for being late at the hairdressers.
43	"La coccinella della sfortuna (The bad luck of the ladybug)" "The Bad Luck Lady Bug"	March 9, 2011
Martino accidentally taken Bugsy the ladybug's home as the right pumpkin to make a cake for Camellia, until he and his friends got cursed, so they find the new pumpkin for his new home.
44	"Un brutto raffreddore per Fixit e Martino! (A bad cold for Fixit and Martino!)" "Fixit and Martino's Bad Cold!"	March 10, 2011
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45	"Le tortine zuccherose di Caramel (The sugary cupcakes of Caramel)" "Caramel's Sugar Cupcakes"	March 11, 2011
When Caramel gives everyone in Pixieville her sugar filled cupcakes, Doctor Boxen the Pixieville dentist must stop her and turned Caramel and her friends into sugar eating beasts to teach them a lesson.
46	"Vita da Cherie (Life by Cherie)" "Living Like Cherie"	March 14, 2011
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47	"La sfida tra Caramel e Martino (The challenge between Caramel and Martino)" "A Competition between Caramel & Martino"	March 15, 2011
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48	"Sirene, le migliori amiche dei PopPixie (Mermaids, the best friends of PopPixie)" "Mermaids, Pop Pixies' Best Friends!"	March 16, 2011
The Pixies goes underwater to stop a nasty shark from eating the mermaid city.
49	"Un tesoro ai piedi dell'arcobaleno (A treasure at the foot of the rainbow)" "A Treasure Under The Rainbow"	March 17, 2011
The Pixies, The Elves and The Gnomes race towards the end of the rainbow to find the treasure.
50	"La pozione delle Sirene (The potion of the Mermaids)" "The Mermaids' Potion"	March 18, 2011
The Elves turns all the pixies, gnomes and animals into sea creatures.
51	"La minaccia di Rex a Pixieville! (The threat of Rex to Pixieville!)" "Rex's Threat on Pixieville"	March 21, 2011
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52	"Salviamo l'Albero della Vita! (Save the Tree of Life!)" "Saving the Tree of Life"	March 22, 2011
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References

1. Goldman Getzler, Wendy (12 April 2011). "Nickelodeon Plucks PopPixie". Kidscreen.
2. "License! Global - Rainbow Names Bandai for PopPixie". 8 May 2009. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009.
3. "TV Kids: Rainbow S.p.A." Worldscreen. 27 September 2009.

External links

• Official website
• Poppixie at Nick.co.uk