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2004 Italian TV series or program
Winx Club
File:Winx Club Logo.pngWinx Club logo for 2009–present.
GenreAction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, friendship, Romance
Created byIginio Straffi
Directed byIginio Straffi
Opening theme"Under the Sign of Winx" (seasons 1-3, original)
"We are the Winx" (4Kids)
"Winx You're Magic Now", performed by Cymphonique Miller (seasons 3-4, Nickelodeon)
"Winx Are Back" (season 4, original)
"We're the Winx", performed by Cassidy Ladden and Kathryn Raio (season 5)
"Winx Rising Up Together", performed by Kathryn Raio (season 6)
Ending theme"The Girls of the Winx Club" (seasons 1-2, original)
"If You're a Winx" (season 3, original)
"Superheroes", performed by Elisa Rosselli (seasons 3-4, Nickeloden; season 4, original)
"Underwater Mission", performed by Elisa Rosselli (season 5)
"Living the Magic", performed by Alessia Orlando and Elisa Aramonte (season 6)
"We are the Winx" (short version instrumental) (4kids)
ComposersMichele Bettali
Stefano Carrara
Fabrizio Castania
Maurizio D'Aniello
Country of originItaly
Original languageItalian
No. of seasons6 (7 confirmed)
No. of episodes138 (182 confirmed) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersJoanne Lee
Alfred R. Kahn
Norman J. Grossfield
Tom Kenny
Running time19-24 minutes
Original release
NetworkRai 2 (2004–present)
4Kids TV (2004–2008)
Nickelodeon (2011–present)
ReleaseJanuary 28, 2004 –
present
Related
PopPixie

Winx Club is an Italian animated television series directed, created, and produced by Iginio Straffi and his company Rainbow S.r.l.. It is part of the larger Winx Club franchise. The series is the first Italian cartoon to be sold in the U.S. 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."

The show features Bloom and her six best friends (Stella, Musa, Tecna, Flora, Aisha/Layla) is situated mainly in the magical universe and on Earth. They call themselves "the Winx Club" and go on many adventures together. Throughout the story, they discover new fairy transformations and magical powers, battle against evil and support Bloom as she tries to discover her origins.

Characters

Main article: List of Winx Club characters

Plot

Main article: List of Winx Club episodes

There are two different Winx Club plots, listed as follows:

  • The original story-line, which was produced by Rainbow S.R.L., was mainly focused on Bloom's story.
    • The series went through a reboot after Rainbow S.R.L. partnered with Nickelodeon, where the first and second season were made into four special 1 hour episodes (3 for season 1 & 1 for season 2) and the third and fourth seasons were dubbed again, following the original story-line, albeit with minor differences.
  • The commonly called 4Kids version which, as part of 4Kids Entertainment's policy of adapting foreign animated shows to an American audience, was heavily edited and often diverged from the original story-line, including name changes (such as the original name of Bloom's planet of origin, Domino, which was replaced by Sparks in the 4Kids version; Aisha was named Layla in the most dubs), as changes in the role of characters (such as Daphne, who is Bloom's older sister whose role was changed to that of being only a nymph protecting both the Dragon Fire and Bloom's crown by 4Kids) and changes in the character and personality of characters (Tecna was given a British accent and Musa was given a hip hop-like personality by 4Kids).

Season One

Main article: Winx Club (season one)

Bloom, a supposedly ordinary girl from planet Earth, lives a perfectly normal life in the city of Gardenia with her mother, father and her pet rabbit, Kiko, until she stumbles upon Stella, a princess from the planet Solaria, who is in trouble, being attacked by the Trix's ogre, Knut. Coming to Stella's aid, Bloom discovers her magical abilities when she dodges a group of monsters and attacks an ogre. Stella persuades Bloom to join Alfea, a college for fairies in the Magical Dimension. She agrees to go to Alfea 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. A mysterious person called Daphne keeps appearing in Bloom's dreams. Later in the series, they encounter and befriend the Specialists: Brandon, Riven, Timmy and Sky, who also become the group's love interests. They also make enemies, including a trio of witches calling themselves the Trix: Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. The Trix are witches from Cloud Tower, a college for witches and dark magic that is roughly equivalent to Alfea, and are in search of the power of the Dragon flame, which is supposedly in Stella's magic scepter.Later in the season, the Trix steal Stella's scepter and realize that the scepter does not hold the Dragon Fire. Bloom is heartbroken by Brandon, who appears to be Prince Sky as he and the real Brandon switched identities, and she leaves Alfea and goes to Gardenia. However, the Trix realize that the Dragon Fire is the source of Bloom's magic, which they steal from her after revealing to her that she is the daughter of the king and queen of Domino, which was destroyed sixteen years ago by the Ancestral Witches who wanted to obtain the Dragon Flame; that Daphne is Bloom's older sister who sacrificed herself to save Bloom by sending her on Earth; that Bloom is the guardian of the Dragon Flame. They summon the Army of Decay, which they send to Red Fountain and Alfea. The witches from Cloud Tower and the Red Fountain Heroes join Alfea and together they defeat the Trix. Bloom later finds out with the help of Daphne that she never lost her powers but that was unable of using her magic because of her own insecurities and she defeats the Trix and the Army of Darkness. She also forgives Sky at the end of the season

Season Two

Main article: Winx Club (season two)

The Trix are sent to Light Haven, a place to turn evil minds pure and good. Bloom, Stella, Flora, Tecna and Musa discover a new fairy, Aisha, who's the fairy of water/waves and Morphix fluids from planet Tides and she becomes the sixth member of the Winx Club. Lord Darkar releases the Trix from Light Haven and increases their powers. Aisha tells the others about how the pixies are being held as Lord Darkar's prisoners. Aisha, Bloom, Stella, Brandon and Sky go on a mission to Lord Darkar's lair, Shadow Haunt, to rescue the pixies Lockette, Amore, Chata, Digit, and Tune. At an opening of the new Red Fountain, Flora meets her love interest, Helia. Lord Darkar is after four pieces of a magical artifact called Codex, which allows one to enter the realm of Realix and gain the Ultimate Power. Bloom wants to know more about her birth parents, King Oritel and Queen Marion, and her lost kingdom, but Darkar gives her a shadow virus. The virus turns Bloom evil and she begins to taunt Timmy. After Lord Darkar realizes that he needs more magical strength and power to open the gateway to Realix, he instructs Avalon to turn Bloom evil once again. Darkar ditches the Trix and accepts Dark Bloom as his main witch. When they get to Realix, he tells Dark Bloom to give him the Ultimate Power so he can rule. Dark Bloom has almost completed the spell when the Winx arrive, along with the Specialists, Faragonda, Griffin, and Codatorta. Sky tells Dark Bloom his true feelings for her, which changes Bloom back into her normal self, and Bloom and the Winx Club use an exceptionally powerful Charmix Convergence spell to defeat Darkar once and for all.

Season Three

Main article: Winx Club (season three)

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. 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, powerful, magical and mystical treasures and immeasurable power sources of each realm. Soon the Winx find a new power called Enchantix, which Aisha was the first of the Winx to get it. With their newly strong and powerful Enchantix powers, Flora, Stella, Aisha, Tecna, and Musa are able to use strong, incredible power and can miniaturize themselves. Bloom, however, cannot miniaturize herself due to the fact that her Enchantix is not complete. The Winx begin their third and final year at Alfea, learning about their 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). With no one from her home planet to save, Bloom must acquire her Enchantix on Pyros, the island of dragons. She also learns more about her home world of Domino, as well as the truth about where her birth parents, Oritel and Marion, are.

The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

Main article: Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

The events of the movie follow those of the third season. As Bloom continues in the search for her birth parents along with he friends, she discovers more about her planet and has to fight the Ancestral Witches and Mandragora. She not only saves her parents, but her whole planet. However, Bloom's sister Daphne still remains a spirit.

Season Four

Main article: Winx Club (season four)

Taking place after the events of "Secret of the Lost Kingdom", the Winx are back at Alfea as teachers. Faragonda also teaches them that there are endless infinite stages of fairy evolution and transformation, of which they learn about a new transformation called "Believix", which can only be accessed when people in a non-magical world start to truly believe in magic. To try to help the people on Earth believe in magic, the Winx open a magical pet store called 'Love & Pet'. During their time on Earth, they also bump into four wizards known as the Wizards of The Black Circle, a group who have trapped all of the fairies of Earth and are back to get one they unknowingly left behind. The Winx and Specialists have to track the wizards back to Gardenia and save the last terrestrial fairy, Roxy, while also trying to get people on Earth to believe in magic once again. Roxy is then captured, but soon thereafter believes in fairies and helps the Winx Club to earn their Believix. On a trip to discover Roxy's past, the Winx Club also discover the White Circle, something which helps to defeat the Black Circle but also controls Roxy. Soon after the Winx must earn the three gifts of destiny; two of which are Sophix and Lovix. The first is Sophix a gift given by the ethereal fairies used to revive nature from deforestation and calm Diana. The second gift is the give of heart Lovix made from pure ice and snow it will allow the Winx to fight Aurora. After successfully freeing the Earth fairies who turn out to want revenge, Queen Morgana and her followers will stop at nothing to wage war against all of humans. Bloom also challenges Nebula to a fight, in which if Bloom wins the fairies will stop attacking and go home but if she loses all is lost. After Bloom wins the fight, the black gift is given and can be used to revive someone from death. Nebula and the wizards determination to fight left Nabu for dead, which causes Aisha to seek revenge. In the final battle, it is revealed that Roxy's mother is Morgana. After the Winx Club freeze the wizards in solid ice, Nebula is crowned as their new queen due Morgana choosing to abdicate and live in Gardenia. Aisha mourns Nabu, but later returns to the seven Winx Club girls who fly off into the sunset, heading back to Alfea.

Magical Adventure

Main article: Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure

The Trix, allied to the Ancestral Witches, manage to make all the good magic of the universe disappear and the Winx and the Specialists go on a journey to restore it and defeat the witches. Meanwhile Bloom learns more about her kingdom's past and why Sky's father does not want him to marry her.

Season Five

Main article: Winx Club (season five)

The Winx Club embark on a mission to achieve Sirenix, an ancient transformation, that can be used in the water, on land or in the air, unlike Believix which can only be used on land or in the air. It is strong enough to defeat the evil, power-mad merman Tritannus and the Trix. Icy falls deeply in love with Tritannus and he with her, leaving Darcy and Stormy frustrated. There are two new fairy transformations in this season: Harmonix and Sirenix. The ancient Book of Sirenix gave them six Sirenix Boxes that holds guardians inside them to help them gain Sirenix and the Harmonix transformation. Before they achieve Sirenix, however, they must find the Gem of Self-Confidence, the Gem of Empathy, and the Gem of Courage; otherwise they would lose their magical powers.

There is a curse upon Sirenix that had left Bloom's older sister, Daphne, a disembodied spirit. There is the ancient Book of Sirenix that helps them gain full access to Sirenix, but there is a problem when they open the book. For instance, Tecna opens it and it transforms her into a terrifying robotic version of her self, making a mess in the Magic Archive the library in Alfea when she uses its power to defend herself. Daphne is the last fairy to achieve Sirenix until the Winx earn Sirenix themselves and enter the infinite ocean. Finally, the Winx gain Sirenix after activating the source of the power in Lake Roccaluce where Daphne lives due to her connection to Sirenix. Daphne gets captured by Tritannus and locked up in a prison cell under the Emperor's throne after Tritannus has stolen away her Sirenix powers with his trident and given them to the Trix as dark Sirenix, and they plan to defeat the Winx Club. Tritannus is also second son of king Neptune had turned into evil from his merman for. He refuels by taking in toxic pollution (oil, gas, trash, acid, and garbage) with his trident from the help of Icy and her two hesitant sisters since he can't stay for long in his mutant form.

During this season there was a lot of trouble between all of the Winx Club couples but it was mainly focusing on Bloom and Sky. For the first half of the season Sky lost his memory but later regained it, later Diaspro came back and she started to come between Bloom and Sky since her had become the kings new liaison. Stella is wanting to become a fashion designer but it was also affecting her relationship with Brandon since she would not listen to what he had to say, Musa is starting to think that Riven is cheating on her with another fairy, Tecna and Timmy's relationship was good but they are spending too much time chatting through their phones and not having any real time together. Aisha is still missing Nabu since his death from Season 4 but is also starting to develop feelings for a new Specialist named Roy who is also developing feelings for her and Krystal a new fairy at Alfea is starting to come between Flora and Helia and it turns out that she and Helia are childhood friends.

Roxy was not a main character in this season, but did appear as a minor recurring character, as she just began her first year at Alfea. She will appear more often in future episodes. Upset that he cannot activate the power of the Emperor's Throne, Tritannus must take the seals of the pillars of light, balance and control. Tritannus steals the seal of the Pillar of Light, and Stella restores the pillar. Tritannus then steals the seal of the Pillar of Balance. He almost fails when the Winx try to ambush both him and Icy, but thanks to Stormy and Darcy controlling the Singing Whales to attack the Winx, they are able to escape. However, they do not thank the other two Trix, much to Darcy and Stormy's dismay. Musa saves the whales. With two seals gone from two pillars, the next is the pillar of control to finally activate the emperor's throne. To prevent Tritannus from activating the throne, the Winx Club decide to destroy the seal of the pillar of control. After finding out that the seal is destroyed, Tritannus plans to steal Politea's (an old friend of Daphne's) Sirenix to activate the Emperor's throne.

However, he is not the only one who is looking for her: Darcy and Stormy are done with Tritannus and want her Sirenix for themselves, but Bloom is also looking for her to find a way to break the Sirenix curse on both her and Daphne. Darcy and Stormy succeed and leave Icy. Tritannus plans a big attack on the Winx at the Pillar of light. Luckily the Winx are not alone; they are helped by Tressa, Nereus and the selkies. Tritannus kills Nereus with his trident but Nereus is resurrected thanks to Aisha's wish. While distracted, Tritannus kidnaps Aisha and brings her to the throne but is followed by Bloom. Tritannus promises Icy that she will soon be empress, and he than steals Aisha's Sirenix to activate the throne. He becomes completely corrupted and overwhelmed by the power of the Emperor's throne and attacks Icy, but she is protected by her sisters and breaks up with Tritannus. Bloom finds out that the key to defeating Tritannus is destroying his trident and she burns it using her powers. Defeated, Tritannus is banished from the magical universe and sent to Oblivion as punishment for his actions. Bloom then used her Sirenix wish for the Sirenix curse to broken, thus restoring Daphne's body. The season ends with a concert from the Winx Club on Andros and with Bloom happily dancing with Daphne. Their parents join in their celebrations in a loving hug at the end.

The Mystery of the Depths

A short synopsis of the movie was released in April 2014:

"The Trix strike back: they want to sit on the Emperor's Throne to claim its huge power. But doing that, they accidentally evoke Politea. The evil nymph is still cursed and ready to make a pact with the three witches. She tells them that to activate the throne, the Trix have to free Tritannus from the Oblivion, but before that, the vital force of a King is needed, and the Trix have thought of Sky, king of Eraklyon, and above all, Bloom's fiancé! The Trix appear in Gardenia, where Bloom alone can't do anything, so the Trix kidnap Sky and come back to the Infinite Ocean. The three witches free Tritannus and convince him to become their ally again in order to get the powerful Pearl of the Abyss. The Winx join Bloom, and together they decide to rescue Sky. Will they manage to survive to the terrible prison dimension, the Oblivion, and then stop Tritannus and his allies in the Coral Barrier, fighting not only for Sky's salvation, but even for the balance of the whole Infinite Ocean?"

Season Six

Main article: Winx Club (season six)

A new freshman witch named Selina, who is from Earth, enrolls at Cloud Tower. She owns an powerful and dangerous book called the Legendarium and through it she is able to make mythical and legendary creatures come alive. The Trix take over Cloud Tower and make it fly, turning Griffin into a crow, then order Selina to summon legendary creatures out of the Legendarium and unleash them against all of the magic schools and colleges in the magical universe.

As always, Bloom leads the Winx Club against the witches, but then they all lose all of their Sirenix powers; except for Bloom as her magical abilities are derived from the Dragon Flame, which is inextinguishable and cannot be taken from its keeper. Bloom then shares her Dragon Flame with the Winx Club, which will provide the fairies with a new transformation, called Bloomix, when they perform actions worthy of a fairy. Flora was the first to earn her Bloomix by bravely saving her younger sister, Miele. Stella and Aisha acquired their Bloomix after defeating the flying basilisk. Finally Musa and Tecna by working together after defeating the Pandemonium Sprites. In the end of the fifth episode, Diaspro made an alliance with the Trix for revenge on Bloom. Bloom's powers are growing weaker through sharing her Dragon Flame with the other Winx. However, after she passed the test of the Vortex of Flames, all of her powers are fully restored and she finally earns her Bloomix. Faragonda asks Daphne to research about the Lengendarium. In order to lock it for good, the Winx travel to the lost library of Alexandria, Egypt to find a diary that once was kept by a fairy godmother named Eldora. Selina summons Mummies and a Sphinx to stop the Winx on their quest to find Eldora's diary and then they go to the temple of the Green Dragon in China to find Lu Wei, the last dragon tamer, who gives the Winx a flower that once belonged to Eldora after they defeat a dragon summoned from the Legendarium by Selina. Selina then infiltrates Alfea, being Bloom's childhood friend, and places a spell on the plants in Alfea's greenhouse, which makes them attack the Winx. After the plants are defeated, Bloom, feeling guilty, leaves the Winx and goes to Gardenia where she is attacked by vampires summoned by Selina. After the Winx defeat the vampires, they go to find Eldora in Gardenia but they are attacked by the Trix and by ectoplasm sent by Selina. The Winx and Eldora defeat them and decide to go to Tir Nan Og, where they will obtain the Mythix power that will allow the to fight the powers of the Legendarium and seal it forever.

Season Seven

It has been officially confirmed that a seventh season of Winx Club will be produced, and will air in 2015. An offical teaser summary of the season states that: "Each fairy will have an animal that has a special talent, necessary for the balance of the Magic Universe. The Winx will discover this, while facing two new dreadful villains and getting new amazing transformations along their journey." However it is still unknown whether an English dubbed will be produced and further details of the plot are still not known.

Transformations

Main article: List of Winx Club characters § Transformations

Broadcast history

In Italy, the series' country of origin, Winx Club has been broadcast on Rai Due since its premiere on January 28, 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 June 19, 2004, with a preview episode airing on May 22, 2004. 4Kids TV continued its initial run until September 22, 2007, airing all three seasons. Winx Club was added back to the 4Kids TV schedule on April 12, 2008 and was aired up until December 27, 2008. On July 18, 2009, reruns of Winx Club then aired on the CW's programming block CW4Kids until July 17, 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 and is featured as an alternate English language track on several European DVD releases.

Nickelodeon acquired the rights to the franchise in 2010 and is currently producing a new English dub in Los Angeles. Nickelodeon started airing the series with four-one hour specials summarizing seasons one and two. The first special aired on June 27, 2011; the second special, "Revenge of the Trix," was aired on August 2, 2011; the third special, "The Battle for Magix," aired on September 18, 2011; the fourth and final special, "The Shadow Phoenix," aired on October 16, 2011. The third season, entitled "Winx Club: Enchantix", was aired on Nickelodeon from November 14, 2011 to December 26, 2011. The fourth season, "Winx Club: The Power of Believix", aired on Nickelodeon from May 6, 2012 to July 29, 2012. The fifth season, "Winx Club: Beyond Believix", premiered on Nickelodeon on August 26, 2012, and took a short hiatus during Winter 2012; the show returned in February 2013, and the season finale aired in late September 2013. Season 6, entitled "Winx Club: Bloomix," began airing on Nickelodeon on September 29, 2013.

Change in licensing

In the United States, the license for 4Kids TV expired in the end of 2008. and Rai Due sought out a new partner. On 2 September 2010, Nickelodeon announced through a press release that they will be co-producing seasons 5 and 6 of the series. On February 26, 2014, Romi Dames, the voice of Musa, confirmed that Nickelodeon did not renew the show for a seventh season via twitter. Rainbow will produce the seventh season without Nickelodeon.

The first special's broadcast revealed that Amy Gross is voicing Stella, Alejandra Reynoso is voicing Flora, and Morgan Decker is voicing Tecna. At present, the series has been dubbed into 36 languages worldwide.

DVD releases

# No. of
episodes
Title(s)
Original (English)/Portuguese/Spanish
Edition availability
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1
6 Winx Club: Bienvenidos a Magix'  Mexico
6 Winx Club: El gran concurso de Belleza  Mexico
6 Winx Club: El secreto de Bloom  Mexico
8 Winx Club: La Batalla por Alfea  Mexico
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E
A
S
S
O
N

2
5 Winx CLub: La princesa Amentia  Mexico
9 Winx Club: La cripta del Códex  Mexico
8 Winx Club: El show debe continuar  Mexico
4 Winx Club: La hora de la verdad  Mexico
S
E
A
S
S
O
N

4
7 Winx Club: The Power of Believix
Winx Club: O Poder de Believix
Winx Club: El Poder de Believix
 Argentina
 Brazil
 Mexico
7 Winx Club: Believe in Magic
Winx Club: Acredite na Magia
Winx Club: Cree en la Magia
 United States
6 Winx Club: Magical Mania
Winx Club: Mundo Mágico
Winx Club: Mundo Mágico
 Argentina
 Brazil
 Mexico
6 Winx Club: Destiny Calls
Winx Club: Dons Mágicos
Winx Club: Llamados del Destino
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I
L
M
1+7 Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom "Movie"
Winx Club: O Segredo do Reino Perdido "O Filme"
Winx Club: El Secreto del Reino Perdido
 United States
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A
S
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5
7 Winx Club: The Power of Sirenix
Winx Club: O Poder de Sirenix
Winx Club: El Poder de Sirenix
6 Winx Club: Tales from the Sea
Winx Club: Contos do Fundo do Mar
Winx Club: Cuentos del Fondo del Mar
7 Winx Club: Peril in the Magic Dimension
Winx Club: Perigo na Dimensão Mágica
Winx Club: Peligro en la Dimensión Mágica
6 Winx Club: Peace in the Infinite Ocean
Winx Club: Paz no Mar Infinito
Winx Club: Paz en el Océano Infinito
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1+7 Winx Club: Magical Adventure
Winx Club: A Aventura Mágica
Winx Club: La Aventura Mágica
 United States

Films

Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

On October 8, 2006, Rainbow S.p.A. announced on their official website that a Winx Club film was being produced. The CGI film, titled Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (Italian: Winx Club - Il segreto del regno perduto), was released theatrically in Italy on November 30, 2007. An English dub of the film was released on November 20, 2008 in Singapore. The film was re-dubbed in English and released in the United States as a TV movie on Nickelodeon on March 11, 2012. This version featured the cast from the Nickelodeon dub of the television series.

Winx Club: Magical Adventure

On November 9, 2009, it was confirmed that there would be a second Winx Club movie released in 2010. The film, titled Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure (Italian: Winx Club 3D - Magica avventura) was released theatrically in Italy on October 29, 2010. The film was dubbed using the Nickelodeon voice cast and released as a television special in the United States on May 20, 2013. This version was shortened from the original's 87 minute runtime to approximately 45 minutes.

Winx Club: The Mystery of the Depths

The third Winx Club movie was officially announced when the official Italian Winx Club website allowed the fans to vote for its title in an online poll, with the title Mystery of the Depths being chosen. The movie is set to premier Fall 2014.

Other media

Spin-off series

A comedy spin-off series titled PopPixie premiered in Italy on January 10, 2011. This series is based on the pixies from the Winx Club series, and featured characters such as Lockette, Chatta, and Amore, along with new characters. The characters Caramel and Cherie, introduced in PopPixie, later appeared in Winx Club as replacements for Digit and Tune, respectively.

Video games

Several video games based on the series have been released. The first of these was Winx Club, released in 2005 for the Playstation 2, PC, and Game Boy Advance. Other video games released include Winx Club: The Quest for the Codex (2006), Winx Club: Mission Enchantix (2008), Dance Dance Revolution Winx Club (2009), Winx Club: Believix in You (2010), and Winx Club: Magical Fairy Party (2012).

In 2013, Tsumanga Studios released an app for iOS and Android titled Winx Sirenix Power. Other apps based on the series include Winx Fairy School (by Tsumanga Studios) and Winx Club: Rocks the World (by Budge Studios).

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