Winx Club

Plot

The story follows Bloom and her five best friends, Stella, Flora, Tecna, Musa and Layla/Aisha, and is situated mainly in the Magical Dimension and on Earth. They call themselves "The Winx Club" and go on countless magical and mystical adventures together. Throughout the story, they discover new evolved much stronger fairy transformations, unlock new secrets and even stronger magical powers, battle against the darkness and support Bloom as she tries to discover her true past, home world, and birth parents.

[edit]First season

Main article: Winx Club (season one)

Bloom, a supposedly ordinary girl from planet Earth, and her pet Kiko the Rabbit live a perfectly normal life in the city of Gardenia with her mother and father, until she stumbles upon Stella, a princess from the planet Solaria, who is in trouble. Coming to Stella's aid, Bloom discovers her dormant 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 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 mythical creature aclled 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 their love interests. They also encounter their enemies, a trio of witches calling themselves the Trix: Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. They are witches from Cloud Tower, a college for witches and dark magic that is roughly equivalent to Alfea, and are in search of the vastly limitless energy and power of the Dragon Fire/Flame, which is supposedly in Stella's magic ring. However, they realize that the "Dragon Fire" is the very source of Bloom's magical strength and powers, which they steal from her. They summon the army of decay which they sent to Red Fountain and Alfea. The witches from Cloud Tower and the Red Fountain Heros join Alfea and together the defeat the Trix. During that time Bloom figures out that the Dragon Fire was in her the whole time. Bloom also begins to learn the secrets of her home world Domino/Sparks, birth parents,magical abilities and that Daphne is her biological sister. Bloom is heartbroken by Brandon, who appears to be Prince Sky as he and the real Brandon switched identities, but she ends up forgiving Sky at the end of the season.

[edit]Second season

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, Layla/Aisha, the fairy of waves and morphix fluids, from planet Andros/Tides and she becomes the sixth of the Winx Club. Lord darkar releases the Trix from Light Haven and boosts their powers. Layla/Aisha tells the winx about how the pixies are being held as Lord darkar`s prisoners. Layla/Aisha, Bloom, Stella, Brandon and Sky go on a Mission to Lord Darkar`s lair ShadowHaunt to rescue the pixies. At an opening of the new Red Fountain Flora meets her love interest, Helia. Along with Layla there come lots of other magical, supernatural beings. The pixies, Lockette, Amore, Chatta, Digit, Tune and Piff. Lord darkar is after 4 pieces of a magical artifact called Codex which allows to enter the realm of Realix and gain the untimate power. Bloom wants to know more about her birth parents-King Oritel and Queen Miriam- and her lost kingdom, but Darkar gives her a shadow virus. That virus turned Bloom evil and she began torturing Timmy. After Lord Darkar realizes that he needs more power to open the gateway to Realix, he instructs Avalon to turn Bloom evil once again. That is when he 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. Unconsciously, she does so. In the end, it is Sky's mutually strong and true romantic love for Bloom that saves her and everybody else living...

[edit]Third season

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/Sparks. 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 and powerful magical and mystical treasures and immeasurable power sources of each realm. With their newly strong and powerful Enchantix powers, Flora, Stella, Layla, Tecna, and Musa are able to use strong, incredible power and can miniaturize. Bloom, however, cannot miniaturize due to the fact that her Enchantix is not complete. The Winx begin their third and final year at Alfea, learning about their unique 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) and showing great courage in doing so. With no one from her home planet, Domino, to save, Bloom must acquire her Enchantix form and tremendous power on Pyros, the island of dragons. She also learns more about Domino, as well as the truth about where her birth parents, Oritel and Miriam, are.

[edit]Fourth season

Main article: Winx Club (season four)

Taking place after the events of Secret of the Lost Kingdom, The Winx are back at Alfea, but this time as the teachers. They learn about a new evolved fairy transformation and power called Believix, which can only be accessed when people in a non-magic world (such as Earth) start to truly believe in magic and fairies. Faragonda also teaches them that there are endless infinite stages of fairy evolution and transformation. The Winx Club also bump into the four Wizards of The Black Circle, a group of wizards who had trapped all of the fairies of Earth, and are back to get one they unknowingly left behind. The Winx girls and Specialists have to track the Wizards of the Black Circle to Gardenia, Bloom's Earth hometown, and save the last terrestrial Earth fairy, Roxy-the fairy of animals- while trying to get people on Earth to believe in magic once again by helping the Winx Club to touch peoples heart and inner feelings.

[edit]Change in licensing

In the United States, the license for 4KidsTV expired in 2007, and Rai Due sought out a new partner.^[6] On 2 September 2010, Nickelodeon announced through a press release that they will be co-producing seasons 5 and 6 of the series.^[7]

In early January 2011, it was announced that Keke Palmer will be playing the voice of Aisha, who is also known as Layla. In late March 2011, Molly Quinn announced she will be voicing Bloom.^[8] Josh Keatonannounced that he will voice Valtor.^[9] Ariana Grande announced on 22 May via Twitter that she will be voicing minor villain Princess Diaspro in the new dub.^[10] Romi Dames has also announced that she will voice Musa and Helia will be played by David Faustino.^[11] Elizabeth Gillies is playing Daphne and Matt Shively is playing Sky.^[12] The first special's broadcast revealed that Amy Gross is voicing Stella,Alejandra Reynoso is voicing Flora, and Morgan Decker is voicing Tecna.^[13]^[14]

According to Micheal's Winx Club Website, the second movie Winx Club 3D Magical Adventure is scheduled to be aired in spring 2013. To coincide with the movie, a McDonald's promotion is currently scheduled to appear in April 2013.

[edit]Fifth season

Sirenix is the main fairy transformation of the season after Harmonix. Season five, titled "Beyond Believix",the Winx embark on a mission to achieve Sirenix, a water based transformation that is strong and powerful enough to defeat the evil Tritannus and the Trix. There are two new evolutionary fairy transformations in this season: Harmonix and Sirenix. the The Book of Sirenix gave them Sirenix Boxes, and much stronger Harmonix powers. Before they achieve Sirenix, they must find the Gem of Self-Confidence, Gem of Empathy, and the Gem of Courage. Unfortunately, there is a dark and evil curse upon Sirenix that left Bloom's older sister, Daphne, a disembodied spirit without a physical body when she had used its tremendous power to defend herself. Daphne was the last fairy to achieve Sirenix's ocean/sea-based transformation and enormous power until the Winx Club gain full access to Sirenix, and cross the gate into the infinite ocean itself. Finally, the Winx gain Sirenix after activating the source of the power in Lake Roccaluce. Unfortunately, the Trix gain dark Sirenix with the help of Tritannus and plan to defeat the Winx Club.

[edit]Sixth season

Season six has been confirmed to be co-produced by both Rainbow S.r.l and Nickelodeon. A third movie and a sixth season, airing both in 2013, as well as possibly more seasons since Rainbow mentioned that the fifth and sixth seasons will be beginning of taking Winx Club to "another level." Iginio Straffi has said that the series will continue at least through 2014, which means that Winx Club will have aired for 10 years.