PopPixie is an Italian animated television 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 aimed at younger viewers, with an intended audience of 4 to 6-year-olds.[1]
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 town called Pixieville, which is inhabited by creatures like pixies, elves, and gnomes. The town is fed from the Tree of Life, an ancient tree that provides the Pixies' MagicPops, spheres that contain good magic related to a pixie's special talent. If a pixie uses her or his talent for good, she or he will receive a MagicPop and become a PopPixie.[4]
Characters
Promo artwork of Chatta and Fixit in a boat.
Pixies
Lockette: Lockette's MagicPop gives her the power to open magical passages and find everything which is hidden. She is the Pixie of Direction. She works at the Pixie Plaza, the most famous hotel in Pixieville. Her assistant is Guzman the monkey.
Caramel: Caramel 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 the pig.
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 Acrobatics.
Amore: Amore owns the Love Shop, which is the only shop to be specialized in love potions and spells in Pixieville. She is the Pixie of Love and Feelings. Amore's love interest is Robinson, Pixieville's ranger. Her assistants are Otis the hippo, and Wiki the owl.
Chatta: Chatta is the Pixie of Gossip, and uses her gossip as a means of defending herself as well as of attacking her enemies. Her assistant is Sunny the frog.
Cherie: Cherie is the richest pixie of Pixieville, and is the Pixie of Weather. Her MagicPop gives her the power of controlling the weather when she is happy, sad, or angry. Her assistant is Lulu the cat.
Fixit: Fixit 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: Digit is also the Pixie of Technomagic. His MagicPop gives him the power to using Technology. Digit was changed to a boy in PopPixie.
Livy: Livy is the Pixie of Messages in Winx Club, but in PopPixie, his MagicPop gives him the ability to be super fast. Livy was changed to a boy as well. He is the Pixie of Velocity.
Pam: Pam works at the most famous beauty salon in Pixieville. Her MagicPop makes it very fast. Her assistant is Bamboo the hedgehog. She is the Pixie of Hand Speed.
Piff: Piff is the Pixie of Sweet Sleep, and has a rabbit for companion. She is able to talk, unlike the second season of Winx Club, where she only makes noises.
Glim: Like Piff, Glim is a baby and can't talk. His suit lights up when he wants, resembling a firefly. In PopPixie, Glim is a boy and his MagicPop grants him the power to manipulate electrokinesis. He is the Pixie of Energy.
Tune: Tune is the Pixie of Vocal Power and her MagicPop gives her the power to be good and to even cry very sharply. Her assistant is Gunnar the squirrel.
Kara: She is the Pop Pixie of Creation. With a swipe of her paint brush, she can create almost anything. Her brother is Pixienardo and best and childhood friend is Chatta, the Pop Pixie of Gossip.
Ranger Robinson: He is Pixieville's park ranger and Amore's love interest. Robinson knows a lot about animals and wildlife.
Camilla: She is a shy little pixie, who has invisible power but also sweet. After she scares Damien the little elf, she's got the MagicPop that turns her into PopPixie of Illusion.
Camelia: She’s the PopPixie of plants. She loves plants, and likes to hang out with her pals, and she's the helpful, caring pixie in the world.
Mola: Mola digs holes and has the ability to shoot the energy bolts which can create tunnels. She's the PopPixie of tunnels. She's a friend of Chatta and Livy.
Flower: She is the pixie who doesn't like Chatta at first, because Chatta made spilt coffee all over her. But in the end, Flower thanked her for saving the day after she wrote an article.
Lola: She flies backwards, but having trouble to fly right, she only appears on "Flying Money".
Elves
Floxy is an Elf with a 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.
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 chums who have better male partners than she has.
Lenny is wacky 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.
Yucca is the fiancé of Lenny. Yucca is frivolous and adores extreme shopping.
Rex is an arrogant and haughty elf. 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. This aspect of his character particularly appeals to Maxine, his fiancé who is very ambitious.
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.
Other characters
Aside from Pixies, Pixieville is also home to gnomes and talking animals who help the Pixies.
"L'invasione verde (The Green Invasion)" "Green Attack"
January 10, 2011 (2011-01-10)
Pam is worried 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 suppressing the Pixies's magic.
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"Un pesce fuor d'acqua (A Fish Out of Water)" "A Pixie Fish"
January 11, 2011 (2011-01-11)
Amore is afraid to talk to her crush, Ranger Robinson, who asks her out. She obviously says yes. But since she is still very shy and nervous, she creates a love potion for herself to stop it. Unfortunately, it turns out that she actually made a fish potion, which 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 for her date] as soon as possible, whilst trying to stop Robinson finding out. In the end, Amore manages to transform back to herself, thanks to the lake, without Robinson finding out what happened. Livy gets his Magic Pop. However, since Robinson had to swim to save Amore, the lake makes him lose his memory on who Amore is, making her faint.
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"Cherie, una Pixie tempestosa (Cherie, a Stormy Pixie)" "Crazy Weather"
January 12, 2011 (2011-01-12)
A new pixie named Cherie invites everybody 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 - whenever she is happy, rainbow appears, when she is sad, rain appears, when she's angry, lighting and thunder appears, When a fire breaks out, thanks to a silly dragon, Cherie is able to cry, making it rain and putting the fire out. Thanks to this, Cherie gets her MagicPop and turns into the Pop Pixie of Weather.
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"Il segreto di Lockette (The Secret of Lockette)" "Lockette's Secret"
January 13, 2011 (2011-01-13)
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.
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"Le Pixiemonete volanti (The Flying Pixie Coins)" "Flying Money"
January 14, 2011 (2011-01-14)
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, Chatta is trying to make a great newspaper interview, in order to get her dream job of being a News Presenter.
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"L'albero dei gelati di Caramel (The Ice-Cream Tree of Caramel)" "Caramel's Ice Cream Tree"
January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17)
When Caramel feels overstretched by constant customers, she plants a magic ice cream tree to make her job easier. It all goes well at first, but then the ice cream wipes everything out in Pixieville. Using her PopPixie form, Caramel must stop this mess before it's over floated.
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"L'incantesimo dello specchio (The Magic Mirror)" "The Mirror Spell"
January 18, 2011 (2011-01-18)
Maxine, an evil elf, has a magic mirror that can do many things. She uses it to steal 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 flirts with him, and convinces him to make her Lockette and Lockette her. But Platso didn't know the truth until after he granted Maxine's request. Everybody goes after Maxine [who is actually Lockette]. Luckily, Platso manages to capture the mirror and break it, breaking the spell and confusing everybody chasing Lockette. Later, Lockette thanks Platso for what he did, making him happy again. He gets his Magic Pop for his actions.
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"L'intervista del secolo (The Interview of the Century)" "The Big Interview"
January 19, 2011 (2011-01-19)
Chatta has gotten a big interview with a guy she has a crush on. But he isn't interested. Chatta also takes a random potion off Amore, thinking that it's a perfume, but it's actually a hair-growing formula. During the interview, Chatta realizes her mistake and begins to grow a long beard. With the help of her pals, they try to stop it. But nothing works. In the end, 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 agrees to.
Meanwhile, Rollo invites a gang of gnomes to his hotel who are bald and want to grow a beard.
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"Un robot per Chatta (A Robot for Chatta)" "A Robot for Chatta"
January 20, 2011 (2011-01-20)
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 shop but learns his Magicpop allows him duplicate them in seconds.
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"Il mistero della MagicPop perduta (The Mystery of the Lost MagicPop)" "The Mystery of Lost MagicPop"
January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21)
Chatta and Amore win a stay at the Pixie Plaza hotel, and Lockette has to cater to their demands. Soon, Lockette has to multitask after a famous explorer's backpack disappears with a MagicPop inside.
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"Camp Pixie (Camp Pixie)" "Let's Go Camp Pixie"
January 24, 2011 (2011-01-24)
Amore and Lockette visit Camp Pixie because Amore wants to see Ranger Robinson. They participate in a survival course led by the rangers, where the group of attendees are given a series of tests, with no magic allowed.
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"Salviamo le scimmie svitate (Save the Nutty Monkeys)" "Save The Bumble Monkeys"
January 25, 2011 (2011-01-25)
Chatta adopts a bumble monkey, hoping to impress the pop star Justin Nimble.
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"Il mio miglior amico (My Best Friend)" "My Best Friend"
January 26, 2011 (2011-01-26)
. Martino tries to help Plasto get a job, but Floxy and Narcissa ruin that for him.
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"La pozione speciale di Amore (The Special Potion of Amore)" "Amore's Love Potion"
January 27, 2011 (2011-01-27)
Amore leaves Otis in charge of the love shop to search for a magic flower for a new potion. Otis tries to make his crush notice him but it doesn't work so he turns to using Amore's love potions. It instantly backfires when different potions get mixed together, causing the whole town to fall in love with the Elves. When Amore comes back from her trip , she sees what happened to the town and rushes to figure out what potions were used and whips up an antidote to reverse the effects. She then gets her MagicPop and saves the town from the overwhelming spell.
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"Il ladro di giocattoli (The Thief of Toys)" "Super Toy"
January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28)
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.
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"I PopPixie tecnomagici (The PopPixie Techno Magic)" "Techno MagicPop"
January 31, 2011 (2011-01-31)
A virus corrupts Pixieville's Technomagic stations during a contest between Fixit and Digit.
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"Un Elfo a scuola (An Elf in School)" "An Elf In School"
February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01)
Two Elves drop off their spoiled son at Tune's school. The Elf tries to sabotage the Pixies' chances at earning their MagicPops.
Maxine and Rex hypnotize the gnomes into being cruel to all pixies, at the same time Chatta gets kicked out of the Pixieville Chronicle. Chatta must use her voice to save the gnomes if she wants her MagicPop or the elves may takeover.
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"Un bisticcio tra Elfi (A Quarrel between Elves)" "Lenny & Yucca At War"
February 3, 2011 (2011-02-03)
The Elves, Lenny and Yucca, are in the middle of having a huge fight which Yucca ends up using her magic to throw furniture at Lenny, telling him to come back with his regular nasty self again. Chatta is featuring a segment on her show about Amore and her special skills at fixing love when she comes across the Elves. Only Amore, the broken hearts specialist, will be able to help Lenny and Yucca make up, but first she has to understand the Elves' real nature of being nasty, cruel, and disgusting.
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"Un'epidemia a Pixieville (An epidemic in Pixieville)" "The Silent Curse"
February 4, 2011 (2011-02-04)
The Yearly Yodel Festival is approaching and Tune hopes to get a trophy, but a cough attacks her at that moment and threatens to thwart her hopes, and she's not the only one.
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"Gli eroi dello scuolabus (The Heroes of the School Bus)" "The Schoolbus Heroes"
February 7, 2011 (2011-02-07)
Piff ends up making everyone on a schoolbus yawn due to her doing it, and this gets everyone stranded in the middle of the city's forest. Can they get back on track or are they lost for good?
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"Sono anch'io una PopPixie! (I am also a PopPixie!)" "I'm A PopPixie Too!"
February 8, 2011 (2011-02-08)
While the residents of Pixieville are sleeping, A gang rages through Pixieville and steals the MagicPops. To compensate, the Gnomes buy new MagicPops at a high price from a mysterious dealer. The Pixies go to investigate where these new MagicPops are coming from only to find out that the Elves are behind this. They return the stolen the MagicPops and give them back to their rightful owners.
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"Sei licenziato! (You're fired!)" "You're Fired!"
February 9, 2011 (2011-02-09)
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.
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"Capelli selvaggi (Wild hair)" "Bad Hair Day"
February 10, 2011 (2011-02-10)
An evil mushroom cloud ruins everyone's hair, and forces Pam's beauty salon to shut down. As this happens a new beauty salon has opened in town. Could it be a coincidence or is there a connection between this new salon and the mushroom cloud?
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"Il talento di Martino (The talent of Martino)" "Martino's Special Talent"
February 11, 2011 (2011-02-11)
Molly Moo is stuck with her clumsy assistant while Caramel has received amnesia.
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"L'attacco dei ragni giganti (Attack of the Giant Spiders)" "Giant Spiders Invasion"
February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14)
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.
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"La corsa all'oro degli Gnomi (The gold rush of the Gnomes)" "The Gnomes' Golden Rush"
February 15, 2011 (2011-02-15)
The gnomes' gold rush is nearing, but the gnomes themselves are strangely unaccounted for.
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"Il party perfetto (The perfect party)" "The Perfect Party"
February 16, 2011 (2011-02-16)
Cherie goes to her ex-fiancé's engagement party.
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"Un cucciolo divertente (A funny puppy)" "A Funny Pet"
February 17, 2011 (2011-02-17)
Lockette's cousin Giga finds a long-tongued chameleon that has the ability to change size like Giga can.
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"Il gran premio di Pixieville (The grand prize of Pixieville)" "The Pixieville Grand Prix"
February 18, 2011 (2011-02-18)
Lockette enters the Pixievile Grand Prix race with the Pixie Plaza's van.
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"Un talent show esplosivo (An explosive talent show)" "A Stormy Talent Show"
February 21, 2011 (2011-02-21)
Cherie enters a talent-competition, but her other friends doubt she can win, unless they enter too just to lose on purpose.
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"Lo spettacolo scoppiettante di Jolly (The crackling show of Jolly)" "Jolly's Crackling Exhibition"
February 22, 2011 (2011-02-22)
The Pudgy Pigeons are performing on stage, but then they've eating everything and grow bigger.
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"Amore e i draghi litigiosi (Amore and the quarrelsome dragons)" "Amore and the Quarreling Dragons"
February 23, 2011 (2011-02-23)
Amore, Otis and Wiki journey to find the Lost Ladle of the Cave Gnomes, but they have competition in two dragons also after the artifact.
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"Un ammiratore per Chatta (An admirer for Chatta)" "Chatta's Biggest Fan"
February 24, 2011 (2011-02-24)
An elf named Zepto idolizes Chatta, but she finds him annoying, and asks her friends for help in getting rid of him at the football field.
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"L'ultimo Gnomo (The Last Gnome)" "The Last Gnome"
February 25, 2011 (2011-02-25)
When they saw the movie, the Elves found the talisman to turn all the gnomes into stone.
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"L'assalto sotterraneo degli Elfi (The underground assault of Elves)" "The Elves' Underground Assault"
February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)
Rex and his elves try to get in a bankvault by using molesaurs, but their tunneling creates sinkholes to show up in Pixieville.
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"MagicPop in pericolo (MagicPop in danger)" "MagicPops In Danger"
March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)
An elf named Sinia is stealing MagicPops to keep her illusion as a beautiful pixie alive.
The Elves grand 3 wishes with a magic mirror and unleash the monster to wreck everything in the city.
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"I Pixie lillipuziani (The Lilluputian Pixies)" "The Lilluputian Pixies"
March 4, 2011 (2011-03-04)
The elves have put a shrinking spell on pixies, gnomes and animals, and this prevents the pixies from using their MagicPops.
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"Il rivale chiacchierone di Chatta (The chatterbox rival of Chatta)" "The Rival of Chattabox Chat (Chatta's Chatting Rival)"
March 7, 2011 (2011-03-07)
Chatta accidentally unleashes a non-stop talking creature that destroys everything around it unless it gets its questions answered. Can Chatta satisfy and silence this vocal monstrocity?
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"Più in fretta, Pam! (Faster, Pam!)" "Faster, Pam/Hurry up, Pam"
March 8, 2011 (2011-03-08)
Nappa the Snail Queen uses the slowness curse on Pam, Lockette and Chatta for being late at the hairdressers.
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"La coccinella della sfortuna (The bad luck of the ladybug)" "The Bad Luck Lady Bug"
March 9, 2011 (2011-03-09)
Martino accidentally takes Bugsy the ladybug's home as the right pumpkin to make a cake for Camellia, until he and his pals got cursed, so they find the new pumpkin for his new home.
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"Un brutto raffreddore per Fixit e Martino! (A bad cold for Fixit and Martino!)" "Fixit and Martino's Bad Cold!"
March 10, 2011 (2011-03-10)
During a lakeside picnic, Fixit and Martino challenge each other to a diving contest, which becomes the biggest mistake of their lives.
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"Le tortine zuccherose di Caramel (The sugary cupcakes of Caramel)" "Caramel's Sugar Cupcakes"
March 11, 2011 (2011-03-11)
When Caramel gives everyone in the city her sugar filled cupcakes, Doctor Boxen the Pixieville dentist must stop her by transforming Caramel, Cherie, Chatta, Lockette, and Amore into sugar eating monsters to teach them a lesson.
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"Vita da Cherie (Life by Cherie)" "Living Like Cherie"
March 14, 2011 (2011-03-14)
Rich and Cherie are forced to work at the Pixie Plaza's reception desk.
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"La sfida tra Caramel e Martino (The challenge between Caramel and Martino)" "A Competition between Caramel & Martino"
March 15, 2011 (2011-03-15)
Caramel and Martino start arguing so much they stop being friends and become rivals in the Molly Moo business, and both try to outdo the other.
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"Sirene, le migliori amiche dei PopPixie (Mermaids, the best friends of PopPixie)" "Mermaids, Pop Pixies' Best Friends!"
March 16, 2011 (2011-03-16)
The Pixies go underwater to stop a nasty shark from eating the mermaid town.
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"Un tesoro ai piedi dell'arcobaleno (A treasure at the foot of the rainbow)" "A Treasure Under The Rainbow"
March 17, 2011 (2011-03-17)
The Pixies, the Elves and the Gnomes race towards the end of the rainbow to find the treasure.
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"La pozione delle Sirene (The potion of the Mermaids)" "The Mermaids' Potion"
March 18, 2011 (2011-03-18)
The Elves turn all the pixies, gnomes and animals into sea creatures.
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"La minaccia di Rex a Pixieville! (The threat of Rex to Pixieville!)" "Rex's Threat on Pixieville"
March 21, 2011 (2011-03-21)
A molesaur puppy has damaged the Tree of Life's roots and because of it, the village's forcefield is disabled, allowing the elves to invade.
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"Salviamo l'Albero della Vita! (Save the Tree of Life!)" "Saving the Tree of Life"
March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22)
The elves have finally conquered Pixeville with help from the Command Stick and the creatures it controls, and Rex plans to kill the Tree of Life. Can the pixies stop him?
