That Time Nickelodeon Ruined The First Two Winx Club Seasons 

I HATE when people shit on the original animation and say that the animation in the specials look better when it really doesn't. Plus the first 3 seasons looked SO MUCH better in the early 2000s than it does in the special and later seasons in the 2010s.

the fact that the design of Dark Bloom was massacred too 😭

Not to mention the complete AUDACITY to remove Season 1 Palladium and just use the season 2 design

Clicked faster than riven throwing his boomerang

And once again season 2 got ROBBED (seriously guys what the hell….)

Basically, Aisha is the Jasmine of Winx Club, but even better, they have many similarities, locked in a palace their whole lives, isolated, desperate for meaningful connections, both are pretty badass, and they're both rebellious Princesses, not to mention they're both beautiful, and capable! Her and Stella are my favorite Winx members!

Removing princess Amentia and the whole downland arc is criminal! Season 2 is my favorite season and that subplot was the best Stella and Brandon story ever

Can you imagine missing 5 minutes of the 4th special on cable TV and you immediately lose where the plot is going-

Harmonix was a pretty redeeming transformation for nick

Imagine if Nickelodeon really did include Aisha in their Winx specials from the beginning. She must've had a roommate, and who it could've been. The fight scenes would've been rechoreographed to make Aisha contribute something. Added dialogue and basically making her the most proactive protagonist. These requires a lot of work, I realized typing this down. I see why Nick just did the lazy route instead.

I'm forever stumped at the "forever girlfriend" bit. This is the stuff they were trying to get away when they ditched 4kids.

13:36 "walking backwards is irrational. I'm Tecna" WHAT?

All of the specials fail in their own way, and what I’m about to mention is just one of many problems ofc, but one thing I personally can’t stand as a Flora girlie and a Florelia stan is how the 4th special handled Flora and Helia’s relationship, especially when you take into account the continuity of season 3. Since the 4th special very clearly shows them having a crush on each other, but never actually shows Flora confessing (and by extension completely erasing Flora’s character arc of overcoming her fears and insecurities)…are we just supposed to assume that the two of them got together off-screen soon after they met. Cause its not like Nick omitted their relationship in season 3. Its very clear that, just like every version of season 3, in Nick’s version, Flora and Helia are very clearly in a relationship by S3, so when exactly did they officially get together in the nickelodeon timeline?😭

'Is that the best you got witchypoo.' ... 😶😶😶 Okay i know 4Kids made mistakes when they had the show, but we can all agree that they nailed the trash talking in battle. Even 4Kids Bloom could never salvage a line as bad as 'that the best you got witchypoo.' It sounds like something a 6 year old on the playground would come up with.

Something else weird about this. Bloom doesnt have her season 1 outfit when she should in the specials

FINALLY someone who talks about how bad the nick specials are.... what I hated the most is how they did not sumarize the second season, but they completely changed it

First of all, I think I am one of the few Italians to follow you constantly 😂 Suffering is also shared for us. The only thing that is saved, and will be saved, is our dubbing, which is always excellent and iconic 🙏🏻✨ A short sad story: a Winx-themed musical was recently supposed to take place in Casavatore, but it was cancelled because the truck where the costumes, musical and stage equipment and other objects were all stolen.

The worst thing about this truely was, that once these specials were released Nickelodeon even in countrys where they always had the rights to air winx on their channel, most of the time just skipped through season 1 and 2 with these specials for reruns, making for like a few years the only way to watch season 1 and 2 with DVD, since they ignored there existence

i only like the specials as a way to rewatch season 1, i like to get through it quickly cause it feels so weird to not have aisha ALSO WTF DID THEY DO TO STELL’S SCEPTER?????

What is awful about season 2, they got rid of Aisha character arc. To be clear: Who is Layla (Cinelum) ? Layla is a princess of Andros, who overcame her inner demons and she's really good friend. Who is Aisha (Nick)? Aisha... is just Aisha. Also she's the princess of Andros (maybe, If she even told it in 4th special)

Specials 1 and 3 were flash/puppet animated while specials 2 and 4 were actually hand-drawn. Though you can tell that the hand-drawn ones were rushed, especially 4, which doesn't hold a candle to the corresponding season 2 scenes when you compare them. ❤

I am so glad you made this video. I had nothing but burning hatred for the Winx Club TV Specials because of how Nickelodeon cut a LOT of important storylines from the two seasons. What was the point of creating those two TV Specials instead of re-dubbing the first two seasons, which makes me sad since i love the voice acting in the Nick Dub. Season 2 got the worst treatment since it cut a lot of interesting storylines such as Hallowinx, Aisha's backstory and Musa's emotional conflict with her father 'cause that's one of my favorite episodes, and I was so confused that it was not added in the Nick version.

im so glad i grew up with the RAI version

why couldn't they just dub the first two seasons 😭

Your take of just including Aisha since the very beginning in the Specials is actually really good, like season 2 doesn't have much plot that is ultimately too important for the general plot of later seasons and they could've at least had the 45 minutes remaining run time to at least include a portion of all the character moments.

i really feel like people just say these specials are better animated just bcs they stay on model most of the times (well these are puppet animations so it would be wierd if they didn't) but like these look lifeless, everyone moves the same, they have no real facial expressions, transformations are boring and are all the same if you ignore the color of the background and sparkle effect.png

Who else didn't like the shadow of Phoenix special at all? It was just bad. We only watched it for Keke Palmer

Nickelodeon could have done so much good for Winx club if they had more time

Music is nice though..

This is the Winx Club I grew up with and I still associate the characters with these voices. These videos helped me understand what was going on behind the scenes and what happens after season 5 because I fell off it because I moved to another continent and they didn’t have Nick.💀

One of the biggest issues of these specials are that they tried to make Bloom the "main, perfect character whose friends are just there". The writers at Nickelodeon didn't wanted to understand why they work together and why everybody loved the original show. From season 5 until today they tried to make Bloom the "foundation" of the show, a person, who can be a role model for little girls, taken away her personality and her little quirks that made her unique, but not just hers, but everyone's as well, turning them into "shadows of their former self". The specials could have been so much more, not just rehash of the first two seasons, but a great chance to introduce each and every girl, their worlds and their interests and their role in the group, that changed their life for better.

Honestly, I can kinda see why they cut Tecna trying to be emotional from the Seaon 2 special I mean, what introvert leads with something as powerful as: "Walking backwards is irational, I'm Tecna."

Man the flash animation that started in season 4 pissed me of and got worse from season 5. It felt like they were lazy to properly animate.

Still wondering about an AU where Disney and Iginio didn't have that despute and if they collabed together instead of Nickelodeon.

Yassified to death sounds so funny

Sad that this was actually a lot of people 1st introduction inti the show so much is skipped out that is brought up in season 3 luckily we have RU-vid so fans can go enjoy the show the correct way

Until I got addicted to your channel, I had NO IDEA they had done this lol. That's probably because I'm not from an English-speaking country, but I also discovered that the specials were also dubbed in my language, and I'm so confused because I know I have never watched them

Only positive for me was the updated animation. Given I grew up with the original versions, I honestly have never watched the specials. I knew of them but ignored them because I didn’t feel the need to watch them and I’m so glad I did.

Also you would think redubbing the first two seasons means a quicker and easier way for Nickelodeon to make money. The show would last longer on their network and if demands are popular enough, then they make new seasons

Nickelodeon is still falling apart as we speak. And as a editor, i could put the time on making a restored version that includes the Nickelodeon voices.

One thing I really love about winx specials. That's what they made Darkar a fake Avalon. This made Darkar a much more interesting calculating villain. Not just ":THEeViL LAUgh dude" and fix the plot hole with Avalon 's complete disappearance after he delivered Bloom . I want this to become a canon for the original series

They got rid of the season 1 outfits too!

Fun fact, these specials were my introduction to the Winx Club series

i like the original 4 seasons way better than the specials, but i do like to put on the specials in the background while i do work from time to time. i also like to watch these specials + the nick dubs of seasons 3 and 4 if i’m binging the show as a whole, because having the same cast makes them feel more like the same characters in the same journey.

Tbf season 3 and 4 may have better animation but also worse animation, compared to season 1. You can just tell they took more time with drawing the first season. Yes there are a lot of small errors, but overall it looks on point. Season 2 and season 3 start out great but in both the later half have some rough looking episodes especially season 3. Season 4 just looks weird in the beginning

*at the beginning* i-is that stella's scepter? *by **4:00* get that scepter out of my face! O.O what is that?! And they did change Bloom's outfit....where's season 1's outfit? ;~; i'm glad I was busy moving into my college dorms during the release of these things..... By the time I got settled in, figured out how to use my first laptop and had access to TV again, this was over and the new season was out. I didn't realize the network liked screwing things over until LoK

I remember the specials being advetised and watching it in secret. Family was very "traditional" Ig ie fairies are for girls what are you queer? Little did I know at the time i was lol. Was so excited for Aisha bc she was new. I'm happy that the cinelune dub was on Netflix in the mid 2010s so I could watch season 1 and 2 without the huge amount of cuts they made in the specials.

I agree, i hate the new transformations, too. They won't even transform. They are just swimming around in glitters while already in their fairy forms.

I can understand if the Nickelodeon isn’t for everyone, but one thing is for sure is that I personally grew up with this dub- it was my gateway to Winx Club and even as an adult who can see the discrepancies brought on by Seasons 5-8, it will still be my favorite dub. The cast in that dub is just too nostalgic and perfect for me that I can’t imagine watching Winx in any other dub than that one.

7:02 ´Getting the s6 energy ready i see´

Try watching "A better schedule for Nickelodeon's main block" by Evan Rosman.

So is there any way the Specials could've worked better? Should they have thought of a more natural retelling of the story rather than rushing through a selection of unaltered scenes? Any ideas? 🤔

Winx club burst into colours in the world. Only for s6 and kinda s5 to put them back in closet.

Season 2 has been my favorite since childhood, so imagine little me's utter disappointment when i found out they were summing up all those episodes into ONE special. Because uh. No sapphic Musa x Layla shenanigans or Red Fountain concert?? This baby bi was not having it.

I was already 16 when this came out and thus I don't really have childhood nostalgia related to it, I remember being quite upset about the butchering of the first seasons. Great video! I never noticed the great soundtrack so thanks for pointing it out!

Nickelodeon killed it with the soundtrack

...wait why is Sky cheating trash? Yes he was engaged when he was dating Bloom but dosnt he make it WARY clear he has NO intrest in Diaspro and wasnt it a arranged marriage he had no say in?...ore did the german dub change that too make him more likable?

The Winx be like: YOU’RE MY SPECIALZ

Omg bloom's first transformation was in the simulator?! They cut so many good battle sequences!

Hello unicorn if war love the video. Kinda wish you made this one when you were still releasing your winx documentary series . Still great vid

Please do a video where you rank the voices of the trix and another one of the specialists.

where can I watch the og version? I have a version where winx even hadn´t a meaning in the dub

What are your thoughts on the winx club English channel being rebranded 😭

Okay but where can I watch the original (pre-Nickelodeon) episodes because those are the ones I had on DVD and I much prefer those 😭

Lol the Nick version doesn't even exist in my mind. The only canon Winx material are the first 4 seasons, and I only watch them in Italian because the voices are consistent and fit the characters well💪 All the English dubs are a bit of a trainwreck. The only watchable one for me is 4kids because plenty of care and passion went into it despite the unnecessary edits.

18:47 Why does musa legs look like the knee joints are on backwards?

Say what you want, the 4 specials are what got me into the franchise. I knew of the show on 4kids but never was interested in it. Then when it came to Nick, knowing that they were specials got me into it with no need to watch full seasons. I think it’s sad they didn’t dub the first two seasons but it worked to get people into the show. Plus this voice cast is still my favorite.

I really enjoy watching your videos about Winx Club, since it keeps me in the Fandom as a whole and often gets me to rewatch the first 3-4 season (usually only up to 3)❤ As a matter of fact, I have taken a look into the different english dubs and I must admit, I much prefer my Main language German as a dub. Maybe it's nostalgia or maybe something else. Still. Thank you for making me rewatch this show on almost a monthly bases. 😂❤

I was waiting for Thomas to talk about the Charmix and Magic Winx. Like how dare Nick remove Magic Winx, and make Charmix into their first transformation instead if a booster that comes with thuer own Charm and bag.

I must say I find this video quite, overly negative and I think you misunderstood the point of the specials. It was not to update the animation, the goal was to reintroduce the show to an american audience. This had to be done as quickly as possible so that they could launch season 5 globally. When there’s less time, obviously they will have to focus more on the main plot and side plots will be cut. I actually really like the specials, it’s a great way to quickly introduce the series to a new audience. The quality in terms of animation (I would say that it’s even better than season 5 onwards) and soundtrack is actually really good too. You can also tell that they really put their bets on the project given they had famous actors to do the voices. It could’ve succeeded if they didnt reduce the target audience for the following seasons that much. It’s weird to have the specials be for a 12+ I would say, audience and then have the actual production they did with Rainbow be dumbed down to unicorns and rainbows for nick junior.

I love the 4 kids version more than the Nick version because I grew up with the 4 kids version but I like the Nick version too. I don't like the flash animation but I like how pretty it was for the Nick version especially for the charmix transformation. I also love the music for the Nick version.

I don’t understand why they couldn’t call the transformation magic winx. There was more than enough time to throw charmix in season 2. Since the plot was butchered, it could’ve been a Sailor Moon S thing where the fairy-pixie bond spawned the charmix power.

holy crap this explains SO MUCH for me! i didn't watch winx on TV, i watched uploads of episodes and the movies on youtube. one time, i came across what must have been the first and second specials, and i was SO CONFUSED and I also hated it lol. why is stella just bringing bloom to alfea like "yes she is a princess actually" ?? i didn't care enough to watch any of the other specials because i had already seen the first two seasons in full. i didn't know anything about the network transfer because i was a kid, so it just seemed random and weird. anyways thanks for answering some decade-old questions i forgot i had haha

i need "I might commit a felony" sing song as a text tone, that was amazing

when will you finish the winx season 6 rewrite

I love how despite how often we debate whether the Cinelume or 4Kids dub is better, we can all agree that nothing is as bad as the Nick dub. Also, I’ve been rewatching the first 3 seasons (I know, what else is new?) and I absolutely prefer the original animation over the HD versions. Maybe it’s the nostalgia influencing my preferences? Idk. It just feels like it has so much more charm!

Always get so pumped when u upload!

While I have grown up with the nick version, I didn't even know that there were more episodes to winx until I saw the RAI dub. As most as I love the nick dub with its pros and cons, it did condense a lot of crucial things.

I feel conflicted because I grew up on Nickelodeon Winx and I remember really liking Molly Quinn as Bloom. Her emotions comes out more when Bloom actually gets to be angry, like when Bloom regains her Dragon Flame and does that loud growly battle cry before she transforms.

I used to love the Winx club whether if it’s animation is on Nickelodeon or 4kids tv. Even the songs when they transform are really smooth and heavy. To be honest I like the fact the storyline in the franchise different version shows that the characters especially the protagonist bloom can be used in situations that’s similar to the 4kids original in the first two seasons that can be more serious in a 4K style than how they were tone down in og 2D style, but It sucks the fact that Nick and rainbow didn’t do the same for the rest of the later seasons.

When season 6 rewrite?

In Winx club rainbow spa did daphine transfer the power of the dragon flame to bloom or was bloom just born with the power of the dragon flame

These sessions give me life and validate my feelings. Even if they didn't the content always slaps and brings joy.

Can you do a video on the worst and best battles of avatar and legend of Korra?

Urgh, I still remember the splitting headache I got from Nickbow's season 2 special because they tried to cram so much into 1 episode. Seriously, they couldn't bother at least stretch it out into 3 parts like season 1?

6:45 You know how 4kids' Version of Winx's 17th Episode had Bloom (and the other winx) punished for sneaking into red fountain? Well Nick could've have done the same! If there version of episode 2 had musa introduce herself, why not do the same as 4kids?

The specials tho were planned out by Rainbow tho to quote on quote reintroduce fans to the series but in all reality they were just butchered down versions of the first two seasons leaving out any of the serious character development we got from those and from that point with S5 onwards it just got aged down and too chaotic

I don't mind the specials, but i get wound up with the fact they removed a transformation in the shadow phoenix and gave the name to their base form

ACTUALLY- Heart of Fire recently got an official release. It's extremely short, but it's available on RU-vid and is without all the sound effects in the way.

The winx learning how to converge their powers was my favorite part of season 2. Episode 12 specifically is probably my favorite... seeing that they removed every scene of them in their classes learning new spells or training destroys my soul

Season 1 and 2 are uploaded on youtube on the official winx channel I think? With all tge different dubs ao take your pic.

I was 12 when the specials came out. And season 3 introduced me to the show. From there I became obsessed and snuck onto RU-vid to watch the rest.

damn, I never knew any of that, now I'm glad I watched 1st 3 seasons straight from cd-s with all the episodes on and never saw winx on nickelodeon at all X''')

One thing that annoyed me much was that while season 1 and 2 was on netflix, it was only for a short time for me, so only got to watch them once, instead of later on when you started going through the seasons.

*gigels* I MIGHT COMMIT A FELONY ~ Thomas Vasco 04/06/2024

I was actually okay with season 1 being divided into the three specials like obviously I'd prefer the full season but I thought the three specials were okay doing season 2 in 1:45 minutes special I have always thought was a bad idea though the guy that got to voice Lord darkar that was awesome he did a great job

Something that is honestly just now coming to me is that in the first episode Bloom essentially mentions that she has friends. But we never hear about anyone she knew outside of Mitzi until season 4 with Andy and then season 6 with Selina.

I have a video idea, Winx club continuity problems from seasons 1 through 4, might make for an interesting topic for discussion.

I swear winx still gives me a high whenever it’s mentioned or I see it 😂😂😂

Ok so I’m actually someone who’s a big fan of Winx and I actually was introduced to it by the tv movies back in 2012 when I was 6 or 7 . Those tv movies were actually pretty good for me as a kid and I actually was introduced to the season 1&2 till 2013ish and was confused originally by how different both versions were mainly due to the animation and outfits. Also by the voices sometimes from the different dubs since to me the other dubs made them sound older or too cartoony I liked how Nick made them sound like the typical teenager in the 2010s Looking back from the og seasons I can understand why they redid season 1&2 due to the animation as a kid if this aired I probably wouldn’t had been as interested since even though the animation was decent compared to other shows at the time it probably would’ve been so different to stand and also at the time it was early 2010s and fashion then was so crazy and modern that it made sense why they choose they’re season 2/3 outfits since it was most marketable at the time plus ngl I feel like they sorta covered the necessities although they did left out some story lines that I wouldn’t had learn till a year or 2 later. But overall I liked living this era mainly due to how Winx was pretty much sorta getting a lot of attention in the US.I actually had most of the jakks dolls at the time and the advertising was so eye catching that I tuned in to every release of the specials. I liked the transformations and music plus the fashion from the specials were pretty eye catching for 7 year old me.when I saw season 3 and 4 it was kinda confusing due to the change in tone like the specials and first 2 movies and season 3&4 had such a good storyline but I felt kinda weird about season 5&6 mainly due to how childish the story had gotten and mainly confused about them still going to alfea. But overall I liked the dub and specials I just hated how Nick wrote the later on seasons since the first early episodes they released definitely had a more exciting and interesting tone I really hope it gets better for the reboot this year