Super Wings (Chinese: ????) is an animated television series co-produced by Funny-flux Entertainment in South Korea, Qianqi Animation in China, and Little Airplane Productions in the United States, with the production support from the Educational Broadcasting System and CJ E&M in South Korea, and additional support from KOCCA.
Video Super Wings
Episodes
Maps Super Wings
Characters
- Jett (Chinese: ??; voiced by Luca Padovan in the English version): The main character, a red and white male jet plane. His task is to deliver packages to kids around the world.
- Donnie (Chinese: ??; voiced by Colin Critchley in the English version): A male yellow and blue plane. His specialty is to make or repair things using his handy tool kit. He's prone to self-inflicted accidents.
- Dizzy (Chinese: ??; voiced by Junah Jang (Season 1) and Jenna Iacono (Season 2) in the English version): A pink and white female helicopter. Her main task is to rescue the people in need of her assistance.
- Jerome (Chinese: ??; voiced by Evan Smolin in the English version): male blue fighter jet. He believes that some problems Jett faces can be solved with a dance routine, and thinks he can do other Super Wings' missions better than they can do them themselves.
- Paul (Chinese: ???; voiced by Gary Littman in the English version): A blue and white police plane. One of his jobs is to guard the World Airport at night. At times, he helps Jett and others by using his traffic control and detective skills in certain situations.
- Grand Albert (Chinese: ????; voiced by Bill Raymond in the English version): A retired male orange bi-plane with a front propeller. He gives moral advice about some tasks to Jett. Also, he has a trunk full of items collected over time from his young days as an adventurer.
- Mira (Chinese: ??; voiced by Elana Caceres in the English version): A female green jet plane. She is the only member of the Super Wings team that loves water and can breathe underwater without the use of diving equipment.
- Bello (Chinese: ??; voiced by Jason Griffith in the English version): A male black and white striped safari plane with a propeller. His specialty is to talk with various animals in their language.
- Chase (Chinese: ??; voiced by Will Blagrove in the English version): A male dark blue spy plane. He can transform into almost anything in addition to a robot and a plane.
- Todd (Chinese: ??; voiced by Joseph Ricci in the English version): A male brown construction plane. He has a drill for his nose.
- Astra (Chinese: ??; voiced by Hayley Negrin in the English version): A female white space plane.
- Flip (Chinese: ??; voiced by Jian Harrell in the English version): A male red plane, who knows a lot about sports. He joined the Super Wings in "The Bermuda Blunder" after helping rescue Jett from the Bermuda Triangle.
- Jimbo (Chinese: ??; voiced by J. L. Mount in the English version): The main traffic controller and the only human working at the World Airport in Season 1. In Season 2, he goes on an around-the-world vacation while his niece Sky takes his place as the traffic controller.
- Sky (Chinese: ??; voiced by Madison Kelly in the English version): The main traffic controller and the only human working at the World Airport in Season 2. Jimbo's niece.
- Roy (Chinese: ??; voiced by Emma Fusco in the English version): A luggage tug. He is always wanting to fly, like the Super Wings. He often drops some items on the tarmac because he is in such a hurry. He has a twin brother named Ray.
- Ray (voiced by Sofia Fusco in English version): Another luggage tug. He looks like Roy, because he and Roy are twins.
- Poppa Wheels (Chinese: ??; voiced by Benjie Randall in the English version): A truck who works as Donnie's Assistant and transforms into robot mode.
- Big Wing (Chinese: ??; voiced by Conor Hall in the English version): A blue and white jumbo passenger plane with a yellow stripe. He is the biggest member of the Super Wings team. He's the only Super Wings member that does not transform into robot mode.
- Neo (Chinese: ??; voiced by Catie Harvey in the English version): A small plane. She works at a factory that transforms.
Production
Development
Super Wings was announced in September 2013, and had a licensing market debut at that year's MIPJunior in Cannes, France.
Promotion
A balloon of Jett debuted in the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2017.
Release
Distribution
For the Mainland China and the rest of Asia, as well as the Middle East, Alpha Animation and Culture holds the distribution rights of the series. For the rest of the world, the series is distributed by CJ E&M.
Broadcast
In South Korea, Super Wings was premiered on September 1, 2014 on what is now EBS1, a public service terrestrial television channel operated by Educational Broadcasting System. The initial airings on EBS included a segment which celebrated certain children's birthdays during the closing credits. It was repeated on some of children's interest channels on multichannel platforms in the country since then: Tooniverse, owned by CJ E&M, was one of such channels. Season 2 was premiered on March 1, 2017 on EBS1.
In China, the series was syndicated, distributed by Alpha to television stations.
In the United States, Super Wings was premiered on March 14, 2015 on Sprout. In Canada, the series was premiered on Treehouse TV (owned by Corus).
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Super Wings is set to premiere on Cartoonito on February 6, 2017. Tiny Pop strand will premiere the show on November 20, 2017.
Awards
Merchandise and other media
Alpha Animation and Culture in China (whose toy division is also operated under its Auldey brand) holds master toy license worldwide. In the United States and Canada, the toys are sold by Auldey Toys and Imports Dragon, respectively.
Nelvana (a Corus company) has consumer products rights of Super Wings for the United States, Canada and France.
References
External links
- Super Wings at Sprout
- Super Wings at Treehouse TV
- Official website for Canada, as operated by Imports Dragon
- Super Wings at Cartoonito UK
- Super Wings at Tiny Pop
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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