Super Wings

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Super Wings
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Genre
Created byGil Hoon Jung
Written by
  • Anne D. Bernstein
  • Young Woo Kim
  • Jung Jin Hong
  • Pammy Salmon
Directed byJin Yong Kim
Voices of
English version
  • Luca Padovan
  • J. L. Mount
  • Junah Jang
  • Colin Critchley
  • Gary Littman
  • Emma Fusco
  • Evan Smolin
ComposerSeung Hyuk Yang (Studio Doma)
Country of origin
  • South Korea
  • China
  • United States
Original languagesKorean
Chinese
English
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes364 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Young Hong Jeong
  • Jisoo Han
  • Sang Ho Han
  • Chan Kyung Jung
  • Ray Wang
For Little Airplane
Producers
  • Seong Su Kim
  • Jonghyuk (Dane) Lee
  • Nae Young Kwak
  • Yong Jun Lee
  • Doo Ri Park
  • Sharon Gomes Thomas (Head of Production, Little Airplane)
  • Fred Weinberg (Little Airplane)
  • Do Uk Kim (FunnyFlux)
  • Jung Jin Hong (FunnyFlux)
  • Kelvin Li (Head of Production, Qianqi)
  • Miles Lau (Head of Production, Qianqi)
Running time12 min.
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 1, 2014 (2014-09-01) 
present
Super Wings
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 超級飛俠
Simplified Chinese 超级飞侠
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Chāojí fēi xiá
SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
1 52September 1, 2014 (2014-09-01)July 7, 2015 (2015-07-07)
2 52March 1, 2017 (2017-03-01)November 30, 2017 (2017-11-30)
3 40February 25, 2019 (2019-02-25)May 21, 2019 (2019-05-21)
4 40March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)June 24, 2020 (2020-06-24)
5 40March 29, 2021 (2021-03-29)June 28, 2021 (2021-06-28)
6 40February 28, 2022 (2022-02-28)July 11, 2022 (2022-07-11)
7 40February 27, 2023 (2023-02-27)May 23, 2023 (2023-05-23)
8 40September 13, 2024 (2024-09-13)TBA
9 40November 28, 2024 (2024-11-28)TBA

Spin-offs

Super Wings the Movie: Maximum Speed

The Super Wings Movie was first announced in 2021 on the Alphagroupanimation website with a teaser. The movie was officially released on 8 July 2023 in China, 20 July in South Korea, 9 February 2024 in Turkey, 15 February in Russia, and 3 May in Ireland and the UK. [3] and release on Netflix on 27 June 2024 only South Korea. In the movie, Jett faces a new villain named Billy Willy, who wants to create a "toy battle" in the whole world and get rid of social media influencers. Jett receives help from a girl named Pei, along with major characters from the TV Series (Dizzy, Donnie, Paul, Jerome, Mira, Wily, Astra, and Sky).

Super Wings: Cultural China

Super Wings: Cultural China (Chinese :超级飞侠文化中华; pinyin :Chāojí fēi xiá wénhuà zhōnghuá) is the first spin-off season of Super Wings. The series is about Chinese culture and Jett delivers to China in every episode for this spin-off season, unlike the main season, where he delivers to international countries. It debuted in China in 2023. The one character coming back is Mira, who was written off 3 seasons ago, and appears in the opening and ending for this spin-off season, as well as in episode 22 of the season. Storm and Jimbo was written off in this spin-off season before season 8 return. The spin-off season was shown as 7-minute episodes with 2 parts. There were 24 episodes shown.

Production and development

In 2010, Super Wings arose out of Little Airplane Wissie (Korean : 꼬마비행기 위시) which took place in Ciel City. The main character of this series, Jett, was originally named Wissie. [4] [ unreliable source? ] Here, Wissie and his friends can't transform into robots, unlike in the current concept.

Super Wings was announced in September 2013, and had a licensing market debut at that year's MIPJunior in Cannes, France. [5]

Release

Distribution

Alpha Animation and Culture held the distribution rights of the series in Mainland China and the rest of Asia, as well as the Middle East. The series was internationally distributed by CJ E&M until 2017 when Alpha Group taken over global distribution rights to the series from season 2 onwards, giving Alpha Group full control of the series. [6] [7]

Broadcast

In South Korea, Super Wings premiered on September 1, 2014, on EBS1. [8] The initial airings on EBS included a segment which celebrated certain children's birthdays during the closing credits. The show 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 such channel. Season 2 premiered on March 1, 2017, on EBS1. [9] [10]

In China, the series was syndicated, distributed by Alpha to television stations. In Japan, the series was broadcast on BS11. However, the series first aired only as Seasons 2 and 3 (not including Season 1). [11] In the United States, Super Wings also premiered on March 14, 2015, on Sprout (now Universal Kids) and also streamed on Netflix and Cartoonito. In Canada, the series premiered on March 3, 2015, on Treehouse TV (owned by Corus) and also aired on Family Jr, while a French version aired on Ici Radio-Canada Télé's children's block and Télé-Québec. In the UK and Ireland, Super Wings premiered on Cartoonito and Tiny Pop on February 6, 2017. [12] Super Wings has also been broadcast on ABC Kids in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, and Nick Jr. in both countries.

In the Arab World, the series was broadcast on Spacetoon on March 7, 2016, while in Saudi Arabia, the series was broadcast on Basma on 2018. In Singapore, the series debuted on Okto on October 14, 2017. [13] In Hong Kong, the series debuted on Now TV (Hong Kong) on April 25, 2019. In Indonesia, the series was originally broadcast on GTV (formerly Global TV). However, the third season debuted on RTV on April 29, 2019. [14] The fourth season debuted on August 5, 2020. [15] In Israel, the series was broadcast on Hop! Channel.

In Germany, the series was broadcast on Super RTL and KiKA. In Russia, the series was broadcast on Karusel. In Poland, the series was broadcast on TVP ABC & Polsat JimJam. In Ukraine, the series was broadcast on PLUSPLUS. In France, the series was broadcast on TF1, Gulli & Piwi+. In Croatia, the series was broadcast on RTL Kockica. In Thailand, the series was broadcast on Boomerang and Toonee. In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast on RTL Telekids. In Finland, the series was broadcast on YLE TV2. In the United Arab Emirates, the series was broadcast on e-Junior. In Spain, the series was broadcast on Clan. In Angola, the series was broadcast on ZTV. In Latin America and Brazil, it first aired on Discovery Kids on April 13, 2015.

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNomineeResult
2016 International Emmy Kids Awards Kids: Preschool Super WingsNominated
2019 International Emmy Kids Awards Super WingsNominated

Merchandise and other media

In China, Alpha Animation and Culture (and the Auldey brand which also operates Alpha's toy division) held master/international toy licenses. [5] In the United States and Canada, the toys were respectively sold by Auldey Toys and Imports Dragon. [16] In South Korea, David Toy owned the Korean toy license. In the United States, Canada and France, Nelvana (itself owned by Corus) owned consumer products rights to Super Wings. [16] [17]

References

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  12. "Boomerang UK And Cartoonito UK February 2017 Highlights" (Press release). Turner UK. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017 via RegularCapital.
  13. "Super Wings Debut". PP Toys. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on January 16, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
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