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I haven’t thought about that! But I you are right, she would totally do that!

Iginio, you held the keys to our childhoods. You created a magical world that united us, capturing the hearts of countless little girls and boys across the Western media who found a home in your story. You had one job: to heal this broken franchise. This reboot was your chance to fix the shattered lore, deepen the characters we loved, expand the beautiful world building, and finally give this legendary saga the proper, dignified ending it always deserved.

Instead, watching this reboot and reading the devastating reviews feels like watching a beautiful memory burn. It is agonizingly clear that greed and money took priority over passion. You abandoned the heart of the show. By showing the world that you no longer care, you didn't just mismanage a brand—you quietly broke the hearts of the early 2000s generation who loved your creation with all our hearts.

I think is time for people to come to terms with the origin of Winx Club. Iginio Staffi created it because there was a profitable gap in the market, Winx Club has always been intended to be a cash grab. BUT! At least the firsts season had other people that cared for the project, actually made a good story and an aesthetic unique to the series.

The series was supposed to end with Secret of the Lost Kingdom and Magical Adventure, that was a direct sequel of SotLK (no 4th season involved). I think at that point Nickelodeon bought the franchise, there must have been a change in the production crew, and since the brand was still profitable, they continue the series.

The only thing they needed was new designs of the girls to sell toys and a plot good enough to keep children entertained and old fans watching.

And is so frustrating seeing this characters that look like the Winx, but lost all essence. Fans still hope that maybe next episode is gonna make everything worth it. “I’m too invested to leave now.”

And they no reason to stop or change because people keep watching and buying the merch, it doesn’t matter if they like it or not, as long as it sells.

Is sad to see a story that had so much potential be wasted.

We are all Musa and Riven, we stay in this toxic relationship with whatever Iginio is doing.

Ok, so I don’t know if people realize how OP plant powers are.

I thought about the seasons, but we have plants all year round, so I’m going with her being affected by them rather than having Four Seasons-based powers. Like her having to use different types of plants, depending on the environment. But also her eyes changing color, like the leaves, and having a different flower-based transformation for winter. Flora is kinda of a nerd, she likes to investigate and experiment with plants, so imagine her applying her knowledge to use magic. And potion making is more like a “civilian” activity.

Disclaimer: I only watched the scene where it happened, I don’t know what deal she had with the Trix, but is probably not hard to guess.

I hate it in so many levels! But mostly I find it stupid.

People have complained for years for what they did with her character, making her cartoonishly evil, and they decided “let’s do that again, but worst”. She was a bit annoying, but she is in her right to be angry, specially now that she was actually Sky’s girlfriend, not just betrothed against Sky’s will. He is the bad one in this situation.

No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I had zero expectations in the reboot, but…. Ugh! All their ramblings of “not all witches are evil and not every fairy is good”! I knew it was surface level! Iginio Straffi must be at Thomas Astruc level when it comes to listening to fans constructive criticism Why develop a character when you can make it as one dimensional possible? 😒

Do you live in my walls?

That’s exactly what I was doing.

A preview

Someone asked me this and it gives me the perfect opportunity to rant about something.

I never liked the Witch=bad/ Fairy=good thing in Winx Club, I know the reboot attempted to refute it, but it is still implicit. And the Fairy= trendy clothes and Witch= dark alt clothes is also boring.

I made completely different beings. Fairies are magical beings and witches are magic users, you are born as one and it’s not interchangeable. Like a regular person cannot transform into an elf or a unicorn, but if they have affinity to magic they can become a witch (or other types of magic user). And a fairy is magic, they have different power systems.

I also consider Magic a neutral energy, you determine how to use it, thou depending on how, it might have consequences.

So instead of evil forms I just thought of what they would do if they were magic users instead (this was just a quick doodle)

Ok, ok, listen… if you say “sea, sports and dancing” I’m gonna think of ✨Brasil✨ I wanted to use a bit of that as inspiration for Aisha (and all the fashionable girls that appeared on my Instagram)

Aisha was raised under strict rules, she wanted to learn how to dance to feel free, and for Samba I’m pretty sure you have to be joyful to be able to dance it, I thought it would be cute. And I can tied it to capoeira, for badass reasons. But since I gave her mermaids traits, so I also want to add a fluid dance that moves like water.

That was something I really wanted to see, but from what I remember, and clips I stumble the other day, the tone shifted so much on season 4, Mitzi was not that deep of a character, but she was… handled for a young girl audience, she was there to make Bloom look better, instead of making her develop as a characters. Instead of Mitzi being childishly jealous of Bloom I would like to see her facing that she is irrelevant to Bloom at this point, just a foot note on her story. But Bloom still being a little petty, for funsies.

I had no idea that the Winx became a “global phenomenon”, I don’t know how to feel about that. Because for the girls being a fairy is normal, so too many people paying attention to them should make them uncomfortable.

Thank you so much for your message, I hadn’t notice it was not available!

Now it is, in case you want to purchase Hornet and Lace together.

Replying to really old asks

I don’t know how to feel about changing ships, because I feel some don’t work well and other’s need more development. Like Timmy barely feels like a character, so him being Tecna’s boyfriend is like his main characteristic. I’m still laughing that Musa and Riven didn’t talk to each other until he was with Darcy (but I get it). And someone described Bloom and Sky as boiled chicken with rice ans I have to agree, their relationship feels bland, not in a cute way, and their conflict with Diaspro just makes it look worst.

They need to cook a little longer.