Later, the first two episodes of the season premiered at the International Rome Film Festival on Octoto celebrate the Winx's 15th anniversary. Afterward, a clip from the season was shown at the Brand Licensing Europe, in London, UK on October 9, 2018. ”Īt the Las Vegas Licensing Expo 2018, it was revealed that the season would mark the return of the most popular fairy transformations, Butterflix, Sirenix, and Enchantix. The fans of the previous Winx Club say on social media that the new seasons are childish, but they don't know that we had to do that. Nowadays, it's very difficult to get a 10-year-old to watch cartoons.

“In the last ten years, the animation audience has skewed younger. In a 2019 interview, Iginio Straffi explained why he had chosen to gradually lower the show's intended audience over the years: The characters were restyled visually to appear younger, which would better appeal to the show's new demographic. įor this season, the series was rebooted with a new target audience of preschool children, and the show was moved to the Rai YoYo preschool channel in Italy. Straffi himself also stepped away from focusing on the Winx Club series for this season, as he wished to focus on Club 57 and other live-action projects. This is because the Nick team was busy working with Rainbow and Straffi on a new co-production called Club 57 instead. Secondly, Nickelodeon's American staff members moved to a consultant role for season 8, rather than writing the episodes directly as they had before. When asked if she would be continuing in the eighth season, Elisa Rosselli (singer for almost every Winx song since 2007) stated in an interview, 'No, I didn't get a call.' This season is also the first without involvement from art director Simone Borselli, who was responsible for the finalized character models used through season 7. Most of the essential crew members from previous seasons were not called back for this season. Many behind-the-scenes changes were made before the eighth season entered production.

No details were officially announced until 2018, when it was revealed at the Russia Licensing World Exhibition on February 27 that the eighth season's premiere would not be until 2019. In 2015, Iginio Straffi, the creator of Winx Club, said that an eighth season would be written but was not in production yet.

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