Billing Displacement: The cast list is ordered by last name, placing Britt McKillip (Amethyst) in the middle while Alexandra Carter (Sapphire) is first up.
Children Voicing Children: Simon was voiced by Reece Thompson, who was 7 years old at the time of production.
It all started with the huge financial success of the company's Strawberry Shortcake revival in 2003, which made millions for both DIC and the franchise owner American Greetings with high sales engaging for videos and DVDs, and made even more money once the merchandise started rolling in. This led to DIC finding other "retro" toy franchises to make revivals for and in the same year, they signed a licensing deal with the Dutch-based Dam to produce a modernized revival of their troll dolls, which was announced as Trollz in 2004.
DIC first dealt with licensing the original trolls dolls over to Jakks Pacific subsidiary Play Along, but their main focus was that they deemed their modernized revival as becoming the next Strawberry Shortcake in terms of sales and profits. By 2004. DIC signed merchandising deals for Trollz with Hasbro, Scholastic, Warner Home Video, Sony-BMG, and Ubisoft, among other companies, as well as international television deals with Nickelodeon, CBBC, and TF1. This was good in all, but the main issue came with showcasing the animated series in the United States.
DIC chose not to air it on a mainstream cable network or basic TV service, instead choosing to air the series on their syndicated "DIC Kids Network" block. As the block was in reality three or four different programmed strands that aired on syndicated television stations depending on region, that severely limited major viewership significantly, and it was revealed that the reason for the show to air this way was to pay extra attention to the DVDs, with DIC treating the series as a straight-to-video exclusive in a way, even having a premiere of the first DVD movie on Disney Channel and Toon Disney in September 2005 prior to the DVD releases. However, this didn't do anything good, as the first two DVD releases sold poorly and caused Warner to silently ditch the next two They tried to solve these problems by having the series air on their newly-launched KOL Secret Slumber Party block on CBS in 2006 and a new North American home video deal with NCircle Entertainment in 2007, but even that deal didn't increase any attention. By this point, in addition to poor merchandising sales (with the planned CD album silently being canceled), DIC had deemed the franchise a failure and had suffered from a $2.3 million provision coverage cost through that.
DIC blamed Dam and sued the company in October 2007, only to be counter-sued by them a little over a week later, where Dam criticized DIC for trying to point attention away from the original troll dolls and over to their incarnation as well as the fact that DIC knew about counterfeit Good Luck Trolls reaching the market and blaming Dam for not taking care of it themselves. In the end, DIC lost loads of money from Trollz and other failed franchises from their end of life (eg, Dino Squad) which led to the Cookie Jar purchase.
As for Dam, they decided to try again with licensing the troll dolls and licensed the franchise to Dreamworks Animation in 2010, who bought out the franchise outright in 2013 except in Denmark. With this, they created the film Trolls, which following its release in October 2016 became a huge financial success for the company, and Trolls is now deemed as one of DreamWorks's biggest franchises, with three films, two television shows, live shows, theme park attractions, loads of merchandise, and so forth.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series saw very limited DVD releases in most countries including the US, where Warner Bros. released two story-arc DVDs containing three episodes each, with NCircle later releasing a third. A complete series release was only in France.
No Export for You: Some merchandise, like magazines and specific doll collections, were only released in Germany and the UK. A soundtrack CD was only released in Spain.
Referenced by...: The lore of the series, as well as DreamWorks' Trolls, is discussed by Athena P in a February 2024 video. In this video, Athena cosplays as Ruby.
Unspecified Role Credit: The end credits list the characters' by the actors' names only, with no word on who they voiced.
As seen in this concept art, the main villain could've been a witch and the girls' mentor would have looked completely different. Kaboom was also slated to be part of the main cast.
There were plans to make a second season of the show, with the creators even having some titles already set up, such as "Coming to Your Town," "Magic of the Ten," "Trollz Gone Wild," "Topaz Makes the A-List," "Trollzbury Bake-Off," and "Clothes Make the Troll".
An English soundtrack CD was planned to be released with 15 songs, and was promoted in the tie-in video game, but never made it to stores. The existing promo CD has only 11 songs.
As part of the extras for "Best Friends for Life" and "The Magic of Five", a third and fourth compilation movies was advertised: "Hair Over Heels" and "You Glow Girls!" which would have featured episodes 7-9 and 10-12 respectively. Warner Bros. cancelled both releases and NCircle Entertainment would eventually release the third DVD. Once again "You Glow Girls!" was unlucky to not be released again, alongside a fifth compilation called "A Hair A-Faire," which would've featured episodes 13-15.
Unusually, "You Glow Girls" was released in The Netherlands, and all the movie-length versions were featured on Netflix for a time, which also included "Spellbound" (16-18), "Boys Spell Trouble" (19-21), "Fuzzy Logic" (22-24), and "Surfin' BFFL" (25-27). This explains why there are 27 episodes of the series rather than the usual 26, as every three episodes are made up of these story-arcs/movies.
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Ruby casts the most spells in the series, while Onyx casts the least.
concept art, the main villain could've been a witch and the girls' mentor would have looked completely different. Kaboom
