Season 1 • Episode 27
LatestDuring a performance at the High Hope Dance Academy, Angelica slips and hurts her knee badly. She undergoes emergency surgery but has to wait for the surgeon to know whether or not she will be able to dance again. The Sky Dancers take turns to remind her of past adventures to keep her spirits up.
The toy series spawned an animated television spinoff produced by Abrams Gentile Entertainment.inc in association with Xilam and Gaumont Multimedia, who created Dragon Flyz. The premiere took place on the channel France 2 on April 12, 1997. The five characters were said to be students at the High Hope Dance Academy under the widowed Queen Skyla. Queen Skyla and her students defended her kingdom from Skyla's jealous brother-in-law Sky Clone, who sought revenge for his brother Skyler (Skyla's husband) being selected as king over him. Sky Clone had successfully killed Skyler but was unable to gain control of the Sky Swirl Stone that gave the Sky Dancers their powers.
Production
French-Canadian-American co-production: three countries, zero budgets.
Costume
Tutus + tactical gear = accidentally iconic character design.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sky Dancers premiered the same year as the infamous flying doll toy recall—children were literally hospitalized by the helicopter mechanism. The show outlived its own product's safety record.
Creator Savin Yeatman-Eiffel later founded the studio behind Oban Star-Racers, suggesting someone learned from this glorious mistake.
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