Already dreading the tip of summer time? Give your fam one thing to maintain their spirits buoyed — a model new season of DreamWorks Animation’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, and a *nautical* one at that! On Aug. 7, six recent 22-minute-long episodes hit Netflix with everybody’s favourite artful tween, her greatest pal Pandy Paws, and all of their different a-meow-zing feline pals. Solely, this season, the colourful crew is boarding the SS MerCat cruise ship to Mermaid-lantis for some unforgettable underwater adventures.
Created and govt produced by Traci Paige Johnson (Blue’s Clues, Daniel’s Tiger’s Neighborhood) and Jennifer Twomey (Blue’s Clues, Workforce Umizoomi), Gabby’s Dollhouse combines animation and live-action for a blended media model that has been making a splash with preschoolers since its debut.
And judging by Scary Mommy’s unique clip, Season 8 is destined for a similar fanfare. Test it out for your self:
Within the clip, Gabby and Pandy, together with MerCat and SunnyCat, take a rainbow-slide tour of Mermaid-lantis, and because the cute quartet sings, “There’s magic in all places!” A spa, tasty do-it-yourself mer-cakes, a mini-mermaid nursery positive to make anybody say “aww,” and an explosion of colour — what’s to not love?
Mermaid-lantis isn’t the one cease in retailer for Gabby and her BFFs (greatest feline pals, natch). A snow cruise will take them to see Pete the Polar Bear’s rainbow igloo, and CatRat sends them on a “shiney-is-miney” treasure hunt. Rounding out the enjoyable? They get to welcome Child Field’s new brother, Benny Field.
Bringing the beloved characters to life are Laila Lockhart Kraner as “Gabby,” Tucker Chandler as “Pandy Paws,” Tara Sturdy as “Kitty Fairy” and “Mama Field,” Donovan Patton as “CatRat,” Juliet Donenfeld as “Cakey,” Maggie Lowe as “Child Field,” Secunda Wooden as “MerCat,” Sainty Nelsen as “Pillow Cat,” Eduardo Franco as “DJ Catnip,” and Carla Tassara as “Carlita.”
As followers of the collection have come to know (and love), every character has their very own endearing character. However Season 8, specifically, will concentrate on discovering everybody’s “particular sparkle” — the extra-something that makes them distinctive.
In February, Twomey emphasised how necessary it’s when creating episodes to craft tales that may ignite youngsters’ imaginations. “One of many key parts for us in making the present is that we wish to spark creativity,” she informed Scary Mommy. “Youngsters have a lot media out there. So, one of many issues that we all the time take note when writing new episodes and creating them is we would like youngsters to have the ability to watch the present, then flip off the media and be impressed by the present to create issues in their very own world and play on after the present is over.”
Added Johnson, “Having youngsters ourselves, we all know find out how to spark their pursuits, they usually’re simply such nice story starters and catalysts to our adventures.”
Season 8 of Gabby’s Dollhouse premieres on Netflix on Aug. 7.