Enchanted Princess Party

Enchanted Princess Party (Arabic: حفلة الأميرة المسحورة) is an Egyptian-Arabic CGI animated TV series made by the Egyptian-Arabic animation studio Arascope.

Plot
In a castle where they prepare the princesses of fairy tales, judged five little friends: Cindy, Bianca, Bella, Clara, and Stella. There, they learn to behave like the heroines of fairy tales that we already know. But with this palace, the hallways at the castle will be the scene of a mess after another.

Although implemented, the five friends are always tucked in major trouble. They are curious and smart, which gives a special touch ace adventures of these princesses.

Production
Enchanted Princess Party was created by Emad Atteya, who also founded the Enchanted Princess franchise around late 1999, and serve as the director of the series. Development began during the fall of 2001, and Sylvia Fakhry, the developer of the franchise, wrote the story bible for series. She was also an art director for the show, though her work is uncredited. Big Animation originally did the animation work, with some outsourcing from Enemes in South Korea.

A trailer for the show was released by Big Animation on October 2001. Another trailer was released to Intel on February 2002, featuring clips synced to the show's first episode, "Sleeping Beauties". A third one was released on October 2002 by Microsoft, for Big Animation offered them the chance to release it to reach a wider audience. A fourth trailer for the show was presented at MIPCOM 2003 and was released on October 2003, featuring clips from the show synced to the show's second episode, "The Enchanted Tea Party".

Around February 2004, the Egyptian-Arabic company Arascope and the Indian company Big Animation joined the production of the series, and worked to complete what the previous studios had left behind. A fifth trailer for the show, which would be the first girls' material in a few years, would be released to MySpace on June 2004 by Big Animation. It would also be the last trailer of the show to be released before its premiere one year later.

Enchanted Princess Party has gone through development hell five years prior to its release, and was delayed many times before it finally premiered in September 2004. While the reasons for the delay remain unclear, it likely includes financial problems the Andersen brothers were facing, BRB and Screen 21 suddenly ceasing production of the series on their part, and NewBoy initiating legal action against Bandai. In the final version of both the English and Hindi credits, nobody from either Big Animation or Enemes have been credited since those companies backed out of their involvement with the series. While English is the original version of the series, it was not released officially anywhere until January 2006; however, various English trailers were released prior. The latest trailers posted by Enemes in late 2004 contain the finalized voices, while the previous trailers released by Big Animation in late 2002 featured different voice actors from New Delhi, India. The Canadian-English voice actors had participated in voicing characters in the English version.

Goofs/Errors

 * It is a blatant Disney Princess ripoff.
 * Cindy is a ripoff of Cinderella.
 * Bianca is a ripoff of Snow White.
 * Bella is a ripoff of Aurora.
 * Clara is a ripoff of Belle.
 * Stella is a ripoff of Ariel.
 * Marla Drastic is a ripoff of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.
 * Speaking of WIS #1, episodes like "Sleeping Beauties" and "The Enchanted Tea Party" directly plagiarize Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast, respectively.
 * Mediocre CGI animation with animation errors, bland graphics, and stiff movements, which makes this look more like an Asian animated television show made in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
 * In the first episode, Cindy is sliding across the screen, smiling with teeth and winking at each other while walking.
 * Sometimes, whenever princesses speak, their mouths are horribly blend shaped.
 * There are some occasions where certain characters in the background and foreground don't appear to be animated, and as a result, appear frozen stiff.
 * During the second episode, Clara is seen putting on wrist bands, even though in a couple of shots earlier, she was already wearing them.
 * During the establishing shot of the castle at the beginning of the first episode, day turns into night with a starfield in the sky.
 * The unnamed Arabian princess' enchanted book does not have a skin at the back.
 * In the third episode, Bianca's hands clip through the shadows of the princes in the dark forest.
 * In one scene during the fourth episode where animals came into the forest, the five princesses were frightened and turned into stones.
 * Annoying voice acting, especially from the five princesses.
 * Awful dialogue, especially the Egyptian-Arabic voices, that sounded irritating.
 * Lip syncing is way off.
 * Dreadful soundtrack. It even features dated music and songs from the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Trivia

 * The English dub was done by Ocean Productions, albeit uncredited.
 * In the English dub, there are several educational songs that can teach little kids to sing and dance with nursery rhymes and children's songs.
 * Decent English voice acting.
 * Some unintentionally funny moments, such as the monsters chasing the five princesses.

Characters

 * Cindy (AKA Anti-Cinderella) (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse) is the leader of the palace is determined and knows what she wants. It is very inquisitive and not wait passively agree to the prince. She likes adventures, even if it goes against what parents learn. This little princess is the most proud of the palace, and lives dreaming about Prince Charming and having a glass slipper of love.


 * Bianca (AKA Anti-Snow White) (voiced by Chiara Zanni) is the most cuter of the group, believes in everything we tell her. Does not see evil in anything, it is often this behavior that leads her friends scrapes. Bianca loves animals, if she could have a pet of each species. The problem is that palace rules do not allow girls to have pets.


 * Bella (AKA Anti-Aurora) (voiced by Nicole Bouma) is a sleepy princess. She's weary, groggy and very tired, she's getting tired easily, tomboyish and sometimes solving the trouble in which the girls get themselves. Still, she's a sleepyhead and yawns easily. She's also very exhausted.


 * Clara (AKA Anti-Belle) (voiced by Janyse Jaud) is the wisest of princes, brings the right advice at the right time. Understand a little bit of magic, but the problem is that often your spells do not end up coming out as expected, increasing trouble trying to solve.


 * Stella (AKA Anti-Ariel) (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is the most romantic and dreamy tomboyish mermaid princess, following palace rules strictly and avoids bad things in the adventures of friends. She thinks it's all dangerous and would rather not do anything without telling parents. She has a very interesting imagination and everything ends up winning frightening proportions.


 * Marla Drastic (AKA Anti-Maleficent) (voiced by Kathleen Barr) is very responsible for the palace charms, is the darkest of the guardians. They say she is a wicked fairy, but nobody is sure. She suspects the girls and does everything to be caught by the other guardian.

Season 1 (2004)

 * 1) Sleeping Beauties
 * 2) The Enchanted Tea Party
 * 3) Invisible Princes

Season 2 (2005)

 * 1) Bianca's Unicorn
 * 2) The Enchanted Butterfly
 * 3) The World's Biggest Competition

Season 3 (2006)

 * 1) The Five Chocolates
 * 2) The Tortoise and the Hare
 * 3) The Missing Sea Creature

Season 4 (2007)

 * 1) The Summer Princess
 * 2) The Magic Lamp
 * 3) The Sea Princess

Products
In a related series of DVDs, a wide range of products are being launched every year in the Egyptian-Arabic Toys "R" Us market. There is a line of toys, consisting of: fashion dolls, plushies, and mini figures, which were launched in 2005. It also launched a product line of coloring books and sticker books.

The girls' castle playset was launched in the Toys "R" Us market, so mountable and a line of games were released, containing two releases (board games and a game of memory). DVDs related series have sold nearly 2 million copies.

The characters were also released for use as "theater with sock puppets" and an English PC game, called "Princess Birthday Party" was released on Microsoft Windows and developed by THQ and AWE Games.