Robocar Poli

Robocar Poli

Some of the characters
Genre Animated, children, educational, preschool
Created by Lee Dong-woo (RoiVisual)
Starring English: Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler[1]
Theme music composer Shin Seung-jun
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean, English (US)
No. of seasons 4 (5 and 6 seasons coming soon)
No. of episodes 104 per season (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Eom Jun-yeong
Producer(s) Kim Seon-goo
Bak Jeong-min
Nam Han-gil
Kim Rae-gyeong
Park Jung-min
Running time 11 minutes per episode
Production company(s) RoiVisual
Educational Broadcasting System
Hyundai Motors
Benex Investment
Korea Creative Content Agency
Release
Original network Piwi Plus (France)
TV Tokyo (Japan)
Educational Broadcasting System (South Korea)
ETTV Yoyo (Taiwan)
Nickelodeon (United States)
Nick Jr.
(Israel)
RTV
(Indonesia)
Picture format 1080i
Audio format Dolby Digital
Original release February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28) – present
Chronology
Related shows Thomas & Friends
Super Wings
Cars Toons
External links
Website
Production website

Robocar Poli (Hangul: 로보카 폴리; RR: Ro-bo-ka Polli) is a South Korean animated children's television series created by RoiVisual. The series released its first episode on Educational Broadcasting System in 2011, and has aired for four seasons. Robocar Poli currently consists of 104 eleven-minute episodes.

While in production, this series was selected for the section of full-length animation at Global Animation Project 2009 hosted by Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), under the title of Piyo Piyo Friends.[2]

In the latter half of 2011, the films were exported from South Korea to France. Internationally, the program currently airs on French and Taiwanese channels. It is also scheduled to air in Japan, on TV Tokyo.[3]

On March 12, 2013, Korea Post issued commemorative stamps for the series. As the third installment of the "Korean-Made Characters Series Stamps", Robocar Poli was introduced, following the introduction of Pororo the Little Penguin and Pucca.[4] Two million copies of the stamps were printed for sale (10 copies per set).[5]

Episode list

Season Episodes Season Premiere Season Finale Originally Aired
1 26 February 28, 2011 July 12, 2011 2011
2 26 December 26, 2011 May 15, 2012 2011-12
3 26 February 26, 2014 May 22, 2014 2014
4 26 August 31, 2015 November 24, 2015 2015
5 TBA 2017 2017 2017
Full movie Summer 2017
6 TBA 2018 2018 2018

Synopsis

In Brooms Town, a small town with a strong rescue team, there are always accidents and troubles such as a car sliding off a cliff in the rain, a car crash, a child locked in a firehouse, and so on. In every episode, the town's rescue team saves characters. At the end of each episode, the rescue team strongly advises the characters who are in danger and children.

Characters

Main characters

Supporting characters


Traffic Safety with Poli

Traffic Safety with Poli (Hangul: 폴리와 함께하는 교통안전 이야기; RR: Polli-wa Ham-kke-ha-neun Gyo-tong-an-jeon Yi-ya-gi) is a spin-off of the original series. As part of Hyundai Motors' global corporate social responsibility project with RoiVisual and EBS, the series was produced for educating children on the importance of traffic safety,[10] and has aired for two seasons. The first season of the spin-off was shown as six 11-minute episodes, in each of which two segments were combined into one episode. In Canada The series was Produced By Treehouse TV'

Episode list

Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale Originally aired
1 12 December 5, 2011 December 20, 2011 2011
2 14[11] March 1, 2013 May 31, 2013 2013

International broadcast

Popularity in South Korea

This series has been a big hit in South Korea, and became the chief rival of Pororo the Little Penguin which had been the number one in the industry. Related merchandise includes cakes,[12] toys,[13] books, and apparel. In South Korea, Poli is frequently called 폴총리 (Pol-chong-ri) which means "Poli, the Minister of Children",[14] following Pororo which is famously known as 뽀통령 (Po-tong-ryeong) meaning "Pororo, the President of Children".[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Press Conference Korea Indonesia Film Festival (KIFF) 2015 - Facebook". facebook.com. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "'Global Animation Project 2009' kicks off". Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Lee, Gyeong-min (23 January 2013). "로보카폴리 4월 일본TV 전파탄다". etnews (in Korean). Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Jo, Yeong-min (11 March 2013). '로보카 폴리' 12일 우표로 출시. Asia News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Lee, Mi-ji (13 March 2013). 로보카 폴리 우표 200만장 발행. NocutNews (in Korean). Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "Broomstown". Robocar Poli official website. Retrieved 5 April 2016. Select character.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "RoiVisual". Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Kate Bristol (March 8, 2016). "YEAHHH! ROBOCAR POLI! I play the little green helicopter in this show (his name is Hally) and it's SUPER CUTE. heart emoticon". Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-06-12/anirevo-proudly-welcomes-voice-actor-lisa-ortiz-to-canada/.75499
  10. ↑ Lee, Gang-hyeok (20 July 2011). 현대차, ‘폴리’와 함께 교통안전 애니메이션 공급. NEWSPIM (in Korean). Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  11. ↑ Maeng, Jun-ho (18 July 2012). 현대차, ‘로보카 폴리 교통안전 이야기’ 시즌2 제작. internethankookilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 30 March 2013. See "이날 개막식에서 현대차는 시즌2의 첫번째 에피소드인 ‘길모퉁이에서의 안전수칙’편을 공개했다." and "나머지 13개편은 연말까지 제작해 EBS TV를 통해 방영".
  12. ↑ Lee, Seong-soo (9 June 2011). 뽀로로 케이크 다음은 로보카 폴리다. EBN (in Korean). Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  13. ↑ Lee, Gyeong-seon (25 January 2012). "로보카폴리 잡아라" 아빠는 지금 전쟁중. Kukinews (in Korean). Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  14. ↑ Lee, Yeon-chun (20 December 2012). 올해 크리스마스, 어린이에겐 대통령보다 폴총리. NEWSPIM (in Korean). Retrieved 20 March 2013. See "로보카 폴리는 ‘폴총리(로보카폴리+총리)’라는 별칭으로 불릴 정도로 어린이들 사이에서 최고의 인기를 누리고 있는 캐릭터".
  15. ↑ [우정이야기]‘폴총리’ 우표나라에 출동하다. The Kyunghyang Shinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 20 March 2013. See "어린이 대통령이라고 해서 ‘뽀통령’으로 통하는 ‘뽀로로’".

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