Clanners
{{Infobox television
| country = Spain
| language = Spanish
| company = Ink Apache
Radio Televisión Española (RTVE)
Selecta Visión
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Clanners is a Spanish children's animated short-form series aired on Televisión Española's Clan channel produced in 2011 and 2012. It debuted on 23 May 2011.{{cite news|title='Los Clanners', a punto de aterrizar en Clan|url=http://www.formulatv.com/noticias/19720/los-clanners-punto-aterrizar-clan/|accessdate=10 April 2016|work=FormulaTV|date=18 May 2011|language=Spanish}}
The series focuses on the fictional inhabitants of a parallel universe which are called Clanners; the first Clanner was created when a human DNA molecule merged with a quantum of electromagnetic energy inside a computer. This similarly happened with other types of DNA molecules and electronics, thus creating the Clanners and their world.{{cite news|title=Los Clanners, nuevos personajes del canal Clan|url=http://ocio.diarioinformacion.com/tv/noticias/nws-18182-los-clanners-nuevos-personajes-canal-clan.html|accessdate=10 April 2016|work=Informacion|date=18 May 2011}} The Clanners have traits of humans, animals or robots, and have a curiosity of the human world. The Clanners are divided into four tribes: Minisapiens, Biotron, Amorfix, and {{proper name|iTrops}}, but are nevertheless together. One of the Clanners, Render, is the only one that can access the human world, and will bring any object to the Clanners world that interests him and for others to learn from.{{cite web|title=Clanners|url=http://www.rtve.es/television/tve-internacional/programas-series/clanners/|website=TVE Internacional|accessdate=4 July 2017|language=Spanish}}{{cite news|title=The Clanners invade Spain!|url=http://www.kazachok.com/catalogue/pages/mag/974/974_43.swf|accessdate=4 July 2017|work=Kazachok Licensing Mag|issue=28|date=October–December 2011|page=43}}
The band Maldita Nerea recorded a song titled "Bienvenido a nuestro Clan" for the show.{{cite news|title=Maldita Nerea se une al universo de los Clanners y pone voz a la canción de la serie de TVE|url=http://laguiatv.abc.es/noticias-tv/20111005/maldita-nerea-universo-clanners-98155.html|accessdate=10 April 2016|work=laguiatv.com|date=5 October 2011|language=Spanish}} El Chojin and La Oreja de Van Gogh also contributed to the show's first music album. India Martínez sings the song "Mi mejor regalo eres tu" included on the second album Suma y sigue.{{cite news|title=Los dibujos de Clan TV se hacen con un disco de oro|url=http://ocio.laprovincia.es/tv/noticias/nws-142844-los-dibujos-clan-tv-hacen-disco-oro.html|accessdate=10 April 2016|work=La Provincia|date=13 December 2012}}
The show won the Mejor Personaje Infantil award at the 2012 Festival El Chupete.{{cite news|title=Los Clanners y José Mota triunfan en el Festival El Chupete 2012|url=https://lapublicidad.net/los-clanners-y-jose-mota-triunfan-en-el-festival-el-chupete-2012/|accessdate=1 January 2018|work=La Publicidad|date=10 July 2012}}
Characters
- Render is a yellow minisapien who resembles a robot. He can access the human world. He is able to fly using his propeller, and can communicate using the human language.
- eCocó is a minisapien who resembles a human girl with red hair, and wears a pink cat costume. She also speaks the human language, has a talent for music and wants to protect the environment. She's part of a trio with {{proper name|eComix}} and eCoré.
- {{proper name|eComix}} is a minisapien who has blonde hair and wears a green mouse costume.
- eCoré is a minisapien who has dark skin and black hair and wears a purple dog costume.
- Doctor OnOff is a minisapien who is a mad scientist. He has a power symbol adorned on the container of green slime on his head. Also capable of speaking the human language, he builds machines and experiments, and wants to conquer the Clanner world, and the human world as well.
- Perlita is a biotron who resembles a mollusk. She is playful and naughty, and lives in a shell that resembles a skull.
- Fredo is a biotron who resembles a pig with long, rabbit-like ears. He is rock-fashioned and rides his own vehicles, the Fredomoto, Fredoneta, and Fredoavión.
- Rey Ceviche is a biotron who's big and blue, resembles a Mexican luchador, and his arms are those of a gorilla while his head and torso are those of a fish. He bears super strength and creates art.
- Capitán Memo is a three-eyed amorfix who's made of green jelly and wears a red spacesuit and a dark-red bandana. He wants to be a superhero despite lacking superpowers.
- Débora is an amorfix who's teal and slug-like with mismatched eyes (one blank-white with a single eyelash, and another huge with an orange pupil), wearing a pink barrel hat with a strawberry on it, which resembles a bucket of yogurt. Having a voracious appetite, she transforms into a monstrous, eel-like form in order to eat.
- iPé is an {{proper name|iTrop}} who resembles a humanoid robot. Also capable of flying, she is intelligent and can speak the human language.
- Bit, Bip and Bop are three playful {{proper name|iTrops}} who resemble robots. Bit is yellow, Bip is green, and Bop is blue. They can also speak the human language.
References
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External links
- [http://www.rtve.es/infantil/series/clanners/ Website on Clan RTVE]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160805211649/http://www.selecta-vision.com/Television/Produccion-Propia/CLANNERS Clanners on the Selecta-Vision website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160806021408/http://www.selecta-vision.com/L-M-Promociones/Promociones/CLANNERS Another Clanners page on the Selecta-Vision website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160420215728/http://www.inkapache.net/?p=474 Clanners on Ink Apache website]
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Category:2010s animated television series
Category:2011 Spanish television series debuts
Category:Spanish children's animated science fiction television series