The Fixies () is a Russian animated children's television series based on the 1974 Soviet children's story The Little Warranty People by Eduard Uspensky. The series premiered on 13 December 2010 as a segment on the television show Good Night, Little Ones! on Russia-1 and Bibigon. The series was created by Alexander Tatarsky and is produced by Aeroplane Productions.
Premise The Fixies centers around the adventures of little people called fixies (a portmanteau of "fix" and "pixie") who live inside various devices and keep them in order with their technical knowledge. Each episode focuses on a particular everyday device and involves the fixies explaining what it is, how it works, and how to safely use it.Лунтика потеснят фиксики (in Russian) Archived on 15 December 2010 via Wayback Machine, 9 December 2010
One of the protagonists is Tom Thomas, who managed to make friends with fixies named Simka and Nolik. To learn more about different things, they are helped by older fixies—their parents Papus and Masiya, as well as Grandpus. At the same time, Tom Thomas is obliged to keep the fixies' existence a secret from everyone else and to protect them from his dog Chewsocka.
In the second season, new characters were introduced—four classmates of Simka and Nolik: Fire, Digit, Toola, and Verda, as well as Professor Eugenius and his secretary Elisa, whose laboratory houses a school of young fixies.
Characters
Fixies Simka (voiced by Larisa Brokhman) is a 9- to 10-year-old girl and Nolik's older sister. Nolik (voiced by Yakov Vasilyev, Andrey Kononov, Artem Skosaryev, Ilya Sintsov, and Nikita Danko) is a 5- to 6-year-old boy and Simka's younger brother. Papus (voiced by Yuri Mazikhin, Gosha Kutsenko, and Pyotr Ivashchenko) is Masiya's husband and father of Simka and Nolik. Masiya (voiced by Inna Koroleva) is Papus's wife and mother of Simka and Nolik. Grandpus (voiced by Dmitry Nazarov and Dmitry Buzhinskiy) is Simka and Nolik's grandfather. Fire (voiced by Inna Koroleva and Prokhor Chekhovskoy) is one of Simka and Nolik's classmates and Verda's boyfriend. Digit (voiced by Larisa Brokhman and Stanislav Yevsin) is one of Simka and Nolik's classmates and Toola's boyfriend. Toola (voiced by Varvara Obidor) is one of Simka and Nolik's classmates and Digit's girlfriend. Verda (voiced by Inna Koroleva and Yekaterina Semenova) is one of Simka and Nolik's classmates and Fire's girlfriend. Tweak and Geek (voiced by Prokhor Chekhovskoy) are twin brothers. Basiya (voiced by Lilia Shaykhitdinova) is Tweak and Geek's foster grandmother and Grandpus's rival. Alt (voiced by Dmitry "Syenduk" Karpov, Yevgeniy "Topa" Popadinets, and Artem Mosin-Shchepachev) is Simka's boyfriend. Mega (voiced by Tatyana Veselkina) is Nolik's girlfriend.
Other characters Tom Thomas (voiced by Ivan Dobryakov, Andrei Kluban, Felix Golovnin, Alexander Novikov, Yaroslav Efremenko, Roman Lenkov, Miroslav Aksyonov, and Daniel Minkov) is a 10-year-old boy. Tom's Mom (voiced by Larisa Brokhman) Tom's Dad (voiced by Aleksey Rossoshanskiy and Pyotr Ivashchenko) Chewsocka is the Thomas family's pet chihuahua. Buggy is a navy blue spider. She is the Fixies' pet as seen in the episode "The Spider". Professor Eugenius (voiced by Diomid Vinogradov and Artem Mosin-Shchepachev) is Grandpus's colleague. Elisa (voiced by Varvara Obidor) is Professor Eugenius's secretary. Katya (voiced by Daria Kolbaseyeva and Anastasia Dyatlova) is Tom Thomas's girlfriend. Katya's Mom (voiced by Yuilya Sofronova) Super Sammy (voiced by Valeria Shevchenko) is Tom Thomas's best friend.
Episodes
Production
In 2005, Aeroplane Studios was established. Before the characters were created, a logo was registered which was a hand with its thumb, index and middle fingers extended upwards, suggesting a gesture similar to the Schwurhand or the Serbian three-finger salute. In the show, the symbol appears on the fixies' clothes, tools and vehicles, and the gesture is used by fixies alongside the interjection "Tideesh!" as a greeting and to celebrate a job well done.Описание мультсериала «Фиксики» на Вокруг.tv. (In Russian) 30 September 2014. Аrchived 7 September 2016 via Wayback Machine.
Later, Pronin finalized the fixies' appearances, having given them the following attributes; large hands (due to the fact that fixies are constantly working), glowing hair (due to the fact that fixies constantly work in the dark) and the idea to have the fixies be able to transform into screws. The artist decided to first draw a screw, then draw a fixie whose appearance is derived from that screw. The cartoons primarily used CGI animation with Flash animation being used for explanatory segments.
Broadcast In 2014, Aeroplane Productions and Nickelodeon signed a license agreement under which the series would begin airing on Nickelodeon's Russian offshoot for a period of two years starting in January 2015.
The series has also been broadcast on Carousel and Dietski. It also aired on Russia-K between July and December 2014 and has aired on Moult since June 2014.La nouvelle série animée « Fixiki » sur la chaîne Rossiya 1 (in French), ovideo.ru. Archived via Wayback Machine It also aired on Tloum HD in the summer of 2016, and on O! since 8 February 2017.
Films
On 28 October 2017, Aeroplane Productions and Petersburg Animation Studio released a full-length animated film called The Fixies: Top Secret, which has been shown in many countries around the world. Even before the release of Top Secret, it was announced that work was underway on a continuation.
On 29 March 2019, a teaser for the second full-length film Fixies vs. Crabots, in which a confrontation takes place between fixies and crab-like robots called Crabots, was released. The film was released on 21 December 2019.
The first teaser for the third feature film, The Fixies and Aliens, will be released at the end of 2026. The film itself will be released on August 12, 2027.
References
External links
Official website (in Russian) English homepage Official YouTube channel (in Russian) Official YouTube channel (in English) Official website of Aeroplane Productions (in Russian) The Fixies on IMDb