Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom

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Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom (or simply known as “Dora VII: Save the Crystal Kingdom!”) is a 7th double-length episode Dora the Explorer TV special. It is also the 13^th episode of Season 5, as well as the second episode of the Magic Storybook Trilogy.

In production order, it's the 18^th episode of Season 5.

Characters[]

Dora
Boots
Greedy King
Snow Princess
Dragon
Allie
Kate the Knight
Caterpillar
Butterfly
Backpack
Butterflies
Citizens
Enrique
Bunnies
Map
Fiesta Trio
León (picture only, uncredited)
El Mago (cameo in a book cover, uncredited)
Dream Fairy (picture only, uncredited)
Giant-Giant (picture only, uncredited)
Giant Baby (picture only, uncredited)
Pinto (cameo; as the King's horse, uncredited)
Referee (only appearance as a mailman, uncredited)

Summary[]

Dora and Boots jump into the magic storybook once again to help a girl named Allie find the four colored crystals that were stolen from the Crystal Kingdom by a greedy king in four different stories on their big searching adventure. They also get a Shield, Butterfly Wings, and a Magic Wand along the way.

Recap[]

Act 1[]

Dora and Boots were eating bananas and drinking some hot chocolate before reading another story from the Magic Storybook: the Crystal Kingdom. In the story, there lived a kingdom made out of crystals and its colors were powered by the four magic colored crystals from the crystal statue. The yellow crystal made the sun shine yellow, the blue crystal made the sky and ocean blue, the green crystal made the trees and grass green and the red crystal joined with the others to make a beautiful rainbow. The townspeople loved their town full of color; except for the King, because he was a Greedy King. When he was a little boy he got whatever anything he wanted, even a magic wand. One he decided to take the magic colored crystals for himself. He cast a spell that made the crystals fly out of the giant statue and into his bag. When the people weren’t happy when they noticed that the King took the crystals, they tried to make him return them by banging on the castle door. But the King didn’t want to share the crystals, so he used his magic wand and hid them in other stories (except the red crystal); without the magic crystals, the Crystal Kingdom began to lose its color. A girl named Allie wanted to help out, but didn't know what to do. Suddenly, a light appeared in the sky and she wondered what it was. At this point, the magic crystal in Dora's necklace began to glow in rainbow colors, which has never happened before; Boots realizes the crystal is shining a rainbow into the story where Allie lives, causing her to fly right out of the story and into their forest. The two meet up with Allie and she recognizes Dora's crystal, but she points out this is not one of Allie's as it was given to her by the Snow Princess, who looks like her. Suddenly, the crystal begins to glow again and shine rainbows once more, and she is greeted by the Snow Princess calling her; the Snow Princess tells Dora the crystal will shine colors as long as there is still color left in Allie's kingdom.

Act 2[]

Places/Stories in this episode[]

Dragon Land Story (Yellow Crystal)
Butterfly Cave Story (Green Crystal)
Magic Castle Story (Blue Crystal)
Crystal Kingdom Story (Red Crystal)

Sub-places[]

Dora's House
The forest where Allie landed
Crystal statue
Greedy King's castle

Songs[]

Items in Backpack (clockwise from top right)[]

Rope (correct item)
Doll
Baby bottle
Umbrella
Banana

Trivia[]

Similar to "Dora's Fairytale Adventure", Dora receives gifts throughout the adventure that can be useful with a later task. First, she gets a shield given by Kate; then she, Boots, and Allie get butterfly wings on their backs; and finally she gets a magic wand given by Enrique.
- Unlike the gifts received in said episode (which could each be used once), the gifts received in this episode can be used as many times as desired.
This episode is similar to the time-traveling game show of "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego".
This is the last episode where Dora wears a dress before the "We Did It" song and the Favorite Parts segment before she wears it in some whole episodes.
This is the second episode of the Magic Storybook trilogy, following "Dora Saves the Snow Princess".
- Also, this is a sequel to said episode because Dora is wearing the crystal necklace that the Snow Princess gave her. When she says she got it in another storybook, she is mentioning the events.
This is the 112^th episode of the show
Similar to "The Mixed-Up Seasons", the last place on the map is the same place the adventure started.
The same episode title was used as a video game for the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2. A Nintendo DS version was also planned to be released, but due to transfer issues with the system, it was cancelled.
Kate will later appear in "Let's Go to Music School" and the spin-off series Dora and Friends: Into the City as an Explorer Girl with different appearances and voices.
The Greedy King is voiced by guest star Richard Kind, who also voiced Tom from Tom and Jerry: The Movie, and Molt the Grasshoper from Disney's A Bug's Life.
Coincidentally, the order in which the crystals are found in this episode is the same as the colors of Arco Iris in "The Shy Rainbow" but in reverse order.
This marks the sixth appearance of the extended version of "We Did It!". The other five were "Dora's Pirate Adventure", "Dora's Dance to the Rescue", "Dora's World Adventure", "Dora Saves the Mermaids", and "Dora Saves the Snow Princess".
This is the first new episode to be aired after the rebrand of Nick Jr. in September 2009.
Benny, Tico, Isa, and Swiper do not appear in this episode.
- However, the Greedy King takes Swiper's place as the antagonist.
  - Once again, however, much like the Witch from Dora Saves the Prince, Señor Shush from Dora, La Música, the Dog Catcher from Save the Puppies!, Pirate Pig from Dora's Pirate Adventure (Pirate Pig and his crew's only appearances as antagonists), the Prince of Cloud Castle from Star Catcher, the Dancing Elf from Dora's Dance to the Rescue, the Garbage Octopus from Dora Saves the Mermaids, and Pech from The Mayan Adventure, the Greedy King reforms himself and is forgiven by Dora, Boots, Allie, and everyone else in the Crystal Kingdom for his actions.
Although the episode premiered in 2009, it was actually made in 2008 according to the credits.

On the DVD and on Amazon Prime, the end of the intro had the Nickelodeon splat logo behind the "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom" logo, and it has the Nickelodeon lightbulb logo as usual with Season 5 episodes. But on the TV airings, Paramount Plus, and on iTunes, the Nickelodeon splat logo was replaced with the 2009 logo on top and the lightbulb was replaced with the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions, with the copyright notice saying "© 2008 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved", despite the logo not existing in 2008.
- Therefore, when the episode aired on TV, it was first episode using the Nickelodeon logo from 2009-present. And it's also the only episode that plays the audio normally. Starting with "Dora's Big Birthday Adventure", the audio would sound like it has a buzzing effect.
  - Also, this along with "Dora's Big Birthday Adventure" are the only episodes with the 2009 Nickelodeon logo to have the same copyright font on the copyright notice that was used starting with "The Big Red Chicken's Magic Show". Starting with Season 6 onwards, it will revert back to the font that was used on "Benny's Big Race", "Isa's Unicorn Flowers", "Dora Saves the Snow Princess", and "Bark, Bark to Play Park".
When Dora and Boots are flipping through the pages in the book, pictures of León, the Dream Fairy, the Giant-Giant, and the Giant Baby are seen on some of the pages.
- However, both the Giant Baby and the Dream Fairy did not appear proper in airing order until "The Super Babies' Dream Adventure", but this was produced after said episode.
Dora, Boots, and Allie do not sing the Travel Song in this episode since they are traveling from story to story.
It is revealed that Map never gives out the wrong information.
The Picture Pop-Up Sequence uses the same thing on the Map segment rather than the usual black outline.
The bunnies' hopping sound is the same as Boots' jumping sound.
The last bunny makes Swiper's "woop" and "zoop" sounds.
This is the only double-length episode where the Fiesta Trio does not play their extended fanfare before We Did It!.
This is the second double-length episode in which Dora explains her favorite part before Boots, after the previous one.
This is the second double-length episode where Dora and Boots only pass the first location before the intermission, following "Dora's Pirate Adventure".
When Dora is going to yell "Lasso!" while twirling her rope, she is replicating the exact segment that her cousin Alicia does with her Rescue Rope from Go, Diego, Go!.
It is unknown how the Fiesta Trio got into the Magic Storybook.
In the YouTube version, the episode opens and closes Season 1-4 style. The fast-paced credits cut to the last line of the instrumental at the end after the line “Jump in! Vamanos!” and the whoosh is updated. YouTube uses the TV, Paramount Plus, and iTunes print, but attempts to cut off the 2009 Nickelodeon logo after the credits, although it can be seen for a split-second.
Backpack's dancing animation is recycled from Dora's Dance to the Rescue, but with the star pocket removed.
Pinto made a cameo appearance as the King’s horse at the end.
In this episode, the mailman looks a lot like the Referee from the Season 3 episode "Dora Saves the Game", making this his second and last appearance overall.
Kathleen Herles is revoicing Dora in the 2019 redub.

Goofs/Errors[]

In the page of the storybook with León at the circus, his nose is black instead of magenta.
The rainbow did not have orange, indigo, and purple stripes, three colors that rainbows also have in real life.
- Also, just like in The Shy Rainbow, the colors red, yellow, green, and blue were out of order. Yellow was supposed to be between red and green, so blue was supposed to be last.
- In real life, the rainbow colors in order are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple.
- However, the rainbow that shines from Dora's crystal into the book and the rainbow ray emitting from the magic wand has all seven colors.
At the end of the We Did It! song, when the Blue Cursor clicks on Dora to her asking the viewer what their favorite part was, Boots was somehow changed back to normal and Dora is not wearing the magic crystal around her neck.

Dora the Explorer Season 5