Polly Pocket (TV series) facts for kids

The story all begins in the town of Littleton, when 11-year-old kid genius Polly Pocket volunteers to fix her grandma Penelope's locket during her visit, but in the process, Polly discovers it's a magical artifact that allows its user to shrink herself down to pocket or doll size and then grow back up, as well as any other person or object she touches. After sharing this secret with her best friends, fashion-savvy Lila Draper and the cautious and shy sci-fi geek Shani, they try to get tickets for a concert by teen pop star Melody. However, they run afoul of their classmate Gwen Grande, and her clothing store owning grandmother Griselle. After a small accident, Penelope tells the story of the locket, its users, and her past with Griselle. While Penelope mentors Polly and her friends about the locket's power, Gwen, having seen Polly unshrink in secret, tells Griselle about it, prompting her to resume her decades-old plot of stealing the locket's power for herself to shrink the people of Littleton.

In part 2, after having a miniature pool party while wearing one-piece swimsuits used by dolls, Polly, Lila, and Shani get their hands on the last few tickets to Melody's concert cruise. However, Melody and Polly get captured by the Grandes, forcing Shani to sing onstage and conquer her stage fright, while Polly loses the locket to Griselle and flies through the ship's air vents to get it back. The Grandes manage to shrink everyone, but Polly's newly-assembled Pocket Posse convinces the audience that it's really special effects. After apprehending the Grandes, Polly channels the full power of the locket through her to restore everyone to normal. In the end, the locket chooses Polly to be its new bearer because of her ability to channel its power and because of her spirit and intuition.

Wanting to prove herself capable of being home alone, and getting a new mood ring, Polly volunteers to babysit her younger brother Paxton while her parents attend a karate demo that Pierce is featured in. However, after shrinking Paxton down with them, the girls end up chasing him as he runs off to play. Meanwhile, Paxton's teddy bear "Boo-Boo" is misplaced, and causes Paxton to be upset.

• Absences: Patricia Drake as Griselle Grande, Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande.

While helping Pierce's boss, Peanut, make dozens of cupcakes for delivery, Polly falls asleep, being exhausted by her massive to-do list for using her locket's powers to help the people of Littleton, and loses her locket in a cupcake Pierce is delivering. Now stuck at doll-size, the girls fly around town in the quad-copter to get the locket back before Griselle uses it to shrink Pierce during his delivery to her apartment.

• Absences: Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande.

The Pockets head for the beach to celebrate the anniversary of their parents' marriage, but Mr. Pocket misplaces the ring, forcing Polly (the ring bearer) to try to find it. With help from Shani and Lila, Polly shrinks down in her new sub and finds it, only for Griselle to snatch the ring and hold it for ransom, in exchange for Polly's locket. However, the girls get the ring back and watch in awe as Mr. Pocket reveals his surprise to Mrs. Pocket.

Polly, Lila and Shani are on the planning committee for the school's fall formal dance, but get stuck with Nicholas Wells as their partner. Meanwhile, Griselle disguises herself as a southern belle candidate for the town's new mayor, and tricks the girls into setting up their dance at city hall in return for helping "Bonnie Bain" win the election. But things get worse when Nicholas gets a blurred image of the girls and their Pocket Racer in the tunnels, and plans to expose them on the night of the dance during a live webcast of his vlog.

Polly, Lila and Shani don their dresses for the school's fall formal dance, but end up getting knocked out by Griselle, who reveals her masquerade from the last episode and snatches Polly's locket. Trapped in a small recreation model of her house, and with the Grandes holding Lila, Shani and the locket hostage, Polly calls Nicholas for help, exposing her secret and helping him sneak into city hall to rescue the girls and the locket. But with an energy dome surrounding the town, Nicholas uses his live webcast to help a freed Shani and Lila expose Griselle's deception to the townspeople while Polly exerts herself to shut down the field generator. In the end, Griselle is arrested for her recent criminal activities by the police, and the girls induct Nicholas as the fourth member of their Posse, spending the rest of the fall formal in Polly's miniature dance hall with working disco ball included.

When Nicholas' paranormal investigation club gets more attention than their Animal Club, the girls use their animal-charming skills to bring real wild animals in to stir up a crowd. However, when Griselle, disguised as a gorilla, makes a scene, the animals go berserk and a moose runs off with Polly's locket.

Note: this is episode 9 in both chronological and production order.

• Absence: Ellen Kennedy as Geni.

In the summer following Griselle's incarceration and Nicholas joining their group, the girls decide to throw a pool party for the depressed kids in Littleton, using a miniature pool designed by Polly, a martian space theme, Shani's singing, and a tent to masquerade their shrinking. However, Polly has two commitments: a dive at the end of her party, in addition to modeling Lila's new line of swimwear, and helping her Dad impress a client for remodeling the city convention center. In the end, after multiple running attempts between both parties (family dinner and pool party), Polly realizes that family is more important than looking cool, and aborts her high-dive attempt, carefully escorting the pool party attendees out and passing her model off as her dad's after accidentally wrecking the original model. The client is impressed, and Mr. Pocket makes quite an impression.

Note: In the first half of the episode, Polly is seen wearing the purple and pink striped one-piece from the season 1 trailer, but without her pink T-shirt on top, and Lila and Shani both wear their swimsuits from that trailer's ending shot (Lila's being the same used in "Mission: Ring-Possible", and Shani wearing a blue one-piece with straps and a tiny light blue UFO saucer on her chest). Polly later wears a pink dress, and a green one-piece with bikini skirt that inflates as part of Lila's fashion-functional swimsuit line).

• Absences: Patricia Drake as Griselle Grande, Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande.

When Pierce's racket interferes with the Posse's attempts at making a movie for a contest to win a new camera, Polly, Lila, Shani and Nicholas fake a ghost attack, which prompts Pierce to call in a paranormal investigator named Paranormal Patty, whose tech picks up on the locket's mystical energy. But when Pierce learns Patty intends to destroy the house to protect the neighborhood, he and Polly team up to fake getting rid of the ghost (portrayed by Shani) to save their home before their parents find out about the trouble Pierce caused.

• Absences: Patricia Drake as Griselle Grande, Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande.

During Spring Break, the girls split up: Shani goes to Hawaii with her folks, Lila stays at home, and Polly joins her Grandma Penelope and the Pocket Clan at the Rocky Tonky Mountains for the Cold Fest competition. There, Polly learns about Grandma's past as a winter athlete and epic fail while racing a teenage Griselle Grande. In the present, the Grandes try to snatch the locket by forcing Polly to crash, but fail during all three rounds. Eventually, Gwen slips her tongue, and the Pockets learn not only about their plan, but that Griselle sabotaged Grandma's sled when they were young. Having recorded the confession on camera, the Grandes are disqualified and the Pockets' vacay can resume.

In the first Halloween episode, (which actually takes place before "Pocket Poltergeist"), Polly, Lila, and Shani have a plan to experience the best Halloween ever and give some of that joy to the depressed senior citizens at Blue Hair Manor, since their Nurse Thorn won't let them do anything exciting. After dressing themselves up as a witch, Cleopatra, and a super heroine named Positive Ion Girl respectively, the girls go trick or treating, only to be given immaterial objects by a grouchy old man. Not wanting to let the seniors down, the girls quickly embark on a hayride, only to run into Griselle and Gwen. The two trap the shrunken girls in a crypt following a Scooby-Doo styled chase through a haunted maze, and hold them hostage. Using Lila's skills to make a fake amulet to surrender to Griselle, the girls escape to Blue hair Manor with the real locket while Nicholas, in ghost-hunting gear, apprehends the Grandes. After throwing a small Halloween party, which Nurse Thorn later decides to join, the girls' plan succeeds.

When Lila starts trying to imitate a teen social media celebrity named Blair Delaware, who likes Lila's fashion designs, Polly and Shani find she is skipping out on helping their school's food drive to attend a patio party at Blair's family's estate. While Nicholas is left to hold down the fort, Polly and Shani sneak in only to have a worried Lila turn them away. After realizing her error and discovering Blair's secret worries, Lila arranges a plan to promote the food drive, collect donations and help Blair do something worthwhile that also makes HER feel good.

Guest appearance: Chiara Zanni guet stars as Blair Delaware.

• Absences: Patricia Drake as Griselle Grande, Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande.

In the attempt to make the big bowl at the skate park available to anyone, Polly and the girls challenge Skate King Devon and his crew (including Pierce) to a competition. The winner gets to decide who has access to the bowl. But when a disguised Griselle injures Polly's new friend Hamal in order to join the girls' team, she and Gwen try and fail to sabotage the competition and succeed in snatching the Pocket Locket after the girls get shrunk during a chase in between rounds. Luckily, after navigating their way around, Polly performs a three-twirl aerial move and steals back the locket. She eventually encourages Pierce and his friends to ditch Devon for his being a jerk, and Polly wins the final round of the competition, making everywhere in the skate park accessible to skaters of all ages, while also patching things up with Pierce.

• Absence: Ellen Kennedy as Geni.

When Polly is eager to test out her new pocket sized yacht, the Seersucker, for its maiden voyage, and when he gets his hands on a treasure map for Almost Dead-Man island, Nicholas cons the other posse members into trekking to the island. However, while Lila tans and Polly surfs, Nicholas and Shani discover something mysterious about the island and Polly's locket starts to glitch, eventually trapping the four in their pocket-sized forms. After entering what they initially thought to be an ancient temple, they discover Nicholas was conned by shady entrepreneur Mr. Scheeman, who wanted Nicholas to spread rumors about his upcoming theme park to get rid of the competition. After discovering their magnet-crane was jamming Polly's powers, the group, led by Shani scare Scheeman off and escape the temple via water slide before it collapses in upon itself.

Note: The swimsuit Polly quickly changes into for surfing, riding on a turtle, and later parasailing (at the end of the episode) is the same pink one-piece bathing suit with a purple heart on the chest, which Polly 'borrowed' from a doll in the opening and second segment for "Tiny Power: Part II" during the girls' first miniature pool party.

Guest appearance: Tosca Hopkins guest stars as Carla Carson.

• Absences: Patricia Drake as Griselle Grande, Rhona Rees as Gwen Grande, Ellen Kennedy as GenI.

While taking a break from dance practice to sing karaoke, the girls notice Gwen's lack of confidence, so the trio decide to secretly help Gwen in the hopes of befriending her and keeping her from helping Griselle in her many attempts to capture the Pocket Locket. However, after secretly improving her wardrobe, and helping her with music and painting, the girls see that Gwen has turned into a bigger jerk than Griselle herself, and taking the credit for an enraged Lila's work. She even crashes their dance practice, where she eventually reveals she figured out their plan. However, instead of reforming Gwen, the trio learn they've made her confidant enough to try to steal the locket for herself, culminating in a chase across the stage between the shrunken trio and a more evil Gwen, ultimately ending with her getting praise from the audience and Griselle, who all thought she was doing an abstract dance.

In the B-story, Polly keeps losing opportunities to improve her ballet skills for the trio's audition to join a local dance troupe. Following the episode's events, Gwen, Lila and Shani get in, but Polly does not. However, she is still confident, and it's business as usual.

• Absence: Ellen Kennedy as GenI.

After narrowly avoiding an attack by Griselle Grande following their horseback ride, the girls are shocked to discover the locket malfunctioning and trapping Polly at doll size. While working with Nicholas Wells on their family tree projects at school, the locket restores Polly to normal size after having adverse affects on her body and Shani's, ultimately ending with the four of them banned from the library by a grumpy teacher. While Polly goes to Grandma Penelope for help, Nicholas and Shani discover a shrunken manuscript belonging to Polly's ancestor Prudence Pocket among the miniatures in Griselle's collection, Nicholas disguises himself as an old man (with Lila Draper's makeup) and trades his bologna sandwich for the book before Gwen Grande inadvertently reveals the deception. As the 4 kids and Penelope read the book, they discover that Prudence was a benevolent pirate captain who discovered an elemental compound named Pockite which she discovered near what would become the town of Littleton. After accepting the locket as a gift from the island's natives, she used her own gadgetry and some of the Pockite crystal to power her locket, getting the power of size alteration.

However, not only did she have to stay near the caves she found the Pockite in, hence founding Littleton, but she had to protect them from people like her rival Grunwalda (Who bears a resemblance to Griselle Grande) on her own. She also discovered that the more the locket's power was used, the more Pockite energy was transferred into the person or object shrunk. Realizing that's why the locket's powers drained, the team follows a map to a pocket-sized tunnel in the history section of the library after sneaking back in. However, Nicholas' bologna sandwich is discovered to be a perfect substitute for the poloxium Griselle needs to power her new freeze ray, which temporarily freezes whoever or whatever it touches in a translucent blue diamond-like material, and plans to use it on the Pocket Posse when she finds them shrunk down and trying to enter Prudence's secret tunnel.

With little options, Penelope sacrifices herself and ends up turned into a frozen miniature figure, while Polly, Lila, Shani and Nicholas head into the tunnels leading to both Prudence's lair and the caves where she first found the Pockite ages ago. However, the Grandes send Gwen's new pet rat to go after them, only for it to be defeated by Prudence's series of tests and boobi traps which Shani helps the group to solve. However, after finding the Pockite caves, the group not only recharges Polly's locket but also unearth a person frozen in suspended animation by Pockite crystal. The pirate woman they find, revealing herself to be Grunwalda, steals Polly's locket, enlarges herself and reveals her part of the backstory in the last episode.

After discovering the existence of Prudence's locket, she thought the captain was keeping the power all for herself, especially since she trusted no one else with this knowledge. But when their chase led to both of them being shrunk and trapped in the cave, Prudence tries in vain to stop Grunwalda from causing a chain reaction from breaking apart a Pockite crystal. Following her escape, Prudence went on to be the first mayor of Littleton, and the events of her story arc (mentioned in episode 1 and the 2-part mid-season finale) went on, not knowing that the liquid Pockite froze around Grunwalda and kept her alive for 300 years. After reclaiming her locket and tricking the pirate, the kids escape, only to get caught and frozen into miniature figurines by Griselle after a failed escape attempt by Penelope. By the time they "thaw", they discover Gwen and Griselle have hooked Polly's locket to an advanced version of their shrink ray from episode 2 and have retreated into their fallout shelter, as they plan to return in three months to conquer the shrunken citizens of Littleton without being shrunken down, too.

Not wanting to make the same mistake Prudence did, Polly leads her team in the attempt to recreate Prudence's theories of the locket making them super-tiny. This allows them to hop into the inner working of the machine after getting the locket back, and shuts down the ray. However, they all have to pull Polly out when the effect wears of and enlarges her left hand too soon. After being restored to full size, Polly gives her family history report at school, and dedicates it not only to her Grandma, but also to Lila, Shani and Nick, who proved themselves honorary Pockets (a minor issue discussed in the last episode, and this one during their confrontation with Grunwalda) and that they are the best friends she ever picked. The episode, and Season 1, ends as follows: Grandma Penelope adds her own recount of adventures to a continuation of Prudence Pocket's manuscript before giving it over to Polly so that she can chronicle the future adventures of the Pocket Posse for the next locket-bearers to come; Griselle and Gwen, unaware of Polly and her friends victory, remain in their shelter and laugh maniacally; and, in the most cliche of cliffhanger endings, Grunwalda is revealed to have survived the cave in of the Pockite tunnels, now revealed to have been infused with the crystals' energy as she climbs out of the rubble and swears "I'll get ye,Polly Pocket!" and cackles madly.

NOTES: It is revealed Prudence Pocket's former shipmate and rival, the Gruesome Grunwalda, was frozen in suspended animation for 300 years after a tragic accident in the Pockite cavern. Though her hair, behaviorisms and facial features have a slight resemblance to Griselle Grande, it is not yet confirmed that she is the latter's ancestor. If the ARE related, then she is also the second Grande to don the Pocket Locket before Polly reclaims it. In the end, she becomes affected by the Pockite's magic again, this time gaining glowing pink eyes and enhanced strength as she plots her revenge on Polly and her friends.

• Guest star: Kathleen Barr as Gruesome Grunwalda.