Valt the Wonder Deer facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Valt the Wonder Deer |
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The main characters as they appear in the first two seasons.
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| Creative director(s) | Ron Myrick |
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| Composer(s) | Scott Healy |
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| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 11 minutes(season 1) 13 minutes(season 2) 11 minutes(season 3) 12 minutes(season 4) |
| Production company(s) | DreamEast Pictures |
| Distributor | Jetpack Distribution |
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| Original network | Tencent Video (China) Propeller TV (United Kingdom) |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | December 31, 2016 – present |
Valt the Wonder Deer (Valt's Journey in season 1, subtitled The Search for Terracotta Warriors in season 2, Journey to The Land Of Darkness in season 3, Tales of Two Deer in season 4) is a Chinese–American animated television series that was released to Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016. The series is produced by DreamEast Pictures and is distributed worldwide by Jetpack Distribution.
The second season premiered October 22, 2018, and ended November 26. A third season is in production featuring new anthropomorphic and angular designs for the characters, and is set to release in 2021.
Plot
Season 1
Valt the Wonder Deer follows the adventures of Valt, a wonder deer and his five friends as they journey to obtain special powers granted by the Five Magical Elements, as well as rescue his trapped parents, the Deer King and Queen, from the evil overlords of the Land of Metal.
Season 2
After peace and harmony has been restored to the Five Lands, Valt starts to miss his friends even though they're a portal away from him. His vacation however is cut short by more monsters suddenly arriving called the Nanomites; dark, flying swarm of bugs that can turn anything into an enemy. Valt reassembles the guardians to protect the Five Lands, but unbeknownst to him, Da-Ming and his bride are controlling the bugs, and they want to regain their throne.
Season 3
When Kem puts on the dark amulet he became the Land of Darkness and want to destroy the Five Lands. Valt and his friends relays that Kem is in danger. They asks Valanteen to join the team and save Kem and she agrees. So they start their journey to the Darkness and save their friend before it's too late.
Season 4
When the seven friends are in the protect crystal for many years, then everything changed when the army of dark deers broke the crystal. The lord of the dark deer chained Valt and Valanteen with the collars of chain to stay together. But then they were saved by Miko the bug warrior and their friends. She told them from a Dark Deer named Marcus has been free from the amulet and unleashed the army of dark deer. They most found their way back and save the Five Lands.
Characters
Main
- Valt (voiced by Ogie Banks) – The main protagonist. A wonder deer from the Land of Wood.
- Cobalt (voiced by Benjamin Diskin) – A blue monkey and Valt's best friend.
- Kem (voiced by Matthew Christo) – A taotie from the Land of Metal.
- Trika (voiced by Tara Sands) – A yellow cat from the Land of Earth.
- Alia (voiced by Lyra Blake) – An orange fire bird from the Land of Fire.
- Yark (voiced by Christo) – An ice-snorting yak from the Land of Water.
- Valanteen (voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessy) - a girl Wonder Deer from the Land of Water.
- Miko - a girl bug warrior.
- Da-Ming (voiced by Christopher Swindle) – An evil taotie, and the main villain of the series. He is green.
- Mungo (voiced by Swindle) – Another evil taotie. He is Da-Ming's nephew and assistant. He is purple.
- Drusilla (voiced by Beth Payne) – Another evil taotie and Da-Ming's wife.
- Urgon – Valt's father.
- Reyna (voiced by Sands) – Valt's mother.
- Marcus - a male Dark Deer from the Land of Darkness and the main villain of the series.
Episodes
List of Valt the Wonder Deer episodes
Broadcast
The first 26 episodes of Valt the Wonder Deer were released on the streaming service Tencent Video in China on December 31, 2016, which garnered over 9 million views in its first two weeks. The second half of the first season was released on February 19, 2017.
In the United Kingdom, the English dub of the series was broadcast on Propeller TV for one season around June 2017. The English dub was released onto Jetpack Distribution's YouTube channel on August 24, 2019, but it was later taken down.
Musical
On May 1, 2019, a Chinese musical for the series, Deer Elf: In Search of the Rainbow Bridge (鹿精灵之寻找彩虹桥) premiered in the Beijing China Puppet Theater.
