CJ E&M announced that its animated preschool series, Super Wings, has been sold to major broadcasters in the Americas including Sprout (U.S.) who will premiere the series on 14 March and Discovery Kids (LATAM) who will premiere in the second quarter. 

These latest broadcasters are in addition to TV deals already completed for the series with Canal Plus’ Piwi+ (France), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) and EBS (South Korea). Further TV sale announcements will be made in the near future.

Alpha Animation and Culture is the master toy partner for Super Wings and the newly formed Auldey Toys of North America, a subsidiary of Alpha Animation and Culture, will launch the initial U.S. toy programme with Toys R Us in October 2015 before a national retail roll out in spring 2016.

“We are very proud to be bringing Super Wings to the Americas in 2015,” said Jisoo Han, Head of Animation Business Division at CJ E&M. “The huge interest already shown in the property, indicates that things are really starting to take off for our little air plane hero!”