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Disney Star Darlings


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Star Darlings is a Disney franchise that ran from 2016 to 2017. It consisted of a book series and webisodes to promote the doll toys.

 

The Star Darlings are a group of 12 female Starlings from planet Starland, who go on Wish Missions to Earth (which they call Wishworld) to grant wishes for young girls. It's never explicitly stated, but each of the characters is essentially a personification of a Zodiac sign. There is a lot of celestial and star-based imagery, though.

 

The main book series is 12 installments long, one for each character. There's also a guide book about Starland and two more books that follow the storyline.

 

I got into it when I found the seventh book, Piper's Perfect Dream, at Target. I thought it was cute, bought it, and ended up enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. I've read all the books since then. Then, I found out that, apparently, the line abruptly ended with certain plot threads left unsolved. It always frustrates me when that happens.

 

It has a lot of similarities to MLP:FiM, and the last three webisodes are even written by Amy Keating Rogers. It was also created by Shana Muldoon Zappa and Ahmet Zappa, the daughter-in-law and son of Frank Zappa.

 

For some reason, before happening to find that book at Target, I'd never even heard of this line. I generally enjoy a lot of kids' stuff, so I'm usually at least aware of what Disney is doing. Even their logo is pretty small on the actual books. It's kind of a weird feeling, enjoying something so much without anyone to really enjoy it with, and even the friends I have gotten into it only really know it as something I introduced them to. It's like all the work that went into it just popped into existence.

 

Has anyone else heard of or enjoying Star Darlings? More broadly I guess, have you ever discovered a film or book series you got a lot out of, but nobody else had seemed to even know about?

"You are an absolute in these uncertain times. Your past is forgotten, and your
future is an empty book. You must find your own destiny, my brave adventurer.
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-- Turaga Nokama

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