History Trivia / Trollz

** There were plans to make a second season of the show, with the creators even having some titles already set up, such as "Coming to Your Town," "Magic of the Ten," "Trollz Gone Wild," "Topaz Makes the A-List," "Trollzbury Bake-Off," and "Clothes Make the Troll."

** As for Dam, they decided to try again with licensing the troll dolls and licensed the franchise to Creator/DreamworksAnimation in 2010, who bought out the franchise outright in 2013 except in Denmark. With this, they created the film WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}, which following its release in October 2016 became a huge financial success for the company, and ''Trolls'' is now deemed as one of [=DreamWorks=]'s biggest franchises, with two films, two television shows, live shows, theme park attractions, loads of merchandise, and so forth.

* FranchiseKiller: The failure of this franchise is one of the reasons for DIC's sale to Creator/CookieJarEntertainment in July 2008.

** DIC saw ''Trollz'' as becoming the next ''Strawberry Shortcake'' and within 2004 signed merchandising deals with Hasbro, Scholastic, Warner Home Video, Sony-BMG, and Ubisoft, among other companies, as well as international television deals with Nickelodeon, CBBC, and [=TF1=]. This was good in all, but the main issue came with showcasing the animated series in the United States.
** DIC chose not to air it on a mainstream cable network or basic TV service, instead choosing to air the series on their syndicated "DIC Kids Network" block. As the block was in reality three or four different programmed strands that aired on syndicated television stations depending on region, that severely limited major viewership significantly, and it was revealed that the reason for the show to air this way was to pay extra attention to the [=DVDs=], with DIC treating the series as a straight-to-video exclusive in a way, even having a premiere of the first DVD movie on Creator/DisneyChannel and Creator/ToonDisney in September 2005 prior to the DVD releases. However, this didn't do anything good, as the first two DVD releases sold poorly and caused Warner to silently ditch the next two They tried to solve these problems by having the series air on their newly-launched [[Creator/CookieJarTV KOL Secret Slumber Party]] block on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2006 and a new North American home video deal with [=NCircle=] Entertainment in 2007, but even that deal didn't increase any attention. By this point, in addition to poor merchandising sales (with the planned CD album silently being canceled), DIC had deemed the franchise a failure and had lost a lot of money from it.
** DIC blamed Dam and sued the company in October 2007, only to be counter-sued by them a little over a week later, where Dam criticized DIC for trying to point attention away from the original troll dolls and over to their incarnation. In the end, DIC lost loads of money from ''Trollz'' and other failed franchises from their end of life (eg, ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'') which led to the Cookie Jar purchase.

** DIC chose not to air it on a mainstream cable network or basic TV service, instead choosing to air the series on their syndicated "DIC Kids Network" block. As the block was in reality three or four different programmed strands, that limited viewership significantly, and it was revealed that the reason for this was to pay extra attention to the [=DVDs=], with DIC treating the series as a straight-to-video exclusive in a way. However, the first two DVD releases sold poorly and caused Warner to silently ditch the next two They tried to solve these problems by having the series air on their newly-launched [[Creator/CookieJarTV KOL Secret Slumber Party]] block on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2006 and a new North American home video deal with [=NCircle=] Entertainment in 2007, but even that deal didn't increase any attention. By this point, in addition to poor merchandising sales (with the planned CD album silently being canceled), DIC had deemed the franchise a failure and had lost a lot of money from it.

*** Unusually, "You Glow Girls" was released in The Netherlands, and all the movie-length versions were featured on Netflix for a time, which also included "Spellbound" (16-18), "Boys Spell Trouble" (19-21), "Fuzzy Logic" (22-24), and "Surfin' BFFL" (25-27). This explains why there are 27 episodes of the series rather than the usual 26, as every three episodes made up these story-arc/movies.

* NamesTheSame: Snarf from ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' comes to mind.

*** Unusually, "You Glow Girls" was released in The Netherlands, and all the movie-length versions were featured on Netflix for a time, which also included "Spellbound" (16-18), "Boys Spell Trouble" (19-21), "Fuzzy Logic" (22-24), and "Surfin' BBFL" (25-27). This explains why there are 27 episodes of the series rather than the usual 26, as every three episodes made up these story-arc/movies.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The series saw very limited DVD releases in most countries including the US, where Warner Bros. released two story-arc DVDs containing three episodes each, with [=NCircle=] later releasing a third. A complete series release was only in France.

** As part of the extras for "Best Friends for Life" and "The Magic of Five", a third and fourth compilation movies was advertised: "Hair Over Heels" and "You Glow Girls!" which would have featured episodes 7-9 and 10-12 respectively. Warner Bros. cancelled both releases and [=NCircle=] Entertainment would eventually release the third DVD. Once again "You Glow Girls!" was unlucky to not be released again, alongside a fifth compilation called "A Hair A-Faire," which would've featured episodes 15-17.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The only US DVD release this show ever got was in the form of 3 {{Compilation Movie}}s, all of which have been out of print for over a decade. A complete series release was only in France.

** As part of the extras for "Best Friends for Life" and "The Magic of Five" a fourth compilation movie was advertised alongside "Hair Over Heels" called "You Glow Girls!" which would have featured the next three episodes of the series, "The Dating Game," "Mirror, Mirror," and, "Ruby's Rules of Partying." According to [=NCircle=] Entertainment, who distributed the Trollz [=DVDs=], there was also a fifth compilation planned called "A Hair A-Faire," which would've featured the episodes "Forever Amber," "Not-So-Good Old Days," and "Simply Simon."

* DuelingShows: With ''Franchise/{{Bratz}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' and ''[[Manga/TokyoMewMew Mew Mew Power]]''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The theme song is performed by The Valli Girls. Two members from that band would eventually form Music/{{HAIM}}.

** There were plans to make a second season, with the creators even having some titles already set up, such as "Coming to Your Town," "Magic of the Ten," "Trollz Gone Wild," "Topaz Makes the A-List," "Trollzbury Bake-Off," and "Clothes Make the Troll."

* NamesTheSame: Snarf from ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats'' comes to mind.

* NamesTheSame: Snarf from ''Franchise/{{Thundercats}}'' comes to mind.

** Several Season 2 episodes had titles ready, such as "Coming to Your Town," "Magic of the Ten," "Trollz Gone Wild," "Topaz Makes the A-List," "Trollzbury Bake-Off," and "Clothes Make the Troll."

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The only DVD release this show ever got was in the form of 3 {{Compilation Movie}}s, all of which have been out of print for over a decade.