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Super Sportlets is a multimedia concept aimed at children between 5 and 10 years old. The characters are appealing and inspire children to move, exercise, play and practice sports. Super Sportlets responds to a need to physically move that children naturally have. Super Sportlets also provides a platform for social issues such as obesity, healthier lifestyle, social integration and involvement.
Super Sportlets, an intriguing mix of live action and state-of-the-art CGI environments and special effects, features four young, college-aged aliens from the planet Sportus who pursue bad guy Rudy Rude, to Earth to stop him from robbing Earth kids of their energy and turning them into videogame playing, junk food eating coach potatoes. The four sporting superheroes, Athletica, Ballistico, Charm and Strongo, appear as normal humans in their ultra-modern gymnasium, a place where kids can practice and improve their various sporting skills.
Besides utilizing their unique superhero abilities, the Super Sporlets use a super computer, SID (Sports Information Download) to become experts in Earth sports so they can foil energy bandit, Rudy Rude.
The types of sports featured in the series include Soccer, Basketball, Freestyle Flatland BMX, Skateboarding, Breakdancing, Capoeira, Taekwondo, Baseball, Surfing, Volleyball, Gymnastics and many others. As an added bonus, world champion athletes are given starring roles as well as being stunt doubles in the series.
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- Story
Galactic energy thief RUDY RUDE set his sights on Sportus, the most "energetic" planet in the universe. He and his dictatorial father, LORD LESS, had every intention of draining Sportus and its people of every last drop of their energy (known as Enerjoy throughout the galaxy).
But Rudy was stopped by THE SUPER SPORTLETS, the four greatest athletes on Sportus. Unfortunately, Rudy Rude doesn't stop just because one planet defeated him. There are plenty of other planets with rich Enerjoy resources. And he found the perfect planet in ... EARTH.
Super Sportlets are on guard, ready to stop Rudy at every turn and take on any challenge the villain throws at them.- Background
Core Values / Key values of the Sportlets format are Fun, exercise (sports) and entertainment
The format aims to:
• entertain
• encourage to sport and exercise
• prevent / combat obesity
• encourage a healthier lifestyle
Quote: Movement and health are inextricably linked. Being fat is harmful to health but decreases as one exercises more.
