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I'd like to take a moment to talk about the season 8 Alfea refurb.

Season 8 sees not only the largest shift in art direction of any season of Winx, WoW included, it also sees a complete rebuild of Alfea, and while I do like some parts of the refurbishment, it does a couple of things that make me go “hmmmm.”

The biggest one of these is the destruction of the courtyard/quad's baby elephant paths*.

(*Misuse of the term "Baby Elephant paths" here, a Baby Elephant Path, also called a Desire path, is a path that is created by people continuously using what is often the shortest or easiest route regardless of whether or not it is a paved path, often causing dead grass and dirt tracks in lawns as they move across areas or through gardens. The term here is used in place of anything better, because the original Alfea courtyard layout contains paths that would likely be a closer match to the true Baby Elephant Paths if the courtyard wasn't pre-paved.)

In season 8 the 10 panels of grass are swapped out for 16 gardens arranged into a... well I suppose sea shell would be a good word. A dragonfly-wing clam-shell.

And it looks fantastic, but it also completely ruins the path finding of the courtyard.

Chucking it under a cut because it does go on a bit.

While each of the 8 dragonfly wings of this shell allow students to travel from the staircase of the central building outwards towards the two mirrored side buildings, and each wing is segmented into two, in order to allow a squiggly path to cross from one grass display next to the central stairs, around in a horse-shoe-like loop to the other grass display beside the central stairs.

Originally, the staircases that bridge the courtyard's level and the elevated platform in front of the central building are also affected by this renovation. Before season 8, there were 4 staircases.

The original central staircases were separated by a slim garden that rose along the incline like a pretty dividing rail, then two more staircases rose along the sides of the mirrored buildings. These outer staircases were separated by wide steps of grass. Good for sitting, laying, or feral student 'parkour.'

The grass panels that made up the courtyard were (and as of season 8, still are somewhat) surrounded on all four sides by wide paths that allow students to skirt along any of the building, fountain area or outer fence line without stepping on the grass.

Further, the original grass panels, though they did get upgrades like lights and small hedges as the series went on, were easy to walk over or lounge on them between classes, the season 8 grass sections have larger hedges, and a student would either have to put a bit of effort into jumping over them, or access the much smaller grass area through the open side along the squiggly path.

The path finding of the original court yard layout was also much more accommodating.

The original layout had two direct paths intersecting it, one from the front gate to the central building (actually to the wide fountain area where it would be easy to park a bus for students to (dis)embark for school trips,) and one from the central door of one mirrored building to the other across from it.

Further, it has three baby elephant type paths, that accommodate for paths that are likely to see a lot of foot traffic throughout the day.

One from the gate area to the central doors of the mirror building, one from the fountain area to the central doors of the mirrored building, and one from the front of the mirrored buildings (or the front of the covered walkways, not the tower door) to the front gate.

While the season 8 layout allows direct travel from the front gate to the fountain/central building, it has none of the other direct access pathways. The season 8 gardens would enforce circular travel around certain wedges or for the students to jump the hedges as they move from one building to another.

The season 8 gardens assume travel directions to and from the fountain.

So yes, it's pretty, but it's not really functional for a school. It's more the type of fancy garden you'd find at an estate or museum grounds. Something to wow visitors, not something for students to enjoy or use the space.

The court yard's main pathway is also a lot slimmer than the earlier seasons, which makes sense, since season 8 Alfea is overall, much smaller and shorter. But it Boggles me when I stop and really try to compare what that means, visually:

And that's just the courtyards in overlap. Season 8 Alfea's buildings could probably fit (if snuggly) within the season 1-7 courtyard without removing the season 8 courtyard. (The external garden areas (now with pools and gazebos) might not make it though...)

Speaking of the building:

In early seasons, the covered walkways possessed an arched ceiling hidden by facing, but below that it was possible to see a full length door. Basic slap-dash calculations suggest that Alfea's mirrored buildings sit at a height of up to 20 meters, not including the attic peaks on both sides (above the glass domes above the central doors, aka: stella's closet space.) because the space between the ground and the bottom of the balconies of the long windows that line the buildings is at least three-to-four times the height of the doors.

I previously put forward a theory that there were mezzanine levels, and split levels, within the building, but that it was fundamentally 5 floors (not including Stella's attic which would make it 6). And this didn't bother me all that much, we've seen that at least some classrooms have mezzanine walkways, and pretty high ceilings, we often see the high vaulted ceilings in the halls.

And it makes sense, because this is a school for fairies, and fairies fly. So of course they'd have enough room in a classroom to practice something while flying, of course you could fly down some of the halls without buzzing people on the ground, that makes sense with the context.

But season 8 Alfea? Is much, much shorter.

From the ground to the bottom of the balconies? Is two doors if that.

Meaning the height of the externally visible ground and second floor is not between six and nine meters, but four meters tops. Possibly closer to three.

More than that, where once there were three doors and two and a half banks of windows between the central doors and the tower doors that marked the ends of the walkway, there is now only two doors and two large windows on one side of the central doors, and one door and two large windows on the other.

Estimated length of season 8's walkway is around 16m from one end to the edge of the central door's area. My prior season 1 estimate has that same stretch at up to 30 meters.

The upper section and floors of the back towers are missing entirely to make the tower shorter than the main blue roof of the mirrored buildings. In addition the lower floors where the combat exam areas and magical reality chamber outer chambers are suspected to be, are slimmed down to the point I doubt there are any substantial rooms in them.

The front towers are missing external doors because they are now too narrow around.

I honestly don't know that the mirroed buildings are even wide enough, courtyard side to fence side, to hold more than one row of classrooms per floor, let alone two.

In early seasons, counts of students seen in wide shots, like the dining hall, counts of individual classes, and parties, often leave us around 50-70 students. I don't think I'm the only one who assumes that that's not an accurate count, that there's probably some day students (even though it's a boarding school) or seniors out on work experience, or just not everyone is in that one shot, and we're working with a medium that is given to copy-paste crowds, but generally, it feels like Alfea can fit an average student body of 70 and have wiggle room for more.

Season 8 Alfea makes me go "I don't think this place will fit an average body of 60 students."

Season 1 of Winx Club saw Alfea host not just the students but also the teachers of Alfea, Cloud Tower and Red Fountain at the same time during the Trix's siege. Lets assume the schools have a flatline average of students, that's still 150 at a minimum. 210 max if we assume there are no other students who come and go and throw off the numbers.

Plus the staff, which is at least 5 known teachers between Cloud Tower and Red Fountain, and at least 8 for Alfea. So Add in 13 Teachers.

Season 8 Alfea does not have the space, it cannot host that many people.

Maybe it could, maybe it's a more realistic building, maybe the internal structures make sense, but I've spent so long trying to wrap my brain around season 1-7 Alfea that I just... I can't with season 8 Alfea.

The Things about the Season 8 Alfea refurb I do like:

The glass dome on the mirrored buildings has a semi visible interior, which could be used as a green-house/sun room, where the earlier seasons it was just sort of there and high vaulted on the inside up to like, half way the large balcony windows. Like there doesn't look like there's anything in there from the outside, but it could be a good inside green space. or for hanging out washing on rainy days.

The big light under it is also pretty nice, kind of sunny/sunflower aesthetic.

I also love the detailing in the windows and doors, it's super cute and feels like a low-key fairy aesthetic next to basically flat green doors (I've been assuming the early season doors are at least partly green coloured glass paneling in the dorms)

The upside-down flower lights lining the external walkways are life giving, tbh. I need them.

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Hi, weird question. what program do you use for making the floorplans..?

i love what you do btw keep going pls you inspire me

Thank you~

Not a weird question, probably a disappointing answer though: I use Paint.

I severely underestimated how involved making floor plans is, even when I thought "I'll make them as basic as possible."

Thanks to Paint's layer feature I can do walls as a separate layer to furniture, and I can save the files with a transparent background, which makes it easier to edit later, as long as I remember, but it does save as a single layer image which can be super frustrating.

I did look briefly at proper floor plan making programs, but my google-fu is weak, so the only thing I could find was some "design your dream home" websites that didn't do at all what I needed, or iirc, programs that cost a significant (more than zero) amount of money, and for what I'm doing it just didn't feel worth it.

Paint is also what I use to make the compiled image pictures. Because, again, the layer feature means I don't have to worry about screwing up the alignment by a pixel or cropping shadowed frame edges.

I do have to guesstimate a little with the rulers, because they shift slightly when I zoom or scroll, same with the grid lines.

That said: if anyone does know of a good free use program for making floor plans, pretty please send it my way?! 🙏🥺

Edit: At @sunshine-mrk's suggestion I've downloaded LibreCAD, cross your fingers everyone.

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Stella Outfit Collection - Season 01 episode 03 Party Dress

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Bloom Outfit Collection - Season 01 episode 03 Party Dress

Bonus Kiko vs the Unaltered Dress:

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Musa Outfit Collection - Season 01 episode 03 Party Dress

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Flora Outfit Collection - Season 01 Episode 03 Party Dress

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Tecna Outfit Collection - Season 01 Episode 03 Party Dress

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Omg I wish I found out about your Alfea layout project thing sooner. However, I have to ask... Is it okay for people to use it as a reference for their fan-fiction with credit to you for the layout? Sorry, I'm just really curious 😅

It's okay if not!

Sure, that’s fine.

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Reasons placing the simulator is making me want to cry: 1. No two episodes can seem to agree where it's located.

With other locations, like the dorms, the kitchens and Wizgiz's classroom, the zoom in/fade in tends to have a strong percentage of agreement on where in the school they are generally.

The simulation room though...

The very first time we see the simulation room, we zoom in to the north tower (the one that gets destroyed in the season 1 end battle), subsequent zooms suggest the East tower, 'somewhere' in the north-east building (where the Winx dorm is) and in the west tower, where I've assumed the dining hall is. (or under it at least)

I had actually misremembered the order of events from the Season 1 battle and convinced myself the north tower was destroyed before the Winx were transported to Domino, but upon rewatch, the tower is still standing after the teleport.

The one major internal feature that stops me from wanting to put the sim room in the north tower though, is the windows.

Big curved and a little swoopy. Like a much shorter version of the windows of the rear towers' lower floors. There is nowhere on the front towers that have similar windows, the closest is, as far as I can tell, just a fancy open air walkway around the tower's middle-ish area.

And then there's season 4, which is the first time we really zoom in on the rear/east tower, but also the first time we get to see anyone going from the sim room to somewhere else:

(I have figured out recording! sort of. the splice is just the story of the Black Circle being chopped from the 402 opening)

This sequence cements the idea that at the very least the sim room is definitely in the north-west building, but further, that the sim chamber is on the lower levels of the rear/west tower.

While the group leaves and turns left out the door, the corridor they walk down has very distinct widows on their left:

These windows are closer in appearance to the windows found on the outer sides of the mirrored buildings:

Again we're seeing a case of the internal size doesn't match the exterior, but the scene does have some "internal logical consistency."

So at the moment I'm going to keep working on the assumption that the sim room is actually in the lower floors of the rear tower.

That the window we see from the inside is actually a smaller window separate from the external windows we see, because there is a hallway that runs along the outer wall from the open air hallway door mirroring the external staircase up to a landing (where it exits out the rear facing door,) and around to the other side, down a matching staircase and into the ground floor outer hallway.

over all I'm currently imagining it looking something like this:

Please ignore the fact the red dome indicating the mvr chamber is so far forward in the left half of the picture, I forgot it was sitting directly under the windows and there's only so many times I can redo things from scratch because I wasn't thinking and closed my files losing access to individual layers.

Also, yes, based on external measurements, I'm working on the idea that there are 2 internal hallways on the ground floor and lower mezzanine, separating two series of classrooms.

and the similar testing room without the mvr chamber being in the other rear tower's base, in basically a mirror but with more seating. Partly because that one does zoom/fade in to the other rear/south tower.

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I'm currently working on trying to find locations for some of the known rooms and things inside Alfea, (at the moment specifically, I'm working on the kitchen and dining hall) before I put myself through floor plans again. So I thought I'd share what some of my working out looks like behind the scenes.

And why it might be a problem that Season 8 turned these flat topped towers:

Into these much shorter flat topped towers:

Because I'm currently fairly certain that was the dining hall in that upper half.

Trying to figure out where the dining hall is, isn't a one room tracking operation, because we know there's a kitchen, we've seen it, we've seen the Winx Club set fire to it with their negligence. You don't typically put a food making place far from the eating place, so tracking one, should help track the other.

We first see the kitchen in episode 105, when the girls are on dinner duty (or making a spell with potato peels and a magical back-flip if you're a 4kids truther), and during dinner prep they head back to their dorm to help Stella pick an outfit.

From their dorm, they're able to smell the smoke and react, racing to the kitchen before even the chef and Griselda arrive, though not by much in Griselda's case. (Also, Bloom uses the same spell Griselda does a few episodes later back on Earth in her house while cooking with Vanessa. Just saying.)

This means, or at least suggests that the kitchens are not only in the same building as their dorm, but reasonably close by.

When we return to the kitchen in episode 115 we actually have a little zoom around the rear tower and focus in on a spot above/behind the rear most dorm balcony on the building before phasing inside to the girls walking along a hall to the kitchen.

While the hallway is different between the two episodes, background continuity is not Winx Club's feature, but it does double down on the idea that the kitchen is in that building.

(In 105 the girls turn a corner into a short hallway, while in 115 it appears to be a long straight hallway with windows all along it. Though later in the episode the looking out view does look kindamuch the same as 105?)

(props to Alfea for having non-magical fire extinguishers for added safety)

Or at least one of the kitchens is in that building, I wouldn't be surprised to find out there are two. Or at least a smaller communal kitchen for the other mirrored building, so the girls don't have to go across campus for a midnight snack.

Further, although the exterior and interiors of the school don't always match up exactly, in several shots of the dining hall, we can see the six bays of tall windows. Now there is a chance they could just be windows from the middle floor, one of the balconied window sets, but the shape and compactness matches much more closely with the tower's rear facing window wall, the one that leads out onto the flat balcony.

The number of windows/bay divisions don't match up perfectly, but again, internal-external logic consistency isn't 100% at Alfea,

Additionally, in these shots from season two, we can see some smaller windows lining the upper sections of the wall opposite the window wall, which match up loosely with the windows on the rear towers, where they meet the roof of the dorm section.

We should also talk about sizes and room dimensions.

Based on the door below the smaller windows, the windows are at least three maybe four meters off the floor. The tables run about 5 meters.

Estimating for girls behind pillars, the most packed side holds 16 students, while the least packed has space for 13.

A quick bit of research into bench tables brought me some numbers.

The longest commercial tables I could find that came with suggested sizing by seat number suggested that for a 10 person table (4 on each long and 1 per end cap, so realistically for out count and 8 person table) would range between 2.2m, 2.6m, or 2.8m depending on how comfy or squished the seating is expected to be. Doubling those numbers to get tables to seat 16 max per side, we end up with tables ranging 4.4m, 5.2m, and 5.6m.

Doing a quick eyeball and stamp measurement, and given that the room isn't perfectly circular, but there is at least one (suspiciously straight) hallway outside it, I'd be okay saying that we're looking at a space with a rough diameter between 9 and 15 meters.

Finally, there's the thing that might be a door opposite the teachers' dais, which I think might match up with the external door on the tower that leads up a protruding staircase to a spiral staircase that leads to the observation platform on the top of the tower.

Or at least an elevator or internal spiral staircase up to the external door, or even a door across a corridor to the external door, depending on how big the overall dining hall really is in relation to the tower it's sitting in.

Why don't I think it leads to the kitchens?

Well, let's look at the kitchen: it looks roughly square, or at least not a whole lot longer one way than the other, so we're looking at a squarer sort of rectangle at most, and with that we can do a few quick calculations based on what's in the kitchen.

First, my research tells me that in a commercial kitchen, like for a restaurant, recommended kitchen size is .5m² per seat. The count of the students at the table (estimated 16+14+14+13=57 plus three teachers) give us around 60 seats, which makes our estimated kitchen around 30m².

(That's a fridge in the left corner as far as I can tell, though I did for a short time assume it was stairs. Gosh darn pattern on the door, fooling me.)

Further, commercial fridges, double ovens and cupboards give me widths of 610cm for a fridge, 60.96-68.58-76.2cm for double ovens, and 1200cm for a cupboard. recommended ventilation distance between ovens is a suggested minimum of 15.24cm, and there are four ovens along one wall with the fridge and the free standing cupboard. Using the largest width for ovens, we're looking at a room of at least 5.62m across.

It's important I note here, that the room isn't actually square, while the main body of it looks that way, there's also a little alcove attached along that wall.

Now there is a bit more space between the ovens than is recommended, enough for Musa to hide between them comfortably, but this gives us a starting base.

Even if the dining hall is 15ms across on the outside, that's still enough room to fit the kitchen in the tower given some of my other calculations which have the width of the mirrored buildings at 24-30m across, which should translate to the width of the flat topped towers.

But again, there's that zoom in, and the fact the girls come in from the side and turn left into the kitchen. I think we're looking at a kitchen position that's a little something like this:

Although I am hoping that despite the lack of any doors in the alcove, there's actually a walk in fridge/freezer behind the back wall, because there's plenty of cooking spaces, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of food storage outside the free standing fridge in the corner, the pantry by the alcove, and the alcove.

Maybe there's more in the various short cupboards, but at least a portion of those would be for cooking utensils, crockery, cutlery, and I don't see any that are different enough to indicate cold storage vs long-life/shelf.

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Dorm Floor Plan

"I have a floor plan I'm pretty happy with" I said 4 iterations in. This is... maybe seven eight. And three days later. I've just gotta fling this one out, I can't keep nitpicking it.

I'm still not entirely happy with the nook, I probably could have gotten the proper fit if I'd been willing to move the bathroom out (and mirror it over to the other side) but I need to be done with this or I'm going to send myself completely barmy.

fellow tumblrina @dagstar7 passed along a link to a copy they'd made of what may have been the official copy of the dormitory floor plan, unfortunately the source has been lost to the depths of the internet, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was however pretty pleased to discover that my floor plan looked pretty similar, although their copy's nook was slightly more rupee shaped, and their bathroom was flat.

I've assumed a bit of mirroring in the dorm that should be just the other side of Stella's wall judging by the windows and balconies from the outside. (the windows and balconies that really don't work once you start measuring from the inside...)

My last edit was to slim the common room from 5m to 3.5m. I have previously calculated the balcony windows/doors to be at least 4m across, but looking at the space they have I realised it looked pretty similar to one of the main living spaces in my house which is also 3m (and change) across, and it's more than enough space for that.

*Edited the pics as I was typing, just greyed some step lines in the rooms and removed the outer stair line on the nook. The steps in the room are only two deep, but they do have a different colour than the rest of the carpet in the bedrooms, so the original step outlines included that, making it look like there was three steps per room.

Apart from the nook and the bathrooms, the biggest liberty I've taken is centralizing the window in Stella's upstairs room, because her bedroom window is mostly central in her room, the only window above it should be directly above it, and there's just not reasonably enough space between floors for the stairs to wind back and forth for them to come out where they do, unless the stairs are a ladder.

I was actually looking for a shot of someone falling down Stella's stairs when I found the bathroom, because I remembered it happening, and I feel certain I remember a shot looking down the stairs proving they go in a straight line, but the only fall down the stairs I can find is in episode 6.19, which is the new apartments, not the old dorm, and didn't have the angle I remembered.

Here are some older iterations, staring with the one with the "5m" wide common room on the left, and a more squared in version of the nook in blue.

Actually, it's a little weird/interesting, but for the last iteration I actually flipped which way I was viewing the map?

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I’ve hit the point where I’m using cut outs and way too much graphing paper to figure out the angles and distances of the nook. Because it makes so little sense

It often looks like a wedge, but the walls meet at a right angle, but the can’t unless it’s really shallow.

But I sort of thought that was an oopsie by the show because if the wall was like that wouldn’t that put the fireplace in Stella’s wall? But there’s only really two walls, not three, so it has to be angled. Which.

Why!?!?!?!

I did several neat looking designs of the dorms, but I kept getting the sizing wonky, and then I’d realise I’d forgotten things, like the dorm on the other side.

So this is where I’m at. Messy quick sketch screw the measures, just to get it down on paper instead of getting caught up in a million other things.

Current room size estimate: bedrooms 5.5 by 4.5 meters Bathroom by the nook (1.7m across the entry wall | 2.1 across at the rear wall) by 2.67 meters

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Everyone panic! I have found the Canon Bathroom!!! (I’ve included 2 shots with the video name and timestamp so you can all check it out gorgeous yourselves.)

Also props to Tecna for being the shower scene girl of the series!

Since I’ve just mentioned it in my great scathing, here it is! I’m also taking this direction to validate the assumption that least one (if not both) of the two single doors either side of the entry door (one next to Tecna&Musa’s room and the other across from it hidden by the nook) is a bathroom!

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So I spent last night trying to find one shot just so I could fully illustrate why Stella’s attic closet is bullshit. I think her attic closet vexes me almost as much as Bloom and Flora’s window and it’s height and distance from the balcony window from the outside.

I feel like season 8 made it worse though, because they reduced the number of floors and rooms along the length. Like I’m just getting around to wrapping my head around the dimensions of Alfea 1-7, and suddenly it’s less than half the size and the rear (East and South?) towers have had their tops lopped off!

And I know there’s people out there that think the only way up to the obs deck is flying but theirs a perfectly functional (and insane) external staircase and spiral staircase up to the top.

But now that it’s half the height you can walk out from the dorm hall- allegedly!

And omg the baby elephant paths! My babies what did season 8 do to you?!

Cause yeah, the season 1-7 courtyard might be 70-100m across, (compared to season 8’s 30-50m,) but they had directional paths that made sense and let students get from pretty much anywhere to pretty much anywhere using the paths, or they could just walk across the grass if that wasn’t direct enough.

Season 8? Psh, no. You go to the fountain! You just want to cross the yard? No! Fountain first!

Even the split paths in the gardens run in a freaking horseshoe from one of the grand staircase’s show garden to the other. There’s no direct path of travel except to the fountain!

And speaking of the grand staircase-

And okay maybe it’s fine because the school is so much smaller but they’ve taken out at least two* staircases! The two that run along the mirrored side buildings right down the rear towers? Gone! Sacrificed to the show gardens! (*It’s three if you count the split central staircase as 2.)

And the show gardens? People used to be able to sit there!

People used to be able to sit and lounge all around the courtyard! Three schools had a “we didn’t die” celebratory feast on that thing! Now? Alfea’s students have to squish in around the fountain to watch the Winx band on stage.

The worst part is, season 8 Alfea feels too small for what it is. Yeah 1-7 is messed up and sometimes I can find goofs like missing grass panels, windows or doors, or walls where they aren’t usually, but once I started calculating there is some semblance of sense, as long as I accept the idea “Alfea is ridiculously bigger than I think it is, it’s a school for fairies.”

Like the floors, I calculated there’s technically five stories in the main body of the mirrored buildings, and split levels and mezzanines amongst that, but that’s accepting 4-8m ceiling heights and two story window banks, and internal walls made of windows but I can believe that because it’s a fantasy school for fairies and fairies fly.

Of course they have the bigger possible options for space.

And coming down from that to the small small small season 8 school is just… they don’t even have enough classrooms. They cut out three rooms along the length of the mirrored buildings.

I mean yeah the covered walkways are fine and I adore the upside-down floor lights, some of the new doors are really nice but the shrank the school and sharpened a lot of the lines, they’ve made the courtyard actively hostile to cross, it’s just. Such an ick for me.

Also season 8’s entry gate is gross. (Personal opinion no hate if folks disagree) Gimme back the magical wings that fold into the earth!!! They could even have the wings slide outward, they just. Green glass.

On the other hand I was wrong about being happy with my layout for the dorms. I’m about to start over for the fourth time, because first I forgot the dorm on the other side of the wall, and then I was making the rooms too big, but hey at least I’ve managed to track down the canon dorm bathrooms!

If only we’d gotten a better shot of the room. Still I think I can make it work!

I’m starting to suspect that some floor plans, actual floor plans, existed at some point, because Once I start using real world measurements to estimate dimensions off the screen, things do start lining up pretty well.

Except for Stella’s BS attic closet!!!!

Sorry for dumping the ramble on you.

The temptation to just go ham talking about all the differences between season 8 Alfea and literally every other season Alfea is so real.

Like, some of you may have noticed that something feels off about season 8 Alfea, beyond the (world’s worst) change in the courtyard garden/grass strips, the connecting walkways and the new satellite buildings, but did you all know it is genuinely a much smaller series of buildings in season 8?

Meanwhile: trying to put together a floor-plan of the Winx dorm, and it’s like 😭 because some shots are… umm… well let’s just say sometimes walls aren’t real because cameras need to angle?

I think the most frustrating part, other than the reading nook and three mystery doors*, is the fact the external windows do not match what the internal shots tell us to be true.

(*I have a floor plan atm that I’m decently happy with, and I even used one of the mystery doors to give them a bathroom that fit in the expected space… imma have to go back and check the hallway doors for distance between dorms.)

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The temptation to just go ham talking about all the differences between season 8 Alfea and literally every other season Alfea is so real.

Like, some of you may have noticed that something feels off about season 8 Alfea, beyond the (world’s worst) change in the courtyard garden/grass strips, the connecting walkways and the new satellite buildings, but did you all know it is genuinely a much smaller series of buildings in season 8?

Meanwhile: trying to put together a floor-plan of the Winx dorm, and it’s like 😭 because some shots are… umm… well let’s just say sometimes walls aren’t real because cameras need to angle?

I think the most frustrating part, other than the reading nook and three mystery doors*, is the fact the external windows do not match what the internal shots tell us to be true.

(*I have a floor plan atm that I’m decently happy with, and I even used one of the mystery doors to give them a bathroom that fit in the expected space… imma have to go back and check the hallway doors for distance between dorms.)

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Looking up - pose reference (seasons 1&2)

compilation for @clawmark

if you let me know if any of these were the kinds of shot you were after, I can keep an eye out.

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By the way, I know (very) basic gif making now. So have an extra WTF!Tecna