Grow Your Wings, Bluebell

"Grow Your Wings, Bluebell" is the twenty-sixth episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series) and the first season finale. It is a remake of "Bluebell Gets Her Wings," the twelfth episode of the 1969 series.
==Synopsis==
Bluebell becomes 12 years old, which means she can grow her wings! She creates a chrysalis to become a butterfly for the next few months, but the trolls want to make a new cape for Queen Peregia, so the twins must keep her away from them, with the help of the young fairy's parents.
==Plot==
Bluebell wakes up in the early morning, yawning and stretching her arms. She gets out of her bed, brushes her teeth, and goes downstairs. She gets into her chair as her mother Aldith is preparing her breakfast meal, while her brother Spike runs down the stairs, but Aldith warns him that he will fall down soon, so he walks slowly and gets into his chair. Trent is already in his high chair, banging his spoon on his plate as he begs for his meal.
While having some pancakes (with Spike gouging on a big stack of them), Bluebell's father Laine came and reminded her that today is her twelfth birthday, which shocked her.
Bluebell flies back to her room and checks on her calendar, realizing that today IS her birthday. She runs out from her house and informs everyone in Butterfly Valley that she will become a butterfly, much to everyone's surprise.
In the Celestial Palace, Princess Butterfly is sitting in her throne again, looking rather bored, then Bluebell literally came into the palace and informs her that she will become a butterfly. Princess Butterfly is surprised by the news and reminds her to weave her chrysalis at night.
Outside the Great Troll Palace, the troll guards are busy cleaning the ground when they hear Queen Peregia screaming. They come into the court to find her moaning over her torn cape. King Boogieman came to confess his wife and demands the troll guards to find a new cape for her.
When Bluebell went off to the backyard, her family began decorating the house for a surprise. She begins to eat leaves for her diet and she later sheds her skin several times.
Meanwhile at the community park in Sideview Beach, Rose and Petunia are sitting on a yellow bench when Celia came and wonders what is Rose reading, to which she responded that she is reading a book about butterflies. Celia then sits with them to learn about a caterpillar's pupation to a butterfly.
After eating enough leaves and shedding some skins, Bluebell transforms into a caterpillar to weave her own chrysalis for her new shape.
The troll guards are sent by King Boogieman to find a perfect chrysalis to weave a new cape for Queen Peregia. They look all around Butterfly Valley and noticed an empty chrysalis next to a fishing hut. They try to grab the chrysalis, but an approaching butterfly fairy fisherman returns from fishing, so they hide in a row of full buckets of fishes. The fisherman keeps his fishes in the bucket row, but the trolls pop out of the buckets with fishes all over them, scaring the fisherman away.
Meanwhile in the twins' house, Rose grabs the book she read earlier, reading a page that details the timespan of a pupa inside its chrysalis, then she falls asleep in her bed, while Petunia checks on her calendar to mark out the date for Bluebell's release.
A day later, the troll guards noticed a light blue chrysalis (with Bluebell already inside it) and try to grab it, but Bluebell shakes, startling the trolls. The twins went to Butterfly Valley with the magic flower and noticed the troll guards, pushing them off from the chrysalis.
The twins took Bluebell to her parents, who noticed that she became a pupa. They tell the girls that they will keep their eyes on their daughter when she becomes a butterfly. Rose reminds the butterfly fairies that she and her sister will return to Butterfly Valley for the next few months and the twins bid farewell to them, returning home again with the magic flower.
The troll guards are still finding the chrysalis, but they are stopped by the twins, who deflected their attacks. Rose tells the troll guards to stop attacking everyone and Petunia offers them threads to weave a new cape for Queen Peregia. The troll guards accept this and return to the Great Troll Palace.
Upon returning to the Great Troll Palace, the troll guards quickly manufacture not one cape for Queen Peregia, but two capes, one of which is for her husband, King Boogieman. However, they created odd and quirky designs on the capes. One of the troll guards hopes for the two to be impressed by the new capes.
Several days later, Bluebell emerges from her chrysalis and spreads her newly-grown wings before flying to her parents, who are bewildered to see her as a butterfly. Bluebell transforms into her fairy form and tells her parents that she grew her wings. Aldith states that they felt proud of her and invites her for a family dinner.
Rose and Petunia bid farewell to the butterfly fairies again and return home once more using the magic flower. They alert their parents that a caterpillar became a butterfly, which surprised them.
After many days of manufacturing capes for Queen Peregia and King Boogieman, the troll guards present them to the monarchs. When one of the troll guards details the new capes, Boogieman noticed the capes have very strange designs on them, leading to him and Peregia banishing the troll guards from the palace in a fit of anger.
The next morning, Bluebell wakes up again, but she falls over her back. Fortunately, she gets up with her new wings. She heads to the dining table as Spike and Trent came in too and their parents are already in their seats. The family discussed about Bluebell's wings as the episode ends.
==Differences from "Bluebell Gets Her Wings"==
*Bluebell's house appears to look more like a real-life bungalow house than it used to in the original version.
*Aldith and Laine, Bluebell's parents, are present in this version. Bluebell's brothers, Spike and Trent, are also seen here.
**The reason why Bluebell's family appear in this episode is the fact that she should not be in her house alone.
*Bluebell's age is revealed to be twelve in this episode, whereas in the original version, it was unspecified.
**Due to this, Bluebell seemed to act more mature than in the previous episodes and her voice sounded noticeably deeper.
*Rose reads a book about butterflies in her own room, instead of the living room as in the original version.
*Rose and Petunia do not keep Bluebell away on Earth, since her parents appear in this episode, as in the original version, although they did return to stop the trolls from kidnapping her.
*Unlike in the original version, Bluebell kept her wings throughout the 1998 series.
==Trivia==
*The title of this episode was originally going to be "Bluebell's New Wings," but the producers thought it sounded too basic, so they change the title at the last minute.
**However, the proposed title would later be used for the episode's storybook adaptation.
*This episode was included in the VHS compilation video The Best of Butterfly Valley, Vol. 3.
*This is the fifth episode to feature Bluebell's family, after "Tinka's Wishes," "Light Showers," "Getting Well" and "Butterfly and the Beast."
**Aldith and Laine, Bluebell's parents, made their fifth appearances in the series, but the fourth time that their faces are shown on-screen, after "Light Showers," "Getting Well" and "Butterfly and the Beast," while Spike and Trent, Bluebell's brothers, also made their fifth appearances.
*This is the first episode of the 1998 series to conclude with a scene in Butterfly Valley, rather than a scene in Sideview Beach.
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