Portal:En-4kids

(inspired by https://www.thpatch.net/wiki/Portal:En-4kids)

This is supposed to be a portal page for the **English (Macekre)** fandubs and fantranslations. Here, you could discuss translation guidelines, your progress and anything else that pertains to this project.
Feel free to design this page, use as many subpages as you want, and to later replace or remove this template if it bothers you.
Welcome to the **Lulu the Ladybug and Friends** portal, where all L&tBB content is translated in the way 4kids would handle it, crossed with modern culture-war conservative overtones.

This project gives us a glimpse into a What If-Scenario of some dubious American localizer getting the rights to distribute L&tBB in the USA and completely butchering it up with total disregard of the source material, to better suit American tastes. You might say: "L&tBB with Americanized names that's been bowdlerized for the PragerUKids set? That sounds horrible!... I like it :)"

## Backstory

Hexagon Entertainment Ltd. is a fictional American localization house for import media. Its founder, David Lorraine, originally had a dream to publish the best quality entertainment for cartoon lovers of every age. This dream was shattered when his wife unexpetedly fell ill and became a nursing case. Burdened with the bills and having other things on his mind that quality entertainment, he now distributes low-quality 2nd rate works that are guaranteed to make a quick buck, mainly to fundamentalist Christian and culture-warrior conservative groups wanting to have a "non-woke" alternative to Disney and Nickelodeon fare. What is left of his old dream is but a faint shimmer.

Through a series of inexplainable circumstances - which involved a trip to Ireland, a chance encounter with Nicky Phelan, furlongs of Guinness, an inflatable trade union strike rat, and a pact with several Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses - Hexagon somehow managed to secure the American localization rights to Lu & the Bally Bunch from Brown Bag Films.

Among its staff - most of which has already left or been fired - are a handful of talented people who actually know and love L&tBB, and despite the regional concept changes try their best to give it a respectful localization. These good intentions always clash of course with the more numerous part-time college slackers who have no idea what these multicoloured talking insects are all about, not to mention the marketing, focus groups, censor department, and conservative lobby groups who constantly breathe down their neck. Mr. Lorraine usually sides with the latter half because it means less work for him. But on his rare good days he might actually accept a good scenario draft.

## Changes

### General

* The show is renamed to **Lulu the Ladybug and Friends**.
* The setting is changed from Ireland to North Dakota.

Localized by Hexagon Entertainment Ltd., distributed by the Oral Roberts Foundation for Fair and Balanced Educational Media d/b/a TheRiteStuff4KIDZ! (9story/BrownBag copyright will stay in place, out of respect).

### Character names

* Lu becomes **Lulu the Ladybug**
* Gus becomes **Flint the Fly**
* Declan becomes **Bob the Beetle**
* Biba becomes **Maria Mariposa** (implied to be of Hispanic descent)
* Elodie becomes **Wilma the Worm** (explicitly said to be from Manitoba)
* Barnaby becomes **Harold the Honeybee**
* Miss Shella becomes **Miss Sheila the Slug**
* Margo becomes **Fiona the Firefly**

### Location names

* Ballybug becomes **Invertebrate Heights, North Dakota**
* Shell School becomes **Invertebrate Heights Elementary**

### Other changes

* Digital editing is used to alter characters' looks (for example, Maria's parents are no longer implied to be of Arab origin (instead being Primos-styled Hispanic stereotypes), and one of Harold's moms is changed to a dad).