Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom (2025)

Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom (Also known in the episode title as Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom) is the 7th double-length episode and a television film of Dora the Explorer released by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 1, 2009. The plot starts when Dora and Boots must help a girl save the Crystal Kingdom when it's drained of color with the help of the Snow Princess.

This is a Dora the Explorer TV special. It is also the 13th episode of Season 5, as well as the second episode of the Magic Storybook Trilogy. In production order, it's the 18th episode of Season 5.

Characters[]

• Dora
• Boots
• Backpack
• Map
• Kate (debut)
• Swiper (credited, but does not appear)
• Fiesta Trio
• Sabrina the Snow Princess
• Allie (debut)
• Greedy King (debut)
• León (picture only)
• El Mago (cameo in a book cover)
• Dream Fairy (picture only)
• Giant-Giant (picture only)
• Giant Baby (picture only)
• Dragon (debut)
• Butterfly (debut)
• Caterpillar (debut)
• Enrique the Magician (debut)

Summary[]

Dora and Boots jump into a book to help a girl named Allie find the four colored crystals that were stolen from the Crystal Kingdom by a greedy king in four different stories on their big searching adventure. They also get a Shield, Butterfly Wings, and a Magic Wand along the way.

Videogame[]

Main article: Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom (video game)

The video game based off the television special of the same name was announced on November 2009 by 2K's 2K Play Team. The gameplay itself is a side-scrolling game developed by High Voltage Software and published by 2K. It was released for Wii in North America on November 3, 2009,^[1] and in Europe on November 27, 2009. The game was later than released on Computer Platforms and the PlayStation 2 in North America on November 12, 2009.^[2][3][4] The game is about a King that has hid the Crystals in the Crystal Kingdom, and Dora and Boots must find all of the crystals to save the Crystal Kingdom. As the game is played, players have to find 4 color crystals in three of the stories, plus the one from the king. Before players go into the storybook, players have to collect as many pages as they can for that story, which some pages are hidden in crystal barrels which Boots can dive into them to get the page out of the barrel.

Behind the scenes[]

• Similar to Dora's Fairytale Adventure, Dora receives gifts throughout the adventure that can be useful with a later task. First, she gets a shield given by Kate; then she, Boots, and Allie get butterfly wings on their backs; and finally she gets a magic wand given by Enrique.
• This episode is similar to the time-traveling game show of "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego".
• This is the second episode of the Magic Storybook trilogy, following Dora Saves the Snow Princess.
  • Also, this is a sequel to said episode because Dora is wearing the crystal necklace the Snow Princess gave her. When she says she got it in another storybook, she is mentioning the events.
• This is the 112^th episode of the show
• Similar to "The Mixed-Up Seasons", the last place on the map is the same place the adventure started.
• The same episode title was used as a video game for the Nintendo Wii.
• Kate will later appear in Let's Go to Music School and the spin-off series Dora and Friends: Into the City as an Explorer Girl with different appearances and voices.
• The Greedy King is voiced by guest star Richard Kind, who also voiced Tom from Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Molt the Grasshoper from Disney's A Bug's Life.
• Coincidentally, the order in which the crystals are found in this episode is the same as the colors of Arco Iris in The Shy Rainbow from inside to outside.
• This marks the sixth appearance of the extended version of "We Did It!". The other five were Dora's Pirate Adventure, Dora's Dance to the Rescue, Dora's World Adventure, Dora Saves the Mermaids, and Dora Saves the Snow Princess.
• This is the first new episode to air after the rebrand of Nick.
• Benny, Tico, Isa, and Swiper (despite his mention in the credits) do not appear in this episode.
  • However, the Greedy King takes Swiper's place as the antagonist.
    • Once again, however, much both like the Witch from Dora Saves the Prince, the Dancing Elf from Dora's Dance to the Rescue and the Garbage Octopus from Dora Saves the Mermaids, the Greedy King reforms himself and is forgiven by Dora, Boots, Allie, and everyone else in the Crystal Kingdom for his actions.
• Although the episode premiered in 2009, it was actually made in 2008 according to the credits.
• DVD vs. Television On the DVD and on Amazon Prime, the end of the intro had the Nickelodeon splat logo behind the "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom" logo, and it has the Nickelodeon lightbulb logo as usual with Season 5 episodes. But on the TV airings, Paramount Plus, and on iTunes, the Nickelodeon splat logo was replaced with the 2009 logo on top and the lightbulb was replaced with the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions, with the copyright notice saying "© 2008 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved", despite the logo not existing in 2008.
  • Therefore, when the episode aired on TV, it was first episode using the Nickelodeon logo from 2009-present. And it's also the only episode that plays the audio normally. Starting with Dora's Big Birthday Adventure, the audio would sound like it has a buzzing effect.
  • Also, this along with Dora's Big Birthday Adventure are the only episodes with the 2009 Nickelodeon logo to have the same copyright font on the copyright notice that was used starting with The Big Red Chicken's Magic Show. Starting with Season 6 onwards, it will revert back to the font that was used on Benny's Big Race, Isa's Unicorn Flowers, Dora Saves the Snow Princess, and Bark, Bark to Play Park.
• When Dora and Boots are flipping through the pages in the book, pictures of León, the Dream Fairy, the Giant-Giant, and the Giant Baby are seen on some of the pages.
  • However, both the Giant Baby and the Dream Fairy don't appear proper until "The Super Babies Dream Adventure".
• Dora, Boots, and Allie do not sing the Travel Song in this episode since they are traveling from story to story.
• It is revealed that Map never gives out the wrong information.
• The Picture Pop-Up Sequence uses the same thing on the Map segment rather than the usual black outline.
• The bunnies' hopping sound is the same as Boots' jumping sound.
• The last bunny makes Swiper's "woop" and "zoop" sounds.
• This is the only double-length episode where the Fiesta Trio does not play their extended fanfare before We Did It!.
• This is the second double-length episode in which Dora explains her favorite part before Boots, after the previous one.
• This is the second double-length episode where Dora and Boots only pass the first location before the intermission, following Dora's Pirate Adventure.
• When Dora is going to yell "Lasso!" while twirling her rope, she is doing the exact same segment of her cousin Alicia and her Rescue Rope from "Go, Diego, Go!".

Goofs/Errors[]

• It is unknown how the Fiesta Trio got into the Magic Storybook.
• In the page of the storybook with León at the circus, his nose is black instead of magenta.
• The rainbow did not have orange, indigo, and purple stripes, three colors that rainbows also have in real life.
  • Also, just like in The Shy Rainbow, the colors red, yellow, green, and blue were out of order. Yellow was supposed to be between red and green, so blue was supposed to be last.
  • In real life, the rainbow colors in order are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple.
  • However, the rainbow that shines from Dora's crystal into the book and the rainbow ray emitting from the magic wand has all seven colors.
• At the end of the We Did It! song, when the Blue Cursor clicks on Dora to her asking the viewer what their favorite part was, Boots was somehow changed back to normal and Dora is not wearing the magic crystal around her neck.

References[]

External links[]

• Nickipedia
• Dora the Explorer wiki
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dora_the_Explorer_episodes#Season_5_(2008–10)