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Abominable and the Invisible City – Tales from the Fox’s Tails

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Tales from the Fox’s Tails
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Abominable and the Invisible City - Tales from the Fox's Tails

When people across the city report their prize possessions being stolen by a creature they can only hazily remember, Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng (Ethan Loh) go in search of the Nine-Tailed Fox who has a hypnotizing effect to distract and trick its victims and steal items they believe they need. After stealing an important textbook from Jin, and injuring Everest, the fox distracts Yi forcing Peng to go to Burnish (Alan Cumming) for help.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – The Ditch Sitch

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – The Ditch Sitch
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“The Ditch Sitch” suffers from one of oldest cliches of children’s television with adults being dumb and/or unreasonable in order for the plot to play out. In this case the adult is a building developer () irate of a creature continuously stopping her construction of her latest project that goes to extremes to see it destroyed. The episode does feature an interesting creature in the magical jellyfish along with a nice message with Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng‘s (Ethan Loh) teaching her a lesson about living with the magical creatures, although it’s possible you might get whiplash from how quickly that lesson is taken to heart.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Wu You Gonna Call?

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Wu You Gonna Call?
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Abominable and the Invisible City opens up its Second Season with the city now aware of magic creatures and Yi (Chloe Bennet), Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), and Peng‘s (Ethan Loh) connection to them leading to an obnoxious vlogger insinuating himself into the group hoping to get video of Yi’s magic and magical creatures on a rampage. Yi’s struggles for the episode is trying to figure out how she performed magic without Everest at the end of last season. Jin eventually comes up with a solution that should allow her to continue to hone her abilities while the trio have more adventures this season.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Chinese Nian Year

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Chinese Nian Year (Part 1 & Part 2)
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The two-part First Season finale centers around Chinese New Year. While “Part 1” teases magical creatures being kidnapped around the city, ending with the abduction of Everest, the first-half of the story is more about the various characters perusing their own interests. Yi (Chloe Bennet) obsesses with an upcoming musical performance and Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) is distracted by a minor role in the parade. With no one else to join them, and believing the festival will hide the look of yeti, Peng (Ethan Loh) takes Everest on an eating tour through the city which eventually leads to the others searching for the pair only to find them as they are taken by Nian.

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Abominable and the Invisible City – Yeti Superstitious

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  • Title: Abominable and the Invisible City – Yeti Superstitious
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The Peng (Ethan Loh) centric “Yeti Superstitious” centers around Peng taking Nai Nai‘s (Karen Huie) superstitions to heart in attempts to avoid bad luck and to make the basketball team. While his unpredictable behavior offers some initial success, the more he attempts to follow Nai Nai’s wisdom, which includes pushing and Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) away for their incompatible birth signs, the more disastrous things get. However, with the help of his friends and the Minticons, Peng learns to get over his fears in a nice lesson for the show’s younger audience.

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