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Animated fantasy musical series
Team Umizoomi
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Also known as
| Umizoomi
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Genre
| Children's animation
Preschool
Musical
Adventure
Comedy
Educational
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Created by
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- Soo Kim
- Michael T. Smith
- Jennifer Twomey
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Developed by
| Teri Weiss
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Directed by
| Matt Sheridan
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Voices of
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Theme music composer
| - Mary Wood
- Scott Hollingsworth
- P.T. Walkley
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Composers
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- Frisbee N.Y.C
- Mary Wood
- Scott Hollingsworth
- P.T. Walkley
- Sachar Mathias
- WalkWorth
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 4
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No.
of episodes
| 77
(
list of episodes
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Executive producers
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Producers
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- Soo Kim (S1-2)
- Michael T. Smith (S1)
- Supervising Producer:
- Marcy Pritchard
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Running time
| 24 minutes
1 hour (special episodes in Seasons 2-4)
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Production companies
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Network
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Release
| January 25, 2010
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2010-01-25
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April 24, 2015
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2015-04-24
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Team Umizoomi
is an American live-action and animated
musical
preschool children's television series created by Soo Kim, Michael T. Smith, and Jennifer Twomey, and developed by Teri Weiss for
Nickelodeon
and the
Nick Jr. Channel
. Twomey and Kim additionally serve as executive producers, and Kim also serves as a producer with Smith and Marcy Pritchard. The series places an emphasis on mathematical concepts, such as counting, sequences, shapes, patterns, measurements, and equalities.
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Team Umizoomi
premiered on January 25, 2010, with "The Kite Festival" and "The Aquarium Fix-It", and ended on April 24, 2015, with "Umi Rescue Copter". Four seasons with a total of 77 episodes were made.
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Overview
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Using the live actors and props with animated characters, vehicles and environments, the series follows the adventures of the titular Team Umizoomi, a trio of tiny superheroes who use mathematics to solve whatever problems occur in and around their home of UmiCity in every episode.
Characters
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Main
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- Milli (voiced by Sophia Fox and Madeleine Rose Yen) is six years old. She has abilities related to patterns and measuring. By singing certain phrases, she can use patterns to solve problems. She is often the one to lead the team in many of their missions. In addition to being able to change the pattern of her dress, Milli can also alter the appearance of another object or person to match whatever pattern she is projecting on it, and her ponytails can extend to serve as measuring tools, such as a
ruler
, a
weighing scale
, and a
thermometer
. Later seasons would make Milli extra proficient at martial arts, primarily when it comes to jumps and karate chops.
- Geo (voiced by Ethan Kempner and Juan Mirt) is eight years old and Milli's younger brother. He mainly solves problems based on shapes and can use them to make different kinds of objects, ranging from food, tools, and clothing to animals, vehicles, and buildings.
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For these purposes, he always has usage of his shape belt, which grants him the ability to summon any shape he needs, but later episodes would give him two more tools; the shape splitter, a
longsword
that can cut a shape into any form needed, and the shape magnet, a
horseshoe magnet
that can function as a
grappling hook
by attaching to any specific shape. Geo always wears a pair of
roller skates
, and rarely takes them off on dry land.
- Bot (voiced by
Donovan Patton
) is a green robot who can extend his limbs to reach things or use the screen on his belly (referred to as his "belly screen") to make calls and do math. He is Milli and Geo's primary caretaker, and as a robot features many retractable tools.
- UmiCar (voiced by
P.T. Walkley
) is the car that drives the team wherever their help is needed. He primarily communicates via engine noises that sound like a cat purring through an electronic filter, though he can pronounce his name with a clear and deep voice on rare occasions. He lacks a face in the first fifteen episodes of season 1 and he gains a face in three episodes of season 1.
Recurring
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- DumpTruck is a living
dump truck
who doesn't speak real words and doesn't play fair.
- The Shape Bandit (voiced by P.T. Walkley) is a bandit cat who steals shapes.
- Squiddy (voiced by
Chris Phillips
) is a squid who creates all sorts of inventions.
- The TroubleMakers (Little Trouble voiced by Nick Heatherington and Big Trouble voiced by
Jason Harris
) are two mischievous foes with the use of their TroubleRays stir up all sorts of trouble in Umi City and often sabotage Team Umizoomi in their tracks.
- TroubleTruck is the duo's transportation unit.
- DoorMouse (voiced by Joe Narcisco and Chris Phillips) is a helpful friend who guards all the doors of UmiCity. He also guarding bridges, animals, and anything that needs guarding. Although he may sometimes get a little confused, he usually helps the Team on their missions and knows he can rely on help from them.
- Shark Car is UmiCar's best friend. As his name suggests, he is a toy car designed to look like a
shark
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Episodes
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Season
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Episodes
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Originally aired
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First aired
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Last aired
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1
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20
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January 25, 2010
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2010-01-25
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December 6, 2010
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2
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19
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October 18, 2010
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2010-10-18
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October 14, 2011
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2011-10-14
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3
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19
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October 13, 2011
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2011-10-13
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December 6, 2012
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2012-12-06
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4
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19
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February 4, 2013
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2013-02-04
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April 24, 2015
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2015-04-24
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Toys and merchandising
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Fisher-Price released the first official
Team Umizoomi
toys in early 2012 and were made until 2015. The first products available included plush dolls, bath toys, and figurines featuring characters and vehicles from the show.
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Preschool math kits
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The first products released included a series of math kits designed to build preschool math skills. Each of the three kits included an episode of the show on DVD, a storybook, math activity book and math mission cards.
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- Sorting, Classification & Reasoning Pre-K Math Kit (Playground Heroes) (
ISBN
1612630871
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- Shapes, Measurement & Positioning Pre-K Math Kit (Aquarium Fix-It) (
ISBN
1612630855
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- Numbers, Counting & Patterns Pre-K Math Kit (Carnival) (
ISBN
1612630863
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Books
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Little Golden Books
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- Find the Dinosaurs! (
ISBN
0307929957
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- Purple Monkey Rescue! (
ISBN
0307975894
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Step Into Reading books
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- Outer-Space Chase (
ISBN
044981890X
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- Top Cops (
ISBN
0385374941
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- Dog Days (
ISBN
044981436X
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- Super Soap (
ISBN
0449813878
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- Farm Alarm! (
ISBN
0385385080
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Pictureback books
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- UmiCar's Big Race (
ISBN
044981386X
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- Santa's Little Helpers (Glow-in-the-Dark) (
ISBN
0449818810
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- Legend of the Blue Mermaid (
ISBN
044981758X
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- Save the Kitten!/Buster's Big Day (Deluxe Pictureback) (
ISBN
0385375204
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- Happy Love Day! (
ISBN
0385375190
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- Team Power! (3-D!-With-3-D-Glasses!) (
ISBN
0449814483
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Board books
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- Follow that Egg! (
ISBN
0385375182
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- Count with Us! (
ISBN
0449818772
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- First Look and Find (
ISBN
1450854265
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Coloring and activity books
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- Kite Riders! Coloring Book (
ISBN
037586119X
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- Painting Power! Painting Activity Book (
ISBN
0375861610
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- The Big Boat Race! Holographic Sticker Book (
ISBN
0375862153
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- Mighty Adventures Coloring Book with stickers (
ISBN
0307930858
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- Join the Team! Big Coloring Book (
ISBN
0307931382
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- Christmas Countdown Painting Activity Book (
ISBN
0449818535
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- Zoom to the Rescue! Painting Activity Book (
ISBN
0307981983
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- Umi Egg Hunt Activity Book with stickers (
ISBN
0307982114
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- Super Shapes! Activity Book with stencils (
ISBN
0307982238
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DVD releases
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Paramount Home Media Distribution
is the
DVD
distributor for the series.
Main releases
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Name
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Release Date
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Number of Episodes
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Episode Titles
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Team Umizoomi
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June 28, 2011
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4
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- "The Rolling Toy Parade"
- "The Kite Festival"
- "The Legend of the Blue Mermaid"
- "The Wild West Toy Train Show"
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Journey to Numberland
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September 6, 2011
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3
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- "The King of Numbers! Never before seen!"
- "Picnic"
- "The Dinosaur Museum Mishap"
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Umi Games
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June 2, 2012
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4
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- "Umi Sports Games"
- "Boardwalk Games"
- "Crazy Skates"
- "Carnival"
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Animal Heroes
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May 14, 2013
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4
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- "Purple Monkey Mission"
- "Buster the Lost Dog"
- "Cuckoo Bears"
- "Animal School House!"
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Meet Shark Car!
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May 19, 2015
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4
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- "Shark Car"
- "Umi Toy Store"
- "Stompasaurus"
- "Lost and Found Toys"
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Umi Space Heroes
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June 2, 2015
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1
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Episodes on Nick Jr. compilation DVDs
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Name
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Release Date
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Number of Episodes
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Episode Titles
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Nickelodeon: Merry Christmas!
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October 4, 2011
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1
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Nickelodeon: Dance to the Music
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February 28, 2012
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1
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- "The Butterfly Dance Show"
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn ABCs
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January 15, 2013
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1
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn 123s
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January 15, 2013
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2
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- "Counting Comet"
- "Super Soap!"
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Nickelodeon: Rootin' Tootin' Wild West
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January 29, 2013
(
Walmart
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August 6, 2013
(Retail)
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1
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Nickelodeon: Once Upon a Rhyme
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April 30, 2013
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1
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- "The Umi City Treasure Hunt"
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn Colors
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July 23, 2013
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1
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Bubble Guppies
/
Team Umizoomi
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Into the Snow We Go!
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October 15, 2013
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2
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- "A Sledding Snow Day"
- "City of Lost Penguins"
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn Patterns and Shapes
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August 5, 2014
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Walmart
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September 9, 2014
(Retail)
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1
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- "Team Umizoomi vs. the Shape Bandit"
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Nickelodeon: Springtime Adventures!
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February 26, 2015
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1
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn S.T.E.M.
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April 28, 2015
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1
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- "Let's Play Math Dragons"
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn Kindness
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July 21, 2015
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1
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Nickelodeon: Celebrate Fall!
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August 18, 2015
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1
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- "The Ghost Family Costume Party"
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Nickelodeon: Puppy Palooza!
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August 25, 2015
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1
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Nickelodeon: Let's Learn S.T.E.M. Vol. 2
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May 3, 2016
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2
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- "Job Well Done"
- "The Great Shape Race"
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Video games
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Name
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Release Date
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Publisher
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Notes
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Team Umizoomi
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November 1, 2011
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2K Play
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Team Umizoomi
&
Dora
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s
Fantastic Flight
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November 6, 2012
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2K Play
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Team Umizoomi Learning Game: Umi City Heroes
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2014
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Leapfrog
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References
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External links
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1970s debuts
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1980s debuts
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1990s debuts
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2000s debuts
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2010s debuts
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2020s debuts
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Current
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Former
| 2000s debuts
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2010s debuts
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2020s debuts
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See also
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