

She later appears in season 2 once again to rejoin Dora Márquez and her friends on quests and adventures. Backpack is absent in Season 1 of this spin-off.Boots now appears as a supporting character instead of a main protagonist.The Blue Cursor is never used or featured in this show.In almost every promotional art, Dora wears a headband, but in the animation, she does not and she now has eyebrows.However, the Spanish curriculum of this series has been expanded to using simple phrases and commands as opposed to solely the single Spanish words used in the previous series. The characters are all bilingual and speak Spanish in addition to English. Alana is a tomboy who loves sports, and is very good with animals. Kate is a girly girl who is fond of theater, while Emma loves music. Dora has a magical charm bracelet and a smartphone, complete with an app version of Map (voiced by Marc Weiner), to aid her. Together with the explorer girls and Pablo, Dora and friends work together and go on adventures while discovering the secrets of their city. In this series, Dora, now 10 years old, goes to school and she lives in Playa Verde, which is a city. The characters include Kate (from Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom and Let's Go to Music School), Naiya (from Let's Go to Music School), Alana (from Let's Go to Music School), Emma (from School Science Fair and Let's Go to Music School), and Pablo (from Pablo's Flute and Pepe the Pig's School Adventure) alongside the preteen Dora. The "new friends" as well as Dora's tween look was introduced in 2009. The series has been picked up for 20 episodes and had its primetime premiere on Nickelodeon on August 18, 2014. In 2013, Nickelodeon announced that it would produce a spin-off to Dora the Explorer titled Dora and Friends: Into the City! The series stars Dora, now a 10-years-old, who goes on city adventures with a group of five new friends. The first one being Go, Diego, Go!, it features Dora, who is a 10-year-old girl and her friends in a main city setting. It is the second spin-off of Dora the Explorer. The sequel to the original Dora the Explorer series, this series premiered on Nickelodeon on Augand ended on Februin the United States, followed by its Canadian premiere on Septemon Treehouse TV. FebruDora and Friends: Into the City! (or simply Dora and Friends) is an American educational children's Flash animated television series.
