This kind of sucks in a way. If I ever were to get a story set in this world created, they’d call me a copycat! They even called it the exact same thing!

Here’s the deal: on my blog Creativity Palette, I dump my ideas for games, stories, whatever. One world idea I’ve built out, even had friends roleplay in, was a world that had been torn asunder into tiny “islands” of land and water floating in the sky, called Skylands.

Well my friend Vic e-mails me this press release he read today about a new show coming out from Nickelodeon, called, wait for it, Skylands! What’s it about? Take a guess. This is just weird!
SKYLAND COMING THIS NOVEMBER (FINALLY!)

Speaking of shows that had been in development for years, Nickelodeon’s
all-animation station NickToons announced its slow cooker, Skyland
will finally take off on Sunday, November 18 at 9:00 p.m. For the
record, the series had been in production for several years, and during
that time was the basis of a bid war between a number of cable networks
and it’s pilot only aired over a year ago.

The premiere of Skyland will kick off with the hour-long
special followed by an all-new, half-hour episode at 10:00 p.m. eastern
during the 3 Headed Monster programming block. Season one, which
consists of 13 episodes, will air Saturdays at 9:00 p.m. eastern on
Nicktoons.

“Nicktoons Network continues to be the hub for animation fans to tune
in and find unique, diverse and technically advanced shows like Skyland,”
said Keith Dawkins, Vice President and General Manager, Nicktoons
Network. “In addition to its rich visual style and stunning imagery, Skyland is an epic, sci-fi action adventure of good verses evil - universal story lines kids have loved for ages.”

Skyland, produced by Method Films and created by Emmanuel Gorin,
Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, follows a heroic
brother, Mahad, and his telekinetic younger sister, Lena, as they
search for their parents in a new world order. The year is 2251 and the
Earth has been shattered into millions of blocks that now drift
aimlessly in orbit around the Earth’s core known as Skyland.
The Sphere, led by a power-mad ruler with telekinetic powers named
Oslo, has installed a dictatorship that controls water distribution,
now a precious resource. Skyland’s young heroes along with the pirate
resistance, try to free their mother from Oslo’s evil grasp and destroy
the dreaded Sphere.

The hour-long special, “Dawn of A New Day,” introduces Mahad and Lena
as they are faced with their biggest challenge yet when their mother is
forced to sacrifice herself and be captured by the evil Sphere in order
for her children to run to freedom. Directed to seek out protection
from their mother’s friend, the children join up with rebel pirates and
begin the adventure of a lifetime. In the premiere episode

“Manipulation,” the sibling duo fights against the enemy when a solar
phenomenon has unusual effects on Seijin powers. This allows a sect of
the Sphere to take control of Dahlia, a strong member of the pirates,
in effort to learn the coordinates of the pirate hideout.