Dragon Flyz

Dragon Flyz is a French-American television program created by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel and produced by Gaumont Multimédia (later renamed Xilam Animation), in Association with Abrams / Gentile Entertainment, inc., and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It ran for approximately two or three years, airing both in Europe and in syndication in the US with a TV-Y7-FV rating. The program centered on a coalition known as the Dragonators (a combination of "dragon" and "aviators"), a set of humans who ride on Dragon-back in search-and-rescue operations. A line of toys named DragonFlyz, based on the series, was released by Galoob. The simple nature of the show was balanced by a refined art direction by future Dragon Hunters (film) director Guillaume Ivernel, and by references to classic Sci-Fi concepts in Yeatman-Eiffel's scripts, himself the future creator of Ōban Star-Racers.

Storyline

Set in the 41st century, after an event called 'The Cataclysm', the series depicts the adventures of dragon-riders either human or of a reptilian, gargoyle-like race, at war for control of the Earth. The battle occurs above a largely inhospitable landscape, either volcanic or barren; rivers of lava flow freely over the surface, inhabited by animals adapted to the unusual environment. The remaining human population dwells in an air-borne city known as 'Airlandis', from which dragonators regularly travel to the surface to retrieve the fuel of its operation: the oviform purple crystals known as "Amber" (usually obtained from lava pools, or directly from the ground).