wait remember Hot Wheels Battle Force 5. it was the 3D animated high-speed cartoon series based
off a collectible toy car line that you can buy at most stores that have a toy section
well if not there were Matchbox cars too for me as a kid Hot Wheels were everything here
are my literal buckets from my childhood of all my collected cars my parents loved
that I was so into them because back then they were all around 97 cents to a dollar per car so
it was very cheap to keep me entertained I was obsessed from the Cars to setting up the tracks
or having the car wash multi-story Center the shark jump and who could forget having one of
these carpets ah those days of playing with Hot Wheels on that carpet simpler days but we aren't
talking about the toys today as much as I would want to instead we are looking into one of the
many Hot Wheels animated cartoon properties that have spawned from the franchise today
we take a look at Battle Force 5. find out what happens when you take a toy make it a show and
then produce new toys based on the show based on the toys so if you enjoy the video be a better
subscribe especially if you think I should look into other Hot Wheels cartoons no wait
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before I give you the breakdown of what this show was let me just reiterate this show is
based off of this a toy car keep that in mind also you've heard of the term Multiverse I'm sure well
there is one in this show and it was created by this character's alien race I can't stress this
enough this show gets pretty wild with its story and plot and this is just the tip of the iceberg
here our story follows a vert wheeler voiced by Mark Hildreth who when driving in the desert
finds himself at a life-altering moment a new world or worlds open up for him with Dimensions
called the battle zones and is met with an alien from a race called the sentience her name is Sage
voiced by kiratozer and her whole goal is to have vert become the leader of an eventual group of
drivers to embark on an Epic Quest of finding keys well kind of at least at the start of the
series the rest of Battle Force 5 is assembled one Sage gathers the other following humans agura
voiced by Kathleen Barr Zoom voiced by Alessandro Giuliani Stanford voiced by Noel Johansen Sherman
voiced by Brian Drummond and Spinner voiced by Gabe cuth now if you find yourself good at math
that makes the full team minus Sage since she's more of the string puller than a member to a team
of six but the show is called Battle Force 5. but that isn't a reference to the team members
themselves but instead the cars or sorry the Hot Wheels sent Sherman and Spinners share a Hot Wheel
or a whatever together so when later on in the series there are other members like tez also
voiced by Noel Johansen and AJ voiced by Michael Dobson ends up joining the Battle Force 5 team it
for some reason stays a Battle Force 5 instead of upgrading to 6 or 7 in the name but regardless of
that this story is the real Focus here in the show rather than the semantics the vehicles themselves
are very much tricked out with some very impressive Weaponry that aids them in their first
best of finding battle Keys these artifacts that open up portals that lead you through different
dimensions in the Multiverse these areas are known as battle zones and the ones who hold the keys can
use them to reopen and close portals so they are pretty important as you can tell but it's not as
easy as just going and finding them because Sage probably could have just done that on their own
so the reason she has assembled this All-Star team of people who can drive is because there is evil
afoot make that a feat actually since there are really two evil factions that stand as competition
to the bf5 that's short for Battle Force 5. first one of fur and fluff the vandals led by Captain
kallus voiced by Colin Murdock Who currently occupy the blue sentient planet where Sage's
race was originally from as well as there's one of metal the sarc which are led by zemerick voiced by
Michael Dobson they are an alien race of robots that currently occupy the red sentient planet yes
in addition to the blue sentience there are also red sentients who are are the counterpart to the
blue sentience and helped form the Multiverse together as well as the keys and all these
zones so yeah there is quite a bit going on here and what on the surface is a Hot Wheels TV show
y'all stop talking now Hot Wheels Battle Force 5. is that the pizza that you sneezed on [Music]
with the success that Hot Wheels was having in the early 2000s thanks to not only sales
of the toy cars and playsets but now also their animated films like the acceleracer series and
world race it was clear to Mattel that there was a larger market for Hot Wheels than anyone
had ever imagined I mean they're just cars but instead of going the route of making a show just
based on racing and being grounded in reality there was an affinity to adding in a bunch of
Fantastical sci-fi elements mixing in with the action genre booming in cartoons at the time
to give a lot more story to it all this would be an American and Canadian collaboration to
make Battle Force 5 an actual show with Mattel working together with nerd core entertainment
and nilvana to bring this idea to life so there is a reason why this show looks so similar to
other shows like Slugterra and Storm Hawks now it's not really more interesting than that in
terms of the production it would premiere on Cartoon Network in the United States on August
29 2009 officially but also having a sneak peek drop with two episodes several day days before
on August 24 2009 now like I said there were other Hot Wheels shows and movies before this
not really being a New Concept for the Hot Wheels brand in fact all the way back in 1969 one year
after Hot Wheels would hit store shelves the cartoon just titled Hot Wheels would Premiere
it wouldn't be until the early 90s where another series was tried again called Heroes on Hot Wheels
which technically wasn't a Hot Wheels show at all at least at first originally it was
a French cartoon that was dubbed in English and transformed into a Hot Wheels show sold
on VHS tapes that would come with an exclusive Hot Wheels car but from the success of making
the series a bit more different world Racers and acceleracers would kick off the appeal of a Hot
Wheels franchise for fans to attach themselves to or for streamers to watch on their streams
okay I'm gonna be honest with you guys I really I can't yeah it's a good time [Music]
but the real question is for the show does it all work is it a good time taking the most basic thing
that makes a Hot Wheel a Hot Wheel by having cars just be involved but the real story being about
alien power struggles does it equal out into a show that cohesively makes sense well I'll
say that I was pleasantly surprised by the show I wasn't going into it with too much thought other
than having seen some of the other Hot Wheels movies and by the end of the show I thought it
was pretty cool that this fun multiversal alien concept was as enthralling as it was and yeah
the cars are cool too but in all honesty the cars are the thing that took the back seat for
me here I think having the main enemies in the show be this tribal-esque faction of vandals
and these futuristic robots kind of adding this cool duality of time where humans are just kind
of caught in the middle of it here in season two it really ramped up the fun for me I think the
story here gets elevated a lot more dealing with the red and blue sentience specifically together
these two sentient races come together forming a true Bruce to not be at war with one another
but kreitis voiced by Brian Drummond decided that he wasn't for that and reignited the war
zameric has a literal own creation turned against him and his followers imprisoning them so he can
take over and krita's plans on freeing them yes there is another team opposite the Battle Force
5 now called the red sentient five but here's a fun fact Sage is critus's twin sister and
in order to stop them at one point she froze all the red sentience minus her brother and his team
to stop another oncoming War which caused him to retaliate in very extreme ways that are explored
in the show and leaves critus now extremely angry at both zameric and Sage the show fully
goes into some pretty interesting conflicts and storytelling mixed with some pretty entertaining
and cool action that really worked for me I liked how deep the lore was written and how
the plot felt like it was constantly building up rather than having pacing issues or having a lack
of Direction even down to the little things in the show I appreciate the World building a pro
approach they took in crafting the story these larger Vehicles the Mobis that act as a power
source for sage as some sort of charging station for her and even come back later on in the group
search for data logs these characters mainly aside from the humans are really complex in their
backgrounds and their individual stories leading through various plot points even going as far as
doing a whole thing about the enemy of my enemy is temporarily my friend until we are enemies again
thing when zameric needs Battle Force 5's help and in return helps give them the locations of
the rest of kratus's red sentient 5 to Aid them in their conflict where this show could have easily
been a toy sales vessel which in part of course it was it went above and beyond to deliver a
strong narrative first and foremost rather than becoming one big advertisement for your parents
wallet it felt like there was a lot of passion for this story from the writers and that while
there was a lot going on at once towards the end of the show it was all able to still keep a strong
focus on the story to not become convoluted but with that being said there was was a toy Market
to this show as well as the show itself ended in a way that left viewers pondering the unanswered
questions feeling like the show was canceled with no conclusion but technically it wasn't
and let's dig into that it was a total team Victory guys we all won this battle Force Five
own it nice move Zoom [Music]
now for the series a major point was the Toy Market outside of just regular Hot Wheels which
have always been and will always be on store shelves it's the most consistent thing in my
life every time I walk into a Target and see them and that may be the saddest thing that I've ever
said about myself regardless the toys for this series were already coming out alongside of the
show but going forward for season two which had the subtitle to it called fuse played heavily
into the toys as well where the concept in the show was about being able to fuse their cars
together to form new powerful vehicles with cool new designs which yep you guessed it
this translated to the toys as well heck even McDonald's got on board with some cheaper and
quality versions of their own but nevertheless the toys seemed to be everywhere if you're still
interested in getting the toys outside of places like eBay or other online sellers for whatever
reason since 2021 Battle Force 5 toys have been showing up in some discount stores specifically
99 cent only stores but being sold for more than 98 cents but not by much just an interesting thing
to see pop up after a decade since the show came to an end after two seasons of the show Battle
Force 5 would come to an end in 2011 wrapping up a lot of the major story lines for the show but
not particularly everything leaving fans of the show with a handful of questions and not really
any answers leaving off with a hint regarding the ancient ones well towards the end of 2012
the series would live on to answer these questions again kind of there was a special
called Battle Force 5 full Revolution that would serve as the true ending to the series offering
a lot of answers to the questions left but if you were a fan of this show and didn't live in
Latin America then I'm sorry you never got to see this series finale Premiere why well it may
be because the ratings and interest or sales of the toys were still very high in Latin America
as opposed to the other markets around the world where the show was shown while an English version
did Premiere in Latin America it has never been released elsewhere not even on a DVD only type of
deal leaving fans wanting this to be officially released from Mattel but based on the time past
sense and the franchise being over for a decade it seems like no plans of an actual release are
on the horizon but who knows weird things have happened if you are interested in checking out
the full special there is an English subtitled version that I will link down below thanks to
the channel Tesla's Cube so major shout out to them for giving access to finish up the franchise
for those who have been waiting to see it but if you're wanting more than just the show and
the toys there was a Battle Force 5 video game that came out in 2009 for the Nintendo Wii and
DS from Activision that deals with avert going after the infinity key that the vandals got a
hold of as well as finding the rest of the Battle Force 5 team after becoming separated overall I
thoroughly enjoyed my time with Battle Force 5. it's a weird combination of so many things and
luckily a lot of those things are what I like or am interested in it has action it has sci-fi
storytelling and it has Hot Wheels and what more could you ask for it may be an official release
of the English version of the finale special that would be cool anyway let me know your thoughts on
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 and if you'd like to see the end of the series officially come out
in some accessible way thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later [Music]