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"Wisdom is a circle, Dr. Tezla. What you receive... you must give back."
—Vert Wheeler
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Live to drive, drive to survive!
Hot Wheels Acceleracers is a CGI-animated saga by created by Mainframe Entertainment, known for the Genre Launch of CGI animation after creating Re Boot, and endorsed by Mattel. Initially, it was planned to run for six movies, but stopped at four, with webisodes bridging the gaps between each movie. Said movies ran as specials on the now-inactive Toonami block of Cartoon Network. For the most part, it was Merchandise-Driven, just like its predecessor, Hot Wheels: Highway 35 World Race, but the competent storyline suggests it was also made for the art, much like Re Boot. Hot Wheels used this show as a way of introducing their Acceleracers-themed cars to the shelves, which came with codes stamped on the bottom of each vehicle's chassis that could be typed into an online website to unlock certain rewards. However, this website was shut down shortly after the toy line ended. Don't be fooled into thinking this was merely a money-oriented project. Hot Wheels designs are fueled by creativity and concept artists. The idea that these cars could be brought to life is what spurred the movies. Every vehicle in the toyline was tailor-made to fit in with the story, along with traditional west-coast modifications (Both the setting of Acceleracers and Mattel's original Hot Wheels creative studio are located in California). Because the company in El Segundo paid to make these movies, it was impossible to be Screwed by the Network, as they would just take their business elsewhere.
The movies stand as follows:[]
- Hot Wheels: Acceleracers – Ignition (Released January 8, 2005, 60 minutes)
- Hot Wheels: Acceleracers – The Speed of Silence (Released March 19, 2005, 60 minutes)
- Hot Wheels: Acceleracers – Breaking Point (Released June 25, 2005, 60 minutes)
- Hot Wheels: Acceleracers – The Ultimate Race (Released October 1, 2005, 60 minutes)
Plans for continuations were scrapped, and then Acceleracers was followed by Hot Wheels Battle Force 5, protagonized by a new version of Vert Wheeler in an entirely new continuity.
- Adorkable: Monkey
- All Just a Dream: The start of The Speed of Silence is this.
- All There in the Manual: The card game, the special features from the DVD's and cut scenes from the script and the storyboards.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Human racers can breath in both the Neon Pipeline Realm and the Cosmic Realm.
- Bittersweet Ending: The franchise as a whole ends on this note with the Teku and Metal Maniacs successfully rescuing Markie from the Racing Drones' HQ and becoming on much better terms with each other than ever before. Vert also ensures Gelorum's defeat by racing through all the realms using his own skills while she used the Accelechargers and she gets sent flying away by an Acceleron when she tries to attack Vert. The drones are also defeated as a whole since the Silencerz steal the Wheel of Power from the drones' HQ and acquire the Accelechargers when Vert ends up in their HQ. On the downside, Gig is forced to sacrifice himself to destroy the Acceledrome to eliminate the drones occupying it to save the humans and Vert, being in the Silencerz' HQ, is separated from his friends who want to go looking for him, but are unlikely to find him any time soon. Kadeem has also been transformed into a drone and he refuses to come back with his former allies and possibly falls to his death.
- Art Evolution: Some of the characters from Highway 35 look different
- Collectible Card Game: They actually made a decent one where despite using cards you get through racing realms.
- Color Coded for Your Convenience:Teku have blue, Metal Maniacs have gray and brown, Racing Drones have green, and the Silencerz have purple
- Darker and Edgier: Both in tone and literally (colors are a little bit darker compared to World Race, night scenes are more common and flashbacks are mostly black and white or sepia). In this sequel characters can suffer actual danger, like being killed, kidnapped, tortured, brainwashed, imprisoned, lost in other dimensions, etc, and there are also serious themes as revenge (Nolo Pasaro and Mark Wylde), self-esteem problems (Vert Wheeler) and more sadistic villains (Gelorum).
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Monkey doesn't like to be referred with his real name Mitchell. Oddly enough, he also doesn't like when others do the same with PorkChop.
- The Faceless: The Silencerz
- Gotta Catch Them All: Accelechargers.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: At the end of The Ultimate Race, is revealed that the leader of the Silencerz is Vert's father, for his surprise.
- Mecha-Mooks: The drones
- Mythology Gag: This one goes back to Highway 35, but Vert's dad resembles the main character from the 1969 Hot Wheels television show (Word of God says Vert's father is the son of that cartoon protagonist, making Vert the grandson of said character).
- Robot War: On racetracks!
- Robot Buddy: GIG and later, the captured racing drone, too.
- The Reveal: The ending.
- Serious Business: Think of all the effort that went into the racing realms.
- Sequel Hook: Unfortunately a sequel hasn't happened yet
- Virtual Training Simulation: Karma is seen using one
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Silencerz provide a minor example