Hot Wheels | A Highway 35 and AcceleRacers Retrospective - Zetharoni
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Directed, Written and Edited By: Zeth Makela
Sound By: Jayce Van Oort
Goon 1 played by: Matt Kelly
Goon 2 Played by: Christian Limon
Therapist played by: Jayce Van Oort
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Zeth, this is truly a wonderful and touching overview. You made me appreciate the hard work my team and I did on the Hot Wheels universe all over again.
love world race and acceleracers, genuinely what got me into loving stories and writing. Thank you so much
I love the series too! Thanks so much as well!
Me, my brother, and a friend who also watched Acceleracers as a kid got to introduce the series to my wife in probably the 1st watch party of these movies in 10+ years! We had a great time, everything holds up. Thank you for starting such a memorable and captivating series.
Now the only question is, what happens to Kurt after part 4???
Muchas gracias por todo
Just something about these old hot wheels movies that bring me back to them. Charm and Messaging. Even today Vert is my favorite, because he taught me what it's like to be unselfish and to deal with imposter syndrome. Insane that it was a high standard of writing back then for a small kids show.
My dad is a car guy through and through. He grew up playing with Hotwheels (he still has his favorite car, a 1971 Jet Threat) and spent his entire professional life in the automotive industry. I confess I'm a little hazy on the details since this was in my early childhood, but he worked with the son of Mike Alexander (at least I'm 99% sure, might have been Larry) who one of the minds behind the original Dodge Deora concept car. He came to our house once for dinner and gave us one of the commemorative 35 year anniversary sets with a Deora and Deora II. It was no coincidence that I was big into Hotwheels at the time (and honestly that never really stopped), but I'm not even sure I could comprehend just how cool that was. I'm not sure if Deora II was always my favorite car, but it certainly was after that. In any event, Hotwheels and these movies were a big part of my childhood and truly captured my imagination. To this day, I'll always pick up a Deora II if I see one on the pegs, and I'll definitely keep an eye out this month for the Teku one. Thanks for the fun retrospective.
The chills I got from hearing hotwheels beat that’s intro music is crazy 😮💨
Dudeeee same when I heard that I was bopin my head! Like holy that into music is 👌🏿🤞🏿
Biggest cliff hanger of my childhood and STILLLLL TO THIS DAYYYYYYYYYYY
"To this DAY!!" - Wilder
*screams in brazillian*
Never have I ever know how much I wanted a retrospective analysis on hot wheels until I watched this video. My 10 year old self with my current English degree are both shedding tears.
I would also like to note, I felt the same ways about the cars feel in AcceleRacers... They feel weightless or janky. In highway 35 the cars always felt like they had weight and the drivers were handling these beasts of vehicles... AcceleRacers feels like when you watch F1 and watch these aero-focused vehicles turning on a dime. I'm sorry, but and Rx8 stalls if you look at it funny, so as an adult I loose some immersion.
Man I have got to agree, I have watched the movies on a lower quality because of the Spanish dub, but after I learned to speak English I finally managed to get the whole Acceleracers experience
Nolo slowly was realized that tork was not a bad guy across the series but Tork risking his life to save Kurt’s brother really made it clear to Nolo
I always assumed his name was spelled "Torque" as in rotation.
@@twistedyogertit's definitely a nod to that, just spelled differently to not be too on the nose
The second you showed the synkro , i knew i was at the right video , i almost cried , this was an experience i needed to feel again , now i need to binge all of them again
TIL THIS DAY
The amount of nostalgia that hit me when I heard the theme to these movies again *chef’s kiss*. Forgot how much I loved this growing up
Another great racing movie is Redline. If you haven't heard of it already it's an anime film with insane animation. You feel the power and momentum in the vehicles, the soundtrack bangs, and keeps you entertained the whole time.
You can see the key in Vert's dad suitcase to his car when he and Vert have a talk. Eagle eye foreshadowing reward.
There is a racing game called distance in which people made custom levels for every single track in accelracers, its pretty great
Started playing them myself. Tracks like the Swamp Realm have three different takes made by three different people, and they are all SO fun to play. It's a joy to BE in there.
Best acceleracers retrospective I could find very well done thank you so much for putting the time and effort into this for all of us to enjoy!
This movie, along side speed racer and cars made the person that i am today, and i love how each and every single one of them gave a lesson that i hold till this day.
Omg I remember having that swamp track set as a kid. I adored Hot Wheels back then, especially AcceleRacers. So much so that I would try to get a new Hot Wheels car every time we went to the store. I even grew up playing the games. Hot Wheels just isn't what it once was, but it holds a special place in many of our hearts.
My dad bought me and my brothers highway 35, the fake highway 35 laptop, and all the highway 35 cars. He did it to try and share his love if cars with us and indoctrinate us in the hobby. It worked, we all loved the movie and later all the acceleracers movies as well.
I still have my favorite movie hot wheels car, the deora II, on my keychain.
This was a pretty good video! Acceleracers to this day is my favorite movie series, and it’s just awesome! And I really liked the start where you talked about trains lol. As a Railfan, trains are what mainly feed my passion for anything on wheels, so much to the point that I record them. Anyways, this video pointed out a lot of the things I love about Acceleracers myself. How the racing aspect of it really makes me enjoy it.
i started with the speed of silence, finished with world race, that was back in 2009 the past two years i have been coming back around and watching this series again and i gotta say it never lost it's charm on me
I remember wanting Vert’s car so much as a kid. I kept calling the movie “The blue car movie” whenever I asked my mom if she could put it on for me. I remember rediscovering the movie randomly a few years ago after forgetting about it and finding out my roommate also grew up with it, and checking out an edit that had Eurobeat to make it feel like Initial D. Was a pretty fun time
Man I'm almost in tears.
All my life I've loved hot wheels, cars, and had these similar experiences and i never had anyone to share it with, I always felt alone but it's so sweet to hear that there were other people like me.
The Accelerons, their beliefs and creations are what made me love this series, I knew of racing skills & have incentive to get better and sharpen skills because of this series but now understand it all better and now have been far better in racing games than I was, no more crashing and being reckless & dumb with my decisions because I was shxt and now think I can play Grand Turismo 3 and other games better without tuning & modifications.
Edit:Okay incentive to get better wasn't something I understood until a few years ago, like I think 3 or something.
As a lifelong fan this was an incredible retrospective. Great work!
“Monkey and Meat loaf” honestly made me laugh so hard haha what an awesome dad you have. You sound so much like him
I salute you man, acceleracers was a big part of my childhood. also, wish me luck in finding some of the highway 35 dvd's!
Wow, are we the same person? Like literally you hit on everything that I've loved relating to racing media in a single video, even the Thomas the Tank Engine bit. I actually started with the Speed Racer anime as a kid, and somehow we got the Highway 35 DVD. I fell in love with its cars, tracks, and characters (especially Banjee). When watching Acceleracers I think we were using the old version of Netflix, like the one where they mailed the movie to you, so I was only ever able to watch bits and pieces. I was hooked on the Wyldes' story, Vert's character growth, Kadeem's depressing and horrifying fate, and NO BANJEE MY BOI HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME AHHHH
When my dad (who got me into the Speed Racer anime) told me about the Speed Racer movie, and that we were going to see it, I got so fervently excited. When the movie actually delivered on my hype, oh man, I was on a high for weeks. Its racing scenes, its slower moments, and especially the Royalton's office scene were so, so good. Easily my favorite movie ever.
Ford V. Ferrari is also a favorite of mine. I've only seen it once, so I definitely need to get around to seeing it again.
It's honestly because of Speed Racer and Acceleracers that I've always wanted to make my own comic with my own characters, cars, and tracks. In a way, I guess it would be my way of playing with my Hot Wheels again. Don't know if I ever will, considering that I've got a lot on my plate now as an adult, and I've hardly any sort of skill in art, but it would still be fun regardless.
In any case, I'm really glad I came across this video, you did a great job and you really reminded me of what I used to do as a kid. Thanks for that (also sorry for the paragraph lol)
Bro I appreciate this so much I just turned 21 yesterday and grew up watching and being obsessed with this series I even own a sweeper and a good amount of the cars, this was a great video you deserve more recognition
Haha the fact that you also rented out Hot Wheels Highway 35 from a video rental store is awesome. When Blockbuster was closing down me and my mom went in to the store so I could rent that movie one more time and the clerk let me keep the movie which I still have till this day!
I am 7 minutes into this video and already you are perfectly representing exactly how I felt as a 9 year old kid who loved hot wheels. This is fantastic
This was great! I was completely surprised by how my childhood playing with Thomas, Hot Wheels and such, was not as uncommon as I initially expected lol. And to add to the recommendations, when I read Initial D and Wangan Midnight manga, it brought back some of that childlike wonder I felt from the Hot Wheels movies. And although I disagree with what you said regarding Battle Force 5, I respect your opinion! Once again, great video! Keep up the good work!
I was about 35 years old when this came out, and my son was 5. We went to the video store and he chose this on VHS (over my objection!). Little did we know that we were about the watch one of the best movies of his childhood! The movies that come close, like The Iron Giant and The Invisibles, are both 99% Fresh classics. Thank you so much for this great review. It's spot on. Highway 35 is brilliant.
Amazing. I loved this. Great job Z
Great vid, Absolutely nailed the diversity bit. So glad that people still appreciate the series!
I grew up with Highway 35 on DVD, and my mom also rented out Breaking Point from the library, but I was never able to see the other acceleracers growing up. Thankfully I was able to take advantage of the Internet Archive to reignite my live of the franchise. What an amazing franchise, with such a deep lore that unfortunately never got to be finished off.
great video but even better dad
God i remember when i was like 6 and video stores were still a thing. We went to one and my dad said i could pick one out. It ended up be Hot Wheeles: Acceleracers. "Breaking point." Now i had already had the VHS for World Race, but had no idea the movies were connected in anyway. I just saw cool cars go fast and explosions and was hooked. I probably watched that movie 10 times over the 3 day weekend we rented it. I never knew there were other movies or they were connected to World race until i was 10. To this day as a 23 year old, is still love these movies and quote and discuss them with my 18 year old brother. We even had a talk today about what would happen if two people from differemt factions tied a race. Would they split the accelecharger in half? I wish they would have made movie number 5 back then, but not now.
I had highway 35 on dvd and the accelerated dvds. I also had the “King Kong” track I think hot wheels is probably the reason I’m a mechanic now I loved hot wheels as a kid
I’m currently buying up the whole series to keep forever and watch again. Been getting two at a time just in case on goes bad lol
Oh... So thats why I loved Acceleracers so much, it makes sense! I was exactly the age of a small, pre-school kid when I saw the Acceleracers for the first time, and I loved it INSTANTLY exactly because it was aimed for older audience. That with the fact I was probably younger than the aimed age group made Acceleracers for me a quality, "older kids stuff is cool" thing that I grew up with. Even at that age, I saw its quality- for the time awesome graphics, great story, absoluty thrilling story and banger music.... Yeah, no wonder we all lost sht about it :D
Gotta commend your background music in this video and the editing. Really well done! I feel like there are a bunch of highway 35 retrospectives on CZcams and this one is my fav. Love the early history section especially!
I can’t believe I missed this video. Binging now and I cannot wait; I loved the speed racer retrospective and hot wheels was literally my childhood
I grew up watching the Acceleracers movie on cartoon network as a kid! Love the races and cars especially the Teku cars! I'm also planning to make a custom diecast car as an homage to that tuner team!
I had all the movies as a child and it was the best thing ever to me, I chose World Race as my favourite movie when I worked at the cinema.
This I was hoping to see, just didn't know it was going to be this soon lmao
I collected Hotwheels cars as a kid but never had any tracks.
My uncle did, but they've probably been lost to history as he's in his mid 50s now.
I do have vague memories of my cousin playing with them and how the boosters made a hell of an awful racket.
That whole "acceleracers becoming more popular than Hot Wheels" crap is an indie a contract lie, but most likely occurred is iner-company politics mixed with job position changes and firings more than likely.
Great video. This series was deeply meaningful to my brother and I. Like Mark and Kurt, we had strained relations and bad experiences together but had ever present love for one another. After repairing and processing the stuff we went through, we rewatched the series. After rewatching, we still love the emotional storylines, the great music, the unfinished lore, and the great characters. I tie it all in with one line: “Brother’s don’t keep score”.
I watched this the whole way through and glad that I did. Its so good to know that someone appreciated the Hotwheels stories and cars like I did!!!!
Really appreciate this retrospective & analysis. This series and Speed Racer were amongst my favorite childhood memories of the 2000’s.
Jeff did an AMA five years ago about World Race and some of the things related to the series that were previously unknown:
-The story was based on a D&D sci-fi fantasy RPG campaign that he created, titled GLOBAL RUN: 2020 (oh my, THAT year….)
-The movie project was green lit in 2002 but Mattel wanted the first episode on store shelves in the fall. Leading to Jeff and his team with only five or six months to put everything together on crunch time of a 16 hour work week.
-The main characters were based on aspects of Jeff’s personality and people he had meet in his life
-There was suppose to be an ocean leg but they didn’t have time to animate it so it was mostly switched to ice.
-The 35 different drivers and their backgrounds were selected to be a worldwide representation of the togetherness felt after 9/11.
-Original ending of World Race was suppose to be more grand and conclusive. With explanations of the SCRIM & CLYP orgs, the competing factions of the Accelerons who wanted the Wheel of Power.
-The series was going to establish a link between the original 1960’s Hot Wheels cartoon. Vert Wheeler being the grandson of Jack “Rabbit” Wheeler (his father being Jack Wheeler Jr) was in the original story bible.
-Some of the favorite side characters were suppose to be more involved in the story. Especially one of the lady drivers: Esmerelda Sánchez. Jeff had “big plans” for her involving a cut plot thread where there was going to be a rivalry between her and Banjee and they would settle it in a race. Dan Dresden had a scene in the final of the movie deleted where he introduced himself as new team leader, Kurt’s motivations for working with Gelorum were going to be explored more in depth, etc.
-Jeff initially wasn’t a fan of Acceleracers since it had deviated heavily from what his idea of a sequel series would’ve been like but he grew to appreciate it.
He also commented and confirmed many of the fan theories going around as well:
-The Deora II was meant for Vert’s father until Tezla switched it to Vert at the last minute. (Was written in the early script drafts).
-Banjee did not perish in Acceleracers. He became one of the Silencerz along with possible Alec Wood and Dan Dresden.
-He implied that Esmerelda & Krakatoa became more than just friends in World Race.
-The SCRIM corporation was a front for the Silencerz
-Tezla had a retrieval system for drivers and their cars lost in the World Race legs in the story bible. Especially those who were victims of sabotage (Lani, Toño, Esmerelda etc) which is how they and/or their cars ended up back in the cube complex.
-Markie’s introduction was suppose to be a homage to the original Speed Racer. He got to the second staging area by hiding in the trunk of one of the cars.
He was so amazed at the response and passion fans had for the series and would love to come back and work on the universe he created. Keep up the Good work!
I think the best way to bring this back is for them to do its own dedicated video game. Can replay through the story, add realms we didn’t see on film. Add extra cars. The accelechargers akin to powerups. And it’s a prefect setup for multiplayer/competitive racing. Mix forza and hot wheels unleashed 😂
Like you said the only reason I’m glad AR ended when it did is that it wasn’t ruined by gimmicks that took away from hot wheels and cars in general.
It’s why I can’t quite enjoy BF5 because it’s not hot wheels or car related at all in a sense.
Also the vibe and aesthetic of HW35/AR was great and it complimented the strengths of what I found to be great for these and that’s that sense of wonder and imagination sorta like you would have when playing with the toys themselves.
Then having such fun characters and stories only made it better. It all has an otherworldly yet grounded feel that would have been ruined and that’s evident by BF5.
Oh man World Race and Acceleracers will always have a place in my heart
Dude this video was just amazing best hour and a half I’ve had in a long time. Made me smile and laugh like I was a kid again. Thank you. ❤
Thank you. I started following you because you used the word hypothesis correctly and it was totally worth it.
I think a reboot or reignition of AcceleRacers would 100% work for Mattel. May just be me, but the Hot Wheels brand feels a lot smaller than it used to be, even if they make games and DLCs.
The neat part is that they wouldn't be competing with ANY body. There's just no racing series and while we've had good racing movies, I've never seen one that can make hours and hours of driving this intense and thrilling. I don't need it to be AcceleRacers 1 for 1, but if it can have that same darker essence it'd be dope.
Absolutely love this series I grew up watching the movie and the acceleracers on repeat.. and btw the game is totally worth the purchase. It does the movie justice❤️
i abolutely love this video, keep up the amazing work dude :>
You really have an Unlucky Tug kind of style to your commentary and I'm all for it. This series(besides Pokemon) was what got me out of Thomas for a while. And Acceleracers was everything for me. Great retrospective mate!
The World Race game was and probably still is one of my favorite racing games. The tracks are so cool and crazy, and even though there wasn't a bunch of abilities like like other Hot Wheels games that came out after it, the tracks were just so well fun.
great video! ended up watching the whole thing and you pretty much nailed it on the head. the series as a whole is so unique and I’m glad to still see people to this day talking about it especially with these essay format vids. this is definitely one of the best essay style videos on the highway 35 series as a whole, extremely informative and even I learned a few new things. this will definitely one I’ll likely revisit from time to time since it’s just such a great essay.
That's super cool that your dad really got into the series and remembers it decently well. I know my dad and mom got into too, but don't remember jack! 😆My dad just remembers the green cars as he puts it (Racing Drones) being his favorite due to the color being his favorite.
Thank you for the best young years of my life Jeff Gomez ❤️❤️
You losing your accelerators over the years is a bigger tragedy than Nolo losing his brother
Jeff Gomez also know as “the smirk”
I haven't thought of this series in ages! Memory unlocked.
Great video 👏👏
Okay after seeing your favorite movies section, we are literally the same person. I've said for years that Speed Racer and Ford V Ferrari are the same movie, with one coincidentally being based on a true story.
The one movie I rented over and over and over again was the 1986 Transformers movie. Good times.
This video aligns with my childhood. Thank you.
This is crazy. I also discovered Acceleracers by finding Breaking Point at the library.
This video is pure love for this gem of our childhood
Would there be likely to be a Motorcity video at some point to round off the trio of niche racing media?
You cannot convince me that that is what World Race looked like, what the hell is that
I like how Vert Wheeler was years later in Battle Forces 5.
You needed to get into the World Race game more, iirc it takes clips and animation from the movie.
I Will LOVE and like every single Acceleracers video
I still have my original spinebuster hot wheels that I've had since 2005. I remember being a kid at the BX looking for more cars, I think at some point we had some of the silencers cars, Bassline, and I'm pretty sure I had the sweeper toy. Man it was awesome growing up with it, even though I was only about 4-5 at the time.
Great video, insane that I was also a train kid and rented Highway 35 at family video for free infinitely. I totally forgot I had some of the sets you showed in the promo material. Memories unlocked.
I'm a lady, not even interested in vehicles that much, though I do love trains and planes. I loved Acceleracers and Highway 35, and it still aches years later that they never finished the movie series.
i still want this franchise to be properly finished. It deserves to have a proper ending and i hope one day they finish it
Mattel Ceo needs to watch this video
1:24:22 FUCKING YES I AM SO FUCKING GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT ACCELERACERS VIBES FROM THIS MOVIE
I had 3 dune ratz cars and a wave rippers. I really wanted that El Camino, f150 and Alecs surfboard truck. I had the Krazy 8s, the truck that raced with the Ford on the dinos back, and another two I can't remember
Dude i felt that so hard on the gameboy hot wheels game.
I don't think Acceleracers will be the same without the same writers. I think they should reboot the series. Can make some changes to make it stand out, but I really want them to keep the idea of there being different realms, Accelechargers, and character internal conflicts.
I started with Thomas VHS, I would rent Power Rangers, and eventually my biological father burned CDs with the World Race, and Acceleracers movies, and that became my childhood...
Funny that you bring up Blockbuster I still got a few DVDs and VHS and games that I never returned and bunch of posters to when they closed
J and Z Productions I grew up watching Thomas the Tank Engine and Highway 35 World Race was my first movie I watched on here and I am very familar with Godzilla series and Jurassic Park, too
I wasn't exactly the biggest Hotwheels fan as a kid.I had a few cars I think, but really it was Acceleracers and Battle force five that I know from the series.
I wanted to watch the world race but could never find it as a kid. Now Acceleracers it is top class awesome 😊. Robots, science fiction, cool alien worlds and monsters within...
I made up my own set of accelachargers out of tin foil and markers😅. The characters definitely help a lot to draw me in, mostly Vert, Kurt and Wylde, and Porkchop.
Awesome video
1:22:11 you just became my favorite person ever because of the onrush stuff on top of the hotwheels stuff, holy fuck i thought I was the only one who played or enjoyed onrush
20 years later and I finally learn you woulda gotten the world race track set for free. I had the full set + zed 36 back in the day
Can i like 100 times?
I actually downloaded the movies and the shorts before they got taken down lol, it's not in 4k but in hd 1080p
Thomas and trains in general was also my childhood
14:35
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So SPEED RACER was an influence on HW HW35! No wonder I love both!
I just realized... The different teams basically have ONE of the Mach 5's different gadgets or a variation of it.
i was so sure i was the only one who remembered this show
The entire Highway 35 movie is free on youtube btw
I named my first car and current car “carma” after the character, I found a speed of silence dvd at a discount store in like 2009 when I was five, I could choose between it and the first movie, I chose the second cuz it came with a drone car and I liked the way it looked over the first one, and then I watched it enough to quote it line for line and still do very frequently, then YEARS go by and I kind of forget about it, then I find the community on Instagram and yt and find the movies on yt, now at this time I never even KNEW highway 35 was a thing, and then I’ve watched them all several times and I even have them downloaded to my pc through a one drive
43:10 oh my god this just unlocked a memory that I didnt know existed
i just recently discovered acceleracers and watched all the movies a few weeks ago amd i love it. i regret not being into it as a pre teen when it was released. at that time got out of hotwheels,i got my first xbox and got hooked onto Halo. i knew about the highway 35 movies and cars but didnt look into buying the cars. now it feels to late to buy them *cries* also to note...i feel a sence of nostalgia over acceleracers eventhough i never saw it as a kid and i know why, mainframe made it and also made Reboot and Beast wars, similar animation styles and all and i grew up with those 2 shows in the 90s.
BRO 1 hour and 28 minutes gotta get some food for this