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Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is a Canadian-American 3D animated series created by Mattel and animated by Nerd Corps Entertainment.
Plot[]
One day driving out in the Salt Flats, expert driver Vert Wheeler comes across a dimension called a Battle Zone where he meets a life form called a Sentient named Sage. Together, they assemble a racing team equipped with state-of-the-art weaponized vehicles to compete against the robotic Sark and the animal-like Vandals in the Battle Zones for the devices that control the zones called Battle Keys to determine the fate of Earth.
Battle Force 5 lives on the planet Earth at Vert's garage/race circuit at a town called Handler's Corners. When Tornado-like portals called Storm Shocks appear, they provide access to dimensions in the Multiverse called Battle Zones. All Battle Zones have a Battle Key that allows access to the home world of the ones who accessed the Zone through Storm Shocks. This obligates Battle Force 5 to secure the Keys before the Vandals or the Sark in prevention of the Vandals looting Earth and the Sark taking over Earth.
The Battle Zones were created by the Sentients. There are two types of Sentients: Blue and Red. The two types lived on two separate Homeworlds as rivals, until the blue homeworld was taken over by the Vandals. Throughout the story, Battle Force 5 encounter situations that make them access the Vandal, Sark, and Sentient homeworlds.
At the end of the second season, the Sentient war ends, and Krytus and his team are banished. The Blue and Red Sentients are united once again. However, Rawkus informs Battle Force 5 that the Ancient Ones have awakened.
Battle Force 5 has to challenge this new threat as well as the Alpha Code, of which Zemerik is under the influence, in the feature film "Total Revolution." The Ancient Ones are revealed to be called Karmordials who created the Sentients and were banished to the Primordiverse. They use a Shadow Matter bomb to get back, but Battle Force 5 eventually stops them. To conclude the series, with the Multiverse in peace, Vert, the rest of the team, and his dad are able to return to Earth without any looming threats.
Episodes[]
| Season | Eps. | First Aired | Last Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | Aug 29, 2009 | May 14, 2010 |
| 2 | 26 | Sep 18, 2010 | July 16, 2011 |
| TV Movie | November 21, 2012 | ||
Reception[]
Although receiving multiple awards during its hayday, many fans had strong negative opinions about the shows attempt at connecting to the original Acelleracers material, by including main character Vert Wheeler as the shows protagonist, showing little connection to the original series that left on what many of the most dedicated fans might call the strongest cliffhanger in all of fiction. However, fans of Battle Force 5, mainly children with little knowledge of the original Acceleracers and World Race material, did seem to like the show, enough to warrant a second season, and in some countries a movie follow up aswell.
Small connections can be made however, knowing that the source material for Battle Force 5 was loosely based on the existing material for the follow up movie Acceleracers 5: The Edge, and potentially the 6th movie aswell. For example, Accelerons and Sentients, both being advanced alien entities known for an emphasis on car centric world creation and advanced technology. The parallel between completing all of the racing realms and completing all of the battle zones to use the reward items, acellechargers and battle keys, to open a portal to their respective species home worlds can be made aswell, which can lead one to assume the idea for blue and red sentients may have been the original plot idea for the Acceleracers 5th and 6th potential movies, leading to blue and red accelerons, however this is heavy speculation and fantasizing about what could have been. However this leads to further speculation about the roles of characters like Rawkus and the Ancient Ones, which in the movie are revealed to be the Karmordials, and their place in the power spectrum in relation to entities like the Accelerons. Other connections like the Sark and Drones lead to even more speculation about the nature of the Alpha Code from the movie Full Revolution being the original code that ran the Racing Drones. Overall, while many instantly dislike the show, in some fans eyes the existence of something is better than nothing.
The story of Battle Force 5 remains as a somewhat interesting isolated cannon with limited tie ins and references to the source material it was inspired from. However the process of attempting to create parallels between the 2 has been the hobby of many dedicated fans wishing to see what was going to happen in the original Acceleracers series, using the plot points of Battle Force 5, mainly the second season and movie, to build up the story of the Accelerons in their own vision.
Awards[]
In 2010, Battle Force 5 was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Awards in Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Music Direction/Composition. They were recently nominated for another Emmy in Sound Editing. The Battle Force 5 marketing team also won three awards in the Web Marketing Association's 2010 Internet Advertising Competition. They won for "Best Toy & Hobby Online ad," "Best TV Online ad," "Best of Show Online ad.".
Other Media[]
Video Game[]
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is a 2009 video game developed by Sidhe Interactive and published by Activision for the Wii and Nintendo DS, and a children's vehicular combat game based on the Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 3D animated television series created by Mattel.
Toyline[]
Battle Force 5 had numerous diecasts & playsets released.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Agura Ibaden is voiced by Kathleen Barr, who also voiced Gelorum in Acceleracers.
- Brian Carson and Andrew Duncan also worked on both Battle Force 5 and Acceleracers.
- Old Smokey was given two cameos.