Robot Riders

This article is about the themed miniseries from Season 4 and Season 7. You may be looking for the DVD or the digital release.

Robot Riders is the name for eight special episodes of Blaze and the Monster Machines from Season 4 and Season 7. The first episode aired on May 28, 2018.

Premise[]

These special episodes are unique as they do not take place in a special themed location like VelocityVille from Race Car Adventures and Animal Island from Wild Wheels. Instead, these episodes take place in and around Axle City like the original. Hence the title, every episode has Blaze transform into a super strong robot, as the problem at hand is too tough for a regular Monster Machine to solve. As a robot, Blaze gains robot power and can smash stuff and jump super high. AJ can also code a sequence for him to follow, which happens once every episode.

Opening theme[]

Like the previous special episodes, a unique title sequence is used. It starts with Blaze's flame glowing over black like the original, before zooming out to frame him driving on a blue grid. He jumps at the robot model and transforms, then jumps up. At "So buckle your seatbelt", he lands in Axle City and passes some trucks and Joe and Gus, before sliding down a metal pipe. At "When Blaze goes saving the day", boxes break off a crane and fall in the direction of two other trucks, so Blaze jumps up and kicks them away. At "Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some speed", he swings across wrecking balls and swings around a pole. At "Blaze and the Monster Machines (Go, go!) (Blaze!)", he lands in the middle of Crusher and Pickle's picnic, and runs off as Pickle waves and Crusher looks shocked. At the second "Blaze and the Monster Machines (Go, go!) (Blaze!)", Blaze, Stripes and Watts do tricks at the skating rink, the latter two transformed into robots. Finally, Blaze, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Watts run through Axle City, the latter three also transformed, and they jump at the camera and the theme song ends on the show's logo. The intro also added whooshing sound effects and computerized beeping.

Episodes[]

Season 4[]

Season 7[]

Special Guest Stars[]

Jenna Dewan Tatum (Little Bunny)
Megan McArthur (Space Commander Megan)

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

This is the first miniseries that Blaze and AJ don’t greet the viewer at the beginning of either episode.
- This is the first miniseries to introduce more than six episodes, since it returned in Season 7.
Out of all episodes, only half of them showed a fade-to-black instead of an iris out (Breaking the Ice, Robots to the Rescue and Robots in Space).
- Also, only the first and fourth end with the last scene of Crusher and Pickle’s subplot.
This is the first time Watts appears in a miniseries.
This miniseries marks the longest Crusher went without cheating or competing against Blaze once to date.
- Although he still makes a cheat (wrecking robots) off-screen in Robot Power, he doesn't realize it goes out of control.
The blue grid backdrop and effects shown during the robot transformation sequences were actually animated on Autodesk Maya.