Confirming actually playing with the prototypes at the Mattel booth at San Diego Comic Con 2006. At the time they told me they'd be out for Christmas that year but it was sadly not to be...
According to someone on reddit, he talked to a guy who worked at hot wheels and they brought in a new marketing team. Who somehow came to the inescapable conclusion that Acceleracers would become more popular than the Hot Wheels brand itself. So they cancelled our childhoods. Never put marketing in charge of anything besides of ads. TBH, I don't know if we would have liked the story of next movies. Transforming cars don't seem to make much sense in the world the original 4 movies have created. Why would the accelerons want transforming cars?
Worst part about the acceleracers content is knowing we will never see it again. Hot wheels is literally sitting on a goldmine and they barely realize it. If they branched out of paid DLC for HW Unleashed, I guarantee they would make good money. Imagine a reboot of the franchise with new/better animation and released on a streaming platform through a 3-4 season series.
I remember seeing the Vert Wheeler figures and a few of the other first ones at the top but DAMN THERES SO MUCH MORE THEY HAD THIS WHOLE TIME , Mannnnn I wish they released these 😭
For anyone wondering WHY there would be mechsuits, keep in mind Kadeem is still alive as RD-K1. They would have needed something to fight a cyborg like him, mechsuits are the closest thing to it.
At this point I wasn't in Kindergarten yet. Had it happened, I might have been introduced to Acceleracers earlier. Also, who knew CM5s in blue and green looked amazing.
Not only did we almost get figures.. BUT DUDE THE DRONE MARKIE ARM and KADEEM I would’ve killed for some drone action figures that’s all I ever needed, that and just the regular cars 😭😭 if they rerelease I’m buying whatever comes with everything I stg just to make up for my missed opportunities as a kid
Seeing this just now is interesting..and also confirms some stuff we never got answers for, I'd see some of the figures before (Vert, Jack) but not Kadeem.. confirms to me he would have appeared again.
Whoa! Cool! Mattel was very eager for Season 2 with new cars and figures. For sure there were going to be movies for S2. Too bad it was discontinued it had so much potential.
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JayCee Squared I thought they were done selling Acceleracers merchandise but hey it would so cool if they brought it back, especially if people can get the cars and drivers from Hot Wheels Highway 35 to Acceleracers merchandise
I wonder if they will ever possibly reprint the acceleracers cars in those 9 packs they make, that would just make too much sense since each team has a set of 9 cars
Bro someone please make a petition for hotwheels to see and understand with unleashed to being back a beloved franchise more popular than the successful seris ironically lol
This discovery is really amazing, all these toys look really good. However, I might be crucified for this, but I definitely don't like the direction they were going with transforming battle cars. Taking the race away for generic battles? Nah, makes me a little glad it got cancelled.
Its probably not possible at this point but I will forever and always hope that Acceleracers will get Revive, Remastered or get Rerelease until the day I die.☝
There have been plenty of Hot Wheels builds irl that aren’t official. Gotham Garage did Splittin Image and they seem to be just fine with it. I think Mattel is ok seeing fan creations like that
I don't think that I like the concept of the season 2. I'm really not a fan of all those toys just the minifigures without any tools are ok for the collection of Acceleracers season 1. The sort of "transformers" things are just wtf. Season 1 is just good and "realistic" Sci-Fi but season 2 looks like bad fantasy (BattleForce5 LoL).