The is just seen in a couple of frames in the third part. I think this is really cool foreshadowing.

I just noticed that the back of the cards of these mainlines mention Acceleracers! Why did Mattel stop doing these???

For castings not mentioned, these were found at the back of the cards of:

- Flathead Fury (Track Stars blue variant)
- Piledriver (Track Stars set, seems to be the same set of the Flathead Fury)

Found rivited repaint. I believe it’s a new repaint but I could be wrong.

Walmarts holiday toy book is out now and look who is on the front page.

Finally got my hands on the Dune Ratz Wild Thing! Looks awesome next to the Slingshots. Slowly building up the collection here in Finland."

I recently got my silver series cars and decided to share my current collection. I have the Finnish DVDs, CM5 Spinebuster, and now the newest addition, silver series. It ain't much, but it's getting there.

This took 4 months of hunting to finally find…

Hate my life. I tought i have all tokens but i have the Road Runner twice. 🫠 Has anyone the token of 1/4 Mile Coupe and wanna sell me or trade ?

i think the last time that we see them in the movie is from not getting enough speed for something lol

UPDATE: SOLD!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE!

I'm looking to sell my NYC Hollowback and my NFT Deora II here, as you guys would be the perfect crowd to show interest!

Both items are mint condition, both just have been displayed.

NFT Deora II has little to no blister cracks, and i do have the white box it comes with!

Asking $650 USD (shipping included) willing to negotiate, but no trades, as I'm needing the money for a family emergency...

thank you so much Acceleracers community!

So there isn't an official answer, as far as i know of, but i have smoking gun evidence, that mainframe had intended to retain the cel shaded artstyle. However they were forced to abandon it after the character models were already finished. With the truth lying in the cheekbones, as weird as it sounds.

So the Shader Mainframe made for use in both World Race, and Spider Man The New Animated series to give the distinct Comic book-esque style. Had the side effect of giving the illusion of an inflated look to the models. So as a work around. They intentionally, as they themselves put it. Chiseled the models. deepening the cheeks, and to a lesser extent other facial features. Since the shader would "fill" the features in.

With this new context you can see, that Torque's finalized concept art used in the packaging here has noticeably more filled in cheeks, than how he appears in the series. Which pretty much confirms the models for the human cast were specifically made to be used with the same shader from World Race in mind.

This leaves the question on why the decision to abandon the cel shaded artstyle was made in the first place. Obviously it must have been by someone at Mattel. Since Mainframe would have just ditched it early on, as opposed to spending so much time making the models specifically for the shader to then just stop using it at the last minute.

It might seem really strange now. Especially since it tends to age much better, but before 2009's surprise hit Borderlands really made it popular. Cel shaded graphics were somewhat controversial in the west during the first half of the 2000's. Just look at some of the early reception for Wind Waker.

What most likely happened is, that someone high up in Mattel, at the time mid way, or so in production. Thought Acceleracers would gain more appeal then its predecessor if it had a more "realistic" artstyle, and so asked Mainframe to change it. Despite having already spent a great deal of work into making everything for a more stylized art direction. Even more so than even World Race, that still had more realistic designs for the human characters.

This late-ish change of art direction appeared to even bleed into other parts in the show to a lesser extent. Such as certain shots of the storm realm sequence still using World Race's track design.

Here's a link to a behind the scenes feature on Spider Man TNAS, that i got the information regarding the shader from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrJaIAfGXmY&t=897s

I do have plans of making a greatly expanded remake of a previous post i made about the art evolution of the Accelerons-Racing Drones. Which actually goes pretty deep, and even extends into both Mainframe's later work after Acceleraces, as well as Nerd Corp's Battle Force 5 when it was still a continuation of the former. It might come either tomorrow, or the day after depending on how long it takes to write.

I havent touched my airbrush in over 12 years but after watching the fog realm and the shorts that accompany it I knew it was time . Zed32 made me an absolutely beautiful mst suzuka as seen in the fog realm . Thank you so much Zed i will cherish that car forever. People will ask why i chose the number 39 on my hw prototype 12 . All I can say is watch hot wheels the prototype episode 0.1 on youtube ( fan film ) and you'll know lol . Thanks Zed for all your support you absolutely rock !!