Rocket Power

Rocket Power

From left to right: Otto9, Reggie11, Sam9, Twister9
Created by Arlene Klasky
Gabor Csupo
Developed by Vic Wilson
Eryk Casemiro
Voices of Joseph Ashton
Shayna Fox
Gary LeRoi Gray
Ulysses Cuadra
Opening theme "Rocket Power Theme" by The Wipeouters
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 71 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Gabor Csupo
Arlene Klasky
Running time 24 minutes
Production company(s) Klasky Csupo
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original release August 16, 1999 – July 30, 2004

Rocket Power is an American animated television series. The series debuted on Nickelodeon on August 16, 1999. The series ended on July 30, 2004 after four seasons.[1] The show mainly revolves around four friends and their daily lives of playing extreme sports, surfing, and getting into situations.

Premise

Rocket Power involves the daily situations of a group of friends, named Otto Rocket, Regina "Reggie" Rocket, Sam Dullard, and Twister Rodriguez, as they spend their free time playing extreme sports, such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and more. Otto and Reggie live with their dad, Ray, who along with his business partner, Tito Makani, runs a snack bar called Shore Shack, where the kids usually hang out. In most episodes, they get involved in competitions, but end up learning that their friendship is more important than winning. The series is set in the fictional Californian town of Ocean Shores.

Characters

Main Protagonists

Secondary Main Characters

Secondary Characters

Episodes

DVDs

DVD Release Date Episodes
Island of the Menehune July 27, 2004 [6] "Island of the Menehune", "Tito's Lucky Shell", "Welcome to Ottoworld", "Follow the Leader"
The Complete First Season May 21, 2014 [7] Disc 1: "New Squid on the Block/Down the Drain", "Secret Spot/Ice Queens", "Otto 3000/Night Prowler", "Happy Luau to You-Au/Rocket Rescue", "Twister's Cuz/Big Thursday", "Rocket Girls/Father's Day Off", "Powergirl Surfers/Twisted Cinema"
Disc 2: "Blader Bowl/Total Luger", "D is for Dad/Banned on the Run", "Super Mcvarial 900/Loss of Squid", "Rainy Days & Sundaes/Zine Dreams", "Hawaii Blues/Lost & Find", "The Night Before/Violet's Violet", "Fall & Rise of Sam/Typhoid Sam"
Disc 3: "The Wrath of Don/Safety Patrol Sam", "Reggie and a Net/The Great Sandcastle Race", "Escape from Lars Mountain/It Was a Dark and Stormy Day", "Aloha Kid/Ottomobile", "The Big Air Dare/Otto's Big Break", "Snow Day/Welcome to the Club"
The Complete Second Season June 13, 2014 [8] Disc 1: "All About Sam/Half Twister", "Twisting Away/Spot Remover", "Rocket Repairs/Say Hello to Cement Head", "Shark Bait/A Shot in the Park", "Radical New Equipment/Tito's Lucky Shell", "The Longest Day/Ottoman and the Sea", "Mr. B Is in the House/Earnest Otto"
Disc 2: "What's That Smell?/The Good Housekeeping Seal", "Legends & Their Falls/Welcome to Ottoworld", "Bruised Man's Curve/Pool's Out Forever", "Back Bowl/Game Day", "It Came From Planet Merv/Netherworld Night", "Here's the Twist/Sam, King of Kickball", "Tito Time/The Return of Clio"
Disc 3: "That Old Skateboard/Follow the Leader", "Channel Surfing/Outta My Pit", "Capture the Flag/The Jinx", "Hurricane Maurice/Reggie's Choice", "Losers Weepers/Reggie: The Movie", "Double-O Twistervision/Womp Race 2000"
The Complete Third Season October 2, 2014 [9] Disc 1: "The Lingos/Shack Attack, To Be", "Otto Not To Be / Reggie/Regina", "Reggie's Pen Is Mightier/Kayaks Amok", "Tito-Sitting/There's Something About Breezy", "Beach Boyz & a Girl/X-treme Ideas", "Less Than Full Otto/Card Sharked", "Home Sweet Home/What a Tangled Web We Ski"
Disc 2: "Enter the Hawk-trix/Vert vs. Street", "Twister's Hat/Tito-Thon", "Rad Rover Come Over/Extreme Nerd", "Cinco De Twisto/Saving Lt. Ryan", "Summer Breezy/Sammy's Fortune", Major Scrummage/Snow Bounders
Disc 3: Merv Links to Otto/Big Air, Missile Crisis/Falsely Alarmed, Twisting Places/Power Play, "Sim Sammy/Otto Hangs 11", "Race Across New Zealand" (TV movie)
The Complete Fourth Season June 23, 2014 [10] Disc 1: "Twist of Fate", "A Rocket X-Mas", "Reggie's Big (Beach) Break" (TV movie)
Disc 2: "New Girl on the Block/After Shocked", "Island of the Menehune" (TV movie), "The Big Day" (TV movie)

Other episodes were on other Nickelodeon DVDs such as Nicktoons Christmas, Nicktoons Halloween, and Nickstravaganza 2.

VHS

A VHS tape entitled Maxing Out was released and contains 5 episodes: "Bruised Man's Curve", "Super McVarial 900", "Big Thursday", "The Big Air Dare", and "Otto's Big Break".

Airing history

Rocket Power originally aired on Nickelodeon on August 16, 1999, and its final episode (a television movie called "The Big Day") aired on July 30, 2004. As part of the Nick on CBS block, it aired on CBS from 2002 to 2005. Nicktoons aired the series from May 2002 to June 2010. Nick GAS also aired the series from 2003 until October 31, 2005. Though it premiered only five months before 2000, it was announced to air on TeenNick's block named The '90s Are All That. The show began airing on The '90s Are All That on June 7, 2014.

Other projects

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and/or Nickelodeon have included Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, and Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle for Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U.S. Midwest in spring 2002, before being canceled over low ticket sales (it had originally been scheduled to tour about 40 cities all over the U.S., all the way into the fall). Even with the moderate success of the show, there is no spin-off planned.

Soundtrack

Rocket Power
Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various bands
Released February 6, 2002
Recorded 1999-2002
Genre Soundtrack, ska, punk rock, electronic rock
Label Nick Records
Jive Records
Zomba Recording Corporation

The soundtrack album to Rocket Power was released on February 6, 2002. It is officially the soundtrack to the television film Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand.

Track listing

  1. "Rocket Power Theme Song" by The Wipeouters
  2. "Individuality" by Area-7
  3. "99 Red Balloons" by Goldfinger
  4. "Valentino" by Bowling for Soup
  5. "I'm Cool" by Reel Big Fish

See also

References

External links

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