'Batwheels' Vrooms Toward Season 3 On Cartoon Network
Kids sure do love cars…and cars make great toys, so rev up some more!
The Batman cartoon you’re probably not watching will continue to anchor this era of Cartoon Network preschool programming. Batwheels, DC’s first preschool series which can look like it took that Teen Titans Go! To the Movies scene as a challenge, has been renewed for a third season.
The first Cartoonito original, Batwheels follows a group of sentient super-powered crime-fighting vehicles, led by Bam the Batmobile, defending Gotham City alongside a host of DC superheroes. Brought to life by the Batcomputer to help defend Gotham City, the heroic Batwheels, including “Red” aka Robin’s Redbird, Batgirl’s motorcycle “Bibi”, Buff the Bat Truck, and even the Batwing are thrust into hilarious hijinks and jaw-dropping action while learning important life lessons, navigating the challenges of being a newly-formed team on top of normal kid-based growing pains, even as vehicles, demonstrating the value of self-confidence, friendship and teamwork in thrilling ways.
The voice cast includes Jacob Bertrand as Bam, Lilimar as Wing, Kimberly Brooks as the Batcomputer nicknamed BC, and Mick Wingert as M.O.E. or Mobile Operation Expert, Batman's “kind-hearted yet sarcastic” robot mechanic. The show not only features their respective riders as regular characters, but an entire rogues gallery with their own vehicles. Batman is voiced by Ethan Hawke (yes really), while this Robin iteration is Duke Thomas, probably the most recent Batfamily addition in the comics in his animated debut, voiced by AJ Hudson. Batgirl here is Cassandra Cain and voiced by Elemental’s Leah Lewis, while Nightwing (Dick Grayson as always) is voiced by Zachary Gordon, the original Greg Heffley of the Diaty of a Wimpy Kid live action movies.
The villains have formed a “Legion of Zoom”, led by Badcomputer, a scoreboard AI. The Joker has a van called Prank, Harley Quinn has an ATV called Jestah, the Penguin has a literal duck boat, Mr. Freeze has a snow crawler named Snowy voiced by Bertrand’s Cobra Kai co-star and Blue Beetle Xolo Maridueña and the Riddler has a helicopter called Quizz, all with the same sentience as the hero vehicles. Sam Register, as with everything as president of Warner Bros. Animation, serves as executive producer of the DC series developed and executive produced by Michael G. Stern. Simon J. Smith also executive produces. Steven Fink of Bang Zoom is producing.
Source: Deadline