If someone decided to put Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Beast Wars: Transformers in a blender with enough fossil fuels to make Captain Planet shed a tear, the result would be Van-Pires, the most 90s knockoff ever concocted. The 90s were a weird time for children’s television as everyone tried to carve out their niche on Saturday morning and replicate the success of what worked. For every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there was a Street Sharks or Mummies Alive!; for every Barney & Friends, there was something akin to The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon; and for every Power Rangers, there were shows like Van-Pires looking to feed off their audiences.After premiering in 1993, the Power Rangers series revolutionized children’s television by recycling footage from Japanese tokusatsu series and framing them around American actors who’d play the role of “teenagers with attitude.” Meanwhile, three years later, and a few channels over, Beast Wars: Transformers would continue the Transformers franchise with a CGI-animated series that followed the war between the Maximals and Predacons. Then predating all of them was Captain Planet and the Planeteers, an ecologically-driven series hoping to spread environmentally friendly practices among its young audiences, featuring a multi-cultural cast of teenagers. While their legacy is still recognized today as Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rolls onto streaming services, Power Rangers remains 30 seasons strong, and Captain Planet is still the butt of everyone’s jokes, their success was even more influential in the 90s as countless shows attempted to follow in their footsteps.Van-Pires centers around a group of motor-minded teenagers who, after exposure to an extraterrestrial meteorite, find themselves transformed into human-car hybrids with a thirst for gasoline. However, Axle, Snap, Nuke, and Rev soon discover they’re not the only gas-guzzling ghouls around. Tracula, Ambula, Automaniac, and Cardaver emerge from the meteorite, aiming to drain the world of its natural resources. Assisted by the hippie mechanic, Van He’ll Sing, and their pet trike, Greaspot, “The Motor-Vaters” must confront Tracula’s army of the dead. With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, if the Motor-Vaters didn’t act fast, it could’ve been the human race’s last lap.
If someone decided to put Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Beast Wars: Transformers in a blender with enough fossil fuels to make Captain Planet shed a tear, the result would be Van-Pires, the most 90s knockoff ever concocted. The 90s were a weird time for children’s television as everyone tried to carve out their niche on Saturday morning and replicate the success of what worked. For every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there was a Street Sharks or Mummies Alive!; for every Barney & Friends, there was something akin to The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon; and for every Power Rangers, there were shows like Van-Pires looking to feed off their audiences.
After premiering in 1993, the Power Rangers series revolutionized children’s television by recycling footage from Japanese tokusatsu series and framing them around American actors who’d play the role of “teenagers with attitude.” Meanwhile, three years later, and a few channels over, Beast Wars: Transformers would continue the Transformers franchise with a CGI-animated series that followed the war between the Maximals and Predacons. Then predating all of them was Captain Planet and the Planeteers, an ecologically-driven series hoping to spread environmentally friendly practices among its young audiences, featuring a multi-cultural cast of teenagers. While their legacy is still recognized today as Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rolls onto streaming services, Power Rangers remains 30 seasons strong, and Captain Planet is still the butt of everyone’s jokes, their success was even more influential in the 90s as countless shows attempted to follow in their footsteps.
Van-Pires centers around a group of motor-minded teenagers who, after exposure to an extraterrestrial meteorite, find themselves transformed into human-car hybrids with a thirst for gasoline. However, Axle, Snap, Nuke, and Rev soon discover they’re not the only gas-guzzling ghouls around. Tracula, Ambula, Automaniac, and Cardaver emerge from the meteorite, aiming to drain the world of its natural resources. Assisted by the hippie mechanic, Van He’ll Sing, and their pet trike, Greaspot, “The Motor-Vaters” must confront Tracula’s army of the dead. With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, if the Motor-Vaters didn’t act fast, it could’ve been the human race’s last lap.
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