id be more forgiving with Tesla, Tork and Gelorum on the list. Tesla made it to the end and just got cheated by the drones it should be closer to low A. the silencer car doesnt nullify it. tork is also the same just by keeping one car alive throughout the realms sure he has his issues but he made through all in one piece without much stopping him except for personal issues gelorum is a mid B to me she can drive but her fundamental nature to win at all costs is what holds her back from going higher. shes still an intelligent machine and that she outpaced vert till the very end goes to show she can still be a threat

Acceleracers was like my entire childhood, i watched all of the movies countless times and it was my entire personality hell i even did a full binge rewatch last year- im so glad people still remember and talk about this series because its such an underappreciated gem with so many great memories attached to it

U should do a vid on the acceleracers TCG, never heard anyone actively talk about it

High Voltage got done absolutely dirty. Saw zero realm usage and got shat on instantly.

Nice video

Artakha made metru nui, he made multiple rahii animals, weapons, etc. Artakha since given the mask didn't have to know how to build something first or have the materials first to make something. He could just make basically anything by thinking of it. So... yeah..

Naaah bro the Taro glazing is CRAZYYYYYY. Taro "I'm gonna pass you" and eats shit immediately happened three times at LEAST: -Storm Realm: I'm gonna pass you (immediately lets Kadeem die AND eats shit from a lightning bolt and has to get rescued because his ass got zapped AND his Plymouth Roadrunner died. -Swamp Realm: I'm gonna pass you (immediately mcfucking commits suicide anchoring to a fucking Drone and rolling for no reason) -Lava Realm: I'm gonna pass you (Fucking, literally nearly DIES BY BEING RAN OFF THE ROAD AND INTO THE LAVA) You did NOT just say he's calm, cool and collected. Bro was playing with friendly fire on. Only time he ever did help someone during the races was when he helped Monkey by drafting in the Neon Pipeline realm. I will give you however that he does get second a decent amount of times. Metro Realm and Ice Realm if I remember correctly, but let's not sit here and pretend he's actually a white boy goated with the sauce hitting it up sexy style okay. Anyways Sparky my GOAT he'd wash Taro and any other driver any day.

I really enjoyed this video and the tier list. Though I’d like to share my own thoughts on some people I’d move around. Might be a bit lengthy 😅. I think the S tier would go something like this: Vert/Taro (Basically Jordan vs LeBron, peaks vs consistency), Kadeem, Kurt, RD-L1, and Banjee. I’ll explain why. When it comes to all the team leaders from the world race, they’re all almost dead even in skill. Vert, Kurt, Taro, Kadeem, and Banjee all either won or tied for first in at least one leg of the world race. Even in acceleracers, Kadeem was leading the storm realm and kept pace with Taro (before getting snuck and cooked by the drones which tbh wasn’t really his fault how could he have seen that coming?). Moving onto RD-L1, he’s still one of the best drivers we’ve ever seen, keeping pace and outsmarting all the S tier drivers numerous times (singlehandedly took down Kadeem who's almost dead even with the likes of Taro, Kurt, Banjee, and Vert). The earlier realms he beat weren’t easy either, especially the Warped Realm which is arguably the single most difficult realm to complete (even more so than the swamp realm). In order to consistently take him down he had to get jumped by the main cast or the silencerz which really says something. I think another reason why he started to lose was because Gelorum prioritized capturing the human drivers over winning, even sacrificed his lead in the metro realm for that reason. He's also won 4 more realms after the movies began: Storm, Water, Lava, and Ruins (this one was off screen but we know the drones won this one, I'll just assume it was him). Not to mention bro was on pace to win the Swamp Realm, Metro Realm, and Cosmic Realm. I’d personally have Shirako in B or A, just because he’s consistently good, came in 2nd for the cavern realm, and was on pace to win the cliffside realm. He’s definitely the best drifter in the series. He’s so good at it that Kurt had to nitrox boost to catch him in the cliffside realm because he was separating himself from the entire pack. I also agree that he likely could've won the Cosmic Realm too (or come very close, competition in first place was extremely tough with Major Wheeler, RD-L1, and one of the silencerz that I forget which one he is.) Nolo for me is an easy A tier. Beating the swamp realm is something that literally no other driver had ever done aside from Vert later on. RD-L1, Vert (the first time), Taro, Kurt, and Banjee all failed to complete it. The fact that he did this in his first EVER realm is beyond insanity. I agree with you saying that his anger really nerfs him, but at his best, similar to Shirako if he actually locked in, they’re some of the best drivers in the world. Porkchop is also someone I’d put in B tier, very skilled but his personality gets in the way of his ability. Monkey was the first person to ever figure out how to beat the swamp realm and porkchop could’ve but didn’t listen for whatever reason. (Thankfully he didn’t go over the water or the mosquitoes would’ve given them the Banjee treatment.)

Taro can solo the verse if his iconic line isn't a goddamn curse

i feel like gelorum shouldnt have needed the accelechargers to win since she is the most advanced and intelligent of the drones built literally for the sole purpose of testing the realms. and that car is a missile i feel like even one of the pleb drones driving that car should rightly have smoked anyone

I'd argue about this Kadeem placement, Kadeem was really focused in driving and winning the drones, he would've undoubtedly won the Storm Realm, and the drones knew that since he was sticking up with them and he was skilled enough to dodge them and stay on the lead, but he got focused on too hard becayse of this so it's just unlucky, also i'd say Nolo is a better driver than Kurt, Kurt makes a lot of mistakes like the first part on Metro Realm, not being able to dodge the drone in Storm Realm or getting hit by lightning, and losing in the Swamp Realm too.

Honestly... Vert & Taro are Easily some of The Best Racers in Hot Wheels WR & Acceleracers... If Anything like if the Hot Wheels WR / Acceleracers Series was a Shounen Anime, Vert & Taro would be Something like The Naruto vs Sasuke, Goku vs Vegeta, Valt vs Shu, Or anything along That... Basically the Happy Go Lucky Guy vs The Calm Collected Guy...

Kurt deserves S tier

This shirako slander I will not stand for. Bro was in the front of the pack consistently and had so much versatility with his speakers and lights. He also installed warning systems and alarms in case something was going wrong mid race so he did show improvement

Hey great video but Vert was only at the acceledrome for the attack because he busted his leg, not because he returned from his home when everyone was away

mark wylde literally became bucky

Why so underrated, this was awesome

Not sure about yall but this was peak villain pose 27:16

I want hot wheel movies remade same story same characters just fresh in it up would be awesome idk wheee to watch them all I want to

36:11 There was a video made by someone who talked about the Accelerchargers in the series and I’ll try to summarize it as quickly and efficiently as I can. There were 15 Accelechargers won in the series (3 of them were won by the Drones before the movies) but only 14 were present in the scenes of the Ultimate Race between Gelorum and Vert. It is believed that the missing Accelercharger was actually Ice but was swapped out with Neon Pipeline during the scenes with Major Wheeler, Lani, and Gig right before the Drones attacked the Acceledrome, and the one right after when the drone gets blasted by Gig. From which also means Gelorum only needed 14 to make the Ultimate Race?? I also saw another comment that made a good point on the video talking about the Pipeline Realm. Having the Ice Accelecharger completely lets you bypass the Realm. Having the Neon Pipeline Realm means that you can tell your teammates where to drop down or do something of the equivalent, which is the entire point of Neon Pipeline. TEAM. WORK. This is why we see Monkey and Karma working together to get Monkey through the sliding door. This could also have been Gelorum’s greatest handicap, as you needed teamwork to get through the Neon Pipeline Realm. I could also be overthinking and it might just be an animation error, which is honestly the probable cause to all this 😂

You don’t have to explain why Taro is S tier. We all know why 👍🏽

Way I see it, B and C tier drivers are the ones you want to have around. Everyone outside it are either shitty drivers or psychopaths.

I first saw World race on TV at a Halloween party. The children were gathered around the TV in the child’s room of the parents we were partying with. I found myself caught up in the movie because I grew up loving cars. I grew up on the original Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider. I’m also a mechanic so the movie impressed me in some ways. When my son turned four years old, someone bought him the DVD hot wheels accelerator, ignition. All I know it was I was hooked at that point and ordered all five DVDs. World, race, accelerator, racers, ignition, speed of silence, point break, and the ultimate race. I was and am very upset that they quit the series. They left us hanging with one of the worst cliffhangers I have ever had to endure. Who do we have to talk to to get the last Movies completed. I know that Andrew Duncan was vert and was one of the creators. I suppose I could find his email online possibly. By the way, I liked your video. You missed a few things but I think you definitely nailed the 2top drivers. Taro and Vert are definitely top 2 drivers with different driving styles. I’m 49 years old and have been into cars for my whole life and Taro has my style of driving. He un understands what a car can and can not do. Anyway, got to go! Great job! Keep it up!

Kurt is S tier

I agree with your placement of Tezla. All things considered - he picked the most dangerous realm IMO (cosmic) and survived.

Sick video 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Vert, Kurt and Taro are the overall best and I'd put Kurt in S Tier, in Vert's case not only because of his semi-on/off screen feat of going through ALL realms, only knowing 6 of them previously and the other 23 being his first time through them (which is insane if you ask me), but because in the films these three are the racers who were most of the time either first or in the podium when they participated in any realm (until something bad happened of course xd). To clarify, when I say podium here, I don't mean "who we actually saw coming out in that order" as we really don't see that almost anywhere, with podium I mean where were the racers placed at the ending of each realm (as we can only assume they finished in roughly that order, we're almost never shown who comes out in what order, unless otherwise specified, like storm realm, vert and kurt were first, but vert got out last because he wanted to save kadeem). Storm Realm, Vert and Kurt were fighting for first place against the drones, sadly, their lack of experience in the realms, Vert got scared of lightning (well who wouldn´t lol) and made a bad stop that resulted in the multiple collision, giving the victory to the drones. Still, from Tesla's team, Vert and Kurt were the best in this one. Taro's curse comes back. Swamp Realm, I can't say for sure who was first here honestly, all paths are lead to the end yet everyone just kind of got caught in the middle of them, so this one doesn't count in the favor of anyone other than Nolo, drones have it worse as they already raced here, failed, and even coming back with their memories re-uploaded, they still did like crap lol, minus points for them. Cavern Realm, Vert wasn't shown here, I don't remember if Taro was here either, Kurt was I think, but he didn't do that good here, point for Pork Chop and Shirako. Lava Realm, Vert was about to win but Taro had to bring his curse "I'm gonna pass you" and do some stupid bullsh*t that prevented them to win. Kurt went through the long road so I assume he'd be roughly second place. Minus points to Taro for his BS. Water Realm, although Vert got lucky with the hyperpode, anyone could've, he was first by a wide margin but sadly his cockiness got in the way, point for the drones. Honorary mention to Taro, although to be fair it was his second run and Karma was assisting him, but still impressive. Kurt was kind of in the middle here, not bad, not good either, but the rest were the same. City/Metro Realm, my personal opinion here, but this one goes to Kurt, the animators did sh*t in the ending of this realm and there's no logical way for Kurt to arrive just before Taro but after the silencers without anyone noticing anything strange, so for me, Kurt takes the win here, f*ck you animators you were drunk that day. Taro was the undisputed second until silencers came to mess with him. Vert wasn't in Tesla's team here until Junk Realm. Cliffside Realm, We know the silencers got this one because of the accelechargers inside Iridium in the 4th film, but we don't really see anything important other than Kurt saving Shirako, so I guess honorary point to Kurt here, but we don't know how well was everyone doing. Ice Realm, Point for Taro here, the guy should really stop thinking he has dementia and start asking himself that if a drone suddenly transforms into a companion, that thing is NOT your companion bruh. Anyways, he was 1st place until silencers knew he's guillible and Banjee got some good laughs because of it, point for Banjee as well. Kurt wasn't shown here. Pipe Realm, No one was doing specifically good in this one, and silencers basically cheated by going outside of the pipes, so no points for anyone here, also Taro, WAKE UP FOR F*CKS SAKE the silencers are taking you as a joke right now. Junk Realm, Vert had bad luck with that magnet, even with that, he was first along a silencer, such a bad luck that Vert wasn't present in the acceledrome to be warned about them, his bad luck really hit him here cause he was the first to reach the last obstacle of the stage. The EMP left him out of comission for a long time enough for everyone to pass him (except Mark cause you know what happened), and in the end, Kurt and Taro were the podium again. YOU FINALLY WOKE UP TARO, that silencer underestimated you, I believe he was laughing when thinking "will he notice my purple visor or is he that stupid?" lol. Kurt takes the win here with Taro's assistance. Ruins Realm, guys in charge of the script, what the hell bro, why did you give Vert a motorcycle when his Reverb was fine to race?, Kurt and Taro weren't shown here and we know the drones took the win because of the accelechargers in Gelorum's car before drones put in the silencers' accelechargers. No one was impressive here as we didn't saw much of anyone, so no points for anyone. Minus points for the scripters. Cosmic Realm, doesn't count, no one was racing to win in Tesla's team. The Ultimate Race, Vert MVP, he finally shows what he's truly capable of when he focuses on racing, with confidence and no cockiness, just like he did in Highway 35 (although more serious because this time it's a race for everyone's fate). Many points for him for the reasons stated at the beginning, honorary points for Lani, Tesla, Spark and Gig for their assistance. Minus infinity points for Gelorum, she had the memories of the racing drones, half of the cheat codes for the realms, and Vert didn't cross the final portal first just by milimiters, Gelorum you're the worst racer ever, RD-L1 should take your place as Drone Supreme Commander. So in the end, from the 12 realms shown, 4 don't count as in cosmic no one wanted to win, in the other three we either don't see who was faring well for the ending, their positions, or anything at all from the race to let us guess how well everyone did. In the other 8 realms, Vert, Kurt and Taro were always the Podium aside from Cavern and Swamp realm. I believe Kurt should be in S tier as he's in the podium just as much as the other two S tiers when any of them are racing in the same realm as him, in fact he's most of the time ahead of Taro when both are in the same race reaching the end (Metro and Junk realm's ending in favor of Kurt against Water realm's ending in favor of Taro, 2 against 1 Kurt wins). PD: Shirako when someone messes with his music ascends to I'm aboutta blow up your car-Tier, which is way beyond S-Tier (joking lol)

Calling the World Race a “Cosmic Door Dash Order” is genius

I hope theres a fith movie i know there wont be but i can always have a wish

I think Vert has the best peak performance in the series. Taro on the other had, is reliably amazing. Vert is so on the edge that he will either win or crash. Meanwhile, Taro will always finish, and and pull off a top finish.

I got recommended this video by KZbin and I see you also have a Bionicle video? Say no more, I subscribed.

The best are usually wreckless because they have the confidence and will to take risks. This doesnt mean that they cant be precise or drive with precision or play it safe. The confident drivers have produced or have gotten close to producing results. Pork chop should be higher☝🏾

thank you for making this video!!!! You should do a follow up video on the card game realms and which driver would perform the best on each of them

To be fair to Vert he could have won storm and water if he didn't get distracted or cocky.

They really need to bring back acceleracers to give it a proper ending. We have been waiting.

Sparky is actually good co driver

Damn crazy how much effort you put into this video and how well made it is. Seems unfair you have so few subs. Well at least you have one more now.

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤

When Sharks locks in he is a very good driver.. but other than that bros just in his own world

Something you missed with RD-L1 - he WASN'T driving unopposed before the Acceleracers movies take place. There were other drivers from World Race that Tezla sent into the realms before contacting the Teku and Metal Maniacs. Namely Banjee Castillo, Dan Dresden, and Alec Wood are confirmed to have been lost to the realms (though apparently Banjee is confirmed to have been rescued and recruited by the Silencerz, with it being speculated to be the same with the other two)

Kurt is my favorite character

I think the real reason Kurt didn’t want Marky to join his team on world race was so Marky would stay out of danger.

I think a rating on how difficult each racing realm was would be a really cool video too.

godddd I had these, I couldn't think of the name but this is a blast from the past!

wy is Sharaku in the same tear with monkey? Sharaku can control his drifts, counter correct his car and keep up at high speed, monkey did the opposite.

The game for Xevoz was *real* bad. It's just dice rolling, with some serious powergaming involved due to unbalanced pieces. Plus, the wear it generates on the parts themselves is something I recognized even as a small child. Some parts would be more likely to break because of the game, which is real bad. Still, I greatly cherish my complete xevoz collection (except for that carrying case that didn't have enough space and was noisy), and it did inspire me to take a crack at a few of my own Xevoz fan-ideas. Very time-consuming, though, not something I really do any more. Still, there isn't another toyline like Xevoz out there. There's space for it to be so, but it'd have to have better marketing. No marketing killed the franchise and we never got that sweet, sweet Rocka Huna figure.....

I think RD-L1 deserves a higher spot considering he actually had opponents in 3 of the 4 previous tracks. As a brief reminder Tezla sent Banjee, Alec, Dresden and Kadeem into the realms before Ignition. During the race in the swamp realm Banjee crashed and got saved by the Silencerz, which got confirmed by leaked merchandise for the second season and later on confirmed by Jeff Gomez that atleast Banjee became a Silencer. This means that the RD-L1 faced off against both AcceleRacers and Silencerz in atleast the 3 realms and won. I however doubt he raced in the first interation of the Swamp realm as neither he nor the drones in general had intel on the realm.

This is really well put together I had thought your channel was around a lot longer considering the quality.

Karma is calm, collected and cold like a robot ;)

KURT team, less go ❤