Starla, Darington and Zeg do not appear in this episode.
This is the first absence of the three.
This is also the first episode where only one of Blaze's Monster Machine friends (not counting Crusher and Pickle) appear.
This is the second episode since The Driving Force where Joe and Gus are absent.
Going by production order, this is the seventh episode of the first season.
Aside from a brief mention at the very ending, this is the first absence of Axle City.
This is the first episode to involve an island. Also, this is the first episode where Crusher and Pickle are inside the island as well.
First time a crab appears.
This is the first time the STEM song comes first, instead of the travel song.
The shot of Blaze activating his Blazing Speed is an edited shot from Blaze of Glory.
This episode marks the first time a friend of Blaze joins him for the adventure, in this case it's Stripes.
This is the first episode where Blaze honks his horn more than once.
Blaze said Pickle's name and also interacted with him for the first time.
This is the first episode where Gabby rides with Blaze.
This is the second, and to date, last episode where Blaze’s transformation requires four parts instead of three after The Driving Force.
This is the first episode that Blaze returns to the starting destination following the requisition of each item. The same happens in Trouble at the Truck Wash.
The baby pandas have a much more realistic appearance than the baby panda from Tow Truck Tough.
During the STEM song, as the first “Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh” is being sung, Gabby and AJ are laughing. This is the first episode where the STEM song has a voiceover.
This is the first episode where leading zeroes are shown in numbers, in this case, the anemometer display.
When Stripes grabs the mast, his tiger claws are retracted, but return when he hops back to Blaze.
At the last time Blaze yells "Jump, Stripes!", his mouth doesn't move.
When Blaze gets everyone together to follow after the sail, Gabby's ponytail is missing.
The sail to Blaze’s boat flies over the same spot twice; first after the mainsheet is reattached, and again when Crusher fails to fix his boat.
After Stripes says "Our boat is pretty fast" and the view zooms out to Crusher as he challenges the others to a race, Blaze's mouth moves to say his line from before ("Ahoy, Crusher! You need some help?") as Crusher speaks.
When Crusher shows up in his poorly-fixed boat, they pass by in the background, but Crusher and Pickle stay in the foreground and overlap Blaze's boat's mast.
When Crusher decides to have a race with Blaze and his friends, as he is speaking Blaze's mouth moves to say his line "Ahoy, Crusher! You need some help?" from before.
During the travel song, the captions exclude every instance of “let’s go” (except the first and last instances).
