Gabby, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Watts don't appear in this episode.
For the first time, Blaze, AJ, Crusher and Pickle are the only ones to appear for two consecutive episodes.
This also marked the 2nd time Crusher made up jokes after all his cheats since Race to Eagle Rock back in Season 2, whereas the first time he does that without even being in a race.
This is the first time a lion physically appears. Lions were mentioned previously in Animal Island and was the STEM concept in Ready, Set, Roar!.
This is the third episode to feature a talking animal outside of Animal Island after Light Riders and Breaking the Ice.
The plot of the episode appears to be similar to Animal Island. Blaze discovers a place he's never heard of, the location is full of talking animals, and the ruler welcomes he and AJ with a musical number. The antagonist of the episode steals something that causes something terrible to happen, and Blaze has to retrieve such.
When Crusher knocks out parts of the bridge, the pieces that weren't knocked out seem to be floating in mid-air without any supports underneath.
The Gantry Crane is the second-largest transformation Blaze underwent, beating the robot from the Robot Riders miniseries but lost by the Tower Crane from Piggy 500.
The giant flowers seen throughout the Great Forest look like the bubble flowers from Toucan Do It!.
Out of the Great Forest animals, the panda was the only one referred to with gender-related pronouns (male), though the frog had a masculine-sounding voice, the monkey sounded like a young boy and the bunnies sounded feminine.
The butterflies that appear during the STEM song have appeared to decrease radically in size to their actual size in real life. In previous episodes, they're shown to be larger (for the in-universe truck size) and can fit across the filter on Blaze's hood when sitting on such. Here, they're much smaller and are able to sit on the rim of Blaze's windshield. This is because they updated the animation, changing the animals to be more realistic.
Running Gags[]
Pickle and Crusher singing, only for Pickle to mention a danger Crusher's about to encounter and he does just that.
Allusions[]
The scene where Blaze falls down a hole in the tunnel to the Great Forest is similar to Alice falling down the rabbit hole to Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and its Disney movie adaptations.
The Great Forest is similar to Wonderland as well.
Roarian originally being a statue before the sunstone turned him real was similar to the Rankin/Bass Christmas special Frosty the Snowman, where a magic hat makes the titular character come to life.
The sunstone is a reference to a real-life rock of the same name. Unlike such, however, real sunstones are not sun-shaped but do have a golden surface, similar to the sun’s colors.
The scene where Roarian showers Blaze with flight magic, giving him the ability to fly is similar to where Tinkerbell showers pixie dust on the Darling kids in the movie, Peter Pan.
Many of the scenarios bear similarities to Team Umizoomi, a fellow Nick Jr. show.
Goofs[]
Crusher glitched before belly flopping.
When Roarian saves the panda, he appears to land right before Blaze and AJ but in the next shot, he lands right near the cliff to the entrance.
When Roarian’s sunstone is removed, the slot on his necklace appears flat but when he is turning back into a statue, the slot appears to have dents in it.
During the robo storm-clouds sequence:
When Blaze zooms past the last lighting cloud in the first pattern, we see him from the front as the lightning strikes, but the cloud is gone.
Whenever Blaze smashes the icicles, they leave fragments on the ground, but when the camera jumps to the front the fragments are not there.
A red piece was shown breaking off the bridge, but when Blaze is fixing it there were no red pieces missing.
The design of the Gantry Crane Blaze transformed into would not work in real life. The other leg would constantly drag on the ground and the girder doesn't extend on a real life one.
When Crusher says “Better lock next time!” the captions list “lock” as the actual word “luck”, which is actually the pun of what Crusher is saying.
