This is the first, and only appearance of Little Trucky until Season 3's Mega Mud Robot, the latter currently being the last.
Crusher mentioning his Little Trucky as "his favorite" could imply he misses it (probably back in his childhood memories prior to the events of the series' beginning).
This is the first time Crusher and Pickle spend most of the episode with Blaze. It's also the first time Crusher gets to help Blaze instead of hinder him as usual.
This is the second time Crusher didn't bother to cheat nor despise Blaze during the episode.
In the scene where Blaze and his friends are crammed in the elevator, the Blazing Speed theme can be heard as elevator music.
This is the first episode where Blaze shows a slight hint of impatience; when he and Ferris take their places for a photograph and nothing happens before Ferris realizes he forgot his camera, Blaze shifts his eyes back and forth while still holding his smile.
AJ's voice is slightly deeper due to Dusan Brown experiencing puberty.
Also starting this episode, AJ has a singing double for the music numbers.
This is the final episode to have closed-captioning in all-caps. The next episode onward uses more modern uppercase/lowercase captioning.
The sound whenever a magnet activates is different than it sounded in Blaze of Glory.
This is Ferris' only speaking appearance, and probably his longest screen time.
Zeg's cereal bowl is a scaled-down version of the curved piece of wood that Blaze, Stripes and Darington used to escape the grizzly trucks in Blaze of Glory.
Despite resembling a dump truck and the Race Car Adventures series didn't exist yet, Crusher launches Little Trucky more like a race car instead of just a dump truck.
This is the first time Blaze interacted with Joe and Gus and also the first time he uses Blazing Speed while transformed.
Magnets is the second song AJ sings himself without Blaze after Lever.
This is the first time Bump's name was mentioned, by Blaze, though only his first name. His last name wasn't mentioned until Officer Blaze, by AJ.
This is the final time a transformation request does not begin with “To make...”.
This is the only past episode without a DVD release to date.
This is the only episode where Axle City's railroad system is a maglev network. All future appearances of any railroads in the series are based on conventional railroad tracks.
Running Gags[]
Whenever the mystery bandit is brought up to someone, they get nervous and shift their eyes back and forth while a horror sting plays in the background.
Crusher sobbing over Little Trucky when mentioned.
Allusions[]
The name "Steel Wheel" most likely originates from the car type of wheel, which are made with an alloy of iron and carbon. They are seen often on most basic model cars/trucks.
During the elevator scene, it is based on a classic cartoon gag of multiple people cramped in it.
Goofs[]
The second time something is inaccurate to the lore. Despite that maglev trains exist in the universe, they don't exist in the United States (sadly). The reason of that is because they are very expensive to build per mile of track and there's no viable route for them that can't be done more cheaply with conventional rail or monorail.
The elevator would have not been able to carry Blaze and the gang due to their weight, as it would've been broken considering that there were four Monster Machines and two people.
During the maglev train scene when everyone looks down at Blaze’s support magnets, Gabby is wearing her regular overalls and not her tracksuit. Also, her helmet disappears.
The mud disappears on the tires out of nowhere when the bandit is actually revealed to be Ferris. Though it's possible that there's a very secret/hidden pool
In the STEM song when Blaze and Zeg jump over the pile of metal pipes, AJ is missing.
Gabby's ATV disappears after the gang enters the elevator.
Monster trucks are not actually magnetic in real-life. Their framework is made out of fiberglass, which is unattractive metal. The same happened in Blaze of Glory.
In the travel song, when Blaze sings "G-g-give me some speed," the captions read it as "Hope you give me some speed".
When Blaze and AJ are shocked and glance sideways when the mystery bandit was first mentioned, Blaze blinks and the top third of his eyelids disappear for a split second.
Gabby's wrench has a number 2 on it, but when seen on Ferris' magnet and when she gets it down, the number is not there.
While Blaze is at the winner's podium, the trophy repeatedly changes its position between shots before it disappears.
