Max Steel: Team Turbo is the first movie released in 2016, focusing in an alliance of Max Steel's villains. As the first movie of 2016, it introduced a totally new animation used in other movies made by Mattel. The movie was released in March 18, 2016 in Latin America.
Synopsis
Max and Steel face their greatest challenge ever! When Max’s greatest enemies unite to take down N-Tek and conquer Copper Canyon, Max and Steel realize that they can’t save the day on their own. It’s time to form a new team of heroes with Tempestra, La Fiera, and C.Y.T.R.O. – TEAM TURBO!
Plot
Cast
- Andrew Francis as Max, Toxzon, Fire Elementor, Air Elementor
- Sam Vincent as Steel, Berto
- Lili Beaudoin as Rayne
- Adrian Petriw as Alex
- Colin Murdock as C.Y.T.R.O.
- Brian Drummond as Water Elementor, Earth Elementor, Extroyer, Lord Nexus
- Scott McNeil as Professor Mortum
- Trevor Devall as Jim McGrath, Metal Elementor
- Kathleen Barr as Katherine Ryan
- Nicole Oliver as Molly McGrath
- Omari Newton as Jefferson Smith
Important Events
- The movie takes place in future, specifically 2 years after the events of Max Steel: Maximum Morphos.
- The Connect-Tek device is introduced and it was the responsible of giving origin to Max's Team Turbo. After a battle against Max, Mortum manages to escape with the Connect-Tek, but he realizes that was damaged and he is ultimately infused with the device and possibly will return as the Robot Zombie set to appear in the sequel.
- C.Y.T.R.O. is gifted by Berto with artificial intelligence.
- Tempestra and La Fiera are introduced and Max creates a team known as Team Turbo.
Toy Line
- See also: Max Steel: Team Turbo (Toy Line).
To promote the film, Mattel released few figures of the characters on the film, with each box containing the logo of the film, the members of Team Turbo, and the red coloration seen in every box. There was also a small part featuring "from the movie!".
In the mid of 2015, Mattel confirmed its presence in the 2015 edition of the CCXP - Comic Con Experience, the largest convention about pop culture on Latin America made on São Paulo, Brazil[1]. Max Steel was present on the Comic Con Experience, featuring six showcases with hexagonal shape showing the figures from the 2016 toyline. La Fiera's two figures were shown and there was a special showcase featuring only Vertical Lift off Max and Mega Morphos. There was also a panel where people could take pictures with a giant image of Morphos.
Production
The movie started to be produced on the mid of 2015, specifically on October. The movie was confirmed alongside with Max Steel: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek when Mattel confirmed its content for 2016.
In October 28, 2015, the "Ammo Creative" uploaded the first promotional trailer of Max Steel: Team Turbo, narrated by Andrew Francis and also featuring the voices of Lili Beaudoin for Rayne and Adrian Petriw for Alex. The trailer showed the whole Team Turbo alongside with their modes and the plot of the movie. The trailer didn't featured the final animation, being only some sketches of Team Turbo (and finished art for the villains) that suffered some changes in terms of design. Curiously, the trailer didn't showed Mortum (which had the important role of creating the alliance with the villains to steal the Connect-Tek) and only stated that Max's deadliest villains made an alliance to eliminate N-Tek and conquer Copper Canyon.
In December, four TV spots of the 2016 toyline were made, with one of them being based in one of the scenes of the movie (specifically the battle of Max against Extroyer).[2]
Trivia
- It was the first movie animated by Arc Productions, due to the fact that Nerd Corps Entertainment was bought by DHX Media. The company also animated other shows of Mattel, like Barbie.
- Some voice actors, like Trevor Devall and Kathleen Barr, weren't credited in the end of the movie. Besides, the credits appear to be more simplified, excluding some voice actors by unknown reasons.
- A new character known as Lord Nexus was accidentally inserted in the credits, which could be considered as a early cameo.
References
| Movies of Max Steel (2013 TV Series) | ||
|---|---|---|
| TV Series Timeline | Max Steel: The Wrath of Makino · Max Steel: The Dawn of Morphos · Max Steel: Maximum Morphos · Max Steel: Team Turbo · Max Steel: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek · Max Steel: Turbo Charged · Max Steel: Turbo Warriors | |
| Alternate Timeline | Max Steel: The Movie | |