Rocket Power


Rocket Power is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó, the creators of Rugrats. The series aired on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2004. The show mainly revolves around four friends and their daily lives of playing varied extreme sports and getting into various situations.

Premise

Rocket Power revolves around the day-to-day adventures of a gang of four young friends; the adventurous and vain sports enthusiast and perfectionist: Oswald "Otto" Rocket ; his tomboyish and kindhearted older sister: Regina "Reggie" Rocket ; the brainy newcomer and techno whiz kid: Sam "Squid" Dullard ; and the dim-witted but loyal videographer: Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez — who live in the fictional beach community of Ocean Shores, California, where they spend their free time playing extreme sports, getting into various situations and overcoming the trials and challenges of growing up.
Otto and Reggie live with their strict-but-loving dad, Ray "Raymundo" Rocket, who along with his best friend and business partner, retired surfer and self-styled philosopher Tito Makani, owns and operates the Shore Shack, a restaurant and surf shop where the gang usually hang out. In most episodes, they get involved in competitions, but end up learning that their friendship is more important than winning.

Episodes

Home media

A VHS tape entitled Maxing Out was released containing five episodes. In 2004, Nickelodeon released four episodes of the series on the Island of the Menehune DVD. Other episodes were featured on Nickelodeon compilation DVDs such as Nicktoons Christmas, Nicktoons Halloween and Nickstravaganza 2.
Nickelodeon and Amazon.com teamed up to release Rocket Power and other Nick shows on manufacture-on-demand DVD-R discs available exclusively through Amazon.com's CreateSpace arm.

Broadcast

Rocket Power premiered on Nickelodeon on August 16, 1999, and its final episode aired on July 30, 2004.
Nicktoons aired the series from 2002 to 2010. Nick GAS also aired the series from 2003 to 2005. The series reran on TeenNick's block NickRewind from June 2014 to February 2017.

Other projects

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and/or Nickelodeon have included , and Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle for Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U.S. Midwest in spring 2002, before being canceled over low ticket sales.

Video Game

A video game based on the series was released on September 5, 2001, for the PlayStation game console by THQ.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album to Rocket Power was released on February 6, 2002. It is officially the soundtrack to the television film Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand.
Track listing
  1. "Rocket Power Theme Song" by The Wipeouters
  2. "Individuality" by Area-7
  3. "99 Red Balloons" by Goldfinger
  4. "Valentino" by Bowling for Soup
  5. "I'm Cool" by Reel Big Fish