Vroomiz

The style is Blaze meets Animal Mechanicals meets Tayo the little bus. It has the recognisable lure of many better cartoons, but little of what makes them great. Expect to keep the remote control handy, as the volume of the voices is constantly changing, sometimes whisper quiet. The titles are also deafeningly loud. This may not be the original show’s fault, but a poor job done bringing this show to an English audience. Dispite sometimes bizarre character design and simplistic style, the animation quality is good. My three-year-old and I both enjoyed the look of the dragon narrator character. The stories have some questionable lines (something lost in translation?) but the voice actors do an admirable job of trying to speak them in time with the characters’ jerky movements on screen, probably looking fine in its original language but which makes for a distracting experience in English. The voices come across sounding comically awful during some of the songs, though I think this is the fault of the recording engineers rather than the actors. Some of the characters are very naughty sometimes. I would not recommend this even though my 3 year old is currently a big fan.

My children, 6 and 2.5 yrs, discovered this show a few weeks ago. The theme song bothers me immensely, but today’s episode was the last straw. The pink deer car was not a positive role model... lying, being inconsiderate, and sneaky. We will not watch again.