Rob the Robot (2018 Disney revival)

Rob the Robot is a Canadian-American CGI children's comedy-science fiction-adventure animated revival of the 2010-2017 series of the same name. The continuation of the show was produced by Disney Television Animation (after Disney bought the rights to Rob the Robot from Entertainment One), with it's original studios One Animation and Amberwood Entertainment.

Premise
The revival of the series is pretty much the same as the original. It follows four young friends of undefined ages; Rob, the metal leader of the group, Ema, the odd one out who likes to dance, T-K, the genius and toolkit of the group, and Orbit, a clumsy yet artistic fellow, as they embark on adventures to various planets to solve problems/engage in their fun activity.

Main characters

 * Rob (voiced by Stacey DePass): The main protagonist of the revival. A young metal robot, he is curious and adventurous, and he will not hesitate to plan a mission, whether it is to solve problems or to just have fun. In Season 2, he adopts and becomes a father figure to an even younger robot from the Robot Planet who he names Rob Jr.
 * Ema (voiced by Camden Angelis): The only person in the group who is not a robot, Ema the alien is a spunk of lively energy who likes to dance.
 * T-K (voiced by Jordi Mand): A red robot who moves around with a built-on wheel, she is one-of-a-kind, possessing the ability to keep objects in her trusty hammerspace tummy trunk, regardless of size. In the revival, her name is now spelled "T-K" with a hyphen.
 * Orbit (voiced by Jake Beale in season 1; Connor Fielding in season 2, and Drew Davis in season 3): An orange robot with two bandages taped to the back of his head, a chip on his forehead, crooked antenna and two tank-like threads as feet. Although he might be a talented artist, he is also often clumsy.
 * Rob Jr. (voiced by Stacey DePass): Rob's adopted son who makes his debut in Season 2. He is basically a smaller clone of his father with a propeller beanie cap where his antenna should be. He is similar in personality to Wade from the comic strip U.S. Acres, being afraid of almost everything; because of this, he is said to be the polar opposite of his curious and adventurous dad, but nonetheless he doesn't hesitate to join a mission Rob plans. He also has a fear of mice, which he expresses towards Squeak. Despite his cowardly nature however, he loves his adoptive father very much and gets along pretty fine with him, Ema, T-K and Orbit. He is the youngest, shortest, and most innocent member in the gang.
 * Mission Control (voiced by John Stocker): The person who chooses the correct planets the gang wants to go to. He is merely a huge robotic hand hanging from the rocket's ceiling.
 * Squeak (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker): The gang's pet wind-up mouse who often accompanies his owners on their missions. Besides his new voice actor, he remains unchanged in the revival.

Recurring characters

 * Mea (voiced by Tara Strong): Ema's cousin who resembles her but has dandelion-colored skin, purple pajamas with two buttons instead of a zipper, no visible nostrils, blue bows on her antennae in place of the pink things Ema wears on hers, and is a tad shorter than Ema.
 * News Reporter (voiced by Justin Roiland): In every episode, The reporter tells the team about what's happening around every planet, but sometimes, he just loves hamburgers.
 * Crazy Crow (voiced by Tom Kenny): He just a crazy crow cartoon character that Rob and the gang love to watch, Although it's their favourite show. The animation for Crazy Crow was done by Rough Draft Studios Inc

Voice Cast
Stacey DePass As Rob and Rob Jr. (Season 2-3)

Camden Angelis As Ema

Jordi Mand As T-K

Jake Beale as Orbit (Season 1)

Connor Fielding as Orbit (Season 2)

Drew Davis as Orbit (Season 3)

John Stocker As Mission Control

Dee Bradley Baker As Squeak

Tara Strong As Mea

Justin Roiland As News Reporter

Tom Kenny As Crazy Crow

Scott Menville As Radical Dude #1

Robbie Daymond As Radical Dude #2

Isaiah Slater As Radical Dude #3

General
Joshua Morris (the current voice of Danny Dog on Peppa Pig) as Tibro

Grey Griffin As Young Robot #1 And #4

Abigail Oliver As Young Robot #2 And #5

Lara Jill Miller As Young Robot #3

Dana Snyder As Birthday Bunny

Nika Futterman As Birthday Rockstar

Jacob Ursumarzo As Rob And Orbit From The Future

Jodie Resther As Ema And T-K From The Future

JP Karliak As The Beanie Cap Finders

Dee Bradley Baker As Violet and Ruffus

Weird Al Yankovic As The Easter Bunny

Ryan Reynolds As Scary Monster (Rob Jr's Worst Nightmare Ever)

Lilly Bartlam As Rika

Cree Summer As Tim

Trey Parker As The Planet Taker

"Cheers to Mickey Mouse!" (Season 1)
Brent Iwan As Mickey Mouse

Daniel Ross As Donald Duck

Bill Farmer As Goofy and Pluto

Russi Taylor As Minnie Mouse

Tress MacNeille As Daisy Duck

Jim Cummings As Pete

"Funny for Honey" (Season 3)
Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger

Travis Oates as Piglet

Peter Cullen as Eeyore

Tom Kenny as Rabbit

Episodes
See List of Rob the Robot (2018 Disney revival) episodes

Production
In 2017, Disney bought the rights to Rob the Robot, and a few months later after the original series ended, the creators announced at SDCC 2017 that they will be keeping the series alive with a reboot. A few days later, trailers of the show were released to SDCC and Youtube. The series fully premiered in the US on January 8, 2018. The series will be a collaboration with Amberwood Entertainment, One Animation, and Disney Television Animation.

The CGI for the reboot was notably different from that of the original. While the original series used chunky, cartoonish-looking animation with very little shading, the reboot's CGI was cleaner and more realistic-looking, with enhanced shading and visible shadows to match. Because the characters' original models were made at One Animation, they had to be remodeled from scratch at Jam Filled Toronto, and still managed to look identical to the originals, with the mouths remaining animated in the same way the mouths in Bubble Guppies are.

The writing team consists of original writers Craig Young, Shelia Dinsmore and J.D. Dan Smith, with newcomers being Eric Shaw, Norton Virgien, etc.

Quotes
(In the Season 1 episode Bad Luck Bot)
 * Orbit: (yawn) Good morning, everybody! A good 24 hours of sleep, and ready to start the day!
 * Rob: (chuckles) Speaking of day, why not go check the calendar. It could be Thursday or Friday. Oh wait, yesterday was Thursday.
 * Orbit: Quite a hunch. Okay then...
 * (Orbit walks over to the calendar, which has the Thursday page, written as "Thursday 12". Orbit tears off the page to reveal the "Friday 13" page.)
 * Orbit: Well, it's Friday the 13th. (faces Rob) Now let's say we- (he realizes something, judging by his sudden shocked face) W-w-w-wait a minute?!?!? It's Friday the 13th?!?!? AAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!! (he jumps into the air, with his thread feet running, and leaps onto Rob's head, shivering with fear)
 * Rob: Orbit, what's going on? Is there something wrong?
 * Orbit: (shuddering) Yes! It's F-f-f-Friday the 13th! And on Friday the 13th, t-t-t-that's where you receive a lot of b-b-b-b-bad things happening to you! Cracks in the ground, salt, walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, a black kitty cat walking on your path, oh this is the part where I'm the most unlucky! (screams with terror and worry)

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(In the Season 1 episode The Bot in the Cloth, Ema and T-K are in the stage of the Pretend Play Planet, playing the roles of the two kids, sitting by the window of the house.)
 * Ema: Oh bother, it's raining outside, don't you see?
 * T-K: I agree with you, sister, a killjoy it would be.
 * Ema: Our daddy went off to a rocket convention.
 * T-K: And we don't have a mommy, boy, we need some attention!
 * Ema: What more can we do than just watch the rain?
 * T-K: Well greasy gears, it's a boring pain!
 * (A crash is heard outside the house, making the camera shake violently, and knocking the two off their chairs.)
 * Ema: Then out of the blue, a crash was there.
 * T-K: A crash so LOUD it knocked us off our chairs!
 * (Someone opens the house's front door.)
 * Ema: Then a stranger appeared.
 * T-K: What more have we got?
 * (Rob, as the Bot in the Cloth, walks in)
 * Ema: But it's more than a stranger...
 * Ema and T-K: (in unison) It's the Bot in the Cloth!
 * Rob: Why wait for the rain to go away, when you can go out there and play in the rain!
 * Ema: Well, that's a good idea, if you please.
 * T-K: But we'll catch a cold and sneeze!

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(In the Season 1 episode Cheers to Mickey Mouse!, Rob and the gang have landed on planet Earth to meet Mickey Mouse.) _______________________________________________________________________________________
 * Mickey: Oh boy! (chuckles) New visitors! I must have tracked my voice message to outer space by mistake. Who are you?
 * Rob: I'm Rob, and these are my friends, (points to Ema...) Ema, (...to T-K...) T-K, (...and to Orbit) and Orbit! We come from outer space, but don't worry, we are very friendly robots!
 * Ema: And an alien!
 * Rob: And we come in peace. We know and recognize you.
 * Mickey: Of course you do. I'm Mickey Mouse!

(In the Season 3 episode Funny for Honey, Rob and his friends are on planet Earth, in the Hundred-Acre Wood, trying to search for their fallen honey pot.)
 * Rob: (peeks into a bush) The honey's not in here.
 * Rob Jr.: (peeks into the hole of a thick log) It's not in here either, dad.
 * T-K: (looks into a small pit) Or in here.
 * Ema: (looks into another bush) Or here.
 * Orbit: (puts his head into a nearby pond; his dialogue bubbles) Not in here either.
 * (A fish swims near Orbit, gets startled by him and swims away. Orbit puts his head out of the water as he walks away.)
 * Orbit: Okay, if I were a pot of honey thrown off the rocket, where would I be? (while walking, he hits something with his thread foot, and he looks down to see the spilt pot of honey) Yay! The honey! I found it... (picks it up) but it's all spilt!
 * (Rob, Rob Jr., Ema and T-K walk to Orbit)
 * Rob: (sighs) Well, that's so much for our honey jelly donuts.
 * Rob Jr.: And now it's ruined! Boy, I'm starving even more, dad!
 * Rob: It's okay, son. I'm sure we can find another way to get honey.
 * Orbit: But we're in this forest. Where can we get honey in a forest?
 * (Suddenly, a familiar growling sound is heard, catching the gang's attention.)
 * Rob: (concerned) Orbit, what was that?
 * Orbit: I don't know, but it's certainly not the sound of my tummy grumbling over not getting those honey jelly donuts.
 * (The growl is heard again.)
 * Orbit: (worried) O-o-o-okay, what's making that noise? Is it a bear? Is it a lion? I-i-i-is it a tiger? (loses his cool and freaks out) Oh, I can't be sure!!!
 * (The growl is heard a third time. Suddenly, out of the blue, Tigger leaps out and tackles Orbit, rolling for a bit as they go, until they stop with Tigger sitting on Orbit.)
 * Tigger: Hello, I'm Tigger! T-i-double-guh-er! That spells Tigger! Well, I don't think I have ever seen you before... who are you, weird robot thingy?
 * Orbit: I'm Orbit.
 * Tigger: Yeah sure. (chuckles, then gets confused) Uh, what's an Orbit?
 * Orbit: You're sitting on one.
 * Tigger: I am? Oh, (gets off of Orbit) sorry if I bounced ya.
 * Orbit: (gets up) That's okay, (dusts himself off, then puts his hands on his hips) even though you nearly scared my threads off.
 * Rob: (runs to Tigger with Ema, Rob Jr. and T-K) Nice to meet you too, Tigger! I'm Rob, and (points to Ema and to T-K) these are my other friends Ema and T-K, (pats Rob Jr. on the head) and this is my son Rob Jr.!
 * Rob Jr.: (waves) Hello!

Theme song
Season 1 and 2 has a reorchestrated version of the original series' theme song composed by Andy Bean. And Season 3 has a new rap-styled theme song titled "The Rocket Gang Rap".

Merchandise
Several days after the reboot aired a few episodes, there was merchandise which consisted of t-shirts, school supplies, toys, clothing and accessories. Stuffed dolls were comissioned by Ty Inc..

Game
11 days after it's release, Disney Mobile and TVOKids released another spin-off of 'Where's My Water? entitled Where's My Rob?' on January 19. It was released for the iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows.

Miniseries
As with most Disney Junior shows, a miniseries spun off from the reboot titled Orbit's Painting Pain was aired a few days after it's release. The episodes in this miniseries were occasionally aired before a Disney Junior show would come next.

DVD releases
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

Trivia

 * The Pick a Planet song played before the gang selects a planet from Mission Control has been slightly recomposed to be more upbeat and funky.
 * Due to Disney now owning Rob the Robot in 2018 as said above, the Disney logo now appears at the top of the Rob the Robot logo, both in the end of the opening sequence and in posters.
 * The reboot is sometimes referred to as Disney's Rob the Robot to distinguish it from the original series.
 * Despite One Animation still being credited, Jam Filled Toronto now does the animation, and as a result now has smoother and realistic shading and textures with much more clearer shadows, looking like a mix of the original show's style and Rusty Rivets ' art style, to distinguish the series from the original non-Disney version.
 * Now has it's own tropes page.
 * This is the second non-Disney cartoon to be made into one, the first being Doug and the third one being Muppet Babies; it is also the first Canadian cartoon to be made into an American Disney cartoon.
 * Jake Beale reprised his role as Orbit in season 1, but was replaced by Connor Fielding for Season 2 of the series after he experienced puberty. When Season 3 came out, Fielding was then replaced by Drew Davis, the current voice of Marshall on PAW Patrol.
 * A portrait of Rob wearing Mickey Mouse ears can be seen frequently in the rocket at the beginning of each episodes. Giving the fact that the revival was made by Disney, it was probably intentional.
 * A character from the show now narrates the title of an episode, just like most Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior shows. The character who narrates it is usually the episode's focus; for example, in "The Bot in the Cloth", Rob narrates that episode's title.
 * The show's cast will be composed of both Canadian and American voice actors.
 * The official trailer for the show was released at SDCC 2017.
 * A short video on YouTube (inspired by a Garfield quickie) promoting the episode "Cheers to Mickey Mouse!" shows Orbit, wearing Mickey Mouse's trademark ears and pants, showing off to Rob.
 * Before the season 2 premiere in New York City, there's a clip on Youtube which features Rob and friends dressed up as famous Disney Junior characters.
 * The promo for the upcoming episode ''Rewind Day/Rob' s Pizzeria" was inspired by some promos on Disney XD.
 * Crazy Crow, being voiced by Tom Kenny, sounds like the Mayor from The Powerpuff Girls with a hint of SpongeBob's voice thrown in.
 * Some Hidden Mickeys can be seen in some episodes.
 * The Disney Junior logo as seen in promos of the reboot has the "J" as the rocket, the "u" as T-K, the "n" as Ema, the "i" as Rob, the "o" as Orbit and the "r" as Squeak.
 * The official trailer for Season 2 was released at SDCC 2018.
 * This show was nominated for Kids Choice Awards 2019 for Favourite Preschool Show.
 * The Season 3 theme song contains music by Kid Koala, the one who did music in The 3 Amigonauts.
 * 2 voice actors from the hit PBS Kids series Arthur (Jacob Ursumarzo and Jodie Resther) voice Rob, Ema, T-K And Orbit as themselves from the future.
 * In The UK, Theres A 60 Second Promo Based On The Rocket Gang Rap During Ad Breaks On Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nickelodeon, NickToons, Nick Jr, Cartoonito, And CITV.
 * JP Karliak, known for voicing Wile E. Coyote in New Looney Tunes (formerly known as Wabbit) guest stars as the Beanie Cap Finders, who always look for beanie caps.
 * The official trailer for Season 3 was released at SDCC 2019.
 * The Season 3 SDCC Trailer Also Contains The Extended Version Of The Rocket Gang Rap.
 * Dee Bradley Baker doesn't just voice Squeak, but also Ruffus and Violet.
 * Famous Disney characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, make special guest appearances in the episodes "Cheers to Mickey Mouse!" (Season 1) and "Funny for Honey" (Season 3), respectively.
 * Lilly Bartlam, (The Voice Of Dot) Made A Special Guest Apperance As Rika In The Episode Rika Comes To Visit.

Release Dates For The Show On Disney Junior.
January 8th: USA

January 19th: Canada

March 11th: UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden,