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  • Bad Export for You: The American release of the series only made it to Series 1 due to a combination of low promotion and being placed in specific stores as exclusives, primarily less-common chains. Series 2 was given planned promotion for a release, but never made it.
  • Development Gag: The character Astro Turbo originally had the preliminary name of "Galaxy Brain". This name would later be repurposed for another Kazoom Kid, albeit a villain one.
  • Kids' Meal Toy: SuperThings has had two releases of kids' meal toys at Burger King in Spain. The first series was nine different heroes with a rare golden king, which was given tie-in animations online. The second series was a shared released with fellow Magicbox toyline MojiPops, and featured only six characters, but added villains and a new rare golden king character.
  • Late Export for You: The Series 1 release of the franchise in America was when Series 6 was starting up elsewhere.
  • Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": Series 2 was planned for America, but was never released. As such, the characters of Series 2 made their American debut with the webseries, rather than the toyline.
  • No Export for You:
    • The American release of the series only made it to Series 1, leaving countless characters out of the line there. Series 2 was planned for release, but never made it.
    • Series 13, "Evolution", is a UK-exclusive series, with no release in even the franchise's native Spain.
    • Minus the Starter Guide packs comics, the books for the series are only in Spanish and Polish.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Series 2 was planned for an American release by Goliath, but never made it.
    • Kid Fury was planned to be colored green, instead of red. The usage of green for Kazoom would later be used for the Wild Kids energy.
    • Oculus Max went through a variety of designs before his final one. This included negating a body for him, making the camera head both his head and body, and giving him a different color scheme of purples and blacks instead of his orange one.
    • Astro Turbo originally had the name "Galaxy Brain". This would later be saved for a different Kazoom Kid.
    • Acewing, Astro Turbo's SuperThing partner, originally had the name "Top Gun". This name lasted long enough to stay on his concept art, but changed by the time of his toy release.
    • Emperorder was originally given the name "Sunperor". This name accidentally remained in a blurb of the Rescue Forces Starter Guide comic. His symbol was also planned to be purple, rather than gold, as seen in the same comic.
    • Enigma's Superbot, and quite likely his Kazoom Kid form as well, was originally set to be named "Enigmaster" instead. While it would be swapped to his standard name in the toy proper, some websites would still sell it under its preliminary name.

Webseries

  • Out of Order: Many dubs of the webseries, due to starting in the "Kazoom Kids" era of the series instead of the comics-based era, dub the episode "Back To The Origins" first in the series. The episode in itself is a recap of the series' story, but was released in the middle of the later "Neon Power" era of the series.

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