The show revolves around Blaze, a monster truck, and his human driver, AJ, as they have adventures in Axle City and learn about various STEM concepts that help them on their way.

Joining them is the human mechanic, Gabby and their monster truck friends: Stripes, Starla, Darington, and Zeg as well as their rival Crusher and his goofy sidekick Pickle.

Each episode also features Crusher, a sneaky blue tractor-trailer who cheats in races, but slowly evolves into a nicer character.

Other episodes involve helping a friend such as Starla, Zeg, Darington, Stripes, Watts, Sparkle, or even Crusher and Pickle.

Blaze (voiced by Nolan North) is the host of the series and central character as well as an orange-red monster truck who is good-hearted, loyal, and brave.

He is based on the 1-generation 2010-2014 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor in the form of a trophy truck/pre-runner, judging from the coinciding orange-red color, and has a modified version of the older generation 2004-2008 F-150's grille shaping design, along with a 2007-2013 Chevrolet Silverado's horizontal bar.

AJ (speaking voices by Dusan Brown in "Blaze of Glory"–"Dragon Island Duel", Caleel Harris in "Runaway Rocket"–Season 3, Ramone Hamilton in Season 4–"The Amazing Stunt Kitty", Jakari Fraser in "Sir Blaze and the Unicorn"–"Video Game Land: A Monster Machine Super Special", Ayden Elijah in "The Garbage Truck Challenge"-present, singing voice by Jacquez Swanigan in "The Mystery Bandit"–"Rocket Ski Race", Reed L. Shannon in "Race to Eagle Rock"–"The Gold Medal Games", Aryton Celestine in "Sparkles Racing Badge"–"A Blazing Amazing Christmas", Judah Edwards in "Renewable Energy Racers"–"Valentine's Day Rescue", and Leo Abelo Perry in "School Bus Blaze!

He also has skywriting gloves which allow him to draw pictures in mid-air (which has been abandoned after the events of the Season 4 episode "Ninja Blaze") and a wrist-com video watch worn on his left arm to call others.

Crusher (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is the main antagonist from the series, though he slowly evolves into a nicer character, occasionally serving as an anti-hero.

reveals that he has moral limits when it comes to stealing food; he admitted that he would have respected Darington's birthday cake and not taken a piece without permission, despite his temptation.

Gabby (voiced by Angelina Walher in Season 1–"Tow Truck Tough", Molly Jackson in "Need for Blazing Speed"–Season 5, Luna Bella Zamora in Season 6, Kensington Tallman in "Paramedic Power"–"Valentine's Day Rescue" and Micaiah Chen in "The Ice Treasure"-present) is a human mechanic with light skin, blue eyes and purple hair in a ponytail held by a blue Hair tie.

She fixes up the trucks when they are damaged and sometimes rides with AJ and Blaze to take part in some of their adventures and races, with her always doing this in the Special Missions miniseries.

Starla (voiced by Kate Higgins) is a purple Southern-accented pickup truck based on a lot generic, and more stubbier version of the then-new 4th-generation 2014 GMC Sierra, with the same generation Chevrolet Silverado wheel wells, and a silver cowgirl hat.

Zeg (voiced by James Patrick Stuart) is a lime green dinosaur truck with brute tendencies based on a Terradyne Gurkha/Armet Gurkha F5.

In "Race to the Top of the World," Zeg reveals that he can't swim (even though he did show to do such thing later on in Five Alarm Blaze).

Watts (voiced by Melanie Minichino) is a magenta South American-accented monster truck powered by electricity.

This was especially evident in "Sparkle's Big Rescue", where she took both her brother and AJ's places as the main protagonist of the episode after Crusher sent them away with the Bye-Bye Copter.

In these special episodes, Blaze and AJ visit a city called VelocityVille, a town populated entirely by race cars instead of monster trucks.

As in the original, it begins with Blaze's flame sticker appearing and glowing over a black screen before zooming out to frame all of him in Swoops.

During "On your mark", Blaze jumps through a virtual blueprint out of Swoops into VelocityVille, transforming into his race car form.

Finally, they jump a hill and Blaze lands front and center, and the logo fades in behind him as he slides offscreen forward.

Like the original, Blaze's flame glows over black; at "On your mark", the view zooms out to frame him racing across the Animal Island savannah, passing Bunk then Nelson.

The theme song only added whooshing sounds and the first version had a coloring error: Blaze's lion eyes are bright blue.

Hence the title, every episode has Blaze transform into a super strong robot, as the problem at hand is too tough for a regular Monster Machine to solve.

It starts with Blaze's flame glowing over black like the original, before zooming out to frame him driving on a blue grid.

At "So buckle your seatbelt", he lands in Axle City and passes some trucks and Joe and Gus, before sliding down a metal pipe.

Finally, Blaze, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Watts run through Axle City, the latter three also transformed, and they jump at the camera and the theme song ends on the show's logo.

Also, like both Robot Riders and Special Missions, the Super Wheels episodes take place in and around Axle City.

In these episodes, a very powerful supervillain comes to cause trouble around the city, so Blaze, AJ, and one or two of their friends transform into superheroes to save the day.

[12] Blaze and the Monster Machines DVD releases are distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment under the Nickelodeon label.