Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (French: Jayce et les Conquérants de la Lumière) is an animated show which was first broadcast on TF1 on September 9, 1985,[1] on the block Salut les p'tits loups !, and eventually on September 16 in the United States in syndication.

[1] The show, which ran for 65 thirty-minute episodes, was created to support Mattel's Wheeled Warriors toyline.

The heroes are humans called the Lightning League who drive white and silver vehicles with assorted weaponry led by a teenager named Jayce.

No backstory was given with the toys for the Lightning League and the Monster Minds doing battle, and so distinct characters were created by DIC and Straczynski to allow for a structured story.

Straczynski wrote about a quarter of the episodes attempting, in his words, to "hijack a dopey concept and make it into something more".

[8]: 179, 198–199  It later gained renewed popularity in the UK when it was repeated intermittently in a Friday and Saturday evening slot on the children's television networks Fox Kids and Jetix, between 2001 and 2009.

Jayce would be reunited with his father Audric, but Audric would have been killed by Saw Boss as the Monster Minds began a final assault on the galaxy, and in a final battle, Jayce would unite the root and destroy Saw Boss, ending the Monster Mind threat forever.

The true Monster Minds change from their humanoid forms into vehicles upon leaving their headquarters, although they are significantly larger and more powerful than their mass-produced clones.

A mini comic was included with the toys, but no overarching story line was established beyond premise of the Monster Minds versus the Lightning League.

Characters included with the toys were blank human drivers as pilots of the Lightning League vehicles and green brains for the Monster Minds.

[15] In America, several compilations were released on VHS in the 1980s by Magic Window, a sub-division of RCA-Columbia Pictures Home Video.

[22] Mill Creek later released Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 in March 2018.

It included characters created specifically for the comic, such as a white-haired young sorceress called Algora who was an ally of Saw Boss.