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“On the one hand, it’s a silly, kind of dumb show about mice from Mars on Earth,” Volk-Weiss admits, “But on the other hand, because we take the characters so seriously, and we take the world very seriously, if we do our jobs right, people should be getting goosebumps. They should be tearing up a little bit.”
Created by Rick Ungar and executive produced by Stan Lee, Biker Mice from Mars debuted in 1993. The series follows three Martian motorcyclist mice who fled to Earth to escape an evil alien race, the Plutarkians, after they invaded their home planet of Mars. Crash-landing in Chicago, the trio — Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie — befriend a human mechanic, Charley, and use their otherworldly tech to save Earth from the Plutarkians, who seek to exhaust the planet of all its natural resources, just as they did to Mars. Biker Mice from Mars ran for three seasons until 1996, and produced a video game spinoff. The series was remade in 2006 and similarly had a three-season run.
Given its two previous incarnations, Volk-Weiss and his team at The Nacelle Company seem to have three generations to please with their Biker Mice reboot: the millennials and Gen Z viewers who grew up with the show, as well as the burgeoning Gen Alpha. It’s a daunting task to craft a story that functions on so many levels and can speak to several demographics, but for Volk-Weiss, the secret to making Biker Mice fans of all ages happy lies in prioritizing character.
