The Ruins Realm
The Racing Realms were created to test a driver's skills. Although Tezla states that there are hundreds of Racing Realms, many of them have yet to be discovered. This was done to further test a drivers skill to see how they work in different environments.
History
The racing realms were created by the Accelerons a long time ago. Highway 35 was just a test, but the realms were more dangerous and more prominent of a specific category of driving, like foggy weather driving or knowing what is not the right path for your car.
Description
The racing realms were accessed through the Wheel of Power. Each realm was represented by a symbol. When a realm is about to open, the wheel's 3 rings will rotate in all directions. First the center ring will stop and make a single symbol glow. Then the next ring will have the same symbol match on top of it and the same goes for the third ring. Once that is complete the portal will open and anything going 300 mph can go in and try to complete the realm. However, the portal is only open for one hour. Anything that doesn't make it out will be trapped in the realm. If the realm is not completed then it will open again letting anything out. It is also shown if the portal is closed and a car is in between dimensions anything on the other side will be cut off leaving behind glowing hot metal, to add on further these realms suppress all powers even Silencers or Drones cant escape. Every realm has many traps and monsters that try to prevent anyone or anything from leaving the realm. This is shown in every realm and is most explained in the Swamp Realm when mosquitoes, slugs, gorillas and the swamp beast were capturing drivers and guarding the portal. However, when a driver gets out first, the obstacles will be deactivated and the creatures will quit trying to capture drivers. Each realm has a specific skill that drivers need to master if they want an easier time getting out which is the whole point the Accelerons created the racing realms. At the end of each realm, when the portal hasn't been crossed yet the symbol of the realm is shown. Whoever gets out first will have an Accelecharger appear in their car. The Accelecharger gives abilities to a car allow it to perform the skill for the corresponding realm perfectly. When all the Accelechargers they combine their energy and the Wheel of Power will rotate faster and create the Ultimate Race. In the Ultimate Race the realms are brought together and the drivers will have to race through each of them starting at the first realm. The Wheel of Power will randomly go through each realm until they reach the Sphere.
Racing Realms
Realms featured exclusively in the trading card game.
Canyon Realm: A Racing Realm that criss-crosses over a deep canyon with sheer drops. The skill for this realm could be landing jumps.
Chrome Realm: A Racing Realm that has huge silver spheres and mirrors. The skill for this realm could be telling what is a reflection and what is not.
Wind Realm: A Racing Realm with savage vortexes of wind as well as tornadoes, debris flying at supersonic speeds, and swaying tracks. The skill to pass is to keep your cool under high pressure...and ironically, high winds..
Solar Realm: A Racing Realm with solar flares and intense heat strong enough to melt your tires.The driving skill may be driving efficiently enough to stave of the heat.
Labyrinth Realm: A Racing Realm with a tangle of twists and turns that is infested with Maze Minotaurs. The skill for this realm might be remembering your path when lost.
Blizzard Realm: A Racing Realm with vicious snowstorms that will bury whole cars, zero visibility, fierce sleet, ice, and deep snow. The skill for this realm may be not losing control in an extreme blizzard.
Cybergrid Realm: A Racing Realm with a supercharged track as well as a maze of 90 degree turns and electric countermeasures. The skill for this realm is perfecting 90 degree turns.
Reactor Realm: A Racing Realm taking place in a nuclear power plant with patrolling sentries, constantly active machinery and ever encroaching toxic waste. The skill for this realm is trying to keep up with the rest of the pack, especially under hazardous conditions such as these.
Desert Realm: A Racing Realm filled with quicksand, dangerous rock passages, sandstorms, and giant scorpions. The skill for this realm is driving in arid conditions.
Micro Realm: A Racing Realm where all cars become toy size. The skill of the realm is to cope with the sudden power increase that comes with the cars scaling down.
Fog Realm: Little is known about the Fog Realm except that it was completed prior to the events portrayed in AcceleRacers. Its skill could possibly be driving in the fog.
Warped Realm: A Racing Realm where there are no laws of physics, not even gravity. It was completed prior to the events portrayed in AcceleRacers. The skill could be trying to stay on the track.
Monument Realm: Little is know about the Monument Realm except that it was completed prior to the events portrayed in AcceleRacers.
Realms featured in the movies
Storm Realm: The Storm Realm is a Racing Realm with tracks that loop and curve around the sides of clouds, as if they were clinging to colossal mountainsides. The Storm Realm is an electrically charged world of flickering lightning and booming thunder. This realm tests a driver's ability to focus and avoid distraction.
Swamp Realm: The Swamp Realm features a winding track that curves through and around gigantic jungle trees growing from a fetid swamp below. Giant worms, giant mosquitoes, and hungry creatures lurk in the shadows and are ready to take out the drivers. The track itself is alive and continuously growing, forcing drivers to constantly choose the best terrain at any given moment.
Cavern Realm: The dark and daunting Cavern Realm features sudden turns and stops, unexpected drops and dips, and sections of track that veer into total darkness as well as falling boulders and giant bats. The Accelerons designed the Cavern Realm to test a driver's ability to drive in the dark while avoiding obstacles. As such, stalactites and stalagmites appear throughout the course.
Lava Realm: Huge flaming boulders, lava eruptions and magma geysers are just some of the dangers that drivers face in the Lava Realm. With flowing lava a constant threat, drivers will need to master tire dexterity if they hope to stay off the sidelines and stay alive.
Water Realm: The track in the Water Realm runs above, on, and below the surface of the ocean. Sections of track that are completely submerged run through translucent tubes. Periods of breaks prevent flooding, but allow cars, sea creatures, and some water to pass through. Ravenous sea creatures wait for unsuspecting drivers in the darkness. The Water Realm will test a driver's ability to avoid hydroplaning and spinning out.
Metro Realm: The Metro Realm offers a vast night-time cityscape to explore, eerily deserted and dotted with neon signage and streetlights. The interconnecting streets of this bizarre metropolis will force a driver to master the skills of braking, cornering and driving through traffic. To help complete this realm a driver must remember balance increases traction.
Cliffside Realm: Drivers will need to navigate hairpin turns while avoiding rockslides, falling rocks and large flying vultures if they hope to make it to the end of the Cliffside Realm. Mastering the art of drifting (which means taking tight turns while minimizing loss of speed) will be essential.
Ice Realm: With a track made of ice that can crack and collapse at any moment, the Ice Realm presents a chilling challenge for any driver with it being on a glacier. Competitors will need to be good at negotiating slick surfaces if they want to make it to the finish line.
Neon Pipeline Realm: The Neon Pipeline Realm is a unique Racing Realm that features a track running inside and around the outside of a huge pipeline. Drivers will have to race at all angles (and even upside-down) on their way to a win. Mastering drafting will take them one step closer to success.
Junk Realm: The Junk Realm is a Racing Realm that will take drivers through a junkyard filled with scrap metal and rusty old cars. Piles of junk fall down on the track, threatening to crush drivers underneath. There's also problems with piles of debris on the road, electromagnetic lifters, compactors, wrecking balls, and a big metal fire-breathing dinosaur. The Accelerons designed this realm to test a driver's ability to hit the apex of a turn.
Ruins Realm: The Ruins Realm is a Racing Realm with an atmosphere that evokes Tikal, Easter Island and Stonehenge. The Ruins Realm is peppered with colossal statues and stone buildings. With an ancient marble track that threatens to collapse at any time, 4-headed stone creature, and collapsing pillars, drivers must hone their skills if they want to win.
Cosmic Realm: The Cosmic Realm is a Racing Realm that features a track composed of colorful planetary rings that lie suspended in space. Meteor showers and a neighboring black hole are just a few of the hazards that this realm contains. This realm is designed to test a driver's skill in high-speed control since the low-gravity environment requires the driver to produce as much down force as possible in order to avoid floating off the track.
Trivia
- In the Water Realm Taro went in the drones headquarters by being attached to their cars.
- Battle Force Five has it's own set of Racing Realms. They are called Battle Zones. They were not created by the Accelerons.
- The Swamp Realm was produced in Track set.
- In some realms, the track is not held by anything.
- In the Swamp Realm, a car was seen wrecked and half submerged in the water. It belonged to Banjee Castillo.
- Kadeem was lost in the Storm Realm. His car was dragged off the track by the drones into the abyss below. He was somehow captured by the drones after.
- Wylde was lost in the Junk Realm. His car was hit by a wrecking ball as he got thrown off the track.
- It's unknown why the Wheel of Power from the world race have a few other symbols that were not shown in the Acceleracers or replaced.
- There are 4 other symbols that where shown in the movie thus being the "Forest Realm, Sky Realm, Glass Realm, and Sound Realm."