Rush Hour Elimination is a video created by Cary and Michael Huang, who eventually created Battle for Dream Island, using the pieces and grid board from Rush Hour - we clearly meant the logic game and not the film - and recorded with a camcorder. The first generation went public in 2012 when it got uploaded on Michael's channel (fernozzle) along with other camcorder-recorded stop-motion shorts in the video "More Animation!
." It eventually got an animated version by Maroue Reus, which got released in May 2017 in her channel, Dunkel Blau. It is currently getting a third generation by Karlie Haydon.
The whole plot of this? Basically, everyone hates Red Car, apparently since that guy's selfish. But now he's gone...or dead, whatever might have happened to him. What will they do now? Someone decides to host a series of contests to decide which of the 15 vehicles would take Red Car's place. The vehicles themselves don't seem to have a problem with this and are all okay with the idea.
The first generation is a single video that's over 20 minutes long. The second is going to have two episodes, one that's already released, and the other that's meant to be an epilogue. The third is upcoming, since Karlie has to wait until the epilogue is released and she hasn't been given any auditions yet.
The tropes in this show include:
- A Dog Named "Dog": All the vehicles are named by their color and vehicle type. Camcordy and Game Board are basically named the same way as most other object show characters, since the former is a camcorder and the latter is a black grid board (specifically, the grid board used in Rush Hour). Crusher is the only one subverting the tropenote .
- Animate Inanimate Object: All the vehicles on the show are treated this way in the first generation, but the second and third generations take it to object show-level. Camcordy, Crusher, and Game Board are also this.
- Canon Foreigner:
- Camcordy in the second generation. Make sense, since the original version was recorded with a camcorder.
- Crusher, meant to be the "crusher" from the first generation, also made his debut in the second generation.
- Game Board is in the third generation, despite not appearing in the previous two generations.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The vehicles that lost previous challenges are crushed continuously.
- Sentient Vehicle: All of the contestants are this, ignoring the fact that they're Rush Hour game pieces. Red Car is also this.
- Short-Runner: The second generation had one episode. Just one. It's called "The One and Only" for a reason.
- Uncertain Doom: Red Car, who's fate became unknown.Camcordy: "Oh...Well, you see...Red Car...died. I mean, he's missing. Yeah, missing. Dead, not dead. Just disappeared, no one knows where he is. Well, you get the point."
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Pink Car, thanks not only to the host forgetting about her, but also because she was the first out.Host/Camcordy: "Good thing we forgot to mention little Pink Car, because little Pink Car's really really bad!"
