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Rimba Racer is a Malaysian animated television series created by Glue Studios. The series follows a young, aspiring racer named Tag who enters the prestigious auto racing league, the Rimba Grand Prix, to fulfill his dream of racing, but also discovers a conspiracy in its midst and collaborates with other racers to unravel the subversive forces behind the sport. Rimba Racer is Malaysia's first anthropomorphic themed cartoon. "Animated in Malaysia".The Sun Daily. Retrieved on 13 February 2019 Its first episode premiered on 25 December 2014 on Nickelodeon India before its airing in its home country on TV3. This animation is currently airing on TV9.
The show is noted as one of the success stories of local Malaysian animation startups.
Most of the narrative takes place aboard an expansive RGP-branded airship The Ark, which ferries the racers and their cars, along with RGP officials and crews, to locations across the world. In addition to living quarters for the racers, the ship features servicing garages for each vehicle complete with a fuel pump, large computer monitors, and an elevator that transports the car directly to a launch hangar below deck. There are also TV broadcasting studios, a luxury lounge, an executive office, and a simulation room, among other onboard amenities. In the second season, the ship is retrofitted with a Virtual reality facility lined with pods for each racer for competing on virtual tracks, but has been used at least once in the series.
Tag and Miles become suspicious when King offers them a personal financial backing in exchange for their loyalty. This is vindicated when King instructs Tamira to sideline Tag from a race as reprisal for rejecting the offer. Tag and Miles conclude that King is Match fixing with drivers and enlist Sonny, Meika, and Meelo to take him on for his actions. Anticipating this, King orchestrates a team race during which the Ripper is Total loss, and Sonny is rendered . Dejected by the chain of events, Tag resigns from the RGP in protest, causing the public to distrust King. Meanwhile, Tamira, who has been feigning alliance with King, attempts to Data theft incriminating data from his office computer, but she is spotted and flees. Pursued by King's henchmen, she goes into hiding with a covert partner and gives Tag her money to repair his car, urging him to rejoin the RGP. Elsewhere, Sonny fully recovers from his injuries, and he, Meika, and Meelo assist Tag and Miles in successfully rebuilding the Ripper. Tag then returns to the races, much to King's chagrin.
Tag and his friends continue working together in the final race to prevent Axle from finishing in the lead. At the same time, Tamira and Miles sneak into the RPG headquarters building to steal a black box containing evidence of King's wrongdoings. On the final approach, Tag manages to stop Axle but crashes out in the process; this allows Tamira and Miles to escape with the black box. Axle retains his championship title, while Tag wins a Silver medal Trophy. After the Awards ceremony, Tag and the others confront King over the black box and reach a pact requiring him to keep out of the races in exchange for withholding the evidence from the public. However, King reports this incident to his employers, the Ringmasters, who reprimand him and reveal that Meika has been in league with them all along. Later, Tamira brings Tag and Miles to her partner, who turns out to be Riq still alive after all these years.
Meanwhile, Meelo and Tamira make several unsuccessful attempts to access data about the Ringmasters in the black box, which Meika had secretly Encryption to protect their identities. Tag and his friends catch Meika trespassing in Meelo's private quarters where the black box is stashed, and realize her alliance with the Ringmasters. Riq also shares intelligence that Vyxx, Xeno, and Pike are in fact career criminals hired by them. Meika soon has a change of heart and tricks the Ringmasters into providing Meelo a cipher key needed to decode the files. However, Xeno's Nanorobotics that she had unknowingly planted on the black box alert the trio to Meelo's hacking attempt, and they set the device to self-destruct, destroying all criminal evidence.
Now seeing Tag as an impediment, Pike pursues multiple methods of removing him from the tournament, such as falsely accusing him of racketeering and cheating, which prompts a formal investigation by Inspector Hart, and Choreography a race to Assassination him. Each effort fails because of King and Meika's intercession. Wary of this, the Ringmasters assign Pike and Vyxx to closely monitor them. During the final race wherein only Tag, Axle, Pike, Xeno, and Meelo qualify, Vyxx confronts King with a recording of him consorting with Miles and attempts to kill him for double-crossing the Ringmasters, but Riq helps King escape. Axle, who has been abetting the Ringmasters, defects to Tag and knocks Pike out of the races. However, Meelo finishes as the champion, breaking Axle's winning streak. Afterwards, Vyxx is arrested, and King is declared a fugitive, though Pike and Xeno have vanished. Hart, who is in fact a member of the Ringmasters, is named RGP's new chief, giving the Ringmasters greater leverage on the racing company.
| Tag | Malayan tiger | Ripper | Azman Zulkiply | Steven Tan |
| Axle | eagle | Falcon Mach-1 | ||
| Sonny | sun bear | Boomboxer | Fuad Md. Din | Choong Chi-Ren |
| Meika | fox | Belladonna | Ida Rahayu | Assila Liyana Ahmad Badri |
| Meelo | chameleon | Azureus Dart | Usamah Zaid | Tikriti Shabudin |
| Tamira | black panther | Lunar Shadow | Aina Nadzir | Sherilyn Pang Li Ching |
| Krom | saltwater crocodile | Heavy Metal | Shafiq Isa | Azman Zulkiply |
| Wrecks | Indian rhinoceros | Atlas | Megat Zahrin | Kevin Adrian Barnaby |
| Cuckoo | rooster | Ruby Star | Shafiq Isa | Azman Zulkiply |
| Ooaa | chimpanzee | Golden Cosmos | Iain McNally | |
| Pike | Eurasian wolf | Cerberus | Khairul Azmi Bin Abd Rahman | Fadhil Luqman |
| Vyxx | spotted hyena | Daisy Doll | Nur Aleesya Wong Lee Yien | Yvonne Chong Shin Vun |
| Xeno | toad | Andromeda | ||
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