Astroblast!


Astroblast! is an American animated children's science fiction television series created by Bob Kolar for Sprout. The series follows Comet, an extroverted dog, Sputnik, an adventurous and loving pig, Halley, a smoothie-delivering rabbit, Radar, a bouncy monkey, and Jet, a mute alligator, who live together with an octopus named Sal in the Astroblast Space Station to the fictional smoothie café known as the Frosty Star. It is based on the book series of the same name by author and illustrator Bob Kolar.
The series was co-produced by Scholastic Entertainment and Soup2Nuts and premiered on July 12, 2014. The series also started airing on NBC Kids, a Saturday morning programming block on NBC, in October 2014. This was the final series produced by Soup2Nuts before the company closed on March 27, 2015.
An early promo for the series featured a variation of the theme music from The A-Team.
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Premise

The series follows the adventures of a group of high-spirited and fun-loving animals, Comet, Halley, Sputnik, Radar, and Jet. They live with their alien octopus friend in the Astroblast Space Station, which also houses a large library and a smoothie café called the Frosty Star.

Cast

  • Comet is an easily excitable, easygoing, optimistic and determined red dog. Penna also voices Morg, Bloodoo, and Flash, and provides additional voices.
  • Halley is a pink rabbit who likes smoothies and makes high-speed deliveries. Abraham also voices Zelda, Sal's GamGam, Glippi, Bippity-Bops and provides additional voices.
  • Sputnik is a pig who has a tendency to get overly passionate about things. Taylor also voices Carly Cosmos, Bippity-Bops, and Laney, and provides additional voices.
  • Radar is a lazy and feisty but well-meaning and practical brown monkey who loves to bounce. Gaudet also voices Bob and Cosmo Carson, and provides additional voices.
  • Jet is a stoic green alligator who has a quiet disposition. He communicates via gestures and sign language.
  • Sal is a purple three-eyed octopus-like alien who founded the Frosty Star. He is level-headed and typically gives advice to the other characters on how to solve their problems. Taylor also voices Doobloo and provides additional voices.
The voice director of the series is Susan Blu.

International broadcast

The series was dubbed into different languages and has aired in other countries internationally. Finnish network Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series in November 2016, during the "Pikku Kakkonen" programming block. In Ireland, it aired on TG4, in Spain, it aired on Clan and RTVE Play, in Thailand, it aired on True Spark, in the United Arab Emirates, it aired on DKids, and in Canada, it aired on Knowledge Network.
The series was previously available on Hulu before 2019. In 2021, the FilmRise multimedia platform picked up the show for distribution, and it was available on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and Tubi TV, but as of March 2025, it has been removed from nearly every streaming website.