Overview (Spoilers Below)

On the premiere episode of Infinity Train, we meet an aspiring game-designer named Tulip who is pissed because her recently-divorced parents promised to send her away to a game design camp only to screw up the arrangements. As a result, Tulip opts to get to the camp on her own and takes the train to do so. After what appears to be a hallucination, she wakes up in snowy terrain and is soon befriended by a bipolar robot named One-One. Turns out this snowy terrain is actually part of a huge train but when Tulip attempts to get off she’s chased back in by dog-roaches. Her next step is to find whoever is the conductor for this “Crazy Train”.

Our Take

See what I did there? In any event, Infinity Train from Owen Dennis (Regular Show) kicks off a mini-series with strong aspirations having successfully set up the premise, the setting, and additional characters in only a quarter-hour which is very impressive. I couldn’t help but gawk at how stunning a bunch of the visuals was during Tulip’s walk-over to the train, the 13-year-old budding game designer’s shadow draped in gorgeous background visuals that are really unlike anything else on the network airing at this juncture. Once on the train, I’m getting a somewhat cliched vibe that isn’t unlike ideas stemmed from Where the Wild Things Are or Alice in Wonderland, but I’m enjoying the trip so far. In actuality, the only downsides to the series are A) it probably should be a series binged in one-sitting and B) no main protagonist has really been introduced although one could make the argument that the train itself is, we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out. Cartoon Network could have another winner on its hands even if only for a short while.

Score 8/10