Let's Get Inventin' - Rocket Skates (First Episode)

Kids don't know what can't be done. Like great inventors, they don't even think about how things might not work. Kids just draw it and expect it to be real.

– Let's Get Inventin' creator Luke Nola

I'm gonna win because turbine engines are really fast.

– Adam Gaston prepares for the showdown between jet engine and human skater

You could separate the child inventors into two camps: pragmatists and idealists ... The idealists were one bad PE class away from losing the ***king plot. They were children on the edge. Alongside your classic Rocket Skates, this group invented the Very Lazy Boy — a normal La-Z-Boy with a mini fridge and jet pulse engine — and the Terminator Mailbox, intended to destroy vandals with paintballs to the gut.

– Josie Adams on website The Spinoff, 29 May 2019

We can do better than that. I think a couple of jet engines on here, because rockets are too hard to control. Jet engines — perfect ... stick one on each skate, a bit of fuel, throttles in the hand, away we go.

– Rocket Man Bruce Simpson reacts to Kiwi skater Mark Jackson's top speed of 60 kilometres an hour

They’re at my level, they’re honourable, kind, gentle ideas. They’re mostly to help people, not just trying to make money.

– Technical whizz Chris Chitty (aka Dr Robotech) on the inventions seen on the show, North Shore Times, 31 January 2009