Lil Rob

"Little" Rob Planch

Full Name	Robert Planch
Alias(es)	Lil Rob
Birthplace	Ketterville
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Nationality	American
Eye Color	Green/Gray
Hair Color	Brown
Relative(s)	Gene (father) Patty (mother) Denise (sister) Meaty (pet) Lil' Red Riding Rob (fairytale persona)
First Appearance	Golden Grinders
Latest Appearance	Great Wheels of Fire
Voice Actor	Rob Dyrdek

"Wild Grinders!!!"

―Lil Rob, titular shout

"Alright, Wild Grinders. Let's get this video crackin'!"

―Lil Rob, The Lost Skate Spot

"AMAAAAAAZZZZIIIING!"

―Lil Rob, catchphrase

"WHAAAATTT??"

―Lil' Rob, catchphrase

Lil' Rob is one of the main characters of Wild Grinders.

Description

From the old Wild Grinders site:
Lil Rob was born in Ketterville. He bought his first skateboard from his sister's boyfriend, the leader of the Street Rats skate crew. Lil Rob wanted to be a Street Rat, and he practiced skateboarding every day. But Lil Rob was too young for that crew. As time passed, Lil Rob grew into a local shredder of the streets of Ketterville and he made lots of new skate homies along the way. With his new friends Lil Rob started his own skate crew, the WILD GRINDERS!

Personality

Lil Rob, the leader of the Wild Grinders, is known for his upbeat personality, street smarts, and wacky imagination. He jokes with his family and some of his friends, but he is still loyal to them all. One of his negative traits is that Rob is ignorant of smaller things that tend to lead to bigger events of the story. He never gives up in the face of failure and challenges, old or new.

In Grindermania, Lil Rob is shown to be able to sing.

Lil Rob's Gnarly Craft usertag is Sir Grinder Boardslide, but it was terminated when Lil Rob was inside of Gnarly Craft.

Lil Rob's stance is goofy, and he prefers to skate on ledges, bumps, and rails. Older information states that the he enjoys "anything with ENERGY… from Rock to Hip Hop."

History

As told in Swaggerless, Meaty explains that when they were younger, Stubford came to make fun of them in his advanced baby walker, but he spilled his juice on the machine, causing it to go haywire and head straight for Meaty. Lil Rob saves Meaty, and left Stubford to crash into concrete mix, to which Stubford responds by declaring him his enemy "forever!"

Appearance

Series

Lil Rob wears a blue shirt with sleeves attached. He also wears a red cap, but uses his red cap-styled helmet when skating. His skateboard was based on a alien logo that the real Rob Dyrdek owned.

Lil Rob's clothing design is altered for halloween, using orange and black colors, and a scary-faced pumpkin icon on the center of his shirt. This is only used in the teaser of Texas Skateboard Horrorland Zombie Activity 3.

In Shark Attack, Lil Rob wears a scuba diving suit underwater.

In Neptune's Chowder, Lil Rob wears a blue-indigo colored surfing suit. Unlike the other Grinders, except for Goggles, Meaty, and Jack Knife, Lil' Rob's surfboard is light blue.

In Lil Red Riding Rob, Rob wears a red hoodie whenever in the fairytale as he tells the story.

In Grindermania, Rob wears an indigo jacket and a red shirt underneath. He keeps his red cap, but wears it backwards. He only dresses like this in this episode and in Backside Grinders: Reuinion Tour.

In Grinders of Invention, Lil Rob wears Goggles' original clothes.

In Swaggerless, Lil Rob wears Jay Jay's original clothes, along with chickened Jack Knife.

When Rob travels to another dimension with a portal in A World Gone Rad-Awesome, Rob's opposite form was Stubford's lackey, and was just stupid as Officer Lackowski. His opposite form wears a white shirt with a red small tie, a blue vest, and darker blue slacks, but still wears the same red cap and shoes as the original Lil Rob wears. This is only present in that episode.

Merchandise

Unlike Lil Rob's appearance in the TV series, the toyline presents Rob's hat and shirt, with "Wild Grinders" printed on it in cursive. Another toyline product shows him with a serious face. On the gold edition, Rob's original outfit was changed into gold.

The second one shows Lil Rob, wearing a red shirt that a "WG" was printed on the lower right of his shirt and wearing blue tennis shoes. He has a white hat with another "WG" logo printed in blue.

Along with Beefy (toyline exclusive character), the third appearance shows Lil Rob with black sleeves and white "Wild Grinders" print on the shirt and cap. He also wears red-white tennis shoes.

Trivia

A few characters, such as Gene, Denise and Stubford Hucksterball, may have taken all of Lil Rob's quotes.
Both Lil Rob and Johnny Test has some similarities in different cartoons:
- Both have talking dogs. (Meaty and Dukey)
- Both have older sisters with glasses, who flirts with one boy. (Denise, Susan, and Mary)
- Both are friends with older boys. (Freddy and Gil Nexdor)
- Both have evil nemesises who have short heights. (Stubford Hucksterball and Bling-Bling Boy)
- Somewhat, both Rob and Johnny have some friends.
- Both appear in every episode in their own series.
- Both have their own series developed by a Canadian TV broadcast, Teletoon (Note that Texas Skateboard Horrorland Zombie Activity 3 is the first episode to be created by Teletoon, while the entire Johnny Test series is produced by Warner Bros.).
- Both adores skateboarding; you can notice that Johnny rarely do skateboarding in some episodes.
Lil Rob, along with Meaty, are the only characters who appear in every episode in every season.
The very first drawing of Lil Rob and Meaty, which was posted in Facebook in January 2013, contains some small changes from before the Wild Grinders series started airing.
- The image is uncolored.
- Lil Rob is shown wearing a DC shirt, and was named earlier as Lil Robbie.
His clothes colors matches Mario's from the Super Mario Series.
Lil Rob was accorded to be a "Gemini" in Substitute Secret Agent, despite Rob actually being a Cancer according to his birthday.
Lil Rob's birthplace, Ketterville, is a homage to the real Rob Dyrdek's birthplace of Kettering, Ohio.
HPE wanted to put a "DC" logo on Lil Rob's sole, but the network omitted this design, caused by copyright issues.