Disney’s Big Hero 6 The Series is ready to launch this weekend with a premiere event featuring two back-to-back episodes on both Saturday, June 9th and Sunday, June 10th from 9:00-10:00 a.m. EDT/PDT, on Disney Channel, DisneyNOW and Disney Channel VOD platforms. In the weeks following the premiere weekend, new episodes will then debut every Saturday through September. To celebrate the small-screen debut of Hiro, Baymax and the crew's new adventures, we have an exclusive S.T.E.A.M.-powered featurette from the show to share with you today!

In this behind-the-scenes look, the cast and crew of Big Hero 6: The Series chat about the importance of science education for kids and how the show itself portrays science as it truly is: cool, exciting, and superheroic. Each of the characters and their chosen scientific specialty gets their time to shine, like Hiro's focus on robotics, Honey Lemon's chemical concoctions, and Go Go's maglev tech. Another cool aspect is that the animated series' science is grounded in reality even though they take the characters' creations to extremes in battling threats to San Fransokyo. This featurette offers a great look at the series and a nice nod to real-life S.T.E.A.M. so check it out!

Check out the S.T.E.A.M.-focused featurette for Big Hero 6: The Series below:

"Big Hero 6 The Series" will launch with a premiere weekend event, featuring two back-to-back episodes on both Saturday, June 9 and Sunday, June 10 (9:00-10:00 a.m. EDT/PDT), on Disney Channel, DisneyNOW and Disney Channel VOD platforms.

Big Hero 6 The Series, based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14-year-old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting-edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high-tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains. In his normal day-to-day life, Hiro faces daunting academic challenges and social trials as the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology.

The Big Hero 6 The Series voice cast is Maya Rudolph as Aunt Cass; Ryan Potter as Hiro; Scott Adsit as Baymax; Jamie Chung as Go Go; Alan Tudyk as Alistair Krei; Khary Payton as Wasabi; Genesis Rodriguez as Honey Lemon; Brooks Wheelan as Fred; David Shaughnessy as Heathcliff; and Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee as Fred’s dad. Recurring guest voice cast includes Jenifer Lewis as Professor Granville; Haley Tju as Karmi; Andrew Scott as Obake; and Andy Richter as Globby. A line of consumer products are currently available on shopDisney.com and at Disney stores, and will be coming to retailers nationwide on July 1st. A DVD from Walt Disney Studios titled Big Hero 6 The Series: Back in Action! will be released on June 26th.

Joining the stellar cast as a guest star on the animated series will be Emmy Award-nominated Christy Carlson Romano–who reunites with her Kim Possible creative team of Emmy Award-winning producers Mark McCorkleBob Schooley and Nick Filippi–who will play bot-fighter Trina. Additional guest voice cast includes celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown as cooking competition participant Bolton Gramercy and host Yum Laboughé, respectively; Daniel Henney and James Cromwell  reprise their feature film roles as Hiro’s brother Tadashi and Professor Callaghan, respectively; Susan Sullivan as Fred’s mother; John Michael Higgins as Fred’s sidekick robot Mini-Max; Diedrich Bader as pompous local TV reporter Bluff Dunder; Sean Giambrone as Fred’s geeky archrival Richardson Mole; Naoko Mori as thief-for-hire Momakase; Lucas Neff as fast-food mascot Noodle Burger Boy; and Mara Wilson as self-made billionaire Liv Amara.

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