1. Instead of dreaming to someday win the Silver Skates in the great December ice-skating race, Andy Brinker hopes to earn 200 dollars a week by joining Team X-Bladz.

2. While Hans’ father Raff is ill and unable to work due to a head injury sustained from working on the canals of Amsterdam, Andy gets suspended from high school for rollerblading on school grounds.

3. In Hans Brinker, Hans lends his skate to his friend Peter, whose straps have broken, just before the final run, essentially taking himself out of the running for the grand prize of the Silver Skates; in Brink! Andy’s nemesis Val sabotages Gabriella’s race by sprinkling pebbles onto the course.

4. In the book, Hans’ father is cured after Dr. Boekman performs trepanning on him. No one is trepanned in Brink!

5. Hans Brinker, unlike Brink!, does not prominently feature the music of Fastball.

6. At no point in Hans Brinker does Hans tell his father “Yo, Dad, what up?”

7. No one in Andy Brinker’s family has a lost treasure of 1,000 buried guilders.

8. A quote that originally read “A tamed bird is a sad bird, say what you will”

becomes:

“Val and his crew were dissin’ us. We started givin’ ’em beef right back, but they wanted to hit it right there at school. Clearly, we couldn’t step off, so we had to battle.”

9. Hans never throws a chocolate milkshake in his rival’s face; in fact, he and his family are quite hungry, due to their extreme poverty.

10. Hans Brinker never skates under the name “Team Pup ‘N Suds.”