Talk:Wacky Races
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[edit] Anime homages to Wacky Races
I'm aware of at least three Japanese animated shows that produced a Wacky Races-style special. During the '80s, AIC produced Scramble Wars, starring the super deformed versions of characters from Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force and other shows that AIC created. Sunrise did the same, as part of the SD Gundam OVA series of self-parodies of Sunrise's Gundam series. This is perhaps the most direct homage to Wacky Races, as the episode transforms one of the characters, the mad ace Yazan Gable, into a Muttley-esque character, complete with dog-like snout and hushed laugh. Recently, in 1993, Tatsunoko released a Wacky Races-styled OVA special featuring the characters from the popular and long running Time Bokan franchise and it's spinoffs, Yattaman, Zendaman, and Otasukeman.--YoungFreud 16:37, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Race results
Are these race results accurate? They could probably do with being sourced. I'm not convinced that they're correct. MLA 16:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wow....
...I've often thought some wikipedians had too much time on their hands. Now I'm sure of it. I applaud the someone somewhere who watched every series and noted down who won.
Still, going with number of firsts, resolving ties with number of seconds and then thirds, a final win-list reads thusly:
1) The Bulletproof Bomb 2) The Compact Pussycat 3) The Turbo Terrific 4) The Arkansas Chugabug 5) The Bouldermobile 6) The Buzzwagon 7) The Crimson Haybailer 8) The Creepy Coupe 9) The Convertacar 10)The Army Surplus Special 11)The Mean Machine
Phew, poor Dick Dastardly... at least he won a few... Annihilatenow 16:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Didn't ReBoot have a Wacky Races-type game in one of episodes (where Enzo had to prove he's about as good as Bob?), with the 'Player' having a Penelope Pitstop sprite and one of Enzo's critcs and Enzo's dog taking on the Dick Dastardly and Muttley role?
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Actually, Dastardly and Muttley never finished in the top three. The same results appear on the Wacky Races DVD set in one of the special features. As for ranking the cars, different rankings are possible by assigning points for each 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finish. I'll illustrate two point systems below:
Car #: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
7-4-1: 00 56 39 34 40 41 25 50 36 38 49
Rank: 11 01 06 09 05 04 10 02 08 07 03
5-4-3: 00 56 45 38 40 43 19 46 36 34 51
Rank: 11 01 04 07 06 05 10 03 08 09 02
While the rankings differ, In each case the Bouldermobile comes out the big winner, with the Army Surplus Special finishing a disappointing 10th and the Mean Machine dead last ("Drat and double drat").
Glenn L 2007 March 25 00:35 UTC
[edit] Seperate articles for the racers?
Articles already exist for some drivers such as The Slag Brothers, The Gruesome Twosome, Professor Pat Pending, Luke and Blubber Bear.
And some articles appear to have been started, but were changed to redirects to this article (Red Max, Sergeant Blast & Private Meekly, Ant Hill Mob, etc).
I'm not bothered either way, but it seems that either they should all have seperate articles, or none of them. (Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and Penelope Pitstop being the obvious exceptons though). Psychonaut3000 16:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- I thought the same thing when I looked at Category:Wacky Races, most of those articles are only one line. I'll set up a merge proposal because the minor characters should really redirect to this page. Pufnstuf 03:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] bad guy won
I'm pretty sure the Mean Machine won at least one race where they did not cheat for some reason that I cannot recall.
i remember the bad guy winning in one episode
[edit] Merge proposal
The above minor characters should be merged back here, most of the articles are small, and none of these characters are particularly notable outside of Wacky Races. I have omitted the 3 major characters as they starred in other series and are far more notable. Also WP:N states Minor characters (and places, concepts, etc.) in a work of fiction should be merged with short descriptions into a "List of characters." This list should reside in the article relating to the work itself, so this merge is in line with that policy. Pufnstuf 04:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
