Talk:Speed Racer

message: Legs that seem 6 feet long? I'm removing it as it doesn't make sense, putting her taller than a large portion of the population. Hackwrench 03:14, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legs 

message: "As a proper name, Go is the equivalent of the English name Quentin." - does that mean that Quentin is his real name in the English version and "Speed" is his nickname? -HKMARKS 02:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believed one of the American comics actually claimed that his real name is "Greg", but I'm not sure if its canon. Jonny2x4 (talk) 05:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quentin? 

message: Doesn't Cyber Formula awfully remind you of Mach GoGo? To me, it's the actually spiritual successor of the series.Suredeath 03:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Legacy and Cultural Reference

message: Could somebody add a section on the upcoming film? I found this reference:  PureLegend 16:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Live action film

message: How do you pronounce マッハ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.147.43.82 (talk • contribs) .
:"Makha"... it is actually to say it, because I am a spanish native trying to pronounce a japanese word for an english user :-) -- ReyBrujo 03:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually "mah'ha". Tony Myers 02:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation 

message: How about Games? Racing Games? Such as "Speed Racer in the Challenge of Racer X"???? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.230.213.152 (talk) 05:55, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: *As much as the "Speed Racer" adaptation has a following in its own right, I strongly feel that there should be a separate article discussing the original Japanese series. There's a large amount of information on the original that could possibly be lost or misinterpreted if all of the focus is on the redubbed version. The same can easily be said for Gigantor and Astro Boy. Tony Myers 02:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So write one.  208.245.87.2 (talk) 16:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed Racer and Mach Go Go Go 

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message: i can't believe that snake oiler isn't mentioned.
i thought there'd be a whole page for him, but not even a mention in the speed racer page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.228.157.137 (talk) 12:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  what about snake oiler? 

message: The mach-V itself seems to look a LOT like the Chaparral 2D Race Car '67 (made around the same time as the series AFAIK). There are slight differences, but it seems worthwhile to note it. {{User:Sephiroth111 | sephiroth111]]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sephiroth111 (talk • contribs) 04:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mach 5 Basis? 

message: "Tatsunoko, the original Japanese creators of Speed Racer, are not involved with this American-produced series in any way, and is therefore not considered canon, even though it builds on the original story."
Just because the original creator isn't involved, doesn't mean the show isn't canon.  Speed Racer Enterprises and Lionsgate are overseeing the story, so it COULD be.  We'll never know until the show is out.  Many additions were made to the Oz books after Baum died, and many of those are considered canon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.185.130 (talk) 16:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next Generation not canon? 

message: Should the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Mock 5" and the Volkswagen GTI commercial be discussed? Angie Y. (talk) 18:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why not pleasem add the infoKuro Woof 20:11, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dexter's Lab ''Speed Racer'' episode

message: Mach Go Go Go is more than a triple entendre. Whoever wrote the current bit seems to have been unaware that the "Mach 5" would be called "maha go go" in Japanese, and seems to have made some speculations about the title.
What's more, the section is unsourced; this leads me to believe it was OR. --Kjoonlee 15:35, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Triple entendre 

message: Okay, I've noticed there is no plot summary whatsoever here. I'm not a big Speed Racer fan so someone else should put it in. I suspect there was once one and that the Wikipedia douche bags removed it to get a notch on their belt. so someone put one up Drstrangelove57 (talk) 07:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:AGF --Kjoonlee 18:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  thing 

message: sorry...I put a request for deletion in error because when I viewed the article, there was vandalism. Sorry!--Startstop123 (talk) 14:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: mistake

message: I believe this section belongs on the Speed Racer (film) page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Racer_%28film%29 The section only refers to events taking place on the set of the movie, not anything unique to the cartoon show.
69.143.10.92 (talk) 14:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yikes! You're right. I thihgt that's where I was - I'll correctBob98133 (talk) 14:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documented animal abuse section 

message: Can anyone provide a source for the claim that "The Trick Race" episode was selected by TV Guide as one of the most memorable moments in television history? This is widely quoted across the WWW (probably because it appears here on wikipedia!) but I cannot confirm it. It does NOT appear in the 2004 TV Guide/TV-Land listing of the 100 most memorable moments.
Doppelbock (talk) 16:03, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV-Guide "most memorable moments"? 

message: What about Alpha Team's song "Go, Speed, Go"?
66.217.39.118 (talk) 01:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  early 1990s techno song 

message: For SR:The Next Generation, the television movie that was released on DVD, AND the series, are ONE AND THE SAME!  The three-episode movie is the PILOT episode.  Someone please correct this in that section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.27.149.133 (talk) 22:17, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tv movie and series the same 

message: It seems that the intro section has been lifted from 's "about" section. The standard treatment for that kind of behaviour is reverting to a version previous to the likely copyright violation. Does anyone know when this text was added? --Alvestrand (talk) 11:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, but should it be sited, though? (the site)  or do we make a new background all together? (Megamanno (talk) 16:59, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The standard procedure is to roll back to a version previous to the addtion, then write the facts *in your own words*, citing the site as source of the information. But one reason why I'd like to track down the addition is that in one other case like this, it turned out that the text had been taken *from* Wikipedia *to* the other site - and this was fairly evident in the logs; the section had had many small changes over a period of months resulting in the version that the other site had used (without attribution). --Alvestrand (talk) 17:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm going through the revision history now to see if I can sort out which came first.  -- Robocoder (t|c) 12:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm going to clear the copyvio tag based on the revision circa March 2006 predating speedracerlives.com (archive.org suggests it went live as early as April 2006, while the edits for Artasylum toys is dated June 10, and webisodes (series) are mentioned June 18.)  However, it would be advisable that ArtAsylum be contacted about properly attributing Wikipedia as its source.  -- Robocoder (t|c) 13:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio problem 

message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rEXAWh0Fz8 and the works  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grimmjow E6 (talk • contribs) 22:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awesome Racer 

message: I think we should have a character list. As I don't know that much about Speed Racer, could someone experienced make it? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 01:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The series isn't all that big, I think it should stay in the article. – J U M P G U R U ■ask㋐㋜㋗■ 01:22, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Speed Racer characters]] 

message: The entire section that talks about how the characters seem "western" in looks seems not only filled with logic that is flawed, but perhaps even a little racists. Although many people find anime/manga characters to look "more caucasian then asian", and it's been written about and discussed a lot ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTvFhRbBt8 , http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html, http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2009-08-14 ) it's not really true, and I find no reason for it to even be mentioned here... - 68.36.239.42 (talk) 06:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westernization of their characters' physical appearance? 

message: Everclear did a cover of the speed racer theme, I think this should be added.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.92.112.156 (talk) 04:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture references 

message: I am surprised there is no mention in the article re. Racer X's outfit, esp. that there is a large, red M against a white background on his chest that looks to be a similar or the same style font as the red M against the white hood of the Mach 5. This is especially intriguing given that the family's name in Japanese starts w/a "M". Explanations anyone?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phantom in ca (talk • contribs) 12:31, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red "M" against white background on Racer X's chest? 

message: I've removed the theme song lyrics.  Their inclusion in this article is a copyright violation. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theme song lyrics 

message: This article has a strange and undue emphasis on the English language translations of the manga, which are certainly worth a mention in the article as a whole... but at the moment, they take up most of the intro, and are discussed in depth before the original manga itself is discussed. This is placing them well out of proportion in their importance in the place of Speed Racer in English-language culture, much less the world. Could someone edit this? (I'd do it myself, but have a strong WP:COI on this, as one of the English scripters for those translations.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue emphasis 

message: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Mach_GoGoGo_manga_covers.jpg
Original manga version is brown. 61.214.6.197 (talk) 14:25, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gō Mifune Original(manga)brown eye or animation blue eye.   

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