Toad and the Kingdom Saga

**Toad and the Kingdom Saga** (known as **Captain Toad and the Kingdom Saga** in Season 4 and onwards) is a musical interactive animated CKGamerJunior YouTube show based on the Super Mario franchise. It’s the first TOLG Junior original series following the rebrand from TOLG Playhouse. The series focuses on a brigade of young Toads consisting of Toad, Toadette, Huckleberry, and Buckleberry (comprising the Team Brigade), as well as Cubby, their artificially intelligent pirate ship that is capable of communicating to the brigade using his ringing bell and light, as they venture throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, searching for treasure and adventure. Often times, they spend their days competing against Captain Wingo and his minion, Bowser, as they spend most of the series attempting to retrieve back their stolen treasure. Occasionally, they are accompanied by several characters, including Mario. While the first season focused heavily on viewer interactivity, later episodes (since season 2) toned it down. Season 4 occasionally has kids interact just once an episode, to tell them the number of Super Gems collected, since the interactive Brigade Problem feature has been removed. Season 5 removed this all together, thus resulting in no viewer interactivity.

## Premise

The show focuses on a band of young children who happen to be Toads who reside within the Mushroom Kingdom: Toad (also known as Captain Toad in Season 4), Huckleberry, Buckleberry, and Toadette. They make up a crew called the Team Brigade. They collect Super Gems throughout their adventure. Each episode has Toad and friends venture in the Mushroom Kingdom and completing puzzles (referred to as "Brigade Problems") that will award Toad and his crew a certain amount of Super Gems. Towards the end of each episode, Toad and friends gather all the Super Gems that have been collected and put them in their Brigade Treasure Chest and count them up. While the first season followed more playful conflicts, episodes starting in season 2 gave a larger emphasis to the adventure aspect of the show, now having the kids visit an enchanted ship or an ancient pyramid. Season 3 further ramped up the action whilst retaining its kid-friendly tone. Each segment consists of two eleven-minute animated episodes, followed by a musical for the credits, performed by live-action versions of Koopster and Goombs. In season 4 and 5, the live-action musicals are omitted in favor of instrumental credits of Toad in various scenes with remixes of songs from the Mario franchise and the show itself.

Season 1 put an emphasis on viewer interactivity, especially with Brigade Problems throughout the episodes. Seasons 2 and 3 removed most traces of viewer Interactivity to further embrace the adventure, and deeper life lessons for the series. However, the show still asks the audience to say the Brigade Password, help the crew save the day, tally and collect Super Gems after solving a Brigade Problem, and the count up of Super Gems at the end. Season 4 and onward removes most, if not all traces of viewer interactivity to further ramp up the action and adventure elements of the series. Toad and the Kingdom Saga inspires little kids that if they want to accomplish something, they need to persevere and work together with others without giving it up to someone less deserving to earn it.

The show uses the song "Yahoo, Let's Go!" for its opening title theme.

## Cast

### Main Characters

**Toad**

Toad is an 8-year old boy and serves as the main protagonist of the series. His catchphrase is "Yahoo, let’s go!" and says it whenever it's time to set off for a journey. He has a pickax that Mario created and gave to him in his journey to save Princess Peach, as well as a spyglass that he uses more often than not. He serves as Wingo's main rival.

**Toadette**

Toadette is an 7-year old female Toad and is very close with Toad. She keeps 4 Propeller Mushrooms that help everyone to fly, but they only use them for dire situations. When she's not adventuring, she enjoys playing with the crew.

**Huckleberry**

Huckleberry is a 5 year old boy and the youngest within the Toad Brigade. He has a map of the entire Mushroom Kingdom that Mario gave to him. While he may be pretty young and mischievous at times, he still has his fair share of responsibilities. His catchphrase is "Aw, chestnuts!".

**Buckleberry**

At age 6, Buckleberry was called by Toad to join the Toad Brigade for his outstanding craftsmanship, even at this young of an age. He builds items to help the Toads in their journey. He's very clever and more often then not acts like a guardian for the team. He's always in the lookout for Bowser and Wingo.

**Cubby**

Cubby is an artificially intelligent minecart that can communicate with the Toad brigade using it's bell and beeping lights. Cubby can also transform into other vehicles, such as a ship and a rocket.

### Major Characters

**Captain Wingo**

Wingo is the main antagonist of the series and serves as Toad‘s main rival. Usually a sneaky pirate and greedy bird, Wingo always plots against the Toad Brigade in hopes of getting valuable treasure. He wishes to one day build his own empire and become the richest citizen in the Mushroom Kingdom. He is in charge of his ship, the Bone Rattler, as well as Bowser's, Goombs's, and Koopster's captain.

**Bowser**

Bowser is Wingo's assistant and the secondary antagonist in the series. While he is shown doing villainous acts alongside Wingo, his boss, he is capable of occasionally being compassionate for Toad and his crew, and mainly follows Wingo just because he was forced to.

**Goombs**

Goombs is one of Wingo's minions. However, it seems that he's much interested in goofing off with Koopster and performing a grand musical rather than listening to Wingo.

**Koopster Parakarry**

Koopster is Wingo and Bowser's other minion and is Goombs' best friend. He's a pirate, just like Bowser, Wingo, and Goombs.

**Tubba Blubba**

**Captain Bomberry**

## Trivia

* This show takes place during the past of when Toad and his friends were kids. Mario traveled back in time to assist them in their adventures. Koopster and Goombs traveled back in time as well, seeing as they're around the same age as Toadette as seen in Super Koopster. This means that Captain Toad and Toad are the same exact person in TOLG cannon.
* Remade versions of season 1 episodes aired on CKGamerJunior and TheOneLegendaryGamer.com after the show’s 5 year anniversary. Initially the 1080p videos were only available to Patreon supporters at the time of their original airing.
* This series is not cannon to the official Nintendo universe, but it is cannon in the TOLG universe.
* A few episodes early on in Season 2 have viewer interactivity throughout the episodes similarly to season 1. These videos were originally going to be aired during Season 1, but had to be pushed back to focus on getting the Season 1 finale out on time. Episodes that were produced after the official launch of the finale got rid of any viewer interactivity that wasn't a part of the show's formula at the time.