Trivia / F-Zero: GP Legend

aka: F Zero Legend Of Falcon

• Actor Allusion: Possibly unintentional. In the anime, Ryu is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa. One of the later episodes has him clad in a white dogi, training under a waterfall, with his hair down. This makes him greatly resemble another Ryu voiced by Morikawa.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Maddie Blaustein voices Clash in the dub with a Russian accent.
  • There's also Clank in both Japanese (Rika Komatsu) and English (Suzanne Goldish). The former is averted in the Distant Epilogue via Time-Shifted Actor, however, with Isshin Chiba assuming the role.
• The Danza: In the dub (F-Zero: GP Legend), Femme Fatale Lisa Brilliant is voiced by Lisa Ortiz.
• Franchise Killer: Twofold. The poor reception of this show, alongside its tie-in games, ended up not only killing the F-Zero series and putting it on hiatus for nineteen years, but also pulled the plug on any future anime adaptations of Nintendo properties outside of the already on-going Pokémon: The Series or small shorts like the ones for Kid Icarus: Uprising and Pikmin 3. Captain Falcon appearing as a fighter in Super Smash Bros. and the Mute City and Big Blue tracks in Mario Kart 8 are what kept the series alive until the release of F-Zero 99.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The dub is considered lost media for the most part since not every episode of the short-lived dub is online. There is one single DVD containing the first three episodes, but it is insanely rare. In late 2022 all the episodes that aired in the U.S. were found but episodes 16-26 of the dub are still missing as they were only ever aired in New Zealand.
• No Export for You: Due to 4kids pulling the plug relativly early in its run, the anime never got dubbed in places that usually dub 4kids edited animes like Latin America, Brasil, Spain, Italy, Germany or France.
• The Other Darrin: Captain Falcon is voiced by Ryō Horikawa in the Super Smash Bros. games, but here in the anime, he's voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka instead.
• Technology Marches On: Flip phones are apparently still going to be a thing in 2051.
• Unfinished Dub: Only the first 26 episodes of the anime were aired in English, with the last 10 only being aired in New Zealand.
• Word of Saint Paul: David Wills (the voice of Captain Falcon) claims that episodes beyond the 15 aired were dubbed, but the only part he remembers doing was the one where Captain Falcon was confirmed to be Bart Lemming (which would've been in Episode 35, "Falcon's Confession"). Episode 16-26 were later confirmed to have aired only in New Zealand.

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