I feel bad for the kids who were actually invested in the story… They’ll be haunted by the eternal cliffhanger unless the rest of the episodes resurface huh

I remember this when the falcon punch meme was popular

I would love to see how 4kids handled the scene with the Falcon Punch.

I knew about the English version of the anime, but I never got to watch it, due to me never getting to watch it in time. Maybe this is presumptuous of me, but they gave F-Zero a very bad time to air on Saturday mornings. I only got to see one commercial and that was it. The only way I could watch it was online of course....man, being a F-Zero fan has been nothing but pain since 2004.

Ahh, this anime. This is one of the main things that made me as big of a F-zero fan as I am. Great show, I hope the dub gets found eventually. (I still prefer the sub though)

Nintendo really wouldn't have any say over the animation, that would be entirely up to Ashi productions. I've honestly expected Discotek to release the show for a while now. The cool thing about Discotek is that their catalog is specifically catering to niches as opposed to what's hot on the market so its really just a matter of time.

I've always remembered hearing of this show back when I was a little kid. Even when the gaem of the same name was releasd. Though it took me until the Wii U Virtual Console release to actually pick it up. I even knew of its existence but much like with Viewtiful Joe, I’ve never been able to watch it due to the Fox Box block cutting short a few shows each weekend in my hometown. Heck I never even heard of any sort of physical release back in the day. I mean even Viewtiful Joe got some sort of physical release on UMD but even THAT was hard to find back then! Only time I was able to get my hands on one was through GameFly when they still had UMDs available to rent.

I remember my childhood friends older brother told me he’s watched part of the series back when it actually aired

"FALCON PUUUUNCCCHHH"

Lost Media is now gaining my interest.

Just like another installment of the F-Zero franchise will never see the light of day... sigh

I think Nintendo should totally give the okay to Disco Tek to release their TV episodes on home media releases because I grew up with Captain Falcon in Smash and because of that, people will totally like him in the anime because he's in both Smash and F-Zero and his falcon punch is so iconic that people will just absolutely LOVE it in the anime! I mean heck, just because his franchise isn't that popular, doesn't mean they can't release his anime in the US because in the past Kirby wasn't as popular as Mario and he still got his own anime (Kirby Right Back at Ya). Rare's Viva Pinata also wasn't as big as Banjo and Kazooie and they also still got their own cartoon so just because video games aren't popular doesn't mean they still can't get their own cartoons. Speaking of cartoons, is anime still considered a cartoon? I mean I know it's animated but it's a different style of animation because it's Japanese animation called anime compared to American animation which we call cartoons.

Shame they didn't release the rest of the series, even if low ratings for the time, would of helped F-Zero stay a little more relevant in the states.

I'm from Hungary, we had this anime localized based on the 4Kids version, and though it was also cancelled here prematurely, it got aired up to episode 26

I really hope the full catalog can be found one day and archived; it sucks to see so much work go to waste.

Maybe we could pay David Wills to redub the Falcon Punch scene as close to his original take as he could?

Actually as far as I know you can't really find episodes four, five and six anywhere. But God damn David Willis's Burt Lemming?? He did one hell of a job!! F-zero GP Legend is the most underrated installment in the entire franchise! Plus I've made a playlist including the English episodes but also my fanfics as well. I've even attempted to combine the anime inside the main timeline which takes place a year after GX. It'll always be my childhood no matter what! I'll never forget the day that it died when 4Kids assimilated the FoxBox on March 2005 because I completed a state standardized test junior year. Please contact David Willis again! We really need those unaired episodes and the missing ones if he can!! Please do it!!

I remember this series. It disappeared pretty quickly.

I remember being excited for this show airing since I was a fan of F-Zero GX at the time.

I remember seeing some episodes of the dub on KZfaq when I was younger, maybe someday, they’ll turn up somewhere online

It's kinda crazy how quickly the dub was cancelled. Also some episodes that were dubbed ie 4, 5, 9 aired on tv are still lost. Also there was an Italian dub but it was cancelled around the same eps as the eng dub so theoriticaly they captain falcons actor, Dave, says they dubbed the scenes but 4kids probably never mastered and edited the footage as complete episodes. Funimation ran into a similar issue when they dubbed their tv edit of one piece for skypia for tv cause the actors said tv edit lines were recorded but that was never completed to air since ethe dub was canned on toonami but aired a couple extra edited episodes in CN Australia but then switched to uncut eps.

I actually watched all 51 episodes of the Japanese version since they’re subbed here on KZfaq, and I really enjoyed the series as a whole. It’s an interesting alternate universe take on F-Zero, and although I do think the Japanese version is superior, i would be curious to see what else was changed in the dubbed versions. The remaining episodes would be worth finding just for that Falcon Punch scene alone!

i watched this dub as a kid

As a massive F-Zero fan, it hurts me but doesn't surprise me to hear that this show didn't do as well as it did. Also, with my love for old YTPs, I need to hear that English-dubbed Falcon Punch ASAP!!

Discotek has released many obscure Fox Kids anime titles such as Medabots, Mon Colle Knights etc, however for Mon Colle Knights they could only released the subtitled version as they couldn’t find any masters for the dubbed version, however they are asking people if they have any copies of the dub in their possessions and are seeking to hopefully receive proper masters for the dub of Mon Colle Knights. Edit: In late 2021, Discotek had finally received proper dub masters for Mon Colle Knights, and they released a complete series blu ray for the dub in May 2022

Man I totally remember these shows and playing some melee on the gamecube with my friends afterwards, good times!!!

There's 7 billion people in the world. There was about nearly 300 million people in the USA at the time this aired. I'm not sure how many people watched this on Fox Box, but I guarantee you there has to be at least a few people who have this dub on their old VHS tapes. They probably don't even know it's lost media and just have it... sitting there. 4Kids might even have the dub in their archives, so maybe someone could request a TV channel that would be most suitable to air the show to try get the license from 4Kids?

I never knew this got somewhat dubbed. I only knew about this due to the Flacon Punch meme from it being popular 13 years ago.

Ah. I actually watched F-Zero, but never knew it discontinued...!! I know that’s how I know Captain Falcon through the anime and not the games...

Oh wow GP legend was the only f zero game I've ever played. I had no idea it was based off a show

SHOW YOUR MOVE - Captain Falcon

Reminds me a bit of Mew Mew Power which 4Kids lost the rights to halfway through the run of the series because of toy sales or something. Granted though given what 4Kids did to Tokyo Mew Mew (the show MMP was based on), we dodged a bullet of the 2nd half of that series not being dubbed.

Oof! I would loooove to see this full show dubbed.

I would like to see this dub version as a way of having closure.

Oh My God, Like A Month Ago Or So, I Actually Went To The 4Kids Website On The Wayback Machine To See Some Shows And Others Including Sonic X, TMNT, Heck, Even The Dog, But Seeing An Anime For F-Zero Blew My Mind! I Was Waiting For Someone To Upload Any Type Of Content Of This Since It Would Of Been To Hard To Make A Video Myself, Thank You For Reminding Me About This, You Mean A Lot To Me

If the Super Mario Bros Super Show and the Donkey Kong Country cartoon got DVD releases, I can't see Nintendo having too much of an issue with F-Zero. Did the English dub perhaps air in its entirety anywhere overseas? I know an English dub of the Powerpuff Girls Z anime was created and aired in the Philippines, so sometimes stuff shows up in other areas where you wouldn't think to look. This reminds me of the Canadian Dragon Ball Kai dub that never saw the light of day. The Ocean Group (who dubbed DBZ before funimation took over) dubbed a large portion (I've heard everything up until the end of Cell, when the series originally ended before being brought back for The Final Chapters) of Kai in the hopes of getting it on Canadian and European TV. They didn't get any buyers and the recordings are currently in the Toei vault. VAs like Brian Drummond and Scott McNeil confirmed that they recorded for it, so it definitely exists but will almost certainly never be released.

Funny how I learned about a famous meme clip I've seen in KZfaq Poops came from that show.

Wasn't the Fox Box the block that replaced Fox Kids

Wait, so you're saying that the very last F-Zero game ever made was actually a tie-in game?!

A recent interview with the co-producer, Mike Pecoriello, of the 4kids Ultraman Tiga English dub adaptation confirmed that whole series was dubbed(and they have the unaired one which are lost media which are like 20+ episodes!) Hopefully someone will be able get more out of it one day. Also hopefully a former 4kids worksr kept copies of F-Zero GP Legend hq quality eps 1-26.

I remember Fox Kids then to Fox Box and 4Kids as you forgot FoxKids that started 4Kids thats hurt lmao as i watched the X-Men Cartoon on FoxKids and Tick, but i also remembered this show but man i was wondering what happened as man i love Captain Falcon a lot but glad i stayed with it till they pulled it off.

We need to find the English Falcon Punch scene

This anime really needs to return, i believe it is so underrated, we need to start spreading the word around in order to find those remaining episodes and we need to also tell discotek media because there have actually been blu ray dvds of several 4kids tv shows such as: ultimate muscle and tmnt 2003 and f zero could be next, we just need to spread the word. #bringbackfzerogplegend #fzerobluraycompleteseries #fzerpgplegendepisodes16to26released

That sucks,even though I only know Falcon from memes

The falcon punch scene still gets me,the music and atmosphere is just perfect

I would love to see one on any, any, any lost sitcoms, some mysterous ones could be the live action Dilbert pilot, the lost Christopher Lloyd Dictator sitcom, or the reality TV show My Life is A Sitcom.

You can watch it here on youtube. Albeit not in the best quality & subtitled but its all there. 😊

Sadly, it's unlikely that the anime will get a re-release for one, Nintendo doesn't own the license to the anime. It's owned by either TV Tokyo, Dentsu, Ashi Productions since they were the committee that created the anime, Nintendo doesn't hold rights to it . So for the anime to get a re-release is rather slim, even if you get the license holder for the anime, Nintendo has final say because they own the IP in North America for copyrights and trademarks.

2:51 "But chose to replace it with reruns and burying the rest." *Captain Falcon fades away into the light*

Again, people should ask 4kids staff if they kept anything.

I watched the entire series subbed on KZfaq around 3 years ago. I watched it around the time I first played F-Zero GX, and both the game and anime made me a huge F-Zero fan. I tried watching some of it dubbed, but subbed is way better for this show. It’s a really fantastic series and I hope we do see some kind of an official release in the west some day.

I remember the Foxbox. It's a costume that changes into a fox-like box whenever it feels like it.

Kinda reminds me how MAR Heaven's dub on Toonami was never complete and we never got the rest of the episodes in English.

Growing up without cable and internet meant that my only source of non PBS cartoons came from these syndicated blocks. FoxBox and KidsWB were my favorite part of the week from 2001 - 2008. When the 4Kids rebrand hit each I found myself losing interest, but I'll never forget the great shows that kept me hyped throughout my childhood. I wondered about this show, thanks for shining some light on it!

Dude this anime dub would have been neat to see

Apparently Nintendo is announcing a "new" F-Zero game this week, thisbis our chance to make our voices heard for the lost 4kids F-Zero GP Legend English dub for streamkng at least like how Capcom put up megaman nt warrior and axess on KZfaq

I remember seeing f-zero anime series and I like it. 😀👍

This anime seems to have been such a failure in america that I don't know if 4Kids even bothered selling it to other countries, I remember waiting for it to come to Brazil back in the day and it never did, lol

Speaking of stuff that aired on Fox Box. Does anyone remember that awful Ultraman Tiga dub? The one that was a bad parody dub

3:29 like he said less popular anime the first anime that shows up is lupin

i always wondered if the episodes that DID air were somewhere online. so thanks for that, i just wanted to always here dub Falcon compared to F-Zero GX.

I remember it well. Have the GBA game based on the show too. Shame it never got finished over here though.

If Nintendo was okay with Captain N and the Donkey Kong Country cartoons being brought to DVD, then there's a chance.

Remember watching this when they were releasing one piece, mew mew and f zero around the same year. They held a vote which of the 3 would get it's sneak peek F zero won. Many were upset, they thought the contest was rigged. And that might also made people rage quit the show. I thought it was cool.

The Captain Falcon character looks so familiar, like a memory was just unlocked.

I still hope you can do an update to this video. Michael Haigney, the dub script adapter said not a while lot was done. An AMA with a 4kids music person said not while lot was done. The Hungarian dub based on rhe 4kids version only last 26 eps, a typical 4kids fox season order etc

Please. Do a lost media video about Pirates of Dark Water.

Man, I feel this anime was just poor timed If it was released before GX, it would've been hyped and probably would've help the game in sales. If it was released today, people would be happy and very curious that an old Nintendo property got an anime and of course, 4Kids is no longer around. Instead it came out in an age when F-Zero was taken for granted and people were starting to get pretty tired of 4Kids bs

Good video

I played gp legend on the gba as a kid, never realized until recently that there was an anime

Discotek is the best. They brought Sonic X in Japanese to the US without 4Kids edits, and the 2 Zatch Bell movies with English subtitles.

Interesting stuff!!!

Awesome

I hear there was some lawsuit with F-Zero which is why they can't legally release it but who knows?

Thank you for this very interesting video. I'm a big fan of F-ZERO . Hopefully one day we would see what was the english version .

@lsupersonicq I wonder if something similar happened to megaman nt warrior .. most under rated anime based on video game.. I would kill to have at least a re-release for Blu ray or some episode that where not dubbed ... there may be some lost episodes from the first season too

I vaguely remember seeing bits and pieces of this anime when I was a kid damn sadly never was into F-zero at the time til F-zero GX I played that game for hours got stuck on this mission that I learned years later was the 3rd or second to the last mission it was the big Grand Prix mission I'm sad I never fully watched the F-zero anime and I don't know if it's hard to find I might look for it but I don't think I can buy it digitally so don't know if I'll have much luck buying it physically? Damn finish your videos and now I fear it will be harder to find fudge 😭

Oh my gosh thank you so much for covering this anime!! This is genuinly my favorite anime and my favorite media in the F-Zero franchise! It's honestly super upsetting that the failed English dub is partly (if not fully) the reason for the downfall of the franchise. As for the anime itself, I 100% recommended it. I can't think of anything to actually convince people to watch it, but it's so worth your time especially if you have ever had interest in Nintendo anime and F-Zero.

Remember Kids never watched dubbed anime

I love the anime as a kid and I always wondered what happened to the English dub.

and not to mention nintendo are tyrants that hate archival, but i do hope the lost dub episodes get released more so for archival reasons rather than interest

This has a very similar story to the English dub of 4Kids' dub of Ultraman Tiga. Any chance you could cover that next?

18 years later and still nothing I just hope they bring GameCube games to switch online including f zero gx at least

Again, Dave Wills response to your tweet was basically "uhhhhh I THINK we did?" But he didn't sound confident about it. And all the other hints/clues that have been revealed about the dub lean to more likely that the whole show was NOT dubbed.

Also, seems like Nintendo has more prominent items in their archive than Disney! First, Slamfest ‘99 and then the complete series of Capt Falcon in English!

Villainous by alan ituriel is a good show.

Oddly enough I remember this series and always thought it was bad even though I actually like f-zero

I'm beginning to lose all hope, ever since Sora was announced. I doubt the anime would have another chance, let alone F-Zero. I doubt even Pirate Bay, uTorrent, and others would have them, but I guess these and Discotek are our only resorts, if the latter should hear us now...

I never understood the notion of obscure shows owned by larger companies never getting a new release from other companies. Smaller shows from Disney "can't" get a rerelease from Shout Factory. It' been done before, but either the smaller company never tries and of course the bigger company wouldn't bother. But if they're not using the show at all, why not just let the smaller company release it? If it holds value, then they should release it themselves.

this is the example of Nintendo hates their fans

Honestly, I would much rather have the entire show redubbed

Please do a video about KIKU-TV English subtitles for Crayon Shin-chan.

So, have you played F-Zero 99 yet?

Discotek needs to save this series!

TSUYOKU HAKANAKI MONO YO KONO TE WO HIKI MICHIBIITE SHINJITSU TO YOBERU BASHO GA ARU NARA

Not surprised that 4kids would do something like that, they have a habit of ruining dubs so they would fail.

Did he mention if the episodes were actually completed and mastered in English, or just that he recorded dialogue for them?

F-Zero GP Legend wasn't simply based on the F-Zero IP. It was based specifically on the GX game for Gamecube. Dub or subbed, it's a stark tonal contrast.

2:53 No, they haven't. There are two episodes missing.

That's such a shame