Mario Kart 64 Lego Raceway

Mario Kart 64 Lego Raceway is a video series from Chris's "I'm on TV" DVD. It was filmed using a Game Boy Camera in 1998, when Chris was still in Manchester High School.

The Game Boy Camera is a bulky Game Boy game with a camera attached to the top of it you could place into your Game Boy and use to take grainy black-and-white pictures. Afterward, these pictures could be played with or edited in various ways; you could draw on them, make them sprites in a handful of minigames, or string them together to make an animation, like Chris did. Using the camera and his LEGO, Chris made a stop-motion animation of the cars racing around CWCville, firing shells (or in this case, Star and Circle shapes) at each other set to some appropriate music.

However, the Game Boy Camera could only hold thirty pictures at a time. That isn't nearly enough for even half a lap, so what Chris had to do was take the thirty pictures, edit them appropriately, string them together into an animation, record the animation, and then repeat the process over and over. To make the sudden starting and stopping seem more "natural", Chris put a second of static at the end of each set of pictures. This didn't do anything to change the fact that the twenty-second song Chris used for his animation got more and more grating as it restarted again and again.

However, it is impressive that Chris expended so much time and effort at such a complex and frustrating task, especially considering that, years later, he would draw Sonichu comics without any planning or practice, and upload YouTube videos without bothering to check them over first.

In the actual race videos, it's near impossible to tell what's going on, since most of the racers look exactly the same in poor quality black-and-white pictures. However, what is very easy to tell is that Chris was perhaps even more of a god-moder in his younger days than he is now, perhaps only now eclipsing his past self with his actions in Sonichu #10. In both races Chris takes place in, he takes an early lead and isn't threatened in the slightest by the other racers; in fact, in his second race, he has enough time to battle Darth Vader, become a Power Ranger, and then shove Vader into an abyss before changing back, hopping on his cart, and finishing the race in first place.

He also spends some time in-between races describing his Power Rangers team, mostly made up of him, Cole Smithey, and various Gal-Pals and video game characters, such as Mario and Mega Man. He also spends almost a minute (and several takes worth of animation) showing several karts link up into the KART MEGAZORD, a powerful weapon never seen by the public eye until Sonichu #9, and even then it hasn't really done anything yet.

The sequences also appear to have been transferred onto VHS tape at some point, as evidenced by the vertical stabilization problems, the noise at the bottom of the picture at the beginning of the first video, and the general picture quality of the video. Chris most likely got the video on VHS by hooking him the Game Boy Camera to a Super Game Boy for his SNES and then recording that way.

In short, Mario Kart 64 Lego Raceway was a fairly good indicator of the path Chris would start down only two years later, when he first came up with the idea for Sonichu.

Prototype

Mario Kart 64 Lego Raceway Prototype
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Racers

Line-up of the racers.

1. MARIO
2. Christian Chandler
3. CRASH DUMMIE
4. Peach
5. Mega Man & Rush
6. JAILBRAKE JOE
7. Barbara Chandler
8. Cole Smithey
9. POWER RANGER Christian Chandler (again)
10. TONY TWISTER
11. LUIGI
12. ALPHA DRACONIS
13. SANTA CLAUSE
14. Infomaniac
15. DEXTER
16. Laura Dorazio
17. QUEEN GYPSY MOTH
18. Pharoh's Mummy
19. ANDY GRIFFIT
20. BONSAI
21. Sarah Hammer
22. Luke Skywalker
23. Vader Droid
24. Anakin Skywalker & R2-D2
25. Kellie Andes

Final standing

1. Christian C.
2. Infomaniac.
3. Cole S.
4. Sarah H.

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Regular DVD: Sonic Watch & Win Sweepstakes • "Song of Christian" • Mario Kart 64 Lego Raceway • Chris Chan in the PokéNews • The City of Cwicville Tour! • Animal Crossing Documentary • The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special • "So Need a Cute Girl" • "All I Want For Christmas Is a Pretty Girlfriend" • Harvey Birdman commercial • Pixelated PS3 • FUTURE MESSAGE • KCWC broadcast • CWC Slideshow Notes • Slideshow images Director's Cut: ChandlerFamilyChristmas2004 • ChrisAfterChristmas2004