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
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| Stardate | 4 June 1998 |
| Subject Matter |  Video Games
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[Nintendo Screen loads with the start up sound.]
[Screen is blank for approximately 10 seconds.]
[Game boy camera screen loads with Mario who moves to the gameboy camera theme.]
[Christian Chandler's Mariokart Lego raceway loads.]
[The theme plays while we see two cars turn a corner.]
[End.]
Part 1
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| Subject Matter | Video Games
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[Screen is blank for 2 seconds.]
[Music starts up]
[Christian (c) Chandler Mariokart 64 LEGO RACEWAY 6/4/98]
[Mario Kart 64 Line-Up:]
[We see a Lego minifig in overalls and a conductor's hat. The label says Mario.] [2 Christian Chandler. Chris' minifig.] [CRASH DUMMIE 3] [Peach 4] [Megaman and Rush 5] [JAILBRAKE JOE 6] [Barbara Chandler 7] [Cole Smithey 8] [POWER RANGER Christian Chandler 9] [TONY TWISTER 10] [LUIGI 11] [ALPHA DRACONIS 12] [SANTA CLAUSE 13] [Infomaniac 14] [DEXTER 15] [Laura Dorazio 16] [QUEEN GYPSY MOTH 17] [Pharoh's Mummy 18] [ANDY GRIFFIT 19] [BONSAI 20 (Kanji are directly below him)] [Sarah Hammer]
[STATIC]
[RACE 1: Racers 1-10 3 Laps]
[We see the racers waiting up at the starting line. The camera circles around giving us a 360 degree view. The starting light changes, and the race is on!]
[Christian has the early lead, and he turns left into a shortcut. Mario tries to follow him but hits the edge, spinning out of control.]
[STATIC]
[Power Ranger Chris and Santa Clause pass Mario, and Mario follows.]
[Chris drives onto a bridge, followed by Gypsy Moth. Mario again spins out of control, missing the bridge entirely.]
[Jailbrake Joe and Power Ranger Chris go on the bridge.]
[STATIC]
[Zoom in on Power Ranger's wheels. White dots come out of the back, as though he is revving up. He backs up and corrects his direction.]
[We see Chris crossing the bridge. Gypsy Moth is at the head of the pack, and Chris cuts her off.]
[STATIC]
[First lap completed. Chris takes the shortcut again. Gypsy Moth and Jailbrake Joe apparently circle around each other. We see more racers.]
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Part 2
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[STATIC]
[Peach sees R2-D2 and brakes.]
Peach: R2-D2?
[She gets out of the car.]
Peach: Why are you here?
R2-D2: BEEP BLURP
Peach: I see. ok. [to the Fonz] Fonz, tell Anakin R2 dropped in. and we'll shoot him by, A.S.A.P.
Christian Chandler: Here he comes!
[Anakin flies by in an X-Wing and Chris shoots at him]
[Chris drives on, in the lead. The other racers follow.]
[STATIC]
[Vader ejects from the downed X-Wing and stands trackside. The approaching Chris is shocked.]
Vader: JOIN THE DARK SIDE!
Chris: NO! IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!
[Chris morphs into his Power Ranger form.]
[BLACK SCREEN]
[Christian and Vader fight, Chris with a sort of sword and Vader with his own Damn Darth Maul Dual Light Saber.]
[STATIC]
[Chris casts Vader off of the track]
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Racers
- MARIO
- Christian Chandler
- CRASH DUMMIE
- Peach
- Mega Man & Rush
- JAILBRAKE JOE
- Barbara Chandler
- Cole Smithey
- POWER RANGER Christian Chandler (again)
- TONY TWISTER
- LUIGI
- ALPHA DRACONIS
- SANTA CLAUSE
- Infomaniac
- DEXTER
- Laura Dorazio
- QUEEN GYPSY MOTH
- Pharoh's Mummy
- ANDY GRIFFIT
- BONSAI
- Sarah Hammer
- Luke Skywalker
- Vader Droid
- Anakin Skywalker & R2-D2
- Kellie Andes
Final standing
- Christian C.
- Infomaniac.
- Cole S.
- Sarah H.
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