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mangobot

The Original Speed Racer

Welcome to MangoBot, a column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Way before Speed Racer became fodder for one of the season's most highly anticipated blockbusters, it was a simple 60s-style Japanese cartoon. The original Speed Racer was a TV anime series called Mach GoGoGo, aired on Fuji TV—one of Japan's major television networks—in 1967 and 1968. Like many other sources of entertainment in Japan at the time, Go's determination and the superior technology of Mach 5 were symbolic of the country's rapid post-war recovery and the determination that drove it. While you're waiting to head to your multiplex to watch the Hollywood version tonight, let me take you back in time and show you a glimpse of the original. More »

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9:00 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
3,871 views, 29 comments

Latest by SayAhh: Speed Racer, or Meteoro if you grew up in South America, was one of the must-see Saturday morning cartoons when I was little, as was Mazinger Z, AKA Tranzor Z. This was WAY before Transformers came out, though. If NBC more »

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Spaceman Made of Coathangers

David Mach is a London-based sculptor who owns lots of coat hangers, so he made a spaceman sculpture out of them. He also made a giant gorilla and a hooker out of hangers. We have more images and a quick recap of his sculptural method. More »

8:40 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
8,693 views, 20 comments

Latest by What is a man?: @icelight: Finally... someone else went there before I did. more »

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Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Owen Paterson designed the bleak cityscapes of the Matrix movies and V For Vendetta, and now he's creating the candy-colored neopolises of Speed Racer. Not to mention concept cars with wheels that can turn a full 180 degrees. We tracked him down in Sydney, Australia and asked him about the visual influences behind Cosmopolis, the city where Speed races, and the cars which Speed and his opponents drive. Along the way, he dropped a surprising amount of backstory about the alternate world of the Wachowski's Speed Racer, coming in May. More »

2:15 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,171 views, 18 comments

Latest by tamoko: @Plague: Yeah, I love it too. The depth of backstory and design that goes into a film like this is mindblowing. If there's a "making of" book due out, I'm definitely buying it. Leave it to the Wachowski's to pull more »

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Race Through A Day-Glo Hot Wheels Playset

People who have seen the trailer for the live-action version of Speed Racer say it looks more like a video game than a movie. But what's wrong with that? If you can make a film feel like the eyeball-blasting you get from a game these days, then the marketing department, the toy department, the sequel department, and yes, even the video game department will fall over backwards trying to kiss you on the ass. So it's no surprise that Speed Racer is getting a video game for the Wii and the Nintendo DS (which unfortunately means that graphics are less than amazing), and you can check out the new images from it in the gallery below. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,134 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: @zenpoet: 'glo speed racer, glo speed racer, glo speed racer glooooo' ;P Add a pink pepto bismol chaser and I think you will have the whole color pallete down. :D more »

triviagasm

The Mach 5 Could Kick K.I.T.T.'s Ass

While folks are still reeling from the two-hour jolt of pain that was Knight Rider last night, you might as well start pinning your hopes on the upcoming Speed Racer movie if you want a quality story about a boy and his car. Although the Mach 5 is being upgraded with a lot of CGI elements, you'll have to pry that original steering wheel with all the alphabet-buttons on it from our cold, dead memories. Put your mental pistons to work and find out more about the car and the show in our Speed Racer homage below. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Kevin Kelly
3,248 views, 22 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm in love with the Mach 5! more »

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Go! Go! To Detroit?

Finally, the crossover market between car-fetishists, anime fans and people who weren't sleeping by the end of The Matrix Revolutions will be served by Warner Bros bringing the Wachowski Brothers' movie version of Speed Racer's Mach-5 supercar to Detroit's North American International Auto Show at the end of the month. For three days - January 19th through 21st - fans can stare, probably from a distance, at a three-dimensional recreation of a car that probably starred in many childhood dreams without having to think about Christina Ricci or Emile Hirsch. And isn't that what everyone would want?

Speed Racer's Mach 5 Heads for Detroit [Superherohype.com]

6:40 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By grae
392 views, 11 comments

Latest by WickedGlee: This is not the first Mach 5 to be made into a real car. A much more authentically styled one was produced a few years ago and rumors were that 500 were to be manufactured and sold. Minus more »