Talk:Takeshi's Castle

True US Spinoff?
Would the soon to be premiered show "Wipeout" be considered a spinoff of Takeshi's Castle? The games and humor featured seem very similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.141.115 (talk) 07:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I think it should be added. It is no "Takeshi's Castle" mind you, but it is clear what inspired "Wipeout." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.132.186 (talk) 01:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Wipeout is heavily influenced by both Takeshi's Castle in terms of events, and by MXC in terms of the commentary, sports show angle of it. But I prefer MXC to Wipeout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.250.16 (talk) 07:09, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Article size
You've all been doing a fantastic job on this article...however, it's currently at 48k, way past the 32k page limit.

Does anyone else think we need to move the list of games into a seperate article, something like List of games used in Takeshi's Castle? BillyH 17:17, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Absolutely, the games list needs to be moved so we can keep adding more info to this article. Maybe Takeshi's Castle Games or maybe Takeshi's Castle Challenges with a redirect in the Takeshi's Castle/MXC page? JKH 15:22

OK, I moved it to Takeshi's Castle Challenges, looks way better now!! :D JKH 15:33

General Tani as winner?
If the winner was whoever shot Takeshi-san's cart, what happened if that person was General Tani? I just saw it happen (UK episode #27, women's special), which naturally piqued my curiosity. Although Craig said that everybody had gone out (meaning no winner), I've learned not to take his commentary too seriously - plus, I could definetively see he was wrong:. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 02:11, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Us "Keshi-heads" have debated it for a while. We still don't know, but I assumed that in that instance, they shared out the prize money. In the first UK series, winner or not, whenever they all stopped moving, Craig thought everyone was out. A bit ironic though, that the only man to participate in the whole show wins it...

Article Name Change
More people know this show as MXC, the name should be changed- The Masked IP Address
 * MXC is the name used on a US cable network, Spike TV, but it is known by other names in Europe and by Takeshi's Castle in Japan. "MXC" redirects here, so what's the problem?  --Rogerd 03:24, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Reply: The show is known as Takeshi's Castle everywhere in the world exept in the USA! Takeshi's Castle is the original show, which is why the page is named that.

Reply: Which means that "More people know this show as Takeshi's Castle", and actually less as MXC. This place isn't only visited by Americans.

Reply: Keep it as Takeshi's - the USA can't dominate wikipedia. If you care that much, make a redirect page that brings users to the takeshi's page.

New Article: MXC is heavily edited and completely redubbed from the original show for American audiences though. The dialogue has no bearing or correlation to the original show, resulting in something completely new. This honestly should be covered in a seperate article to reflect the differences. Skabat169 17:02, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply: Keep it!! MXC has everything to do with the original version, as does the Taiwan, Inidian, Italian, Czech, German, Phillipine, British and all the other versions do, since the section on the challenges in the show was converted into a new article, the page is no longer over its size and whoever removed the American and British sections from the article, what's your problem? People have decided it stays so keep it that way, if you want it changed then discuss it here!

I'm gonna have to agree with Skabat169. To the person who replied to Skabat, it has SOMETHING to do with Takeshi's Castle, but certainly not everything to do with it, not anymore than Power Rangers has everything to do with its Japanese source material. Which is what it comes down to: Takeshi's Castle is simply the source material for MXC. If MXC were a straight translation of Takeshi's Castle, I would be fine with giving it just a subsection in this article. But MXC is not a dub or a translation, it is, as Skabat said, a total RE-dub which does nothing to preserve the essence of Takeshi's Castle. This has the effect of changing the context of the show to such an extreme degree that I would hestitate to even call MXC any sort of "version" of Takeshi's Castle. It is far enough removed from its source material to warrant its own article. This page should simply have a brief description of MXC with a link to a full-fledged MXC article.


 * I agree; MXC merits its own entry. It is a different show using the original as source footage. What's more, its entry in this article is both large enough and dissimilar enough to be separate in the first place. The overall article may not be 42K yet, but it certainly would benefit from having its size reduced a bit, and the MXC entry would benefit hugely from not being way at the bottom, for the Americans (who comprise the majority of all natively English-speaking people in the world) who are coming here just to read about MXC. --Kaz 18:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Completely hogwash. You just want to point out "the american version is always better than the original version", don't you. Only about three people agree with your point, the rest are against it. You're outnumbered; give it up already. I've seen enough bastardization of foreign shows in american hands. -Izaak

It should be split!

Burning Castle
Hi, just a comment from the UK. I woke up in the middle of the night once and caught a rerun, but at the end, after the final challenge, the castle set burnt down. I thought I imagined it, but another episdoe I saw later began with a high speed piece aparently rebuilding the castle. Has anyone else seen this, and where in the run of the series would it fit?

Hi, it was used as the end of the final episode originally in Japan, but used in the 4th special in the UK - Takeshi "Left the duck in the oven and caused a raging fire"

Sign Your Entries
I like it when people sign their entries --Roofus 06:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

One Million Yen?
This article claims the prize for winning the game was "one million Yen" but then someone wrote 一億円 which would be 100 million Yen. I'm assuming the former is correct (since 100 million Yen is a hell of a lot of money for a game show prize) so I'm removing the Japanese, but if someone knows for sure please correct me! --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 17:41, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it IS One Million Yen. As it was so hard to beat Takeshi the prize had to be big. You also in one episode (called 'The Final Episode' in England) two contestants get handed big cheques, which say one million Yen on them.

Water
Was it really shipped in from pig farm?

- No :oP

Reorganization
This article is rather a mess. There's a lot of interleaving of information about the main show and the many regional versions. I propose that the main body of the article be solely about the original Japanese show, with each notes on each regional version in its own section (or even an external article, while may be appropriate for MXC). 71.143.137.105 05:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This makes sense, at least with each as a subsection with three or four equal signs enclosing its header. Certainly MXC needs its own separate article. --Kaz 18:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Jail Time?
It is not clear, in the Takeshi Doll paragraph in the article, whether Count Takeshi "served time" as part of the plotline, or Takeshi Kitano served time in real life. I would fix it, but I am only 90% certain it refers to real life. Perhaps someone who knows for certain can fix it. Just clarify which it is. --Kaz 18:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe it was he himself who served time, and they just had the Takeshi doll stand-in during that period.DemonWeb 18:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, then detail of the crime/conviction/whatever needs to also be added to the Takeshi Kitano article, as well as clarification being added to the Takeshi Doll paragraph here. --Kaz 18:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Picture in introduction
I notice that somebody has swapped the older photo of the full group shot of the cast with a shot of the "new MXC DVD". I think it should be changed back, seeing as this article is about all the Takeshi's Castle versions around the world, and is mainly centered around the ORIGINAL Fu'un Takeshi Jyo!, and not that stupid cheesy MXC crap.

the show is also aired in Greece in the channel Skai. Someone should add it.

Reply: Done. The 'cast' shot had been removed by an anonymous Italian IP. I moved the MXC DVD cover to the MXC section. I also added the Greek section, but could you expand it? --User:Anonymous 09:15, 02 December 2006 (EST)

Splitting off mXc into new article
I'm reintroducing this issue again, this time with a template. I feel that it is a different enough show that it warrents it's own article.

Unless there's an overwhelming no, I'll move everything from the mXc over to the new page within a week, leaving only a general paragraph on this page. Mshake3 22:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree it should be moved into a new article. I was actually going to work on a new article myself until I saw this. jbl1975 21:42EST, 4 January 2007

For Split - MXC is extremely different than Takeishi's Castle. Let me know when t'is done. Tinkleheimer 03:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The split is complete. Of course, we have a lot of work to do to make it good. Mshake3 03:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Umm it's not divided yet. I just got redirected to Takashi's Castle. Just letting everybody know.

Typing MXC works. Try clicking on the "Redirected from" link to see if that works. Also, now that MXC is it's own article, I think some other stuff should be removed from here as well. Namely, all the MXC mentions in the character section. Mshake3 16:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Complete removal of MXC mentions in this article
I'm thinking about removing MXC references from the character and game sections. It's hard to say "(character) is called (this name) on MXC" when he goes by as many as five different names, and counting, ditto with the games section. This also stays in line with the Power Rangers and Super Sentai articles. Thoughts? Mshake3 14:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

International versions
What order are the countries listed in? Starting with US, then UK, then apparently alphabetical? Surely it should be solely alphabetical?  Troubleshooter   17:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Clive James guest appearance
The australian comedian Clive James (who is also very famous in the UK) once appeared as a contestant on Takeshi's Castle as part of a documentary he was making about Japan. I think this (and any other famous contestants) should be mentioned. See: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1137894qBNdDCKk

--Rjmunro (talk) 09:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

German DVD release cancelled
The planned 3 box release of Takeshi’s castle is I think cancelled. Vol.2 of a three disc box set was never released. I own the Vol.1 set and Vol.2 should have come out in September 2008, but it never came into the shops. Curse TBS, they managed to block the first attempt to make a DVD serie out of Takeshi’s Castle. It is a very big disappointment for the German fans, who saw their dream of a Takeshi’s Castle DVD box ending by only 12 episodes released. Curse you Tokyo Broadcasting System. --UDSS (talk) 21:19, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

General Lee
General Lee is surely a reference to The Dukes of Hazzard; not a play on the word "Generally". --86.162.48.247 (talk) 21:31, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Takeshi's Castle in Germany
Since November 2009 Taksehi's Castle run on ihe german TV channl Nick at 8:15 pm. I'm from Germany so my English isn't really good. Please add this new information in the section of Germany. Thanks ^^ --91.50.194.217 (talk) 13:19, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Shooting Schedule.
According to interviews with Takeshi's Castle Contestants, the show was not filmed in one day. It was filmed over the course of 3 days made to look like it took place in one day. The first day of shooting was the peripheral contestants scenes, Day 2 was the Field reporter sketches, and Day 3 was the Takeshi and Higashi sketches and the final showdown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Notundercovercop327 (talk) 17:25, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have a reliable source to cover it? Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 14:42, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Original version of Takeshi's Castle
Is there any information how to obtain the Japanese version of this show? Because all foreign versions are ruined. They have up to 30 minutes less duration and really bad commentary instead of proper dubbing. That would be really great information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.194.233.201 (talk) 14:30, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

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Inspiration from Jeux Sans Frontières?
Just a thought... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:BD1F:F9B2:BD01:CC9D:824E:2CE5 (talk) 04:20, 11 February 2018 (UTC)


 * @2607:FEA8:BD1F:F9B2:BD01:CC9D:824E:2CE5 it also reminds me of Intervilles in some parts (1962) Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 09:04, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

There was previously a website which documented the number of injuries on Takeshi's Castle
For some very strange reason, it got removed in 2003.https://www.dragonninja.co.uk/threads/takeshis-castle.5023/ However, Youtube was able to recite the list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066A0VWbrUE This list is very interesting.2601:447:4080:10:B4D9:F100:D2AF:3099 (talk) 14:10, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

bad translation
my change message got eaten somehow, but for this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Takeshi%27s_Castle&diff=1146135218&oldid=1146084803

there is nothing literal about calling clouds and wind "turbulence"... and frankly that's about all that is different from the official translation, so unless someone wants to come up with a better translation then this just shouldn't be here since it is misleading information 50.54.144.212 (talk) 00:08, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Title card
The title card used on the front page is not for the Japanese series. As this is a Japanese show and should reference the Japanese version, The image should be updated to the Japanese logo and/or title card. Notundercovercop327 (talk) 00:09, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

regarding "ladder lottery" jargon tag in the minigames section
I'm guessing that the "ladder lottery" is referring to one of those things where you pick one of several options (usually doors) and have to turn at every junction, and you win whatever you end up at when you get to the bottom. I don't know how to make that phrase more simple/"remove jargon", though. "Maze Game"? Kurzov (talk) 12:39, 6 April 2024 (UTC)