Man, I wish I had such awesome icecreams when I was younger ;_;
I know a lot of pointless facts of the cartoon especially oh my gosh there's a reason I gotta fangirl-blog
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here's my useless facts I've learned over the years heh
1. Though most people go with saying it's two seasons because of different art styles, the DKC cartoon actually spun three seasons - parts of what is commonly regarded to as the first season make up season 2 while the newer-animated one's season 3. There was also a season 4 being considered, but not much is known about it.
2. Diddy Kong's name early in development was Dinky Kong, but this was changed because of copyrights. Nonetheless, the name Dinky Kong was later used as Kiddy Kong's Japanese name for unknown reasons.
3. Similar copyrights issues arose with the music track Fear Factory, also a band around that time, which was renamed Factory Friction in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
4. Not counting the cartoon-only Kongs, Kiddy Kong, Chunky Kong, Swanky Kong, and the Jungle Beat Kongs,
Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast featured all the Kong characters.
5. In the cartoon's original French dub, Diddy Kong was voiced by a kid. In the Japanese one, he was voiced by a girl.
6. The cartoon's credits in French actually show the voice actors listed next to which character they voiced, a feature woefully absent in the other dubs.
7. K. Rool is actually quite adorable. Especially in recent games.7. Cranky in Donkey Kong Country was meant to offer hints of wherever world you visited him, but due to a bug in the game he only rattles about the first world. It doesn't matter because everyone loves the ol' Crankmeister anyway.
8. A rather adorable feature in Donkey Kong Country Returns is that depending on with which character you defeat the final boss (DK, Diddy, or both), the ending cutscene will change, with aww-worthy results on Diddy's part!
9. The Kremlings originally were meant to be part of a different game, but Rare thought they'd fit in quite well with Donkey Kong's new jungle-filled environments... so they did.
10. In Japan, some things are never made clear - such as Tiny being Dixie's younger sister and K. Rool's personas being the same guy.
11. The guy who voiced K. Rool in the Portugese dub of the cartoon also voiced Professor Pester in Viva Piñata in that language. (if Behind the Voice Actors is right, anyhow) Funny because they're both based on games made by Rare! (and that's not even the end of it - I could swear the Dutch K. Rool also voices Dutch Seedos in the game Viva Piñata. Not sure, though!)
12. In the Dutch Donald Duck Weekblad weekly comic magazines, parodies on existing works are often name-dropped. One had a kid going bonkers over a little something named 'Duckey Kong', but the game didn't look like DK at all... oh well. Same magazine had a review of Diddy Kong Racing with a little contest where you could win a VHS tape of the cartoon as well in their now-defunct video game page once.
13. If it wasn't for Donkey Kong, there wouldn't be Mario either. And no Nintendo. Imagine that for a while.
14. Not counting the cartoon, there's two Kremlings who have names that don't start with a K: Skidda and Bazuka. (Might've missed a few...)
15. We've never actually seen DK or the Kongs eat bananas in the games... Diddy, however, is seen eating bananas and tossing away the peels in Mario Tennis on the Gamecube/Wii.
16. I'm obsessed that I know all this!
Posted: December 17th, 2012, 1:53 am
At the second season of DKC Cartoon, tempo of the intro went faster.
