Tokyo Friend Park 2
| Tokyo Friend Park 2 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | game show |
| Starring |
Hiroshi Sekiguchi Masayuki Watanabe Honjamaka (Ishizuka and Megumi) |
| Country of origin |
 Japan
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| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | TBS Studios, Tokyo |
| Running time | 64 min |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original release | 11 April 1994 – 28 March 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Tokyo Friend Park |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Tokyo Friend Park 2 (Japanese: 東京フレンドパークII - Often abbreviated as "TFP2") is a Japanese game show that premiered in April 1994 on the Tokyo Broadcasting Station (TBS). TFP2 airs on Monday nights roughly from 6:55 - 7:54 JST in Japan.
A preset number of contestants (typically 4) compete for prizes that range from Foot baths, Massage chairs and Big screen televisions to new vehicles (typically a Land Rover). As with most Japanese game shows, the contestants usually entail people who are already celebrities in Japan such as singers, comedians, models (idols), actors, etc.
The contestants are organized in one team and compete in several games throughout the show. For each mini game they clear, the team is awarded a gold coin that can be used to win prizes at the end. Any team that successfully clears all of the games wins the Grand Slam Prize, usually a trip to Disneyland.
The mini game format is very similar to that of The Price Is Right. Each show features a few mini games that are selected on a seemingly rotational basis from a library of games. However, there are a few games that occur each week. In every show, the team is awarded coins based on how well they do in each mini game. At the end, teams will be given a set of darts (one dart for each coin they've won) that they can throw at a spinning dart board to try to win prizes. The spinning board is cut into a pie fashion similar to the wheel on The Price Is Right.
Mini games have preset benchmarks that teams must meet in order to win coins. Teams that do exceptionally well (for example, teams that may clinch an early mini-game win) can be awarded extra coins in order to exchange for extra darts at the end of the show for more tries at the prizes if they accomplish certain feats in the mini-games (exceptionally high scores, etc.). For example, in Wall Crash, a coin may be awarded when the team reaches 140 points. If this happens early in the game, the host may offer extra coins if the team can earn another 140 points with their remaining tries.
This is a game in which contestants will dress in a velcro suit and run towards a mini-trampoline, which will launch them towards a velcro wall. The objective of the contestant is to jump as high as they can to gain the highest position on the wall as possible. The higher the contestant can reach on the wall, the more points they will garner for their team; there are point scoring zones on each side of the wall, and a contestant scores points for the highest zone they get each hand in; however, if a hand is completely in the center "NG zone," no points are awarded for that hand. A coin is awarded to the team if they accumulate a preset number of points (the formula is 50 points per player, minus 15 for each woman on the team), with a minimum of 200 points for a team of men, or 140 for a team of women); each player is permitted one attempt, however, a team is given at least 4 attempts, so that if a team of 3 contestants plays the game, one jumps twice, and if a team of 2 contestants plays, each contestant jumps twice. The top corners of the wall have two large red rectangles marked "CLEAR!"; and if a player gets either hand to stick at least partly within the rectangle, they automatically win the coin. Famous Japanese pop group Morning Musume competed in 2000
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