LC student voices Yu-Gi-Oh! role

Chick the Yellow, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Scorpion character, who hangs with Cliff the Trap Remover and Gorg the Strong, has a local voice.

It’s that of 15-year-old Trevor Forsman, a Lewis and Clark High School sophomore who’s a longtime collector of Yu-Gi-Oh! dueling cards and devoted fan of the “Yu-Gi-Oh! GX,” television cartoon show.

Forsman became the voice to the Chick, a glossy-eyed, long-legged character with spiked blond hair, when he was randomly chosen in a national contest.

As part of the prize, Forsman and his mother, Kristi Ross, were flown to New York last week and stayed for what must have seemed like a New York minute, or in their case, about 41 hours. During their one full day in the city, Forsman was taken to the 4Kids Entertainment studio, where he did his voiceover guest spot on an upcoming “Yu-Gu-Oh! GX” episode, to be aired on the Cartoon Network in late February or early March.

“I loved it,” said Forsman, who, along with his mom, had never been to New York. “The traffic was a little interesting.”

Forsman said he was in the studio for about an hour and has about 20 lines in the episode. He found the recording studio equally as interesting as sightseeing, because he plans to pursue a career in computer technology.

The contest, which was run more than a year ago, involved typing a code found on the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” movie soundtrack packaging. Forsman said when he originally checked his code, he received the dreaded response on his PC screen, “Sorry, not a winner.”

However, several weeks later, he got a phone call and was told because the winner did not claim the prize, he won in a redraw.

Forsman and his mom were put up in a hotel in midtown Manhattan, a short walk from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and Radio City Music Hall. Ross said they never made it to Times Square because “we couldn’t find that.”

When it came to dining, the twosome stuck to their comfort zone.

“We went to Subway,” Forsman said, who wasn’t taking about the No. 6 Lexington Avenue local. “We had some money, but it went pretty fast for taxis.”