He declines Pinocchio’s invitation to a party celebrating his upcoming transformation into a real boy, and persuades the puppet to instead come with him to the Land of Toys (Paese dei Balocchi).

Their laughter fades into braying and the two of them gain muzzles, hooves, tails on their buttocks, hind and fore legs, fur, and manes, and they transform into a pair of donkeys.

[citation needed] The first child actor to play the role of Lampwick was Guglielmo Selvaggio in The Adventures of Pinocchio directed by Giannetto Guardone in 1947.

In the 1972 television miniseries The Adventures of Pinocchio, director Luigi Comencini entrusted the part to Domenico Santoro, a kid he had "discovered" while shooting a documentary on child labor in Naples (I bambini e noi, 1970).

[1] In the 1976 made-for-TV musical Pinocchio starring Sandy Duncan in the title role and Danny Kaye as Geppetto, Candlewick is portrayed by Gary Morgan.

In the 1993 direct-to-video adaptation by GoodTimes Entertainment, where the character is voiced by Cam Clarke (who also voiced Flounder from "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning"), Candlewick is portrayed like his Disney counterpart Lampwick with red hair (though he does not have buckteeth) who tries to have fun in Dunceland with Pinocchio.

During their escape, the donkey Lampwick kicks Lorenzini into the spring filled with the enchanted water which turns him into a whale.

Unlike in the novel and the 1940 Disney version, Lampwick remains Pinocchio's best friend as a result of returning human and affectionately calls him "Woody" even after he himself becomes a real boy.

Lampwick appears in the 2002 feature film Pinocchio portrayed by Kim Rossi Stuart while his English dub voice was provided by Topher Grace.

He is afraid of disappointing his father, who perceives him as weak, giving him the cruel nickname "Candlewick" because he is small and scrawny.

When Candlewick first meets Pinocchio, he bullies him while his father, who is initially skeptical of the puppet, quickly begins to view him as the perfect soldier upon the discovery that he cannot die.

After a training game of capture the flag ends in a draw, the Podestà orders Candlewick to shoot Pinocchio dead to prove his worth as a soldier.

He is given the alternate translation of his name, Lampwick, and is voiced by Frankie Darro as a human and Clarence Nash in his donkey form.

Shortly after this altercation, Jiminy notices that the boys on Pleasure Island are literally turning into jackasses and being rounded up for slave labor.

Lampwick's transformation is swift: within a minute, he loses all humanity (including his red hair and buckteeth) and is last seen wrecking the pool hall in panic.

[2] Lampwick also makes a cameo in House of Mouse, as well as in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where he appears on a poster advertising for "exploding cigars" in Toontown, with his donkey ears from the original film.

Following later, like in the original film, Jiminy finds out that the children on Pleasure are transformed into donkeys to be sold to the salt mines.

His panicked rampage was enough for Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket to get away as he kicked a table into the direction of the Coachman and his Vapor Monster henchmen.