Block City
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- Not to be confused with Block Plaza or Block Fort.
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| Appears in | Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003) | ||
| Cup | Battle Mode | ||
| Based on | Block Fort | ||
| Music track | "Battle Course" | ||
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Block City is a battle course in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! It is rather simplistic, simply being a huge square with four block pillars (one of which includes a narrow shortcut with a double item box) and some edges; it is seemingly based on and named after Block Fort of Mario Kart 64. In each of this stage's corners, there are several Item Boxes. It is the only default battle arena that is not symmetrical in any direction. The arrow shown for this stage in Shine Thief is red/orange.
Gallery[edit]
The course logo
Overview of the course
A 2-player Balloon Battle match
A 4-player Balloon Battle match
Naming[edit]
Block City may be named after the poem of the same name from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, which similarly features a city made out of children's playthings.
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| Mario Kart: Double Dash!! | Mini3.arc | Mini 3 | |
| Mario Kart DS | mini_block_course | Mini Block Course |
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
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| Japanese | ブロックシティ Burokku Shiti | Block City | [?] | |
| French | Bloc Ville | Block City | [?] | |
| German | Block-City | Block City | [?] | |
| Italian | Città Cubica | Cubic City | [?] | |
| Spanish | Ciudad Bloque | Block City | Shared with Block Fort | [?] |
Notes[edit]
- Block City was going to return in Mario Kart DS, though it was never completed and was likely replaced by either Block Fort or Pipe Plaza in the final version of the game.
