Bone-Dry Dunes

Bone-Dry Dunes Bone Dry Dunes
Information
Appears in	Mario Kart 8 (2014) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017)
Cup(s)	Special Cup
Staff Ghost	2:13.391 by Nin★Elena (8) (as Morton) 2:15.338 by Nin★Elena (8 Deluxe) (as Morton) (150cc) 1:39.330 by Nin★Pavel (8 Deluxe) (as Dry Bones) (200cc)
WFC	Available (Wii U, Switch)
Music sample Shiho Fujii
Course map Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Bone-Dry Dunes (written as Bone Dry Dunes in British English) is the second race track in the Special Cup of Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This course takes place on a desert and canyon place with shifting sand rivers and bones. Several ships ridden by Shy Guys and Toads sail through quicksand during the race, occasionally throwing out coins onto the track, similar to the train in N64 Rainbow Road.

Course layout

The course as seen from the starting line

The course starts in an area with a small audience and tents. The road turns right before a sinuous section, and briefly splits into two paths (a ramp is placed between them). After a winding path, racers will find a wooden bridge which leads to a canyon filled with giant bones.

The road now is sandy, and begins with a right turn. The characters encounter a Bone Piranha Plant (which behaves just like a regular Piranha Plant, biting whoever is near). The following area has two distinct road options: the one to the left keeps the sand ground, and features several more Bone Piranha Plants; the one to the right is an anti-gravity section where characters race along a wall made up of ribs, featuring some spin boosters. Both end with a glider segment, which takes racers across the starting straightaway and into a cave, with the mouth being a giant skull and hands resembling Dry Bowser.

Entering the cave, there is a higher and a lower path to choose. The higher path is a narrow and rather short wooden catwalk, which is accessible via bouncing off a sand spout that may appear. Item Boxes can be found on this path. The lower one is the soil of the cave. Inside it, some Dry Bones wander around on the road. A left turn marks the exit of the cave right before the finish line.

Shortcuts

• Players can use a Mushroom to use the ramp between the two paths near the start of the track.
• To the left of the last curve, there is an opening between a line of bones which players can cut across via a Mushroom.

Staff ghost

The staff ghost for this track is Morton on the Tri-Speeder, with a time of 2:13.391. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 200cc, the staff ghost is Dry Bones with a time of 1:39.330.

Profiles

Mario Kart 8

• Mario Kart Facebook page: Pardon our dust! Race along rivers of sand and bone-filled canyons in Bone Dry Dunes in Mario Kart 8 for Wii U.

Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack liner notes

"We asked the guitarist to strum the strings in such a way as to create the atmosphere of a dry wind blowing across the desert. The violin and bass then combine to give a really emotional performance."

References to the Mario series

• The pots on the course depict enemies, scenery, and coins from Super Mario Bros..
• In one piece of fabric found in tents near the finish line, the Angry Sun enemy from Super Mario Bros. 3 appears.
• The staff ghost for this course being Morton may reference his role as the boss of the desert world in Super Mario games.

Gallery

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  The course icon

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  The start of the race

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  Peach, driving on the course

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  Roy drifts on the course's sandy terrain.

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  Rosalina races on the anti-gravity portion of the course.

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  The cave entrance in the shape of Dry Bowser

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  A Dry Bones, walking on the course

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  A released screenshot of the course, revealing the name of the course

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  Postcard image from Facebook

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  The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ホネホネさばく Hone Hone Sabaku	Bone Bone Desert
Chinese	骨骨沙漠 Gǔ Gǔ Shāmò	Bone Bone Desert
Dutch	Dry Bowsers Woestijn	Dry Bowser's Desert
French	Désert Toussec	All Dry Desert (can refer to "Ossec", Dry Bones' early French name)
German	Knochentrockene Dünen	Bone-Dry Dunes ("Knochentrocken" both means Dry Bones and bone-dry)
Italian	Deserto di Tartosso	Dry Bones' Desert
Korean	뼈다귀 사막 Ppyeodagwi Samak	Bone Desert
Portuguese	Dunas Caveirinha	Dry Bones Dunes
Russian	Дюны скелетов Dyuny skeletov	Skeleton Dunes
Spanish	Dunas Huesitos	Dry Bones Dunes

Trivia

• The Dutch name of the course, Dry Bowsers Woestijn, is the only name for the course that involves Dry Bowser.