Cloudtop Cruise
- Not to be confused with Cloudtop Cruiser or Cloud Cruising.
- This article is about the race course from Mario Kart 8. For the musical theme, see Cloudtop Cruise (theme).
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| Appears in | Mario Kart 8 (2014) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017) | ||||||||||||||
| Cup | Special Cup | ||||||||||||||
| Based on | Beanstalk / Airship | ||||||||||||||
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Cloudtop Cruise is the first course of the Special Cup of Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This course mainly takes place on clouds, a giant beanstalk (similar to GBA Sky Garden), and on an airship (like DS Airship Fortress). Several of Bowser's airships are seen flying in the background. It shares its name with Sky Garden in some other languages.
Course layout[edit]
The race starts on a giant beanstalk. Shortly after, there is a slight right turn and a ramp with some Item Boxes on it leading onto a balloon with Bowser's insignia that characters can bounce on, similar to Mushroom Trampolines. The racers will then continue racing on a cloud, with a zigzagging set of turns and a small split route with another balloon. After a U-turn, they jump onto an airship, where the player encounters two paths, both of which meet up right before a cannon, which launches the player to a anti-gravity metal track inside a storm cloud. On the track, there are many Dash Panels, but once in a while, lightning will strike them, which the racers have to avoid or else they will get knocked out. The lightning also deactivates the Dash Panels when active. This section then ends to start a gliding section, which touches down on a giant stone ? Block, a reference to how Beanstalks grow out of ? Blocks in Super Mario games. There is then one more right turn before the finish line.
Shortcuts[edit]
- Near the end of the lap, players can jump off two big leaves, cutting the final corner.
Gallery[edit]
The course icon
The full course icon
Results screen
The thunderhead segment
Starting line
Baby Rosalina at the start of the course
Rosalina racing on the course
Cloudy segment of the course
The Airship segment on the course
Entrance to the course's thunderhead segment
Mario racing on the course
Final jump
Aerial view of the beanstalk segment of the course
Shy Guy racing on the course
Diddy Kong on the course
A released screenshot revealing the name of the course
The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course
Naming[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Gu_Cloud | Grand Prix U Cloud |
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | スカイガーデン[?] Sukai Gāden |
Sky Garden | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 空中花园[?] Kōngzhōng Huāyuán |
Sky Garden | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 空中花園[?] Kōngzhōng Huāyuán |
Sky Garden | |
| Dutch | Wildewolkenweg[?] | Wild Cloudway | |
| French (NOA) | Dans les nuages[?] | In the Clouds | |
| French (NOE) | Voie céleste[?] | Celestial Way | |
| German | Wolkenstraße[?] | Cloudstreet | |
| Italian | Vascello Nuvolante[?] | "Cloudflying" Vessel – "Nuvolante" is a pun of "nuvola" (cloud) and "volante" (flying) | |
| Korean | 스카이 가든[?] Seukai Gadeun |
Sky Garden | |
| Polish | Podniebny Rejs[?] | Cloudy Cruise | |
| Portuguese | Via Nublada[?] | Cloudy Way | |
| Russian | Заоблачный круиз[?] Zaoblachnyy kruiz |
Cloudstrider Cruise | |
| Spanish | Ruta Celeste[?] | Celestial Route |
Notes[edit]
- This course's name was used as the basis for the Cloudtop Cruiser, a real-life plane that was given a Super Mario theme to its exterior as a result of a collaboration between Nintendo and the American airline JetBlue.
