Light the Color Panels!

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"Light the Color Panels!"
Thumbnail for "Light the Color Panels!" from Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury used for Nintendo Music
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Unknown (either Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, or Koji Kondo)
First appearance Super Mario 3D World (2013)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (2021)
“This section features panels on the floor that light up when you step on them. We made it so the musical arrangement becomes lavish as you step on the panels. Once you've lit up a floor panel, it will play the same note each time you step on it. Why not try to come up with a melody of your own?”
—Liner notes in the Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack

"Light the Color Panels!",[1] also known as "Light the Colour Panels!",[2] is a musical theme in Super Mario 3D World, where it plays in sub-areas that feature Color Panels.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]

Super Mario 3D World marks the first appearance of "Light the Color Panels!", where it plays in the sub-areas in Sunshine Seaside, Really Rolling Hills, Bob-ombs Below, Night Falls on Really Rolling Hills, and Rainbow Run, which all feature Color Panels. As more Color Panels are lit, the instrumentation increasingly becomes more bombastic. After all Color Panels are lit, the theme is replaced by "Mario's Color Panels", except in Rainbow Run, where it is instead replaced by "Link's Color Panels". Both of these themes incorporate the first drum loop layer of "Light the Color Panels!".

"Light the Color Panels!" returns in the Nintendo Switch port, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, for the same purposes. In the official Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack album, each version of the theme is played in sequence on the same track.

Super Mario Odyssey[edit]

In Super Mario Odyssey, an arrangement of the second layer of "Light the Color Panels!" arranged by Shiho Fujii plays in the Koopa Trace-Walking and Picture Match minigames. It is titled "Koopa's Trace-Walking" in the Nintendo Music app and "Climactic Duel!" in the game's sound test. This arrangement consists of an idiophone, hi-hats, and a faint ascending bassline.

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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[edit]

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In Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS ports, a remix of "Light the Color Panels!" plays in the level Mummy-Me Maze Forever. It is likewise titled "Mummy-Me Maze Forever" in the Nintendo Music app.

Gallery[edit]

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario 3D World Wii U 2013 Original "Light the Color Panels!"[1]
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Wii U 2014 Remix "Mummy-Me Maze Forever"[3]
Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Switch 2017 Arrangement "Koopa's Trace-Walking"[4] Shiho Fujii
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch 2018 Past remix (Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker [Wii U]) "Mummy-Me Maze Forever"[3]
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Nintendo Switch 2021 Original "Light the Color Panels!"[1]

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack 2013 Original "Light the Colour Panels!"
Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack 2018 Past arrangement (Super Mario Odyssey) 「ノコノコウォーク」 (Nokonoko Wōku) Shiho Fujii
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Music) 2024 Past arrangement (Super Mario Odyssey) "Koopa's Trace-Walking" Shiho Fujii
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Music) 2025 Past remix (Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker [Wii U]) "Mummy-Me Maze Forever"
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Nintendo Music) 2026 Original "Light the Color Panels!"

Names in other languages[edit]

"Light the Color Panels!"[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNote(s)Ref.
Japaneseぬりつぶせ！ カラーパネル
Nuritsubuse! Karā Paneru		Paint It Out! Color Panels[1]

"Koopa's Trace-Walking"[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNote(s)Ref.
Japaneseノコノコウォーク
Nokonoko Wōku		Koopa Troopa Walk[4]
勝負
Shōbu		Showdown[5]
Chinese (Simplified)一决高下！
Yī jué gāo xià!		Let's settle this once and for all![5]
Chinese (Traditional)一較高下！
Yī jiào gāo xià!		[5]
DutchUitdagingChallenge[5]
French (Canada)Confrontation!-[5]
French (Europe)Challenge[5]
GermanEine Frage des KönnensA Question of Ability[5]
ItalianProva di bravuraTest of skill[5]
Korean대결!
Daegyeol!		Showdown![5]
RussianВажное выступление
Vazhnoye vystupleniye		Important performance[5]
Spanish (Latin America)¡Desafio![sic]Challenge![5]
Spanish (Europe)Desafio[sic]Challenge[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Nintendo Music)
  2. ^ Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack
  3. ^ a b Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Music)
  4. ^ a b Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Music)
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Super Mario Odyssey sound test
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Round 1 BGM"
Donkey Kong (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Theme" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Funky the Main Monkey (Funky's Theme)" • "K. Rool Returns (Title Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Snakey Chantey (Rattle Battle)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)" • "Token Tango (Bonus Level)"
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! "Big Boss Blues"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Island" • "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Jungle Hijinxs" • "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "Castle BGM" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" • "Invincibility BGM" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels "Ending"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ending" • "Final Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Title BGM" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Ground BGM" • "Invincibility BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Throne Room" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" • "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Easton Kingdom BGM"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Rescuing Princess Peach" • "Special World (Map Screen)" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Valley of Bowser (Map Screen)" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins "Main Theme"
Super Mario 64 "Big Boo's Haunt" • "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "The Final Battle" • "Hazy Maze Cave" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Opening" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Powerful Mario" • "Staff Roll" • "Stage Boss" • "Title Theme"
Super Mario Sunshine "Boss Battle" • "Isle Delfino" ("Bianco Hills" · "Ricco Harbor" · "Staff Credits") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Castle Theme" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mario Vs. Luigi - Final Results" • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!" • "Tower Theme" • "Volcano Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy "A-wa-wa-wa!" • "Aquatic Race" • "Attack of the Airships" • "Battlerock Galaxy" • "Bowser Appears" • "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Catastrophe" • "Cosmic Comet" • "Deep Dark Galaxy" • "Dino Piranha" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Enter the Galaxy" • "Final Battle with Bowser" • "The Galaxy Reactor" • "Gateway Galaxy" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Help!" • "The Honeyhive" • "Ice Mario" • "Ice Mountain" • "King Bowser" • "King Kaliente" • "Kingfin" • "Luma" • "Major Burrows" • "Megaleg" • "Melty Molten Galaxy" • "Overture" • "Peach's Castle Stolen" • "Pipe Interior" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" ("Family") • "Space Athletic" • "Space Junk Road" • "Star Ball" • "The Star Festival" • "Super Mario 2007" • "Super Mario Galaxy" • "A Tense Moment" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Airship Theme" • "Bonus Area" • "Bowser Jr. Battle" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Fortress Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Koopaling Battle" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Sudden Encounter" • "Super Star" • "Title Theme" • "Toad House Minigame" • Tower boss theme[conjectural] • "Underground Theme" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla" • "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Cloudy Court Galaxy" • "Fated Battle" • "Melty Monster Galaxy" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Starship Mario" • "The Starship's Journey" • "Sky Station Galaxy" ("Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" · "Wild Glide Galaxy") • "Teleporter Melody" • "Yoshi Star Galaxy"
Super Mario 3D Land "Beach Theme" • Castle Theme[conjectural] • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Toad House" • "Victory Parade" • World 2-3's theme[conjectural]
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme")
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Beep Block Skyway" • "The Bullet Bill Express" • "Captain Toad Goes Forth" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Double Cherry Pass" • "Light the Color Panels!" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Sprawling Savanna" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Flying Battleship Theme" • "Title"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!" • "New Donk City" • "Peronza Plaza" • "Steam Gardens" • "Tostarena Ruins"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen" • "Vs. Game Over"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Battle Mode" • "Bowser Castle" • "Donut Plains" • "Ghost Valley" • "Koopa Beach" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Banshee Boardwalk" • "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st – 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Bowser Castle" • "Peach Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "Baby Park" • "Bowser's Castle" • "GCN DK Mountain" • "Dry Dry Desert" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "Cheep Cheep Beach" • "Figure-8 Circuit" • "Luigi's Mansion" • "Peach Gardens" • "Tick-Tock Clock" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Daisy Circuit" • "Grumble Volcano" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Rainbow Road" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "DK Jungle" • "Music Park" • "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Bowser's Castle" • "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen" • "Rainbow Road" • "Twisted Mansion"
Mario Party series Mario Party 9 "Good Job!"
Yoshi franchise Yoshi "Mushroom BGM"
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Goal!" • "Ground BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Wario franchise Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 "Ripple Course"
Wario Land 3 Out of the Woods' theme[conjectural]
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Pyoro: Stage" • "Sci-Fi (Dribble & Spitz) - Drifting Away" • "Title" ("Reality (Dr. Crygor) - Stage")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)" ("Professor E. Gadd's Lab")
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"[conjectural] • "Title Theme"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Battling Monsters" • "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Bowser's Keep" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom" • "Super Mario House"
Miscellaneous "Balloon Trip" • "Galop infernal" • "The Mario Drawing Song" • "Mute City" • "Title BGM" (Excitebike) • "Totakeke's theme"
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Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury / Bowser's Fury
Playable characters Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach • Toad • Rosalina • Captain Toad • Blue Toadb • Green Toadb • Yellow Toadb • Bowser Jr.c
Forms Small Mario • Mario (form) • Cat Mario • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario • Fire Mario • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario • White Tanooki Mario • Lucky Cat Mario • White Cat Mariob • Giga Cat Marioc
Non-playable characters Sprixie Princesses • Sprixies • Rabbits • Mega Rabbit • Toads • Plessie • Lumas • Ghost Miisa • Toadettec • Kittensc • Catsc
Enemies Ant Trooper • Banzai Bill • Biddybud • Big Ant Trooper • Big Boo • Big Galoomba • Blockstepper • Blooper • Blurker • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Brolder • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cat Banzai Bill • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba • Chargin' Chuck • Charvaargh • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Fighter Flyd • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fireballd • Fizzlit • Flopter • Freezied • Fury Shadowc • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Galoomba • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Grumblump • Hammer Bro • Hisstocrat's underlings • Hop-Chop • Horned Ant Trooper • Ka-thunk • Innertube Goomba • Lava Bubble • Madpole • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba • Octoomba • Para-Biddybud • Parabones • Peepa • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer • Rammerhead • Ring Burner • Shellcreeperd • Sidestepperd • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Small Rammerhead • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spiny • Spiny Skipsqueak • Splorch • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp • Ty-foo • Unshelled Koopa • Walleye
Obstacles Baddie Box • Bill Blaster • Cannon • Dark • Fire Bar • Fury Sunc • Fuzzy Horde • Ink Bombc • Lava • Lava meteor • Poison • Poison fog • Quicksand • Spike ball • Spike Block • Spike Trap • Spiked roller
Bosses Bowser • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat and Hisstocrat (pink) • Boss Brolder • King Ka-thunk • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob • Meowser • Fury Bowserc • Giant Bowserc
Items and power-ups + Clock • 1-Up Mushroom • Baseball • Blue Coin • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cannon Box • Cat Shinec • Cat Shine Shardc • Coin • Coin Box • Coin pile • Crown • Double Cherry • Fire Flower • Giga Bellc • Gold Shell • Goomba Mask • Green Shell • Green Star Coin • Green Star • Hidden Coin • Ice Skate • Invincibility Bellb • Invincibility Leaf • Keyc • Key Coin • Light Box • Lucky Bell • Mega Mushroom • Plessie Medalc • Potted Piranha Plant • Propeller Box • Red Coin • Snowball • Springboard • Stamp • Super Bell • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Super Star
Objects ? Block • ? Block tower • Arrow platform • Arrow Sign • Assist Block • Beep Block • Big Block • Big Goal Pole • Binoculars • Bowser Board • Bowser Statue • Brick Block • Bubble • Cactus • Cagec • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch • Checkpoint Flag • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Cog • Color Panel • Conveyor Belt • Crab • Crate • Crystal Block • Dash Panel • Death Pressure • Donut Block • Empty Block • Falling spikec • Fish • Fling Polec • Floating couch • Floord • Flower • Fluff • Fury Blockc • Gift Box • Glowing spot • Gold P Switch • Goal Pole • Goal Pole (flying) • Gold Ring • Gong • Graffitic • Green Star Ring • Ground-Pound Switchc • Hexagon • Hidden Block • Illusion • Invisible walkway •