Penguin Tour

Penguin Tour
Start date	December 14, 2021 10:00 p.m. (PT)
End date	December 28, 2021 9:59 p.m. (PT)
Number of cups	12
Ranked cups	Ice Bro Cup (week 1) Ice Mario Cup (week 2)
Coin Rush course	DS DK Pass
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The Penguin Tour was the fifty-ninth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 15, 2021 and ended on December 28, 2021. True to its name, the tour featured the return of various penguin-themed items, as well as introducing Penguin Toadette from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe as a new power-up driver variant. Its Italian name, Tour Pinguotto, particularly alludes to the recurring Penguin species in the Super Mario franchise, encountered in this game as course obstacles; however, the Penguin Tour featured no course where such Penguins are found. Additionally, the tour also marked the debut of the second layout of the Vancouver Velocity course, aptly named Vancouver Velocity 2.

This tour continued the Holiday Celebration event that started on the previous tour, which, in addition of keeping the Holiday Challenges, featured better rewards on the Token Shop, which included High-End karts like the Sushi Racer and the Apple Kart and High-End gliders like the Cloud Glider and the Blizzard Balloons, as well as introducing a light-blue-colored variant of Toad (Pit Crew) known as Light-blue Toad (Pit Crew), who was available as a reward for placing high in this tour's ranked cups. This tour featured the Snow Karts Pipe, which contained several karts related to snow and ice, including the new Frost Wing kart.

This tour's Coin Rush course was DS DK Pass, which was reused from the 2019 and 2020 Winter Tours. The menu's background featured the 2010 Winter Olympics cauldron under the aurora borealis as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the Vancouver Tour. This tour's trailer features falling snowflakes during its opening splash screen.

Starting from this tour, the Starry Great Sail glider is available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

This tour also introduced the first new Vs. Mega bonus challenge since the Snow Tour twenty-one tours prior and the first Vs. Mega bonus challenge since the Pirate Tour thirty-five tours prior to feature a new opponent, it being Koopa Troopa as the opponent on N64 Koopa Troopa Beach.

Spotlights

Penguin Pipe 1 December 14, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 28, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT)			Penguin Pipe 2 December 21, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 28, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT)
Driver	Kart	Glider	Drivers	Karts	Gliders
Penguin Toadette and Penguin Toad	Black Penguin Slider and Snow Skimmer	Blizzard Parasol and Polka-Dot Manta Glider	Penguin Luigi and Penguin Mario	White Snow Skimmer and Penguin Slider	Silver Surf Master and Penguin Wingtip

Special pipe

Snow Karts Pipe December 18, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 23, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT)
High-End Spotlight Kart	High-End Karts
Frost Wing	Ice-blue Poltergust, Cact-Ice, Comet Tail, and Ice Dozer

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	スノーマシンドカン Sunō Mashin Dokan	Snow Machine Pipe
Chinese (Simplified)	白雪车辆水管 Báixuě Chēliàng Shuǐguǎn	White Snow Karts Pipe		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	白雪車輛水管 Báixuě Chēliàng Shuǐguǎn			[?]
German	Schneeraser-Röhre	Snow Speeder Pipe		[?]
Italian	Tubo ghiacciato	Icy Pipe		[?]

Cups

Ice Bro Cup Ranked cup (week 1)	Vancouver Velocity 2T	2,300	DS DK Pass R/T	1,300	Vancouver Velocity 2R	1,600	Ring Race
		3,500		2,000		2,500	3DS Mario Circuit	Peach
		4,100		2,300		2,900		15
		4,700		2,700		3,300		25
		11,700		6,700		8,200		35
Kamek Cup	Merry Mountain	1,600	SNES Donut Plains 2	1,300	RMX Choco Island 2	1,700	Goomba Takedown
		2,500		2,000		2,600	RMX Rainbow Road 2	Iggy
		2,900		2,300		3,000		20
		3,300		2,700		3,500		40
		8,000		6,400		8,400		55
Ice Mario Cup Ranked cup (week 2)	Vancouver Velocity 2	1,500	3DS Mario Circuit R/T	2,100	Vancouver Velocity 2R/T	2,300	Time Trial
		2,300		3,300		3,600	SNES Vanilla Lake 2	Roy
		2,700		3,800		4,200		1:00.00
		3,100		4,500		4,900		0:54.00
		7,300		10,400		11,400		0:48.00
Lakitu Cup	SNES Donut Plains 2T	1,700	RMX Choco Island 2R	1,900	RMX Rainbow Road 2R	1,900	Snap a Photo
		2,700		3,200		3,200	Vancouver Velocity 2R	Penguin Toadette
		3,200		3,600		3,700		1
		3,700		4,300		4,300		2
		8,300		9,600		9,700		3
Daisy Cup	Merry Mountain T	1,900	Vancouver Velocity 2R	1,700	SNES Vanilla Lake 2	1,400	Smash Small Dry Bones
		3,200		2,900		2,400	DS DK Pass	Donkey Kong
		3,700		3,300		2,700		5
		4,400		3,900		3,200		8
		9,500		8,400		7,000		12
Toadette Cup