Editing Screwtop Lift

'''Screwtop Lifts'''<ref>Stratton, Steve. ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 159.</ref><ref> New Super Mario Bros. U Channel (April 4, 2013). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2Juo5laSM New Super Mario Bros. U -- Screwtop It Up (Gold Medal)] description: "''The last of the Time Attack challenges! When using the Screwtop Lifts, don't ride them to the end, but only as far as you need to reach your next platform, while also using wall kicks to create shortcuts wherever possible. Perseverence and patience are key to overcoming the many obstacles in this challenge. Those going for gold will need to memorize their route and not make any mistakes!''" ''YouTube''. Retrieved May 23, 2022.</ref> (also referred to as '''Screwtop Platforms''')<ref>Stratton, Steve. ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 230.</ref> are a type of [[lift]] found in the [[New Super Mario Bros. (disambiguation)|''New Super Mario Bros.'' sub-series]].

 

Screwtop Lifts, named for the screw mounted in their center, first appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', albeit in just one level, {{world-link|8|airship|World 8-Airship (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)}}. Like certain platforms, these ones are mounted on [[tracks]], though they do not travel on their own by default. If the player does a [[Spin Jump]] on the screw of the platform, they do not leap off, but instead spin in place, quickly moving the platform along its track as long as the player is spinning. When not moved by the player, the Screwtop Lift slowly returns to its original position. Similar screws are also seen mounted, not on platforms, but in the airship's floor, used to temporarily extend, retract, or otherwise reposition certain elements in the airship, mostly large metal blocks, but also the level's third [[Star Coin]].

Screwtop Lifts return with the same role and behavior in the ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' level [[Screwtop Tower]], which features nine of them, as well as the 20th and final Time Attack [[Challenge Mode (New Super Mario Bros. U)|challenge]] of the game, [[Screwtop It Up]], which requires the player to beat Screwtop Tower (with the first section and the boss fight removed) in, at most, 90 (bronze), 75 (silver), or 65 (gold) seconds. Screwtop Lifts also appear in the ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' level [[Sumo Bro's Spinning Tower]] (the game's equivalent of Screwtop Tower), which features five Screwtop Lifts, with the second having [[Fire Bar]]s mounted on either end of its track, and the third possessing Fire Bars on the middle and upper end of its track.