Talk:Mine Cart

Page Quote

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I think we should change the page quote to 5-Volt's line from WarioWare: Get It Together!.

"I'm 5-Volt. This is my first time riding in a mine cart. It's like a roller coaster!"

The current page quote is an extremely dry mechanics explaination from the Donkey Kong Country Returns manual. Page quotes are supposed to be fun and communicate opinions about the world. The 5-Volt line does both amazingly, as its fun, shows a character's opinion about minecarts, and ties in to the "ride in a roller-coaster fashion" part of video game minecart rides. Salmancer (talk) 18:58, November 5, 2026 (UTC)

All the same, it's also a tad too "character specific" for my taste. DK has more relevance to Mine Carts than this WarioWare character does. I'm also not sure if I fully agree with the part about quotes being "fun", but perhaps that's just a matter of opinion, I suppose... Wandering Poplin (talk) 19:05, November 5, 2026 (UTC)

Yeah no, page quotes are supposed to be fun. Like, you could argue that they're meant to be informative about a character's voice, but...

• Koopa Paratroopa leads on one of them telling two others to attack Mario like they're military planes. Which I guess communicates that Koopa Paratroopas serve in a military and are basically a kind of Air Force, but has this aspect of their character shown up in any game other than Paper Mario: Sticker Star? Its on the page, because its silly.
• Elite Trio leads on their battle cry of "GET ELITE!". Which they don't even use for their boss battle in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. They use it in their joke encounter in Neo Bowser Castle where they charge, miss, and defeat themselves by falling off a cliff. Its here because its memorable and dorky. It doesn't even tell the reader anything more than their page title already does, unless you count the idea of them having inflated egos especially around the team name.
• Pretty much every reaction article, but lets highlight Bubble Wario. Whose page quote takes Wario's silly line for the form from the instruction manual of Wario Land 4 verbatim, but cuts the actual informative part from the end just to make it shorter and only include the funny part. The full line is in the article as a profile, but still! We prioritized making the reader laugh over information.
• Anything from Play Nintendo as the page quote is just for sillyness's sake, and to fill the page slot. Canopy Cannons is at least interesting by expressing an opinion about the level. But Potted Piranha Plant is just the "say that three times fast" joke (for as much as it is a "joke") and Boomerang Mario is just a classic one liner tied to basic data even the article introduction could tell the reader. (The article introduction doesn't, but that's a fault of Super Mario Wiki and not a virtue of the the Play Nintendo line.)
• Raccoon Mario leads on the Angry Sun losing track of Mario and Luigi because they're raccoons and therefore not plumbers. Which... uh... I don't think most uses of power-ups allow Mario to pull fast ones like that. I think its just "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas", and in that case the quote is actually misinforming readers for the sake of being funny.

With that thoroughly proven, and me considering to pitch adding a version of it to Template:Quote to codify it, lets get to the other part. Yes, giving the page quote slot to the WarioWare is certainly weird. Donkey Kong Country practically birthed the modern video game mine cart. But I don't see any users with a better quote. Now, the correct answer is probably a line from Cranky Kong, since the ape is full of one liners. But a trek through List of Cranky Kong quotes didn't turn up anything directly relating to Mine Carts except for quotes about levels that have Mine Carts in them prior to Donkey Kong Bananza. I'm not looking through Donkey Kong Bananza material, so if someone wants to give Cranky Kong his rightful position as the source for the Mine Cart page quote, they'll have to go through the Donkey Kong Bananza section to find a good one. Salmancer (talk) 19:24, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

My problem with the specific quote is that mine carts are simply not a game mechanic in Get It Together at all. The mine cart rides in that game are just visual aesthetics for its Remix stages. In just one single WarioWare game, to boot; it's not like the elevator stages which are intrinsically linked with the Mixed postgame stages from nearly every single WarioWare game.
While not perfect, I would prefer the Message Block quote from the Yoshi's Island DS level High-Speed Cart Race (since the Mine Carts in that game are an actual gameplay element that funcion somewhat similarly to the DKC mine carts):

"Tired of hoofing it? Then go hop in that cart and go for a ride! You can even jump in it when it's moving!"

rend (talk) (edits) 20:19, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

I completely agree with that, and am changing my opinion to have that Message Block lead the page. Salmancer (talk) 21:16, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

I will contend that WarioWare: Get It Together! chose to include mine carts in its story to match the theme of being inside a video game, as video games have mine cart rides. Its not being done for no reason, its part of the game's presentation, which is important to the game as a work of media. Salmancer (talk) 18:37, November 8, 2026 (UTC)