Electrodrome

Electrodrome is a track in Mario Kart 8 and the third course of the Star Cup. The course is set in a neon-lit nightclub filled with Koopa Troopas, Shy Guys, and Piranha Plants. Banners with the Star Cup logo can be seen throughout the track, as well as some big screens displaying characters dancing, spectrum analysers, and the MKTV logo. Like some tracks from Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7, the music slightly changes depending on the location of the player. Driving on the parts of the course representing electronic instruments will cause effects to be added to the music, and when racing through areas that feature a crowd of dancing Koopas and Shy Guys, hand claps become audible.

Course layout
The course starts directly in front of a gliding panel. After the racers glide down to the road below, there is a turn going left. Shortly after the turn, there is an anti-gravity area curving to a wall that soon splits into two roads, one pink and one green. In the area where the music changes, transparent squares of the road's colour appear in the edge of the screen. The roads twist around each other before connecting. At the end of each road is a gliding panel leading to a large neon platform with the words "Star Cup" on it, as well as the cup’s logo. There is a small jump at the end of the platform and a left turn that leads to the finish line.

Shortcuts

 * At the final left turn, players can cut through the darker section with a speed boost instead of taking the turn.

Trivia

 * This is the first and only racetrack in the Mario Kart series with a one-word name in English.
 * During the countdown for the race, the large screen in the background shows a spectrum analyser before switching to a party scene. This spectrum analyser is the same one seen in the third trailer that first showed Electrodrome.
 * This also makes Electrodrome one of four tracks with an opening animation that can be used only during the countdown (as the spectrum analyser is in sync with the countdown). The others are Twisted Mansion, Mount Wario and Bowser's Castle.
 * During the end credits, the track's music is played in it.
 * On the large screens with the dancing Koopa Troopas and Shy Guys, a silhouette of Larry Koopa as a disk jockey can be seen in the background.
 * This is one of two courses in Mario Kart to start with a vowel, the other being Airship Fortress.