Penguin Tour

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 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 under the aurora borealis as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the Vancouver Tour.

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 21 tours prior and the first Vs. Mega bonus challenge since the Pirate Tour 35 tours prior to feature a new opponent, featuring Koopa Troopa as the opponent on N64 Koopa Troopa Beach.

Special pipe

 * Names in other languages

Signature kart sets
Drivers with a corresponding cup are bumped one rank up in every course of their cup.

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favourite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in Merry Mountain in the Kamek Cup using Penguin Luigi for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shot out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rate can be viewed via the "Pipe content" link on the Gold Pass purchase screen.

Token Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appeared began on December 15, 2021 and ended on December 28, 2021. Event tokens could be earned by performing Mini-Turbos and hitting festive trees with items.

Tier Shop
The shop featured a variety of set and randomized items available for purchase. The item slots in the shop are unlocked based on the highest tier of players.

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
 * The Holiday Tour is wrapping up in blue. Next up is the Penguin Tour, featuring Vancouver Velocity 2!

Trivia

 * This was the first tour to use a new icon for a reused bonus challenge. The bonus challenge in the Dry Bowser Cup, a Break Item Boxes challenge on N64 Kalimari Desert, was the exact same as the bonus challenge in the 2019 Holiday Tour's Mario Cup and the New Year's 2021 Tour's King Boo Cup, except its icon showed a different perspective of the course that did not have a festive tree within frame.