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{{quote|Beyond space! Beyond time! And beyond decency! We're in the blackest hole of all. Bowser's Warped Orbit! It's seriously sick and twisted!|MC Ballyhoo|Mario Party 8}}

 

Unlike boards themed around Bowser in previous ''Mario Party'' games, this board does not have a [[Lava|lava]] theme. Instead, this board is a space station located above a star. Additionally, [[Magikoopa]]s and [[Toady|Toadies]] appear in shops and board events, rather than underlings like [[Goomba]]s and [[Koopa Kid]]s which appeared on Bowser's boards in previous games. The objective here is to steal [[Star (Mario Party series)|Star]]s, with each player starting out with five (ten Stars for each team on Tag Battle mode).  

Landing on a [[DK Space]] causes [[Donkey Kong]] to appear on a [[Steel Keg|steel keg]] satellite, and give the player a free Star (a piece of Candy in Star Battle Arena). Landing on the [[Bowser Space]] causes Bowser to come down from his observation tower to steal a Star from the player (although if the player has no Stars, Bowser will give them ten [[Coin]]s instead). Everyone is gifted a total of twenty Stars (five for each player in Battle Royale; 10 for both teams on Tag Battle), not including handicaps. However, when a player lands on the DK Space, one additional Star can be received, or in the case of a Bowser Space, that additional Star can be taken out of circulation. Due to the alternating nature of the DK Space and Bowser Space, a maximum of 21 stars can be in circulation.

Landing on the [[Lucky Space]] takes the player to [[Shy Guy's Space Buffet]], which has a path of Blue Spaces, each one with three coins, and the player can also get three free pieces of candy, Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy. This is the only board in the game where the Lucky Space area does not lead the player to a free Star.

One of the [[Event Space|? Space]]s on the board causes Bowser to come down and chase the player all around the board in a complete loop. Anyone that is in their path will also get chased down (this essentially just moves all the players involved to the same space). The ? Space next to [[Kamek]] makes him use his magic to shuffle everyone's Candies around, like he did back in ''[[Mario Party 5]]''. The ? Spaces (arrow spaces in Duel Battle mode) next to the warp tube (underneath the observation tower) causes players to travel through the tube and reach to the other side of the board, always collecting twenty Coins along the way (but nothing in [[Mario Party 8#Star Battle Arena|Star Battle Arena]] because the tube is part of the board's path, not a shortcut). All the other ? Spaces make Bowser reverse the direction of the flow of the board.

In [[Mario Party 8#Star Battle Arena|Star Battle Arena]], the winning conditions are to steal Stars from their opponent via the Bowser and Bullet Candies until their opponent has zero Stars. Players start with three Stars each. During the Star Battle Arena, if the player defeats [[Blooper]] or [[Hammer Bro]], they will get to [[Superstar Showdown|fight Bowser]] in a void-like arena. Also, the player will unlock Hammer Bro or Blooper, depending on who they fought. The opponent is random unless the player is using one of those two characters, in which case the other one will forcibly be the opponent. The player must complete Star Battle Arena with the first unlockable character in order to unlock the second one.  

===Party Tent===

![[File:SpaceBlueMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Blue Space]]s

![[File:SpaceRedMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Red Space]]s

![[File:SpaceGreen.png|50px]]<br>[[Event Space|Green Space]]s

![[File:SpaceLucky.png|50px]]<br>[[Lucky Space]]s

![[File:SpaceDonkeyMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[DK Space]]s

![[File:SpaceBowserMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Bowser Space]]s

|2 (None if DK Spaces are active)

===Star Battle Arena===

![[File:SpaceBlueMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Blue Space]]s

![[File:SpaceRedMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Red Space]]s

![[File:SpaceGreen.png|50px]]<br>[[Event Space|Green Space]]s

![[File:SpaceVSMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Duel Space]]s

![[File:SpaceChallenge.png|50px]]<br>[[Challenge Space]]s

![[File:SpaceDonkeyMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[DK Space]]s

![[File:SpaceBowserMP8.png|50px]]<br>[[Bowser Space]]s

|2 (None if DK Spaces are active)

|JapM=Bowser’s Space Colosseum

|Fra=Station Mirobolante de Bowser

|FraM=Bowser's Whopping Station

|GerM=Bowser’s Steel Star

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