Template:Racecourse Toad's Turnpike (Toad Highway in the Japanese version) is the first course in the Flower Cup of Mario Kart 64. It is named after Toad and pictures of him are seen on the boundaries of the racetrack. The race track takes place on a public road at night. There are vehicles driving on this course which cause the racer's kart to fly if a collision between the two occurs. The overall shape of this course is roughly a figure 8, with some parts of the road with varying lane quantity. All Item Boxes of this track are located in the edge of a concave area where the road includes.
In 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc, the vehicles go forward in the direction where karts go. The engine class also affects how fast the vehicles move; traffic moves slowly in 50cc, but is quite fast in 150cc. The difficulty resides in the fact that the larger vehicles go slowly through the road, sometimes blocking the player (especially when approaching the finish line). In Mirror mode, the vehicles come in the opposite way at a rather fast speed (same speed as from 150cc), which can provide difficulties for the racers. In Mirror Mode, the player can get hit by a car and can get by another car before he had a chance to land and drive away before he falls behind 5th-8th place. The player must try to avoid the cars by either drive between lanes or drive by the guard rail.
This course was the first in a series of similar race tracks in the Mario Kart series, to be filled with cars that come at the player. This type of race track reappears in the form of Mushroom City and Mushroom Bridge in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Shroom Ridge and the returning Mushroom Bridge in Mario Kart DS, Moonview Highway in Mario Kart Wii, and Wuhu Loop in Mario Kart 7.
Instruction Manual Description
Normally, Karts shouldn't drive on a public road, but for some reason, Toad's Turnpike is one of the courses! Drive in a way so that you won't block the large buses or trucks. Cutting one off or driving too slow can cause accidents.
Gallery
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The icon from the menu.
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Avoiding cars is a key thing to do.
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Going under the overpass in Toad's Turnpike.
Toad is featured on many billboards through out the course.
The track, in EXTRA mode.
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Artwork depicting Mario, Toad, and Luigi on Toad's Turnpike.
Names in Other Languages
Trivia
- Oddly, the vehicles will not honk their horns in the 50cc mode.
- While "turnpike" refers to a toll road, the name was not meant to be a description of the course: "turnpike" was merely chosen for alliterative purposes (both it and "Toad" start with "t"). The original Japanese name is the more generic "Toad Highway", and there are no features of an actual turnpike (i.e. toll booths) present in any versions of the game.
- Mario Kart 7's Neo Bowser City (Koopa City in the PAL versions) has a remixed version of this course's theme.