Summer Tour (2023): Difference between revisions

The '''Summer Tour''' was the hundred-and-third tour of ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', which began on August 23, 2023 and ended on September 6, 2023. This tour introduced a new city course based on [[Madrid]], {{wp|Spain}} called [[Madrid Drive]]. With this tour's introduction, a tour named after every season has been held during the game's fourth year, following the [[Autumn Tour (2022)|Autumn Tour]] in 2022 and the [[Winter Tour (2023)|Winter Tour]] and [[Spring Tour]] earlier in 2023.

The tour also introduced a purple variant of the [[Toad (species)|Pit Crew Toad]] and a new outfit for [[Mario]] based on his black and blue suit from ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', making this the first tour since the [[Anniversary Tour]] to introduce a new costume for Mario and marking the final instance of [[Charles Martinet]] providing a new voice line for Mario in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise due to his retirement from voicing characters in the franchise. Additionally, many sport-themed vehicle parts were introduced in this tour, relating to baseball and golf.

This tour concluded the Summertime Celebration, which began in the [[Sunshine Tour]].

This was the first tour to introduce a Super driver with the [[Giga Bob-omb]] special item, being [[Toad (species)|Purple Toad (Pit Crew)]]; as well as the first to add favorite courses to [[Peachette]], [[Pauline]], [[Princess Peach|Peach (Kimono)]], the [[Poison Apple Kart]], and the [[Star-Spangled Glider]] since the [[Peach Tour]], [[Autumn Tour (2022)|2022 Autumn Tour]], [[New Year's Tour (2023)|2023 New Year's Tour]], and [[Rosalina Tour]], respectively.

The [[Coin Rush (Mario Kart Tour)|Coin Rush]] course for this tour was Madrid Drive. The menu's background featured the {{wp|Santiago Bernabéu Stadium}} as the tour's landmark.

An in-game announcement titled "About Upcoming Scheduled Tours" was added to the internal data during this tour.{{ref needed}} When this announcement will be published is unknown.

[[Poochy]] appeared on the course icon for [[Tour Berlin Byways|Berlin Byways R/T]] despite not being obtainable in this tour.

The limited-time event where [[event token]]s appear began on August 22, 2023 and ended on September 5, 2023. Event tokens could be earned by causing opponents to crash.