Captain Toad's Adventures

Captain Toad's Adventures^[1] are a series of courses introduced in Super Mario 3D World, starring the titular Captain Toad as he goes through puzzle-based areas to obtain Green Stars. In these courses, Captain Toad is the only playable character, and he cannot jump, roll, or use any other move that Mario and his friends can use other than running. His stages also do not feature power-ups, but he can return to his normal size by collecting a Super Mushroom if hit by an enemy. If Captain Toad is defeated, one life is lost. The courses are single player only and can only be played when using the Wii U GamePad. The courses are unlocked from the start, but Enemy Battles or general map environments can make them inaccessible. The courses are available in World 1 and every second world after it, with the exception of the final course, which is found in World Crown instead of World Flower. Some of the levels include the Captain Toad theme from Super Mario Galaxy. The course ends when all of the Green Stars in that course are collected. This concept was later used to develop Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.

These levels make a return in the enhanced Nintendo Switch port, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, where they can now be played with up to four players, with additional players controlling the members of the Toad Brigade.^[2]

CoursesEdit

Level number	Level name	Description
World 1- Captain Toad	Captain Toad Goes Forth	The Captain Toad course of World 1. This course is a grassy mountain with Biddybuds.
World 3- Captain Toad	Captain Toad Makes a Splash	The Captain Toad course of World 3. It features water and a Rammerhead.
World 5- Captain Toad	Captain Toad Plays Peek-a-Boo	The Captain Toad course of World 5. This stage contains Boos, Peepas and Touch Screen Platforms.
World Castle- Captain Toad	Captain Toad Gets Thwomped	The Captain Toad course of World Castle. It is a fortress surrounded by lava, and contains some Thwomps, Bullet Bills, and Conveyor Belts.
World Star- Captain Toad	Captain Toad Takes a Spin	The Captain Toad course of World Star, set in space. Here, P-Switches are used to spin the cube the level is set in. Fizzlits also stick to its sides.
World Crown- Captain Toad	Captain Toad's Fiery Finale	The Captain Toad course of World Crown. Lava rises and falls here as in Simmering Lava Lake. A single Fire Piranha Plant attacks from the center.

Official profilesEdit

Super Mario 3D WorldEdit

Instruction manual description: "Guide the intrepid Captain Toad through these courses to collect five Green Stars, changing the camera angles and manipulating the terrain as you go."

TriviaEdit

The concept for Captain Toad's Adventures was originally pitched to Nintendo as a tech demo featuring Link traveling through a series of small stages. Although rejected, the concept was reworked into Super Mario 3D World, and later into Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.^[3]

ReferencesEdit

^ https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/downloads/manual-WiiU-Super_Mario_3D-World.pdf
^ https://twitter.com/supermario_uk/status/1351877666161491968?s=21
^ McWhertor, Michael (August 7, 2018). Where Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker came from. Polygon. Retrieved February 22, 2021.

Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury / Bowser's Fury
Playable characters		Mario • Luigi^1,2 • Peach^1,2 • Toad^1,2 • Rosalina^1,2 • Captain Toad^1,2 • Bowser Jr.³ • Hint Toad² • Banktoad² • Yellow Toad²
Non-playable characters		Kittens³ • Little birds • Mii¹ • Neko Parent³ • Plessie • Rabbits (Mega Rabbits) • Sprixie Princesses^1,2 • Sprixies^1,2 • Toads • Toadette³
Worlds^1,2		Sprixie Kingdom • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Castle • World Bowser • World Star • World Mushroom • World Flower • World Crown
Lake Lapcat locations³		Fur Step Island • Scamper Shores • Pounce Bounce Isle • Fort Flaptrap • Slipskate Slope • Clawswipe Colosseum • Trickity Tower • Crisp Climb Castle • Risky Whisker Island • Pipe Path Tower • Roiling Roller Isle • Mount Magmeow • Lucky Isle
Bosses		Bowser (Meowser^1,2 · Fury Bowser³ · Giant Bowser³) • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat^1,2 • Boss Brolder^1,2 • King Ka-thunk^1,2 • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob^1,2
Items and objects		+ Clock^1,2 • ? Block • 1-Up Mushroom^1,2 • Arrow platform^1,2 • Arrow Sign • Assist Block^1,2 • Baseball • Beep Block^1,2 • Big Block^1,2 • Blue Coin • Brick Block • Board^1,2 • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cage³ • Cannon Box^1,2 • Cat Shine³ • Cat Shine Shard³ • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch^1,2 • Checkpoint Flag^1,2 • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Coin • Coin Block • Coin Box • Coin pile • Color Panel^1,2 • Crate • Crystal Block^1,2 • Dark^1,2 • Dash Panel • Double Cherry • Elevator^1,2 • Fire Flower • Fling Pole³ • Floating couch^1,2 • Flower^1,2 • Fluff^1,2 • Fury Block³ • Fury Sun³ • Giga Bell³ • Goal Pole^1,2 • Gold Ring • Goomba Mask^1,2 • Gong^1,2 • Graffiti³ • Green Coin^1,2 • Green Star^1,2 • Green Star Ring^1,2 • Ground-Pound Switch³ • Grumblump^1,2 • Hexagon^1,2 • Hidden Block • Ice Skate • Illusion^1,2 • Invincibility Bell^2,3 • Invincibility Leaf • Item storage • Jump Panel • Key Coin • Kick Bomb • Lift^1,2 • Light Box^1,2 • Lighthouse³ • Lucky Bell • Mega ? Block • Mega Mushroom^1,2 • Multi-Vator^1,2 • Mushroom Trampoline • Mystery Box^1,2 • Plessie Medal³ • P Panel^1,2 • P Switch^1,2 • Pixel Luigi^{1, 2} • Potted Piranha Plant • POW Block • Propeller Box • Propeller Platform¹ • Red-Blue Panel • Red Coin^1,2 • Red POW Block^1,2 • Red Ring^1,2 • Rising pillar^1,2 • Rock Block^1,2 • Rotating Panel^1,2 • Searchlight^1,2 • Shelf^1,2 • Slamming block^1,2 • Sliding door^1,2 • Slot Block^1,2 • Snowball • Springboard^1,2 • Stamp^1,2 • Super Star • Super Bell • Super Jump Panel³ • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Switch Block^1,2 • Switch Panel^1,2 • Switchboard • Timer Gate³ • Touchstone^1,2 • Trapeze^1,2 • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Box^1,2 • Warp Box (With Key)^1,2 • Warp Pipe • World Warp Pipe^{1, 2} • Zipline lift^1,2
Moves		Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Dive^2,3 • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jump^2,3 • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Shell dash • Side Somersault • Slide • Spin Jump • Swim • Synchro Ground-Pound^1,2 • Wall Jump
Forms		Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Cat Mario (Lucky Cat Mario · Giga Cat Mario³ · White Cat Mario^2,3) • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario (White Tanooki Mario) • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario
Enemies and obstacles		Ant Trooper^1,2 • Baddie Box^1,2 • Banzai Bill^1,2 • Banzai Bill Cannon^1,2 • Beach Koopa • Biddybud • Big Boo^1,2 • Big Ant Trooper^1,2 • Big Galoomba^1,2 • Bill Blaster • Blockstepper • Blooper^1,2 • Blurker^1,2 • Bob-omb • Boo^1,2 • Boomerang Bro • Brolder^1,2 • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cannon^1,2 • Cannonball^1,2 • Cat Banzai Bill^1,2 • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba^1,2 • Chargin' Chuck^1,2 • Charvaargh^1,2 • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Disaster Neko³ • Falling spike³ • Fire Bar^1,2 • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fizzlit^1,2 • Flopter • Fury Shadow³ • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Fuzzy Horde^1,2 • Galoomba^1,2 • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Hammer Bro • Hop-Chop^1,2 • Horned Ant Trooper^1,2 • Innertube Goomba • Ka-thunk^1,2 • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble^1,2 • Madpole^1,2 • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba^1,2 • Octoomba^1,2 • Para-Biddybud • Parabones^1,2 • Peepa^1,2 • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer^1,2 • Rammerhead • Ring Burner^1,2 • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spike ball^1,2 • Spike Block^1,2 • Spike Trap • Spiked roller • Spiny^1,2 • Spiny Skipsqueak^1,2 • Splorch^1,2 • Splotchy goop³ • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp^1,2 • Ty-foo^1,2 • Walleye^1,2
Miscellaneous		Captain Toad's Adventures^1,2 • Enemy Battles^1,2 • Mystery House^1,2 • Luigi Bros.^1,2 • Luigi sightings^1,2 • Sprixie House^1,2 • Lucky House^1,2 • Snapshot Mode^2,3 • Stamps
Further info		Cat Shine names³ • Completion (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Gallery (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury · Bowser's Fury) • Glitches (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Media (Bowser's Fury) • Pre-release and unused content • Playable characters' statistics (Bowser's Fury) • Staff (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack
¹ Super Mario 3D World ² Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury ³ Bowser's Fury
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Super Mario 3D World levels
World 1	Super Bell Hill • Koopa Troopa Cave • Chargin' Chuck Blockade • Mount Beanpole • Plessie's Plunging Falls • Switch Scramble Circus • Bowser's Highway Showdown • Captain Toad Goes Forth
World 2	Conkdor Canyon • Puffprod Peaks • Shadow-Play Alley • Really Rolling Hills • Big Galoomba Blockade • Double Cherry Pass • Bowser's Bullet Bill Brigade • Mystery House Melee
World 3	Snowball Park • Chain-Link Charge • Shifty Boo Mansion • Pretty Plaza Panic • Magikoopa Blockade • Pipeline Lagoon • Mount Must Dash • Switchboard Falls • The Bullet Bill Express • A Banquet with Hisstocrat • Captain Toad Makes a Splash
World 4	Ant Trooper Hill • Piranha Creeper Creek • Brolder Blockade • Beep Block Skyway • Big Bounce Byway • Spike's Lost City • Lava Rock Lair • Fire Bros. Hideout #1 • Mystery House Mad Dash
World 5	Sunshine Seaside • Tricky Trapeze Theater • Backstreet Bustle • Chargin' Chuck Blockade Is Back • Sprawling Savanna • Bob-ombs Below • Cakewalk Flip • Searchlight Sneak • Coin Express • King Ka-thunk's Castle • Fire Bros. Hideout #2 • Captain Toad Plays Peek-a-Boo
World 6	Clear Pipe Cruise • Spooky Seasick Wreck • Hands-On Hall • Deep Jungle Drift • Ty-Foo Flurries • Prince Bully Blockade • Bullet Bill Base • Fuzzy Time Mine • Bowser's Bob-omb Brigade • Motley Bossblob's Big Battle • Fire Bros. Hideout #3 • Mystery House Throwdown
World Castle	Fort Fire Bros. • Switchblack Ruins • Red-Hot Run • Boiling Blue Bully Belt • Brolder Blockade Is Back • Prince Bully Blockade Is Back • Trick Trap Tower • Rammerhead Reef • Simmering Lava Lake • Bowser's Lava Lake Keep • Fire Bros. Hideout #4 • Captain Toad Gets Thwomped
World Bowser	Spiky Spike Bridge • Plessie's Dune Downhill • Cookie Cogworks • The Bowser Express • Footlight Lane • Deepwater Dungeon • A Beam in the Dark • Grumblump Inferno • Motley Bossblob's Encore • Hisstocrat Returns • The Great Tower of Bowser Land • Mystery House Claw Climb
World Star	Rainbow Run • Super Galaxy • Rolling Ride Run • The Great Goal Pole • Super Block Land • Honeycomb Starway • Gargantuan Grotto • Peepa's Fog Bog • Cosmic Cannon Cluster • Captain Toad Takes a Spin
World Mushroom	Night Falls on Really Rolling Hills • Spiky Mount Beanpole • Deep-Black Jungle Drift • Trouble in Shadow-Play Alley • Back to Hands-On Hall • Gigantic Seasick Wreck • Broken Blue Bully Belt • Mystery House Brawl
World Flower	Switch Shock Circus • Floating Fuzzy Time Mine • Piranha Creeper Creek after Dark • Faster Fort Fire Bros. • Sprawling Savanna Rabbit Run • Shiftier Boo Mansion • Pipeline Boom Lagoon • Blast Block Skyway • Towering Sunshine Seaside • Honeycomb Skyway • Spiky Spike Bridge Sneak • Boss Blitz
World Crown	Champion's Road • Captain Toad's Fiery Finale • Mystery House Marathon