 This article is about the GCN variation. For a list of articles with the same name, see Rainbow Road. |
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Rainbow Road is the final race of the Special Cup and All Cup Tour in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. This track has yet to make a retro appearance.
Unlike the previous Rainbow Roads, which were set in space, this version of Rainbow Road is floating above a city (presumably Mushroom City). This setting idea wasn't reused until Mario Kart 8 with the re-edition of N64 Rainbow Road. This course is very difficult, sporting few railings and multiple speed boosts. It's also the second track to implement the Cannon to shoot its racers to another part of the track, the first being DK Mountain.
Layout[]
The course begins on a wavy but somehow straight road portion, that leads to two hairpin turns easily able to send the racers off the edge of the track. Follows a large 540-degree helix with many Dash Panels on it, spinning counter-clockwise and traveling upward. A pipe-like structure floats in the center of the spiral. Next comes a twisty road that leads to a turn left. Directly after the turn is completed, the racers are launched upward through a large pipe which drops them on a road with many more Boost Pads. This leads to another, but smaller 540-degree helix which takes the player back to the Finish Line.
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Trivia![]
What the track looks like in multiplayer mode.
- The Prima Guide states that this course is the longest. It may be referring to time taken to complete the course and not the length of a single lap. Wario Colosseum is the actual track to bear the title of "Longest Track" in terms of lap length.
- Sometimes shooting stars land on the track and become a Star.
- This track appears to float over (presumably) Mushroom City in 1-player mode (or 2-player co-op mode), but uses the usual deep space setting with 2 or more players.
- Many giant statues of items and are floating above. All of them are rainbow colored and are completely 3D.
- This music returns in Super Smash Bros. series, such as Mario Circuit stage, from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- A section of this track's theme includes a remix of the Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart 64. This is one of two Rainbow Roads to have this distinction. The other is the one from Mario Kart 7.
- This is the first Rainbow Road of the series to be only partially guardrailed. Previous Rainbow Road versions either featured no guardrails (SNES and GBA versions) or had guardrails around the whole track (N64 version).
- The All-Cup Tour in Double Dash (a game mode on which every track in the game is raced in one circuit), does always feature Luigi Circuit first and Rainbow Road last, with the game's 14 other tracks selected in a random order in between.
- So far, this Rainbow Road, alongside previous and next incarnations of Rainbow Road are the only ones to not return as a retro track in a future Mario Kart game.
- Although, there were rumors by fans in 2004 or 2005 that this was going to be the final track of Lightning Cup and of Mario Kart DS entirely, since a GCN track wraps up any retro cup from Shell to Lightning. That rumor was eventually scrapped when they revealed that Yoshi Circuit was going to be the last track of the Lightning Cup of Mario Kart DS, which caused a lot of backlash for not making Rainbow Road as the final track of that game.
- Just outside the boundary of the area, you can see a rainbow Heart that was likely going to be in the course.
Gallery[]
Previous track:
Bowser's Castle |
Current track:
Rainbow Road |
Next track:
None |
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| Mario Kart: Double Dash!! courses | ||||
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| Mushroom Cup | Luigi Circuit • Peach Beach • Baby Park • Dry Dry Desert | |||
| Flower Cup | Mushroom Bridge • Mario Circuit • Daisy Cruiser • Waluigi Stadium | |||
| Star Cup | Sherbet Land • Mushroom City • Yoshi Circuit • DK Mountain | |||
| Special Cup | Wario Colosseum • Dino Dino Jungle • Bowser's Castle • Rainbow Road | |||
| Battle Courses | Cookie Land • Block City • Luigi's Mansion • Nintendo GameCube • Pipe Plaza • Tilt-A-Kart | |||