Editing Bowser's Warped Orbit

{{board infobox
|image=[[File:BWO.png|300px]]
|appears_in=''[[Mario Party 8]]''
|availability=Unlocked by completing Star Battle Arena
|description=Hunt...and be hunted! Go on the Star attack in Bowser's twisted realm!
|sample=[[File:MP8 Warped Orbit.oga]]
}}
{{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! We're in Bowser territory now. And you'll play by HIS rules. So you'll start with 5 Stars... Then earn more the Bowser way: Stealing! Steamrolling! Savagery! You'll need two kinds of Candy... Bowser Candy and Bullet Candy! Chow down on these to steal Stars from each player you pass! Bowser Candy lets you smack 2 Dice Blocks, and you'll steal 2 Stars from each victim! Bullet Candy lets you blast farther! You'll get 3 Dice Blocks, but steal only 1 Star per victim. Study where foes are before chowing! Which will steal you more Stars? A short rampage? Or a long snipe?|[[MC Ballyhoo & Big Top|MC Ballyhoo]]|Mario Party 8}}
'''Bowser's Warped Orbit''' is [[Bowser]]'s board in ''[[Mario Party 8]]''. In order to have it playable in Party Tent mode, the player must unlock it by completing the [[Mario Party 8#Star Battle Arena|Star Battle Arena]] once. 

[[File:MP8 Bowser's Warped Orbit Logo.png|left|thumb|280px|The Bowser's Warped Orbit logo.]]
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, [[Kamek|Magikoopa]] 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. Each player starts out with five (ten Stars for each team on Tag Battle mode), but the handicap setting can add more starting Stars. 

This board is similar to [[Snowflake Lake]] from ''[[Mario Party 6]]'' and [[Pyramid Park]] from ''[[Mario Party 7]]'', but instead of [[Chain Chomp]]s to steal Stars, players must use special [[Candy (Mario Party 8)|Candy]] to steal Stars from their opponents: [[Bowser Candy]] and [[Bullet Candy]], both of which are found only on this board. The Bullet Candy lets the player roll three Dice Blocks but steal one Star, while the Bowser Candy lets the player steal two Stars but roll two Dice Blocks.

[[File:BowserWarpedOrbit (Star Battle Arena).png|left|thumb|250px|Star Battle Arena layout.]]
Landing on a [[DK Space]] causes [[Donkey Kong]] to appear on a [[Iron Barrel|Steel Barrel]] satellite, and give the player a free Star (a piece of Candy in Star Battle Arena). This adds the Star to the circulation. 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). This usually removes the Star DK added to the circulation, except if Bowser provided coins.

Landing on the [[Lucky Space]] takes the player to Shy Guy's Space Buffet, which has a path of Blue Spaces, each with three coins, and the player also gets three free pieces of Candy, which can either be Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy.

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|Magikoopa]] 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<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Mario Party 8'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=50|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=May 25, 2007|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-5618-4}}</ref> (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.

Another feature of the board is the three directional buttons (two in Duel Battle), which players encounter when the path splits into two. When a player steps on one, it makes the player go in a random direction: left or right.

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. 

The change of direction in this board resembles the gimmick of [[Backtrack]], a duel board in ''[[Mario Party 3]]''.

In ''[[Mario Party 9]]'', there is a similar board to Bowser's Warped Orbit called [[Bowser Station]], as both boards are owned by Bowser and are in space.

==Shy Guy's Space Buffet==
[[File:Shy guy orbital buffet.png|thumb|left|[[Yoshi]] at Shy Guy's Space Buffet]]
Shy Guy's Space Buffet is the Lucky Space area of Bowser's Warped Orbit. [[Captain Shy Guy (Mario Party 8)|Captain Shy Guy]] flies the player here upon them landing on the Lucky Space. This area is quite small, mostly consisting of a few Blue Spaces, each with three coins. Unlike on all other boards with a Lucky Space, Shy Guy's Space Buffet does not lead to a free Star; instead, players get to collect three free pieces of Candy by passing [[Candy Area]]s, all of which are either Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy. Once the player makes it to the end, Captain Shy Guy takes them back to the Lucky Space.
==Spaces==
The following tables show how many spaces there are on the board, and how many there are of a certain type.
===Battle Royale / Tag Battle===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Type of Space
!Number of Spaces
|-
![[File:Blue Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Blue Space]]s
|32
|-
![[File:Red Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Red Space]]s
|8
|-
![[File:Green Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Event Space|Green Space]]s
|10
|-
![[File:Lucky Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Lucky Space]]s
|1
|-
![[File:DK Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]][[File:Bowser Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[DK Space|DK]] or [[Bowser Space]]s
|2
|-
!Total of Spaces
|53
|}

===Duel Battle / Star Battle Arena===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Type of Space
!Number of Spaces
|-
![[File:Blue Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Blue Space]]s
|14
|-
![[File:Red Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Red Space]]s
|4
|-
![[File:Green Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Event Space|Green Space]]s
|4
|-
![[File:Vs. Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Duel Space|Vs. Space]]s
|1
|-
![[File:Challenge Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[Challenge Space]]s
|1
|-
![[File:DK Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]][[File:Bowser Space Bowser's Warped Orbit.png|50px]]<br>[[DK Space|DK]] or [[Bowser Space]]s
|2
|-
!Total of Spaces
|26
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Bowser's Warped Orbit Panel.gif
Bowser's Warped Orbit Intro MP8.png
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=クッパのスペースコロシアム
|JpnR=Kuppa no Supēsu Koroshiamu
|JpnM=Bowser's Space Colosseum
|Fre=Station Mirobolante de Bowser
|FreM=Bowser's Whopping Station
|Ger=Bowsers Stahlstern
|GerM=Bowser's Steel Star
|Spa=Galaxia Bowser
|SpaM=Bowser Galaxy
|Ita=La stazione orbitante di Bowser
|ItaM=Bowser's Orbit Station
|Kor=쿠파의 스페이스콜로세움
|KorR=Kupa-ui Seupeiseu Kollose'um
|KorM=Bowser's Space Colosseum
}}

==References==
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