Editing Bowser's Warped Orbit

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|appeared=''Mario Party 8''

|availability=Unlocked (through completing Star Battle Arena)

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{{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!|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 Mode, the player must unlock it by completing the [[Star Battle Arena]] once.  

This board is a space station set in outer space. However, it still goes by the laws being a "lava" board, as it is located above the sun. Another difference is that [[Magikoopa]]s and [[Toady|Toadies]] work here, and not the usual underlings like [[Goomba]]s and [[Koopa Kid]]s. The objective here is to steal [[Star (Mario Party series)|Star]]s, with each player starting out with five (ten Stars for each team on Tag Battle Mode). Instead of [[Chain Chomp]]s that were utilized in [[Snowflake Lake]] from ''[[Mario Party 6]]'' and [[Pyramid Park]] from ''[[Mario Party 7]]'', players must use special [[Candy (Mario Party 8)|Candy]] to steal from their opponents: [[Bowser Candy]] and [[Bullet Candy]], both of which are found only on this board.

[[File:Mp8-warped-orbit.JPG|left|thumb|A view of the entire board.]]

Landing on a [[DK Space]] causes [[Donkey Kong]] to appear on a [[Steel Keg|steel keg]] satellite, and give the player a free Star (a piece of Candy in Star Battle Arena). 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). Everyone is gifted a total of twenty stars (5 for each player in Battle Royale; 10 for both teams on Tag Battle). However, there's a twenty first star for the first player that lands on the DK Space. But if the player lands on the Bowser Space, he takes the star completely out of play. Then the star total goes back to twenty. In Star Battle Arena, however, whenever a player lands on the Bowser Space, due to Bowser's still removing one Star and Donkey Kong's giving the player a piece of candy instead, there will be only less Stars in play (five stars instead of six). Both players have 3 stars, and if one of them lands on a Bowser Space, Bowser takes it away, and there will be less stars (five). And so, if the player has only 2 stars left, and the other has 3, if they are hit by an opponent (with the opponent having 3 stars and the player having 2), who used the Bowser Candy, the opponent wins and it's "Game Over". Landing on the [[Lucky Space]] takes the player to [[Shy Guy's Space Buffet]], which has a path of Blue Spaces, each one with three coins, and the player can also get three free pieces of candy, Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy.

One of the [[? 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]] makes him use his magic to shuffle everyone's Candies around, just like he did back in ''[[Mario Party 5]]''. The ? Spaces (arrow spaces in Duel mode) next to the warp tube (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 [[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.

In [[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.  

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|JapM=Bowser’s Space Colosseum

|Fra=Station Mirobolante de Bowser

|FraM=Bowser's Whopping Station

|GerM=Bowser’s Steel Star

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