Editing Mario Kart Stadium

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|online_play=No longer available ([[Wii U]])<br>Available ([[Nintendo Switch|Switch]])

|sample=Yasuaki Iwata<br>[[File:MK8-Music-MarioKartStadium.oga]]<br>Frontrunning<br>[[File:WiiU_MarioKartStadium_Frontrunning.oga]]

'''Mario Kart Stadium''' is the introductory track of ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' and is the first race of the [[Mushroom Cup]]. It is a basic circuit taking place in an autodrome stadium full of advertisements and banners of the players with [[fireworks]] in the background, with spectator capacity around 20,000 based on the number of sprites. The course also has a big city in the background. This is the first course to be named after the [[Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'' series]] itself. This course also makes ''Mario Kart 8'' the first game in the series (excluding the arcade games) where the first course in the game is not a circuit, despite the overall design still being a circuit-type track.

The course begins with a short pit straight followed by a right turn. The racers then turn right with three colored paths that stay together: an inner blue path (with an apex), a yellow path in the center that says "Mushroom Cup" on it, and an outer red path with [[Dash Panel]]s and coins. The track then approaches the anti-gravity part followed by a left turn. Next, the racers then go up and down a raised hairpin turn, followed by a gliding area before ending with one more left turn to the finish line, which also has an outer red path with three Dash Panels and a ramp at the end.

At the start of the course, various pit areas can be seen, with each one of them containing a screen of the course's map on it. Other courses containing their own map are [[Water Park]], [[Rainbow Road (Mario Kart 8)|Rainbow Road]], {{classic-link|GCN|Yoshi Circuit}}, and, in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', [[Merry Mountain]].

==Shortcuts==

*Just before the path splits in three, the player can use a boosting item to make a sharp turn between the pipes.

*Players can boost through the grass on the right to cut off the next turn as well.

*After the split path section, there is a dirt section that the player can boost through.

*Right after the first anti-gravity strip, on the left, there is a ramp that cuts off the corner just before the huge turn.

*Near the end of the course, just after the gliding ramp, a boost can be used across the gravel trap to cut the final turn. It is easy to notice the shortcut because there are pipes in the sand.

MK8 Mario Kart Stadium Starting Line.jpg|[[Roy]] at the starting line

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|ChiTM=Mario Kart Arena

|ChiS=马力欧卡丁车竞技场

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