Piranha Plant Pipeline
- Not to be confused with 3DS Piranha Plant Pipeway/Slide or Piranha Plant Cove.
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Piranha Plant Pipeline is a course from Mario Kart Tour, making its debut in the Pipe Tour. As the name indicates, it is an underground network of Warp Pipes with Piranha Plants spread throughout the track. It is the second course introduced in Mario Kart Tour to be named after Piranha Plants, with the first being Piranha Plant Cove, not counting its variants. The course's appearance and concept are similar to that of the unused "dokan_course" from Mario Kart DS, both being named after Warp Pipes and themed around their traversal; the first part is mostly similar in both courses, while the red pipe section of Piranha Plant Pipeline after the first turn in the white tunnel is similar to the second part of dokan_course.
Excluding courses released simultaneously, this course and Squeaky Clean Sprint mark the shortest period of time between the release of two new courses for the Mario Kart series, with only a 5-hour gap.
The beginning of the music references the chiptune sound effect Warp Pipes make, except slowed to match the tempo.
Piranha Plant Pipeline is the only new course originating from Mario Kart Tour to not appear in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass. Since it does not appear outside of Mario Kart Tour, it is the only course in the series that is completely unplayable outside of the Pipe Tour and its reruns.
Course layout[edit]
Racers start outside, in a mountainous, wooded environment. Going in a straight line, they enter a Warp Pipe and enter the pipe system. Racers continue driving forwards before approaching a wide left turn lined with a half-pipe. The pipe then serpentines, with every bend having its own half-pipe. Then, racers drive off of a glide ramp and may go through one of two pipes; a red one or a blue one. The red pipe takes racers to two right-angled left turns before taking them into a bendy white, transparent tunnel. The blue route makes racers go round a large right turn, before overlapping, and eventually taking racers on top of a moving green pipe that goes below the previously mentioned white tunnel. The white tunnel and the green pipe shortly take racers back to their respective red or blue pipes, before both routes meet up again in an orange section containing Fuzzies, Piranha Plants, and Sidesteppers. Racers enter an underwater section before taking a large left turn, and finally leaving the pipes and returning outside, before driving down a brief straightaway to the finish line.
This course also appears as Piranha Plant Pipeline R (reversed), Piranha Plant Pipeline T (with ramps), and Piranha Plant Pipeline R/T (reversed with ramps). In all three variants, the Sidesteppers are gone. In the T variant, the Fuzzies are also gone, and racers are forced to take the red path on lap 1 and the blue path on lap 2. In the R/T variant, the Piranha Plants in the orange section are gone, the moving green pipe is also gone, and there is a glide ramp at the end of the green section.
Appearances[edit]
For this course's tour appearances, see List of Piranha Plant Pipeline tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.
Top-tier and middle-tier items[edit]
The following are the drivers, karts, and gliders for which Piranha Plant Pipeline and its variants are always favored or favorite courses. For instances in which additional drivers, karts, and gliders temporarily had this course and its variants as favored or favorite courses, see List of Piranha Plant Pipeline tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.
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Bonus challenges[edit]
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Gallery[edit]
Course icons[edit]
- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Mario Kart Tour race course icons (original courses) § Piranha Plant Pipeline.
The course icon
The course icon of the R variant
The course icon of the T variant
The course icon of the R/T variant
Screenshots[edit]
View of the starting line
View of the green pipe
View of the white and transparent section
View of the hovering pipe area
View of the red and blue entrances
View of the orange pipe's exit
Additional names[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| Mario Kart Tour | Gmob_Dokan | Dokan | Japanese name for Warp Pipes, lit. "Clay Pipe" |
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ドカンキャニオン[?] Dokan Kyanion |
Warp Pipe Canyon | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 水管峡谷[?] Shuǐguǎn Xiágǔ |
Warp Pipe Canyon | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 水管峽谷[?] Shuǐguǎn Xiágǔ |
Warp Pipe Canyon | |
| French | Tunnel Plante Piranha[?] | Piranha Plant Tunnel | |
| German | Piranha-Pflanzen-Pipeline[?] | Piranha Plant Pipeline | |
| Italian | Tubodotto Piranha[?] | Piranha "Pipeduct" (portmanteau of tubo, "pipe", and condotto, "duct") | |
| Korean | 토관 캐니언[?] Togwan Kaenieon |
Warp Pipe Canyon | |
| Portuguese | Tobogã Planta Piranha[?] | Piranha Plant Slide | |
| Spanish | Tobogán Planta Piraña[?] | Piranha Plant Slide |
