Editing Spine Coaster

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|image=[[File:Spine Coaster NSMBW.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
|effect=Transports characters through otherwise uncrossable gaps.
}}
'''Spine Coasters''' are rideable creatures made of bone used to aid [[Mario]] and company to pass through [[lava]] pits or [[poison (obstacle)|poison]] pools or to cross long gaps. As their name suggests, they move along a track in a similar fashion to a roller coaster. They first appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''.
==History==
===''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''===
[[File:NSMBW World 8-7 Screenshot.png|200px|thumb|[[Mario]], riding a Spine Coaster in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'']]
Spine Coasters appear in [[World 8-7 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 8-7]] from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', a stage that can be unlocked by finding the secret exit in [[World 8-2 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 8-2]]. It also appears in multiplayer versus mode. Spine Coasters are the only method of transportation throughout the level, and they often make risky maneuvers, passing through lava geysers and into the lava itself. Players must time their jumps to avoid coming in contact with the lava and losing a life. Spine Coasters can stand the weight of the Mario Bros. and both [[Yellow Toad and Blue Toad|Toad]]s on it. However, if all characters perform a [[Synchro Ground-Pound|simultaneous ground pound]], it will fall and they lose a life each.

===''Super Mario 3D Land''===
[[File:Spine Coaster SM3DL screenshot.png|thumb|200px|A Spine Coaster in ''Super Mario 3D Land'']]
Spine Coasters later appear in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', where they are only found in {{world-link|8|bowser3d|World 8-Bowser: Part 2}} 2. Their design has changed into a broader, three-dimensional figure. The skull has protruding eye sockets and horns, and its maw is wide and blunt (as opposed to the narrow and pointed maw from the ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' design), to match with the coaster's wider figure. This alternate design for the skull somewhat resembles the thumb and bucket of an excavator, as well as the skull of a [[Dry Bones]].
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===''New Super Mario Bros. U'' / ''New Super Luigi U'' / ''New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe''===
In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', Spine Coasters appear in two levels: the [[Rock-Candy Mines]] level [[Thrilling Spine Coaster]], a course similar to the world shown in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Mii]]'', and the [[Superstar Road]] course, [[Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster]]. Spine Coasters and Spine Coaster tracks also appear on the world map, and can be used to travel between [[Frosted Glacier]] and [[Rock-Candy Mines]]. In ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'', besides reprising their role on the world map, Spine Coasters appear in the levels [[Spine Coaster Stowaways]] and [[Spine Coaster Connections]].

Spine Coasters reprise the aforementioned roles in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]''.

===Other appearances===
[[File:NSMBM Screen4.png|thumb|200px|A Spine Coaster in the demo game, ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Mii]]'']]
Spine Coasters have also appeared in the [[Wii U]] demo ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Mii]]'' shown at E3 2011. One is seen in a dark cavern that is filled with poison, carrying Mario and friends once again.
==Additional names==
===Internal names===
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|game1=''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''
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|name1=Bone Roller Coaster
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===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jap=ほねコースター<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', pages 151 and 217.</ref><br>''Hone Kōsutā''<br>リフト<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 3D Land'' section, page 183.</ref><br>''Rifuto''
|JapM=Bone Coaster (''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' / ''New Super Mario Bros. U'')<br><br>Lift (''Super Mario 3D Land'')
|SpaA=Huesocarril
|SpaAM=From ''hueso'' (bone) and ''carril'' (rail)
|SpaE=Osteotrén
|SpaEM=From ''ósteo'' (prefix that means "bone") and ''tren'' (train)
|Fre=Serpentos
|FreM=From ''serpent'' (snake) and ''os'' (bone)
|Por=Trólei Vertebrado
|PorM=Vertebrate Trolley
|Kor=뼈다귀코스터
|KorR=Ppyeodagwi Koseuteo
|KorM=Bone Coaster
|Chi=白骨过山车
|ChiR=Báigǔ Guòshānchē
|ChiM=Bone Coaster
|Ita=Carrosso
|ItaM=Cart-bone
}}

==Trivia==
*The Spine Coaster somewhat resembles a [[Bone Dragon]], but its head is smaller and there are no spikes on its back.
*Whenever the Spine Coaster goes fast, especially on a slope, it lets out a dinosaur-like roar. The Spine Coasters in ''Super Mario 3D Land'' make a different noise.

==References==
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