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| [[File:M&SATROG 3DS Sugarloaf Mountain.png|thumb|Sugarloaf Mountain in ''Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games'' for the Nintendo 3DS]] | | [[File:SugarLoafMountain MIM.png|thumb|[[Luigi]]'s photograph of the '''Sugar Loaf Mountain'''.]] |
| {{quote|Sugar Loaf Mountain stands on the left side of Rio's great balloon-shaped bay. Two cable cars carry visitors 1300 meters{{sic}} above both the city and Guanabara Bay. Once atop the mountain, visitors can get off at the lower vista and watch samba troupes perform at cliffside restaurants, or they can go all the way to the top. From that height the city spreads out below like a carpet of lights. The granite mountain got its name from Portuguese sailors who swore it resembled the cone-shaped loaves of sugar processed from Brazilian sugar cane.|'''Pamphlet'''|Mario is Missing!}}
| | '''[[Wikipedia:Sugarloaf Mountain|Sugar Loaf Mountain]]''' (in Portuguese: '''''Pão de Açúcar''''') is a peak at the bay of [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. During the events of the game ''[[Mario is Missing!]]'', [[Luigi]] found a '''Sugar Loaf Mountain cable car''' that was stolen from the mountain by [[Koopa Troopa]]s. The cable car is needed to get visitors to the top of the mountain. Upon delivering it back, Luigi was rewarded a prize of 2,250 dollars. |
| '''{{wp|Sugarloaf Mountain}}''' (in Portuguese: '''''Pão de Açúcar''''') is a peak at the bay of [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. | |
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| | The peak also makes a cameo in both versions of ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games]]''. |
| ===''Mario is Missing!''===
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| During the events of the [[Mario is Missing! (PC)|PC]] and [[Mario is Missing! (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|SNES versions of ''Mario is Missing!'']], [[Luigi]] finds a [[Sugar Loaf Mountain cable car|cable car]] that was stolen from Sugarloaf Mountain (formatted as '''Sugar Loaf Mountain''') by [[Koopa Troopa|Koopa]]s. The cable car is needed to get visitors to the top of the mountain. Before returning the cable car to Sugar Loaf Mountain's [[Curator]], Luigi has to correctly answer some questions to prove its authenticity. Upon delivering it back, Luigi is rewarded a prize of 2,250 dollars.
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| * ''Tourists can scale the mountain by:''
| | ==Pamphlet Information from ''Mario is Missing!''== |
| ** mountain goat
| | ''Sugar Loaf Mountain stands on the left side of Rio's great balloon-shaped bay. Two cable cars carry visitors 1300 meters ''[sic]'' above both the city and Guanabara Bay. Once atop the mountain, visitors can get off at the lower vista and watch samba troupes perform at cliffside restaurants, or they can go all the way to the top. From that height the city spreads out below like a carpet of lights. The granite mountain got its name from Portuguese sailors who swore it resembled the cone-shaped loaves of sugar processed from Brazilian sugar cane.'' |
| ** '''trolley car'''
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| ** downhill skis
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| * ''Sugar Loaf got its name from:''
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| ** Hawaiian sugar growers
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| ** '''Portuguese sailors'''
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| ** samba troupes
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| ** Brazilian meat loaf
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| * ''What's the name of the bay to the east of Sugar Loaf?''
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| ** '''Guanabara Bay'''
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| ** Sugar Loaf Bay
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| ** Samba Bay
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| ** Rio de Janeiro Bay
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| The pamphlet wrongly states that Sugar Loaf Mountain is 1300 meters high; the correct measure would be 1300 feet, which is only about 400 meters.
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| ===''Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games''===
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| [[File:096-M&SATROGSugarloafMountain.png|thumb|150px|left|[[Stamp]] of Sugarloaf Mountain from ''Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games'' for the Wii U]]
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| In the [[Wii U]] version of ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Wii U)|Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games]]'', Sugarloaf Mountain is depicted in one of the game's [[Stamp]]s.
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| In the [[Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS)|Nintendo 3DS version]], Sugarloaf Mountain is one of the areas explorable in {{wp|Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro|Copacabana}} in the [[Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS)#Road to Rio|Road to Rio]] mode. The player can take the tramway to the top to find a chest containing a [[melon]]. On Day 2 of Mario Story, the player is tasked by [[Princess Daisy]] to investigate ghost sightings around Copacabana, including on Sugarloaf Mountain. At the mountain's base, a townsperson tells the player that they saw a ghost on top of it, and the player and the townsperson head to the top, where they find the [[Mysterious Map]] before heading back down.
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| | ==Trivia== |
| | *The pamphlet information from ''Mario is Missing!'' wrongly states that Sugar Loaf Mountain is 1300 meters high. However, the correct measure would be 1300 ''feet'', which is only about 400 meters. |
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