Editing Yoshi's Island (race course)

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{{race course infobox
|title=Yoshi's Island
|image=[[File:MK8 Yoshis Island view.png|300px]]
|appears_in=''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' ([[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]], Wave 4) (2023)
|based_on=''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''
}}
'''Yoshi's Island''' is a race course in the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' series that debuts in the fourth wave of the [[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]] for ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYFZ8g7sC9c</ref> It is a course that takes place on the [[Yoshi's Island (location)|island it is named after]], with its music theme being a remix of the athletic theme from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''. It is the second course labelled as new in the pass, after [[Sky-High Sundae]]. Unlike Sky-High Sundae, this course was not announced for ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' alongside its reveal.

This course uses the logo for ''[[Yoshi's Island (series)|Yoshi's Island]]'' for its starting line, and the course itself is heavily inspired by the game it is named after, featuring obstacles like [[Stilt Guy]]s and mechanics like [[Winged Cloud]]s that can summon stretches of road when driven into. The layout of the course appears to reference all the world themes from ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''. Many cameos from the game appear in the background, including [[Incoming Chomp]]s, [[Petal Guy]]s, and an enormous [[Nep-Enut]]. This course has unique [[coin]]s, like several other crossover courses, namely [[Hyrule Circuit]], [[Animal Crossing]], and [[Urchin Underpass]]. The coins have the same design and collection sound effect as in the ''Yoshi's Island'' series.

== Course layout ==
Racers begin at [[Yoshi's House]] in a field that resembles [[World 1 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 1]] from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''. Racers race along a slight serpentine path, avoiding [[Stilt Guy]]s before diving into an underwater section. Surrounding the underwater section is a forest that resemble the basis' [[World 2 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 2]] and [[World 3 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 3]]. This section ends with racers driving into a castle; the route after this point is unclear, though it appears that the castle leads into an underground section. Eventually, racers drive by pink mountains similar to the ones in [[World 4 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 4]] before driving up an active volcano, like the one in [[World 6 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 6]]. A glider ramp then takes players up to the clouds, driving above snow-capped mountains similar to [[World 5 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 5]], before taking another glider to the ground level where they can drive into a [[Winged Cloud]] to make a bridge appear. After reaching the ground (or the aforementioned bridge), they soon return to the finish line.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
MK8D Yoshi's Island screenshot 1.jpg|Various [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshis]] and [[Birdo]] on Yoshi's Island
Birdo MK8DX.jpg|Several variants of Birdo on the course
</gallery>

== Names in other languages ==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ヨッシーアイランド 
|JapR=Yosshī Airando
|JapM=Yoshi Island
|Dut=Yoshi's Eiland
|DutM=Yoshi's Island
|Fra=Île de Yoshi<ref>https://youtu.be/L-srU6LTuoM</ref>
|FraM=Yoshi's Island
|Ger=Yoshis Eiland
|GerM=Yoshi's Island
|Ita=Isola Yoshi<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_D-vo1VHI</ref>
|ItaM=Yoshi Island
|Kor=요시 아일랜드<ref>https://www.nintendo.co.kr/news/view.php?no=YVlrMzdiSndQNnZQdUV6enFvQ1RMdz09</ref>
|KorR=Yosi Aillaendeu
|KorM=Yoshi Island
|Por=Ilha do Yoshi
|PorM=Yoshi's Island
|Rus=
|RusR=
|RusM=
|Spa=Isla de Yoshi
|SpaM=Yoshi's Island
}}

==Trivia==
*Excluding courses announced simultaneously, this course and [[Piranha Plant Cove]] mark the shortest period of time between the announcement of two new courses for the ''Mario Kart'' series, with them being announced five days apart from each other.

==References==
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[[Category:Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass race courses]]