Grand Canal

Grand Canal
Party Cruise layout Solo Cruise layout
Appears in	Mario Party 7
Availability	Default
Description	"Collect coins to get more stars! This is a basic course."
Music sample

“Welcome to Grand Canal! The lovely town features balloons, waterways, and gondolas! If you reach the Star Space, you can buy a Star for 20 coins. The Star will move to another location when someone gets one. What a crafty bugger! And watch out for Bowser Time! That chap is naught but trouble! Sometimes he'll even appear and destroy the bridges! Madness! Madness!”

—Toadsworth, Mario Party 7

Grand Canal is a board that is based off of the real Grand Canal in Venice, Italy in Mario Party 7. Here, singing Shy Guys are everywhere and in charge of the Orb Shops and attractions. In Party Cruise, Grand Canal's star requirements are the traditional exchanging 20 coins for a star in a designated location on the board (10 coins in last four turns). In Solo Cruise, players have to beat their opponent by getting two Stars first by buying them for 20 coins each from a Star Space on the board. Bowser Spaces do not appear on the board by default but may appear when Bowser Time occurs.

Possible Star locations

• One space behind the Blue Space in front of the Start Space.
• On the boat three spaces after the first Orb store.
• Atop the double red house when going up on the first junction.
• In front of the second junction.
• Three spaces before the Blooper event.
• Three spaces after the Blooper event.
• Upwards after the third junction, before a DK Space.
• At the end of the stone drawbridge, before the fourth junction.
• Right after the second Orb store, when taking a left at the fourth junction.

Events

Mario collecting Coins during the Shy Guy ride

• Landing on the Green Space near the start makes the player do a coin game, where the Shy Guys throw coins and Spiny eggs at them (similar to Ukiki on Castaway Bay from Mario Party 6). If the player collects 20 coins, the Shy Guy offers to trade them for a Star.
• Landing on the Green Spaces near the gondola house makes a Singing Shy Guy come out asking if they want a ride. Accepting this takes the player to the gondola house on the other side of the board, collecting coins (and avoiding Spinies) on the way.
• The Green Space on what looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa causes the tower to lean over, dropping players in the water, where four Cheep-Cheeps squirt them back out to the start.
• The Green Space in front of the juggling Blooper activates a guessing game, where Blooper juggles four chests that have: a Star, five coins, a Dark Star, and nothing (in Solo Cruise, there are always five coins, but three Dark Stars).
• If a player lands on either of the two Green Spaces on the stone drawbridge, the bridge opens and sends the player (and any other player on the bridge) to a different area on the board.

Bowser Time

When Bowser Time occurs, Bowser does one of three things:

• Takes a souvenir photograph of all of the players, and makes them pay 10 or 20 coins each for it. Then, he leaves without giving anyone the photo. This occurs in all boards except for Bowser's Enchanted Inferno!
• Flattens one of the Orb Shops, and replaces it with one of his own (called Bowser City). Koopa Kid stops anyone who passes it and throws them in the shop, where Bowser sells them a worthless item (or a Koopa Kid Orb) for twenty coins. This also occurs in Pagoda Peak and Pyramid Park.
• Uses his Koopa Clown Car to throw Bob-ombs at the bridges, destroying them. New, sturdy stone bridges are then made, which only have Bowser Spaces on them. These last for three turns before returning to normal. Additionally, all Character Spaces and Koopa Kid Spaces on the bridges are removed upon doing so.

Spaces (Party Cruise)

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	48 (39 if the bridges are destroyed due to Bowser Time)
Red Spaces	9
Green Spaces	7
Mic Spaces	2
Duel Spaces	2
DK Spaces	2
Bowser Spaces	0 or 9, depending on Bowser Time
Total of Spaces	70

Spaces (Solo Cruise)

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	35
Red Spaces	8
Green Spaces	7
Mic Spaces	3
Duel Spaces	7
DK Spaces	3
Bowser Spaces	3
Total of Spaces	66

Orbs

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  Mushroom Orb

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  Sluggish 'Shroom Orb

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  Super 'Shroom Orb

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  Flutter Orb

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  Hammer Bro Orb

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  Piranha Plant Orb

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  Mr. Blizzard Orb

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  Pink Boo Orb

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  Spiny Orb

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  Tweester Orb

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ウキウキタウン[?] Ukiuki taun	Happy/Pleasant Town
French	Grand Canal[?]	-
German	Canale Grande[?]	Italian for "Grand Canal"
Italian	Villa Naviglio[?]	Waterway House
Spanish	Gran canal[?]	Grand Canal