Mario's Rainbow Castle

Not to be confused with Mario's castle.

Mario's Rainbow Castle
Appears in	Mario Party Super Mario Party Jamboree
Difficulty	★ (Mario Party and Jamboree)
Availability	Default (Mario Party) Unlockable (Jamboree)
Description	"Use your Star Power to create a beautiful rainbow." (Mario Party) Fly off into the fluffy clouds where Mario's Rainbow Castle awaits! Make your way to the top tower to be bestowed with a star, but beware - the tower can turn. (Jamboree)
Music sample Mario Party

“Take a magical trip to a castle in the clouds. This board consists of a single path that the players must follow to reach the castle. However, when someone reaches the castle, Toad and Bowser switch places.”

—Mario Party instruction booklet

“The castle you see from here was once a beautiful castle called Rainbow Castle. But the rainbow disappeared, and even the name Rainbow Castle has been forgotten. With your own hands, you must reveal the shining Rainbow Castle once more! I have one piece of advice! In the castle, Toad may change places with Bowser.”

—Koopa Troopa, Mario Party

Mario's Rainbow Castle is Mario's board in Mario Party. It is heavily based on Tower of the Wing Cap and Wing Mario Over the Rainbow from Super Mario 64, as well as the Wing Cap in general. Players need to collect Stars to restore the great rainbow of the castle. The board is a one-way path to the middle of the board (with two junctions). Players who make it to the center ride Fwoosh up to the tower, where either Toad or Bowser wait. Toad doles out the Stars as usual, but if players reach Bowser, he awards them with a Ztar at the cost of 40 coins (which will not subtract from their Star total), though they will regain coins upon returning to the start immediately afterward. After obtaining either Star, the tower switches, replacing Toad with Bowser and vice versa, and Lakitu takes the player back to start. The Happening Space can be used to force the tower to turn around before a player reaches it.

This is the only board in the game designed as a traditional start-to-finish style board map, while the others go all around before the players meet up with Koopa Troopa.

At the end of the game, the winner's Stars form a large Star that paints a series of rainbows across the board, followed by a rainbow path from Fwoosh's center platform. The winner, as well as the players in 2nd and 3rd place, go up the rainbow path to celebrate the victory along with Toad, Koopa, Boo, Fwoosh, and the Star. The player in 4th place attempts to travel up the rainbow too, but slips, falls and is carried away by Lakitu.

Mario's Rainbow Castle returns as an unlockable board in Super Mario Party Jamboree. It is unlocked after reaching Gold Player Rank. The originally flat clouds have now been remade into 3D and use different levels of cloud platform elevation, and various set pieces have been added or altered such as tables with umbrellas where Toads can be seen sitting together. Toad and Bowser have been replaced by a Yellow Toad and Impostor Bowser respectively due to their inclusions as playable characters, and Fwoosh has been replaced by a Lakitu's Cloud. The Koopa Troopa at the Start Space has been removed. There is an Item Shop split in half that is run by a Koopa Troopa on one half and by Kamek on the other half, and whenever a player purchases an item or the Yellow Toad switches places with Impostor Bowser, the Item Shop owners switch places. Just like other boards, Kamek's store features different items to Koopa Troopa's. When Impostor Bowser is in the tower, the sky goes from sunny to stormy weather, and the music changes to a more menacing arrangement. The price of Ztars was reduced to 20 coins and the 4th place downfall was removed.

Spaces

The following table shows how many spaces there are on the board, and how many there are of a certain type.

Mario Party

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	33
Red Spaces	5
Happening Spaces	5
! Spaces	2
Mini-Game Spaces	4
Mushroom Spaces	2
Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	53

Super Mario Party Jamboree

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Start Spaces	1
Blue Spaces	21
Red Spaces	3
Event Spaces	7
Chance Time Spaces	1
Item Spaces	5
VS Spaces	2
Lucky Spaces	7
Unlucky Spaces	2
Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	51

Gallery

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  Board selection icon

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  Logo

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  The board without spaces

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  The introduction's background

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  The introduction

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  The map's cast artwork

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  Starting area

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  Bowser presents Mario with a Ztar.

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  Bowser Event

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  The ending's background

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  The ending

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  Board icon in Super Mario Party Jamboree

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  Mario's Rainbow Castle as seen in Super Mario Party Jamboree

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  Overview of Mario's Rainbow Castle in Super Mario Party Jamboree

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  Mario buys a Star from a Yellow Toad

Quotes

"On a sea of clouds that spreads across the sky stands a great castle. But somehow, it seems rather sad."

"That middle castle used to be called Rainbow Castle. It was very beautiful."

"But now, there's not a rainbow to be seen. Yes, it is sad. I wonder, can't we go back to the past?"

"What could we do that would turn that castle back into Rainbow Castle?"

"I want to paint a beautiful rainbow over that castle. Don't you?"

"I bet we could paint a new rainbow if we used our Star Power."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	マリオのレインボーキャッスル[?] Mario no reinbōkyassuru	Mario's Rainbow Castle
Chinese (traditional)	瑪利歐的彩虹之城[?] Mǎlìōu de Cǎihóng zhī Chéng	Mario's Rainbow Castle
Dutch	Mario's regenboogkasteel	Mario's Rainbow Castle
French	Château arc-en-ciel de Mario	Mario's Rainbow Castle
	Le Château de Mario	Mario's Castle
German	Marios Regenbogenburg[?]	Mario's Rainbow Castle
Italian	Il Castello d'Arcobaleno	Rainbow Castle	Mario Party
	Castello arcobaleno di Mario	Mario's rainbow castle	Super Mario Party Jamboree
Korean	마리오의 레인보우 캐슬 Malioui Leinbou Kaeseul	Mario's Rainbow Castle
Portuguese	Castelo Arco-Íris do Mario	Mario's Rainbow Castle
Russian	Радужный замок Марио[?] Raduzhnyy zamok Mario	Mario's rainbow castle
Spanish	Castillo arcoíris de Mario	Mario's Rainbow Castle