Coney Island (location)
Template:Articleabout Template:Location-infobox Coney Island is an oceanside amusement park in the southern part of Brooklyn. Despite its name, Coney Island is not an actual island, but rather a peninsula.
History
Prior to the events of "Flatbush Koopa", King Koopa discovered a Warp Pipe connecting the Mushroom Kingdom to Brooklyn. Wanting to get back at Mario and Luigi for foiling his plans one too many times, King Koopa traveled to Brooklyn with his Koopa Troopas, and started to wreck havoc throughout the town. Believing that they drove King Koopa out of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi used the Warp Pipe to return home, but were soon led to Coney Island by two Koopa Troopas.
Arriving at Coney Island in a taxi, Mario and Luigi came just as King Koopa and several Koopa Troopas replaced the park's entrance sign with one that read Koopa Island. They listened in as King Koopa announced his plans to take over all of New York City, which led the cabbie to seek assistance from the police. Before he could get away, King Koopa used his Koopa Scepter to turn the cabbie and his taxi into a pile of bricks.
King Koopa then told the Mario Bros. that he intended on turning everyone in Brooklyn into bricks, as he wanted to sabotage Mario and Luigi's hometown for revenge against ruining his evil schemes. Upon ordering his Koopa Troopas to attack them, Mario and Luigi bounced off their heads and onto the nearby roller coaster track, where they kicked a Koopa Troopa out of a car and went for a ride, if only to get away from the Koopas.
King Koopa then ordered the Koopa Troopas to assault Mario and Luigi upon the roller coaster, and soon enough, the brothers found themselves driving towards a car full of spear-wielding Koopa Troopas heading in the opposite direction. Unable to stop, Mario and Luigi leapt out of the car and ran away down the track from the incoming Koopa Troopas, where they found themselves running in a seemingly endless loop.
Wanting to put a stop to their running, King Koopa and several more spear-wielding Koopa Troopas stationed themselves on an upcoming section of track, and prepared to attack the Mario and Luigi. However, they were stopped when Princess Toadstool drove a garbage truck into the amusement park and crashed into a support column of the roller coaster, which created a hole in the track that Mario and Luigi fell through, although they landed in the garbage inside the truck. The Koopa Troopa car went flying into the nearby water, while King Koopa and the Koopa Troopas accompanying him crashed into a carousel.
After Mario and Luigi met up with Princess Toadstool and Toad, King Koopa left Coney Island and headed towards the Brooklyn Bridge to proceed with the next portion of his city-wide takeover.
Trivia
- In the Super Mario World episode "Mama Luigi", Mario referred to the Neon Castle as the "Coney Island Disco Palace". Whether or not this is the castle's actual name, or something Mario made up to describe atmosphere of the place, is unknown.
- There is a mini-game in Mario Party 5 entitled Coney Island, which is named for the amusement park, as well as actual ice cream cones. Interestingly enough, the mini-game is situated on a Mario-styled Statue of Liberty that's holding an ice cream cone in place of a torch.
