Super Bell Subway

Template:Racecourse Super Bell Subway is the third course in the Bell Cup. The course is included with the Animal Crossing × Mario Kart 8 downloadable content in Mario Kart 8 as well as the base content of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The course is located in the Golden Bell, a subway station, going through both the station and the track. This track only plays a half of the music when racing on the course, and the other half plays only when watching a highlight reel, the same way as Dolphin Shoals.

Course layout

The course as seen from the starting line.

The track starts in the station with a U-Turn going to the left right after the start. The track leads into a large area with stairs leading down into the subway. Automatic barriers open to let the players through.

The subway has trains running along the tracks. Throughout the subway, raised platforms can be used to drive on the trains. At the end of the subway, the train track splits and has stairs that lead up back into the large area of the station with another set of stairs taking the players to last bend before the finish. After the U-Turn is a straightaway to the finish line.

Shortcuts

• Throughout the underground sections of the course, a Mushroom or a Star can be used over gravel sections cutting off turns in the track.
• At the final U-Turn going to the left, a shortcut can be performed through a grass patch next to the Golden Bell Fountain with a Mushroom or a Star.

Staff ghost

The staff ghost for this track is Pink Shy Guy on the City Tripper, and the time is 2:07.175. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 200cc staff ghost is Blue Yoshi with a time of 1:23.304.

References to other Mario games

This track has several references to other portions of the franchise and even the game itself.

• Several shops appear along the sides of the raceway that make appearances elsewhere in Mario Kart 8, such as Yoshi's Egg Market.
• The map at the starting line of the track appears to connect nearly all of the raceways that appear in Mario Kart 8. Several other detailed maps by the subway lines also include the names of playable courses and the in-game business advertisements. Much like an actual subway, there are exits for different stations written on signs above the track stating the names of various courses.
  • On a related note, the city map is the only place where Wendy O. Koopa's company, Wendy's Car Interiors, is mentioned.
• This track's music contains pieces of the underground theme from Super Mario Bros., much like 3DS Piranha Plant Slide.
• World 1-2 from Super Mario Bros. is shown on the graffiti found in the underground section.
  • The graffiti also references Bullet Bills, Warp Pipes, Koopa Troopas, and a Piranha Plant; this is located before the World 1-2 graffiti under the ramp. The graffiti near the World 1-2 graffiti references the Koopalings.
• The Toads in the ticket booth use feather pens designed after Cape Feathers, just like in Sunshine Airport.

Sponsors

• 1-Up Fuel (Local information map (Exit C, D3), posters)
• 1-Up Mushroom Car Insurance Group (Local information map (Exit A, A3/B2/B3/C4), posters)
• 100% Organic Antifreeze (Local information map (Exit A, B2), posters)
• BaNaNa Boy (Cans, local information map (Exit A, B3/C3))
• Bob-omb Plugs (Graffiti)
• Boomerang Bros. International Airlines (Local information map (Exit A, B3/B4/C3))
• Bowser Oil (Local information map (Exit A, B3/C3))
• Bullet Bill Speed Trial (Cans, local information map (Exit B, D3))
• Burning DK (Bottles, local information map (Exit A, B4), vending machines)
• Chain Chomp Racing Chains (Local information map (Exit C, D2))
• Coconut Cafe (Shop)
• Dream Gliders (Local information map (Exit A, A4))
• Fountain Cafe (Bottles, posters)
• Fun Flower (Shop)
• Galaxy Air (Posters)
• Green Service (Local information map (Exit A, B4))
• Green Shell Taxi (Local information map (Exit C, D3))
• Lemmy's Tire Service (Local information map (Exit B, C2))
• Ludwig Painting (Graffiti, local information map (Exit A, A4)
• Luigi Gusters (Local information map (Exit A, B3))
• Mario Super Motor Team (Local information map (Exit A, A2/A3))
• Mario Kart TV (Posters)
• Moo Moo Meadows Milk (Cartons, menus, stickers, vending machines)
• Morton Construction (Local information map (Exit B, D2))
• Mushroom Piston (Local information map (Exit B, A3/C2))
• Paratroopa Airlines (Local information map (Exit A, A3))
• Peach & Daisy Royal Patisserie (Bottles, menus, posters)
• Princess Orange (Bottles, local information map (Exit A, C4), menus, posters, trackside banners)
• Rainbow Exploration Agency (Local information map (Exit A, B4), posters)
• Red Shell Strike Equipment (Local information map (Exit B, D2))
• Roy Smooth Sounds (Bottles)
• Sunshine Parts (Local information map (Exit A, A3))
• Tropical Bakery (Bottles, shop)
• Undead Motors (Cans, local information map (Exit C, D2))
• Wario Billionaires (Local information map (Exit A, C2/C4))
• Wendy's Car Interiors (Local information map (Exit C, D3))
• Yoshi's Egg Market (Bottles, local information map (Exit A, A4), posters)

Courses

GCN Baby Park (Rail map (Orange/Green/Blue bell line)) Bone-Dry Dunes (Rail map (Blue bell line)) Bowser's Castle (Rail map (Green bell line)) DS Cheep Cheep Beach (Bottles, rail map (Blue bell line)) GBA Cheese Land (Rail map (Orange bell line)) 3DS DK Jungle (Rail map (Blue bell line)) Dolphin Shoals (Rail map (Blue bell line)) Dragon Driftway (Rail map (Red bell line)) GCN Dry Dry Desert (Rail map (Green bell line)) Electrodrome (Rail map (Red bell line)) Excitebike Arena (Rail map (Green bell line)) Wii Grumble Volcano (Rail map (Blue bell line)) Ice Ice Outpost (Rail map (Red bell line)) Mario Circuit (Rail map (Red/Green bell line)) Mario Kart Stadium (Rail map (Red bell line)) Wii Moo Moo Meadows (Local information map (Exit C, D3), rail map (Green bell line)) 3DS Music Park (Rail map (Orange bell line))

3DS Piranha Plant Slide (Rail map (Red bell line)) Rainbow Road (Rail map (Orange bell line)) GBA Ribbon Road (Rail map (Orange/Blue bell line)) N64 Royal Raceway (Rail map (Green/Blue bell line)) GCN Sherbet Land (Rail map (Green bell line)) Shy Guy Falls (Rail map (Green bell line)) Sunshine Airport (Rail map (Green bell line)) Sweet Sweet Canyon (Rail map (Blue bell line)) DS Tick-Tock Clock (Rail map (Red bell line)) Toad Harbor (Bottles, local information map (Exit A, B1)) N64 Toad's Turnpike (Rail map (Red bell line)) Twisted Mansion (Rail map (Green bell line)) Wii Wario's Gold Mine (Local information map (Exit A, C3), rail map (Green bell line)) Water Park (Rail map (Orange bell line)) GCN Yoshi Circuit (Rail map (Orange bell line)) N64 Yoshi Valley (Rail map (Orange bell line))

Gallery

• MK8 DLC Super Bell Subway Course Icon.png

  Course icon.

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  Toad, performing a trick towards the train section.

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  Wario, driving through the tunnel section of the track.

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  A portion of the track references World 1-2 from Super Mario Bros..

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  Dry Bowser uses the only glider ramp that's present on the track.

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  Princess Daisy and Baby Rosalina racing on the track.

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  Donkey Kong and Rosalina racing on the track.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	リンリンメトロ[?] Rinrin Metoro	Ring Ring Metro
Chinese	鈴鈴地鐵 (Traditional) 铃铃地铁 (Simplified)[?] Líng Líng Dìtiě	Bell Bell Metro
Dutch	Mario's Metro[?]	Mario's Metro
French	Métro Turbo[?]	Turbo Metro
German	Marios Metro[?]	Mario's Metro
Italian	Mariopolitana[?]	Portmanteau of Mario and metropolitana (subway)
Korean	슈퍼 벨 메트로[?] Syupeo Bel Meteuro	Super Bell Metro
Portuguese	Metro Mario[?]	Mario Metro
Russian	Метро Марио[?] Metro Mario	Mario Metro
Spanish (NOA)	Metro Campana[?]	Bell Metro
Spanish (NOE)	Estación Tilín-Tolón[?]	Ding-Dong Station

Trivia

• Like Sunshine Airport, this track features a P.A. voice in the background that can be heard faintly. The female intercom speaks German, including several grammar errors however, and says general things heard in a German train station.
• This is one of three nitro courses in Mario Kart 8 without anti-gravity sections, the other two being Excitebike Arena and Animal Crossing, and the only one that's not a crossover course.
• It is revealed in a "Local information" map that the subway system is underground what seems to be the same town N64 Rainbow Road hovers over.
  • The map has a key showing the location of several companies mentioned throughout the game (like "Bowser Oil" or "Yoshi's Egg Market"), but "Morton Construction" is listed with a typo as "Moton Construction".
• The sound when passing through the ticket gate is reused in Tokyo Blur 3 from Mario Kart Tour.