Mario's Rainbow Castle
- Not to be confused with Mario's castle.
| Mario's Rainbow Castle | |||
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| Appears in | Mario Party Super Mario Party Jamboree | ||
| Difficulty | ★ | ||
| Availability | Default | ||
| Description | "Use your Star Power to create a beautiful rainbow." | ||
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- “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 off of 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 afterwards. 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 is set to return in Super Mario Party Jamboree. The originally flat clouds have now been remade into 3D and use different levels of cloud platform elevation, Toad has been replaced by a Yellow Toad due to his inclusion as a playable character, and various set pieces have been added or altered such as tables with umbrellas where Toads can be seen sitting together. There's also 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 the Yellow Toad switches places with Bowser, the sky goes from sunny to stormy weather, as well as the Item Shop owner changing when that happens.
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
Board selection icon
Logo
The board without spaces
The introduction's background
The introduction
The map's cast artwork
Starting area
Bowser presents Mario with a Ztar.
Bowser Event
The ending's background
The ending
Board icon in Super Mario Party Jamboree
Mario's Rainbow Castle as seen in Super Mario Party Jamboree
Overview of Mario's Rainbow Castle in Super Mario Party Jamboree
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 | |
| Dutch | Mario's regenboogkasteel[1] | Mario's Rainbow Castle | |
| French | Le château arc-en-ciel de Mario[?] | Mario's Rainbow Castle | |
| Le Château de Mario[2] | Mario's Castle | ||
| German | Marios Regenbogenburg[?] | Mario's Rainbow Castle | |
| Italian | Il Castello d'Arcobaleno[3] | Rainbow Castle | Mario Party |
| Castello arcobaleno di Mario[4] | Mario's rainbow castle | Super Mario Party Jamboree | |
| Portuguese | Castelo Arco-Íris do Mario[5] | Mario's Rainbow Castle | |
| Spanish | Castillo arcoíris de Mario[6] | Mario's Rainbow Castle |
References
- ^ Super Mario Party Jamboree. Nintendo (Dutch). Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- ^ Official Nintendo French magazine N13. Page 25.
- ^ Mario Party European instruction booklet. Page 133
- ^ Super Mario Party Jamboree. Nintendo (Italian). Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- ^ Super Mario Party Jamboree. Nintendo (Portuguese). Retrieved June 18, 2024.
- ^ Super Mario Party Jamboree. Nintendo (European Spanish). Retrieved June 18, 2024.
