Piranha Plant Cove
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- Not to be confused with Piranha Creeper Cove or 3DS Piranha Plant Slide.
| Piranha Plant Cove | |
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 View of the starting banner | |
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| Appears in | Mario Kart Tour (2023) |
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Piranha Plant Cove is a race course from Mario Kart Tour. It debuts in the 2023 Exploration Tour as its featured course. It is set in an underwater ruin with Maw-Rays that has a Piranha Plant motif, which includes stone Petey Piranha heads near a staircase at the exit of the underwater section. Along the course are various hieroglyphs depicting 8-bit Piranha Plant sprites from Super Mario Bros., and various engravings on Falling Pillars are seen glowing bright turquoise. Thwomps appear as obstacles as well, while Bulbers appear as background elements. The underwater ruins and the architecture of this course bear similarities to the fictional island of Atlantis.
Piranha Plant Cove is the first course in Mario Kart Tour and the second course in the Mario Kart series overall to start entirely underwater, after Mario Kart 8's Dolphin Shoals.
It has two confirmed routes, making it the second course in Mario Kart Tour to have numbered re-routes and not be set in a real life location, after N64 Kalimari Desert; it is the first new course with this distinction. Several unused routes indicate a third variant will release later, also akin to city courses. It is also the third Tour-original course to have a re-route with a different starting line placement, after Los Angeles Laps and Berlin Byways, although unlike said courses, the starting line has a completely different appearance between variants.
Course layout
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Similar to Dolphin Shoals from Mario Kart 8, this course's starting line is located underwater. When the race begins, racers are immediately met with a brief fork in the road; here, there are pillars that, throughout the race, may fall on to the road, similar to Dry Dry Ruins from Mario Kart Wii and Template:Classic-link in Mario Kart 8. When the two branches are connected again, racers drive up a large staircase with currents, decorated with stone Petey Piranha heads, that takes them up to the surface. Afterwards, racers drive along the ruins, driving beneath many stone arch ways, taking 90-degree bends before diving back into the water, and driving down a straightaway and entering a cavern, avoiding Thwomps in the process. Racers take a few more turns before reaching the finishing line.
Gallery
Screenshots
An image of racers on the course.
![Another image of racers on the course. This and the previous image were used on the official Mario Kart Tour social media accounts as a spot the difference.[1]](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/a/a0/PiranhaPlantCove.jpg/120px-PiranhaPlantCove.jpg)
Another image of racers on the course. This and the previous image were used on the official Mario Kart Tour social media accounts as a spot the difference.[1]
An additional variant of the course, with the starting line being relocated to an unseen portion of the track
View of a pier
View of a staircase
View of the course with Thwomps
![Another image of racers on the course. This and the previous image were used on the official Mario Kart Tour social media accounts as a spot the difference.[1]](/File:PiranhaPlantCove.jpg)
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean | 뻐끔 신전[?] Ppeokkeum Shinjeon |
Piranha Temple |
Trivia
- The music for this course is the only music track in the Mario Kart series to be in a 6/4 time signature.
References
- ^ @mariokarttourEN (February 1, 2023). "Piranha Plant Cove, an all-new course for the Mario Kart series, will appear in the Exploration Tour starting Feb. 7, 10:00 PM PT! To get ready, can you spot the differences between these two images? There are 10 in total! #MarioKartTour" Twitter. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
- ^ @mariokarttourJP (February 2, 2023). "マリオカートシリーズ初の新コース #パックンしんでん が2023年2月8日(水)15:00より開幕する「探検ツアー」に登場！ #まちがいさがし #まちがいは10個 #マリオカートツアー" Twitter. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
