Penguin Tour
Penguin Tour | |
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Start date | December 14, 2021 10:00 p.m. (PT)[?] |
End date | December 28, 2021 9:59 p.m. (PT)[?] |
Number of cups | 12 |
Ranked cups | Ice Bro Cup (week 1) Ice Mario Cup (week 2) |
Coin Rush course | DS DK Pass |
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The Penguin Tour was the fifty-ninth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 15, 2021 and ended on December 28, 2021. True to its name, the tour featured the return of various penguin-themed items, as well as introducing Penguin Toadette from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe as a new power-up driver variant. Its Italian name, Tour Pinguotto, particularly alludes to the recurring Penguin species in the Super Mario franchise, encountered in this game as course obstacles; however, the Penguin Tour featured no course where such Penguins are found. Additionally, the tour also marked the debut of the second layout of the Vancouver Velocity course, aptly named Vancouver Velocity 2.
This tour continued the Holiday Celebration event that started on the previous tour, which, in addition of keeping the Holiday Challenges, featured better rewards on the Token Shop, which included High-End karts like the Sushi Racer and the Apple Kart and High-End gliders like the Cloud Glider and the Blizzard Balloons, as well as introducing a light-blue-colored variant of Toad (Pit Crew) known as Light-blue Toad (Pit Crew), who was available as a reward for placing high in this tour's ranked cups. This tour featured the Snow Karts Pipe, which contained several karts related to snow and ice, including the new Frost Wing kart.
This tour's Coin Rush course was DS DK Pass, which was reused from the 2019 and 2020 Winter Tours. The menu's background featured the 2010 Winter Olympics cauldron under the aurora borealis as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the Vancouver Tour. This tour's trailer featured falling snowflakes during its opening splash screen.
Starting from this tour, the Starry Great Sail glider is available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.
This tour also introduced the first new Vs. Mega bonus challenge since the Snow Tour twenty-one tours prior and the first Vs. Mega bonus challenge since the Pirate Tour thirty-five tours prior to feature a new opponent, featuring Koopa Troopa as the opponent on N64 Koopa Troopa Beach.
Spotlights[edit]
Penguin Pipe 1 December 14, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 28, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT) |
Penguin Pipe 2 December 21, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 28, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT) | ||||
Driver | Kart | Glider | Drivers | Karts | Gliders |
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Penguin Toadette and Penguin Toad | Black Penguin Slider and Snow Skimmer | Blizzard Parasol and Polka-Dot Manta Glider | Penguin Luigi and Penguin Mario | White Snow Skimmer and Penguin Slider | Silver Surf Master and Penguin Wingtip |
Special pipe[edit]
Snow Karts Pipe December 18, 2021, 10:00 p.m. (PT) – December 23, 2021, 9:59 p.m. (PT) | ||
High-End Spotlight Kart | High-End Karts | |
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Frost Wing | Ice-blue Poltergust, Cact-Ice, Comet Tail, and Ice Dozer |
- Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Chinese (simplified) | 白雪车辆水管[?] Báixuě Chēliàng Shuǐguǎn |
White Snow Karts Pipe | |
Chinese (traditional) | 白雪車輛水管[?] Báixuě Chēliàng Shuǐguǎn |
White Snow Karts Pipe | |
German | Schneeraser-Röhre[?] | Snow Speeder Pipe | |
Italian | Tubo ghiacciato[?] | Frozen Pipe |
Cups[edit]
Ice Bro Cup Ranked cup (week 1) |
Vancouver Velocity 2T |
2,300 | DS DK Pass R/T |
1,300 | Vancouver Velocity 2R |
1,600 | Ring Race | |
3,500 | 2,000 | 2,500 | 3DS Mario Circuit |
Peach | ||||
4,100 | 2,300 | 2,900 | 15 | |||||
4,700 | 2,700 | 3,300 | 25 | |||||
11,700 | 6,700 | 8,200 | 35 | |||||
Kamek Cup |
Merry Mountain |
1,600 | SNES Donut Plains 2 |
1,300 | RMX Choco Island 2 |
1,700 | Goomba Takedown | |
2,500 | 2,000 | 2,600 | RMX Rainbow Road 2 |
Iggy | ||||
2,900 | 2,300 | 3,000 | 20 | |||||
3,300 | 2,700 | 3,500 | 40 | |||||
8,000 | 6,400 | 8,400 | 55 | |||||
Ice Mario Cup Ranked cup (week 2) |
Vancouver Velocity 2 |
1,500 | 3DS Mario Circuit R/T |
2,100 | Vancouver Velocity 2R/T |
2,300 | Time Trial | |
2,300 | 3,300 | 3,600 | SNES Vanilla Lake 2 |
Roy | ||||
2,700 | 3,800 | 4,200 | 1:00.00 | |||||
3,100 | 4,500 | 4,900 | 0:54.00 | |||||
7,300 | 10,400 | 11,400 | 0:48.00 | |||||
Lakitu Cup |
SNES Donut Plains 2T |
1,700 | RMX Choco Island 2R |
1,900 | RMX Rainbow Road 2R |
1,900 | Snap a Photo | |
2,700 | 3,200 | 3,200 | Vancouver Velocity 2R |
Penguin Toadette | ||||
3,200 | 3,600 | 3,700 | 1 | |||||
3,700 | 4,300 | 4,300 | 2 | |||||
8,300 | 9,600 | 9,700 | 3 | |||||
Daisy Cup |
Merry Mountain T |
1,900 | Vancouver Velocity 2R |
1,700 | SNES Vanilla Lake 2 |
1,400 | Smash Small Dry Bones | |
3,200 | 2,900 | 2,400 | DS DK Pass |
Donkey Kong | ||||
3,700 | 3,300 | 2,700 | 5 | |||||
4,400 | 3,900 | 3,200 | 8 | |||||
9,500 | 8,400 | 7,000 | 12 | |||||
Toadette Cup |
N64 Koopa Troopa Beach |
1,100 | 3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon T |
1,500 | GBA Bowser's Castle 2R |
1,700 | Steer Clear of Obstacles | |
2,000 | 2,700 | 3,000 | Merry Mountain |
Baby Mario | ||||
2,200 | 3,000 | 3,400 | 1 | |||||
2,700 | 3,600 | 4,000 | 2 | |||||
5,600 | 7,600 | 8,500 | 3 | |||||
Morton Cup |
N64 Kalimari Desert T |
1,900 | SNES Vanilla Lake 2T |
1,600 | Vancouver Velocity 2 |
1,600 | Glider Challenge | |
3,400 | 2,800 | 3,000 | 3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon |
Toadette | ||||
3,900 | 3,200 | 3,400 | 200 | |||||
4,700 | 3,800 | 4,000 | 400 | |||||
9,500 | 7,800 | 8,200 | 650 | |||||
Dry Bowser Cup |
GBA Bowser's Castle 2T |
2,300 | N64 Koopa Troopa Beach T |
1,600 | Merry Mountain R |
1,600 | Break Item Boxes | |
4,300 | 3,000 | 3,000 | N64 Kalimari Desert |
Ludwig | ||||
4,900 | 3,400 | 3,400 | 7 | |||||
5,900 | 4,000 | 4,100 | 12 | |||||
11,700 | 8,000 | 8,200 | 18 | |||||
Yoshi Cup |
3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon R |
1,300 | Vancouver Velocity 2T |
2,600 | RMX Rainbow Road 2 |
2,300 | Combo Attack | |
2,400 | 5,000 | 4,300 | RMX Choco Island 2T |
Dry Bones | ||||
2,700 | 5,600 | 4,900 | 7 | |||||
3,300 | 6,800 | 5,900 | 12 | |||||
6,300 | 13,100 | 11,400 | 18 | |||||
Donkey Kong Cup |
N64 Koopa Troopa Beach R |
1,400 | N64 Kalimari Desert |
1,400 | SNES Donut Plains 2R |
1,700 | Time Trial | |
2,700 | 2,800 | 3,400 | GBA Bowser's Castle 2R |
Diddy Kong | ||||
3,100 | 3,200 | 3,800 | 2:00.00 | |||||
3,700 | 3,900 | 4,700 | 1:50.00 | |||||
7,000 | 7,200 | 8,700 | 1:40.00 | |||||
Fire Bro Cup |
RMX Rainbow Road 2T |
2,700 | GBA Bowser's Castle 2 |
2,300 | RMX Choco Island 2T |
2,600 | Do Jump Boosts | |
5,400 | 4,500 | 5,200 | Vancouver Velocity 2 |
Rosalina | ||||
6,100 | 5,100 | 5,800 | 10 | |||||
7,400 | 6,200 | 7,200 | 16 | |||||
13,500 | 11,300 | 13,000 | 20 | |||||
Funky Kong Cup |
N64 Kalimari Desert R |
1,700 | 3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon |
1,600 | SNES Vanilla Lake 2R |
2,000 | vs. Mega Koopa Troopa | |
3,400 | 3,300 | 4,000 | N64 Koopa Troopa Beach |
Any character | ||||
3,900 | 3,700 | 4,500 | 50cc | |||||
4,700 | 4,600 | 5,500 | 100cc | |||||
8,400 | 8,100 | 9,800 | 150cc |
Signature kart sets[edit]
Drivers with a corresponding cup are bumped one rank up in every course of their cup.
Cup | Driver | Kart | Glider |
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First course of every cup | |||
Second course of every cup | |||
Third course of every cup | |||
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Today's Challenge[edit]
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favourite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in Merry Mountain in the Kamek Cup using Penguin Luigi for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.
Day(s) | Reward |
1-4, 6-9, 11-13 | Free pipe launch |
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5, 10 | Rubies ×5 |
14 | Badge |
Today's Challenge Pipe | |
Pipe contents | |
Rubies, coins, driver (Normal/Super/High-End), kart (Normal/Super/High-End), glider (Normal/Super/High-End), item tickets |
Rewards[edit]
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.
15 | 40 | 100 | 160 | |||
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Parafoil | Dry Bones | Landship | Gold Snow Skimmer | Morton | Blue Seven | Gold Penguin Wingtip |
Grand Stars | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 85 | 100 | 115 | 130 | 145 | 160 | 180 | 200 | 215 | 230 | 240 | 250 | 255 | 260 | 265 | Total | Grand total | |
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Free pipe launch | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coin | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 500 | 1000 | 3000 | 7600 | ||||||||||||||||||
1000 | 600 | 1000 | 2000 | 4600 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Rubies | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Item tickets | 10 | 10 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Star tickets | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Point-boost tickets | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level-boost ticket | 3 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New content[edit]
Drivers[edit]
Karts[edit]
Gliders[edit]
Courses[edit]
Vancouver Velocity 2 (N, R, T, R/T)
Paid banners[edit]
Name | Availability | Cost | Contents | Banner image |
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Value Pack | December 15, 2021 – December 28, 2021 | US$1.99 | Rubies ×5 Star ticket ×2 |
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Celebrate the New Year with the New Year's 2022 glider! | December 15, 2021 – January 11, 2022 | US$3.99 | New Year's 2022 ×1 | |
Peach (Wintertime) Pack | December 15, 2021 – December 28, 2021 | US$19.99 | Peach (Wintertime) ×1
Driver point-boost ticket ×1 |
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Frosty Bells Pack | December 15, 2021 – December 28, 2021 | US$39.99 | Wario (Hiker) ×1 Frosty Bells ×1 |
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Snow Crystals Pack | December 22, 2021 – December 28, 2021 | US$19.99 | Snow Crystals ×1 Glider point-boost ticket ×1 |
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Aurora Balloons Pack | December 22, 2021 – December 28, 2021 | US$39.99 | Rosalina (Aurora) ×1 Aurora Balloons ×1 |
Challenges[edit]
Tour Challenges 1 | Tour Challenges 2 | Gold Challenges | ||||||||
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Completion reward: Quick ticket ×1 | Completion reward: Coin Rush ticket ×1 | Completion reward: Rubies ×5 | ||||||||
Land 10 hits with Red Shells. | Land 5 hits with Bananas. | Get a Fantastic combo a total of 5 times. | Do 5 Rocket Starts. | Land 3 hits with Green Shells. | Land 3 hits with Bob-ombs. | Do a total of 5 Slipstream boosts. | Use Lightning. | Send Greeting Coins to a friend. | ||
Get 1 item from the Daily Selects section of the Shop. | Get 3rd place or higher in a race 30 times. | Cause opponents to crash using a Mega Mushroom. | Get an item from the Tier Shop. | Cause opponents to crash 5 times using a driver with a hat. | Earn a score of 7.000 or higher on an RMX course. | Use a level-boost ticket. | Do 5 Ultra Mini-Turbo boosts using a driver wearing earrings. | Cause opponents to crash in Frenzy mode. | ||
Do 100 Jump Boosts. | Land a hit with a Blooper. | Race in every course of every cup, including bonus challenges. | Get 1st place on an SNES course using a driver with a mustache. | Earn a total score of 20,000 or higher in the Fire Bro Cup. | Race in auto mode. | Cause opponents to crash 3 times while gliding. | Earn a total score of 25,000 or higher in the Dry Bowser Cup. | Break 5 snow blocks. |
Premium Challenges | ||
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Cost: US$4.99 | ||
Three in a row reward: Coins ×300 | ||
Completion reward: Manta Glider ×1 | ||
King Boo ×1 | Blue Royale ×1 | Oilpaper Umbrella ×1 |
Land 5 hits with Green Shells. | Land 10 hits with Bananas. | Land 10 hits with Bob-ombs. |
Coins ×3,000 | Rubies ×10 | Driver point-boost ticket ×3 |
Do 50 Jump Boosts. | Participate in a race. | Do 100 Mini-Turbo boosts. |
Normal driver level-boost ticket ×1 | Super driver level-boost ticket ×1 | High-End driver level-boost ticket ×1 |
Get 1st place in a race 10 times. | Get 1st place in a race 15 times. | Get 1st place in a race 20 times. |
Tour Multiplayer Challenges | ||
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Three in a row reward: Coins ×300 | ||
Completion reward: Rubies ×5 | ||
Land 3 hits with Bananas in multiplayer. | Do 10 Jump Boosts in multiplayer. | Cause opponents to crash 5 times in multiplayer. |
Join 3 multiplayer races. | Join 5 multiplayer races. | Join 10 multiplayer races. |
Get 3rd place or higher in a multiplayer race. | Get 3rd place or higher 3 times in a multiplayer race. | Get 3rd place or higher 5 times in a multiplayer race. |
Total Points Challenge | |
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Points | Rewards |
600,000 | Rubies ×3 Item tickets ×5 |
550,000 | Coins ×3,000 Item tickets ×5 |
500,000 | Rubies ×3 Item tickets ×5 |
400,000 | Coins ×2,000 Point-boost tickets (driver) ×3 |
300,000 | Rubies ×3 |
150,000 | Coins ×1,000 |
Initial pipe appearance rates[edit]
All-Clear Pipe[edit]
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shot out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rate can be viewed via the "Pipe content" link on the Gold Pass purchase screen.
Penguin Pipe 1[edit]
Items obtained from a new Penguin Pipe 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Item | Normal |
Super |
High-End |
Featured High-End | |||||||||||
Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | ||||
Amount | 31 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Penguin Pipe 2[edit]
Items obtained from a new Penguin Pipe 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Item | Normal |
Super |
High-End |
Featured High-End | |||||||||||
Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | ||||
Amount | 31 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Snow Karts Pipe[edit]
Items obtained from a new Snow Karts Pipe | |||||||||||||||
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Item | Normal |
Super |
High-End |
Featured High-End | |||||||||||
Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | Driver | Kart | Glider | ||||
Amount | 15 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Token Shop[edit]
The limited-time event where event tokens appeared began on December 15, 2021 and ended on December 28, 2021. Event tokens could be earned by performing Mini-Turbos and hitting festive trees with items. As of the 2022 Anniversary Tour, it is the only time where event tokens can be earned while doing the former.
Token Shop (December 15, 2021 - December 28, 2021) | ||
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Ice Bro 70 Amount: 1 |
Sushi Racer 150 Amount: 1 |
Blizzard Balloons 150 Amount: 1 |
Fire Bro 70 Amount: 1 |
Apple Kart 150 Amount: 1 |
Cloud Glider 150 Amount: 1 |
Ruby ×3 25 Amount: 5 |
Coin ×500 25 Amount: 5 |
Coin Rush ticket 15 Amount: 1 |
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 30 Amount: 3 |
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 30 Amount: 3 |
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 30 Amount: 3 |
Level-boost ticket (Super) 80 Amount: 2 |
Level-boost ticket (Super) 80 Amount: 2 |
Level-boost ticket (Super) 80 Amount: 2 |
Level-boost ticket (High-End) 240 Amount: 1 |
Level-boost ticket (High-End) 240 Amount: 1 |
Level-boost ticket (High-End) 240 Amount: 1 |
Points-cap ticket (Normal) 60 Amount: 1 |
Points-cap ticket (Super) 150 Amount: 1 |
Points-cap ticket (High-End) 300 Amount: 1 |
Tier Shop[edit]
The shop featured a variety of set and randomized items available for purchase. The item slots in the shop are unlocked based on the highest tier of players.
Items available in Tier Shop (December 15, 2021 - December 21, 2021) | ||
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Ice Bro 3,000 Amount: 1 |
Light-blue Turbo Birdo 2,000 Amount: 1 |
Butterfly Sunset 10,000 Amount: 1 |
Items available in Tier Shop (December 22, 2021 - December 28, 2021) | ||
Peachette 12,000 Amount: 1 |
Cloud 9 2,000 Amount: 1 |
Mushroom Glider 2,000 Amount: 1 |
Items available in Tier Shop (December 15, 2021 - December 28, 2021) | ||
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 1,000 Amount: 3 per week |
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 800 Amount: 3 per week |
Level-boost ticket (Normal) 800 Amount: 3 per week |
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Level-boost ticket (Super) 4,000 Amount: 2 per week OR Level-boost ticket (High-End) 15,000 Amount: 1 per week |
Level-boost ticket (Super) 3,000 Amount: 2 per week OR Level-boost ticket (High-End) 13,000 Amount: 1 per week |
Level-boost ticket (Super) 3,000 Amount: 2 per week OR Level-boost ticket (High-End) 13,000 Amount: 1 per week |
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Points-cap ticket (Normal) 2,000 Amount: 1 per week |
Points-cap ticket (Super) 5,000 Amount: 1 per week |
Points-cap ticket (High-End) 20,000 Amount: 1 per week |
Profiles[edit]
- Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
- The Holiday Tour is wrapping up in #MarioKartTour. Next up is the Penguin Tour, featuring Vancouver Velocity 2![1]
Gallery[edit]
Official report on the fastest times in both Time Trial bonus challenges featured in the Penguin Tour
Names in other languages[edit]
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Japanese | ペンギンツアー[?] Pengin Tsuā |
Penguin Tour | |
Chinese (simplified) | 企鹅巡回赛[?] Qì'é Xúnhuísài |
Penguin Tour | |
Chinese (traditional) | 企鵝巡迴賽[?] Qì'é Xúnhuísài |
Penguin Tour | |
French | Saison des pingouins[?] | Penguins' Season | |
German | Pinguin-Tour-Saison[?] | Penguin Tour Season | |
Italian | Tour Pinguotto[?] | Penguin Tour, where Pinguotto is the Italian name of the recurring Penguin characters in the Super Mario franchise. | |
Korean | 펭귄 투어[?] Penggwin Tueo |
Penguin Tour | |
Portuguese | Temporada Pinguim[?] | Penguin Season | |
Spanish | Temporada pingüino[?] | Penguin season |
Trivia[edit]
- This was the first tour to use a new icon for a reused bonus challenge. The bonus challenge in the Dry Bowser Cup, a Break Item Boxes challenge on N64 Kalimari Desert, was the exact same as the bonus challenge in the 2019 Holiday Tour's Mario Cup and the New Year's 2021 Tour's King Boo Cup, except its icon showed a different perspective of the course that did not have a festive tree within frame.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Huddle up for the Penguin Tour! mario.nintendo.com. Retrieved April 12, 2022.