Editing Rainbow Ride

{{about|the [[Super Mario 64]] course|the stage in the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]] series originally known as "Rainbow Ride" in PAL regions|[[Rainbow Cruise]]}}
{{distinguish|Rainbow Road}}
{{course infobox
|image=[[File:SM64 Rainbow Ride Start.png|200px]]<br>''Super Mario 64''<br>[[File:SM64DS Rainbow Ride.png|200px]]<br>''Super Mario 64 DS''
|missions='''''Super Mario 64'''''<br>[[Cruiser Crossing the Rainbow]]<br>[[The Big House in the Sky]]<br>[[Coins Amassed in a Maze]]<br>[[Swingin' in the Breeze]]<br>[[Tricky Triangles!]]<br>[[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]<br>'''''Super Mario 64 DS'''''<br>[[Cruiser Crossing the Rainbow]]<br>[[The Big House in the Sky]]<br>[[Coins Amassed in a Maze]]<br>[[Swingin' in the Breeze]]<br>[[Tricky Triangles!]]<br>[[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]<br>[[Switch Star of the Manor]]
|boss=None
|unlock=Open the [[Big Star Door]] on the third floor with 50 [[Power Star]]s.
|stars='''''Super Mario 64'':'''<br>[[File:Star SM64.png]][[File:Star SM64.png]][[File:Star SM64.png]][[File:Star SM64.png]][[File:Star SM64.png]][[File:Star SM64.png]]<br>'''''Super Mario 64 DS'':'''<br>[[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]][[File:Star SM64DS.png]]
}}
'''Rainbow Ride''' is the fifteenth and final main course in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. The entrance to the course is located to the right of [[Tick Tock Clock]]'s, in a small room above a ledge. The player has to [[jump]] onto a high platform in order to reach it. The entrance itself is a small hole in the floor.
==Layout==
[[File:SM64DS Rainbow Ride Map.png|frame|left|Map of Rainbow Ride in ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'']]
To get around the course, there are several [[magic carpet]]s that move along rainbow rails when the player steps onto them. The player starts on a platform next to a magic carpet, which moves in a bend around a platform and through a [[flamethrower]]. The platform has a ring of [[coin]]s with an [[Amp]] circling above them. The magic carpet falls off its rail at four large spinning platforms with a [[Lakitu]] flying over them. Here, the path splits in three directions: To the left are [[swing]]s, forward is a large concrete<ref>(June 10, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980610065411/http://www.nintendo.com/n64/super_mario64/15-3.html Course 15 - Star 3: Coins Amassed in a Maze]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved March 15, 2022.</ref> maze, and to the right is another magic carpet.
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===Swinging Platforms Path===
To the left of the player's starting position on the spinning platforms is a pole the player can use to reach the platform below. Hovering above the stair-like platform is a [[Fly Guy]], as well as a [[seesaw]] afterward that can help the player reach the platform above. Afterward is a swing, followed by a [[seesaw]] that leads to several [[Donut Block|Falling Block]]s. Across the gap is a flamethrower that the player has to time their jump with in order to prevent getting burned. Past the flamethrower is a moving platform followed by a split in the path; up the stairs is another swing that leads to a [[Power Star]], and across the Falling Blocks are [[pyramid platform]]s.

Underneath all the platforms up to the split is a large flat platform with a [[! Block|yellow block]] containing a [[1-Up Mushroom|1-UP Mushroom]].

===Maze Path===
Directly ahead of the player's starting position on the spinning platforms is a concrete maze, with a moving platform that helps the player reach it. Inside the maze are the course's [[Red Coin]]s, [[Bob-omb]]s, and [[flame thrower (Flame Chomp)|flame thrower]]s. By using the [[Wall Jump|Wall Kick]] to reach the top of the maze through the back end of it, the player can find a [[Bob-omb Buddy]] that opens the [[cannon]] on the [[Rainbow Cruiser]].

===Carpet Path===
To the right of the player's starting position on the spinning platforms is a magic carpet. When stepped on, the carpet moves along its path, and the player has to dodge several platforms in order to prevent being swept off. At the end of the carpet's path are two more carpets, a left and a right, along with the Lakitu from earlier in the N64 version if the player did not defeat it.

The carpet to the left takes the player to the Rainbow Cruiser. The carpet moves around a spinning platform the player has to dodge to avoid getting pushed off the carpet. The bottom of the platform also acts as a flamethrower (the flame is absent in the DS version), and the top has a 1-UP Mushroom floating above it. Once at the Rainbow Cruiser, the player has to jump over platforms and Falling Blocks to climb onto it. The Rainbow Cruiser has a heavy [[wind]] rush through it, pushing the player to the stern of the ship. On the deck, there are a couple of Bob-ombs (one replaced by a [[Goomba]] in the DS version) and a Lakitu, with the cannon on the stern of the ship. On the bow is the Power Star for the [[Cruiser Crossing the Rainbow|first mission]]. Using the cannon, the player can reach a platform with a [[Chuckya]] and the Power Star for the [[Somewhere Over the Rainbow|sixth mission]].

The carpet to the right takes the player to the [[Cloud House]]. The carpet moves through several platforms the player has to climb over, and the player needs to quickly return to the carpet before it disappears. On one of these platforms is an Amp circling it. The Cloud House itself has a large fireplace that acts like a flamethrower, as well as having a Power Star on its roof. In the DS version, it also contains the Switch Star of the course.

==Missions==
{|class="wikitable"text-align="center"
!Mission
!Appears in
!Summary
|-
![[File:SM64 RR CCtR 1a.png|200px]]<br>[[Cruiser Crossing the Rainbow]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to collect the [[Power Star]] on the ship.
|-
![[File:BigHouseDS.png|200px]]<br>[[The Big House in the Sky]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|The mission's objective is to collect the Power Star on top of the [[Cloud House]].
|-
![[File:RainbowRideMaze.png|200px]]<br>[[Coins Amassed in a Maze]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to collect the course's [[Red Coin]]s.
|-
![[File:Swingin%27_in_the_Breeze.PNG|200px]]<br>[[Swingin' in the Breeze]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to cross the [[swing]]s.
|-
![[File:RainbowRideTriangle.png|200px]]<br>[[Tricky Triangles!]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to use the [[pyramid platform]]s to collect the Power Star.
|-
![[File:Rainbow_ride.png|200px]]<br>[[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]
|''[[Super Mario 64]]''<br>''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to use the [[cannon]] to reach a platform.
|-
![[File:Switch_Star_of_the_Manor.PNG|200px]]<br>[[Switch Star of the Manor]]
|''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|This mission's objective is to collect the course's Switch Star.
|}

==Music==
{{Main|Slider}}
The background music for Rainbow Ride is "Slider," a frantic {{wp|bluegrass music|bluegrass}}/{{wp|country music|country}} arrangement of the "[[Super Mario 64 Main Theme]]." Rainbow Ride shares this theme with [[Tick Tock Clock]], the [[Tower of the Wing Cap]], [[The Secret Under the Moat|Vanish Cap Under the Moat]], [[Over the Rainbows|Wing Mario Over the Rainbow]], and [[Battle Fort]], as well as during [[Koopa the Quick]]'s footraces.

{{media table
|file1=SM64-Slide Theme.oga
|title1=Slider
|length1=0:30
}}

==Enemies==
<gallery>
AmpSM64.png|[[Amp]]s
SM64 Vanish Cap Under The Moat.png|[[Flame thrower (Flame Chomp)|Flame thrower]]s
LakitusSM64.png|[[Lakitu]]s
SM64 Spiny.png|[[Spiny|Spinies]]
Bomb-omb SM64.png|[[Bob-omb]]s
SM64 - Goomba Model.png|[[Goomba]]s
FlyGuySM64.png|[[Fly Guy]]
Chuckya SM64.png|[[Chuckya]]
SM64 Blue Flamethrower.png|[[Flamethrower]]s
</gallery>

==Statistics from ''Super Mario 64''==
*'''Total Number of [[Coin]]s''': 146
*'''[[Cap]]s Found''': (none)
*'''[[Spinning Heart]]''': #1: On one of the four large spinning platforms. #2: At the bottom of the maze, under the place where the player can wall-kick up the maze.
*'''[[Cannon]]s''': 1
*'''[[1-Up Mushroom|1UP Mushroom]]s''' (9):
**''Homing Mushrooms'' : '''#1''' In the pole on the ship.
**''Static Mushrooms'' : '''#2''' Floating above one of the platforms of the Pyramid Puzzle. '''#3''' On the second set of Falling Blocks after the player takes the carpet to the Cloud House. '''#4''' Above the fire-shooting platform midway through the ride to the cruiser. '''#5''' On the tip of the cruiser's bowsprit, next to the Star.
**''Triggered Mushrooms'' : '''#6''' Triggered by riding the Falling Block on the top of the maze.
**''Box Mushrooms'' : '''#7''' Underneath the "Swingin' in the Breeze" Star on a long platform. '''#8''' On the very top of the maze, by the warp. '''#9''' On the top of the Cloud House, beside the Star.
*'''[[Warp]]s''':
**Located on the very top of the maze, just beside a yellow block with a 1UP in it, it warps the player to the Cloud House balcony.

==''Super Smash Bros.'' series==
{{main|Rainbow Cruise}}
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', there is a stage based on Rainbow Ride, known as Rainbow Cruise in the North American release, which is Rainbow Ride's Japanese name. In PAL versions of ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', its name is corrected to "Rainbow Ride," but ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''{{'}}s North American release and both English releases of ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' still refer to it as "Rainbow Cruise."

This stage returns in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Super Mario 64 Puzzle.jpg|Artwork used for a ''Super Mario 64'' puzzle
SM64-Facing Rainbow Ride.png|The hole leading to Rainbow Ride in the N64 version
SM64 15th Course Mission Selection Menu.png|The mission-selection screen with all [[Power Star]]s collected
SM64DS Facing Rainbow Ride.png|The hole leading to Rainbow Ride in the DS version
SM64DS Pyramid Platforms.png|[[Luigi]] traversing the [[Pyramid platform|pyramid]] area in the DS version
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=レインボー クルーズ
|JapR=Reinbō Kurūzu
|JapM=Rainbow Cruise
|Fre=Course Arc-en-ciel
|FreM=Rainbow Race
|Ger=Regenbogen Raserei
|GerM=Rainbow Madness
|Spa=Camino del Arco Iris
|SpaM=Rainbow Road
|Ita=Cammino Arcobaleno
|ItaM=Rainbow Road
|Kor=레인보우크루즈
|KorR=Reinbou Keurujeu
|KorM=Rainbow Cruise
|Chi=彩虹之旅<ref name="iQue">From the {{media link|SM64DS course list in Chinese.png|score sheet}} and the Power Star menu of ''Super Mario 64 DS'' as localized by [[iQue]].</ref>
|ChiR=Cǎihóng zhī Lǚ
|ChiM=Journey of Rainbows
}}

==Trivia==
*The name of the 100-Coin Star is '''Blue Coins atop the Maze'''.<ref>M. Arakawa. ''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide. Page 127.</ref>

==References==
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