Sweet Sweet Canyon
- Not to be confused with Sweet Sweet Galaxy or Sweet Sweet Kingdom.
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| Appears in | Mario Kart 8 (2014) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017) | ||
| Cup(s) | Mushroom Cup | ||
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Sweet Sweet Canyon is the third race course of the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Similar to Cookie Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Tart Top from Mario Kart DS, this course takes place in a land filled with pastry confections and desserts, including cakes, cookies, ice creams, candies, donuts, macarons, and chocolates. Gingerbread Toads can be seen cheering at the start/finish line. There are twenty-five Coins located on this track. This course can be seen on some of the posters for Galaxy Air.
Course layout
The course starts out in a place where Gingerbread Cookie characters are watching, while Yoshis are situated on the other side, cheering for racers. The track then enters a cave made out of cookies, followed by a glider cannon that launches the racers onto a cake tower with a soda waterfall. Here, there are traffic cones made out of ice cream cones on a large right turn, and racers then drive inside orange soda. As the soda section ends, racers can either choose a blue path or a pink path, both of which are anti-gravity routes that spiral around each other. After the anti-gravity paths meet up again, drivers encounter a number of pink Piranha Plants, hiding inside green Pipes. After a few turns, players hit a drop-off before reaching the start-finish line.
Shortcuts
- On the blue anti-gravity route, players can fall off the track at the chocolate part, and land on the pink anti-gravity route. This shortcut is best performed with a Mushroom.
- Both of the anti-gravity paths feature a small patch of chocolate frosting where players can use a Mushroom to cut a corner.
- If one uses a Mushroom, it is possible to drive through the chocolate donut and cut off the final turn before the start-finish line.
Staff ghost
The staff ghost for this track is Baby Peach on the Teddy Buggy, with a time of 2:12.107. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 200cc, the staff ghost is Peach with a time of 1:40.972.
Sponsors
- Peach & Daisy Royal Patisserie (Cookies, cookie boxes, logos)
- Princess Orange (Bottles)
Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack liner note
"We wanted a cute and cuddly feel for this candy-filled world, so we wanted to use toy-like sounds along with a light and breezy violin."
Gallery
The course icon
Audience at the starting line
Toadette, driving around the course
Baby Mario in the underwater section
An anti-gravity section of the course
Panorama of Sweet Sweet Canyon
Piranha Plants are also present on the course
The off-road shortcut
A released screenshot, revealing the name of the course
The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | スイーツキャニオン[?] Suītsu Kyanion |
Sweets Canyon | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 甜点峡谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ |
Dessert Canyon | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 甜點峽谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ |
Dessert Canyon | |
| Dutch | Zoetekauwcanyon[?] | Sweet Tooth Canyon | |
| German | Zuckersüßer Canyon[?] | Sugar-Sweet Canyon | |
| Italian | Dolce Dolce Canyon[?] | Sweet Sweet Canyon | |
| Korean | 스위트 캐니언[?] Seuwiteu Kaenieon |
Sweet Canyon | |
| Portuguese | Desfiladeiro Doce[?] | Sweet Canyon | |
| Russian | Каньон сладостей[?] Kan'on sladostey |
Sweets Canyon | |
| Spanish | Barranco Goloso[?] | Sweet Tooth Gorge |
Trivia
- One of the Yoshis near the starting line occasionally hums Totaka's Song.[1] This also occurs in other courses featuring Yoshi spectators.
- This is the only Mushroom Cup course in the Mario Kart series to have a Cannon.
References
- ^ GameXplain. (January 12, 2015). Totaka's Song in Mario Kart 8 (Secret). YouTube. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
