Wii Moonview Highway

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Wii Moonview Highway
Moonview Highway
Moonview Highway
Information
Appears in Mario Kart Wii (2008)
Cup(s) Special Cup
Online play No longer available (Wii)
Music sample
Outside city

Inside city
Course map
Mario Kart Wii
Staff ghost(s)
Wii Nin★KOZ★
2:16.802 PeachStandard Kart M
Wii Expert Nin★Koh
2:04.163 PeachMach Bike

Moonview Highway is the second course of the Special Cup in Mario Kart Wii. The course takes place in and around a lit up city at night with a full moon overhead. The course seems to combine elements of previous traffic-based courses in the series, namely Toad's Turnpike from Mario Kart 64, Mushroom Bridge and Mushroom City from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and Shroom Ridge from Mario Kart DS, including the course taking place in a city at night like Toad's Turnpike and Mushroom City, the beginning portion taking place along a cliff like Shroom Ridge, an arched bridge and a tunnel like Mushroom Bridge, and the inclusion of the Bob-omb Cars like all of them besides Shroom Ridge.

Moonview Highway appears as a classic course in Mario Kart Tour starting from the tour that begins on June 28, 2023.

Mario Kart Wii

Course layout

 
An aerial view of Moonview Highway

The course takes place in a city at night and begins in an area with cliffs and trees. The player first goes through the road of a highway with bends, cars, trucks, and Bob-omb Cars. The player can also go to some nearby cliffs, one of which has a Dash Panel ramp and Item Boxes. After a wide curve past the ramp, the paths join up near a bridge resembling Mushroom Bridge that leads into a toll booth controlled by the player's Miis. After passing the toll booth, the player can enter the city, which features some right bends. The city also has two paths with item Boxes, Dash Panels, and car obstacles.

After leaving the city area, there is a tunnel with four lanes and more Dash Panels and cars. The path in the tunnel is mostly straight, and the only obstacles are pillars that rest in the middle and cars. After exiting the tunnel, there are some Dash Panels and another toll booth, leading to the finish line.

Like in Shroom Ridge, the traffic follows the Japanese system of driving, in which vehicles drive on the left side of the road. In Mirror Mode, the cars go on the right side of the road. If the player is playing as a Mii, the face on Mario (in the moon) and Peach's face on the "The Mushroom Moon" billboard, as well as the Fire Flower on the Green Fuel billboard will have Mii faces from the player's console. At certain points in the race, if the player drives next to the wall, it will show a pattern of Shy Guy and Bowser Jr. faces.

Tournaments

April 2010's 2nd tournament required players to race through Moonview Highway, with all the vehicles going the opposing direction. Players started the race with a set of Triple Mushrooms. The tournament was later repeated as the first tournament of November 2011, the second tournament of January 2013, and the first tournament of April 2014.

Mario Kart Tour

 
Moonview Highway in Mario Kart Tour

Moonview Highway makes its classic course debut in Mario Kart Tour, starting from the tour after the 2023 Mario vs. Luigi Tour. Visually, the buildings in the city portion of the course resemble the ones in New York Minute. The Mushroom Moon and Green Fuel sponsors have been recreated with 2D artwork, although Petey Piranha's cameo appearance in The Mushroom Moon has been replaced with Bowser. The course now uses the vehicles from GCN Mushroom Bridge, and as such the Bob-omb Cars use their design from said course.

Profiles

  • European website bio: "Don't be distracted by the beauty of the full moon reflecting in the lake. Those on-coming headlights mean the road is chock-full of traffic that isn't going to move aside for you!"
  • Trading card bio: "Obstacles are one thing, but moving obstacles provide an entirely new level of danger and challenge. And there are plenty obstacles to be found along the "Moonview Highway". But the race is on and you've got to get out there and battle the traffic as you try to be the first to the finish line!"

Sponsors

Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart Tour

  • 1-Up Mushroom Car Insurance Group (Posters)
  • Bullet Bill Speed Trial (Posters)
  • Dream Gliders (Posters)
  • Green Fuel (Posters)
  • Moomoo Meadows Milk (Cargo Trucks)
  • Mushroom Piston (Posters)
  • Paratroopa Airlines (Posters)
  • Roy Smooth Sounds (Posters)
  • Shy Guy Records (Banners)
  • The Mushroom Moon (Posters)

Gallery

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ムーンリッジ&ハイウェイ[?]
Mūn Rijji ando Haiwei
Moon Ridge & Highway
German Mondblickstraße[?] Moonview Street
Italian Autostrada lunare[?] Lunar Highway
Korean 달맞이 하이웨이[?]
Dalmaji Haiwei
Moonview Highway
Spanish (NOA) Autopista de la Luna[?] Moon Highway
Spanish (NOE) Circuito Luz de Luna[?] Moonlight Circuit