Rainbow Road (GCN)

This article is about the GCN variation. For a list of articles with the same name, see Rainbow Road.

Rainbow Road
The track's icon in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Information
Cup(s)	Special Cup
First appearance	Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003)
Appearance(s)	Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Map(s)	Regular Mirror

Rainbow Road is the last track of the Special Cup in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. This track has yet to make a retro appearance.

Unlike all previous Rainbow Roads, Unlike all the previous Rainbow Roads, which were set in space, this version of Rainbow Road is floating above a city (presumably Mushroom City). This setting idea wasn't reused until Mario Kart 8 with the re-edition of N64 Rainbow Road. This course is very difficult, sporting few railings and multiple speed boosts. It's also the second track to implement the Cannon to shoot its racers to another part of the track, the first being DK Mountain.

Layout

The course begins on a wavy but somehow straight road portion, that leads to two hairpin turns easily able to send the racers off the edge of the track. Follows a large 540-degree helix with many Dash Panels on it, spinning counter-clockwise and traveling upward. A pipe-like structure floats in the center of the spiral. Next comes a twisty road that leads to a turn left. Directly after the turn is completed, the racers are launched upward through a large pipe which drops them on a road with many more Boost Pads. This leads to another, but smaller 540-degree helix which takes the player back to the Finish Line.

Staff Ghost

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Trivia!

What the track looks like in multiplayer mode.

• The Prima Guide states that this course is the longest. It may be referring to time taken to complete the course and not the length of a single lap. Wario Colosseum is the actual track to bear the title of "Longest Track" in terms of lap length.
• Sometimes shooting stars land on the track and become a Star.
• This track appears to float over (presumably) Mushroom City in 1-player mode (or 2-player co-op mode), but uses the usual deep space setting with 2 or more players.
• Many giant statues of items and are floating above. All of them are rainbow colored and are completely 3D.
• This music returns in Super Smash Bros. series, such as Mario Circuit stage, from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• A section of this track's theme includes a remix of the Rainbow Road theme from Mario Kart 64. This is one of two Rainbow Roads to have this distinction. The other is the one from Mario Kart 7.
• This is the first Rainbow Road of the series to be only partially guardrailed. Previous Rainbow Road versions either featured no guardrails (SNES and GBA versions) or had guardrails around the whole track (N64 version).
• The All-Cup Tour in Double Dash (a game mode on which every track in the game is raced in one circuit), does always feature Luigi Circuit first and Rainbow Road last, with the game's 14 other tracks selected in a random order in between.
• So far, this Rainbow Road track is unavailable as a retro track in later games. As of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, only the first two Rainbow Road tracks (Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64), and Mario Kart 7's Rainbow Road received retro track adaptations in newer games.
• Just outside the boundary of the area, you can see a rainbow Heart that was likely going to be in the course.

Gallery

Rainbow Road's logo.

Birdo and King Boo racing at the track.

On the Dash Panel ramp.

Nearly falling off the edge.

At the wavy road section.

An overview of the whole track.

The track in Mirror Mode.

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