Toad Harbor

This article is about the race course from Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. For its musical theme, see Toad Harbor (theme).

Toad Harbor (written as Toad Harbour in the British English version) is the second course of the Flower Cup in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe , as well as the longest three-lap course in the former game. This course takes place in a seaside town with some similarities to the city of San Francisco. It also features a statue on an island off the harbor modeled after the Statue of Liberty, but it is based on Princess Peach holding a Fire Flower in her lowered left hand and a Super Star in her raised right. Mario, Luigi and Wario all have cable cars patterned after them in this course, each with some Toads as passengers and a Koopa Troopa as the driver. There are forty-seven coins located on this track. In Mario Kart 8, it is a selectable battle course.

This waterfront track showcases an entire marina with sail boats and a tram station (which serves as a side route along the finish line with extra Item Boxes, not entirely dissimilar to GBA Mario Circuit), a market and a shopping area, as well as a vertical wall section with anti-gravity.

Course layout[edit ]

The course starts near the docks with a few boats. After turning right, there are two paths; the right one goes over a bridge while the left path allows players to drive onto a boat with a ramp. Racers will enter a wide section of the town after this point. They can continue driving right, though they can either go straight through, take a Dash Panel, or drive on top of the market tents in the area. After that, a shortcut can be taken upon driving over a narrow path and jumping off a ramp.

After a few turns, drivers reach the top of the hill and perform a U-turn past the Toad Toy Store, which provides this course's only anti-gravity section. If players stick to the normal path, they have to avoid oncoming cable cars. If the player attempts to follow the cable car rails after the station, Lakitu will come and hoist the player back to the road. Whichever path was taken, both lead to a steep downhill part of the track leading back to the coastal area, with more cable cars to dodge. If players somehow land on the cable cars going down the steep hill, they will gain a short boost, and can actually perform a trick off of the roof. A pathway with a Dash Panel can be taken, but otherwise, after two turns, the track leads back to the finish line.

This is the only new course among the base Mario Kart 8 content that does not involve any gliding, and the only course among the base content to not feature any mechanics introduced in Mario Kart 7 (gliders, underwater sections, one-lap courses, etc.). It is also one of the two new courses where the anti-gravity segments are optional, with the other course being Bone-Dry Dunes.

Shortcuts[edit ]

• Players can cut off the first turn by boosting through the strip of grass with a crate.
• A boost item can be used to cut through the grass at the final turn.

Brands[edit ]

References in other courses[edit ]

• The Peach Statue of Liberty and Toad Harbor itself can be seen beneath N64 Rainbow Road.
• Toad Harbor is featured on a map found in Super Bell Subway.
• A Toad Harbor logo appears on the back of the Toad City Sightseeing buses in N64 Toad's Turnpike.
• An emblem for this course can be seen in Tour Tokyo Blur on a small sign right before the shortcut. This holds true for laps 1 and 2 in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Tokyo Blur and Tokyo Blur 2 in Mario Kart Tour .

Gallery[edit ]

• The course icon

  The course icon

• The full course icon

  The full course icon

• Results screen

  Results screen

• The British English course icon

  The British English course icon

• The starting line

  The starting line

• Overview of the entire course, showcasing the whole city

  Overview of the entire course, showcasing the whole city

• Lemmy on the anti-gravity section

  Lemmy on the anti-gravity section

• Waluigi, performing a trick

  Waluigi, performing a trick

• Rosalina, drifting around one of the alleyways

  Rosalina, drifting around one of the alleyways

• Rosalina, drifting around another alleyway

  Rosalina, drifting around another alleyway

• As a battle course

  As a battle course

• Baby Rosalina performs a trick, during a battle on the course

  Baby Rosalina performs a trick, during a battle on the course

• Isabelle in Toad Harbor

  Isabelle in Toad Harbor

• Luigi after finishing a Time Trial

  Luigi after finishing a Time Trial

• The section with the view to the sea and the cable cars

  The section with the view to the sea and the cable cars

• A released screenshot of the course revealing the name of the course

  A released screenshot of the course revealing the name of the course

• The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course

  The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course

Naming[edit ]

Internal names[edit ]

Names in other languages[edit ]

Notes[edit ]

• This is one of the three courses (along with Mario Circuit and Twisted Mansion) that were playable at E3 2013. Incidentally, all three take place in the Flower Cup, in the same order as the original demo.

References[edit ]

• Towns
• Mario Kart 8 battle courses
• Mario Kart 8 race courses