Cloudtop Cruise

Cloudtop Cruise
Overview of Cloudtop Cruise.
Information
First appearance	Mario Kart 8 (2014)
Appears in	Mario Kart 8 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Cup	Special Cup

Cloudtop Cruise is a course that appears in the game Mario Kart 8 and is the first course in the Special Cup.

Layout

Cloudtop Cruise takes place in the sky and is Super Mario Galaxy themed, with music and airships from the game. The track starts on a giant Question Block with a vine growing horizontally out of it. The track winds along the stem of the vine, ending in a ramp with a Boost Pad, which shoots you onto the top of a bouncy hot-air balloon. From there the track is in the clouds. Halfway along it bends around a second balloon which provides a minor shortcut. Next the track drops onto the deck of the largest airship, and forks into two short paths around the mast. Both paths have Barrels as obstacles and end in a large Cannon where your glider comes out, and you fly between two rows of flying Paragoombas and into a cloud tunnel. In the cloud tunnel, Anti-gravity switches on as you drive along an upside-down metal tracks. There are plenty of Boost Pads which will attract lightning from the surrounding clouds, shrinking the player if they happen to pass through at those times. The track ends with a glider ramp, from which you fly back to the giant Question Box.

Shortcuts

There is a shortcut where you bounce over two leaves of the vine, just before the first bend in the track, cutting across the bend.

Statistics

Staff Name	Country	Time	Character	Vehicle Combination
				Body	Tires	Glider
Nin★Maria	Portugal	2:19.568	Baby Rosalina	Biddybuggy	Standard	Super Glider
Nin★Giulia	Italy	1:44.120	Bowser Jr.	Koopa Clown	Cyber Slick	Cloud Glider

Trivia

• The beanstalk comes out of a ? Block.
• The opening of the music plays in amiibo screens in retail stores.
• The end of the music remixes with Sky Station Galaxy and Gusty Garden Galaxy's music.

Gallery

The Cloudtop Cruise icon