Rainbow Road


 * This page is about the stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. For the song in Brawl, see here.

The Rainbow Road course from Mario Kart 7 is the inspiration for this stage. Platforms will hover above the course, touching down at random places during the race. Watch out for Shy Guys racing in their karts!. Rainbow Road (, Rainbow Road) is a stage in. It is based on the Rainbow Road course from .

Stage overview
Rainbow Road consists of a flat rainbow platform that travels around the track and landing in several areas. Some of those destinations include the rings of Saturn, a white polka-dotted mushroom trampoline, the finish line, and a moon. It is a cruise-style stage similar to Port Town Aero Dive, Delfino Plaza,, and Skyloft. Much like in Figure-8 Circuit, Shy Guys will drive around the course and serve as damage-dealing obstacles. Unlike said stage though, the Shy Guys cannot be knocked out of the stage. Like in Mute City, touching the track while the moving platform is in motion deals upwards knockback.

Ω form
The stage only consists of a single platform which does not follow the track, instead remaining still above the split-up roads following the tube. The Ω form depicts these roads as curved; in both the stage and the racetrack, the roads are straight.

Origin
first appeared in ' as the final course of the, and a variation of it has appeared in every main ' game. Due to being the final course in a Mario Kart game's main lineup, its iterations are designed, and often considered by players, to be among the series' most difficult tracks.

In most appearances, it takes the form of a multi-colored track floating in deep space, above a lit-up city, or other locations. This Rainbow Road is based on the Mario Kart 7 version, which emphasizes the space theme by taking place among the Moon, asteroids, and several shrunk-down versions of planets of the Solar System. This iteration of the track would go on to reappear in ' and '.

Shy Guys debuted in ' as the only drivers recipient players of DS Download Play could play as, but made their proper debut as part of the roster in '. In this stage, Shy Guys drive in their and use s.

Trivia

 * The track in the stage is slightly altered from its original appearance in Mario Kart 7.
 * All of the speed/gliding ramps are missing. Despite this, Shy Guys can still be seen with their gliders.
 * The mushroom-based platforms on the course no longer bounce racers off them.
 * The area right before the second section sign is no longer bumpy on the sides.
 * Saturn's ring doesn't have breaks in it on the sides.
 * The road right before the moon no longer bounces.
 * The rainbow track layer is notably thicker, as opposed to the thin layer from the original. Coincidentally, ' and ' feature Rainbow Roads with this trait (its own, as well as the Rainbow Roads from Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario Kart)—however, its own rendition of Mario Kart 7's Rainbow Road keeps the original's thin layer of rainbow track.
 * The stage's starting line is [[Media:RainbowRoad-3DS-6.png|extended]] at the beginning of the stage, in spite of the fact that [[Media:RainbowRoadSmash3DSBowserJr.jpg|it can appear at its normal length]] when the stage is stopped by the starting line. It is to make way for the touring platform.
 * Rainbow Road and Melee's are the only two  stages not to appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
 * Additionally, this stage and Pac-Maze are the only new stages in for Nintendo 3DS (not counting and ) to not appear in Ultimate.
 * This is the only Mario Kart stage to have Shy Guys with different colors. Every other stage only uses red Shy Guys.
 * The "Rainbow Road Medley" music track that is used for this stage is a medley of the Rainbow Road themes from every handheld Mario Kart game, which is likely a reference to this stage being exclusive to the 3DS version of Smash 4.
 * Curiously, a brand new iteration of Rainbow Road appears in Rosalina and Luma's reveal trailer, but does not resemble the version that appears in Smash 4.

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