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'''Rainbow Cruise''' ({{ja|レインボークルーズ|Reinbō Kurūzu}}, ''Rainbow Cruise''), also known as '''Rainbow Ride''', is a stage that appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. It is based off the "{{s|mariowiki|Rainbow Ride}}" stage from ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64}}''. It is also one of [[Mario]]'s home stages, and it is his stage in [[All-Star Mode]], along with any of his teammates, as well as {{SSBM|Bowser}}'s stage in [[Event 10: All-Star Match 1|All-Star Match 1]] of ''Melee's'' Event Match.

[[File:RCruiseMelee.jpg|thumb|left|Rainbow Cruise in ''Melee''.]]

The battle starts off on a flying ship that is facing left.  The ship has seven propellers and six giant paddles, which make it fly.  The anchor hangs off the bow.  The ship is flat in the center, but not on the sides.  The bow of the ship is just a bit higher than the deck.  The stern is clearly higher than the rest of the ship, including the bow.  It is wide enough to fit two characters.  The stern increases the height of the back of the boat, which can help characters who can [[wall-grapple]].  In the middle of the boat is the mast of the ship.  It has two levels to fight on.  The space between the middle platform and the deck is slightly larger in comparison to the space between the top platform and the middle.  The top platform is also shorter than the middle one.  It is just large enough to fit Bowser.  After about thirty seconds, the ship will crash into the next segment of the stage and sink. When the ship sinks, the characters will have to battle on the strange floating platforms that follow. The platforms are different and feature a rotating axle platform, flying carpets, and falling blocks. The stage moves in a clockwise order and at the end, downward-pointing arrows that flash red will appear.  They indicate that all players should descend to the lower parts of the stage before the camera zooms down.  Those who do not make it to the boat, which is waiting below, will be KO'd off the top off the screen.  The cycle continues from there.

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==Name confusion==

While the Western localization version of the ''Super Mario 64'' stage's name is "Rainbow Ride," the original Japanese version's is "Rainbow Cruise." The appearance of the Japanese name in the initial North American release of ''Melee'' seemed to be an oversight by the localization team and the stage appeared as "Rainbow Ride" in the PAL release. It also appeared listed as "Rainbow Ride" in North American demos of ''Brawl'', seeming to establish it as the "correct" Western name. Oddly enough, the stage's name in the retail release of ''Brawl'' in North America appears as "Rainbow Cruise". In the retail release of the PAL version however, the name appears as Rainbow Ride. {{sm|CrappyCaptureDevice}} has also revealed in one of his "History Behind Super Smash Bros." videos that, through a [[GameShark]], if one chooses a stage that they wish to start on (the stages won't have their actual names; instead, they will have either Japanese or roughly translated names, if not names that simply refer to the type/theme of the stages), Rainbow Ride will be shown as Rainbow Cruise.