Mekanos

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Mekanos
Mekanos.png
Map in the original version
Full render of Mekanos' map in Donkey Kong Country 3 for the Game Boy Advance.
In the Game Boy Advance version
Game Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
Level(s) 5
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“The most beautiful flowers used to grow around here, but they died back when those awful machines came!”
Bramble, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

Mekanos, also named Mekanos Island[1][2] or the Island of Mekanos,[3] is the fourth world of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, but can also be accessed as the third world (and vice versa for Cotton Top Cove). It is an island filled with large factories and pipelines, located in the Northern Kremisphere. Bazooka is the Brother Bear of Mekanos, and Dixie and Kiddy Kong must visit his barracks to give him the bowling ball to reach the secret cave, "Sky High Secret", held up by a large claw. The name "Mekanos" is a combination of "mecha" and "Mykonos", an island in Greece.

According to Bramble, Mekanos was once a beautiful island filled with plant life, but after the Kremling Krew invaded the Northern Kremisphere, they built machines and factories over it, even deforesting the trees in the area (as seen in the level Ripsaw Rage).[4] Mekanos is similar to Kremkroc Industries, Inc. from Donkey Kong Country as both are heavily polluted industrial areas. Mekanos is more forest-based, complete with many warehouses, factories, pipelines, and a logging area. Mekanos also has a dam that separates the central lake from its sea inlet.

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Profiles[edit]

  • Player's Guide (page 5): The toxic terrors lurking among the rusted ruins on the industrialized island of Mekanos are not for the faint of heart. This world contains some of the toughest challenges in the game, especially when you're searching for Bonus Coins.
  • Nintendo Power vol. 89 (page 36): Slime from the heavily industrialized island of Mekanos is polluting the water north of Funky Kong's rental shop. There's been some strange going-on late at night around the factories and wild tales about low gravity gases in underground chambers. Could this be where Diddy and Donkey are monkeying around?
  • Nintendo Power vol. 91 (page 56): After Dixie and Kiddy broke out of the gooey webs in Arich's Ambush, they found a patch to seal the hole in Funky Kong's Hovercraft. Now you can use the Hovercraft to glide across the rocks and sail to the Kremling factory on the Island of Mekanos. After you clean up this toxic waste dump, you'll finally kind Kaos the Robot.

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Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese メカノス工場[5]
Mekanosu Kōjō no Shima
Mekanos Factory Island

French Mékanos
Mekanos
German Mekanos
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Italian Mekanos
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Spanish Mekanos
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References[edit]

  1. ^ Nintendo Power Volume 89, page 37.
  2. ^ Nintendo Power Volume 90, page 33.
  3. ^ Nintendo Power Volume 91, page 56.
  4. ^ M. Arakawa. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Player's Guide. Page 60. "RIPSAW RAGE The Kremlings will stop at nothing, not even cutting down an entire forest, to get you."
  5. ^ Super Donkey Kong 3: Nazo no Kremis-tō「クレミスマップ」fold-out