Piranha Plant Pipeline

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Not to be confused with 3DS Piranha Plant Pipeway/Slide or Piranha Plant Cove.
Piranha Plant Pipeline
Piranha Plant Pipeline in Mario Kart Tour
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Appears in Mario Kart Tour (2023)
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Piranha Plant Pipeline from Mario Kart Tour

Piranha Plant Pipeline is a course from Mario Kart Tour, making its debut in the Pipe Tour. As the name indicates, it is an underground network of Warp Pipes with Piranha Plants spread throughout the track. It is the second course introduced in Mario Kart Tour to be named after Piranha Plants, with the first being Piranha Plant Cove, not counting its variants. The course's appearance and concept are similar to that of the unused "dokan_course" from Mario Kart DS, both being named after Warp Pipes and themed around their traversal; the first part is mostly similar in both courses, while the red pipe section of Piranha Plant Pipeline after the first turn in the white tunnel is similar to the second part of dokan_course.

Excluding courses released simultaneously, this course and Squeaky Clean Sprint mark the shortest period of time between the release of two new courses for the Mario Kart series, with only a 5-hour gap.

The beginning of the music references the chiptune sound effect Warp Pipes make, except slowed to match the tempo.

This course was the final new "non-city" track added to Tour first, as while Squeaky Clean Sprint also came to Tour and was left unlabeled as a new course, it was added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe first. Piranha Plant Pipeline is the only new course originating from Mario Kart Tour to not appear in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass. Since it does not appear outside of Mario Kart Tour, it is the only course in the series that is completely unplayable unless the Pipe Tour is the game's currently active tour - appearing only two weeks a year.

Course layout

Racers start outside, in a mountainous, wooded environment. Going in a straight line, they enter a Warp Pipe and enter the pipe system. Racers continue driving forwards before approaching a wide left turn lined with a half-pipe. The pipe then serpentines, with every bend having its own half-pipe. Then, racers drive off of a glide ramp and may go through one of two pipes; a red one or a blue one. The red pipe takes racers to two right-angled left turns before taking them into a bendy white, transparent tunnel. The blue route makes racers go round a large right turn, before overlapping, and eventually taking racers on top of a moving green pipe that goes below the previously mentioned white tunnel. The white tunnel and the green pipe shortly take racers back to their respective red or blue pipes, before both routes meet up again in an orange section containing Fuzzies, Piranha Plants, and Sidesteppers. Racers enter an underwater section before taking a large left turn, and finally leaving the pipes and returning outside, before driving down a brief straightaway to the finish line.

This course also appears as Piranha Plant Pipeline R (reversed), Piranha Plant Pipeline T (with ramps), and Piranha Plant Pipeline R/T (reversed with ramps). In all three variants, the Sidesteppers are gone. In the T variant, the Fuzzies are also gone, and racers are forced to take the red path on lap 1 and the blue path on lap 2. In the R/T variant, the Piranha Plants in the orange section are gone, the moving green pipe is also gone, and there is a glide ramp at the end of the green section.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of Piranha Plant Pipeline tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Top-tier and middle-tier items

The following are the drivers, karts, and gliders for which Piranha Plant Pipeline and its variants are always favored or favorite courses. For instances in which additional drivers, karts, and gliders temporarily had this course and its variants as favored or favorite courses, see List of Piranha Plant Pipeline tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Course Three-item drivers Bonus points ×2 karts Combo bonus ×3 gliders Two-item drivers Bonus points ×1.5 karts Combo bonus ×2 gliders
 
Normal variant
                                                       **                          **
             
     
 
R variant
                                                                                             
             
     
 
T variant
                                                                                 ***          
      
 
 
R/T variant
                                           ***       **  **           **                
   
          
* indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 3.
** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 6.
*** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 8 for High-End items.


Bonus challenges

Ring Race
Icon Course variant Chosen
driver
Chosen
kart
Chosen
glider
Grand Star scores Tour appearances Cup
  Regular  
Pauline
 
Pipe Frame
 
Super Glider
  • 35
  • 40
  • 45
Pipe Tour  
Wario Cup
Big Reverse Race
Icon Course variant Opponents Tour appearances Cup
7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st Extra
  Regular Driver                 Pipe Tour  
Ludwig Cup
Kart                
Glider                

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Additional names

Internal names

Game File Name Meaning

Mario Kart Tour Gmob_Dokan Dokan Japanese name for Warp Pipes, lit. "Clay Pipe"

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese ドカンキャニオン
Dokan Kyanion
Warp Pipe Canyon

Chinese (simplified) 水管峡谷
Shuǐguǎn Xiágǔ
Warp Pipe Canyon

Chinese (traditional) 水管峽谷
Shuǐguǎn Xiágǔ
Warp Pipe Canyon

French Tunnel Plante Piranha
Piranha Plant Tunnel
German Piranha-Pflanzen-Pipeline
Piranha Plant Pipeline
Italian Tubodotto Piranha
Piranha "Pipeduct" (portmanteau of tubo, "pipe", and condotto, "duct")
Korean 토관 캐니언
Togwan Kaenieon
Warp Pipe Canyon

Portuguese Tobogã Planta Piranha
Piranha Plant Slide
Spanish Tobogán Planta Piraña
Piranha Plant Slide

Trivia

  • Although the course does not appear in the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, internal data in the 2.0.0 update included prefixes for all courses in the pass. In Wave 6, there were three courses assigned with no prefix - indicating either new courses or non-city courses introduced in Mario Kart Tour. In the final release of Wave 6, however, only one course lacks a prefix, Piranha Plant Cove. Another was replaced by Wii Moonview Highway and the third was replaced with 3DS Rosalina's Ice World. The presence of multiple prefixless slots indicates that Piranha Plant Pipeline was originally set to appear in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
  • Piranha Plant Pipeline has the longest English name out of any course in the Mario Kart series.