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Post by Clive Koopa on May 15, 2008 16:50:09 GMT -5
My own theory for Rainbow Road is I believe it is probably a real road and it has lights like the ones in Blackpool in England and Las Vegas in Nevada. It is probably located in either Toad Town or Mushroom City, I personally have always thought it to be in Mushroom City.
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Post by superzambezi on May 15, 2008 22:11:15 GMT -5
Mushroom City since there isn't anything else that could fit the view
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Post by shadowgoomba on May 16, 2008 13:25:18 GMT -5
There's more than one. Some are in drastically different places. IN 64 it's in space in SS it's in the sky. In DD it's right above the city.
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Post by Clive Koopa on May 17, 2008 12:19:16 GMT -5
There's more than one. Some are in drastically different places. IN 64 it's in space in SS it's in the sky. In DD it's right above the city. I don't really believe its in space. How is it possible for a racetrack to be in space? Surely the track and cars would float away and how would the characters survive up there without any spacesuit? They would surely suffocate in space in seconds with just their ordinary clothes. |
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Post by shadowgoomba on May 17, 2008 14:05:45 GMT -5
Why does Mario stay alive in Super Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario, Paper Mario 2, Mario & Luigi 2, various Mario Parties, etc.? We all know these take place in space. Mario Kart is no different.
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Post by Toomai on May 17, 2008 18:59:15 GMT -5
There is one difference between the Rainbow Roads and other space areas - a surface as thin as a rainbow could not have enough gravity to hold much down at all (considering most rainbows are made of light, which is almost unaffected by gravity). That said, I would be very surprised if there was not some kind of magic that could create an artificial gravity well. (This would also explain why racers continue to fall "down" after leaving the road.)
The second theory I had was that Rainbow Roads float above black holes, their immense gravity not only pulling the racers down but holding the rainbow's photons in place....but it's much more of a stretch.
Of course, only half of the Rainbow Roads have this problem. Rainbow Pipe and Rainbow Galaxy are both visibly within a planet's gravity (Rainbow Pipe even being within the atmosphere), while Rainbow Bouncedge's background has some green at the bottom (on lap 1). Rainbow Right-Angles, Rainbow Drop, and Rainbow Inversion all have the space-y issue.
(Rainbow Right-Angles = SNES, Rainbow Drop = 64, Rainbow Bouncedge = GBA, Rainbow Pipe = GCN, Rainbow Inversion = DS, Rainbow Galaxy = Wii) (names I made up to avoid using game names as identification)
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Post by thedude3445 on May 17, 2008 19:33:45 GMT -5
It's some giant bubble that surrounds each course so that they can live.
And it's not really a rainbow, It couldn't be. It's just coloured that way be some....nvm. =P
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Post by Meta Black Yoshi on May 17, 2008 21:22:52 GMT -5
"Rainbow Pipe" has a neat rainbow patch design incorporated into the road's surface.
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Post by thedude3445 on May 22, 2008 22:12:05 GMT -5
What Now?
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Post by PDoogan on May 23, 2008 11:30:49 GMT -5
Why does Mario stay alive in Super Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario, Paper Mario 2, Mario & Luigi 2, various Mario Parties, etc.? We all know these take place in space. Mario Kart is no different. I don't really think it's it space. More like really high up in the atmosphere. Sort of like in that same place where Star Road/Haven is. |
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Post by shadowgoomba on May 24, 2008 9:02:25 GMT -5
Yeah, one step short of being a moon.
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Post by Meta Black Yoshi on May 25, 2008 14:41:14 GMT -5
Actually, you can still consider them moons. As long as they stay in some planet or other large object's gravitational field circling it and don't fall down and crash into that planet or object. They're just moons that have there own atmosphere or a borrowed one from their host because the host atmosphere goes out so far, which makes since because the same force or lack of force that lets Mario and Luigi jump so high could also cause the atmosphere to spread out further into space.
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Post by shadowgoomba on May 25, 2008 14:53:12 GMT -5
A weaker force goes out farther? That doesn't make sense to me.
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Post by Clive Koopa on May 25, 2008 14:56:39 GMT -5
A weaker force goes out farther? That doesn't make sense to me. Nothing does make sense in the Mario Universe,  |
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Post by thedude3445 on May 25, 2008 19:53:18 GMT -5
Simply put, the ME has a huge atmosphere that is all spacey.
So... Nobody ever finished. What is the track made of?
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Post by Toomai on May 26, 2008 9:42:51 GMT -5
Well, earlier ones made the same sounds as pavement, but later ones sound "glittery". Could nowadays be some mineral which resonates easily or something.
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Post by Meta Black Yoshi on May 26, 2008 11:53:49 GMT -5
A weaker force goes out farther? That doesn't make sense to me. The less gravity there is, the less the gases in the air are being pulled toward the planet. So with less gravity the gases are more free to float away; with more the gases would be pulled in close to the planet. Maybe the roads are made of some kind of cosmic particles like stardust or something, on the "Rainbow Pipe" course perhaps packed tightly into tiles and then somehow combined to make a road. |
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Post by thedude3445 on May 27, 2008 0:13:03 GMT -5
Man, all that just for a track? =P
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Post by shadowgoomba on May 28, 2008 18:21:06 GMT -5
Magic solves everything.
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Post by Toomai on May 28, 2008 18:52:49 GMT -5
Man, all that just for a track? =P The Mushroom Kingdom's tax coins hard at work. Peach seems to not mind frivolous expenses. |
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