Hammer Bro Tour: Difference between revisions

The '''Hammer Bro Tour''' was the fourteenth tour of ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', which began on March 25, 2020 and ended on April 7, 2020. The featured course of the tour was [[SNES Donut Plains 1|Donut Plains 1]] from ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'', while also bringing back [[GBA Bowser's Castle 2|Bowser's Castle 2]] from ''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]'', making it the first tour to introduce a new [[classic course]] since the [[Ice Tour]], five tours prior. Hence the name, the tour marked the playable debut of [[Hammer Bro]] (who was originally going to be playable in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''), [[Boomerang Bro]], [[Ice Bro]], and [[Fire Bro]], in which they also acted as the spotlight characters for the tour, and was the first tour to introduce only Super drivers; conversely, this was also the first tour to not introduce any new karts to the game. Additionally, unlike the previous two tours, each week's respective pipes reverted to having 100 items in the pipe instead of 50. The menu's background featured the hills from Donut Plains 1 as the landmark for this tour. This was the last tour until the [[Metropolitan Tour]] 58 tours later to introduce two new courses (not including R/T variants) as succeeding tours would only introduce one course, one or more R/T variants, or, very rarely, none at all.

A datamine revealed a string containing <tt>emergency_secondTour</tt> associated to the Hammer Bro Tour.<ref>kart_tour (April 9, 2020). ''[https://twitter.com/kart_tour/status/1248197633333694464 Breaking news: Emergency Tours are found in the files! #MarioKartTour Datamining done by: Trainiax]''. ''Twitter''. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> It was later determined that <tt>emergency_</tt> is a prefix for in-game news items that open automatically upon launch.<ref>kart_tour (April 27, 2020). ''[https://twitter.com/kart_tour/status/1254744976254173186 Update: #MarioKartTour]''. ''Twitter''. Retrieved April 27, 2020.</ref>

|[[Donkey Kong]], [[Toad]], [[Bowser]], [[Luigi]], [[Mario]], [[Peach]], [[Yoshi]], [[Daisy]], [[Lakitu]], [[King Boo]], [[Toadette]], [[Bowser Jr.]], [[Waluigi]], [[Wario]], [[Rosalina]], [[Birdo]], [[Diddy Kong]], [[Ice Bro]], [[Fire Bro]], [[Red Yoshi]], [[Black Shy Guy]], [[Pink Shy Guy]], [[Toad]] (Pit Crew), [[Birdo (species)|Birdo]] (Light Blue), [[Roving Racers|Red Koopa]] (Freerunning)

|[[Donkey Kong]], [[Toad]], [[Bowser]], [[Luigi]], [[Mario]], [[Peach]], [[Yoshi]], [[Daisy]], [[Lakitu]], [[King Boo]], [[Toadette]], [[Bowser Jr.]], [[Waluigi]], [[Wario]], [[Rosalina]], [[Birdo]], [[Diddy Kong]], [[Hammer Bro]], [[Boomerang Bro]], [[Red Yoshi]], [[Black Shy Guy]], [[Pink Shy Guy]], [[Toad]] (Pit Crew), [[Birdo (species)|Birdo]] (Light Blue), [[Roving Racers|Red Koopa]] (Freerunning)