Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass Wave 5 Predictions (UPDATE: 7/6/23 – Official Wave 5)

Alright, time to get into predictions for Booster Course Pass. 

Only two waves left until what will presumably be the end of the road for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (no pun intended). So, to start, a few hot takes for Wave 5:

• There will be 2 Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GCN) courses.
• Not the hottest of hot takes, but considering datamines have shown there will be at least 4 GCN courses included in the whole Booster Course Pass (assuming that's still the case), there's a 50-50 chance there will be 2 GCN courses in Wave 5.
• UPDATE: Nope. 2 courses from Wii instead, but we are getting Daisy Cruiser. 

• The Wii course will not be Koopa Cape. 
• Koopa Cape heavily features water, as do two of the courses I'm predicting for Wave 5 (including Tour's Piranha Plant Cove), and if there's one thing the Booster Course Pass has done well, it's having a decent variety of courses in each cup. So, instead, it'll be a drier, more sandy course from Mario Kart Wii... 😉
• UPDATE: Haha... Yeah, this one was silly to bet against.

• There will be a Super Mario Kart (SNES) course, but not a GBA one.
• No Sunset Wilds on this list. Reasons? Well, for one, I'm already guessing a different desert course, and another course in this list is rather simplistic in its layout
• UPDATE: Another course I should've just included. Fingers crossed for SNES Bowser Castle 3 in Wave 6!

• Piranha Plant Cove will be the last course of one of the two cups.
• With Piranha Plant Cove receiving a third version in the 2023 Mii Tour (the aptly named Piranha Plant Cove 3), it's very likely to be set up to play like one of the several city courses already playable in the Booster Course Pass with each lap being a different route.
• UPDATE: Kind of surprised this one isn't in Wave 5, but with another trio of city courses from Mario Kart Tour (leaving Rome Avanti the only city course remaining), expect Piranha Plant Cove in Wave 6! 

Wave 5 Course Prediction:

Feather Cup

Tour Athens Dash 

SNES Bowser Castle 3

GCN Daisy Cruiser

DK Land (new course)

Cherry Cup

Tour Los Angeles Laps

GCN Mushroom Bridge

Wii Dry Dry Ruins

Tour Piranha Plant Cove 

The Actual Wave 5 lineup:

Feather Cup

Tour Athens Dash

GCN Daisy Cruiser

Wii Moonview Highway

Squeaky Clean Sprint

Cherry Cup

Tour Los Angeles Laps

GBA Sunset Wilds

Wii Koopa Cape

Tour Vancouver Velocity

Course Frame Mock-ups!

(credit to MarioFanatic64-2 on Reddit)

 

       

Wave 5 Character Predictions:

• Diddy Kong 
• Pauline
• Funky Kong 

UPDATE: So much for a DK-themed wave. 😅

The rumored bathroom-themed course (Squeaky Clean Sprint) will be a rumor no more come July 12th! Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek (finally) are heading to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in Wave 5!