Those of you who have purchased the first set of DLC tracks, the Egg and Triforce Cups released last November, may know that a second set, containing two new cups, Crossing and Bell, will be released this coming May.

I checked Mario Kart 8's Wikipedia article (which seriously needs to be trimmed) as well as Mario Wiki, and it appears that we still don't know the identities of the eight upcoming tracks. In fact there's a thread on the game's GameFAQs message board in which users are trying to guess what the tracks will be.

I do have a few ideas of what we could see, though. These are just guesses on my part, and I'd like to hear yours as well. We know there's probably going to be an Animal Crossing course, but how about...

-SNES Mario Circuit 4: The only one of SMK's four Mario Circuits that has not appeared as a Retro track in the games from MKDS onward. It'd look great in 3D for sure. It's a twisty track but still fairly simple, so it might be the first track in the cup it appears in. Donut Plains 2 or one of the Bowser Castles could work as well, if they could be overhauled to accommodate MK8's new mechanics.

-N64 Wario Stadium: This is now the only MK64 track that hasn't reappeared in any later game. All those ramps would be great for doing tricks. The big jump near the end could become a hang-glide. This is a long track, the second longest in MK64, so I don't know whether it would be 3 laps (with the track being possibly scaled down), or one long lap (as in N64 RR). And, of course, all the walls would need to be made taller so that they cannot be jumped (or just put invisible walls above all of them...)

-GCN Wario Colosseum: This would be perfect for MK8! With the way it twists all over the place, MK8's anti-gravity gimmick could be put to good use. Mushroom City is another MKDD track that might work if a few new gimmicks are introduced, while that game's Rainbow Road might be a good final track for Bell Cup.

-Death Mountain: From the Legend of Zelda series. Drivers would dodge rolling boulders (and maybe even Gorons) while driving up steep hills. Maybe we could have an occasional volcano eruption dropping flaming rocks on the track, which drivers would have to avoid. We could then complete the lap with a hang-gliding segment back to the bottom of the mountain. This could be a challenging course and I think the Ocarina of Time version could convert well into a Mario Kart track (with a little redesigning).

Other Zelda locales could have some decent MK8 tracks made out of them, including Kakariko Village, where the track would meander between buildings, or Lake Hylia, a new water track (one of the hazards could be those nut-spitting Octorocks!).

Also I think at least one MKSC track should be redone MK8-style. It could be one like Riverside Park, Boo Lake, or Sunset Wilds. Ribbon Road could also be nice because of its zipper gimmick, and the jump near the start of the lap could be replaced with a hang glide.

Let's use our imaginations, everybody, and try to think of good ideas for new MK8 tracks, which may be the same ideas that Nintendo has thought of.  

I think that gcn BP and 3ds NBC were found in game files. For another retro I wouldn't mind seeing DS DS (again) or wii DDR

Darren wrote on 02/05/15 at 04:08:30:

This is an unsourced (so most likely fake) information that was posted on GameFAQs' Mario Kart 8 board; the fact that it says “NeoBowserCity” instead of the actual Japanese name (Neo Koopa City) pretty much discredits it.

2 retro tracks confirmed for the second DLC Pack *MAJOR spoilers*
DLC Text Files

I can see 3DS BC coming back. It would work well with this game.

Olifré wrote on 02/06/15 at 01:42:56:
all the gliders would kill the track since you can't do anything cool with them in this game

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Yeah, so does everyone else.

I'm hoping for Moonview Highway from mkw. Mk8 so far has only one car track (rTT   ) and it being the most hated track in the game, I feel like there might be a second car track in pack 2. Moonview Highway would be awesome with all the boost pads and fire hopping on them, as well as dodging the cars. It's also a wide track so bumps might not be so cancerous lol...

http://mynintendonews.com/2015/03/30/rumour-nintendo-direct-on-april-1st/

There are rumours about a direct... on the 1st April. I think it is fake...

'MK8 DLC Pack 2 will launch on May 7th 2015. Trailer shown, Software-Update will launch on the same day with the following new features: Time laps on tv, seperate screens for local 2 player games: One on the GamePad, one on the TV, new amiibo costumes.'

Maybe...

Ebil wrote on 03/31/15 at 10:41:17:

Don't worry, it was confirmed fake by the leaker himself earlier (before the official announcement lol). The original source was a Google+ post so it was extremely fishy to begin with, to say the least, but I wanted to make things clear : we cannot tell for sure what will be in the direct, or even if there will be MK8 info (really doubtful, but eh).

Anyway... now that retro tracks can come back more than one time (not counting MKSC), most tracks can actually get in the pack at this point, even if some are more likely that others.
For example, I doubt we'll get another Wario or RR track since there are already 3 in the game counting the released DLC. However a Bowser track seems quite reasonable to guess as we still haven't gotten a retro Bowser track yet (and there are many candidates).
To note as well, the retro tracks from the first DLC are all from console games, so the other DLC could easily have at least 1 or 2 tracks from handheld games. There are many good tracks from those games, also there's only 1 GBA track so far!
Other factors that could play in track choice include popularity and ease to (re)make. SNES Rainbow Road fits the bill for both really well which is most likely why we got it a 4th time.

About the new tracks, we could get other franchise-themed tracks besides Animal Crossing, if the first DLC is anything to go by. It's important to note though that all said franchises were created by the Nintendo EAD teams, so we should expect a similar trend (e.g. Metroid is a good guess, Kirby or Pokémon not so). We could also get none, as well, which I wouldn't mind, since the OC tracks from the first DLC were really nice and much more fun than Excitebike Arena.

This is all assuming they go with the 5 new/3 retro scheme, which I think works out well for a paid track pack (I'd rather have many new tracks for my buck).

Wishing personally for a decent GBA track (Ribbon Road, Yoshi Desert, Cheese Land) but I'm not holding my breath. I'll also happily take something like GCN BC, DS MC, or Rosalina's Ice World, or even Waluigi Pinball again.

200cc looks so great. Definitely glad and hyped to see that

TTs should still be 150cc, but I believe 200cc will be available online.

If TTs are 200cc then goodbye to this game.

Ebil wrote on 04/01/15 at 22:10:54:


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If it's an option we will have 96 tracks to TT ( if PP allows to add all of them but still,personally,I WILL play every course ) but if it's not,leaderboards will be screwed up completely for at least a week lmao.

200CC is by far the most unexpected thing that i saw from the direct. Can't wait April 23rd now,more than never...

#200CCNEWMETA

oh and also,mute city is gonna be hella fast. Time to go back to F-ZERO through MK

Hyped for 200cc!!!!!!!