Rainbow Resort - Stage 2

Rainbow Resort - Stage 2 Kirby standing outside the tower. (Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land) Details Level Rainbow Resort Mid Boss(es) All (except Grand Wheelie and Meta-Knights) Big Switch

Theme music Kirby’s AdventureKirby: Nightmare in Dream Land "Mid-Boss Battle" "Tower of Mid-Bosses" Clips of the themes that play in Rainbow Resort - Stage 2

Stage order ← Rainbow Resort - Stage 1 Rainbow Resort - Stage 3 →

Rainbow Resort - Stage 2 is the second stage of Rainbow Resort in Kirby's Adventure and its remake, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land. This stage is a Tower of Mid-Bosses (the first of its kind in the Kirby series), holding every Mid-Boss in the game except for Grand Wheelie and the Meta-Knights.

Overview

The stage begins at the base of a lone tower. There is no music in Kirby's Adventure, whereas Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land adds the sound of wind. Kirby can enter through the main doorway on the tower.

The following rooms consist of a fight with a Mid-Boss, followed by a flight of steps to the next room before reaching the top. The fights take place in the following order:

• Poppy Bros. Sr.
• Mr. Tick-Tock
• Mr. Frosty
• Bonkers
• Rolling Turtle/Phan Phan (depending on version)
• Bugzzy
• Fire Lion

After the last fight, Kirby can fly out the top of the tower to reach a Warp Star that will take him away. He will then land in an open field and be able to proceed to the exit, though in the way is a Blade Knight who guards a Maxim Tomato.

Alternate path

A secret second path can be taken through this stage. It can be accessed by squeezing through a barred window on the upper portion of the tower at the start (in Kirby's Adventure there is no window, and the door is completely invisible). This will pit Kirby against a different shorter set of Mid-Bosses in the following order:

• Bonkers
• Rolling Turtle/Phan Phan (depending on version)
• Bugzzy
• Fire Lion

After the last fight, Kirby is deposited in a room containing five 1-Ups. From there, it rejoins the main path, and Kirby can proceed to the stage exit.

Enemy and Mid-Bosses

EnemyMid-Bosses Sprite (KA/KNiDL) Name Copy Ability Blade Knight Sword Sprite (KA/KNiDL) Name Copy Ability Bonkers Hammer Bugzzy Backdrop Fire Lion FireBall/Burning Mr. Tick-Tock Mike Mr. Frosty Freeze Poppy Bros. Sr. Crash Rolling Turtle/Phan Phan Throw

Gallery

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  Kirby stands outside the ominous tower.

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  Kirby begins climbing the tower after defeating Bonkers.

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  Kirby gets grabbed and tossed by a red Rolling Turtle in the tower.

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  Kirby stumbles onto the hidden reward cache for taking the secret path.

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  Kirby flies off into the distance on his Warp Star.

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  Kirby dispatches the Blade Knight guarding the Maxim Tomato at the end of the stage.

Trivia

• In Kirby's Adventure, there is unused data for harder versions of the three mid-bosses skipped on the secret route, suggesting that they were initially planned to be included.
• Also in Kirby's Adventure, the secret route's 5 1-Ups will give the player 6 lives instead of 5. This is because the middle-most 1-Up is actually two of them layered on top of each other, most likely by accident.