Friend Train
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“ | When friends combine their power, they can become a full-steam train! It choo-choos right over walls, charging full speed ahead. It's the Dream Friendship Express! Hop on! | ” | — Kirby Star Allies Pause Screen description |
Friend Train is a situational Friend Ability present in Kirby Star Allies. It allows Kirby and his friends to form up in a line and move very quickly in a train-like formation. Kirby also gains a conductor's hat with a smokestack coming out the top. While Friend Train is active, Kirby and his friends will run forward at very high speed, unable to stop or turn around. Any enemies they run into will be defeated, and various obstacles can also be broken. The Friend Train is also capable of moving up walls and running along the ceiling, contorting to whatever surface the friends run across. While running, the Friend Train can perform a single jump to alter their course, and prevent them from falling into a bottomless pit or other hazard.
Usage[edit]
The Friend Train is used in the following stages:
- Sector B
- Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!: original rooms in Level 1, 3 and 5.
- Heroes in Another Dimension - Dimension II
Trivia[edit]
- The train horn sound effects were created by Jun Ishikawa via himself blowing an empty energy drink bottle.[1]
- When a Friend Train section ends, the Star Allies will come out of their formation by falling on their face and then brushing themselves off. The only exceptions are Meta Knight and Dark Meta Knight, who land on their feet and look around curiously. This also happens with Friend Circle.
Gallery[edit]
The Friend Train riding up a wall in Sector B
Friend Train section in Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!
Friend Train challenge in Heroes in Another Dimension
Concept art of Friend Bridge (left) and Friend Train (right)
Friend Train in Find Kirby!!
Commemorative illustration from the Kirby JP Twitter celebrating Kirby's 29th anniversary, making use of the Friend Train
"Friend Train" Travel Sticker from the "Kirby Pupupu Train" 2018 events
Names in other languages[edit]
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Japanese | フレンズれっしゃ Furenzu Ressha |
Friends Train |
Traditional Chinese | 盟友列車 méng yǒu liê chē |
Friend Train |
Simplified Chinese | 盟友列车 méng yǒu liê chē | |
Dutch | Vriendentrein | Friend train |
French | Train d'amis | Friend train |
German | Freundeszug | Friend train |
Italian | Treno amici | Friend train |
Korean | 프렌즈 열차 peulenjeu yeolcha |
Friends Train |
Polish | Friend Train[2] | - |
Russian | Поезд друзей Poyezd druzey |
Friend train |
Spanish | Tren de amistad | Friendship train |