Galaxy Tours

Galaxy Tours is a starter stage in Super Smash Flash 2 that functions as a compilation of various sub-stages from the games Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. The stage takes fighters throughout different locations or galaxies from the aforementioned games. Players ride on the Starship Mario, which acts as the main form, to journey through various galaxies.

Layout

Blast off the Galaxy — Starship Mario as it travels through space, ready to reach a different galaxy.

Galaxy Tours primarily takes place on the Starship Mario, which consists of a large main platform with several soft platforms floating above it. Several Lumas appear wandering around the background and foreground, including Lubba on the right side, and the sky in the background is randomly chosen between being cloudy and blue, red and sunset-like, and green with stars.

The specific orientation of soft platforms is also randomly chosen between the following five layouts:

There are four soft platforms, including one over each edge with both a flat section and a sloped section rising upward over the edge, and one floating over each of these platforms slightly closer to the center of the stage.
There are four soft platforms, including a long one floating over the center of the main platform, a short one floating over each edge of this platform, and another long one floating at the top.
There are four soft platforms, including one floating over the center of the main platform with a flat section in the middle and sloped sections rising outward, one floating over the middle of this platform, and one floating on each side of these platforms.
There are two soft platforms, including one floating over the center of the main platform and a long one floating over this platform with a flat middle, sloped sections dropping outward, and flat sections at the ends of these slopes.
There are three soft platforms, including two floating over the main platform and a long one floating over these platforms.

With hazards turned on, the stage changes to different layouts approximately every 25 seconds. Transitions take place on the Starship Mario with no platforms, which sinks to the bottom blast line when the new layout appears. There are five main layouts that the stage may transition to, including four based on galaxies and the Starship Mario itself with a randomized background and platform layout.

Good Egg Galaxy

Good Egg Galaxy consists of a large platform that slightly slopes upward toward the center. There is a large house in the center acting as terrain, which has an orange Warp Pipe and a signpost in the background on its roof. The top side of the platform is grassy with a tree and flowers, whereas the bottom side contains dead trees and a large tower.

Freezeflame Galaxy

Freezeflame Galaxy consists of a large ring-shaped platform of ice in the middle with a small hard platform of ice floating above the hole in the center, both of which have low traction. There is a small hard platform of molten rock floating on either side of the main ice platform, with the left being below it and the right being above it. In the background, a large lava core planet can be seen, as well as four balls of fire and lava.

Toy Time Galaxy

Toy Time Galaxy consists of two main sets of platforms separated by a gap. On the left side, there is a checkered blue block acting as a hard platform on the left and a blue and yellow block on the lower right, with a conveyor belt between them moving right. On the right side, there is a tall platform on the right with two soft platforms attached on the left side, with the top one being a conveyor belt moving left. The conveyor belts slowly move characters standing on them in the direction they are moving. Additional planets can be seen in the background, including a circular train track with a toy train on the left and a giant planet shaped like Luigi's sprite from Super Mario Bros. toward the center, and a red wind-up key to the right.

Chompworks Galaxy

Chompworks Galaxy consists of two main sets of platforms separated by a gap. On the left side, there is a large main platform with a raised portion on its right side, and on the right side, there is a small hard platform with a soft platform attached to its left side and another soft platform floating above it. Two Octoombas, rolling Chain Chomps, and a 1-Up Mushroom appear in the background. The Octoombas simply hop around, while the Chain Chomps come out of a generator on the right side and roll left before crashing into a wall. Also in the background is a lava-covered planet resembling a Chain Chomp.

Music

The main track is Space Junk Galaxy, a calm, vivid remix of the theme of Space Junk Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy.
The alternate music track is Gusty Garden Galaxy, a more upbeat remix of the theme of Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy.

Tournament legality

This stage is banned in tournament play. Though all five possible layouts of Starship Mario are in themselves potentially viable, the random selection upon the match starting can easily be abused by players feigning the need to reset the match in order to get a different layout that would benefit themselves more, especially online. It is also not repeatable in the case of a tie breaker, connection failure, or other reason a given match may genuinely need to be reset with the same characters and stage choice.

Origin

Galaxy Tours is based on the gameplay of Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, in which Mario visits a wide arrange of galaxies in order to retrieve the Power Stars stolen by Bowser. The more Power Stars he retrieves, the further he is allowed to travel in the universe. In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario can visit a galaxy by entering a dome in the Comet Observatory, where he then gets launched to the selected galaxy. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario instead directly travels to galaxies using the Starship Mario, a planet and spacecraft in the shape of Mario's head. This spacecraft is inhabited by Lumas led by Lubba, who puts Mario in command of the ship in order to retrieve the Power Stars. The backgrounds that appear on the Starship Mario layout of the stage are the backgrounds of the world maps for the first three worlds of Super Mario Galaxy 2, with the cloudy sky corresponding to World 1, the sunset-filled sky corresponding to World 2, and the starry sky corresponding to World 3.

In both games, there are many different galaxies that can be traveled to, with each consisting of a series of planetoids. Notably, each planetoid has its own type of gravity that affects Mario and other objects, such as drawing them in on all sides. However, this mechanic is not implemented in SSF2, as players simply fall down like normal.

Good Egg Galaxy (appearance) — The starting planet of Good Egg Galaxy in *Super Mario Galaxy*.

Good Egg Galaxy is the first galaxy found in the Terrace, as well as the second overall galaxy Mario must travel to, in Super Mario Galaxy. Most planets in this galaxy are lush and grassy with some resembling food. The stage in SSF2 takes place on the planet where almost all of the galaxy's missions start, with most requiring Mario to walk onto the darker side to find Launch Stars leading to other planets. It also has the most planets of any galaxy in the game, with a total of 19.

Freezeflame Galaxy (appearance) — Mario on the starting planet of Freezeflame Galaxy in *Super Mario Galaxy*.

Freezeflame Galaxy is the second galaxy found in the Bedroom in Super Mario Galaxy. As the name suggests, half of this galaxy consists of freezing water and ice, and the other half consists of fire and lava. The stage in SSF2 mainly takes place on the thin ring of ice where most of the galaxy's missions start. The platforms on either side of it closely resemble the large lava core planet visited in the mission "Freezeflame's Blistering Core", which also appears in the background.

Toy Time Galaxy (appearance) — Mario on a planet of blocks and conveyor belts on Toy Time Galaxy in *Super Mario Galaxy*.

Toy Time Galaxy is the third galaxy found in the Engine Room in Super Mario Galaxy. It is a playroom-themed location filled with toys made out of large rainbow-colored building blocks, as well as eating utensils and desserts. The stage in SSF2 incorporates four different planets from the galaxy, including one of building blocks and conveyor belts, one with large building blocks in the shape of a train engine, one with a train track and a train circling it, and one giant planet in the shape of an 8-bit Mario with Luigi on the other side. The red wind-up key in the background resembles the one attached to Mecha-Bowser, a large toy robot in the shape of Bowser encountered in the mission "Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser".

Chompworks Galaxy (origin) — Mario on the starting planet of Chompworks Galaxy.

Chompworks Galaxy is the fourth galaxy of World 4 in Super Mario Galaxy 2. This galaxy is themed around the rolling Chain Chomp enemy, which occasionally serves as an obstacle blocking Mario's path or an element used to solve puzzles with. The stage in SSF2 takes place on the planet where most missions start, with similarly features a generator at the top where Chain Chomps roll in a straight line into a wall where they explode. The Octoombas and 1-Up Mushroom are also placed where they normally appear in the game. The background features a lava-covered platform in the shape of a Chain Chomp, which is featured in the mission "Where the Chomps Are Made of Gold".

Gallery

Platform layouts

The following are all the possible platform layouts for Starship Mario. It has to be noted that this order is not strict and, as with other galaxies, is completely randomized:

Screenshots

Early designs

Screenshots

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The subject was never implemented or was removed, cut or altered at some point of its development, and this section pertains to its original implementation.

Forms

Trivia

While Galaxy Tours currently features four distinct galaxies, the original concept of the stage pitched early in SSF2's development actually had more locations to be visited:
- As seen in the gallery above, sprite designs for Ghostly Galaxy and Honeyhive Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy, were released in the second Smash Flash DOJO!!!.
- In several Mini-Trailers, a stage resembling the Battlerock Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy can be spotted several times.
- An early trophy's draft for stages included several unspecified designs. Given the semantic, some of these were presumably meant for Galaxy Tours, including a stage filled with green checkered square platforms that resembles Hurry Scurry Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy and an airship with a design very reminiscent to the ones found in Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel.
- There were initially rumors about Puzzle Plank Galaxy being included in the stage following the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2, though there is no evidence to support this.
Prior to Beta, the Comet Observatory from Super Mario Galaxy served as the main form of this stage.
- In v0.6 of the demo, the stage was simply named Comet Observatory due to the galaxies not having been implemented yet.
- Following v0.7 of the demo, several background elements were added, including Rosalina in the central area, several Lumas flying around, and Starship Mario flying across the screen.