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FUN BAZAAR
This is your chance to blow all of your hard earned Carnival Cards. There’s oodles of minigames to unlock, as well as plenty of other frivolous goodies such as game music, voices, records, credits, and figurines you can view on Parade at the Carnival Wagon

Tips on earning Carnival Cards
-Completing 10 turns on a board will net you 20 Carnival Cards, so if you’re not doing the math, 50 turns will get you 100 Cards.
-Completing the Star Battle Arena will give you 200 Carnival Cards and is a little faster since you only have one opponentwith a finite goal
-THE FASTEST WAY TO EARN CARNIVAL CARDS IS BY PLAYING THE TEST OF THE BEST. It can be purchased at the Surprise Wagon for 50 Carnival Cards and can earn you30 carnival cards in just over10 minutes. It gets repetitive quickly, but it’s still the fastest.

Surprise Wagon

FUN BAZAAR
This is your chance to blow all of your hard earned Carnival Cards. There’s oodles of minigames to unlock, as well as plenty of other frivolous goodies such as game music, voices, records, credits, and figurines you can view on Parade at the Carnival Wagon

Tips on earning Carnival Cards
-Completing 10 turns on a board will net you 20 Carnival Cards, so if you’re not doing the math, 50 turns will get you 100 Cards.
-Completing the Star Battle Arena will give you 200 Carnival Cards and is a little faster since you only have one opponentwith a finite goal
-THE FASTEST WAY TO EARN CARNIVAL CARDS IS BY PLAYING THE TEST OF THE BEST. It can be purchased at the Surprise Wagon for 50 Carnival Cards and can earn you30 carnival cards in just over10 minutes. It gets repetitive quickly, but it’s still the fastest.

Surprise Wagon

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Table Menace x50
Puzzle Pillars x50
Chomping Frenzy x50
Moped Mayhem x50
-Four games playable in the Extra Zone. Must be purchased here.

Very Hard Difficulty Setting x50
-Do you dare?

Heckling Voices x50
-You’re Wii Remote will emit sounds of character specific taunts when moved

Test For the Best x50
-A mode for the Minigame Tent. Only available through purchase here

Staff Best Records x 50
-viewable at the records board to the left of the Minigame Wagon

Character Voices x50
Carnival Music x50
Minigame Music x50
-All 3 are accessible at the Carnival Calliope to the right of the

Staff Credits x100
-Viewable to the right of the Surprise Wagon

Figures are viewable stationary or on Parade at the Carnival Wagon

DK’s Balancing Act x30
DK’s Barrel Cannon x30
Dolphin Shuttle Swirl x30
Shipwrecked Goombas x30
King Boo’s Revenge x30
Hideway Breakout x30
Perplexed Chef x30
Express Engine x30
Koopa Crane x30
Hotel Happiness x30
Warped Space Shuttle x30
Space Colony Tower x30
Supershaken Soda x30
Sugar Rush Surprise x30
Bullet Blitzer x30
Party Karting x30
Spinning Boat x30
Sweet Saucer x30
Flip the Chimp x30
Big Bob-omb’s Blast x30
Baby Penguin Frolic x30
Lava Bubble Burst x30
Potted Piranha Plant x30
Chain Chomphouse x30
Poppin’ Party Tent x30
Star Carnival Stage x30
Barrel of Fun x30
Bowser’s Fury x30
Ballyhoo and Big Top x 30
Test Take Off x30

Minigame Wagon

Here’s where you can by the minigames you haven’t played yet. NOTE: All of these minigames can be easily unlocked by simply playing through the game. For free! If your interested in getting everything (an I’m assuming you are) you’re better off not shelling out your Carnival Cards and playing through the game. But here’s what’s offered:

Speedy Graffiti
Swing Kings
Water Ski Spree
Punch-A-Bunch
Crank to Rank
At the Chomp Wash
Mosh-pit Playroom
Mario Matrix
Lava or Leave ‘em
Kartastrophe
Rudder Madness
Sick and Twisted
Shake it Up
In the Nick of Time
Scooter Pursuit
Flip the Chimp
Alpine Assault
Treacherous Tightrope
Gun the Runner
Grabbin’ Gold
Power Trip
Bom-ombs Away
Swervin’ Skies
Picture Perfect
Snow Way Out
Thrash ‘n’ Crash
Chump Rope
Winner or Dinner
Paint Misbehavin’
Sugar Rush
King of the Thrill
Lean, Mean Ravine
Boo-ting Gallery
Crops ‘n’ Robbers
Aim of the Game
Cut from the Team
Snipe for the Picking
Saucer Swarm
Glacial Meltdown
Attention Grabber
Blazing Lassos
Wing and a Scare
Lob to Rob
Pumper Cars
Cosmic Slalom
Lava Lobbers
Loco Motives
Specter Inspector
Frozen Assets
Breakneck Building
Surf’s Way Up
Balancing Act
Ion the Prize
You’re the Bob-omb
Cardiators
Rotation Station
Eyebrawl
Settle It in Court
Pour to Score
Stampede

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