Birthday Girl

The , also known as the Royal Ribbon in the British English releases of Mario Kart 7, is a recurring kart in the . It first appears in Mario Kart 7.
== Description ==
The Birthday Girl is a kart body. The kart body is a shoe with feminine features including: spots and a ribbon. The Birthday Girl is simple to accelerate and handle, but difficult to control speed and off-road. However, its weight is easy for heavy karts to push.
In Mario Kart Tour, the Birthday Girl no longer changes its colorization.
=== Color schemes ===
The Birthday Girl can change color depending on the character. Its default color scheme is a pink top and red underside with light pink spots. The Birthday Girl uses the default color scheme when Peach, a Mii, and male characters use the kart body. However, the Birthday Girl changes color scheme when either three female characters use it:
*Daisy's Birthday Girl has an orange top and yellow underside with yellow spots.
*Rosalina's Birthday Girl has a cyan top and dark blue underside with light blue spots.
*Honey Queen's Birthday Girl has a purple top and dark purple underside with light purple spots.
==In ==
===Mario Kart 7===
The Birthday Girl is a standard kart body in Mario Kart 7. Like the Peach Parasol, it changes color schemes when Daisy, Rosalina or Honey Queen uses it. The Birthday Girl offers a boost in acceleration and handling, whilst hindering speed, weight and off-road. In terms of hidden stats, the Birthday Girl offers a boost in sea and air speed, as wells as sea and air handling, mini-turbo and drift.
The Birthday Girl is a favourite for the CPU Princess Daisy. On an interesting note, computer-controlled male or indeterminate racers will never use the Birthday Girl, but can ironically choose from the Peach Parasol, which goes with this kart.
Princess Daisy and Princess Peach's Birthday Girl karts are used for the Daisy Hills and Cheep Cheep Lagoon Time Trial Staff Ghosts respectively, save for the expert Staff Ghost for the latter course.
=== In Mario Kart Tour ===
The Birthday Girl returns in Mario Kart Tour as a kart body. Like the Birthday Girl, all kart bodies, gliders and tires from previous installments will return to the game. The Birthday Girl will ise its default colorisation, no matter which driver uses it. There is also the Birthday Girl Rosalina which is Rosalina's blue color swap for her Birthday Girl from 7. It was added in the London Tour. There is also a Christmas-themed version of it called the Ribbon Rider, which is an unlockable spotlight kart alongside Daisy (Holiday Cheer) and the Glitter Glider. Daisy's orange color swap for her Birthday Girl appears in the game, titled Birthday Girl Daisy. There is also another variant of the Birthday Girl, the Festival Girl, which is available during the Summer Festival Tour.
== Crossover appearances ==
=== Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS ===
The Birthday Girl made a cameo appearance on the Peach + Birthday Girl trophy. Princess Peach, Peach Parasol and Mushroom tires appeared along with the Birthday Girl.
==Statistics==
== Trivia ==
*All Mario Kart 7 female characters' artwork shows them beside their Birthday Girl, except Honey Queen.
*The Peach Parasol shares the same trait as the Birthday Girl, by changing color schemes.
*The Heart Coach and Bloom Coach from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, through Royale and Power Flower from Mario Kart DS and the Daytripper from Mario Kart Wii can be considered the Birthday Girl's spiritual predecessors, possibly due to its "feminine" designs. The Cat Cruiser from Mario Kart 8 can be considered to be the Birthday Girl's successor.
== Gallery ==
== References ==
== See also ==
*Heart Coach
*Bloom Coach
*Royale
*Power Flower
*Peach Parasol
*Daytripper
*Princess Peach
*Sneeker
*Cat Cruiser
== External links ==
*Birthday Girl on Mario Kart Racing Wiki.
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