Spinning Platform

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A Spinning Platform in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Donkey Kong andDixie Kong fall through a Spinning Platform.

Spinning Platforms,[1] also referred to astrapdoors[2][3] (ortrap doors),[4] are simple mechanisms resembling floor tiles that are present inDonkey Kong Country games, starting withDonkey Kong Country Returns. They are noticeable by the empty gap underneath them. Ifpounded, Spinning Platforms start rotating around their axes for a short time, allowing theKongs to fall under them. They usually lead to hidden underground chambers orbonus rooms, where the characters can find secrets. Spinning Platforms are semisolid, meaning they can be walked on as on solid ground but can be crossed from beneath. While spinning, a Spinning Platform can defeat any enemy that comes into contact with it.

InDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze andits port, Spinning Platforms sometimes appear in conjunction with other gameplay elements. InScorch 'n' Torch, one Spinning Platform that covers the entrance into a bonus room hasfire on top of it, which must be put out with aWater Sack before the platform can be spun. InPanicky Paddles, these platforms form a central gameplay mechanic, where they often appear in midair, and are either still or moving back and forth along a set path. The Kongs may need to spin some of them to fall into bodies ofswimmable juice. Some of the Spinning Platforms in this stage spin on their own at regular intervals, or are caused to spin by certain objects, causing the Kongs to fall through as they stand on one.

References[edit]

  1. ^von Esmarch, Nick and Cory Van Grier (2014).Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville:Prima Games (English). ISBN978-0-804-16252-4. Page 25.
  2. ^"Next, pound the trapdoor just to the barrel’s right." – Knight, Michael (2010).Donkey Kong Country Returns Prima Official Game Guide. Roseville:Prima Games (English). ISBN978-0307471024. Page 52.
  3. ^"[...] and then pound a trapdoor to drop into a hidden area." – Knight.Donkey Kong Country Returns Prima Official Game Guide. Page 135.
  4. ^"Pound on this trap door to drop down into a secret area." – Knight.Donkey Kong Country Returns Prima Official Game Guide. Page 135.
Platforms
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Semisolid Platforms15-Piece Puzzle •Balloon •Bean Platform •Bridge •Bouncy Cloud •Chandelier (platform) •Cloud Block •Cliff •Countdown Platform •Downpour Cloud •Dropping lift •Elevator Platform •Floating island platform •Floor (Wrecking Crew series) •Flower •Girder •Hip Tree •Hot Air Balloon •Jump-over cloud •Manhole •Magic carpet •Mobile •One-Way Wall •Purple Conveyor •Red Girder •Rising note •Rocking Platform •Rocky wall •Rolled-up carpet •Sand Geyser •Shrinking platform •Seesaw •Soft sand •Spine Coaster •Spinning Platform •Spring platform •Totchī •White Block •Witch's Cauldron •Yellow ledge
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Mushroom PlatformsMoving Mushroom •Mushroom Trampoline •ON/OFF Trampoline •Piston Lift •Screwtop Shroom •Seesaw Shroom (blue) •Sinking and Rising Mushrooms •Stretch Shroom •Tilting mushroom
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Living platformsAncient Dragon •Balloon Bully •Bloopad •Bomp •Darkmess Manta •Dolphin •Dorrie •Dragon •Fairy Board •Flomp •Futamogu •Ganchan •Ghost Rider •Ghost Stream •Giant sunflower •Goonie •Jumbo Ray •Konk (Wonder Konk) •Liftoglobin •Mega Mole •Mega Wiggler •Neuron •Para-Beetle (Heavy Para-Beetle) •Robot turtle •Sand Bird •Seagull •Shoomp • Snake (Wario Land 3 •Yoshi's Story) •Stumper •Togēba •Turtle (Wario Land series) •Whale •Whomp •Worm (Super Mario Galaxy)
Donkey Kong Country Returns /Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D /Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
CharactersPlayableDonkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kongc
SupportingCranky Kong •Rambi •Squawks •Super Kong •Tutorial Pig •Whale •Wigglevine
BossesMugly (Krazy Kalimba) •Scurvy Crew (The Maraca Gang) •Stu (Gong Oh) •Mole Miner Max/Mole Train (Banjo Bottom) •Mangoruby (Wacky Pipes) •Thugly (Xylobone) •Colonel Pluck (Cordian) •Tiki Tong
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ObjectsItemsBanana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Banana Mirror •Crash Guardb •Green Balloonb •Hanging vine •Heart •Heart Boost •K-O-N-G Letters •Map Key •Puzzle Piece •Rare Orb •Red Balloon
BarrelsBarrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •DK Barrel •Regular Barrel •Slot Machine Barrel
MiscellaneousBag •Container •Green surface •Rambi Crate •Red and blue blocks •Tire •Mole Train •Spiked shaft (Jagged Jewels)b •Spiked shaft (Tiki Tong Terror) •Trapdoor •Tar pit
VehiclesMine Cart •Rocket Barrel
MovesBarrel Jet •Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) •Blow •Charge •Cling •Crouch •Grab •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Jump •Kong Roll •Peanut Popgun •Run •Helicopter Spinc
LevelsJungle1-1:Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2:King of Cling • 1-3:Tree Top Bop • 1-4:Sunset Shore • 1-5:Canopy Cannons • 1-6:Crazy Cart • 1-K:Platform Panic • 1-B:Mugly's Mound
Beach2-1:Poppin' Planks • 2-2:Sloppy Sands • 2-3:Peaceful Pier • 2-4:Cannon Cluster • 2-5:Stormy Shore • 2-6:Blowhole Bound • 2-7:Tidal Terror • 2-K:Tumblin' Temple • 2-B:Pinchin' Pirates
Ruins3-1:Wonky Waterway • 3-2:Button Bash • 3-3:Mast Blast • 3-4:Damp Dungeon • 3-5:Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6:Temple Topple • 3-K:Shifty Smashers • 3-B:Ruined Roost
Cave4-1:Rickety Rails • 4-2:Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3:Bombs Away • 4-4:Mole Patrol • 4-5:Crowded Cavern • 4-K:Jagged Jewels • 4-B:The Mole Train
Forest5-1:Vine Valley • 5-2:Clingy Swingy • 5-3:Flutter Flyaway • 5-4:Tippin' Totems • 5-5:Longshot Launch • 5-6:Springy Spores • 5-7:Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8:Muncher Marathon • 5-K:Blast & Bounce • 5-B:Mangoruby Run
Cliff6-1:Sticky Situation • 6-2:Prehistoric Path • 6-3:Weighty Way • 6-4:Boulder Roller • 6-5:Precarious Plateau • 6-6:Crumble Canyon • 6-7:Tippy Shippy • 6-8:Clifftop Climb • 6-K:Perilous Passage • 6-B:Thugly's Highrise
Factory7-1:Foggy Fumes • 7-2:Slammin' Steel • 7-3:Handy Hazards • 7-4:Gear Getaway • 7-5:Cog Jog • 7-6:Switcheroo • 7-7:Music Madness • 7-R:Lift-off Launch • 7-K:Treacherous Track • 7-B:Feather Fiend
Volcano8-1:Furious Fire • 8-2:Hot Rocket • 8-3:Roasting Rails • 8-4:Smokey Peak • 8-5:Bobbing Basalt • 8-6:Moving Melters • 8-7:Red Red Rising • 8-K:Five Monkey Trial • 8-B:Tiki Tong Terror
Cloudb9-1:Crushin' Columnsb • 9-2:Gushin' Geysersb • 9-3:Spiky Surpriseb • 9-4:Mischievous Molesb • 9-5:Topsy Turvyb • 9-6:Tar Ball Fallb • 9-7:Robo Factoryb • 9-8:Lavawheel Volcanob • 9-1a/9-9b:Golden Temple
Further infoDonkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track •Extras (image names in other languages) •Gallery (3D ·HD) •Iwata Asks • "Mine Menace" •Staff (3D ·HD)
RelatedPlay Nintendo activities
Can’t-miss games •Who are these jerks of the jungle? •Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) /Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
CharactersPlayableDonkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kong •Cranky Kong •Funky Kong*
SupportingDon Zunāna •Funky Kong •Professor Chops •Rambi •Squawks •Tawks*
BossesPompy •Skowl •Ba-Boom •Fugu •Bashmaster •Lord Fredrik
OtherBig Squeekly •Fish • Goats •Mugly •Skittler •Snippys
EnemiesSnowmadTucks (Archy ·Archy (fire) ·Big Sphen ·Boom Bird ·Painguin Tucks ·Papa Painguin ·Pengatcha 1-gō ·Pointy Tucks ·Soary ·Speedy Tucks ·Speedy Tuff Tucks ·Trench Tucks ·Tuff Tucks) •Fluff (Harey ·Harold ·Tuff Fluff) •Hootz (Blue Hootz ·Hot Hootz ·Puffton ·Tuffton) •Ice dragon •Lemmington •Waldough (Chum Chucker Charlie ·Fish Poker Pops ·Walbrick ·Walnut)
OtherBouncelisk •Bucky •Buffaloafer •Buzzy •Carnivorous Plantlife (Venus Trap Platform ·Chompette) •Cheesy Chester •Chompasaurus •Dozy •Electrified Anemone •Finley (Blue Finley ·Green Finley ·Red Finley) •Flaming Falling Totem Pole •Fritz •Gordo •Green fish •Hermit crab •Horror Gills •Jellyfish •Large Mimic •Mama Saw •Mimic •Monocle Monica •Piranha •Porcupal •Pufftup •Punchy Paddy •Schnautzel •Sea Urchin •Snaggles •Sour Dodo •Squiddicus •Swooper Dooper •Thug Slug •Toucan't •Wild Wendell •Yellow Snaggles
ObjectsItemsBanana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Blue Balloon •Capsule Toy Machine •Crash Guard •Flying banana •Gold Heart •Green Balloon •Heart •Heart Boost •KONG Letters •Mysterious relic •Puzzle Piece •Red Balloon
ProjectilesBarrel •Kong Barrel •Water Sack •Watermelon Fuse Bomb
MiscellaneousBarrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •Bell •Burlap Hanging Sack •Climbing grass •Collapsible Underwater Grass •Cracked Block •Current •Item container •Item Handle •Pile of leaves •Purple Flower Platform •Rambi Crate •Rolling leaf •Slot Machine Barrel •Snowflake Shield •Spinning Platform •Spring Platform •Swinging vine •Vine-Triggered Platform •Zip-Line Vine
VehiclesLog Canoe •Mine Cart •Rocket Barrel
ObstaclesAvalanche •Chunk of ice •Electroid •Fire •Fireball •Fire Floor •Giant Spiked Nut •Hanging TNT •Icicle •Proximity mine •Snowball •Snowflake •Sting Tentacle •Tornado •Volcanic debris
MovesCane Bounce •Cartwheel Attack •Charge •Cling •Corkscrew •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Helicopter Spin •Kong POW •Ranged attack •Roll Attack •Water Skip
LevelsLost Mangroves1-1:Mangrove Cove • 1-2:Shipwreck Shore • 1-3:Canopy Chaos • 1-4:Trunk Twister • 1-A:Zip-Line Shrine • 1-B:Busted Bayou • 1-K:Swinger Flinger • 1-BOSS:Big Top Bop
Autumn Heights2-1:Windmill Hills • 2-2:Mountain Mania • 2-3:Horn Top Hop • 2-4:Sawmill Thrill • 2-5:Alpine Incline • 2-6:Wing Ding • 2-A:Crumble Cavern • 2-B:Rodent Ruckus • 2-K:Bopopolis • 2-BOSS:Mountaintop Tussle
Bright Savannah3-1:Grassland Groove • 3-2:Baobab Bonanza • 3-3:Frantic Fields • 3-4:Scorch 'n' Torch • 3-5:Twilight Terror • 3-6:Cannon Canyon • 3-A:Rickety Rafters • 3-B:Bramble Scramble • 3-K:Precarious Pendulums • 3-BOSS:Triple Trouble
Sea Breeze Cove4-1:Deep Keep • 4-2:High Tide Ride • 4-3:Amiss Abyss • 4-4:Irate Eight • 4-5:Sea Stack Attack • 4-6:Current Capers • 4-A:Rockin' Relics • 4-B:Shoal Atoll • 4-K:Spinning Spines • 4-BOSS:Fugu Face-Off
Juicy Jungle5-1:Harvest Hazards • 5-2:Reckless Ride • 5-3:Fruity Factory • 5-4:Panicky Paddles • 5-5:Jelly Jamboree • 5-6:Frosty Fruits • 5-A:Beehive Brawl • 5-B:Jammin' Jams • 5-K:Platform Problems • 5-BOSS:Punch Bowl
Donkey Kong Island6-1:Homecoming Hijinxs • 6-2:Seashore War • 6-3:Aqueduct Assault • 6-4:Blurry Flurry • 6-5:Forest Folly • 6-6:Cliffside Slide • 6-7:Frozen Frenzy • 6-8:Meltdown Mayhem • 6-A:Dynamite Dash • 6-B:Icicle Arsenal • 6-K:Slippy Spikes • 6-BOSS:Volcano Dome
Secret Seclusion7-1:Levitation Station • 7-2:Rocket Rails • 7-3:Crazy Clouds
MiscellaneousExtras •Funky Kong's surfboard* •Lord Fredrik's horn
Further infoGallery •Multimedia •Staff (Switch)
RelatedPlay Nintendo activitiesA matching game to flip over •Can’t-miss games •The multiplayer way •Which Kong could fit your style? •Who’s that toy?
* Exclusive toDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for theNintendo Switch