Friend Train

Friend Train
Initialization of Friend Train.
Details
Debut game	Kirby Star Allies
Usage type	Specific Location Use
Requirements	Four friends
Power(s)	Power through obstacles and scale walls/ceilings.
Comparable to	Friend Circle

“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 Friend Action present in Kirby Star Allies. It allows Kirby (or any other friend) to form up in a line with three other friends and move very quickly in a train-like formation. The leader also gains a conductor's hat with a smokestack coming out the top. While Friend Train is active, the 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.

Friend Train is notably much more heavily featured in Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! than the main game, where it appears three times in total.

Usage

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

• The train whistle sound effects were created by Jun Ishikawa via himself blowing an empty energy drink bottle.
• The train doesn't jump off the ground if the jump button is pressed on an angled surface, but the train whistle will still blow under these circumstances.
• When a Friend Train section ends, the friends will come out of their formation by falling on their faces and then brushing themselves off (Meta Knight and Dark Meta Knight's equivalent of this animation is one where they land on their feet and look around cautiously). This also happens with Friend Circle.

Gallery

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  The Friend Train riding up a wall in Sector B
• 
  Friend Train section in Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!
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  Friend Train running on water
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  Friend Train challenge in Heroes in Another Dimension
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  Credits image for Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!, featuring the Friend Train
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  Credits image for Heroes in Another Dimension, featuring the Friend Train
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  Concept art of Friend Bridge (left) and Friend Train (right)
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  Friend Train in Find Kirby!!
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  Commemorative illustration from the Kirby JP Twitter celebrating Kirby's 29th anniversary, making use of the Friend Train
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  "Playroom" figure from the "Kirby Wonder Room" merchandise line, manufactured by Re-ment
• 
  "Friend Train" Travel Sticker from the "Kirby Pupupu Train" 2018 events

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
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	-
Russian	Дружеский поезд Druzheskiy poyezd	Friend train
Spanish	Tren de amistad	Friendship train