DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing

Trophy Guide & Roadmap

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Warning: If you own it, do not install the Rally Pack DLC until you've achieved the platinum trophy. Otherwise you must do the grind of King Julien's Inner Circle for two more characters.

Step 1 - Challenges

The game features 36 different challenges we need to complete. During those you will probably earn a lot of miscellaneous trophies that are listed in this step as well. Nothing you need to focus on though. Just take care of the challenges and take care of The Bad Guys. Everything else of this step will unlock naturally before you complete the game.

Top Performer
Complete 15 Magic Paths
Magic Paths are rainbow-colored bridges that appear when we drive into a golden lyre. It's very hard to miss and we need to complete 30 of them with almost each character.
Just Smile and Wave
Perform 30 Drifts
To perform a drift we must hold while turning left or right. The wheels of our kart light up in yellow, blue or purple, depending on the duration of the drift. For this trophy, yellow drifts are sufficient.
The Path to Success
Go through 50 boostpads
Boostpads are everywhere. As per usual in arcade kart games they appear as a hard-to-miss yellow arrow pointing forward.
PRESENTATION!
Perform 75 Jump tricks
Jump tricks can be performed by pressing at the edges of ramps, platforms or on bouncy undergrounds such as clouds, mushrooms, trampolines etc.
A Cat Always Lands on Their Feet
Perform 15 Sweet Jumps
On most tracks you'll come across pink trampolines, looking like rolls. Performing a jump trick on all three of them right after another, it'll count as sweet jump. Often there is a golden ring at the end of them you can only reach if you perform the Sweet Jump correctly.
The Bad Guys
Steal the Golden Dolphin in Museum of Fine Arts in under 40 seconds
Challenge 3-2 takes us to the track "Museum of Fine Arts". The Golden Dolphin is the collectible Lucky Token in this challenge right behind the laser traps. 40 seconds are a fair time window, just make sure you are in the lead and turn off two lasers by driving over the switches on the right path.
Not Settled Over a Pint
Hit 33 players with a Lucky Token
Lucky Tokens are a normal weapon. Each character has a unique one but they all work basically the same. They can either be dropped as a hazard or thrown forward to hit other racers. If you don't get this trophy before doing everything else for some reason, you can force it qucikly by replaying Challenge 5-5 multiple times.
Horner's Hoard
Get 20 collectible Lucky Tokens
Collectible Lucky Tokens are golden and can often be collected from magic paths or hidden track parts. This trophy pops naturally on our way to King Julien's Inner Circle, because we have to collect a specific Lucky Token with each of the 20 characters.
The Crimson Paw
Complete all challenges
All the challenges are pretty straightforward. Every set ends with a boss race and you'll see on screen before each race what objective you have to complete to finish a challenge successfully.

Step 2 - Time Trials

In Time Trials we have to beat a ghost over the course of 3 laps on each track.

Skadooshing
Beat 10 ghosts in time trials
Please refer to Hero's Chi.
Hero's Chi
Beat all ghosts in time trials
Most of the time trials are very easy to beat. Just focus on using boost pads, drift paths and collecting musical notes to get some boosts every now and then. Avoid Magic Paths and Sweet Jumps, just drifting the normal track is much faster in almost all cases. Brace yourself for "Galactic Sky" though, Megamind knows a trick across the bouncy clouds nobody else knows.

Step 3 - Lightning Cups

We must win every cup on Lightning difficulty at least once and one cup with each character.

Trolls Glitter Party
Use Troll Surprise 7 times in a cup
When we collect enough music notes during a race, it activates a power-up we can use by pressing . These power-ups are the Troll Surprises and we have to use them 7 times within a cup. Every cup consists of 4 races.
One of a Kind
Complete a race without getting hit once
This trophy is a little bit luck-based. If you don't get it naturally, you can always start a race with Lightning speed and Relaxed difficulty to increase your chances.
Add a Little Umph
Perform 10 Drift Trails in a cup
Drift Trails are the colored strips you'll find on many racetracks. They are either blue, purple or orange/gold and all of them count towards this trophy. To perform a Drift Trail successfully we must enter it while drifting and hold the drift across the entire stripe.
Test Drive
Win your first cup
Unlocks naturally on the way to Knack For Mayhem, but can be done on any difficulty you like.
The Night Fury Way
Win Viking Cup in Lightning Speed
Unlocks naturally on the way to Knack For Mayhem.
Kowalski's Plan of Attack
Enter 5 different shortcuts
Please refer to video #4 of my playlist to see all shortcuts. Whichever you decide to take, make sure you use the one in Dragon's Keep. It seems mandatory to unlock the trophy, because I wasn't able to unlock it without that specific shortcut.
Team "Friendship"
Unlock all characters
Unlock together with Knack For Mayhem. There are 6 unlockable characters and we get one for each cup we win on Lightning difficulty.
Knack For Mayhem
Beat all Lightning difficulty Cups
On Lightning difficulty the karts and opponents are at the maximum speed. The AI uses their power-ups more aggressively but overall it isn't too hard as their results vary a lot so we don't need to have perfect tournaments. Winning them is sufficient, we don't need 3 stars in all of them.
In Harmony
Play the same cup with 6 different hosts
Every cup has a troll host. Which one you'll get for the next cup is visible while selecting a cup, right below the tracks. Just play the same cup 6 times until you did it with all hosts. The hosts are:
  • Poppy
  • Trollzart
  • Delta Dawn
  • King Trollex
  • King Quincy
  • Barb
The game gives you the option to randomly change the host for 75 music notes. That's absolutely not worth it, we have to win 20 cups on lightning difficulty anyway.

Step 4 - Cleanup and final grind

While you focus on trophies you may still be missing at this point, always keep an eye on King Julien's Inner Circle.

Master of All Villainy
Hit 3 players by throwing drop items forward
You may have earned this trophy naturally until this point. Some items like the noodle cart and some Lucky Tokens are intended to be dropped as a hazard. Instead of doing this, hold forward and hit opponents with them. Hitting a total of 3 opponents throughout all races unlocks the trophy.
Rage of the Gumdrop Buttons
Hit 200 opponents with power-ups
Self-explanatory. Just hit 200 opponents throughout all game modes. This should pop naturally on your way to King Julien's Inner Circle.
The Rebel
Pick up an apple power-up and explode around others
To pick up a green apple power-up it's easier to shoot it in front of yourself and drive through it. It is a sticky bomb that explodes after a short while. To unlock this trophy, make sure you're close to an opponent before you blow up.
A Hideous Zippleback Shot
Hit 2 players at the same time with a bomb power-up
This is similar to The Rebel but way more luck-based. Relaxed difficulty is recommended because the AI stays closer together and is slower. The difference to The Rebel is that we must drop the apple on an opponent and they have to blow up near another opponent. So wait until multiple drivers are close together before you drop it.
The Best Defense
Hit 20 enemies with the shield
The yellow Ying & Yang shield is meant to protect you against incoming projectiles. But for this trophy we need to use it 20 times on offense. Just activate the shield when you're near an opponent to hit them with it.
Things Money Can Solve
Buy 5 different things in the shop
Please refer to King Julien's Inner Circle.
King Julien's Inner Circle
Unlock the whole shop!
This trophy has two seperate grinds to it. First we must unlock all customizations so we can buy them later. In the garage you can look at each customization to see what tasks need to be completed to unlock everything. We need to win a Lightning Cup with every character, win 10 races, complete 30 magic paths etc.

When everything is unlocked we need to farm money (or music notes in this case). The fastest method is collecting 15 of it in Challenge 3-3 and hit a wall right after. Repeat this for a couple hours until you reach a total of 7200 music notes. That's the required sum to buy all customizations and unlock this trophy.
Over The Moon
Unlock all the Trophies!