Sugar Rush

"Ah, no! This is that candy go-kart game over by the whack-a-mole!"

- Ralph

Sugar Rush is a kingdom inside the arcade game Sugar Rush Speedway in the film, Wreck-It Ralph. It is an island made entirely out of candy and is ruled by Princess/President Vanellope von Schweetz (though the game was taken over at one point by the villainous King Candy). It's the home of various anamorphic cakes and candies, as well as the various racers of the game.

Places of Interest

 * Sugar Rush Castle: Home of the infamous King Candy, his diminutive sidekick Sour Bill, and King Candy's two donut cops named Wynchel and Duncan. It also contains a hidden chamber that leads to the games code which can be accessed with the Konami Code. It later becomes Vanellope's home when she is revealed as the true ruler of Sugar Rush.
 * Candy Cane Forest: A forest full of red-and-white striped peppermint trees. It's a favorite hangout spot for Vanellope. It has Laffy Taffy vines, a taffy swamp, and a Nesquik-sand pit. Double-striped canes disappear when touched.
 * Diet Cola Mountain: A soda bottle shaped volcano with a pit of boiling hot cola instead of lava. There are Mentos stalactites that sometimes fall from the roof of the volcano, causing fizzy eruptions! Diet Cola Mountain was home to Vanellope, who lived in a secret un-programmed hideaway inside the mountain before she moved into King Candy's former castle. There is an incomplete racetrack within the mountain, suggesting that the mountain was intended to be a bonus level, but the game creators never got around to finishing it; this is confirmed by Vanellope. The volcano is also where Ralph eventually goes to kill the Cy-Bugs, by smashing apart all of the stalactites and sending them into the volcano's crater creating a beam of light that instantly kills the bugs in the process.
 * Sugar Rush Speedway: The Sugar Rush Speedway is a scenic race track that traverses all the environments which make up Sugar Rush.
 * Kart Factory: The place where all the racers' karts are made. Vanellope and Ralph break into the factory to create a kart for Vanellope. The factory serves as a minigame within the game, where the player has to make their own kart in one minute. The mini game consists of three parts:
 * Mixing: The player sorts ingredients, dumping the right items into the bowl, while separating the bad ingredients (such as underwear and a fire hydrant) into a trash can.
 * Baking: The player uses an air pump to heat a large oven to the correct temperature.
 * Decorating: The player uses a gun to hit targets on decoration dispensers, adding the items to design a personal kart.


 * Fungeon: A prison located inside King Candy's castle. Vanellope and Felix were briefly held in the Fungeon, until Ralph rescued them. The windows of the Fungeon are made of Pocky sticks that reinforce themselves whenever Felix tries to break them apart ("Why do I fix everything I touch?!") Vanellope's fungeon cell appears to be decorated with a circus-themed mural, with smiling clowns on the walls saying quotes like "Someone's been naughty!" and "You are a bad girl!"
 * Junkyard: Where destroyed, worn-out, and scrapped karts are stored.

Trivia

 * Sugar Rush was inspired by the board game Candy Land, as with various cartoon racing games like Mario Kart.
 * Some elements of the Mario Kart games are spoofed here: the powerups are contained in sugar cubes, the marshmallow holding the stoplight is based on Lakitu, the final stretch being based on Rainbow Road (the final racetrack in those games), etc.
 * King Candy's castle was based on Mary Blair's design of Cinderella Castle.
 * Unlike the other video games like Fix-it Felix Jr., Pac-Man and Hero's Duty, Sugar Rush does not appear to have a train that transports video game characters from there to Game Central Station via the game's power cord and back. The tram was likely removed or shut down by King Candy, in order to isolate Sugar Rush and its inhabitants from any contact with Game Central Station and other characters, maintaining Candy's deceptions.
 * Not counting King Candy, Rancis, Gloyd and Swizz are the only three male characters in the game in an otherwise mostly female cast.
 * Like Fix-It Felix, Jr. and Hero's Duty, there's a version of the game on the official site.
 * Although there is an online and iOS version of Sugar Rush, there has yet to be an exact replica of the actual game cabinet from the film in real life.
 * Also (at least currently), the person who posted the above bulleted point is incorrect. The Sugar Rush game for iOS has nothing to do at all with Wreck It Ralph. It is not even a racing game. It was developed by another game company independantly of Disney and their movie Wreck It Ralph, and just by coincidence it happens have the same name as the fictional racing arcade game in the Wreck It Ralph movie. So it has absoultely no connection at all the the Wreck It Ralph movie. So far the only real life playable version of Wreck It Ralph's Sugar Rush game is an online verson of the game on the movie's official website. The game requires the Unity Web Player plugin to be installed for your web browser in order to play the game.
 * Diet Cola Mountain could be a reference to gaming in real life; Diet Cola Mountain is supposed to be a scrapped level, but Vanellope managed to make a home out of it. In real life, people can use cheats and hacks to access elements in video games that were scrapped or left unfinished.
 * It is also based on a popular internet meme involving an explosion in a form of a fountain caused by Mentos being dropped in Diet Coke.
 * The CPU room's door is a classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller.
 * According to Ralph and Vanellope, Sugar Rush is over by the Whac-A-Mole.
 * For some reason, despite the game having supposedly been released in 1997, Sugar Rush's graphics are the modern CGI used for the rest of the film and with most CG games released nowadays, when games released in 1997 often had blocky polygons like the graphics of game systems like the Nintendo 64.
 * Just like the Strawberry Shortcake characters, the characters names are involved with candy in some kind of way.
 * The go-kart selection icons in the kart factory show pictures of go-karts that did not make it into the final film.
 * One of the paintings in the Fungeon shows a clown in a racecar with a facial expression similar to Turbo's.