Dusty Dune Galaxy - Blasting through the Sand

Welcome to the Galaxy!
Mario
We land in the galaxy and kill off all the Pokeys for the Launch Star. We land on a small sand disk as in "Treasure of the Pyramid". We jump to get out of the sand. We walk over to the ring planet with the boulders on it. We go under one of the nearby planets for a Life Shroom. Under the planet in the middle of the ring is a Rainbow Star.
The Sling Star on the other side takes us to a sand tube. We find a Dry Bones on the planet, then sling to the sand tube. Along the sand tube are Pull Star Chips. We'll need to go over the sand tube at least twice (it's a loop) to get them all. The last one we should get is in a treasure chest. There are Koopas on the rocks where we landed, so we can grab their shells to open the chest. The Pull Stars will take us to a nearby planet, where we land on a rock in quicksand with green and orange arrows. This time I took the path with the green arrow, which leads to a green pipe to a secret area. The ? Coin makes music notes that play the underground theme. Collecting them all will give you 3 1-ups.
We take another green pipe to another planet. We are on the blue side of the planet, but can easily flip to the other side using the holes in the platforms above the quicksand. We flip to the other side, which is yellow, so we can go to the other hole on the planet. We fell in the quicksand.
Take 2- We walk on the yellow side to reach the hole to a different part of the blue side we couldn't reach before. There are tornados and Dry Bones here. At the end of the path are three platforms, the tallest of which has a switch. Pounding it makes the platforms fall into the ground and a timer start ticking. (There is a time limit, but the exact time is not shown.) We have to reach a similar sand patch on the yellow side before the time runs out. Unfortunately, I tried using a tornado to move faster and fell in the quicksand.
Take 3- I reached the platforms on the yellow side, which allow us to reach the Star high above the sand.
Star Get #59, 2718 Star Bits, 11 Lives

Luigi
This mission also took me three takes with Luigi. We kill the Pokeys, launch, get the Life Shroom and Rainbow Star and sling twice to the sand tube. We get the Pull Star Chips and take the path of the orange arrow on the next planet, which just leads us to the Launch Star to the planet where we flip to the other side. I fell in the quicksand twice. I pounded the switch and made it in time to reach the Star on the yellow side.
Star Get #59, 10 Coins, 3247 Star Bits, 34 Lives