Great improvement. Thanks to the kindness of the community, I have found some neat little tricks that has help me put this time down quite a bit. One being Coco is indeed the faster character to use (in Classic Mode) since the cutscene with Aku Aku is faster than the cutscene with Uku Uku. Also you can skip some boss cutscenes, which saves a little overall and being offline saves time as well. I can possibly improve to 1:13, but I'm happy with this time for now, so I shall more on to Nitro Fueled% runs next. :D

Mod note: removed podium RNG timeloss -26.7s (7 good/3 average/6 bad)