Heavy Machinery

''Wow! Third island, you've beaten the muscle mountain Koala Kong! Hurry, Tawna needs your help''! -Level Description

thumb|200px|left Heavy Machinery is the first level on the third island in Crash Bandicoot. It has both a Tawna bonus route and a Brio bonus route. It is one of the few levels in the game with a Clear Gem that can be obtained without a Color Gem route, as instead it has a secret area where you jump down a gap guarded by two robots towards the start of the level.

Trivia

 * This level's name is a witty reference to one of the obstacles appearing in this stage: conveyor belts, aka treadmills, which are machinery often used by heavy (fat) people in an attempt to lose weight.


 * Debuting in this stage are adorable floating pods greatly resembling the Holo-Projector from Crash Bandicoot 2. Disappointly, however, they project no holograms at any point in this game. Some fans interpret this to mean that they are, in fact, wholly different contraptions, but most fans simply believe that Doctor Neo Cortex simply did not want to talk to Crash yet in this game, as it was still early in the series and they did not know each other that well.


 * This is the first level in the series to feature robots. Fascinatingly, John DiMaggio, who would begin voicing characters in the Crash series starting with Crash Nitro Kart, was also very famous for portraying a fictional robot, Bender, from the animated series Futurama. This is likely just a coincidence. However, most fans expect DiMaggio to voice the generic robot enemies from this stage if a remake of Crash Bandicoot is ever produced.


 * This level, like Castle Machinery later in the same game, is one of the more educational levels in the Crash series. The frozen pipes, colored blue, are safe to touch, while the piping hot ones, colored red, are not, teaching children the valuable lesson of using color to determine how dangerous things might be.