! Crate

"These boxes may cause something in the background to change."

- Crash Bandicoot manual ! Crates, when struck, typically turn outline crates into other types of crates. Often, they form new iron crates, creating a bridge that allows the player to cross gaps, and/or regular crates containing Wumpa Fruit. Occasionally, they have other purposes, such as in The Lab, where they activate doors and platforms. With the exception of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, ! crates don't count toward the box count as they are indestructible.

There are many variants of the ! crate. In many games, there is a green variant- the nitro switch crate, used to detonate all Nitro Crate in a level. In Crash Nitro Kart and the Nitro-Fueled remake of Crash Team Racing there is a wooden variant which activates traps after being broken. In Crash Bash, there is a purple variant found in many Pogo Pandemonium mini-games that turn a player's squares into points. This variation also appears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an alternate skin for the Iron Checkpoint Crate (albeit resembling a Basic Crate in that it appears to have a wooden texture). ! crates are also blue in the mobile version of Crash Twinsanity.

Other Names

 * Switch Box - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
 * Activation Crate - Crash Nitro Kart
 * Switch Crate - Crash Twinsanity

Crash Bandicoot
"Similar to the above entry, but these boxes may cause something in the background to change."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
"These boxes may cause something to change somewhere on the level."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot: Warped
"Smack this box and something in the level changes."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
"Hit these to turn on those silly Outline Boxes."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
"Hit these to fill in the Outline Boxes."
 * Manual

"Smack the switch to fill in the Outline Boxes."
 * N-Tranced - Prima strategy guide

Crash Twinsanity
"When landed on or spun, activates any outline crates linked to it."
 * Manual

"Jump on (or Spin-Attack) an iron switch crate to fill in outline crates. But what are outline crates? See the following."
 * Prima strategy guide

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
 * Crash Bandicoot: Warped
 * Crash Bash
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
 * Crash Nitro Kart
 * Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (as a card)
 * Crash Twinsanity
 * Crash Twinsanity (mobile)
 * Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
 * Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
 * Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!

Names in Other Languages
Caja Reforzada !-laatikko Cassa ! ！箱 Caixa ! Ящик-переключатель