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 crates 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
- Activation Crate - Crash Nitro Kart
- Switch Crate - Crash Twinsanity
Descriptions
Crash Bandicoot
- Manual
"Similar to the above entry, but these boxes may cause something in the background to change."
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
- Manual
"These boxes may cause something to change somewhere on the level."
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- Manual
"Smack this box and something in the level changes."
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
- Manual
"Hit these to turn on those silly Outline Boxes."
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
- Manual
"Hit these to fill in the Outline Boxes."
Crash Twinsanity
- Manual
"When landed on or spun, activates any outline crates linked to it."
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!
Gallery
Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | !ブロック ! Burokku |
! Block |
| Crates |
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 ! Crate |  ? Crate |  Activation |  Aku Aku | Ammo |  Arrow |  Basic | Beenox |  Big TNT |  Block |  Bounce |  Checkpoint | Coin |  Copter | Detonator | Feather | Flamethrower |  Freeze | Giant | Golden | Infinity | Invisibility |  Iron |  Iron Aku Aku |  Iron Arrow |  Iron Checkpoint |  Life |  Locked |  Magic Carpet |  Nitro | Nitro Bounce |  Nitro Switch |  Outline |  Pants |  Purple ! |  Purple ? | Rainbow |  Slot | Spike |  Time |  TNT | World |  X
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| Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy | ||
| DLC Content | Crash Bandicoot: Stormy Ascent Crash Bandicoot: Warped: Future Tense | |
