Outline Crate

Outline Crates are crates that appear only as semi-transparent ghostly outlines until they are activated by an ! crate. Outline crates are intangible but may still be affected by crate physics and can interact with other crates. The actual content of a ghost crate is unknown until it is activated, upon which it can turn into a set crate of any variety. Since a single ! crate can activate multiple ghost crates, outline crates may be activated in a certain order. In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, the whole set of ghost crates is activated at the same time in no particular order.

Other Names[]

Outline Box - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

Descriptions[]

Crash Bandicoot: Warped[]

Prima strategy guide

"When you see boxes like these, look around for an Exclamation box to fill them in."

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex[]

Manual

"These strange boxes appear only if the Switch Box hidden in that level is activated."

Bradygames strategy guide

"These are hidden, unless you activate the Switch Box."

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced[]

Manual

"The contents of these strange boxes only appear if the Switch Box hidden in that level is activated."

N-Tranced - Prime strategy guide

"The contents of these boxes appear only when you hit the level's Switch Box."

Crash Twinsanity[]

Manual

"This crate is only visible as outlines until you activate a nearby iron-switch crate. Once triggered, the outline crates will become solid, allowing you to stand or walk on them."

Prima strategy guide

"Outline crates are just placeholders, showing you where crates will appear if you activate the corresponding iron switch crate. Whenever you see outline crates, you know there has to be an iron switch crate somewhere nearby. Go look for that iron switch crate, activate it, and return to see what replaced the outline crates."

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Names in other languages[]

Language	Name
Traditional Chinese	外框箱^[1] Wài kuāng xiāng
Danish	Gennemsigtige kasser^[2]
Dutch	Omtrekdoos
Finnish	Ääriviialaatikot^[3]
French	Caisse Fantôme Cadre de Boîte (Purple)^[a]
German	Umriss-Kiste
Italian	Cassa Sagoma Scatola Sagoma (Purple)^[a]
Japanese	とうめいばこ (かくしばこ) 透明箱 (N-T)^[4] アウトラインボックス (Purple)^[a] Tōmei bako (kakushi bako) Autorain bokkusu (Purple)
Korean	투명 상자^[5] tumyeong sangja
Norwegian	Omrissboks^[6]
Spanish	Caja Silueta Cajón Esbozo (Purple)^[a]