Seriously, who DOESN'T love that gadget-happy orange boy!
I have a way to bring him back, but I just got a starting idea. Whatever else you want to post, it DOES NOT have to relate to this post.
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Crash, Coco, and Crunch are practicing a rock song for an upcoming gig, and Crash is in a drum cage, with drums latched on EVERY BAR of the cage. Then, when he needs to do an intense drum solo, he accidentally spins so much that he knocks off EVERY DRUM, EVERY CYMBOL, from the cage, and he even DESTROYS the cage. Crash gets buried under the drums, and then he emerges from the pile of broken instruments. Coco gets mad at his own brother, because the drums she put in there were LIGHT drums. They make a lot of special light effects when Crash hits them, and they're very hard to make (Coco makes them herself, and she needs to take a lot of time to make them). There's then a few explosions that seem to be coming from Coco's lab...and then there's a few monsters in the lab. Crash is left to do some spins, kick slides, and whatever other fighting moves he got that I missed (I only played and completed Crash 1, 2, and 3, as well as CTR, so could anyone tell me how the next games played out?).