Hovercraft

The Hovercraft is the vehicle that Nitros Oxide frequently drives in most of his appearances in the Crash Bandicoot series. It first appears in Crash Team Racing, along with Nitros Oxide himself, as the vehicle he uses in his race against Earth. It reappears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as both Nitros Oxide's vehicle of choice and as a Kart Body that any character can drive.
==Description==
The Hovercraft is a vehicle that resembles a , with elements from motor vehicles incorporated, such as headlights with chrome encasements, a windshield, and three pairs of exhaust pipes that reach the underside of the vehicle. Although the Hovercraft is named for its capability to hover on the ground, it is also commonly seen as being capable of air and space flight. In Crash Team Racing and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, the Hovercraft is seen with a cockpit when used to travel in outer space. The Hovercraft has a control panel as in popular depictions of spacecraft in media, and is steered with a pair of control sticks in games predating Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
As of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, the Hovercraft includes a grille on the front and a trunk and taillights on its back, as well as a steering wheel replacing its two control sticks. The Hovercraft also now has a visible repulsor beam, which it uses to hover on the ground, and an underlight. The seat is also remodeled and is colored purple instead of brown, which gets reverted in later games.
==Appearances==
===Crash Team Racing===
The Hovercraft first appears in Crash Team Racing as the vehicle Nitros Oxide uses in his boss races, as well as the cutscenes that precede them. The Hovercraft is also used by Oxide to fly down to Earth from his spaceship. As Nitros Oxide is not a playable character in the game, the Hovercraft is also not drivable by extension.
===Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled===
The Hovercraft reappears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as the vehicle Nitros Oxide uses in Adventure mode and as a kart set that any playable character can use. It was given a name in this game; prior to Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled it was unnamed. Its design was updated to incorporate more elements from automobiles, such as a grille, trunk, and taillights. The Hovercraft also has a steering wheel in place of its pair of control sticks from previous games as a measure to save on development costs from allowing every character to be able to drive it. The Hovercraft is a floating kart and does not come with wheels unlike wheeled kart sets. Like other kart sets in the game, it can be recolored with any paint job; the green color of the body corresponds to the primary color of a paint job, the interior of the kart uses the secondary color, and both the frame of the headlights and the exhaust pipes use the tertiary color. The Hovercraft Green paint job features the original primary, secondary, and tertiary colors of the Hovercraft, and its decal color is purple.
The Hovercraft kart set is unlocked by achieving 100% completion in the Adventure mode. It is one of the few kart sets that aren't unlocked in the Pit Stop. Extra kart body decals for the Hovercraft can be found in the Pit Stop.
===Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time===
Two Hovercrafts appear in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, in the Bermugula's Orbit world. The first one encountered is Nitros Oxide's own Hovercraft, at the end of the level Out for Launch, where Crash Bandicoot and Coco Bandicoot were looking to exit Oxide's spaceship. After it ends up being taken away by the alternate Tawna, they eventually find an orange Hovercraft with white stripes after the Stowing Away level, which they use to arrive to Bermugula in the Crash Landed level.
Nitros Oxide is seen riding the Hovercraft from the Nitros Oxide Edition of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled in the 100% ending of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
===Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!===
The Hovercraft appears along Nitros Oxide in the The Return of Nitros Oxide! and Survival of the Fastest seasons. It appears in the boss fights of the multiverse variants of Nitros Oxide during the latter season, where it is used to directly attack Crash Bandicoot or Coco Bandicoot instead of being used for a driving competition. In the boss fights, the Hovercraft can create fireballs from four of its exhaust pipes, which are blue with snowflake particles and purple for the Frosty and Oxide variants respectively, and can cause earthquakes on one of the three lanes of the level the boss fight is in. It is also used to ram Crash or Coco, from which fire trails appear in the Inferno variant of the boss fight.
===Other appearances===
The Hovercraft is seen in the opening animatic of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex as Nitros Oxide drives through space. It is also seen in Crash Twinsanity with Oxide as he attends Crash Bandicoot's "birthday party". It is seen at the very end of the Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Digital Comic as Oxide prepares to leave for Earth.
While the Hovercraft doesn't appear in Crash Bash, a similar-looking vehicle can be seen in the minigame Oxide Ride. Similarly, the Hovercraft also doesn't appear in Crash Nitro Kart, but the kart that Team Oxide drives draws elements from it.
==Kart set items and kart body decals==
Item	Item	Unlock Condition	Nitro Boost (GP)
==Gallery==
===Crash Team Racing===
CTR hovercraft side render.png|Render of Oxide's hovercraft.
CTR hovercraft overhead render.png|Render of Oxide's hovercraft.
CTR hovercraft render.png|Render of Oxide's hovercraft.
CTR hovercraft front render.png|Render of Oxide's hovercraft.
Crash Team Racing Nitros Oxide Hovercraft.png|Render of Nitros Oxide on the Hovercraft
Crash Team Racing Nitros Oxide In-Kart.png|In-game screenshot of the side of the Hovercraft
CTR Nitros Oxide In-Kart (Back).png|In-game screenshot of the back of the Hovercraft
Oxide hover concept.jpg|Concept art of the Hovercraft for Crash Team Racing
JP CBR oxide and gin render.png|Japanese render of Oxide ramming N. Gin.
===Crash Twinsanity===
Oxideship.png|Nitros Oxide on the Hovercraft in Crash Twinsanity
===Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled===
Hovercraft V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Semicircles V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Semicircles decal
Intergalactic Flames V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Intergalactic Flames decal
Sunrays V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Sunrays decal
Glimmering Sparks V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Glimmering Sparks decal
Gasmoxian Style V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Gasmoxian Style decal
Sea of Fury V3.png|The Hovercraft kart set with the Sea of Fury decal
Oxide nitro fueled.png|2D artwork of Nitros Oxide on the Hovercraft
Star-oxide.png|In-game screenshot of Nitros Oxide with the Star Oxide skin on a Hovercraft with the Nitros Oxide Edition-exclusive Nitros Oxide Indigo paint job and Glimmering Sparks decal
===Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time===
20201003 200330.jpg|Nitros Oxide racing Zem, N. Trance, and a Lab Assistant on the Star Oxide-style Hovercraft in the 100% ending of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
IAT oxide hovercraft concept.jpg|Concept art for Oxide's Hovercraft featured in Stowing Away.
===Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!===
OTR oxide yelling render.png|Render of Nitros Oxide on the Hovercraft for Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!
OTR! oxide looking down.png 
OxideOTR.png
OTR Nitros Oxide Frosty.png|Render of Frosty Nitros Oxide on a Hovercraft
OTR Nitros Oxide Inferno.png|Render of Inferno Nitros Oxide on a Hovercraft
Nitros Oxide inferno in game.jpg|In-game screenshot of Inferno Nitros Oxide on a Hovercraft
===Merchandise===
Funko vinyl oxide.png|The Hovercraft as it is seen on the 2019 Nitros Oxide Funko vinyl
==Trivia==
* The orange Hovercraft in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time has white stripes similar to how some kart bodies in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled can include colored stripes through decals. However, there is no decal for the Hovercraft that gives it stripes.
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