{"id":107378,"date":"2020-01-16T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/crash_team_racings_latest_grand_prix_brings_back_a_character_from_the_gba_era"},"modified":"2020-01-16T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T01:10:00","slug":"crash-team-racings-latest-grand-prix-brings-back-a-character-from-the-gba-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/crash-team-racings-latest-grand-prix-brings-back-a-character-from-the-gba-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash Team Racing&#8217;s Latest Grand Prix Brings Back A Character From The GBA Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0044a5a2ffbe8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0044a5a2ffbe8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEyPRAX5uI0?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Are you still racing around in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_team_racing_nitro-fueled\">Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled<\/a><\/strong>? Then you&#8217;ll be pleased to hear a new Grand Prix starts later today. This time it&#8217;s taking place in the post-apocalyptic Rustland. This event includes new customisation items, a new track known as Megamix Mania, and a brand-new game mode: the Golden Wumpa Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Here is everything that&#8217;s up for grabs (click\/tap image to enlarge):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world may be coming to ruins Bandicoots, but the race is still on! \ud83c\udfc1 The Rustland Grand Prix includes a new track, characters, items, and challenges. Starting January 16 at 7:00 AM PT (3:00 PM UTC). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JELwxCAR5\">pic.twitter.com\/9JELwxCAR5<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Crash Bandicoot (@CrashBandicoot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrashBandicoot\/status\/1217476537793933312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The new game mode requires racers to try to catch the Golden Wumpa Fruit, which is hiding in glowing greats. It&#8217;s simply a matter of following the glow and smashing the crates to collect them. You&#8217;ll then be rewarded with Wumpa Coins, and there are even Grand Prix challenges tied to this.<\/p>\n<p>The new character is Megamix (see below), and is described as a mash-up of Neo Cortex, N. Gin, Dingodile, and Tiny Tiger. He originally appeared in the 2002 Game Boy Advance title, <strong>Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure<\/strong>. Megamix also mark&#8217;s the 50th character to be added to CTR Nitro-Fueled <em>\u2013 watch out, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Megamix\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c7ead31cd06\/megamix.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c7ead31cd06\/megamix.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Megamix\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>For more details about this new event, check out the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.activision.com\/crash-bandicoot\/2020-01\/Race-through-the-Post-Apocalyptic-themed-Rustland-Grand-Prix-for-Crash-Team-Racing-Nitro-Fueled\">official blog post<\/a>. Will you be returning to CTR Nitro-Fueled to try out Megamix? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEyPRAX5uI0?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Are you still racing around in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled? Then you&#8217;ll be pleased to hear a new Grand Prix starts later today. This time it&#8217;s taking place in the post-apocalyptic Rustland. This event includes new customisation items, a new track known as Megamix Mania, and a brand-new game mode: the Golden Wumpa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}