So we are getting a lot more characters and content even after the end of the Grand Prix, let me know what you think and what you are most excited about. Also I really love to say 'Will just have to wait and see" lmao....

Geary has had a skin the whole time, the reason why we can’t see it is because our feeble mortal minds can’t comprehend it

One thing I really love is that Beenox are *intentionally playing mind games with BetaM* and that is much more "fun" than chasing down leakers (like... *ahem...* Nintendo...).

Coco skin is definitely a troll. There's a reason why they only put her: they know people have been complaining about her getting too many and Geary not getting any. And they know we look at the datamines. They also said that we would get a long awaited item, which to me only can be a Geary skin. So I'm saying this is a Geary skin, not a coco skin. Nice joke beenox.

I have a feeling that we are re-run the gp's. By that i mean: We started with Baby Characters Then we might got Spyro Characters (Ripto and Sorceress) Then goes to Twinsanity (Evil Twins, Madame Amberly, etc) Then the Party games (Viscount and Willie) And finally the obscures (Mr. Crumb, Mutants, etc)

The important character? The only possible candidate I can think of for it the obvious one: Crash Suit Guy.

Geary: *loud hysterical sobbing*

Coco skin might be the, early, datamined Babysitter Coco skin. It would fit perfectly well, with the arrival of the Babies

What if the Coco skin is just Beenox teasing us and it actually is Geary's skin... or Coco gets a skin that looks like Geary...

Pinstripe: *You can have all the skins you want, but I'm still the speed champeen al'right?*

Going by deductive reasoning, I could guess who driver Imsoimportant is. The name sounds like a rant, it sounds like he's angry for being overshadowed by crash. He says he's just as important as crash and should be the main character, meaning he's been overshadowed or was tossed aside in favor of crash. My guess: Willy The Wombat, the ORIGINAL design for Crash Bbandicoot that was scrapped for Crash's current design, who is upset and angry for being tossed aside and forgotten and replaced by the devs in favor of Crash. Think about it, Willy is important because without him, Crash would have never been thought of

The character for DriverIAmAsImportantAsTheBandicootSoIShouldBeTheMainCharacter is obviously The Crash Man / The guy in the crash suit

all thats missing from the original trilogy now is the hog

For anyone having problems beating at least 1 Velo time, try inferno Island, Velo loses boosts nearly every round, all you need to do is hug the corners and keep the big boost

To answer your question Bo, "Exotic" skins are the basic recolor skins, only changing the color/skin of the character's default appearance and are identified with a purple background icon.

My ONLY gripe is no more tracks. If they had just added two more we would have had one more fun cup set.. instead they added two new cups that have doubles of tracks that are in other ones... Love everything else beenox has done though and this current grand prix track is probs my favourite of all of them!!

*sees Lab Assistant in the thumbnail before watching the video * "Don't do it. Don't give me hope"

I hope they give the Lab Assistant the disco outfit from The Wrath of Cortex

the exotic rarity is the purple one behind legendary, they are just pallette swaps so the lab assistant is only getting recolors like how chick and stew got rustland recolors

Why does beenox really hate Geary #JusticeForGeary

Plot Twist: The Coco skin is actually Cocortex

I would not be happy if they locked a character behind dev time trials.

I honestly wanted Willie Wumpa Cheeks to join so badly just to complete the Tag Team Racing Roster but I get playing as the Lab Assistance might do for now.

Exotic Skins are the Purple Skins, you know, the recolors. Mysterious Character, this change of name does sound like Willie Wumpa, so I lean towards that.

'Exotic' is an already existing rarity in the game.

the mistery driver is skunk from twinsanity or willy wumpa

I've done about 1/4th of the Velo time trials so far, the drift engine certainly makes a difference! Really can't imagine much more improvement for them, the Dev time trials might literally just be 1 second faster for some tracks

I though Ripto and the Sorceress from Spyro where going to be added? Hopefully sometime in the future! :D

I’m pretty content with characters at this point personally. I think Lab Assistant is a great addition though. I really just want a ton more karts, especially all the CTTR karts. Still hoping for Elora though but I think Spyro is dead now.

Plot Twist: the secret driver is Sonic, and he is the dev times character. It would make sense. XP And no, I don't think I'll tackle the dev times. I'll finish beating Oxide in the GP tracks and be done with it. Heck, even in the times I was proud f getting, Velo is WAY ahead of me. I have 0 confidence I can best my own ghosts there, let alone beat Velo's.

Exotic is the recoloring, like Shiba Crash or Husky Crunch

Can't believe we're getting the Lab Assistant before even getting a MENTION about Madame Amberly or Evil Crash (outside of Amberly's portrait and Evil Crash's outline sticker in October's Grand Prix). Starts to make me wonder if we'll ever get either of them!

Whenever I see Coco as a character skin in a datamine, I get excited because she is my favourite character, she's fun to play as and I love her happy attitude! I would LOVE to see a Guitarist Coco skin! 😍 Remember Metal Head Oxide in which he plays the guitar when he wins and is on the podium? Something like that. Only with Coco. Here's what I'm talking about (minus the big hands): www.deviantart.com/rods3000/art/3-COCO-BANDICOOT-398143579

For lab assistant skins we could have his various forms from the crash trilogy. Instead of boring color swaps.

I need the Evil Twins and Baby N Tropy...then i'll be Happy forever!

"DriverIAmAsImportantAsTheBandicootSoIShouldBeTheMainCharacter" Willie the Wombat?

I really hope it’s the cnk teen coco skin. I just want that

They’re actually adding the lab assistant. 😂That’s pretty funny. The skunk from Twinsanity now has a chance 👍🏻

If Baby Cortex and Baby N Tropy is on their way, that means more characters like Ripto, The Sorceress, Elora, Bionca, Evil Crash, The Evil Twins and etc is on their way too.

Seriously? Exotic skins are those skins ya unlock by winning races with a specific character.

We could get DLC tracks in future updates.

YOU GET A *COCO,* YOU! GET A COCO, EVERYBODY HERE GETS A BLOODY *COCO!!!* *Geary in a corner:* You know what? just give *MeGumI* another skin...

Praying Ripto makes it in.

"WhoCouldIBe" is too much like "Oh no, It Cannot Be!" quote by Aku Aku So for me is the Good Ol' Mask

I really can’t wait for Warthog from crash 1 and Spyro characters-Ripto, Elora and Professor and Zoe from Spyro 2. Then Sheila, Sgt Byrd and Bentley and Agent 9 and Bianca and Sorceress, I really wanted to see it

What if the lab assistant legendary skin is him with out the body suit on and it’s just it’s endoskeleton like the one in sewer speedway?

Finally! Someone else is wanting Geary to get a legendary skin. All the other CNK bosses have one and Nash has two back to back. Give the champion of Teknee some love Beenox!

I'm fine with Coco getting a New Skin.... eeeven if it isn't likely going to be Biker Coco... but Damn I really want a new Skin for Roo, His ACTUAL Crash Bandicoot 2 look for a skin. And Conspiracy Theory..... How whacky would it be if the Character in question? ......Is the Skunk from Twinsanity?

Maybe the "DriverWhoAmI?" or whatever he/she/it's actually a Beenox style character or skin. When you think about it, the Devs are just as important as Crash 🤷

Beenox has black ops and ctr combine those together and you have all the mechanics worked out for a car combat game!

If the Lab assistants are added into the game, I hope that's the character the Beenox time trials uses.

Could the character whocouldibe, be referring to Willie the wombat? Considering he was the first concept for the franchise before settling on crash bandicoot. I feel everyone forgets about Willie the wombat since he's only a concept

Driver Who Am I might an original character, Willie Wombat! Wasn't Crash supposed to be a Wombat before becoming a bandicoot?

Lab assistant must have that stock sound scream.

I really hope that the new message for the champion kart implies that it, and the time trial decals, will still be unlockable after the Grand Prix is over. Otherwise there's no way I'm getting Velo's. Beating all of his times in a month is a bit of a tall order for someone who can't play everyday. Also does anyone know if Retro Stadium is required for Oxides Decal? I never bothered with that track before.

YES! I have always wanted the lab assistant in the game. Can't wait to see the skins he will get.

Another Coco skin? Wtf? Justice for Geary!

I think that I am is important as Bandicoot tagline could be that guy in Crash Bandicoot costume we see in those commercials

A character should total be the prize for beating the developers time! Super super super excited about the lab assistant..!! We NEED the motorcycle from WARPED!! And customizable load outs for each track. I wanted faster time trails as well so got that. Maybe tank from bash.

I think the coco skin is babysitter coco because there was an old datamind with skin and that was one of them so it might to it for coco.

4:02 Yeah. Xfinity is a branch of Comcast, which is an ISP here in the States. Also, I expect that the tribesman to be one of the 3 purples (exotics)...

I am strongly thinking the mystery racer is Crash Suit guy. Keeping in mind he has been since the beggining of Crash Bandicoot he could a perfect contendent as the last ir hardest character yo obtain

Already going try hard mode on these velo times, just beat the dreaded dragon mine time in way less truest then I did for oxides when I first got the game, so depending on how much faster the dev times are, going to go try harder mode on them

Those characters with "weird names" are likely to be the developers making fun of BetaM. Remember that in Megamixmania there suppose to be 2 characters, one with the name "Driver Joe" and then in this Grand Prix we were suppose to be having 2 characters, one with the code name "DriveWhoCouldIBe". We only got 1 character per Grand Prix

In my opinion, DriverIAmAsImportantAsTheBandicootSoShouldBeTheMainCharacter would be a normal bandicoot. Remember the cancelled game Crash landed? Maybe the bandicoot (Crash) before hitting the evolutionary ray will hit up the track!

Lab Assistant is the only character that I think would be fine having tons of costumes But I honestly want GP reruns (think FGO event reruns)

I got a funny feeling that Baby Cortex and Baby N. Tropy are gonna be getting the same voice-lines but higher just how they did the same to Baby Crash and Baby Coco. =P Why am I not surprised that the Lab Assistant is gonna make it due to the fact he's over at Papu's Pyramid, Twilight Tour, and so forth. And for crying out loud, Beenox. You're too 'high' on the 'Coco' (If you all get what I mean) #JusticeForGeary But that new name for the mystery driver... That's one bloody mouthful if you ask me. Perhaps a short version of that name is in order? Maybe DriverIAAIATBSISBTMC?

Really happy about the lab assistant skins. I will try to beat Velo's time trials, but there's no way I'm gunna beat the devs time trials.

RIP to Chick and Stew no more fun with them in the begging of the GP 😂😢

Nice to see the lab assistant make it in, alongside baby cortex and tropy

I don't know why people complain about Coco skins, she have the same amount of skins as Crash "Oh but char is the main character" Coco is the second most important character in the franchise and Cortex right next to her, this is why those 3 get skins like the pre-order bonus, the oxide edition and the playstation ones

What if they introduced a new character whose actual name is "I Am As Important As The Bandicoot So I Should Be The Main Character"? Like how amazing would that be?

I rate the Driveriamjustasimportantasthebandicoots whatever its called is Aku-Aku. if so, that'll be hella epic

Oh my gosh a mystery skin for Coco! Do you think it’s her old school shirt and jeans design? I’ve really been hoping for this skin to come. Cause I loved Coco’s shirt and jeans design from CTTR. I hope this is it!

What if the driver is Willie but not Wumpa cheeks but Willy the Wombat.

I think they'll still continue the monthly pattern, especially since there's much less resources to make now that tracks stop coming. Bonus points if some new racers use existing models from the base game or NST. I'm pretty sure the Coco skin is that babysitter one we saw a while back in a datamine, alongside random ones like Sumo Papu Papu, Angel Cortex and Ballerina N. Brio. Which would make sense, since we have babies in here. Lab Assistant having many skins in one go makes sense, seeing how many outfits he has in the main games alone. It's likely that the exotic skins will each be a different outfit. Still convinced Geary's eventual skin will be a human butler one to accompany Viscount's arrival.

Indeed Velo's times are not that difficult. Once updated the game, I went to check them and realized I've technically beaten most of them already when I beat Oxide's. Jellyjolly ride or whatever though, I saw I didn't beat him and went "ah yes, of course, the freaking worst track to hunt me again WEEEeeeeEe...". Took me some extra effort and almost an hour, but finally defeated him for good. I'm really scared of what the dev's time on that track will be though :S

Anyone else noticed a tentacle theme. Loads of karts have a tentacle pint job and loads of levels have tentacle in or on them and now N. brios new costume. Is there an octopus character coming like the king chicken

I’m hoping that the Tribesman and the Park Drone make it into the game.

I probably won't be playing these characters, but it's good/great that they're finally getting a chance to be playable characters. However Coco getting another skin is absolutely pathetic, and now she has more skins than crash which is STUPID. This game keeps making me hate Coco more.

I wonder if all of the Lab Assistant outfits would eventually appear in the game?

Man if only we got two more tracks we could’ve gotten a whole new cup. At least they made cups that included the two outlier tracks

Oh yeah, also, could you please make a guide on air braking? That would be really helpful for tracks like Turbo Track and Drive thru Danger

I hope is either willie wumpa cheecks or rusty walrus, they are the most peculiar characters

I've been begging for the lab assistant character since the original CTR. I really hope this is true! I would love to see him with costumes from the Crash adventures as well.

i hope its robo-coco cause cortex has a robot skin like that

Oh, my gosh! Our hopes and hypes are not yet over! After Gasmoxia Grand Prix ends by March 22nd, I can't wait for an update will includes the Lab Assistant, Baby Cortex, Baby N. Tropy, and new skin for Coco that could be Biker Coco skin from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped that'll be coming by next month without any more Grand Prix events! Because I'm getting Super hyped and very excited!!!😄

I hope that the new coco costume is the Nitro kart one. Been wanting that since the game came out.

Could very well be the walrus. He has graffiti in megamix mania... and every other character who has their pic put in a track in a subtle way has been added

What I want as new skins: - Dracula Stew - Brainwash Cap for Dingodile, Polar, & Pura - French Maid Geary - Blonde Haired Ripper Roo - Boxer Rilla Roo - Ceasar Cortex - Brainwashed Jumsuits for Coco, & Crunch - Clown Big & Small Norm - Legends of Spyro costume for Hunter - Mr. Crunch - Part Time Nina

Well it took them long enough but they're going to put the lab assistant in finally I can only imagine what versions of him those Skins are going to be. But I can keep on hoping if the lab assistant could get in maybe the Invaders from Crash Twinsanity could also get in as well. They did have some varieties of themselves that could be used as skins. And maybe we should also be thinking of that mysterious character is not a pre-existing one but one that just never came to fruition like a cut character or something that was scrapped from a scrap game? Because of anyone's here ever seen the original idea for what Twinsanity was going to look like that was going to be a lot of craziness going on in there. In fact the Invaders are literally the only thing from the original project that survived. I could only imagine one thing from that scrapped game that could possibly be put into this because originally crash was going to have a new partner that wasn't going to be Aku Aku! It's just a thought to look at?

Last Grand Prix? So how will we get the GP karts/sprays?

I don't mind the spoilers, but this is gonna be awesome!

Personal opinion. Dont get the desire for the lab assistant. But that's cool. I'm still holding out for the Hog. But I'm content with everything

"DriverIAmAsImportantAsTheBandicootSoIShouldBeTheMainCharacter"? wait...could that driver be AKU AKU?!

Lab Assitant isn't going to speak, putting money on it now.

Dude where can I find the latest betaM datamines?

R.i.p. to bonus cup 2 megamix mania and drive-thru are left out of cups

maybe the special character is crash suit guy

Only worthy left for dev times is king chicken