The first part of the queue is inside a massive two floor room inside the age old temple that is built around a massive giant, purple crystal trapped within a rock. There's a drilling machine near the crystal with a sign that reads "On Break - Be Back Later Master". There's pillars with faces everywhere, some as expected hold up the ceiling above, but others just vertically end at seemingly random points. Tunnels can also be seen leading elsewhere into the temple where crushing walls seek to destroy intruders, that hasn't stopped bats from living in these spaces. After circling in this room and seeing many of the art (and traps) that the tribe who built this temple left behind, guests enter the sewers.

The sewers are a much more modern addition to the temple providing access to the top floor of the temple without any of the traps and of course for other, more modern conveniences. A tube surrounds guests with running water coming from underneath the elevated metal platform that guests walk on. As guests gradually go up an incline to the second floor of the temple they'll notice cartoony pipes bulging from seemingly every direction, spinning fan blades blocking tunnel entrances, and robotic mice slithering on the walls. After reaching the top of the walkway, guests enter the second floor of the temple.

This is the same large room that guests entered the temple into, but from a different perspective from above. Guests once again see the purple gem, but they also see the top of those column platforms from earlier which have man eating plants on top! After making it to the other end of the room, guests are corralled into a small waiting area (formerly the throne room of the tribe's leader), where there's an Aku Aku crate. Aku Aku, the talking mask guide, pops out of the box (not completely) and warns guests that Neo Cortex is in the other room. He advises them to hold onto the hand bars present in the room to stay safe. Guests then enter Neo Cortex's private laboratory.

The preshow begins revealing Neo Cortex, an audio animatronic, behind the stage curtain (The elevator will begin going down at this point though most won't notice). Thinking we're his new human mutant army, he introduces himself and his new plan to defeat Crash. Using the Giganctix gem, he will build a new super weapon, the Crash Decimator, that will destroy Crash and the entire N. Sanity Island where he will use the land to build condos and using real estate money will be able to rule the world! N. Gin, Cortex's assistant, video calls him explaining that he's been able to unearth the gem and using N. Brio's 15 minutes or less shrinking potion has transported it to a secure location.

The vehicles quickly go through the jungle on a slight decline. The roads feel a bit rocky as expected from a natural path. In this jungle there's stone, structures, wildlife, and of course plenty of crates. Rotating giant stones on the side attract the eye by rolling side to side. Just before approaching Crash Bandicoot sleeping on a giant stone, Neo Cortex is heard yelling "I found the intruders! Destroy them!" waking him up. The vehicles advance and almost run into a bunch of nitro crates on a tight curve.

N. Gin, a Peter Lorre type underling, is then seen above a stone fortress looking for the guests in the wrong direction ready to hit them with a stone boulder. Guests go through the stone fortress where the boulder can be heard going out of control and running over N. Gin. Exiting the temple, the final result can be seen- a flattened N. Gin stuck to the side of the boulder.

The vehicles exit the tunnel back to the present, Cortex's Lair is seen very far ahead and the only thing that could possibly stop the guests from reaching it now is the unreliable old bridge. It's a foggy evening outside so they'll have to be extra careful to take a ste- move forward otherwise fall what into looks like a foggy ravine below! After getting on the bridge the vehicles start adjusting to the gaps that are along the way. After a small break in the center of the bridge, where vultures rest, it's obvious that the gaps in the second half are quite large. Now the vehicles make what feel like large hops to clear the gaps that are on the bridge to simulate jumping. Riders survive and make it to the final destination, Cortex's Lair.

The vehicles make it onto the blimp, where Neo Cortex is ready to blast guests and starts gloating about his success and how he's already gotten 3 buyers for his soon to be built condos. The vehicles make a turn when Neo Cortex notices that his Crash Decimator isn't working. Crash Bandicoot is soon seen giggling having unplugged the wire that the blaster is connected to from it's plug.

Neo Cortex soon yells "You fool! That was also powering the blimp that you're standing on" the guests soon notice that it feels like their vehicle is on unstable ground while the scenery becomes abstract and cartoon-like (think Roger Rabbit Car-Toon Spin) representing the fall back to N. Sanity Island. The vehicles go through a crash door where comic book-like explosion effects surround riders. The vehicles exit the room back into the temple where the ride started, Coco is surrounded by rubble which both Neo Cortex and Crash Bandicoot are trapped in. Coco says "Oh, you all again. Don't mind me have a fun rest of your day, while I get these knuckleheads out of this mess" as she waves goodbye. Neo Cortex is heard muttering about how his "headdie hurts" as the vehicles turn back into the Grand Hall where the ride began. Riders exit at the unload and exit into the ride's giftshop, N. Terprising Traders.