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There's too much smoke now surely? Hot on the heels of Shawn Layden's t-shirt tease and all of the social media hints, NECA Toys' Randy Falk has suggested that Sony's bringing Crash Bandicoot back. Speaking at the New York Toy Fair this weekend, the bearded director touched upon his company's PlayStation line, and said: "Looking at some of [Sony's] other titles, obviously they're bringing Crash Bandicoot back, which is really cool." Are they now?

Falk's company works very closely with PlayStation on the creation of limited edition action figures, so he'd certainly be in the know if the platform holder was looking to produce a Crash Bandicoot toy line. The firm's already working on Uncharted, God of War, and LittleBigPlanet models – and we'd have to assume that a Crash Bandicoot reboot would be ripe for some kind of merchandise. There's a small possibility that he may be mistaken, though?

But at what point do all of the hints, teases, and leaks coalesce as cold hard fact? We're not going to lie, every single time that we write about Crash we get huge traffic, and Sony must be seeing similar metrics internally. In truth, we honestly believe that something is happening behind the scenes. Exactly what that may be remains to be seen, though...

Update (23:45PM GMT): NECA's told GameSpot that the comments were misunderstood: "Randy saw a faked fan-made image right before he came to the show and said that if the game were coming back, we'd love to do figures." Either the toy maker's telling the truth, or it's had to think up with a swift excuse for the slip-up...

[source youtube.com]