Boss Boom Box is the giant living crate guarding a Jiggy in the cargo hold of the Rusty Bucket in Banjo-Kazooie. His wooden planks are reinforced with grey metal strips, two eyes peer over the front panel, and a wide red mouth exposes rows of pointed white teeth. He resembles the smaller Boom Boxes found around Rusty Bucket Bay, but does not explode when he catches Banjo and Kazooie. Instead, he lifts his whole body off the floor and hops after them, threatening to crush the pair beneath the crate. Reaching his hold requires opening the large metal doors in the ship’s deck. Go to the stern-side crane carrying a crate of TNT and use Beak Barge on its arrow control. The crane drops its load onto the doors, and the explosion breaks open the entrance below. This is a separate crane task from raising the cage over another Jiggy. Descend through the opening to find a broad metal-floored room, Blue Eggs around its edges and an apparently unguarded Jiggy among flattened wooden panels. Approaching the prize makes the panels rise into Boss Boom Box, who hides the Jiggy and demands to know who has entered his hold. His boast that the pair will never get his Jigsaw introduces the ordinary battle. The entrance ladder remains available, so entering the room does not permanently seal Banjo inside. There is also a documented way to interrupt the opening: firing Blue Eggs immediately as the boss begins to rise can leave the Jiggy accessible during his assembly. Collecting it at that moment bypasses the normal splitting fight, allowing the pair to leave with the prize while the large crate is still present. This is an egg-timing glitch rather than the intended victory condition; a normal approach requires defeating every smaller box produced during combat.
Battle Procedure and Furnace Fun
Boss Boom Box’s battle has four sizes of crate. Defeating the original produces two smaller boxes; each of those can split again, and the next size divides once more before the smallest crates finally break without replacements. The complete encounter therefore contains one giant, two large, four medium and eight small boxes, making fifteen to destroy in total. Smaller boxes withstand fewer ordinary hits but move more quickly, and several can pursue the pair simultaneously. Rolling attacks, Rat-a-tat Rap and Blue Eggs provide ways to damage them. Leave room to move after an attack, since the remaining crates continue hopping towards Banjo while he lines up the next target. Following one side of the split through to its smallest boxes helps keep the room from filling with fast pursuers all at once. Wonderwing offers a more direct method: each crate that touches its protection breaks in one hit, including the original giant. Bottles teaches the move inside Clanker’s Cavern, in the backmost room reached from the high passage above the stomach’s Flight Pad. Bring Golden Feathers and keep the protection active as newly formed boxes approach; breaking the first crate still leaves its descendants to defeat. Once all eight smallest boxes have been destroyed, the last one releases the Jiggy. Boss Boom Box complains that the pair have splintered him, then gives up the prize while insisting he did not really want it. Collect the Jiggy and any remaining eggs before climbing the ladder back to the deck. The completed ordinary encounter does not provide another Jiggy on a return visit. Boss Boom Box also appears as a timed challenge in Grunty’s Furnace Fun, where the pair have seventy seconds to clear the same splitting family. Wonderwing remains effective when feathers are available, while ordinary attacks allow the challenge to be completed without that supply. Destroying every final small crate wins the quiz-board challenge rather than awarding another Rusty Bucket Bay Jiggy. Furnace Fun also tests knowledge of the encounter: its questions ask what the crane’s crate contains and how many boxes must be broken, with TNT and fifteen as the respective answers.
Additional Information
QUOTES
- ✤ Who dares enter Boss Boom Box’s hold?
- ✤ I’ve hidden my Jigsaw, you’ll never get it!
- ✤ Arrg...you’ve splintered me!
- ✤ Take this, I didn’t want it really...