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Hello, My Name is Mathijs, at other LEGO communities known as LegoMathijs. Nearly every day I'm building with LEGO. I show my MOC's at online communities (Lowlug, classic-space.com, Flickr) and LEGO exhibitions. I´m a Rock Raiders fan. Hope Rock Raiders will return with new vehicles. Regularly I'm building Rock Raiders MOC's, hoping it's a come back for the Rock Raiders:) I'm also playing the Rock Raiders computergame when I've enough time Some pictures of my Rock Raiders MOCs: Rock Pulverizer Motorized with Power Functions and remote controlled. Other pictures from my RR MOC's: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=494367 Some other theme's I like: Space, Adventurers, Castle, Harry Potter, Aquazone, Technic, Steampunk http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathijslegofan/with/10697591906/ Greetings, LegoMathijs

Well, I guess I'll regret that pretty soon... But since there seems to be quite an interest on this, here you got it: My collection. First page of the comic, back in early '97. I will try to scan and upload everything as soon as I find the time and get my hardware to work properly again. Oh, and I assume I can provide somewhat appropriate translations to English as well, but that takes a certain time too, so please be patient...

LEGO Racers map revamping This topic actually turned into a whole map retexturing project. I'm going to retexture all track maps (which are shown in the lower right corner in-race). For now, some has been done already on this personal project, but most still has to be retextured. As soon as I have all tracks revamped, I will upload the small texture mod and make it PatchIt compatible (which makes it better than having to add each .bmp to its designated track map manually). Old releases: Current release: Fixing cut-off track (v1.0): It has annoyed me since I first noticed it, and never thought of fixing this, until now. The maps of three tracks appear cut-off at a certain spot. Now you might think: "Why are you making such a big deal out of this!?". I'm kind of a perfectionist. It may not contribute at all, but it is just something that I thought had to be fixed. Thanks to the ripped textures, that made me able to adjust the maps. The adjustments may not be very noticeable, but it looks better compared to the old map in my opinion. To spare you the editing of the maps, I've added the edited files in a .zip and can be downloaded here: Map revamp v1.0 When extracting the .zip, you'll find three maps, each containing one adjusted map. Copy (or cut) each IGD_MAP.bmp to the corresponding RACEC*R* file in the .JAM archive, then recompile and add the .JAM to wherever it has to go in order to play LEGO Racers with the adjusted maps. Images of the adjusted maps; left is old, right is new. New features on maps (v2.0): It's here, all new in colour! This map revamp mod includes retextured maps for all tracks. This mainly includes colouring the map to match with the track colour, but shortcuts are added as well. Don't forget the bonus feature, and I think that some already know what it is. It was fun to make, but it is more important to me that you enjoy the new maps. Feedback is appreciated, as it may help me improve the maps even more. Even I still doubt if some tracks look finished or good, but for the time being, enjoy this release. I've added an image to give you a preview of the map revamp mod, picturing Rocket Racer Run and Dark Forest Dash. This version is outdated, and is merged with v2.0.1, so download link to the map revamp mod can be found under that section. Issue fix (v2.0.1): Not much difference compared to v2.0. le717 informed me about an issue where the fast install with PatchIt! of the map revamp mod wasn't working correctly, and he had to install all separate .BMP files manually. I fixed that, and it should work now on the easy installing way. Also, I did minor pixel edits on a few tracks. Barely noticeable, but merely serving for the detail. In order to play with the map revamp mod, you have to download the file below and install it into your LEGO.JAM. It is PatchIt! v.1.0.3 compatible as well, but manually installing it or using PatchIt! is up to you. Link to the file for the map revamp mod: Map revamp v2.0.1 Extra map:

I built this one quite a while ago (didn't know about this forum back then, if I would have I would definitely have posted it earlier!) and it is currently my only "in game" model that I've re-created in real bricks. I really want to make some more vehicles/buildings in the future but first I need to get my hands on some more turqoise and ODG... -Large Mobile Laser Cutter- by =DoNe=, on Flickr -Large Mobile Laser Cutter- by =DoNe=, on Flickr

Uh, yes it is actually; first there is a whole bunch of AI points which I stil l haven't figured out am looking into, and then there is >mulitple things to change in the checkpoint. Those being: Visual Position 4 points for the Pass Thru point, one for each coner (making a quad). This is what you have to pass through for checkpoint to register. Where the guide arrow points For objects, it is just a simple one location move. And then I also have the pits to move, and weapon pickups, and then also deciding what additional objects/obstacles to add to make the track more interesting. So yeah, a lot of work for custom route.

So I recently discovered that rec.toys.lego is apparently still accessible. While having fun reading through the thoughts and opinions of 90s LEGO fans, I found this. More specifically, this message: So now we know what was going on at E3 to some degree. It would be really nice to be able to see that animation.

I love how everyone has all these boxes and stuff and I just have sleeves and cracked cases.