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Yes it means 'How true' or perhaps something like 'Indeed!'. btw, next issue is up: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

His absence is justified, as it turns out - if he had been there, the professor wouldn't have needed to call for Tim. It's all because of the Insectoids, of course. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 At least there's still two more opportunities for him to make an appearance, with Jungle and Dino Island.

'?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> sorry, it's a bit messy this time, as I couldn't create a new folder for it @TalonCard: lol, I never recognized this over the last 15 years ED:

Thanks once again for doing all of this, Dark_Turtle. It's disappointing that they resorted to stock art of the sets for the comics after 1997. Seeing as 1998 is the year photo-based comics started up for MANIA magazine, I would hazard a guess that the team making them must've moved to the other publication. A lot of the changes in World Club from 97 to 98 seem like they were made to condense it. I wonder if the budget was cut? It's too bad, in any case. Speaking of the Time Cruisers comic specifically, I'm a little surprised that the Time Twisters didn't make an appearance. They must've been restrained to the Jan/Feb issue of Klick, plus maybe the first two pages of the March/April comic, seeing as Klick probably wouldn't have done the whole exposition part in the equivalent issue of World Club when for them comic was already ongoing. The most recent issue doesn't disappoint. I had my money on the Flybo being abandoned, seeing as it was left in the land of a 1997 theme. I was assuming the Microzapper we've seen in the bits we have of later issues was going to replace it here, but I guess that comes later. It is sort of weird that Professor Cyber, who we last saw distraught over accidentally sending Tim somewhere in time and space, is suddenly sending out a search party not to save him, but to have him go help his brother. I'm wondering if there is maybe a piece of the story that we've missed out on from the earlier Klick issues, where Cyber and Tim meet up again and Tim intentionally decides to continue adventuring. It seems Tim's last name has just changed to Timebuster, unfortunately without explanation. All of these little background details on the Adventurers characters are excellent. Slyboots the retired prizefighter- it sure is a far cry from his role as the master planner in the US continuity. And Articus is Cyber's brother. Who would've thought? I could probably go on, but here's a comic for you. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

Dark_Turtle, you are really knocking these out and I can't thank you enough for it. Notes: I think that the picture of Lord Sinister/Hates von Barron screaming "Oh yeah!" is one of the most hilarious and most disturbing things we've seen yet. This is the only other time besides the sets themselves that I know of that we've seen Hotep's laser vision at work--his other depictions have been much tamer. Although he doesn't fry Sinister/Barron with it--in fact, it seems to have regrown his hand! Armeron is a pretty widely used name for the Insectoid planet--though the book Insectoid Invasion calls it Holox--but this is the first source to place it in another dimension. Is it the same one in which Humorless resides, or Planet U, perhaps? Whatever the case, the number of known planets in the LEGO galaxies of the mainline universe is definitely shrinking... Articus/Kilroy's search for Armeron is an interesting aspect to his character. Could his pursuit of portals into the unknown be what landed him thousands of years in the past, or his brother thousands of years in the future? Given Hotep's ability to open portals to other worlds, it seems that Amset-Ra is not the only Pharaoh with extraterrestrial connections...can't wait to see the Insectoid adventure! Is that a cops and robbers photocomic made entirely of MOCs in the back? Am I missing something, or did the Stingrays manage to start a fire on the outside of an underwater base? TC

I should have mentioned that I was using Lightwave 9... OP updated. I will have to try LW8 as that handles both models and animations for LW5, so it may have some legacy plugin for sequenced textures too. If anyone has it, please give it a go. Otherwise I'll be installing it later since I already have it. I just need to make room for it...

The same thing happens when I do it with Lightwave 11.6. I get two error windows when I open the exported file "Could not load clip. Unsupported file type and/or file not found. C:Program FilesNewTekLightwave 11.6" I'm guessing there was some change in the LW5 file export code that kept most of the features, but broke sequenced textures. Much like how any LW9+ versions have invisible animations when exported to LW5. What version of LW did you try this with? (Was it LW8?) EDIT: Changing the Image Type to Sequence on the exported version recognizes the other images in the directory, but reexporting at that point has the same results with more error windows (increased from 2 to 6 windows).

Holy crepe, one day has passed since le last entry *gasp* Prepare for a giant moodswing from my last post. Also, I do apologize if my posts become frequent. It's just something I do You know, the kindness of strangers will never fail to amaze me. Even before I came here, where so many of you have comforted me, given me advice and the likes, I'd noticed that people I didn't even know were being so nice to me. Now perhaps some were just using me to get more friends, to throw pity parties or something like that (mostly on Facebook is where I've found this to happen) but others... Others genuinely care. It didn't happen as much on Facebook, but it still did. I met the most amazing people, and made friends literally left and right. Sadly most of them I no longer talk to, due to my inactivity of that site, but that's not really the point. It was brought to my attention what my Christmas lacked, and why it felt so... miserable. Hope. A staple of the human set of emotions. Now we all have certain emotions that are used most often, others that are hardly used and some that we have never felt. Hope is what keeps us going. It's the optimists bread and butter. And that's what I had ignored. I also had forgotten the giving spirit of the season. The one thing that makes this season so special. I had become so self absorbing in what was wrong, that I failed to see what was right. I had lost connection with someone who I have been talking to for months, someone who I seriously can't live without, and that made everything turn grey and awful. My grandfathers illness made it worse. Terrible grades and the end of term swinging in just finalized my depressing state and wiped any hope from my mind. I refused to give presents to those I didn't /have/ to give to. My friends got nothing from me, because I was so selfish. When I did, they were rushed and not well thought out, to be honest. I just didn't care. Now I look back on last week, and I feel so guilty. But also, I found my new years resolution. Even if my life gets hard, and I feel like I can't go on, cling to hope. Give freely of myself to others, make them smile, and help them no matter what's going on. Be a friend, a family member, and someone they can rely on. I wanted to take some time to thank you guys, even if I really don't know you, and vice versa. You took time out of your life to offer comfort to me, when you didn't have to. And thank you to that one person who has always been here for me, even when I was being downright awful. You know who you are. So yes, have my random, out of the blue post. Hooray ^w^ But one thing I plead with you all to never forget, is this. Have hope, and don't you ever, ever give up. Cheers, RRU, and have a Happy New Year. ~CB

Actually the overall quality went a bit down in the second year I'm afraid. And actually: what would you expect story-wise from a town-themed TC episode? But don't worry, they didn't jump the shark right yet... Next issue might be a bit better... Have you realized that Town Comic wasn't assembled to provide that story, but is rather just a collage of reused set-box photos or catalogue imagery? It's something that will plague this entire year of issues, just to warn you Also the way they published things changed: The 'Activity Pack' became a physical part of the magazine itself, although in a whee bit strange way. The 'Shop' got shrunken down from DIN A4 to DIN A5, also all the cartoony imagery featuring LEGO characters was cut. A new paperwork was included called 'Mach Mit!' ('Join Us!' might be the closest translation I guess...) A bit earlier than expected, issue 2: http://www.rockraidersunited.org/gallery/album/403-lego-world-club-1998-issue-2/ In case your main interest is the Tim TC comic: The 'Photo' comic mentions the characters. I hope this is general knowledge by now: Joe Freeman=Johnny Thunder Linda Lovelay=Gail Storm/Pippin Read Prof. Articus=Dr. Charles Lightning/Dr. Kilroy Billy Speed=Harry Cane Mr. Hates=Baron von Barron/Sam Sanister Sly Boots=Sam Sinister (they really messed this one up, didn't they?) Ramses III=Pharaoh's Mummy (Inever considered 'pharaoh's mummy' a name, but anyways, the audio drama calls him Ramses IV, both Ramses actually existed in real history... another name that exists for the mummy is 'Hotep' which I consider his real name, though it's a more a mockery of real egyptian names as in Amen-Hotep/Amenophis for example) PS: In case anybody seems interested in that hieroglyphs stuff they mentioned on one page, just be told, I know quite a bit of that stuff and most of what they printed on '98 adventurers bricks IS authentic in a certain way, although most of it reads simply 'RYGO' which is the closest thing one could spell 'LEGO' in ancient egypt ^^ but I guess this is getting a bit off-topic Mergy mergy - jamesster

You're just editing WRLs with that mod, right? Then you might as well include the entire file to make it easier on everyone. No one will be able to illegally play LR2 with an edited WRL so it's perfectly fine by my interpretation of the rules. The other mods may fuel-inject with their own opinions but I have a feeling that most of them would agree. If you want harder evidence, no one has said a word that the Time Raiders betas have included absolutely everything needed to play the game except for the executable, ICD file, and a few DLLs that are needed to run the game properly. Sure, I could piece out everything that I made so the download is smaller, but you can't play LRR simply by downloading the mod. That's the question you need to ask yourself when distributing a mod: can this mod, alone or in conjunction with another mod, be used to play the game if I did not already have the game? If the answer is yes, don't distribute it here.

Fun can be the enjoyment you get from using it in zombie brickfilms That pale white skin. So cold. So unyellow. So dead. BRRRRR.

I've seen such a 'jet ski' before in a City set in red and white. Frankly I doubt if you can call this a jet ski, it looks way too long for that. This is what I call a jet-ski:

Oh you silly, silly, people. When will you ever learn how to use a real translator? Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Seriously though, I ran the entire comic through Bad Translator on various settings, and that was the result. I have absolutely no idea how it came up with some of these things.

Huh, that's interesting. Because according to my ever-accurate translation of German, this is actually a pivotal plot point of the comic, wherein the presence of an anomaly leaves Sparks with no choice but to let Tim drive the Granite Grinder. But while the Rock Raiders struggle to figure out the source of this anomaly while dodging an angry Rock Monster, can they hope to cure Docs of his Testosterone Poisoning?

Yeah, yeah. Say what you will, but between that mustache, nose, chin, and big, burly, hairy arms, I still think that Docs makes this comic Rated M... For Manly!

You know what, even ripping up the magazine to shreds would be an improvement on this atrocity, excuse me, comic.