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As some of you may remember, back in 2009, prior to the merge of multiple games into LEGO Battles, one of the games features on the boxes was LEGO Racers: The Video Game. This evening, while I was scavenging around the wastelands that are the internet, I came across the Behance portfolio of Donald Robertson, who had posted a collection of concept models and art from the game. (The full collection can be seen HERE.) After some more research and poking around his profile, it was discovered that he worked at Firebrand Games at the time, a company which specialized in racing games for the Nintendo DS. From here, someone managed to locate his website, which housed not only copies of the images and videos linked above, but early, in-game screenshots from the game, which we have never seen before. All in all, seeing as this is all stuff nobody has seen before, I thought it was important to bring this to people's attention. (Also, while people were following up on this tuff in the RRU Skype chat, somebody found http://project0.wix.com/comes-to-life, which belongs to Sergey Grey, on of the leads on the scrapped LEGO Racers game, who coincidentally ended up moving over to NetDevil later that year, to work on LEGO Universe.)

Got bored one day and wanted to do something Rocket Racer related in the Unreal editor. Just a little test map inspired by the Rocket Racer track in Lego Racers 1 using Unreal Editor 2.1 and running on the first Unreal Engine. The map is also playable in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PC video game. Bonus: http://imgur.com/a/qTYqz

No recollection of this at all. =P I'm pretty sure ProfessorBrickkeeper is already trying to contact them - unless I'm mistaken, nobody else needs to, it'd just be redundant and bother them. (Hey, remember that time a bunch of people on BZPower started emailing developers of that canceled Bionicle game and drove them away? Yeah, let's not have that happen here. If anything we should just compile questions here in this topic, and then just have one person - presumably Prof - send them.)

This didn't just happen once. It happened again. and again. and again. Ultimately it happened to someone who literally had the game and was willing to put it online thanks, bionicle fans

Well, if he is, he'll hopefully ask if Rocket Racer would have returned (Its a longshot, and LEGO Racers 1 & 2 were long ago, but hey...) No.

Hmm... that's funny because I actually feel like I've heard the name before, but I never knew it was linked to whom I asked about! By any chance, do you know if he appeared in a LEGO Magazine series? I might have read something that mentioned this a long time ago, but I couldn't find him in any of the North American magazines I own. Perhaps Barry was in a UK edition? possibly in Adventures!, that was a Lego Media thing. Unfortunately we don't have many issues documented (help us Will, you are our only hope)

I love how this stuff has been around for two years and nobody ever noticed it. Hah. Good, a long standing mystery finally resolved. BTW, for those who haven't seen it, here's the ad that was on set boxes. Until now, it was the only thing we knew about this. So tl;dr for this topic: Firebrand Games was working on "LEGO Racers: The Video Game", it was for Nintendo DS, and was never released.

2010-2012ish

I just assumed this was another of those 'hi i found this box advertisement which says LEGO racers game what happened to that' posts. Boy, I'm glad it wasn't. Cool stuff.

How long ago did that event happen anyhow? The BZPower spam.

Well, if he is, he'll hopefully ask if Rocket Racer would have returned (Its a longshot, and LEGO Racers 1 & 2 were long ago, but hey...)

Applies to this too. =P I know nothing of BZPower. Anyhow, I of course wouldn't do it if someone else was.

Good find, good find. Now someone needs to email one or both of the guys for additional info. No recollection of this at all. =P

Hmm... that's funny because I actually feel like I've heard the name before, but I never knew it was linked to whom I asked about! By any chance, do you know if he appeared in a LEGO Magazine series? I might have read something that mentioned this a long time ago, but I couldn't find him in any of the North American magazines I own. Perhaps Barry was in a UK edition?

Wow. Good work, Prof! The revelation that this was being made for the DS, combined with the fact that the interlinked Space, Castle, and Pirates games were consolidated into Battles, suggests that something caused LEGO to reappraise the market for either DS games or games based-off non-licensed themes.

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Has this been posted on RRU yet? The file that contains all the text for the Information Center contains ages of all the characters, despite them not being shown in-game: So Pepper is 12, the Brickster is 35, and the Infomaniac is 55, at least in LI2. There is also nobody aged or between 13 and 22. And apparently the whole "zillions of years" thing from LI1 was just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯