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Insectoids being enemies to Rock Raiders was an old rumor started by Lugnet the year after that book came out. I have it, and it says absolutely nothing about that.

The idea of Seatron eventually became Aquazone, which was very much its own thing, separate from Space (though it was intended to be on an alien planet, that idea often wasn't presented clearly, sometimes even ignored - like, there's magazine comics with Aquazone and Town/Divers crossovers). In the mid/late 90s LEGO started drifting away from the model of having ongoing themes with different factions anyway (with themes like Adventurers and Rock Raiders). By 2001 that model was gone entirely, and ever since then all themes have had more individual personality (Alien Conquest was just an alien invasion of a city). Power Miners was very much its own thing, but is often compared directly to Rock Raiders, which goes to show just how ultimately inconsequential it is that Rock Raiders technically takes place on another planet. Rock Raiders was just one of the first standalone themes like that, and now they're the norm.

The confusion comes from some possibly alien Rock Raiders in a piece of concept art in there. They don't look like Insectoids/Zotaxians though, and they aren't antagonizing the other raiders.

Guys, finally here is the afaik first custom test track. I know there is a lot of work to do, but I would like to ask you to test the version 0.1. I did not edit the wdb files for now. You have to unpack the archive into your TEST folder; don't forget to make a backup before. I hope I did not forget anything (feedback would be good! Thanks).

guys zonia is some planet mentioned in jim spaceborn the space logo has a planet in it that's it you're not nerds, you're just trying too hard

I am bored. That is an eloquent fact. Tomorrow I have a week or so of volunteering at BRICK 2015, and then it'll be christmas time and I won't have access to my darling desktop due to the tree being placed directly in front of it. However, before then I have a sincere lack of things to do with my time. To make up for this absence of things, I'm making this quick contest for no real reason other than "lol i have nothing to do". SO WHATS THE CONTEST ABOUT THEN, I hear you cry? Well, it's pretty simple as far as contests go. Below this wall of text there will be a simple image, which you, the dear reader, will have to edit and customize to your heart's content. Boot up your image editing programs, whip out yer pencils and get to work doing whatever you like to the image! As long as the images are SFW (basically no naughty x-rated pictures or r34 things) then it's all fine. Draw on it! Add text in the speech bubble! Write "LU 2 CONFIRMEDDDD!!!1!" all over it with your own blood (okay, maybe not that last one)! The whole point of this is to just do whatever the frig you like with this image, so go and do that. WHAT'S THE IMAGE THEN, you may shout? It's this one right here: I'd recommend keeping the image at this aspect ratio, but I'm not fussed if you don't. HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO DO THE THINGS, you may scream at the top of your lungs. To answer that, I'm giving you exactly two weeks to do this. This means the the contest will end at Midday GMT on 22nd December 2015, unless hardly anyone enters then I'll just extend the time by another week or so. Voting for the winner will start the following day (I'll discuss how this will work nearer the time). HOW MANY ENTRIES CAN I SUBMIT, you may also scream. To keep things fair, you can only submit a maximum of 3 entries per member. This doesn't mean that you HAVE to do three, but it means that you can't do any more than 3. ARE THERE ANY PRIZES, I hear you shout. Well, not really. I may produce a small "I won this thing" image for the winner to shove on their profile, but other that this contest is mainly just for fun. If you're feeling generous enough to submit a prize for this, shoot me a PM and we'll talk things over (don't skype me though, I probably won't be able to access skype until after christmas because the iOS app is utter rubbish). Hopefully that should cover the basics. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me and I'll begrudgingly happily answer them. Anyways, that's pretty much that. Happy editing!

Never paid any attention to stuff like this. The wording is pretty vague... Seriously, what do they even mean by "real-life LEGO Star"? (Psst, Pereki uploaded those magazine scans)

It was always included. When I made the poll I explicitly remember putting insectoids there. I didn't add it because said project is meant to be after CS. But hey, why not? Honestly, I don't know why most call it Blacktron II, I think its merely an abbreviation of Blacktron: Future Generation but they can just call it Blacktron: FG for that matter.

Me when discussing Lego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAW2lygZC_4

This is actually an unsubstantiated rumor. Its possible, but there's nothing to really say it's the case. also, thank you OP for calling it Blacktron: Future Generation and not Blacktron II

It's definitely a standalone theme. The only thing it's part of is the Systems super-theme, which just means it was from the late 90's/early 00's and wasn't part of Technic or Duplo. Its closest relative is Power Miners, which didn't come out for ten more years. The space stuff was only in the books and video games - the sets themselves gave no indication they were on an alien planet, just that they were deep underground.

[11:20:07 PM] Alcom Isst: What's wrong with the friendzone? I like the friendzone, there are friends in it!

meanwhile... I also bought Pohatu for a tenner the other day, and I have come to the logical conclusion that he is literally an Australian Batman.

They know...

Oh hey, I wonder what the official merchandise for this game looks lik- Um. Okay.