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Yeah, that's the way it usually goes. After all, when have you ever heard of a final product that's more ambitious than the initial conce... You know what, never mind.

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Nothing much, but I just found this.

I was strolling through a Eurobricks thread on unreleased sets and came to this curious post. So I thought to myself "yeah, okay, big talk. Did you read that on Brickipedia?" But then they went on to say this: Suddenly the post is sounding a lot more credible. So I look back up at the post and what really strikes me is that he says that wave 2 would have had "other underground creatures." And then I remembered this guy! It's a slimy slug that was on the cover of a catalog packaged with big box LEGO games in 1999. It's not a model from the Rock Raiders game, though - in fact, it looks like it's design to be produced as a buildable figure, with a single-piece rigid body that has some eyestalks and studs stuck on. Seems a little excessive to design all of that just for promotional renders, no? So yeah, I think this guy may have been designed for that 2nd wave. What else could have been in it? There are at least a couple models in the PC game that would have worked as sets if they had chosen to produce them...

Err... something like this should go in the Theme Discussion sub-forum rather than a blog post. Anyhow, that's some neat concept art you found! The transforming castle design would have made an interesting set. Shame it had to be toned down though.

It always automatically displays the current day. This doc is from December 16th, 1998, as said at the beginning of it and as you can see by the metadata. Anyway, most of the images in this doc were already posted by a dev here, but there's some new info. Networked/online multiplayer was planned, with up to four players on an IPX or TCP/IP LAN network. In a simple multiplayer lobby, players would have been able to review potential races, prepare their cars, and issue challenges, taunts, and chat. Custom tracks could be shared via the internet as well. Game modes besides racing were planned - goal posts and a ball were to allow for football/soccer-esque gameplay (like in this set) and timed gates were to allow for time trial challenges There were six world themes instead of four, and you were to be able to combine them There were going to be different modes, starting with assisted/auto steering, and ending with a free driving mode as players advanced in skill The camera was planned to move in closer to cars during dramatic moments, such as collisions, and the starts/ends of races Only PC was planned at the time, but future portability was considered possible

Really glad I went through the trouble of buying a new copy of the Jack Stone tape on Amazon and putting it on Youtube.