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Anyone can use this video to spread the word if they'd like. Heck, reupload it to your own Youtube if you want! EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/4xhtzy/remember_the_secret_cave_in_lego_island/d6g9nmp

Ah yeah, I've seen these, fun stuff. Here's a higher res version of the gangsters image: Also some misc other stuff: There's also a bunch of castle and space prototype images that come to mind... I'd embed them all but meh, they've all been re-uploaded here: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Prototype Just browse around there, lotsa neat things.

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I've posted on the RF Generation forum about this: Link to thread.

I've posted on the BeamNG forum about this : Link to thread.

I found these pages in one of Pereki's magazine scans a while ago. Not sure if all those cancelled pre-release designs can count as a theme/subtheme, but either way, they're pretty neat!

Many of us know Wes Jenkins for having been Creative Director, Writer, and Designer for the beloved 1997 LEGO PC game LEGO Island or LI1, which played a significant role in the childhoods of a myriad of children, inspiring creativity, imagination, play, fun, learning, etc, as well as spawning many of the humorous running-jokes based on some of the game's glitches and the like we enjoy in this community, most notably "Green-a-RedBrick/GreenRed Brick, you stay!" I've been friends with Wes for several years now on Facebook, and he's one of the most fantastic people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing, let alone being able to call my friend. He's brilliantly creative, imaginative, lighthearted, funny, silly, and an excellent artist! Most of all though he's very kindhearted, compassionate, loving, modest, and has this unwavering aptitude to make light of and poke fun at his predicaments, no matter the severity, all the while retaining a sense of seriousness. Wes inspires me a lot for all these reasons and more, and he's been consistently one of the biggest beacons of hope in my life that I can be an adult and conduct myself with maturity, seriousness, and professionalism, but still maintain and express a lot of childlike qualities, and still be very much a kid. Sadly since having to leave LEGO in 2000 or so, Wes has been burdened with a lot of health and financial troubles, on top of which he had to take care of his 91-year-old father with dementia for a while at one point until his father's passing a few years ago. Wes has been largely taken care of by his loving wife Kyle for many years since, meanwhile illustrating humorous drawings in his "Doodle-a-Day" series as a creative outlet and source of joy. Despite all the hardships that befell them, together they were able to make it through much of their troubles. However, now I'm very sad to say they're being evicted from their home, their medical insurance has run out, and they no longer have any credit. They have to move out of their home by the 18th-19th of this month and are in dire need of financial support to afford temporary housing, as time is running out and it's very much a life or death situation at this point. To this end Wes has set up a GoFundMe page. Please give them any amount of money you can spare in their time of need, and please share this and help get the word out as soon as you can. Wes has never asked for money before, and the fact he's doing so now is a very good indicator that the situation is quite serious. I love Wes dearly, and I'd really like for us all to be able to cherish this wonderful man's presence and creativity in the world for as many more years as possible, and even more for he and his wife Kyle to live with a better quality of life. Thank you. See you later brickulator!

It always amazes me how long Lego were kicking around the idea for Aquazone before it finally made it to shelves. I also noticed that those lattice column pieces got a lot more use in prototypes than actual sets.

Hello fellow RRUers! I have found some information about some unreleased LEGO themes that had interesting ideas. This theme was called Mafia Gangsters: This theme was intended to be in the Gangster era in the 1930s. Besides it's culture and bad history, this theme was cancelled in early production. This final unreleased theme was called Europa: (Really original) This theme setting was in the 18th Century, featuring cannon-forts, towns, bridges and transportation. Possibility of including Witches, Bridge Trolls and also it is the time of Dracula. Alternatively the theme could include historically correct soldiers of the Scotch, Russian, Dutch armies etc. with ships, hot-air balloons and the like. This is also the colonial era. This theme was cancelled in late production. So yeah, let me know if this is quite interesting and have a great time reading this. Cheers.

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Hola. Sky colours are hardcoded. The address are the same between the two known English versions. If you have a different game language the offsets are probably different. If that's the case I'm more than willing to help you on your way to finding the consistent differences for all address between here and your game version. Keep in mind the original value is reversed endian. Location Original Value Address Front End FF FF FF FF ?????? Board Park 00 00 00 00 ?????? Main Island FF FF 00 00 4E0D7 Pepper's House FF FF 00 00 1B7348 Information Center 00 00 00 00 ??????? Whack-a-Bot 00 00 00 00 ??????? Castle Island 66 99 FF 00 D940A Brick Dive FF FF 00 00 11E74C Jousted 66 99 FF 00 1CC7DE Raging Bull 66 99 FF 00 1337AA Adventures' Island Overworld FF FF 00 00 1F3359 Adventures' Island Desert FF FF 00 00 20239B Snake Pursuit FF AA AA FF 35AD62 Adventures' Island Pyramid Area FF FF 00 00 22FEF8 Whack-a-Snake FF FF 00 00 3C4D0B Matching Mummies 00 00 00 00 ??????? Desert Speedster FF FF 00 00 26E43E Fishing FF FF 00 00 4095C8 Bi-Plane FF FF 00 00 31BF07 Dino Park FF FF 00 00 178CA1 T-Rex Racing E1 CC CA 00 2A3E74 Mr. Hates' Camp A6 E8 FF 00 15A354 Centrifuge 00 00 00 00 ??????? Parachute Training FF FF FF FF ??????? Asteroid Belt 00 00 00 00 ??????? Parachute Onto Ogel 00 00 00 FF 2FB2B0 Ogel 00 00 00 00 ??????? Make-A-D-Pizza FF FF FF FF ??????? Brickster's Palace 00 00 00 00 ??????? For some strange reason, when changing the results I could scrape up for FF FF FF FF, none of the skys in the game changed with that value, and as for 00 00 00 00, there way I've tracked them down (XX XX XX XX 68 - 68 always comes after the value), there is way too many of that value appearance for me to count on 100 hands, and mass replacing causes a crash due to some sensitive areas getting replaced. What can you do with sky changing? Something like these.

I knew about Europa, but never heard of Gangsters. Holy cow this looks awesome. Must have been too awesome to release. I'm digging these cars. And the boat looks unique too.

Oooh, this is one of those that I wish became an actual theme. I love the designs of some of those buildings and those trains.

I don't know how to help but I made a tweet about this with the hashtag #SaveWes. Apparently a somewhat popular guy did this as well:

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Someone anonymously donated $1K to Wes roughly a half an hour ago. Wes still needs a lot more, but that's incredibly generous of whomever did that. Thank you very much to whomever that was!

I hope the movie based ninjago sets have more emphasis of being in a more urban envoirment, I really like how ninjago did urban areas in it's sets, and I'd love to get more.

His GoFundMe description could really use your write-up, because what you wrote was beautiful, emotional, and also descriptive. Nothing against what he currently has, and I have no clue how GoFundMe descriptions normally look, but yeah, I wish more people could read what you wrote, because who knows how little it may take to sway someone. Have you brought this to the attention of any sites other than RRU?

I know a fig, his name is Zack