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So the game reached version 1.0 on June 23, 2003. The cancellation/layoffs article is from September 3rd, 2003. But then LEGO/the publisher changed their minds, apparently, and released the PC version in 2004 (in March at the earliest), while the PS2/GameCube versions remained canceled. The guy who lists it on his resume as "unfinished" had moved on from Asylum Entertainment by 2004 (for all we know he could have been one of the people who lost their jobs there when it was canceled), so it's possible that he never knew it was eventually released... What a weird story.

Hi guys, sorry I haven't posted an update in a while, there hasn't been much to show lately. This being said, I've just converted all of the maps into my own (human-readable) format and made them available from the level select screen. (The time taken to do this was mostly spent writing a converter this morning ) While this does mean you can access the whole game, this venture is not complete yet as the map loading process is missing a few buildings, small spiders, crystals, vehicles, monsters, landslides, erosion & win-criteria. These will be added to map files (and map loading process) as features come online. It's just nice to see all old the maps again (and super easy to edit with a text editor now )

Oh geese I don't know how to do this but these are the file dates listed: Most of the final files such as support and the manual are listed as being from 2004 but the setup.skin is from 2002 Edit: This is from the 2003-2004 copy of the game (Focus Release): Edit 2: A date found

You may not be familiar with it, but in 2003 (supposedly), a Galidor game for PC/PS2/GameCube (supposedly) was released. If you're wondering what it's like, its own lead designer called it "Possibly the worst game ever made" in a gameplay video description. There's also a GBA game but it was by a different studio and is unrelated to all this. While looking for more info on the canceled PS1 version of LEGO Stunt Rally for PS1 - which was being developed by Asylum Software, who also made the PC/Console Galidor game - I found this article: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/asylum-entertainment-clears-up-closure-rumours As I started reading I was thinking it was about the cancellation of LEGO Stunt Rally for PS1, which was supposed to be released in March 2001 (the PC game was September 2000)... Then I noticed this article is from September 3rd, 2003. Wat? I then had the following conversation with Pereki: [10:06 AM] Terrev: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/asylum-entertainment-clears-up-closure-rumours [10:06 AM] Terrev: Hang on [10:06 AM] Terrev: That's from 2003 [10:06 AM] Pereki: Yes [10:06 AM] Pereki: The galidor pc game was cancelled [10:07 AM] Pereki: Then got put out in it's incomplete state by people who obtained rights to Lego games later on [10:07 AM] Terrev: wwwwwwwwhat [10:07 AM] Pereki: That's the best I can figure, anyway [10:07 AM] Pereki: Never seen an actual 2003 release copy [10:08 AM] Pereki: Just the one in the TT four games pack and another 2006ish one that I have from a publisher I don't recall (Note: Around 2007-08, TT Games Publishing re-released older LEGO games in various 2 and 4 packs, distributed by ValuSoft, including a LEGO Creator/Drome Racers/Galidor/LEGOLAND pack in 2008, which is what's being referred to in that last line. It had Galidor and LEGO Creator on the same disc, and the other two games on their own discs.) Google then led me to the resume of Leigh Christian, who worked at Intelligent Games from 1997 until 1999, when he moved to Asylum Entertainment, where he remained until 2003. This is pretty interesting as Intelligent Games was the developer of LEGO Stunt Rally for PC and the original developer of the PS1 version, but then the job for the PS1 version was transferred to Asylum Entertainment due to IG not having the manpower/resources to tackle both versions at once. Of course, the PS1 version was then canceled entirely. It seems reasonable to assume he moved from IG to Asylum along with Stunt Rally PS1, but there's no mention of him working on Stunt Rally while at Asylum in his resume - so who knows. He's listed as an "Additional Artist" in the PC credits and has the game listed as "Lego Racers" in his resume under the Intelligent Games section - given that Stunt Rally was originally called LEGO Moto, and the game actually called LEGO Racers was released right in the middle of Moto/Stunt Rally's development, it's easy to see how you could get names confused (who knows, maybe he moved on to other work at Asylum before the Moto/Stunt Rally name change and wasn't entirely aware of what happened to it, or something - just a guess). But here's the really interesting bit: The only thing he has listed for his time at Asylum Entertainment, 1999-2003, is "Galidor (unfinished)". Unfinished. More conversation with Pereki: [10:11 AM] Terrev: This guy worked at both IG and Asylum [10:11 AM] Terrev: And lists Galidor as unfinished [10:11 AM] Pereki: welp [10:11 AM] Terrev: What the hell lol [10:15 AM] Pereki: well [10:16 AM] Pereki: we know the console versions for sure never made it out [10:16 AM] Terrev: 56 listings for the galidor game on ebay [10:16 AM] Terrev: All but 3 are gba [10:17 AM] Pereki: yeeeeep [10:17 AM] Terrev: And the 3 that aren't are PC in the four pack with other lego games (Note: I was on mobile and only viewing listings in the US, there's more besides the TT Games 4-pack currently available on eBay but from other countries, not to mention other sites like Amazon... The takeaway here is that 53 out of 56 current listings in the US are for the unrelated GBA game, the 3 for PC are in TT's 2008 bundle) [10:18 AM] Pereki: Also [10:18 AM] Pereki: The copy I got [10:18 AM] Pereki: From another publisher [10:18 AM] Pereki: Advertised an independent galidor release [10:19 AM] Terrev: ??? [10:19 AM] Pereki: But my actual copy was in a two pack with bionicle the game [10:19 AM] Pereki: Iirc [10:19 AM] Terrev: How deep does this rabbit hole go [10:20 AM] Pereki: here we go [10:20 AM] Pereki: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/gameseek.images/products/380/lego_bionicle_lego_galidor_pc.jpg [10:20 AM] Pereki: Focus is publisher [10:26 AM] Pereki: https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/e/e1/Galidor_video_game_PC.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111025081214 [10:26 AM] Terrev: Hmm [10:27 AM] Pereki: http://img.brickowl.com/files/image_cache/larger/lego-pc-cd-rom-game-galidor-defenders-of-the-outer-dimension-25.jpg [10:28 AM] Pereki: Ok so it's a real thing [10:29 AM] Terrev: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?G=DCG902790#T=S&O={} [10:30 AM] Terrev: 2005 listed here So... I went digging through online listings. Here's all the releases of the PC Galidor game I could find (as far as I've seen the PS2 and GameCube versions were never released at all). The 2008 TT Games 4-pack mentioned earlier This other 4-pack with a hilarious choice of games, from 2006, which also had TT's involvement This big box of 10 games which is from 2007 according to the Amazon listing (there were some listings for the games from this pack in their individual sleeves too, in case you want a better look at the simplistic packaging) The Bionicle the Game/Galidor combo released by Focus, in 2006 according to Amazon. It also seems they may have released the game individually, probably around the same time, but I can't find any real photos of the box, just what seems to be a scan of the cover (same as you can see on the Bionicle combo). And the earliest release that I've found, and the only one not to be in a combo (aside from the possible individual Focus release)... This release by Dice, from 2005. TL;DR: Asylum Entertainment had a LEGO project canceled in 2003 and people working on it lost their jobs. The only known LEGO project they had at the time was Galidor for PC/PS1/GameCube; their PS1 port of LEGO Stunt Rally had also been canceled but that was 2 years prior. A developer who worked on Galidor lists it as "unfinished" on their resume. There's no evidence of the game being released in 2003 as planned, or the PS2 and GameCube versions ever being released. However, the PC version was mysteriously released in 2005, 2 years after the cancelation and layoffs, and the game was included in several LEGO game bundles/packs in the following years. Galidor for PC essentially seems to be a zombie, resurrected to haunt game shelves years after its death. My question now - besides why/how the hell this all happened - is if the game was fixed up in any way for its releases from 2005 onwards. Asylum Entertainment was still around, so they could have in theory... But did they, or did LEGO release a blatantly unfinished, previously canceled game? The game's splash screen still says 2003 from what I've seen in videos. It'd be easy to tell by looking at file modification dates, but I don't own the game myself. Update - @Tweesee has the individual Focus release - the folders on the disc are from late March 2004, the files are a mix of things from 2002 to 2004, and the copyright date on the back of the box is "2003-2004". So that makes it the earliest release of the game, though still quite a while after the cancellation article.

I don't think these have been posted before, since I found them on some weird Dutch website from 1997. (Just tell me if I'm wrong and I'll remove this post.) So as you can see, the tracks shown are pretty much the same as in the finished version, but the GUI and the particles are different. By the way, what are those weird diamond-shaped things? Are they powerups? Yeah so I just thought it'd be cool to show these. I like the look of the GUI, I almost prefer it over the finished products' GUI.

HOLY MOLY you crazy man!!!

I've got a large collection of LR1 alpha/beta screenshots here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=469944 I just added a new screenshot to the folder a few days ago, so Brickshelf hasn't moderated it and made the folder public yet... But yeah, those screenshots are in there, though the versions I have uploaded are from another site with different watermarks (also, the ones you posted seem to be cropped slightly...? Huh, strange): Anyway... While we wait for Brickshelf moderate/approve the folder, you can browse a slightly outdated version on the web archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20170425052633/http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=469944 Note the "Next" button at the bottom right of the page; there's 3 pages of screenshots in total. And by "slightly outdated" I only mean it doesn't have this one screenshot I recently uploaded: Which is just a higher res version of a screenshot that was already in there.

The maximum is something like 200...how did you achieve that?!

According to the case of the PC game that I have, which was distributed by Disc Multimedia, the game was released 2005. For some strange reason, it is also one of the few LEGO games from that era that was not dubbed or translated into other languages when it was localized. The other one that comes to mind is that Bionicle game.

its way more unstable and hard to run on newer PCs than LI2

So I'm looking through an old hard drive and apparently I had a download of the original upload all along? not only on an ooold hard drive I couldn't find cords for but in a completely random folder on said hard drive? and I've just rediscovered it now of all times WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE