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If you may not know by now, when you go to race in LI, an alternate version of the island is loaded; one that is completely empty besides the race track. Now, you can't go outside of the race track to explore. There are many invisible walls and barriers in every corner to stop you. But that didn't stop me. I wanted to go up close and see the empty island beyond the race track. Enjoy

Just in case anyone thought I wasn't doing anything: It's true, I've been a bit busy lately, but finally sat back down to do some proper coding this evening. The radar still needs some work (e.g. to make geologists work etc.) but it does at least mean all the buttons do something now. --- Also just fixed the issue where raiders drill & reinforce walls from 1 tile away.

I've got all the movement speeds on hand and thought it would be useful to share, especially for those like @bphillips09 making a remake. (Table code in advance for when the thing stops being broken again) Walking Forward: 6 Reverse: -2.4 Skateboard Forward: 15 Reverse: -6 PWC (in race) Forward: 15 Reverse: -6 Bike Forward: 20 Reverse: -8 PWC Forward: 25 Reverse: -10 Dune Buggy Forward: 25 Reverse: -10 Race Car Forward: 30 Reverse: -12 Tow Truck Forward: 40 Reverse: -16 Ambulance Forward: 40 Reverse: -16 Police Bike Forward: 40 Reverse: -16 Helicopter Forward: 60 Reverse: -24

Ayliffe Innit - Today at 2:55 PM or better yet just not fill it with spongebob streams with suggestive thumbnails look lads I'm not likely to click on it even if the thumbnail has Patrick looking at a bulge in his pants I'm less likely to do so with that sorta thumbnail Phantom Terror - Today at 2:58 PM If I want to watch starfish porn I have other websites for that Ayliffe Innit - Today at 2:58 PM like the aquarium Phantom Terror - Today at 2:58 PM Um yeah Let's go with that

[1:28 PM] Ayliffe Innit: wonder if they'll annouce any worlds stuff at E3 [1:28 PM] Ayliffe Innit: DLC and the like [1:28 PM] ProfessorBrickkeeper: Lots more to look forward to than just some agents DLC. [1:28 PM] ProfessorBrickkeeper: There's a lot of fan-requested stuff in the woodwork. [1:30 PM] Ayliffe Innit: by "fan-requested" do you mean "yelled repeatedly on the steam forums"

I was looking through old LEGO.com FAQs/tech support/etc on the web archives after Toa_Of_Justice posted a link to them in another topic, and came across this: http://web.archive.org/web/20061210212224/http://www.lego.com/eng/service/faqs.asp?section=ConsumerService-FAQ-Products&catid=08D7FCAC-4136-467E-94CE-4FFB05A55B0E&faqid=1534#1534 Perhaps I'm just forgetting things, but I don't recall hearing that date before, and I've definitely seen debates on when the Adventurers/Orient Expedition themes are supposed to take place. Are there any other dates given by other sources? Books, audio dramas, comics, character bios, etc? Wasn't there some sort of Ask Kilroy thing on the old website as well? (And yeah, there's that soon-to-be-released Scooby Doo set with a Johnny Thunder cameo and year given, but meh) Edit: Sadie sent me her transcript of the Orient Expedition audio drama (as majhost, where her transcript was hosted, is currently down), and it says that the story begins "On a sunny June morning in the year nineteen hundred and twenty five", eight years before the date given on these LEGO.com FAQs. A bit contradictory, but I suppose that shouldn't be surprising.

This is interesting--two dates I hadn't heard of before. I'd noted in my LEGO timeline: The only exact date for the Adventurers theme comes from the German audio drama The Hunt for the Pharaoh’s Treasure, which puts the Egypt theme in 1910. The LEGO Book indicates a 1920s setting, indicating that at least one of the subthemes takes place in that decade. The Chinese city of Xi’an appears in the Orient Expedition online comics—this is a real city that was renamed in 1928. The author of Curse of the Mummy doesn’t seem to have been aware that the Adventurers theme was set early in the 20th century, as the airport scene includes a modern-day helicopter and Kilroy’s coded message is sent via fax machine. So now we have a couple of different exact dates for the Adventurers time period: 1910 - Hunt for the Pharoah's Treasure 1922 - 75900 Mummy Mystery set 1925 - Orient Expedition CD 1933 - LEGO FAQ 1925 is consistent with the Xi'an shoutout, though it's unlikely that everyone would have stopped calling the city that as soon as it was renamed, so 1933 is an outlier but still reasonable. Except for 1925/1933 (as those are two different dates for the same events), these dates aren't mutually exclusive--the Indiana Jones films spanned a longer period of time than this. (Even longer if you count the TV series.) For comparison, Johnny's adventerous peers in other themes have some hard dates too. The Pharoah's Quest series is locked in at August, 1924 thanks to the "Adventure Journal of Professor Archibald Hale" on LEGO.com, which provides day-by-day entries for the events leading up to Pharoah's Quest. Dr. Artimus Rhodes from the Atlantis theme backstory made his expedition to the underwater kingdom from August-September 1919, according to the "Secret Journal of Dr. Artimus Rhodes", also on LEGO.com. (Johnny Thunder had a similar diary in the "Minfigure Handbook: Adventurers" online feature, which had entries from April to October detailing non-theme related adventures, but no year was given. ) TC