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Update: I've had many people tell me that they've watched it all the way through. Some of them hadn't even played the game, but got curious about it and decided to learn as much about it as they could, and are now following the server emulator development attempts. asdf

So, while this site was down, for LEGO Island's 20th anniversary (Oct. 2) I tried to organize a Reddit AMA with people who worked on the game, as many as I could contact and would be interested. I got in touch with a number of people, ~12-16 iirc. Unfortunately, the AMA ultimately never materialized, mostly because an AMA requires verification, and I didn't know how that could happen for such an old game. (Then the r/games mods got peeved at me for being overenthusiastic, basically saying I'll never be able to try to do any AMA there again.) And during that time, Wes Jenkins passed away (about a week from LI's 20th anniversary original release date, iirc), which basically sealed the "not gonna happen" deal. However, as a result of my contact, one of the animators wrote up an interesting article on his time working on the game (he emailed it to me, and I saved it in this document just now) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chL_iGfo-h559vnR6ds_ZDnLWicZ48RYxFlf1wmV2aE/edit?usp=sharing EDIT: Talked to Kathleen "Brick-by-Brick" Salvia, very nice lady.

Could just flip the texture... As said in the very post you quoted, it's under "browse". Also, please don't double post, I've had to merge many of your posts now.

Sanctum 2 is currently free on Humble: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sanctum-2

Why would you even bother using lasers in vanilla LRR?

Can you call them cutscenes when they're more like slideshows? Ah well. 134 images. Enjoy? http://imgur.com/a/kuhOZ

Here is the next batch of vehicles photos (dated 5-10-'99). Hurray! The muscle car has been finalized!

@jamesster: Wow, you really know your bricks! Pretty interesting to see that some of these bricks were never released in those colors. I don't really remember, but I think we may have received some of those models. We had no idea at the time these were using rare pieces though! I guess that would make them worth quite a bit to a collector these days. @JimBobJeffers: These models were made at the time while I was working on a different game. I would re-join the team later, by when the characters and most of the vehicle designs had been finalized. I'm pretty sure our team intended to have original characters only for the game, and not use any existing Lego characters. The jungle boss, Snake, was based on Colonel Kurtz from Apocolypse Now - his face paint is inspired by Kurtz's face paint pattern. Here is the next batch of photos (dated 29-9-1999). Another failed attempt at the muscle car, by the looks of it. This is easily my favorite design of the X-car. Probably didn't pass the safety test. (Yes, still more to come!)

Here is the next batch, (dated 23-9-1999). Note the Danish text on the table. (looks like there were two X-car prototypes at this point!)

Alright! Here are some photos of the very first vehicles created by the development team for the game. These were sent for review to LEGO HQ, who then started work on improving these. I'll post some images of those later.

You can either use DirectMusic Producer (it's free) or change it using a cheat. To do such, hold right Shift during the game and type one of these (including the colon): :WEST :CASTLE :INCA :EGYPT :THEME

I have an original release copy, and I have never heard the music change once. This is probably one of the games that I've played the most. I never knew there was other music! And, ah, how exactly do you make it otherwise? I'd really like to play with other music.

I have my disc but no case, so I can't verify the year, but the music is always the same on my installation. The alternate music files are present, however.

I've got the release that claims to be "Windows XP Compatible" (it was just to get it to sell, tons of other games had this label too despite not actually being updated for XP). I only hear the main theme no matter what, but you can change it thanks to a cheat.

I haven't played LEGOLAND for a few years, last I played it was in 2010-ish. However, I do remember one time years back - Like, in 2002 or 2003 - I was playing, and the music did in fact change after I had my park up and running for a while. I think it was the Wild West theme. I remember going into the options menu and trying to find out if I had accidentally changed something, but was unable to get the music to go back to the main theme until I restarted the game. :P

I have a PC Fun Club release. I just installed it and played through the tutorial levels. They all had the main theme. The first level also has the same music. I got bored after that. Anyone got a save with all the areas unlocked? EDIT: My .exe is dated 7th of April 2000

I have an 2000/2001/older copy of the game. If I recall correctly, various music played. I'll have to reinstall to confirm, though.