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Geez I haven't seen this book in forever! The memories this brings back. I remember getting this book about the same time I had gotten the Chrome Crusher set, the Rock Raiders game (currently playing in the background while my dudes grab some ore) and Lego Island... Such simpler times. Thanks for the throwback. If me getting Rock Raiders running again wasn't enough of a nostalgia overload ? If you hadn't gotten to look through the book (PDF or original), I'd take a minute and peer through... It was chock full of some amazing stuff! If I can find a pdf to share I'll try to get it on here for you all.

Oh man, that's so neat... if only I had a 3D printer Yep, and it's pretty great! Can't remember how LDD was though but in stud.io you have tons of old parts, and even starting to get hose posing functionality, meaning you can actually make Chrome Chrusher with bent hoses by only making two connections and watching physics do its work! Maybe pull the sides a little to adjust, but it's like magic when in action. Chains also are posable. Although they still haven't made the smaller hoses for the Teleport Pad / Tool store bendable... but in a future update? The rendering is also top notch, giving results like this at non-maximum quality:

Should be fine. IIRC at least Cafeteria v0.9.3 works on XP, haven't checked the newer version. Also, this just in, Improvements Pack: in particular a WAD method which allows you to just replace two game files and bam, you're done and can launch! Whatever you play (all of them? ), enjoy!

Well, until somebody finds a proper scan of the entire book/page, these crummy photos I took of my copy of the book will have to do: Here's some close-up photos:

So I just found out that the Rock Raiders prototype images come from a 1999 book called "The Ultimate LEGO Book"and I got interested in reading the rest of the Rock Raiders pages but I can't find it online anywhere, apart from the 3 well known prototype images (Granite Grinder, Loader Dozer, Rock Monster attack. However I'd really like a close-up of the other images and prototype parts as well! Does anyone know if there possibly is a scan of the book where I can find a larger-scale version of these pages? And also, if there are more prototype materials like this I'd really like to see it as I thought I had seen everything Rock Raiders until this morning when that Granite Grinder prototype jumped into my face Here's a YouTube video showing the page in question, but at a very low resolution:

If anyone of you is using stud.io, they just launched the beta of a great plugin called Part Designer. Essentially it lets you create your own parts and customize the textures on those, and import them into stud.io easily. That means you can now e.g. make builds with the original Rock Raiders without hassle (If you get a hold of vector/png textures for these guys) Feel free to post textures/images below of parts that you've done that are not in the stud.io official catalogue! I'll get around to making some of my own when I have time (basically no Rock Raiders-unique parts are in the official catalogue) Link to site: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/partdesigner.page 2 quick, terrible examples: Pasting textures onto pieces Placing studs on pieces