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Armed Response Woah woah woah, slow it down you freaking maniacs! We're trying to save lives here! Every hero needs a villain. This boat shows up in some of the tracks as an obstacle that tries to get in your way. You can unlock it and use it yourself, but it's slow even while boosting. The turret guy fires on boats behind you, not that the bullets do anything. The booster is quite simple but a bit complex at the same time. Spacing was crucial and the whole module stays in place via friction. There are also little kickstands that can fold out to keep the booster in its deployed position (look near the corners). This build is my favorite out of all them as I feel like I captured it the best. It's not my favorite boat to pilot. That's either Banshee or Tidal Blade. This one took about two days to make.

Tidal Blade Narrow path ahead. This one was actually fun to build. It's 2000 horsepower and full of fury! And it was a way to use up the few orange and purple bricks I have. I had to build the engine section upside down because I didn't have enough under slope bricks. It worked out in the end. The boosters are supposed to slide out on rails, but that would end up way too chunky. Hinges work fine here. I cheated again with TYCO bricks on the yellow scoop at the front. There are two black 2x2 female-to-female plates there. Does that make this an illegal build? Here's a fun little fact as well: the amber flame pieces you see here came from my trip to the LEGO Store in New York City last year. They lack the little nubs near the base that the older orange flame pieces have. This makes them more versatile since I can stick them into the round orange plates on Banshee. I'd say this one took about a day to build in total.

Midway Uh, I got a bad feeling about this... This one, despite being the easiest of beginner boats, was the hardest to build. Midway is painted with all sorts of gradients and stripes that were hard to capture in bricks. I especially took creative liberties with the cockpit (the first revision was hot garbage). The booster, too, was difficult, but I got it on the second try. Hey, what about that rollcage piece? That's a Znap brick, which was some weird late '90s K'nex competitor. I don't know why TLG thought K'nex was a competitor, and they already had Technic... these were pre-Bionicle days, so they were still flopping around for ideas. This definitely took me two or three days to make.

Razorback You're crazy! Razorback is the third boat I built and that's when I knew I couldn't walk away. I have a ton of red pieces and this was a good excuse to use some of them. The booster was a bit tricky but wasn't too bad compared to the other sportsman-class boat. The black cheese bricks lock the outer exhaust assemblies in place. There's a sweet spot where you can spin them, otherwise they can't move. The wing is extremely fragile, but it's the best I could do with the yellow bricks I have. I think this took nearly two days to build.

These all look so epic, but Tidal Blade is definitely my favourite. Thanks for sharing your awesome builds! Makes me wish we'd had a LEGO boat racing game back in the era of classic LEGO Media.

It's under Browse -> Files Database at the top of the forum and click Add New File. It will ask you where you want to put it. Let me know if you can't upload it. You can only upload certain file types, but you should be able to put it in a zip file if the database doesn't accept the raw file.

Banshee I am continuing the Hydro Thunder boat building. This time is Banshee. I didn't even intend to build this right away, but I was cleaning up some old bags of bricks, saw the kinds of green pieces I had, then started piecing together the air scoop that you can see on top. Thresher was going to be the next boat, so I had my blue pieces out already. Well, Banshee is better anyways. The boosters work too (see the spoiler images). This one took about six hours. For this updated version I improved the scoop, found black booster pieces, found better pieces for the front of the pontoons, and gave it a pop-out propeller.