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Since I've made too many boats, I've decided to make one thread for all of them. The previous threads have been merged. More pictures will come. Check the spoilers under each main image for more on each boat. Family photos: Miss Behave I was recategorizing some mixed bins by color and I found a few TYCO army bricks. I don't have very many but I was able to use them in a build. Hydro Thunder was on my mind so I tried my hand at some nonstandard building techniques. Miss Behave isn't my favorite boat, but she's pretty good when taking her off a ramp. I feel like I could have done better, but I used almost every single one of the olive green bricks I have. Let me know if you want different angles. This was a quick afternoon build and I took the pics almost as quickly.

Those boats look cool*! Don't worry too much about some boats not looking exactly like the original since they are made out of LEGO bricks and getting curves at that scale right is probably impossible. My favourite has to be Rad Hazard because of the RC Function. Imagine it having a camera like those Mario Kart RC Racers from Nintendo and then you can see the racing course from the boat's perspective : D. *I like the colour scheme from Tidal Blade the most with orange and purple etc.

Quick 'n Sik Hey, you found a secret! Here's (probably) the last boat I'll make for a while. It's a completely original design, loosely based on Damn The Torpedoes. Since I don't have a fuzzton of purple bricks, I had a lot of blues that were taking up space, and that weird upside down Ogel windshield refused to go away, I went for this. It's a little basic, but that's okay. There aren't any special features here, but the cockpit does have extra bricks that can be removed to convert it to hold a full minifig instead of just the little chubby Racer figs. Twin V8 engines because why not. You can also clearly see the female-to-female TYCO plate I keep using. It's holding the Ogel windshield in place. Check out the first post again as I've updated it with new family photos of all the boats.

Rad Hazard Use your booster! It's time for a few more boats. I built these around Christmas and forgot to take pictures until now. Rad Hazard is built from parts salvaged from a crashed UFO (according to the game), so it's both a spaceship and a boat. I leaned into that and added hidden rifle racks, pop-out radar dishes, and concealed missiles (most of these were removed for the pics and are not HTRA-certified). There's one more trick here... I wanted to make a remote controlled boat, so I looked for different R/C chassis that LEGO made, and I found the 8183 Track Turbo RC. This boat moves!... but it doesn't steer. The steering mechanism doesn't work very well even on the bare chassis. Rad Hazard is far too overweight to do more than move forwards and backwards. I don't care though, since I technically accomplished my goal. Getting the shape and the boost mechanism to fit together just right took a lot of time; at least a week. I didn't have enough of the right pieces initially, but my brothers donated some weird Star Wars walker a month earlier, so I ended up using that set for much of this boat. Most of the new light grey pieces came from it. I don't know the model number, but it looked like the top half of an AT-ST with eight legs that moved up and down when you pushed it forward on hidden wheels in the base.

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.

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.

it'll be bigger than Fortnite and middle schoolers everywhere will learn to skate

No offense but that just sounds like the first game without the other characters, but told in like one of those back-of-the-box descriptions to get kids interested without really describing the gameplay and story at all. Like, what is the exact gameplay style(s)? How long is this intended to be? If there's minigames like in the originals what's the plan with that? Are the other characters from the first game playable? Are there going to be multiple worlds like 2 or just on one main map like Island and Xtreme? What's the plot, if there is a single over-arcing one, or an unlockable one/more open-ended like in the original, or what? Well I mean. I'd just like to see some kind of concept, anything besides fancy pre-rendered stuff this early in development that doesn't really tell me anything about anything besides that you can render short animated videos. After the CEO of DDI himself spent five years talking about his Rock Raiders sequel plans without really getting much of anywhere, I'm just a little skeptical. Most of the projects I ever see go anywhere start off with the dev(s) just showing random stuff off and continuing to do so as they make progress - even when there's ones that need help or funding they usually have something to show off as an example of what the full thing is gonna be like (aside from the scam ones of course). I don't really know how to describe what I'm talking about that's going on here that I'm wary of, just not really sure there's a whole lot of solid game idea here besides "lego island 4". That doesn't do anything to answer my question. I just wanna know like, are you gonna be hiring professional VAs to emulate the acting in the original game, or just half-assing it?