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Hi all, ..and you thought the chief was a rare minifig, this guy (linked below) as far as I know is unique. Lego made this prototype based on the in-game model that I designed. He originally had a chrome arm (like his helmet) in the game, but Lego were unable to use that more brittle plastic as arms, so he ended up with the distinctive turquoise colour. Lego's original plan was to bundle this fig with the game but that plan was dropped for reasons unknown to me, perhaps time or budget constraints. ..anyway, I trust you like that little history lesson, and hope you're still enjoying Rock Raiders as much as we did making it. https://imgur.com/ioTRPcR

@ArmitageShanks Hey there! Let me start by dropping the link to the other server mentioned, Manic Miners' Discord server: https://discord.gg/C3hH7mFsMv We are currently the biggest Rock Raiders remake to date and have a very active Rock Raiders discussion! Feel free to give it a try if you got the time I had a few questions too! 1) You mentioned you worked on the cutscene. Recently, a 3-minute audio cue belonging to an unseen cutscene was discovered, and we have desperately tried to find any video of it but it is nowhere to be seen. It ends with Chief shouting "Lego Rock Raiders!" and laughing, which is very cool! There are also sounds of buildings, vehicles, slimy slugs, rock monsters, and things we aren't sure about. The only speculation I have is that this could've been a test animation for the proposed "TV show" that never made it anywhere. Do you remember anything from this? As reference, here is the 3-minute sound file on SoundCloud, with the filename of the sound file intact (SEC Ex1SIM): 2) You talked about the process of creating 3D models to render textures. Do you happen to still have any of these 3D models somewhere? I'd love to re-render the walls from scratch in higher resolution! So far I've had to rely on others' Neural Network upscales for my remake, and while they're incredible, nothing outmatches true source assets. (this goes for the cutscenes too, but we'll likely never get the source files for those) 3) You have a Chief figure: Do you have any other physical items from Rock Raiders development? I remember seeing a few renders of your exact Chief above together with a Rock Monster, a Lurker, and a Slimy Slug, all looked to be created by the same person and made to potentially be produced as physical items. Please see the gallery here for the renders: https://imgur.com/a/C7wbGEc . This got me thinking, if you made the Chief and have that, maybe you have any of the other ones too, or saw their prototypes? I've always wanted to see a physical version of the Slimy Slug in particular! 4) Do you remember if you had any other of the Rock Raiders with leg prints? The early prototypes showed a figure with blue printed legs (shown here, scan is property of Zanthera: https://i.imgur.com/uW18Nyg.jpg ). These prints never made it to production, all final minifigures had plain legs, unfortunately. 5) Finally, do you remember designing/animating anything that never made it into the game or cutscenes that you really wanted to have been in the game? I had a question I forgot so I'll simply send some more later, hopefully! Cheers!