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[7:56:32 PM] Will Kirkby: it's weird how people say "follow your dreams" instead of "follow your ambitions" because once i had a dream where i worked for a place that tried to genetically engineer ducks to speak english except the ducks only criticized people's fashion sense "I was not high I was just mentally high" - Joe in a Skype call

Don't listen to him. I met him at Brickfair and he turned out to be a spambot.

Greetings! I am Brigs, a teenage LEGO fan and building addict. I have played a few classic LEGO games, including LEGOLAND, Rock Raiders, and LEGO Island 2. More recently, I have played LEGO Universe, which slowly prompted my discovery of the online LEGO community. I occasionally post MOCs to my Flickr stream and watch a few walkthroughs of the classic games. I have been dormant here since my account creation a few months ago, but hopefully I can become an active member of the community!

I took a shot of the Dynmapp and labeled important locations. Let me know if I missed anything of if anything is mislabeled.

Surely! It's just a two-part thing, but it's in the July-August and September-October issues of MANIA Magazine. I haven't translated the interview with Kim Hagen yet, but woah there is some great stuff in the photographs. Hagen's copies of a few Klick-era comic pages, for the most part. And then there's this. Tim's little brother and the original Time Cruiser? EDIT: It looks like Hagen threw together a random blog in 2002 and pasted a writeup on Time Cruisers from 1998 in it. It's an interesting read. Note ...so although the year seems to be missing, the fact that the description focuses on the Microzapper arc implies that it means the September October 1998 issue. That means no new info on the earlier stuff, but there are a few interesting tidbits, such as the relationship between Tim and Cyber (he's Tim's uncle, making Articus his uncle, too, which makes Johnny Thunder his cousin?). Also, he calls Ali Ingo, implying whatever region the comic was originally written for used that name.

Did I say I was done translating? Not at all! Here's the City Center comic from the first 1998 issue. The Armored Car Robbery

[00:53:11] Will Kirkby: tbh Outside is really bad [00:53:19] Will Kirkby: I mean a linear leveling system? [00:53:23] Will Kirkby: who the f**** came up with that [00:53:40] McJobless: Worst problem is the difficulty curve. [00:53:57] McJobless: It's okay for like the first little while, but then it becomes a f****ing loop-de-loop. [00:54:03] Will Kirkby: yeah [00:54:13] Will Kirkby: and don't even get me started on the lack of character creator [00:54:31] Will Kirkby: devs were like "nah who wants that" and decided "basically random" was the way to go [00:54:39] Cirevam: Random character stats with no chance to re-roll [00:54:42] Cirevam: And permadeath [00:54:44] McJobless: Well, you change your apperance, but it's really costly. [00:54:49] jamesster: the police chases are quite realistic [00:54:57] Will Kirkby: [00:54] McJobless: <<< Well, you change your apperance, but it's really costly.and often doesn't work out as intended [00:55:08] jamesster: the AI for the politicians is really dumb though [00:55:23] Cirevam: The random status effects are annoying too. They're almost always debuffs and it's hard to pronounce them. [00:55:27] McJobless: Also, that physics engine...dafaq is that about? [00:55:32] Will Kirkby: [META] @jamesster all humans are players. No "AI" [00:55:55] Cirevam: The physics are pretty consistent at least. I don't have to worry about my car flipping when I drive over a pebble. [00:56:00] Will Kirkby: this is true [00:56:03] jamesster: But they act like robots [00:56:16] Will Kirkby: I've yet to see anyone flip and embed their plane in the ground upside down [00:56:17] jamesster: They gotta be bots [00:56:20] McJobless: But no double-jump? What if I have to go destroy a poster on top of a roof? [00:56:57] Cirevam: Grappling hooks and ladders exist. Rope physics are top-notch, but there's the tangling bug. [00:57:02] McJobless: And what's with gunplay? Recoil is way too unrealistic... [00:57:29] Cirevam: In what way? Too low or too high? [00:57:53] McJobless: Way too high. It's like you'd need to be a trained professional to use weapons... [00:57:56] McJobless: That's ridiculous. [00:58:11] McJobless: And what's with the player economy? [00:58:43 | Edited 00:58:50] Will Kirkby: Be nice if we could get a standardized currency system across all regions [00:59:15] McJobless: The very least would be access to all the deleted content. [00:59:23] McJobless: I'd like to see what those Dodos were like. [00:59:40] Cirevam: Maybe they were just alpha content [01:00:02] McJobless: Earth Version 0.0.01: Now a ball of lava [01:00:12] Will Kirkby: no that's like [01:00:25] Will Kirkby: that was the patch after famed player "Jesus" was born [01:00:39] Will Kirkby: currently we're on 20.1.4 [01:00:39] McJobless: Wasn't his K/D 10? [01:00:49] Will Kirkby: No idea [01:01:04] Will Kirkby: gotta commend him on that item duplication glitch [01:01:14] McJobless: All I know is he used noclip and /quit. [01:01:45] Will Kirkby: nah he didn't /quit [01:01:52] Will Kirkby: a bunch of other players got rather annoyed at him [01:01:57] Will Kirkby: something about claiming to know the developers [01:02:00] McJobless: He just changed servers. [01:02:20] Cirevam: I heard he was hacking [01:02:20] McJobless: Went to a private dev server, of course...those sneaky devs. [01:02:27] Cirevam: Some resurrection cheat after the roman team killed him [01:02:35] Will Kirkby: yeah [01:02:50] Will Kirkby: btw, anyone know any tricks for the girlfriend questline? [01:02:52] McJobless: That guild disbanded a long time ago. [01:03:03] McJobless: [01:02] Will Kirkby: <<< btw, anyone know any tricks for the girlfriend questline?Use +1 b**** Slap [01:03:15] McJobless: Sometimes it helps if you /give chocolate [01:03:25] Will Kirkby: noted, thanks! [01:03:29] McJobless: Other times you might need a 10 minute timeout. [01:03:41] jamesster: I just like the mini games and vehicles [01:03:43] Cirevam: You have to be careful. Random character stats means they have random preferences. [01:03:43] McJobless: I can't wait for the zombie mod addon. [01:04:48] McJobless: You also have to watch out for their 12-day AoE attack that happens once a month. [01:05:16] Will Kirkby: yeah I've heard about that one [01:05:30] Cirevam: 12 days? Aussie women have really long attack periods... [01:05:30] Will Kirkby: last time I tried the girlfriend questline it kinda seemed like she had it active all the time [01:06:12] McJobless: As it turns out I activated the quest too late because the devs put a stupid time-limit in secret. [01:06:40] McJobless: Too bad this game doesn't have a guidebook. [01:06:53] McJobless: Well, it does, but they're pretty old. [01:07:08] Will Kirkby: there's a player-made one called "Wikipedia" but it's a bit unwieldy [01:07:39] McJobless: I heard "The Bible" works when you go to some of the less updated areas. [01:07:48] Cirevam: I've heard of "life hacks" that are supposedly legal but they're really fishy. [01:08:25] McJobless: Apparently you can obtain "The Anarchist Cookbook", but the police ban you for griefing. [01:09:15] McJobless: I gotta go now, my Hyngine level is dipping into the red. [01:09:26] McJobless: Need to play the "Shower" mini-game. [01:09:33] Will Kirkby: okiedokie [01:09:35] Cirevam: Good luck with that [01:09:54] McJobless: Hopefully will make it to level 12 this time : D

[04:02 PM] Alcom1: I need a new creation sharing site. MOC pages is stuck in the dark ages and only allows heavily compressed .jpg files, and Brickshelf doesn't allow me to move folders. [04:22 PM] legoislandftw: what about here? [04:31 PM] Alcom1: Rock Raiders United is too underground.

? Then how come someone liked the post? Oh, and since the tags contain 'flowers' I'd guess that that is a hallmark of (slight) insanity. Welcome to RRU if you aren't a spambot and actually want to stay here. I'm glad jamesster posted, because it's great for proving who in RRU can detect a joke or not. Brigs. Keep those pants on. McJobless out.

James. You're up.

[12:13:03] Ramius Antillies: wait wait [12:13:10] Ramius Antillies: My Star Destroyer turns. : ) [12:13:10] Stan McStudz: hopefully it undoes that [12:14:15] McJobless: "My Star Destroyer turns. : )" All the gay jokes to be made... [12:15:19] Ramius Antillies: Would you want to risk it though with all that firepower trained on you? [12:15:32] Stan McStudz: Prepare Uranus. [12:16:32] Ramius Antillies: I will slap you, Studz. [12:17:01] Stan McStudz: With your Star Destroyer? [12:17:17] Ramius Antillies: No, with my black leather glove.

[1:34:22 PM] jamesster: 10/10 trolling attempt [1:35:05 PM] jamesster: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1F5cHzF2hpUSXNwFJeINA/discussion [1:35:12 PM] jamesster: awwww crap guys he's pissed off larry boy [1:35:39 PM] jamesster: better watch out dude or larry's gonna go all cucumber on ur butt [1:36:36 PM] jamesster: ... ok maybe I should rephrase that [1:36:42 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: No. [1:36:43 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: No. [1:36:47 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: No need to rephrase it. [1:36:53 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: It's PERFECT as it is. [11:05:40 PM] jamesster quoted: [11:05 PM] MicleBrick: did u code that from scratch [11:05 PM] jamesster: I certainly scratched something while coding it

[12:16:47] Conference call, duration 00:00. [12:17:02] Ciprian: I DIDN'T DO IT [12:17:23] Ciprian: I PROMISE ON THE GREAT POTATO HIGH IN THE SKY

[removed a couple irrelevant messages, but still provides all the necessary context] @ karsten : (13 January 2014 - 02:31 PM)mmm the forum is kind a dead @ karsten : (13 January 2014 - 02:31 PM)did not expect that @ Fushigisaur : (13 January 2014 - 02:40 PM)I wouldn't consider it dead when we are haiving a nice little discussion about the UFO theme over in the Time Cruisers topic @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:52 PM)yep a forum is certainly dead when people talk on it and do things with it every day @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:53 PM)activity most certainly means dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:54 PM)wow that must mean I'm dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:54 PM)we're all dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:55 PM)the zombie apocalypse has always been here but we've been too alive to notice we're dead

Funny that this topic came about just as I started playing Loco again! The only ones I know of are: Mansion/Semi-detached cottage : Build two parallel red cottages Baby Bunny : Plant an apple tree and let it fully bloom Duck : Build a lake Space Shuttle : Build two parallel radars Pizza delivery truck : Build a gas station Fire Truck : Build a fire station Cow : Build a field Red Car : Build a petrol station Yellow Car : Build a red bungalow Desert Scenery : Play LEGO Loco on Independence Day Snow Scenery and Christmas Scenery : Play LEGO Loco on Christmas Day Ghost Trains and Halloween Scenery : Play LEGO Loco on Halloween And a few I discovered from some friends/the internet: Giant Robot : Build an IG skyscraper parallel to a radar Nessie : Build a lake and plant sunflowers around its perimeter Large Fountain : Build four fountains in a square Island : Build four curved road pieces in a square, each leading to the next I've seen a number of screenshots (perhaps from a beta) that show footbridges - has anyone managed to find them in the finished game?