Eric Reeves sadly passed away last year. I never got the chance to meet him personally, but had such an obvious passion for Rock Raiders. It’s sad to hear that he’s gone… 😔
Hmm. I was too old when LOM came out. I was nine and fealt the build was too juniorized.. RR are juniorized as well, but the theme is so intreguing that you can't compare it to any other theme imo. Feels like a darker take on classic space. Out of curiosity, what do you like with LOM? Trying to see old themes with fresh eyes :)
Probably a big part of nostalgia. In lego racers 2 I loved the whole Mars atmosphere from one of the worlds in that game. Bought a couple of sets and I just loved it to death at the time. Brings back memories. I don't really have an objective reason tbh.
@@000Orkarnikolla000 No, and that's what I love about it. I used to play that PC game when I was like 9 years old. Before all of this politically correct bullshit was ever even a thing in my mind.
@@ugandanknuckles3900 allright well i think to a great degree anti-pc people are more annoying. Much of the "political correctness" is just people saying hey maybe don't be a dick to minorities
My god. If there was a modern and more expansive Rock Raiders game for the PC, i'd have a blast to the past. This was one of my all time fave PC games back in the day and still loved every hour of that game. Definitely need more people like this collector to help reestablish probably the most beloved LEGO set.
Check out Manic Miners, it's just a Rock Raiders remake right now but there's talk about making a proper sequel when it's done www.reddit.com/r/manicminers/
Hell yes, Rock Raiders were my favorite sets back when I was a kid, I still have all of my sets and would never dare to sell them! The PC game was amazing too, I loved working hard to finish the levels so me and my brothers could watch the next piece of the story. One of these days, somebody needs to build the starship that was shown in the game. That thing was insane!
There are several MOCs of the ship and someone even made a virtual 1:1 scale recreation. It would be over 7 meters long if it were to be built in real life though.
I was 9 years old when this set came out and it was one of the themes I have that I actually own all sets from! I was a huge fan of this, and also played the game. It's so amazing to see this huge collection! I always wanted to build the extra vehicles from the games too, but for me that would have meant to take down one of the originals and I only had one 'copy' of each set. Awesome man (weird to see that it's such an unknown set, I remember it being very populair here in The Netherlands actually...)
Yeah, that would be insane. Based on a digital model, that I built many years ago* I assume, that it would be about 300 inches long and about 40 inches tall and wide (or in the metric system: almost 8 metres long and more than a metre tall and wide). *seriously, that's not a joke^^: For proof I recommend my thread "1:1 scale LMS Explorer (with file download)" on the website "Rock Raiders United"
@@arthurielaurillion Just watched the intro again and after I eyeballed how many bricks it was from the tallest point to bottom directly under the observation deck. The total was 126 bricks. After I did "quick maths" I got the measurement of 47.6220472 inches!!! 126 bricks did not sound to big until I calculated this.
@@sodapopcowboy8620 Amazing :D, that's actually quite close to the height measurements of my updated model (from 2016): 45.2 inches/114.7 cm In case you are interested: overall I posted stuff about the ship (or my recreation of it) in a few places, but my best summary is probably the one on bricklink: www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=105148
The Rock Raiders video game is awesome, it was a very unique strategy game at the time. I believe it was what got most people into this LEGO theme. There is still today a whole community about it on the RRU forum. I'm sure a lot of people would love a revival Rock Raiders video game, even just a remaster. I would buy it in a heartbeat :)
Rock Raiders was the best sets ever! I remember getting these sets in Okinawa when dad was in the military, and we'd go out into the sandbox and use the drill in the sand... :)
I absolutely loved Rock Raiders as a kid and played the game for hours and hours and dreamt of LEGO making more sets based on the game. This makes me very happy and makes me want to go collect the rest of the sets I don't have from when I was a kid. While I really liked Power Miners when it came out, nothing beats the classic Rock Raiders theme!
Well, if you want a modern rock raiders game ? Check out the fan remake Manic Miners... its a free classic rock raiders game, and polished up to a glow and working for modern systems.
I remember getting a LEGO Bionicle PC gam egiftes with the Rock Raider games included and playing and loving the Rock Raider game alot. I should still have it in my DVD box and should play it again
Lego did make lime green for bionicle (and some bricks) soon after but due to the dye added to the ABS those parts are notorious now for becoming extremely brittle breaking, and the fact that the slug never got a mold despite it being planned makes me think they probably knew this would be a problem.
Eric Reeves Nice job on the rock raiders, I was pretty amazed at how many sets you had hoarded. I love the rock raiders line, but I only have 4 sets and the Lego masterpiece edition of the video game (I think its funny seeing Windows 95/98 on the back of the packaging). I also really like the MOCs, like the Cargo Carrier, and my favorite, the large mobile laser cutter. You did a good job.
Eric Reeves your setup is awesome. Rock raiders is still probably my favorite theme (cuz its so classic). btw, where is that soundboard you developed? is there a link to it or is it scrapped?
Eric can you make a the rock raiders soundboard for download on play store. I am still a very big fan of rock raiders and own the four biggest sets on the theme and i have the pc and ps verision of the game and i would love the soundboard app and big collection you got there.
I have one of each of the official sets. I need to put them back together. Still have most of the boxes and should have the comics that came with them.
A mission of mine is to unearth this mans world record and create a shining jewel of a LEGO display. He will soon cave under the pressure of my victory. I shall win in a landslide. (Give or take a few years. It is going to be a blast.)
Just read your comment. I'm up for the challenge, lol. But be aware, my collection is double this since this video. Actually am setting up my basement lego room atm. - Eric
Id love to see a rerun of the lego rock raiders. Back when I was just a little one, I loved this series. Got the pc game but never got any actual sets.
I had one of the small one-man boats, and that two-legged driller. The two-legged driller especially was my pride and joy for a long time. And the Rock Raiders game was a lot of fun, too, though I never finished it as I was too young to really understand some of the more complex details. God damn it... now I kinda want to recollect some of those things. :P
To make this fully complete as a RR collection is to add the upgraded looks the vehicles had from the game. Like the small transport truck having two dump buckets or the chrome crusher having the dual drills. But other than that I loved this amazing nostalgia trip.
Wait. WAIT. so there never was LMS Explorer in the first place? wow D: yet they included it in the video game... what a bummer :( i was 5 when rock raiders came out and i got it to ps1 when i got it back in 2002-2003 and fuck ever since ive trying to locate that damn ship but it hasn't even existed, me and my friends in Space Engineers are actually building 1:1 replica of LMS Explorer :) but still i'd be glad to pay 400€ from that 1:1 LMS Explorer ship as real lego set because i love rock raiders and i think lego should re release them!
+MASTERHUNTER666 Some of the guys on Rock Raiders United are building their own digital MOCs of the LMS Explorer. There's already several micromodels built and I think there's even a completed 1:1 version that pretty much kills LDD because of how massive it is. Anyway, if you were to put a full-size model of the LMS Explorer (full-size as in if a minifig was human sized) next to a full-size ISD, chances are the LMS Explorer is larger.
+MASTERHUNTER666 I mean, just consider how the LMS Explorer essentially had to fit all of these vehicles and buildings (or just the parts of the vehicles and buildings you see as they're being constructed) inside of itself. It would have to be the size of the entire table, and then some. It would probably be architecturally similar to the Pillar of Autumn. Now THAT I would like to see as a LEGO set.
Actually I had to restart the 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer project in another program (LeoCAD) because LDD crashed somewhere around 18000 bricks D: * *luckily that didn't happen with the smaller versions, that I was able to build in LDD. P.S.: I think, that "were building" is the more appropriate term since the last L.M.S. Explorer MOC is from in 2013 (if you exclude Sparks8805's recreation of the L.M.S. Explorer bridge, that he posted this year in my 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer thread on RRU)
Well if LDD ain't up to the task, guess someone needs to save money and built it 1:1 size with the minifigs :O i dont really see any other way around than that :)
I admittedly can't. I often even break them down and rebuild them just for fun. My collection has grown a good bit since this though. So I'm building a custom display now.
I really wish Lego would re-release the old Rock Raiders game, along with Lego Chess, and Lego Creator. but making a brand spanking new Rock Raiders game would be fantastic. :) loved seeing this awesome diorama, Wish I was there in person.
I would love a new Rock Raiders Game, but I would want them to add in the vehicles from Power Miners and Mars Mission. Maybe allowing you to be able to choose from the three factions, or something. Also having the Crystal King be the final boss in the last mission would be awesome.
Lego Rock Raiders was an amazing PC game for it's time. It was children's level RTS game with resource management as well as cognitive tactics building for progression through the levels. I played this game when I was a child. Finished it one day and that was it. Recently in my life I came back to it our of curiosity. And well the mods out there for this game do not disappoint. They had made a few years ago "The Axel mod v1.5" that significantly changes the entire game from being a mere children's game, to an actual hardcore RTS game with pretty insane additional spacing to the level's more caverns, updated textures, boosts and compatibility upgrades to the coding. The miners have been updated logically- so gone are the days when you had to wait for your RR to go back to base and eat a sandwich. They've fixed problems like the speed setting glitch, while opening up new cans of worms like the dreaded Tunnel transport glitch. It's an entirely new game in itself, installation is archaic but possible if you grew up on old school OS's like I did. Overall, Rock Raiders is a timeless masterpiece both as a lego set I never owned, and as a video game faithfully creating their theme.
i totally agree. good news is that there is a fan made remake in unreal engine 4 named ManicMiners. he is activly working on it for years now and copied the entire story maps and made an custom level editor where you can play maps that you made yourself or that others made and the custom level editor even allows to set event triggers that allows to create your own complete story missions.
h ok. don't know them. If I made an animation based on or using rok raiders I just had a thought that I might ask you to cameo and ask for story or other info about it. you seem like the person whom to ask.
I’m fairly certain I have every Rock Raiders set commercially available, even the Chief minifigure. Some of those look custom though, and I’m pretty jealous.
Although I didn't grow up on Rock Raiders, I'd love to play the game (since it seems like it's the main focus, even more than the sets) I remember when my friend showed me this game thinking it was a Power Miners game (we were both Power Miners fans, I still am) and I also agree that when it comes to story Rock Raiders definitely beats Power Miners in that category ( notice that I said in that category, since I still think that Power Miners is better than Rock Raiders :p). Anyway, as I said before, I'd love to play the game and test it out for myself.
For those of you who have not yet heart about it, and for those of you intrigued by the old PC game... check out Manic Miners: A remake of Rock Raiders.
I used a spray paint you can get at your typical hardware store. You'll see it real quick because the cap should have the same texture. I am pretty sure it was rustoleum brand.
Most lego promotional material for all of its sets had real-world non-lego diorama elements. It's a little odd to me that so few fans seems to try hybrid dioramas.
