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'''LEGO Rock Raiders''' was a playtheme released by the LEGO Company in 1999. It featured 8 main sets, 4 promotional Kabaya toy sets, and 3 Mini Heroes Collection sets.  
'''LEGO Rock Raiders''' is a discontinued LEGO playtheme released in 1999. It featured 8 main sets, 4 promotional Kabaya toy sets, and 3 Mini Heroes Collection sets.  


== Story ==
== Story ==
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== LEGO Components ==
== LEGO Components ==
=== Sets ===
=== Sets ===
The Rock Raiders sets  
The Rock Raiders sets <ref name="Shop At Home - Summer 1999"/>


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
|-
| rowspan="8" | 1999
| rowspan="8" | 1999
| 4910 || The [[Hover Scout]] || || Jet ||
| 4910 || The [[Hover Scout]] || 39 || Jet ||
|-
|-
| 4920 || The [[Rapid Rider]] || || Bandit ||
| 4920 || The [[Rapid Rider]] || 38 || Bandit ||
|-
|-
| 4930 || The Rock Raiders || || Axle, Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks ||
| 4930 || The Rock Raiders{{efn|Released in the United States in 2000 as "Rock Raiders Crew" or "Rock Raiders Figures".<ref name="Shop At Home - January 2000"/>}} || 38<ref name="Shop At Home - January 2000"/> || Axle, Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks ||
|-
|-
| 4940 || The [[Granite Grinder]] || || Axle ||
| 4940 || The [[Granite Grinder]] || 108 || Axle ||
|-
|-
| 4950 || The [[Loader-Dozer]] || || Axle, Rock Monster ||
| 4950 || The [[Loader-Dozer]] || 89 || Axle, Rock Monster ||
|-
|-
| 4970 || The [[Chrome Crusher]] || || Axle ||
| 4970 || The [[Chrome Crusher]] || 167 || Axle ||
|-
|-
| 4980 || The [[Tunnel Transport]] || || Docs, Jet ||
| 4980 || The [[Tunnel Transport]] || 349 || Docs, Jet ||
|-
|-
| 4990 || The [[Rock Raiders HQ]] || || Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks, Rock Monster ||
| 4990 || The [[Rock Raiders HQ]] || 402 || Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks, Rock Monster ||
|}
|}


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Chief is cool and not worth the price.
Chief is cool and not worth the price.


* [[Axle]] − The driver
* [[Axle]] − The driver. Don't trust his evil twin Axel!
* [[Bandit]] − The sailor
* [[Bandit]] − The sailor
* [[Chief]] − The leader
* [[Chief]] − The leader
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The Rock Raiders franchise got 2 separate video games: One for PC, and one for PlayStation 1. They featured vastly different gameplay, where the PC game was a resource management RTS game, and the PlayStation game was a third-person action game.
The Rock Raiders franchise got 2 separate video games: One for PC, and one for PlayStation 1. They featured vastly different gameplay, where the PC game was a resource management RTS game, and the PlayStation game was a third-person action game.
Developed by [[Data Design Interactive]] and published by [[LEGO Media International]].


==== PC ====
==== PC ====
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Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books.
Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books.


* ''[[Rock Raiders (1999 book)|Rock Raiders]]''
* ''[[Rock Raiders (1999 book)|Rock Raiders]]'' – An "interactive puzzle storybook" written by [[Anna Knight]], illustrated by [[Roger Harris]], and published in 1999 by [[Dorling Kindersley]] as part of the ''LEGO Game Books'' series.
* ''[[Race for Survival]]''
* ''[[Race for Survival]]'' – A short novel written by [[Marie Birkinshaw]], illustrated by Roger Harris, and published in 2000 as part of the Dorling Kindersley ''Readers'' series.
* ''[[Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground]]''
* ''[[Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground]]'' – A graphic novel written by [[Alan Grant]], storyboarded by Robin Smith, and illustrated by [[LEGO Media International]]. It was published by LEGO in 2000.


==History==
==History==
[[File:ULB Rock Raiders Concept Art.jpg|thumb|Are those Insectoids? yooo Lego totally doesn't want us to see this!]]
[[File:ULB Rock Raiders Concept Art (Rescan).jpg|thumb|Are those Insectoids? yooo Lego totally doesn't want us to see this!]]


The Rock Raiders theme began production in 1997 with the codename "Underground". The sets stopped being produced in 2000. They wrote about it in ''[[The Ultimate LEGO Book]]''.<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book"/>
The Rock Raiders theme began production in 1997 with the codename "Underground". The sets stopped being produced in 2000. They wrote about it in ''[[The Ultimate LEGO Book]]''.<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book"/>
The Rock Raiders construction sets took eight months to develop.<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book"/>
Several other concepts for underground LEGO themes were developed at [[LEGO Futura]] during the mid-1990s before Rock Raiders.<ref name="Konstanski 2022"/> [[Advance]] artist [[Christian Faber]] claims that Rock Raiders was partially influenced by his unmade [[Cybots]] concept.<ref name="Faber Cybots"/>


=== Prototypes ===
=== Prototypes ===
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Oh yeah there's also Power minurss
Oh yeah there's also Power minurss
== Gallery ==
Prototypes for now
<gallery>
File:ULB early Rock Raiders drill 1.jpg | Early drill element
File:ULB early Rock Raiders drill 2.jpg | Later drill design; the pointed end was replaced with a stud in the final design
File:ULB early Rock Raiders tipper bucket.jpg | Early tipper bucket, still similar in shape to the Toolo bucket
ULB 4940 Granite Grinder Prototype.jpg | Early set 4940
ULB 2x3 Slope & Prototype Sets (Granite Grinder).jpg | Early set 4940
ULB 4950 Loader Dozer Prototype.jpg | Early set 4950
New1 1155 drilling-cutting machine.jpg | Unreleased set 1155
New1 1156 mini loaderdozer.jpg | Unreleased set 1156
ULB 2x3 Slope & Prototype Sets (hover vehicle).jpg | Unreleased set 1157
New2 1157 transporting hover vechicle.jpg | Unreleased set 1157
New2 1158 single stone transporter.jpg | Unreleased set 1158
IP1 Repair exosceleton.jpg
IP2 Mobile excavator 2.jpg
IP3 boat.jpg
IP3 hovering personel transport unit.jpg
IP4 driller.jpg
IP5 The Thing 2.jpg
</gallery>
== Notes ==
{{notelist}}


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Faber Cybots">{{cite web |url=https://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginning-birth-of-ball-joint.html |title=The beginning. Birth of a ball joint |last=Faber |first=Christian |author-link=Christian Faber |date=8 April 2012 |website=[[Faber Files]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117213944/https://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginning-birth-of-ball-joint.html |archive-date=17 November 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Konstanski 2022">{{cite book |title=[[The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks]] |last=Konstanski |first=Daniel |year=2022 |publisher=[[Wikipedia:Unbound (publisher)|Unbound]] |p=202 |ISBN=978-1-80018-196-0}}</ref>
<ref name="Shop At Home - Summer 1999">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/Lego-Shop-At-Home-Summer-1999-Rock-Raiders-Cover/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Underground Adventures! |magazine=[[LEGO Shop-At-Home]] |date=Summer 1999 |publisher=[[LEGO Systems, Inc|LEGO Shop At Home Services]] |location=[[Wikipedia:Enfield, Connecticut|Enfield, Connecticut]] |pages=2-5}}</ref>
<ref name="Shop At Home - January 2000">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/Lego-shop-at-home-January-2000/img031.jpg |title=Get the Brickonium Before the Rock Monster Gets You! |magazine=[[LEGO Shop-At-Home]] |date=January 2000 |publisher=[[LEGO Systems, Inc|LEGO Shop At Home Services]] |location=[[Wikipedia:Enfield, Connecticut|Enfield, Connecticut]] |page=31}}</ref>
<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimatelegobook0000unse/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Ultimate LEGO Book |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |location=[[Wikipedia:London|London]] |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Pickering |editor-first2=Nick |editor-last2=Turpin |editor-first3=Caryn |editor-last3=Jenner |pages=30–31 |year=1999 |section=The Design Concept |ISBN=0-7513-5948-3}}</ref>
<ref name="Ultimate Lego Book">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimatelegobook0000unse/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Ultimate LEGO Book |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |location=[[Wikipedia:London|London]] |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Pickering |editor-first2=Nick |editor-last2=Turpin |editor-first3=Caryn |editor-last3=Jenner |pages=30–31 |year=1999 |section=The Design Concept |ISBN=0-7513-5948-3}}</ref>
}}
}}


== External links ==
== External links ==
* ''[[Wikipedia:Lego Rock Raiders|Lego Rock Raiders]]'' at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Lego Rock Raiders|Lego Rock Raiders]] at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
* [https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Rock-Raiders LEGO Rock Raiders sets] on [[Brickset]]
* [https://rockraidersarchive.com/ Rock Raiders Archive]


{{LEGO Rock Raiders}}
{{LEGO Rock Raiders}}

Latest revision as of 07:21, 30 October 2025

LEGO Rock Raiders
Availability1999–2000
Total sets15
Characters7
Websitelego.com/rockraiders

LEGO Rock Raiders is a discontinued LEGO playtheme released in 1999. It featured 8 main sets, 4 promotional Kabaya toy sets, and 3 Mini Heroes Collection sets.

Story

The Rock Raiders

LEGO Components

Sets

The Rock Raiders sets [1]

Year Item No. Name Pieces Figures Designer(s)
1999 4910 The Hover Scout 39 Jet
4920 The Rapid Rider 38 Bandit
4930 The Rock Raiders[a] 38[2] Axle, Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks
4940 The Granite Grinder 108 Axle
4950 The Loader-Dozer 89 Axle, Rock Monster
4970 The Chrome Crusher 167 Axle
4980 The Tunnel Transport 349 Docs, Jet
4990 The Rock Raiders HQ 402 Bandit, Docs, Jet, Sparks, Rock Monster

Play Features

Minifigures

Chief is cool and not worth the price.

Write a little about each figure, maybe some of the media-exclusive ones too?

Unique parts

The theme introduces an abundance of unique parts. Many of the parts are large and have been criticized for being "juniorized".

Media

Video games

Main articles: LEGO Rock Raiders (video game) and LEGO Rock Raiders (PlayStation video game)

The Rock Raiders franchise got 2 separate video games: One for PC, and one for PlayStation 1. They featured vastly different gameplay, where the PC game was a resource management RTS game, and the PlayStation game was a third-person action game. Developed by Data Design Interactive and published by LEGO Media International.

PC

The PC game was a RTS-style resouce management game where the player has to complete tasks while fending off hostile creatures and managing environmental dangers.

PlayStation 1

The PlayStation game

Comic books

Each set had comic books! There were some in magazines too.

Story books

Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books.

History

Are those Insectoids? yooo Lego totally doesn't want us to see this!

The Rock Raiders theme began production in 1997 with the codename "Underground". The sets stopped being produced in 2000. They wrote about it in The Ultimate LEGO Book.[3] The Rock Raiders construction sets took eight months to develop.[3]

Several other concepts for underground LEGO themes were developed at LEGO Futura during the mid-1990s before Rock Raiders.[4] Advance artist Christian Faber claims that Rock Raiders was partially influenced by his unmade Cybots concept.[5]

Prototypes

RR Prototypes r kewl.

Release

Rock Raiders was commercially okay-ish.

Legacy

Many speculate the Raiders are still Rocking to this day.

LEGO Rock Raiders was succeeded by the incredibly popular BLock Raiders - an absolute marvellous game made by Stewart Green, a legendary computer programmer.

Oh yeah there's also Power minurss

Prototypes for now

  • Early drill element
    Early drill element
  • Later drill design; the pointed end was replaced with a stud in the final design
    Later drill design; the pointed end was replaced with a stud in the final design
  • Early tipper bucket, still similar in shape to the Toolo bucket
    Early tipper bucket, still similar in shape to the Toolo bucket
  • Early set 4940
    Early set 4940
  • Early set 4940
    Early set 4940
  • Early set 4950
    Early set 4950
  • Unreleased set 1155
    Unreleased set 1155
  • Unreleased set 1156
    Unreleased set 1156
  • Unreleased set 1157
    Unreleased set 1157
  • Unreleased set 1157
    Unreleased set 1157
  • Unreleased set 1158
    Unreleased set 1158

Notes

  1. ↑ Released in the United States in 2000 as "Rock Raiders Crew" or "Rock Raiders Figures".[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Underground Adventures!". LEGO Shop-At-Home. Enfield, Connecticut: LEGO Shop At Home Services. Summer 1999. pp. 2–5.
  2. ↑ a b "Get the Brickonium Before the Rock Monster Gets You!". LEGO Shop-At-Home. Enfield, Connecticut: LEGO Shop At Home Services. January 2000. p. 31.
  3. ↑ a b Pickering, David; Turpin, Nick; Jenner, Caryn, eds. (1999). "The Design Concept". The Ultimate LEGO Book. London: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-7513-5948-3.
  4. ↑ Konstanski, Daniel (2022). The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks. Unbound. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-80018-196-0.
  5. ↑ Faber, Christian (8 April 2012). "The beginning. Birth of a ball joint". Faber Files. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023.
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