Guide:LEGO Loco Easter eggs

The Super Station Master is one of the most well-known Easter eggs in the game; the character later appeared in LEGO Island 2 and Island Xtreme Stunts

This guide for the 1998 video game LEGO Loco lists all known Easter eggs in the game and explains how to find them.

List of Easter eggs

Placement-based

Placement of roads, buildings, and scenery that result in Easter eggs

These Easter eggs are triggered by placing certain tracks, buildings, and scenery objects in specific positions relative to each other. If placed correctly, the objects will interact with each other once the Toybox is closed, either merging to create a new object or triggering a change in one of the objects.

• Placing four road corner pieces in a circular formation causes them to fuse into an "island" with a palm tree in the centre.
• Placing two of house 10 − the red cottage with a yellow roof − next to each other causes them to fuse into a large red house.
• Placing a radar station to the right side of the Intelligent Games office building causes the office building to turn into a giant robot.
• Placing two radar stations directly next to each other causes them to fuse and turn into a launch pad with a space shuttle. Once at least one launch pad exists in the world, flying saucers will start to appear randomly.
• Placing sunflowers around the entire perimeter of a lake causes the Loch Ness Monster to appear in it. It will eventually hide in the lake again, but will reappear after each time the Toybox is closed.
• Placing four fountains into a square formation causes them to fuse into a large fountain; a rainbow appears out of the large fountain when this happens. The large fountain unlocks in the Toybox after this, but placing it from the Toybox will not create a rainbow.
• Placing a dinosaur statue on the left side of a Paint Shop will turn it red.
• Placing a dinosaur statue in between two Paint Shops will turn it blue.

Visit-based

Bunny rave!

These Easter eggs are triggered by minifigures and animals visiting a building or scenery object. This can happen naturally when they travel to a specific location, or can be forced by the player moving residents to the desired location. A visit seems to count as someone being on or within one tile of the object. Once a visit-based Easter egg has been triggered, a chime sound (usually) plays and the game attempts to focus on the object or minifigure affected by the Easter egg.

• Disco: After 5 visits, the building's front doors open, the roof shakes, and the two lights on the roof begin flashing colours. After the initial animation, the doors remain open, and clicking on the building will cause the lights and roof to animate again. Music can be heard constantly playing from the building, and will only stop if the building is erased.
• Launch pad: After 100 visits, a countdown timer starts on the launch pad; when it reaches zero, the space shuttle launches towards the top of the screen.
• Obelisk: After 10 visits, the obelisk will briefly spin rapidly.
• Dinosaur statue: After 15 visits, the dinosaur will look around and roar. This does not appear to work with red or blue ones, although the code to trigger it is present in their files.
• Volcano: After 60 visits, an eruption occurs, causing lava to pour down the sides of the volcano before cooling and hardening. After the initial animation, the volcano will remain in its post-eruption state; despite its appearance, this Easter egg can trigger multiple times.
• Large fountain: After 120 visits, the water in the fountain temporarily drains to reveal gold shining at the bottom, and another rainbow appears over the fountain.

While most of these Easter eggs happen after any residents visit a location a certain amount of times, the Station Master minifigure has unique interactions with a few objects:

• A Station Master near a telephone booth may turn into a Super Station Master.
• Station Masters may water nearby sunflowers, causing them to bloom and grow. Sunflowers placed near a train station that a Station Master is inside of will also grow. This seems to spam notifications for some reason.

Date-based

During Halloween, all minifigures become skeletons

Winter and Christmas items are both available during late December

These Easter eggs are triggered by launching LEGO Loco on specific days.

• Easter: 1 April − 14 April.
  • Five scenery items are unlocked: a lake, a striped pine tree, and three Easter eggs.
  • Worlds start with the "Green" background when starting the game.
  • The handles for the Toybox and Zoombox change to have a striped appearance.
• Desert: 11 June − 11 July.
  • Thirteen scenery items are unlocked: a pasture, a lake, five cacti (two identical), a yucca, two barren trees, three large rocks, and two small rocks.
  • Worlds start with the "Arid" background when starting the game.
• Halloween: 30 October − 1 November.
  • Ten scenery items are unlocked: a pasture, a lake, three jack-o'-lanterns, a barren tree, a bat pole, a skull pole, a mushroom, and (likely accidentally) a gift box. One road piece is also unlocked, adding a skull and crossbones to the dead end piece.
  • Worlds start with the "Backhall" background when starting the game.
  • The handles for the Toybox and Zoombox change to resemble a bone, and when hovered over plays a Mysterioso Pizzicato melody.
  • All minifigures in new or loaded worlds irreversibly turn into skeletons.
  • On 31 October specifically, all trains turn into ghost trains.
• Winter: 1 December − 31 December.
  • Eleven scenery items are unlocked: a pasture, a lake, a fountain, two snowy pine trees (both identical), three barren trees (all identical), a snowy palm tree, a flower stem, and a snowy mushroom. Six snowy road pieces are also unlocked.
  • House 7 will turn into an igloo house when placed; the igloo is not permanently unlocked.
  • Worlds start with the "Winter" background when starting the game.
• Christmas: 24 December − 30 December.
  • Five scenery items are unlocked: a Christmas tree, a holly plant, and three gift boxes.
  • The handles for the Toybox and Zoombox change to have holly leaves on it, and when hovered over plays a Christmas bell melody.
  • All winter changes are also applied.

Removed Easter eggs

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The Viking statue was planned to have an Easter egg where it mooned the player; while the graphics still exist in the game's files, it is currently unknown if it can be triggered. The statue's file indicates it was intended to have a visit-based trigger, but the values for it have been removed. Intelligent Games founder Matthew Stibbe said that the "moony" Easter egg was triggered by simply clicking on the statue, and that during a visit by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, one of the programmers had demonstrated it for him. Kristiansen "roared with laughter" upon seeing it, but the LEGO Media producers attending with him had a colder reaction, and the sales team demanded its removal. (Development team leader Dee Jarvis instead stated that the statue had a temporary animation of it "taking a piss", that it was only intended to be seen by the game's developers, and that its demonstration to Kristiansen had been accidental.) However, Stibbe later claimed that the Easter egg is still in the game, having been kept in due to Kristiansen's approval.

An even larger version of house 10 exists in the game's files, but seems to be unused. This version appears to have been formed by placing four houses in a square formation.

Witches were apparently intended to fly across the map during Halloween, but these are not present in the game.