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=== Story books === | === Story books === | ||
Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books. | Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books. | ||
* ''[[Rock Raiders: An Interactive Puzzle Storybook]]''– Anna Knight 1999 | |||
* ''[[Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground]]'' – Alan Grant, 2000 | |||
* ''[[Race for Survival]]'' – Marie Birkinshaw, 2000 | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Many speculate the Raiders are still Rocking to this day. | Many speculate the Raiders are still Rocking to this day. | ||
''LEGO Rock Raiders'' was succeeded by the incredibly popular BLock Raiders - an absolute | ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' was succeeded by the incredibly popular ''BLock Raiders'' - an absolute marvelous game made by [[Stewart Green]], a legendary computer programmer. | ||
Oh yeah there's also Power minurss | Oh yeah there's also Power minurss | ||
Revision as of 00:58, 17 January 2023
LEGO Rock Raiders was a LEGO theme focused on underground mining equipment. The theme consisted of eight main construction sets released in 1999, followed by seven smaller promotional sets in 2000. It also had a number of tie-in products, including three books and a video game.
Story
The Rock Raiders
LEGO Components
Sets
The Rock Raiders sets
Play Features
Minifigures
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
The Rock Raiders franchise got 2 separate video games: One for PC, and one for PlayStation. 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.
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!
Story books
Rock Raiders got 3 separate story books.
- Rock Raiders: An Interactive Puzzle Storybook– Anna Knight 1999
- Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground – Alan Grant, 2000
- Race for Survival – Marie Birkinshaw, 2000
History
The Rock Raiders theme began production in 1997 with the codename "Underground". The sets stopped being produced in 2000.
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 marvelous game made by Stewart Green, a legendary computer programmer.
Oh yeah there's also Power minurss
