LMS Explorer
The LMS Explorer (alternatively written as L.M.S. Explorer) is a fictional starship in the LEGO Rock Raiders theme. The Explorer is a large ship used by the titular Rock Raiders while they explore the galaxy. In the theme's story, the ship is damaged by asteroids and its fuel supplies are drained, shown in most media to be caused by it falling into a wormhole. It ends up drifting near an alien planet that the Rock Raiders mine to collect materials to repair and power it. The Explorer was designed for the theme's tie-in video game. No parts of it were ever released in a set, although unofficial digital recreations of it have been made.
Sections of the LMS Explorer were designed and constructed at LEGO Futura in Billund, Denmark.[1] Images of these models were used by Artworld UK to create a full virtual model of the ship.
Game
The Rock Raiders puzzle storybook loosely follows the story of the video game, though there is no wormhole in this version. While traveling through space on a voyage home, the LMS Explorer is struck by a large asteroid, damaging it and sending it off-course. Without enough power crystals to continue back on course, the Explorer becomes stranded in orbit around an uncharted planet.[4]: 2–3 The Rock Raiders require LEGO ore to repair the physical damage to the Explorer and power crystals to refuel it; deposits of both materials are detected on the planet. The LMS Explorer has only thirty-seven units of power remaining upon its arrival at the planet. The ship requires eleven units of power to continue operations, leaving twenty-six units for transporting a team of Rock Raiders down to the planet. The ship's transporter requires three units of power for each of the five Rock Raiders (fifteen total), one unit for equipment for each Rock Raider (five total), and six units to transport down all vehicles.[4]: 4–5 Five Rock Raiders, led by Docs, are transported down to the surface of the planet, where they must use the Tunnel Transport to travel underground to its sub-surface.[4]: 6 After the team finds a pile of power crystals behind a layer of granite boulders, the Explorer runs out of power, and the Rock Raiders must repair the teleport platform (which was damaged during mining) so that they can send the collected power crystals and LEGO ore up to the ship.[4]: 26 After the Rock Raiders transport back to the Explorer too, the ship's scanner detects an alien life form aboard;[4]: 28–29 a rock monster is discovered to have stowed away aboard tbe ship.[4]: 30
In the follow-up book Race for Survival, the LMS Explorer returns to the alien planet, here called Planet U, six months after initially being stranded there.[5]: 4–5
HADU[6]
References
- ↑ Yeo, Matt (ed.) (October 1999). "Behind the Scenes: Rock Raiders". LEGO Adventures!. Issue 7. Egmont Fleetway Ltd. pp. 30–33. ISSN 1465-0738.
- ↑ Artworld UK (11 August 1999). LEGO Rock Raiders intro FMV (Data/AVI/intro.avi). LEGO Media International.
- ↑ R.R. Slugger (2 January 2022). "How to Build the LMS Explorer from LEGO Rock Raiders! Interview with Arthuriel on 1:1 Replica!". YouTube.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Knight, Anna (1999). Rock Raiders. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0-7894-4707-X.
- ↑ Birkinshaw, Marie (2000) Race for Survival. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0-7894-5458-0.
- ↑ Grant, Alan (2000). Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground. LEGO Systems, Inc. ISBN 1-903276-05-5.
