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LEGO Racers 2 is a LEGO-branded racing game released in 2001. It is a sequel to LEGO Racers which was released in 1999. LEGO Racers 2 is quite similar to kart racing games like Mario Kart and Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed which allows you to race opponents while attacking each other with weapons you pick up along the way.

LEGO Racers is a popular LEGO Theme that was first announced to the public in 2001, which is the successor of LEGO Race, with the release of crashing mini race cars at the first year (2001). Since 2002, the race cars in LEGO System and TECHNIC universe (including Radio Control race cars) were released under the LEGO Racers theme. Different subthemes have been developed including Drome Racers. LEGO Fan Fiction. This forum contains user made stories based around themes released by LEGO. Slimey Smarts: A Rock Raiders Animation. Edwin, October 4, 2020. October 4, 2020.

LEGO Racers is a LEGO-themed kart racer, with the main plot focusing on beating Rocket Racer, supposedly the greatest racer ever.

• 1Unused Areas
• 3Unused Sounds
• 4Revisional Differences

Unused Areas

Knightmare-Athon

Oh yes, the infamous Knightmare-Athon shortcut. This was rumored, questioned, and forever asked about throughout the whole community. Knightmare-Athon became the only track in the game that went without a shortcut, and it was searched on for years. Thanks to modding and uncoverings by the developers, the secrets behind the shortcut were finally revealed. Firstly, as it turns out there are remnants of not one, but two shortcuts planned.

Here is the first shortcut. Notice how there is a red brick above the right doorway. This brick is completely inaccessible in the normal game. From what can be inferred, you were originally to knock down the pillar in front of the castle to form a ramp and get up there, and the shortcut would have skipped over the quick tour through the castle and taken you out before that hair-pin turn, judging by a badly patched wall. This one was totally scrapped from the final game.

This is the gist of the other shortcut. The white rings here are invisible through normal gameplay -- they are checkpoints, and are used to determine how you complete a full lap. Notice several going out of the boundary. This outlines where the shortcut was going to take place initially. You would shoot a boulder, and it would roll out of the way for the shortcut to open. You would drive over the tunnel, and come out at the part of the track with the ship shooting the cannonballs. This one seems to have been removed very far into development, because more remnants of this short-cut exist than any other.

This is the wall where the boulder was supposed to be. It's not patched very well and looks blocky compared to the rest.

This prototype screenshot shows the boulder while it was still in place.

Pirate Skull Pass

Pirate Skull Pass also has remnants of a scrapped shortcut. Granted, it does have a shortcut, but it's not really much of one, more like an alternate pathway not worth taking.

Here is the first power-up which is completely inaccessible. It's under a hill and impossible to reach.

This is the other inaccessible power-up, in the center of the photo.

The place where the shortcut was going to start was barricaded with a fence. Early prototype screenshots show that the fence was completely absent at first, so it would only make sense. You would have first gone through the wall on the left of the shot (given a blocky texture), traversed under the track some, and come out under one of the hills, as said hill shows to be a glitchy corner.

Desert Adventure Dragway

Desert Adventure Dragway also has a scrapped shortcut. There is a green brick under the sphinx's shortcut and it's unreachable.

An early screenshot shows the sphinx's shortcut with two roads. The one on the right was cut in the development, the other on the left is still there. In the middle of the screenshot there is water or something like that. The sphinx is totally absent, in its place there are two obelisks. It's interesting to note that there are crystals (now bricks) one red, blue and green on the blue thing and one green near the car (among other similar to the car of Basil the Bat). There is a white crystal on the road to the left.

Unused Music

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This is the background music for the original intro; the demo version of the game and the Nintendo 64 version both have an intro rendered on the in-game engine that is completely different from the FMV intro featured in the actual game. The demo was likely released before the FMV intro was finished and the N64 version has it probably due to space limitations, but the PC version's finished product leaves it out. However, the original background music track for it remains in the game data.

Unused Sounds

Knightmare-Athon

BOULDOOR.PCM

This unused sound is found in Knightmare-Athon's race folder. It's very likely it was going to be used for when you hit the boulder to open the scrapped shortcut, supported by the pun in its filename.

WITCH.PCM

Also found in Knightmare-Athon's race folder is this generic witch cackle. It was probably an early version of the cackle the witch makes near the end of the course.

Revisional Differences

There are two prints of the 1999 version, and a re-release in 2001 that had a few minor tweaks made to it. Firstly, the copy protection differs between the three versions. The later 1999 print had SafeDisc V1 copy protection (though some of the earliest prints lacked it for some reason), and you had to have the disc in the drive to run it. The 2001 version removed this, probably to cheapen it and save on space. This allows the player to install the game and play it without the CD.

Secondly, the 1999 version had development code in it that allowed it to run with the uncompressed JAM archive (the game's resource file is called LEGO.JAM), likely for easier development. The 2001 version removed this code, though why it didn't remove the shortcut remnants is beyond us.

Much like other early-2000s LEGO game revisions, the printed manual was excluded in favor of a PDF manual.

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Bushmaster xm15 e2s serial number lookup. The 1999 version awarded you trophies on your character's license for every boss you beat. These go unused in the 2001 version for reasons unknown.

These are the loading screens for each version, which were an element changed twice. The very early prints of the 1999 version had the map extended to fill the entire screen. The copy-protected 1999 prints changed this to only be a select few. The 2001 version shrank all of them into a small box in the middle, with the usual blue-studded background that all the other menus use.

Kart Physics

The 2001 version also significantly altered the game's physics, in the process removing a central feature of the game. The manual states that the placement and amount of bricks on a car will affect the car's balance. While this is fully functional in the 1999 release, the 2001 release completely disables it.This change in physics also results in the side-effect of being able to go up the back of the shortcut in Imperial Grand Prix. The track data is identical between releases. It may have been disabled since it could be exploitable in some cases, or for balance against CPU's who did not have this weight mechanic. It is also of note that neither the N64 nor the PS1 version feature this mechanic, probably again for balancing reasons.

Miscellaneous Differences

• The attract mode demo that plays while leaving the title screen idle for a set amount of time very rarely plays in the 2001 version.
• During the introduction cutscene for Rocket Racer, Rocket Racer does not laugh when he says '..at the finish line!' in the 2001 version.
• During Single, Versus, and Time races, the song that plays in a race will always be the same song regardless of how many times the same race is restarted in the 2001 version. The only way to get a different song is to abandon or finish the current race and start it again.
• The sound for the warp turbo power-up is different between versions: The 1999 versions have the sound loop repeatedly until the power-up ends, and the 2001 version has the sound play only once, which is similar to the console versions.

Lego Racers 3