Rock Raider vehicles

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Axle driving the Loader Dozer

The Rock Raiders fleet includes a wide variety of vehicles for mining and exploration purposes. These vehicles

serve many purposes in the PC Game and the Playstation Games, from transportation to mining.

There are many different Rock Raider Vehicles. They can be teleported from the LMS Explorer to Rock Raider HQ when the Support Station is built via the Teleport Pad or Super Teleport Buildings. Vehicles are used to preform various functions, mainly drilling walls faster and for material transport on large Levels. They can also be used to transport Rock Raiders and (in some cases) other vehicles. Most of these vehicles are based on counterpart Lego Sets.



Major vehicles

The PlayStation version makes no such distinction; however, the substantial size difference between the two classes still makes them easy to distinguish.

Small vehicles

Small Vehicles

Small Vehicles are typically teleported down using the Teleport Pad and don't cost many Energy Crystals. Most of these are frequently used throughout gameplay, particularly during the earlier Levels. Because of their lower cost they can be used in great abundance, and perform the same types of tasks as Rock Raiders but much faster and more efficiently. They typically are more mobile than the larger vehicles though less efficient in handling their various tasks.

The small vehicles include:

Large vehicles

Large Vehicles
File:ChromeCrusher PC.png
The Chrome Crusher as portrayed in the PC game

Large Vehicles are typically teleported down using the Super Teleport and cost more than Small Vehicles. They can perform most of the same tasks as the smaller vehicles but with greater speed and efficiency (though usually with some drawbacks). These are mostly used during later Levels where Energy Crystals are more abundant.

The large vehicles include:

Other vehicles

There is also a Floating Platform that has appeared in the Playstation Game, which was not classified as large or small.

Floating Platform

The Floating Platform is an automated navigation tool used to cross large expanses of water and lava. It consists only of a single cross-with-dome plate with caution stripes on the dome part (part 30303px1). It only appears in the NTSC-U/C PlayStation version of LEGO Rock Raiders, in the levels Docs' Mission and Web Space. It is used to carry the player across water and lava in places where aquatic or flying vehicles are not available.

Hoverboard

Jet and Docs flying the Hoverboard in front of the story box

The Hoverboard is a small floating vehicle that can travel over land and water at low altitudes. It can hold two people at a time, though only one can sit. The Hoverboard is attached to the back of the Tunnel Transport in the set 4980 Tunnel Transport. Its only appearance in any media is in Rock Raiders - An Interactive Puzzle Storybook, where Jet and Docs use it to search for a level and elevated place to build Rock Raiders HQ, only to run into a battle between an Ice Monster and a Lava Monster. A Hoverboard also appears on the cover of Race for Survival, where it is driven by Jet and, depending on the version, either carrying Axle away from a magma flood or Docs away from a swarm of Rock Monsters; however, the vehicle does not actually appear anywhere in the book.

Unnamed hovercraft

Human Bandit pointing to where the Granite Grinder should go

An unnamed hovercraft appears in the set 4990 Rock Raiders HQ, where it parks in the building that would otherwise be the Teleport Pad. Its only appearance in any media is in the Time Cruisers comic featured in the September/October 1999 issue of the German LEGO World Club Magazin, where a humanized Bandit pilots it around the site where the Granite Grinder is drilling.