Small Transport Truck
The Small Transport Truck, also referred to as the All-Terrain Rock Mover or just Transport Truck, is a vehicle from the LEGO Rock Raiders theme. It is a four-wheeled motorized vehicle with a cargo hold for efficiently hauling materials at high speeds.
Small Transport Trucks are only usable in the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders; they do not appear at all in the PlayStation version. The Small Transport Truck appears in the set 4990 Rock Raiders HQ, where it can haul boulders around the eponymous HQ.
In LEGO Rock Raiders for Windows
In the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders, the Small Transport Truck is classified as a small vehicle, and requires two Energy Crystals for power. A Rock Raider must be trained as a driver to use a Small Transport Truck.
Without upgrades, this vehicle can travel at a decent 2 blocks per second, and can carry up to three Energy Crystals or pieces of Ore. It can also carry a single Electric Fence. It cannot, however, carry Building Studs, barriers, or drained Energy Crystals.
Although the Small Transport Truck is a very useful vehicle, it can be problematic with construction, as it often delivers more materials than required, preventing the building from being completed until the extra materials are removed, which Rock Raiders often don't recognize for some time. This can be easily remedied, however, by building an Ore Refinery, preventing them from taking Ore anywhere but there, though this bug will still occur with Energy Crystals.
Dependency
The Small Transport Truck costs 2 Energy Crystals and requires the following for teleportation:
- Rock Raider
- Tool Store [UP1]
- Teleport Pad [UP1]
- Power Station [UP1]
- Support Station
Upon telelporting down a Small Transport Truck for the first time, the help window will display this message:
You now have your first Small Transport Truck. You can use it to carry small items such as Ore and Energy Crystals.
Upgrades
There are three upgrades available for the Small Transport Truck:
- Engine: Costs 10 pieces of Ore
Installs a pair of small jet engines similar to those on the Rapid Rider, increasing the vehicle's route speed from 2 blocks per second to 3 blocks per second. - Scanner: Costs 5 pieces of Ore
Installs a scanner aboard the vehicle, with a scanning radius of 4 blocks. - Carry Capability: Costs 5 pieces of Ore
Adds a second cargo hold to the vehicle, doubling the capacity from 3 to 6. It can still only carry a single Electric Fence.
Appearances
- In 4. Moving Rock Raider Vehicles, a Small Transport Truck serves as the first vehicle that the player must train a Rock Raider to use and navigate across the level.
- In Run The Gauntlet, a Small Transport Truck can be found in the second hidden cavern, along with a Small Digger.
In other media
The Small Transport Truck does not make much appearance in the Rock Raiders books and comics, likely due to it not coming in a set of its own, and being overshadowed by consistently-named vehicles as a result. Its only major appearance in the books is in Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground, where Axle uses it to rescue Bandit from an Ice Monster attack. While escaping with Jet, they encounter a slumbering Rock Whale, who wakes up and causes a magma flow.
The Small Transport Truck also appears in the mini comic book for the set 4990 Rock Raiders HQ, where Bandit uses it to dump the leftover rock from a refined Energy Crystal into the Rapid Rider's cargo hold, though part of it misses and hits Docs instead.
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | |
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Czech Čeština | Malý transportér | ||
Dutch Nederlands | Kleine vrachtwagen | ||
Finnish Suomi | Pieni vaunu[verify] | ||
French Français | Véhicule de transport léger | ||
German Deutsch | Kleiner Transporter | ||
Hebrew עִבְרִית Ivrit |
משאית תעבורה קטנה | ||
Italian Italiano | Piccolo camion da trasporto | ||
Japanese 日本語 Nihongo |
スモールトランスポートトラック | ||
Norwegian Norsk | Liten lastebil | ||
Polish Polski | Pojazd transportowy | ||
Russian Русский Russkiy |
Малый грузовик | ||
Spanish Español | Camión de transporte pequeño | ||
Danish and Swedish releases left this vehicle's name unchanged |