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LEGO Stunt Rally - Sid Vacant Intro Car
After around 13 years, I have finally been able to build this car fully in all original colours. This was thanks to some non production colour Purple elements that ended up on Bricklink, and one from a very kind member on here.
There are two non production colour elements used on Sid's car, and both would be spotted immediately as being off since they are very prominent pieces to the design. The 1 x 6 plate used on the very front and the 1 x 6 tile used as a spoiler, never came in sets, while the rest of the Purple elements did.
The two elements originated from a large selection of Purple non production colour elements that made their way onto Bricklink, where I bought the 1 x 6 tile, but missed out on the 1 x 6 plate. However, thanks to the generosity of the individual who bought the three the seller had, he sold me one, allowing me to replicate this car almost identical to the one seen in the intro FMV. The only differences being I went with the printed tiles LEGO used on the original prototype, rather than the same tile used twice as in the intro. While the roof was not on the car in the intro, it was on the prototype and on the car in game, but this is easily removed for the intro version.
Sid's car was definitely one of the most tricky to get right due to the fact his car is mostly Black. The original intro I had to work with, that was included with the game, was only 320 x 240 at 15fps, so was not the best quality and blended the colors quite badly, making it hard to pick out the elements used.
Luckily I managed to recently find a copy of Stunt Rally that was a DVD-ROM rather than a CD-ROM. The game itself was the same, but the disc included a behind the scenes look at the games development, and most importantly, a much higher quality version of the intro FMV.
This newly discovered intro FMV is full PAL DVD quality at 720 x 576 and plays at the original 25fps the sequence was rendered at.
However, this new intro was not without its faults. The picture is darker than the smaller version and the blacks have a green tint to them. Luckily, these errors were minor and didn't make it so I was unable to see the elements used on Sid's car. In fact, the new intro allowed me to correctly identify the method used for the wheel arches, which I first thought were two 1 x 3 inverted slopes. This turned out to be wrong as I was able to finally clearly see the 1 x 6 arch elements in the higher resolution FMV.
I honestly should have seen this earlier, as a simple search enabled me to find a few albums of photos posted by one of the game developers. In these photos, it clearly shows that the 1 x 6 arches were used on Sid's car, but only on the back. They later changed it to have all four sides with these arches, and this is the car we see in the intro FMV.
LEGO Stunt Rally - Sid Vacant Intro Car
After around 13 years, I have finally been able to build this car fully in all original colours. This was thanks to some non production colour Purple elements that ended up on Bricklink, and one from a very kind member on here.
There are two non production colour elements used on Sid's car, and both would be spotted immediately as being off since they are very prominent pieces to the design. The 1 x 6 plate used on the very front and the 1 x 6 tile used as a spoiler, never came in sets, while the rest of the Purple elements did.
The two elements originated from a large selection of Purple non production colour elements that made their way onto Bricklink, where I bought the 1 x 6 tile, but missed out on the 1 x 6 plate. However, thanks to the generosity of the individual who bought the three the seller had, he sold me one, allowing me to replicate this car almost identical to the one seen in the intro FMV. The only differences being I went with the printed tiles LEGO used on the original prototype, rather than the same tile used twice as in the intro. While the roof was not on the car in the intro, it was on the prototype and on the car in game, but this is easily removed for the intro version.
Sid's car was definitely one of the most tricky to get right due to the fact his car is mostly Black. The original intro I had to work with, that was included with the game, was only 320 x 240 at 15fps, so was not the best quality and blended the colors quite badly, making it hard to pick out the elements used.
Luckily I managed to recently find a copy of Stunt Rally that was a DVD-ROM rather than a CD-ROM. The game itself was the same, but the disc included a behind the scenes look at the games development, and most importantly, a much higher quality version of the intro FMV.
This newly discovered intro FMV is full PAL DVD quality at 720 x 576 and plays at the original 25fps the sequence was rendered at.
However, this new intro was not without its faults. The picture is darker than the smaller version and the blacks have a green tint to them. Luckily, these errors were minor and didn't make it so I was unable to see the elements used on Sid's car. In fact, the new intro allowed me to correctly identify the method used for the wheel arches, which I first thought were two 1 x 3 inverted slopes. This turned out to be wrong as I was able to finally clearly see the 1 x 6 arch elements in the higher resolution FMV.
I honestly should have seen this earlier, as a simple search enabled me to find a few albums of photos posted by one of the game developers. In these photos, it clearly shows that the 1 x 6 arches were used on Sid's car, but only on the back. They later changed it to have all four sides with these arches, and this is the car we see in the intro FMV.