LMS Explorer

The LMS Explorer (alternatively formatted as L.M.S. Explorer2200945 Rock Raiders - High Adventure Deep Underground and italicized as LMS Explorer),B5458 Readers Level 4 - Race for Survival also known as the HMS ExplorerRiver of Lava! (alternatively formatted as H.M.S. Explorer), is a Rock Raiders vehicle featured in media in 1999 and 2000. While it does not appear in any sets, the LMS Explorer is depicted in the theme's video games, books, and LEGO Adventures! Magazine comics. 2200945 Rock Raiders - High Adventure Deep Underground features a much smaller miniature scale model of the Explorer as an inspiration model.
== Description ==
The LMS Explorer is a massive spaceship that is predominantly grey with dark grey and bright bluish green highlights and transparent fluorescent green windows. The interior of the ship uses many bright bluish green tiles and elements as well as bright yellow and black patterning. These colors match the rest of the Rock Raiders theme's color scheme.
The miniature H.M.S. Explorer model in 2200945 Rock Raiders - High Adventure Deep Underground is mostly dark grey. It is decorated with bright yellow and bright blue bricks. The transparent fluorescent green elements are accompanied by transparent fluorescent reddish-orange and transparent light blue; these colors are also present on the full-scale model but to a much lesser degree.
== Background ==
The LMS Explorer is the spaceship used by the Rock Raiders to travel across the galaxy. The Rock Raiders crew and their vehicles are stationed aboard the ship when they are not deployed on missions. Chief views the Explorer as his home and is said to not have left the ship in twenty years.
During a return trip from the outer rim of the galaxy, the LMS Explorer is caught in an asteroid field and pulled in by a wormhole. A giant asteroid strikes the ship, heavily damaging it and causing it to lose power. The Explorer is sucked into the wormhole and stranded in another galaxy. With the damaged ship running on emergency power, the Rock Raiders use its scanners to determine that the nearby Planet U is rich in Brickonium Energy Crystals and LEGO Ore. Rock Raiders and vehicles are teleported between the Explorer and Planet U during the mining operation for these precious minerals. After a successful mission, the Explorer is repaired and refueled, allowing the Rock Raiders to return home, albeit with a Rock Monster stowaway in Rock Raiders - An Interactive Puzzle Storybook. In B5458 Readers Level 4 - Race for Survival, the LMS Explorer returns to Planet U for a research expedition.
== LEGO Description ==
== Appearances ==
=== Book Appearances ===
* Rock Raiders - An Interactive Puzzle Storybook
* 2200945 Rock Raiders - High Adventure Deep Underground
* B5458 Readers Level 4 - Race for Survival
=== Comic Appearances ===
* Planet of the Rock Monsters!
* River of Lava!
=== Video Game Appearances ===
* 5708 LEGO Rock Raiders
* 5709 LEGO Rock Raiders
== Behind the Scenes ==
Large portions of the LMS Explorer were physically built during the development of the video game.LMS Explorer model photographs (front)LMS Explorer model photographs (slice)LMS Explorer model photographs (door)LMS Explorer model photographs (cockpit)
== Notes ==
* "HMS" is an abbreviation that means "His/Her Majesty's Ship" in a monarchy's navy, although it is unclear what navy the HMS Explorer would belong to or what "LMS" would stand for. In the manual of 5708 LEGO Rock Raiders, the LMS Explorer is described as a "huge mining ship", which may be what the initials "HMS" stand for in this context. Similarly, the LEGO Rock Raiders Intro Script version 1.1 uses the descriptor "LEGO mining ship",LEGO Rock Raiders Intro Script V1.1 which could be the meaning of "LMS".
* Assets from the LMS Explorer's interior are reused in LEGO Adventures! comics for LEGO Racers and Life on Mars, since the magazine comics were also produced by Data Design Interactive's Artworld UK divsion.
== Gallery ==
LAM10-4.jpg|River of Lava!
LAM7-30.jpg|Behind the Scenes
LAM7-31.jpg|Behind the Scenes
LRRLMS1.JPG|Concept render
LRRLMS2.JPG|Concept render
LRRLMS3.JPG|Concept render
LRRLMS4.JPG|Concept render
LRRLMS5.JPG|Concept render
LRRLMS6.JPG|Concept render
=== Physical Model ===
LRRCockpit1.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit2.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit3.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit4.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit5.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit6.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit7.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit8.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit9.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit10.png|The bridge interior
LRRCockpit11.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit12.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit13.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit14.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit15.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit16.png|The bridge exterior
LRRCockpit17.png|The bridge exterior
LRRDoor1.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor2.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor3.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor4.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor5.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor6.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRDoor7.png|The bridge interior's back
LRRFront1.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront2.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront3.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront4.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront5.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront6.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront7.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront8.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront9.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront10.png|A portion of the front
LRRFront11.png|A portion of the front
LRRSlice1.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice2.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice3.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice4.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice5.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice6.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice7.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice8.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice9.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice10.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice11.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice12.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice13.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice14.png|A portion of the exterior hull
LRRSlice15.png|A LEGO designer working on the physical model
LRRSlice16.png|A LEGO designer working on the physical model
== References ==
Category:Rock Raiders
Category:1999