Johnny Thunder is a famous adventurer who is now a Venture League Hero. Johnny Thunder plays a key part in getting the Venture League Badge and approval for entry into a Nexus Force faction. Nexus Jay sends players to find him, and he is found just within Red Blocks. To get the Venture League Badge, players must complete his mission to find three floating golden treasure chests. One is next to him floating above a picnic table, one is in Race Place, and the final one is in Brick Annex. After finding all three chests, players obtain the Venture League Badge from Johnny Thunder and are sent back to Nexus Jay to officially join a faction. As a result of his fame, Johnny Thunder has developed a reputation for bragging to the women at the concert. Players are asked by Johnny to ask Sofie Cushion, DeeDee Light, Green Brockley, and Krista Clear if they would like to meet the famous adventurer himself. Although the women find him strange and annoying, Johnny Thunder appears quite oblivious to this and, as a reward, gives the player an autographed picture of himself.
This autograph can be given to Renee Tombcrusher, who has a crush on Johnny Thunder. Later on, Johnny Thunder asks players to find a total of fifty-three golden floating chests in various locations around Nimbus System. In order, these missions are to find five chests in Avant Gardens, five chests in Gnarled Forest, five chests in Pet Cove, five chests in Forbidden Valley, five chests in Starbase 3001, fifteen chests in Nexus Tower, five chests in Ninjago Monastery, and eight chests in Crux Prime. Although he initially doubts players' ability to complete these tasks, Johnny Thunder is surprised to see these missions accomplished and rewards players with respect, along with Faction Tokens or extra Backpack space. Johnny Thunder has also been dabbling in music production and compiled his most popular songs onto a single album titled Johnny Thunder's Greatest Hits. It has been the Selection of the Month for many months and has overshadowed the new Gwen Tweenbangle CD, much to the irritation of Doctor Overbuild.
When Doctor Overbuild tries to call Customer Service about this and ends up talking to a fan of Johnny Thunder's Greatest Hits, he suspects that the fan is actually Johnny Thunder. Despite this, Johnny Thunder appears to be on good terms with Gwen Tweenbangle, sending his best regards to the pop star. Johnny Thunder originated in the popular Adventurers line that ran from 1998 to 2000, as well as its spin-off Orient Expedition line in 2003. He also had appearances in LEGO Studios sets. He has been seen in a large amount of LEGO video games, including LEGO Racers, LEGO Racers 2, LEGO Island 2, LEGOLAND, LEGO Stunt Rally, and LEGO Soccer Mania. game Backlot, as an actor in a movie at LEGO Studios. He also starred in two of the LEGO Comic Adventures, The Restless Mummy and The Lost Treasure, as well as numerous Adventurers and Orient Expedition flash games. Before coming to the Nimbus System, Johnny had already had many travels and had found countless treasures on Earth. His major expeditions include retrieving the Re-Gou ruby from an an ancient temple in Egypt, preventing Señor Palomar from stealing the Sun Disk in the Amazon, thwarting a plan to capture dinosaurs from Dino Island, and recovering Marco Polo's Golden Dragon - a journey that took him through India, to the top of Mount Everest, and to the city of Xi'an in China.
As seen in concept art, Johnny Thunder was intended to receive a complete redesign. In the alpha test, he had a placeholder model with a red beard, Tan Aussie Hat, black Indiana Jones jacket, and green pants. In late alpha, Johnny Thunder's beard was trimmed. In early beta, Johnny Thunder's redesigned face textures, featuring a large brown mustache and gold sunglasses, were completed and added to the placeholder, along with a Messenger Bag, a Black Aussie Hat, and a blue whip. Later in beta, Johnny Thunder's redesigned model was completed, with a sleeveless dark-gray shirt and more detailed pants. However, Adventurers fans responded negatively to the changes; as a result, by mid-May 2010, Johnny Thunder was redesigned to look more like the original minifigure from the LEGO Adventurers line. During beta testing, the order of his treasure chest missions was slightly different, since he gave the mission to Pet Cove before the mission to Gnarled Forest. In alpha testing and early beta testing, to receive the Venture Stamp from Johnny Thunder, players had to find all ten Nimbus Station flags.
In mid-beta testing, two treasure chests in Avant Gardens and one treasure chest in Forbidden Valley had different locations. Prior the Nexus Jawbox update, two treasure chests in Nimbus Station were located closer to the ground and thus easier for players to collect. Prior to the Nexus Tower update, there was a treasure chest under the Nexus Tower launchpad in Sentinel Point Zeta and an extra treasure chest located on the platform quick build behind Roo Morgg; as such, while it was required to find only eight to complete the mission, there were actually nine treasure chests. The mission which involves four ladies at the concert has undergone notable changes over the course of beta testing. In early beta testing, Johnny Thunder asked players to hand out fliers for the Beastie Blocks to the concert ladies, and would get depressed when he learned that nobody knew of his fame. In later beta testing, Johnny Thunder asked players to hand out autographs to the concert ladies, and upon the mission's completion, he would state that the four women were now added to his fan club and that he had saved one extra autograph for the player.
From late beta testing to the Crux Prime update, Johnny Thunder's image in the Passport depicted him with his classic Adventurers face. Although file divers have found textures for this face in the game files, it appears that the game designers will not be using them, seeing as the Crux Prime update changed his Passport image to feature his in-game facial features. Prior to the Power of the Nexus Force update, Logan Moonshot sent players to find Johnny Thunder. 5703 (N64), 5704 (PC), 5705 (PlayStation), 5719 (GBC) Microsoft Windows: July 31, 1999, Nintendo 64: October 31, 1999, Playstation: December 17, 1999, Gameboy Color: December 29, 2000 Singeplayer, Multiplayer (2 players) Microsoft Windows, Gameboy Color, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 LEGO Racers is a LEGO racing video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by LEGO Media, released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation in 1999, 2000 and for Gameboy Color in 2000. The player races various characters made of LEGO in custom-built cars based on the Racers theme to become "the greatest LEGO racing champion of all-time".
The sequel of the game is LEGO Racers 2, released in 2001. The game featured many of LEGO's best sets from the 90's. Being a racing game, the gameplay is centered around racing. You can race against computer-controlled (AI) opponents or against another person. There are four types of races: circuit, single, VS, and time. In the game, you choose from different car frames and build upon them until you have your car. You can also customize your driver and race with it. There are 7 circuits, and each has a circuit champion. There are total of 26 tracks. 12 of them are mirror tracks and one of them is a test drive track available only in Build mode and used for testing the kart not racing. The champions of the game were some of the most popular LEGO minifigures of the time. The main antagonist, Rocket Racer, has never been officially appeared in a physical set. Each circuit has four racetracks and all of them are hosted by other characters: These characters can be made to race with as well as the champions, as soon as you win the circuit.
The tracks from circuits 4 and 5 and 6 are mirrored. Rocket Racer's circuit (7) has only one track. The tracks are based of different lines of LEGO themes. For example, 'Knightmare-Athon' is based of the Fright Knights theme. In this mode, you race AI opponents on one of seven circuits. Each circuit consists of four three-lap races on different tracks (with the exception of circuit 7, which contains only one track). Depending on how you place in each race you get a certain number of points: 30 points for 1st place, 20 points for 2nd, 10 for 3rd, 3 for 4th, 5th is 2 points, and last is 1 point. The points from each track are added to determine the winner of the circuit. If you do not have certain amount of points during the circuit race except for the 7th one (10 points for 1st race, 20 points for 2nd race, and 30 points for 3rd race) then the circuit ends. (If you tie with an AI opponent, you will receive the higher place.) In this mode, you race against AI opponents around a single track.
(You can only race on tracks you have unlocked). This mode is useful if you are having trouble with a certain track and want to practice without doing an entire circuit or if you just want to race on one track only or if you just want to explore the track. In this mode, you race against a human opponent around a single track. (You can only race on tracks from circuits you have unlocked). On the PC version, you can only use this mode if you have a game pad for your computer. In this mode, you race against a "ghost" of Veronica Voltage, (and the ghost record of you after your first try). This means that neither of you can affect the other in any way. There are only 12 tracks that you need to race through and none of them are mirrored tracks and Rocket Racer Run track is out. They are the tracks from Circuit 1 and 2 and 3. Also unique to this mode is the placement of power-ups. They are arranged differently than they are in the other modes: the most common are green and white, red only appears when there is a shortcut that can only be accessed with it, blue only appears when there is a hazard on the course that can be avoided with it, and yellow never appears.
If the player completes all of the courses for Time Races, then they get a set of car from Veronica. Each track has a number of power-ups in the form of bricks placed on it. There are five different colors of bricks. Four of them (red, green, blue and yellow) allow the player to activate their respective power-up whilst the fifth one (white) increases the power of the power-up. The following table displays the properties of each brick and the affect white bricks have on it: Almost all tracks have hazards which slow down the player and other racers. They are physical obstructions (giant rolling stones, swinging axes or a falling pillar); hazards which mimic power-ups (cannon fire, falling bombs, electrical discharges, swinging boxes and ground volcanoes which make the player slip and turn, and mummy's curses); or unique hazards (a ghost which spooks the racer and a flying saucer which drags the racer backwards). All hazards can be countered using shields or by avoiding them. Every track except the Knightmare-Athon has at least one shortcut.
Shortcuts can be open (eg. a tunnel which turns from the track), hidden (eg. a tunnel hidden by a waterfall), or can only be blasted open by projectile power-ups (eg. passage hidden by barrels). However all the racers (except Veronica Voltage and the player (for sometimes)) ignore them. The Knightmare-Athon track had at least two shortcuts in the beta-version of the game, however they were removed in the final version, but the bricks that were inside the shortcuts can still be seen behind the walls. This version shares very common similarities with other platforms. Other than just graphics and shortcuts, the only thing that is different from other platforms is the car building as it has limited technology. Players can choose the number of tires and the color of the car but can only choose 3 bricks on their car. In the game, there are seven circuits. Placing first, second, or third on a circuit unlocks the next circuit. Champion: Basil the Bat Lord (Fright Knights) Note: Circuits four through six contain mirrored versions of the courses in circuits one through three.