Contents Welcome Welcome Hello and welcome to LEGO LOCO! I’m the Station Master and I’m here to help make sure that all the LEGO trains run on time and the Minifigure passengers are happy. 3 Welcome 16 Postcards Post Office As a trainee Station Master it’s up to you to design your own railway...
To start LEGO LOCO click on START in the bottom left corner of your Before you can run LEGO LOCO on your PC you will need to copy some screen, point to PROGRAMS, point to LEGO Media and then click ‘LEGO things from the CD-ROM, don’t worry, we’ve made it easy for you...
Trays When playing with LEGO LOCO there are two ‘modes’. When the Toybox is open LOCO is in ‘Edit’ mode. You can place elements, move or delete existing ones and alter your layout. When the Toybox is closed LOCO is in ‘Play’...
How to play with LEGO LOCO How to play with LEGO LOCO How to play with LEGO LOCO How to play with LEGO LOCO Load / Save When Saving, type in the name you wish to call your layout and press the disk button once more.
The Toybox must be closed before you can play with your layout. If the You can click on the up and Toybox is open your train and LEGO Minifigures will disappear. Close the down arrows to choose a Toybox to bring everything to life! specific engine or carriage.
Zoomboxes Click the X to close the Magnifying glass. Many different LEGO LOCO things have special Zoomboxes. You can use Zoomboxes to control lots of different things. If you click the Right Mouse Button on an object a Zoombox will appear.
How to play with LEGO LOCO How to play with LEGO LOCO Picking up minifigs You can pick up minifigs by Clicking and holding down the Left Mouse button on them, release the button to drop them. Commanding minifigs – Command Mode...
There are two types of post that you can send. A pile of postcards next to the postman means that you have received • Internet post (to friends and other users running LEGO LOCO) postcards from somebody! (details on page 22 “international postcards” ) You can click on this pile of postcards to view them.
Postcards Postcards Postcards Postcards Editing Postcards Postcard Album The Postcard Album is where you can store all of your favourite Postcards. On the left hand side of the screen is a stack of drawers, each of which contains a ‘set’ of clipart that can be placed on the picture •...
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Postcard. If you address a card to ‘SwapShop@WWW’ you can send it via Modem to the LEGO LOCO Post Office, where it will be forwarded to another LOCO user, who could live anywhere! Pretty soon you may receive Postcards from people all around the world! PLEASE NOTE You must have a Modem connected to the Internet for this to work.
Player’s names appear in the layout as areas are chosen. National Mode In National Mode, up to nine people can connect to a huge LEGO LOCO Click the Green Tick to go. layout. Each individual can take control of a certain part of the National...
When in multi-user National Mode (connected via a LAN) you can view a LEGO LOCO can also be used as a screen saver! You can design your own Global Map view of all the layouts in the session. Right click on the Tunnels layouts that will run when the screen saver starts up.
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Select single player and then click the tick button When the train enters the blue tunnel the postcard will be sent to the When LEGO LOCO is running, open the Toybox track tray and select a BLUE Internet server for processing.
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IPX LAN If your friend is proceeding you will see their name in this area as well. DirectX 6 will be installed by the LOCO Installer. When you are happy to proceed, select the green tick button.
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When the LEGO LOCO desktop is displayed you will see BLUE tunnels on 4. Drop it in the letterbox. some or all sides of your desktop layout. These cannot be deleted and represent connections to other players in the game.
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To play with LOCO, with a friend, using TCP/IP on the Internet DirectX 6 will be installed by the LOCO Installer. Ensure that you have a Winsock Installed (you can achieve this by installing an Internet Browser) Make the connection to your Internet service provider NOTE: this must not be firewall protected Connect to the Internet before starting LOCO.
There are many special hidden events that you can discover and elements Full Motion Video Full Fat Productions to place on your layout in LEGO LOCO. Some will happen only at certain times, others you will only be able to discover by building your LEGO Intelligent Games LOCO world carefully.
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