LEGO LOCO User manual

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Instruction manual
Instruction manual
Take the fast train to computer fun
Take the fast train to computer fun
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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.
As a trainee Station Master it’s up to you to design your own railway
layouts and build a bustling LEGO World, to help you I’ve given you this
cool LEGO LOCO Guide.
If you need my help whilst you’re playing you can also click
on this button in the Toybox for a quick run through how to
do things!
LEGO LOCO is all about building and running the best train set that you
can imagine, on your computer! You can make your own tracks and
towns with lots of different LEGO elements… and then watch them
come to life!
Switches and points allow you to control all of your trains as they travel
from station to station, whisking your LEGO Minifigures around the town
that you have built for them. Your creation will grow as you add to it,
and there will be plenty of surprises along the way as you uncover
hidden events and new and exciting elements.
3 Welcome
4 Installing LEGO LOCO
5 Starting the game
6 How to play with LEGO LOCO
The Toybox
Trays
Eraser
Load/Save
Advanced Options
Starting Trains
Altering Points, switches etc.
Zoomboxes
Magnifying Glass
Picking up minifigs
Commanding minifigs
Command Mode
16 Postcards
Post Office
Receiving and Saving Postcards
Deleting Postcards
Postcard Album
Postcard Editor
22 Game Modes
Single User
International Postcards
National Mode
Screen Saver
34 Easter Eggs
35 Credits
35 Copyright
35 Epilepsy Warning
Contents
Contents Welcome Welcome
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Before you can run LEGO LOCO on your PC you will need to copy some
things from the CD-ROM, don’t worry, we’ve made it easy for you...
Auto Run - Make sure that Windows 95 has started and then insert the
LEGO LOCO CD-ROM. The installer program should automatically run. It
will ask you a few questions about how you would prefer the copying
to take place, you can simply click the NEXT button and let the program
decide for you. This program will then set up everything you need to run
LEGO LOCO.
You will need to have DirectX installed on your computer. If you are
unsure it is safest to reply YES when asked in the installation if you want
to install DirectX.
On some rare occasions the Auto Run program may not start
automatically. If this happens you can start the program yourself.
• From the Windows 95 desktop double click the left mouse button on
the "My Computer" icon, this will bring up a window that displays all
of your drives, including your CD Drive.
• Right click on the CD Drive Icon (this is normally Drive D, but may be
different on your computer). This will bring up a list of options (see
the Windows 95 instruction manual), from this list choose EXPLORE.
• Once you have clicked EXPLORE the window will show the contents of
the CD. From this list double click the icon that says SETUP.EXE with the
left mouse button.
Installing LEGO LOCO Starting LOCO
Installing LEGO LOCO
To start LEGO LOCO click on START in the bottom left corner of your
screen, point to PROGRAMS, point to LEGO Media and then click ‘LEGO
LOCO’.
When LOCO starts you will see a short introduction video.
Press any key on the keyboard, or click any mouse button to enter the
LOCO World.
You will now see the Start Screen.
Clicking the button with the picture of one Station
Master, and then confirming your choice by clicking the
tick, will start the single user mode.
Clicking the button with the picture of two Station
Masters will start the multi-user mode. This will be
discussed later in Section 6), National Mode (page 22).
Clicking the button showing the picture of the door on
this screen will quit LOCO.
Once you have made your selection and pressed the OK ‘tick’ LOCO will
load. As soon as the progress bar has finished animating, LOCO has finished
loading. Press any key on the keyboard, or click any mouse button. A
default layout will be loaded, you can then play with and alter this layout.
Starting LOCO
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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’ mode. The layout you have created will come to life and you
can play with all the exciting things in your new world.
The Toybox
In the top left quarter of the screen you will see your
LEGO Toybox. This Toybox holds everything that you
need to create your world.
Inside the Toybox are several buttons, the top half of
the Toybox has buttons that allow you to access
everything you need to build your layout. Left
Clicking on one of these buttons (Buildings, Scenery,
Track) opens a tray showing you everything that you
may use of that type.
Left Click anywhere
else on the Toybox
to open it.
Left Click on the Toybox’s
blue handle to pick it up and
move it around, click again
to put it down.
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Trays
To place one of these pieces, click on the piece in the tray to pick it up,
you can now position the piece anywhere that you like on the screen. Click
the mouse button again to place the piece!
NOTE: Tunnels can only be placed at the edge of the screen.
Click the Right Mouse Button to rotate the piece.
Eraser
You can remove things that you don’t like with your eraser!
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Load / Save
Click the Disk
Button to either
Load or Save the
current layout.
You will then see this.
When Saving, type in the name you wish to call your
layout and press the disk button once more.
Bomb. This will delete all the elements on the screen.
Undo (blue arrow) This will undo all the changes that
you made from the last time you opened the toybox
Auto delete (the bulldozer) When pressed this button will allow
you to automatically place an element over (therefore deleting) an
existing element.
Resize (yellow window folder) pressing this button will place the
product into windowed mode.
Sound on/off (speaker button)
The Question Mark button will run the Tutorial.
This button lets you
save your layout.
This button lets you
load in an old layout.

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Starting Trains
There are certain buildings that must be placed before you can play with
various parts of your world. One of these is the Depot! The Depot lets
you build and alter trains.
The Toybox must be closed before you can play with your layout. If the
Toybox is open your train and LEGO Minifigures will disappear. Close the
Toybox to bring everything to life!
Start your trains from the depot. There are two ways to start a train, either
click the Left Mouse Button on a depot to create a train with a selection of
a random engine and carriages, or...
Right Click on the Depot to bring up the Zoombox (See later section for
more information on Zoomboxes).
Clicking the Right Mouse Button over a train will bring up its Zoombox
(See later section for more information on Zoomboxes).
Clicking on the question mark will bring up a list of all the people on board
your train.
The box at the top shows the train’s name. You can call it anything you like,
this one is called ‘ChooChoo 1"
There are two ways you can
decide what your train will
look like.
Pull the Blue Lever to create
a random train.
You can click on the up and
down arrows to choose a
specific engine or carriage.
The train zoom box contains the speed controller. Just like
real LEGO trains. The red arrow buttons below control the
train’s speed. You can Stop, Start, Reverse and alter the
train’s speed with these buttons or by clicking on the big
yellow controller.
The Eraser Button will delete a train
from your world. The train must be in
the depot if you want to delete it!
The Blue Button will let you alter the
carriages attached to a train in your
world. The train must be in the depot
if you want to edit it!
The Green Button will take you to a screen
where you can create a new train.

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Altering Points, switches etc.
Click the left mouse button on a signal to change it.
Red stops the train, Green lets it pass and Blue reverses the train’s direction.
Left Click on a point to open and close it. Using points and switches,
you control your train, telling it to go wherever you want.
Zoomboxes
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.
Try it, see what you can find!
Magnifying Glass
You can view information about the people by right clicking on them.
Clicking the Blue question mark you can see their name
and a big picture of them. You can even change their names!
Click the X to close the Magnifying glass.
All other elements (buildings, scenery, trains etc) have Zoomboxes.
= STOP! = GO! = REVERSE!

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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
You can command minifigs to attempt to reach any place on the layout,
click the left mouse button once on them, a spark will confirm that the
minifig is now waiting your command. The finger on your hand cursor will
change to an arrow.
Click anywhere on the screen, to order your minifig to go there. The minifig
will now attempt to reach this position.
Click anywhere on the screen to tell your minifig where to visit. Remember
that minifigs prefer to walk on proper paths.

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To send a postcard you must make sure that you have a working Post Office.
There are two types of post that you can send.
• Internet post (to friends and other users running LEGO LOCO)
(details on page 22 “international postcards” )
• Mystery post. To Santa, Nessie, the Mayor etc.
Although your PC does not need to be connected to the Internet to send
and receive Mystery postcards, both types of mail require you to have a
working mail route within your LEGO LOCO layout.
To send mail you must place a post office on a train track. Trains pulling a mail
carriage must be able to get from the post office to a tunnel.
Post Office The Post Office contains everything you need to
write, design, store and send postcards to your
friends.
Left Click on the Post Office. Here you will find the
postman at his desk. You can click on the items
around him to access everything related to the Post
Office.
There is a book on the desk that will take you to your postcard album (to
store your postcards), a ‘Pen And Pencil Pot’ to take you to the postcard
editor (to create or edit postcards) and a rubbish bin (drop postcards in this
to delete them).
Receiving and Saving Postcards
A pile of postcards next to the postman means that you have received
postcards from somebody!
You can click on this pile of postcards to view them. The postman will hold
each one up individually for you as you click on the pile.
You can see the reverse text side of each card by clicking the ‘flip’
button.
All cards can be sent to your Postcard Album for safekeeping. Simply click
on the card, your cursor will change into a mini-
postcard, now click on the Postcard Album sitting on
the desk. This card will now be saved into the Album.
In the same way you can send a card to the editor, instead
of clicking on the Album click on the Pen and Pencil Pot.
In the same way as placing a card in the Postcard Album,
you can delete a postcard. Click on the postcard and drag it
into the Rubbish Bin.
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Postcard Album
The Postcard Album is where you can store all of your favourite Postcards.
• They are filed alphabetically under the sender’s name.
• Click on one of the coloured Alphabetical tabs to jump through the
pages.
• Click on the left and right arrows to turn over the page.
• Click on the ‘Flip’ icon to see the reverse of the card.
The cards can be dragged to the editor or Post Office in the usual way:
1. Click on the card to pick it up, the cursor will change to show a miniature
Postcard.
2. Now click on any of the buttons to send the Postcard to their destination
(e.g. Rubbish Bin, Postcard Editor or Post Office).
Postcard Editor
The Postcard Editor is where you can create new postcards, write
messages, change existing postcards and attach files.
Editing 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
side of the postcard.
Click on a drawer to view the set of clipart. The art will scroll in on
the conveyor belt.
To select a piece of clipart just click on it. This can now be placed
anywhere on the front of the Postcard.
Click the Right Mouse Button to de-select any piece of clipart, the cursor
will now change back to the hand.
Some clipart may have different colours. The buttons below the conveyor
belt will swap between the available clipart colours, or sub-sets.
The colour of the Postcard’s background can be altered by mixing paint.
Three pipes hanging above the Postcard will mix different amounts of Red,
Yellow and Blue paint onto the background.