History VideoGame / LEGORacers

** ''LEGO Racers 2'' features [[LEGOCity LEGO Town]], LEGOAdventurers, LEGOLifeOnMars, LEGO Arctic, and LEGO Racers. One of the bosses is also an Ice Monster from RockRaiders.

* AWinnerIsYou: What do you get after spending tons of time looking for all the golden bricks scattered throughout the maps in the second game? Fireworks.
* BraggingRightsReward: What do you get after spending tons of time looking for all the golden bricks scattered throughout the maps in the second game? Fireworks.

Similar to the VideoGame/MarioKart series, you can use weapons to help you. In this case you collect colored blocks for different types of power-ups, and collect white blocks to upgrade power-ups. Red are projectiles-like weapons, yellow are traps, blue blocks are defensive shields, and green blocks are speed boosts. To the point that these exact type of pickups are ripped straight out of DiddyKongRacing.

* TheVonTropeFamily: Baron von Barron, [[DubNameChange at least in the American translation of the first game]].

* AlwaysNight: Dark Forest Dash and Pirate Skull Pass.

* [[AndYourRewardIsClothes And Your Reward Is A]] CoolCar: In the first game, you get to use the entire CoolCar set of the newest champion, assuming that you achieve first place. Dropped in the second; beating champions means extra upgrades for your car.
* AWinnerIsYou [-/-] BraggingRightsReward: What do you get after spending tons of time looking for all the golden bricks scattered throughout the maps in the second game? Fireworks.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: The supposed "Truck Driver" cheat. It was once rumored that if you make a character named "Truck Driver" and beat Rocket Racer with him, you'd unlock a super secret car. It's been confirmed false.

** Inverted in the first game, as AI racers won't take any of the shortcuts, even if the player already opened them up. The exception is Rocket Racer.

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: Veronica Voltage is immune to track edge friction, letting her cut corners across dirt and sand where anyone else would be slowed if they tried. Meanwhile Basil violates the game's physics regarding car handling: the game bases speed, acceleration, and maneuvering on brick weight and distribution, but if you play against him with the same car he drives it's quite obvious he knows something we don't.

* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Amazon Adventure Alley shortcut is a tunnel located behind the waterfall.

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: Veronica Voltage is immune to friction, letting her cut corners across dirt and sand where anyone else would be slowed if they tried.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Gypsy Moth speaks perfect English.

* DummiedOut: The Knightmare-Athon short-cut was removed completely, but there are still power-ups intact from where it used to be.

* PalmtreePanic: Imperial Grand Prix and Tribal Island Trail.

* TheVonTropeFamily: Baron von Barron, at least in the American translation of the first game.

** Many of the PowerUp abilities in ''LEGO Racers 2'' closely mirror those of ''Videogame/MarioKart''. This most blatant with the ninja Power-Up, which turns your car invisible (preventing the homing missile from homing in on you) and gives you the ability to steal other players' Power-Ups, just like the Boo Power-Up from the ''Mario Kart'' series![[note]]Unlike the Boo Power-Up, though, the ninja Power-Up does not disable collisions, and you actually have to physically collide with another player in order to steal their Power-Up.[[/note]]

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Well, both games ''do'' have multiplayer features, and each one is a {Crossover}} of at least four unrelated LEGOThemes...

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: On the results screen and in his intro cutscene, [[LEGOCastle Basil the Bat Lord's]] name is written as "Basil the Batlord" (though, only enough, it is written "Bat Lord" on the main menu). Similarly, [[LEGOPirates Black Jack Hawkins]] has his name written as "Blackjack Hawkins". [[LEGOSpace Alpha Draconis]] has his name spelled "Alpha Dragonis".

* AlwaysNight: Dark Forest Dash and possibly Pirate Skull Pass and Alien Rally Asteroid.

* FunetikAksent: Baron Von Barron's text is spelled with V's instead of W's, Z's instead of S's, and U's instead of A's.

* TheGenericGuy: Ann Droid, Islander, Willa the Witch and Gail Storm all use carbon copies of Black Knight's racing car, for some reason. Everyone else gets their personal custom car in Lego Racers 1.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Or, rather, Basil the Batlord and Baron von Barron.
* HomingProjectile: Homing missiles.
* HumanoidAliens: Gypsy Moth and Alpha Draconis/Dragonis

* LuckBasedMission: Like ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', the races can sometimes become this.
* MacGuffin: The golden bricks in the second game.

* MissingSecret: The Knightmare-athon shortcut, which was DummiedOut, but still shown on the load screen.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: A common misconception is Sam Sinister's name, which is mistakenly spelled "Sanister" in the second Racers game. Of course, [[IHaveManyNames his actual name was never made clear in the first place.]]

* NintendoHard: Good luck in the latter races of the first game.
* NoNameGiven: Two characters in the second game (Frankie Solido and Scooter, the latter of which is entirely unrelated to the default character in the first game) aren't named in the game, as they only show up as racers and never in explore mode as someone you can talk to. The only way you'd be able to know is by hacking into the game files.

* {{Pirate}}: Captain Redbeard

* RecycledINSPACE: ''LEGO Racers 2'' is ''LEGO Racers''...[[AC: ON A DISTANT PLANET!]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This game is quite similar to DiddyKongRacing's gameplay engine, and even the power-ups. But besides that, it's unique with courses, characters, and a build option.

* TheVonTropeFamily: Baron Von Barron, natch.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The second has the same mechanic from ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' in which whenever there's an AI opponent behind you, it starts gaining an enormous amount of speed to catch up. Except that it ''can be turned off''. Then there's Reigel and the Berg mentioned on the YMMV tab.

* TheGenericGuy: Ann Droid, Islander, Willa the Witch and Gail Storm all use carbon copies of Black Knight's racing car, for some reason. Everyone else gets their personal custom car in Lego Racres 1.

* HomingProjectile: The red power-ups in the first game, the homing missile in the second.

* PowerUp: Power bricks show up in both iterations, but work rather diferently.

* TheGenericGuy Pretty much every non-boss racer is this, in terms of behavior.

* NoNameGiven: Two characters in the second game (Frankie Solido and Scooter) aren't named in the game, as they only show up as racers and never in explore mode as someone you can talk to. The only way you'd be able to know is by hacking into the game files.

* VocalDissonance: The PC version mixed up the voices of ''all except one'' opponent. While Rob-N-Hood speaking with the voice of Captain Redbeard isn't much of a deal, hearing Willa the Witch TalkLikeAPirate in the grumpy voice of Blackjack Hawkins is all kinds of wrong.

* VocalDissonance: The PC version mixed up the voices of several opponents. While Rob-N-Hood speaking with the voice of Captain Redbeard isn't much of a deal, hearing Willa the Witch TalkLikeAPirate in the grumpy voice of Blackjack Hawkins is all kinds of wrong.

** Inverted in the first game, as AI racers won't take any of the shortcuts, even if the player already opened them up.

** ''Racers 2'' has only one sort of brick which, like ''{{Wipeout}}'', randomly decides the power up a racer will gain depending on the position of the racer in the track. Losing racers usually get strong, offensive {{area of effect}} bricks which devastate other racers' cars if used in close proximity. Winning racers get weak, defensive bricks like {{invisibility cloak}}s to avoid {{missile lock on}}s and maintain the racers' current positions.

* BuiltWithLego

* AlwaysNight: Dark Forest Dash and possibly Pirate Skull Pass.

* HumanoidAliens: Gypsy Moth.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: A common misconception is Sam Sanister's name, often mistakenly spelled "Sinister." Of course, [[IHaveManyNames his actual name was never made clear in the first place.]]

** Basil the Batlord them all dangerously well, but appears to ever so slightly prefer green bricks.

** Gypsy Moth uses red bricks, usually devastating the racers with Rockets.

* EverythingsBuiltWithLEGO