8242 (Slammer Turbo) / 8240 (Slammer Stunt Bike) Alternate Instruction

[Yoshi648]

For Speed Slammer sets 8242 and 8240, LEGO released a set of alternate instructions for each model (a truck for 8242 and a trike for 8240) on their website. However, since these sets were released back in 2001 their webpage is obviously no longer available. I have tried using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, but the links appear to be broken. Does anyone here by any chance have a copy of either of the instructions saved someplace on their computer and would be willing to upload it for others to use? Thanks

[DLuders]

Is it possible that the "Alternate Model" is the addition of the 5223 Windup Motor? From the 8240 "Slammer Stunt Bike" Building Instructions downloadable from both http://us.service.lego.com/en-US/BuildingI...ns/default.aspx and http://www.brickfactory.info/set/index.html , Page 74 of Set 8240 shows a website http://www.lego.com/slammer and http://www.lego.com/powerpacks. Neither one of these sites are "active" anymore; one has to navigate past the default Lego main page by pressing the URL links above TWICE. Do you think that the "alternate instructions" were once posted at these websites?

Again using either http://us.service.lego.com/en-US/BuildingI...ns/default.aspx or http://www.brickfactory.info/set/index.html, one can see that Page 54 of 8242 "Slammer Turbo" set also lists the http://www.lego.com/powerpacks website:

Edited June 3, 2010 by dluders

[Yoshi648]

The instructions on how to install the windup motor for both models is already included in the physical instruction books. If you look on the last pages you will see that 8242 has an alternate build of a truck and 8240 has an alternate build of a trike. The truck and the trike instructions are not in the physical book, one would have had to go to lego.com/slammer at the time to retrieve the instructions. Unfortunately I was to young back then to think of saving them and thus I don't have them now (though surely SOMEBODY must have them).

Or I could just try reverse engineering them.

Edited June 3, 2010 by Yoshi648

[Blakbird]

At the time, these instructions were available with LEGO B.I.T. (Building Instruction Tool) which was a program like a mini web browser which would individually download and display the alternate instruction images. Sadly, I no longer have either this tool or the images of these instructions, but someone may. You'd think the LEGO company would still have these around somewhere, but I have no idea how you would go about getting them.

[JunkstyleGio]

Asking them might do the job?

But finding the right person to ask for them; that's the question.