Looking for a LEGO promotional, Christmas-themed video game from the 90s-00s about spaceships

Question

This is one of my childhood white whales and I cannot find the answer anywhere.

When I grew up in France, I remember a very short computer game which was actually an ad for LEGO spaceships. Given the fact that I was born in 1996, and it was on a relatively early computer, I think it is from around 1999 to 2003, approximately. I could be wrong though. Here are the things I remember:

• The story starts, it's set in the snow. There is a small wooden house, a snowman, and probably Christmas-themed decoratons. It is a point and click game, I think, and a snowman gives you instructions.

• You find something (what?) and the snowman says "You should not trust the appearances!" ("il ne faut pas se fier aux apparances !", sentence is stuck in my head since).

• The plot evolves, I think a spider is involved? The game is very short, in my memory.

• It ends with a spaceship race. You have to pick between three LEGO spaceships: a yellow one, a blue one and a red one. I think it is a minigame, you see the spaceship from behind and you have to dodge obstacles.

• When you win, the game ends. A screen, white and snow-themed, prompts you to get the Lego spaceships IRL. The three of them are displayed simultaneously on the screen.

This is all I remember and it is KILLING me. It's been bothering me for literal years, I looked everywhere in my parents' basement to find the CD, but couldn't.

Answer 1

I'm gonna go on a hunch and say this is either Lego Racers from 1999, or Lego Racers 2 from 2001.

Both of these fit some of your criteria:

• The timeline (1999-2003)
• There's an ice level
• Last level is on an spaceship-themed alien planet
• They're rather short: a playthrough can be completed in about an hour.

But they don't fit the "point-and-click" criteria, which leads me to think your brain is confusing memories of (one of) these games with memories of some other point-and-click game. It's hard to tell with the information you've provided.

Judging by gameplay videos of Lego Racers 2, the player drives a blue(-ish) car, the main opponent drives a red one, and cars flash yellow when using a power-up. This might have led you to think there's blue, red and yellow ships. The winner podium is red-yellow-blue as well.

In the second game, there's also an ice monster in the ice stage.