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[[File:Menhir Hills.jpg|thumb|Rayman saddled on a walking shell]]

[[File:RaymanSketch05.jpg|thumb|Artwork of a walking shell]]

A '''walking shell''' is the most common variety of [[shell]], and is found in various levels in ''[[Rayman 2]]'' and [[Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman 3'']]. They are small, yellow, explosive, rocket-like, two-legged robots used by the [[Robo-Pirate]] army to guard passages. They share some behavioural traits with both dogs and horses. They chase [[Rayman]] if he passes into their line of sight, but, unlike [[red shell]]s, he can tame them by running from them until they grow tired. Rayman can jump onto the backs of tired walking shells and ride them to overcome otherwise impassable obstacles. In some locations, Rayman encounters shells that are already tired or sleeping; these do not need to be tamed, and can be ridden immediately.

Rayman can make the shell jump (by pressing the Jump button) or accelerate (by pressing the Attack button). Walking shells have the ability to run over some damaging surfaces, such as [[nettle]s and lava, but not over deep lava or water. They also appear to have some ability to stick to surfaces, and can run up steep slopes, and even fully upside down, as long as the surface is smooth and the change of angle is gradual. However, hitting a wall head-on causes them to explode. When a shell explodes, it can take out certain enemies and doors blocked by metal [[sparadrap]]s, similarly to [[keg]]s.

== In ''Rayman 2'' and ''Rayman Revolution'' ==

*Walking shells are first encountered at [[the Menhir Hills]], where [[Murfy]] explains to [[Rayman]] that they may be tamed. There are three shells in this level, each residing in a small doghouse. Once tamed, the shells take Rayman over patches of nettles and through a forest of [[menhir]]s that is located behind a very steep slope. In the PlayStation version a second walking shell appears here which can't be tamed. It will chase the player while riding a shell until a door locks it out.

*In ''[[Rayman Revolution]]'' a walking shell (referred to by the [[Teensie]]s as 'missile') appears in [[Globox's House]], at the entrance to the Menhir Hills, after Rayman completes that level. Rayman can ride the shell up the mountain and destroy the avalanche that blocks the entrance to [[the Canopy]].

*Rayman encounters the last walking shell in the game in [[the Iron Mountains]], where it helps him free the [[Baby Globox]]es from the [[Reformatory for Disturbing Children]], in the process climbing walls and beams at various angles to the ground, sometimes vertical or upside down.

*Shells are first encountered in the level [[Vertigo Wastes]] where they can't be tamed and will charge towards Rayman, attempting to damage him.

*In the [[Prickly Passage]], the shells are referred to as "walking missiles" by Murfy, who explains Rayman how to ride them. Rayman rides the shells across thorny passages and 360-degree loops, jumping over many pits along the way.

| [[File:The Hall of Doors PS1 07 The Menhir Hills.jpg|thumb|320px|A hologram of a walking shell is used to represent [[the Menhir Hills]] in [[the Hall of Doors]].]]

| [[File:Walking shell and Rayman.jpg|thumb|320px|[[Rayman]] on a walking shell.]]

| [[File:Yellow Shell GBA.PNG|frame|A walking shell in [[Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman 3'']].]]

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