The Downfall of LEGO's Best Theme
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
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In this video, we explore the dramatic rise and fall of LEGO Power Miners: a thriving, extremely popular theme that went extinct after only 3 waves of LEGO sets. Why did LEGO abruptly cancel LEGO Power Miners? Are there plans to relaunch the theme? Watch the entire video to find out!
Do you remember Power Miners? Did you collect any of the sets? Should LEGO bring the theme back? Comment your thoughts below!
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Nice! Btw what happened with ninjago news? 😅
Finally!
hey spitbrix when are you doing another ninjago giveaway? i wanna buy some sets but they’re expensive
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I really regret missing out on this and Atlantis. A shame there's basically no non licensed themes any more other than the evergreens we've had for years that keep absorbing all possible ideas that could have been their own theme
I miss when there was a variety of unlicensed themes. Now it's just Ninjago, monkie kid, and evergreens.
Yh I agree to an extent lots of the Ninjago stuff like Prime empire, Master of the mountain and Seabound easily could have been a new game/sci-fi theme, fantasy theme and a Atlantis theme but with none of the popularity of Ninjago how successful would they have been? And it's hard to complete with all the licensed IP they have now and with how popular/guarantee money makers what's the need I could only really see castle, classic space and pirates returning all of the other power miner, space nonsense isn't gonna cut it.
There's multiple reasons Ninjago has beaten out the likes of many Original LEGO IP the set's are some of the best from vehicles of jets and mechs to astonishing temples and modular buildings, the show itself has some interesting lore and characters
we need Ninjago to absorb more themes so the Golden Master can return this season
Yeah, we only got CITY & Ninjago. Even with themes tough, we really only got Star Wars and Minecraft rn.
@@mr.strawberry13 ninjago has kinda become an evergreen itself
The reason why this Theme is so popular is because it was very accessible. Most sets weren't expensive and all had unique play features. Add the combination feature and you got a great theme
plus it was the closest thing we got to a re-run of Rock Raiders, the actual best LEGO theme ever
@@xuruiyu word
I bought everything. Tbh its just a good theme, not much more to say. Plus it had a backstory which wasnt TOO in depth. It was a simple story and every set was fun. The more expensive sets were ESPECIALLY fun. I spent countless hours with the titanium command rig and the crystal sweeper
I wish they had fleshed out the story more maybe have given us more more cooler and interesting new rock monster molds the tag line the deeper you go the more dangerous it gets.
@Gideon Horwitz yeah. I totally expected as a kid for it to get it's own show. The commercials were so cool and even seemed to show builds or ideas that never became sets
The late 2000s and early 2010s were really where Lego themes peaked.
I mean power miners, space police, pharaoh’s quest, and Atlantis are among my favorite Lego themes.
Space police, Atlantis and Power Miners have to be my top 3 favorite themes of all time. I might be looking at them with rose tinted glasses, but I lived and breathed those themes when I was younger and I am so sad they didn't expand upon them any further. If only those themes had the success Ninjago had...
@@SmartAlek Mine was Lego Agents. that theme was awesome
@@TreeStumpProdutions I only started getting into legos as the Agent line was coming to an end, but I do have to say that Agents was the most influential line of sets throughout my life. If I had been around for its hey day I might have put it in my #1 slot, but unfortunately they cancelled it just as I got into it. To this day I still think the idea of special agents fighting super villains is the coolest thing.
That was the second wave, the first wave was the late 80s' to the early 00's.
Mars mission!!
Two years, was that really all it was? That time of my life felt like ages, I loved these sets so much and I remember playing with them with my best friend. Themes like this and Atlantis really captivated my childhood imagination, I really hope Lego gets back into making things like this again someday.
So satisfying seeing those power miner vehicles. Especially the cool drills and mechanisms.
Ikr? I was always so mesmerized by their size and attention to detail.
It's like an optimized and sleek rock raiders. I never owned any power miner sets but I had a couple rock raider sets as a kid
There was a point in my childhood where I actually had every single Power Miners set. Still my favourite Lego theme of all time to this very day.
I was 5 when this series came out, so it has become one of my first “Lego experiences” in life. Such a nostalgia… I remember that joy of collecting crystals and various colourful rock monsters…. The sets were brilliant as well. I am 17 now but actually I would not mind to have a couple of these again on my shelf
Get them!! Id reccomend looking at bricklink instead of ebay for sets, you'll get better pricing!
Same here
SAME DUDE I HAD LAVATRAZ AND THE BIG MECH SUIT THING FROM THE 3RD WAVE
Same!!! I was 6 and power miners is one of my favorite themes from childhood, alongside Atlantis and pirates! I have so many beautiful memories from that time!
I feel ya man, I remember always wanting the Thunder Driller when I was a kid but eventually never got to. I'm 16 now and I finally bought it, I can't explain the nostalgia I felt opening the box and building the set
I think the concept for the third wave was interesting, but the sets’ reliance on “fire and water” gimmicks and related equipment was odd and limiting towards the designs, I wish we got something more like “journey to the center of the earth”, with a massive underground jungle the team would have to venture through.
Maybe what would've been really interesting was if there was sort of a mix of both the lava theme and the underground jungle theme. Like, there's rivers of lava, but there's also rock-based jungles and what not, with trees that have rocky bark and crystalline sap and fruit. Not to mention the insanely possibile diversity of new rock monsters living in the rock jungle.
This was an awesome theme! I remember this theme, Space Police, Atlantis, Pharaoh’s Quest, Agents, etc. There was such a wide range of themes back then. There still are a lot of various themes and different collaborations today in LEGO, but back then was just awesome!
That time frame was trully quite a peak when it comes to legos creativity in themes!
I should realt wish they was added at the lego 90th anniversary
There was also the dino hunters theme
Dont forget Aqua Raiders! We truly had the golden age of lego playsets
dont forget mars mission
Personally, I think the third wave was very disappointing. While lime and blue do work well together, it doesn't compare to lime and orange. Plus, lime and orange was THE color scheme to represent Power Miners as a whole, so when they changed it, I was immediately repulsed. The Power Miner outfits were also a let down, they were only in one color and everyone had the same outfit. Felt much more bland compared to the first wave's different, very detailed and personalized designs. But my biggest issue was with the new Rock Monsters. The black color did not look good on them at all and the lack of black on the heads didn't help either. Major step down from the first wave's Rock Monsters.
So in conclusion, I'm honestly not surprised as to why wave 3 did badly
That’s like your opinion man, I liked the 3rd wave armor better because you could combine them with space police to make really cool Tactical body armor with good printed figures
@@nickirmen6671 valid
I agree. Plus the third wave overall was pretty underwhelming, with very few sets and not any particularly impressive ones. Plus all the sets were built around containing and "putting out" the rock monsters rather than drilling, so the whole wave just kinda lost its focus at that point.
100% agree,the colors of the third wave were very bad looking ,with this last wave they lost what really power miners mean by going from rock to lava,for this reason i don’t consider last wave for my collection,hope they will return with sets like 1 or 2nd waves
Personally by the way the armor looked, I like wave 3 the most
This theme was so underrated LOL. We need more of these sets.
My absolute favorites were power miners and atlantis sets back in the day, too bad both were discontinued :(
Rock on brother
@@gabrielsantosbastos5257 nice joke
There was The Hidden Side theme for a little bit.
@@gabrielsantosbastos5257 We are unbreakable!
I honestly think the magic of this was how... Simple it was. Miners vs. monsters is a small series of skirmishes. There is so much room for creativity and modularity there.
This theme had such an impact on me as a kid that a few years ago, I bought a bunch of them used and gave them to my younger cousins for Christmas so they could get to experience how much fun they were. The Power Miners sets were a hit, and they played with them all Christmas break :) I really miss original Lego themes, they were much more fun back when they weren’t just the latest iteration of Ninjago, which somehow manages to make every new gimmick feel like more of the same.
Power Miners hold a special place in my heart, I still have them built on the shelves of my cupboard. I even looked up some instructions online that mixes two sets together to create something new and it always pleased me to see how good it ended up.
As a big fan of Rock Raiders and Life On Mars, it really wasn’t surprising that Lego canceled the line, sales slump or no. Wait a few years and they’ll do another one especially since I don’t think they can fold the industrial mining aesthetic into Ninjago like they did with Exo-Force, Vikings, Knights, Ninjas, and Alpha Team.
Thing is, TLG's business model has significantly changed. They've committed fully to franchise and "brand identity" marketing now. If they can't fold something into one of their existing big-name franchises or nab a relevant license, chances are they're just not going to bother at all.
That mars base with the little pump and the tubes you could send the aliens through is probably one of the coolest sets I've ever owned
@@VestedUTuberpeople keep saying that LEGO has changed, but they offer so much more than they used to. They obviously focus a bit more on licenced sets now that they used to but there's always LEGO branded themes alongside it.
Maybe they're not getting as much love as they used to (especially from fans) but they're still there. LEGO is continually trying new stuff. Creator, Ninjago and City are still running strong and in the past decade they've never not had at least 3-4 non-licensed themes available.
I think if you worked for LEGO you'd probably run out of ideas for themes if you had to churn out a dozen at a time.
Having only a few at a time means that each theme can feel unique when compared to the other themes on the shelves as well as the themes that came before it.
I'm not a huge fan of the way Space has been rolled in to City but a lot of people love it. I'm sure in a few years or so they'll have a whole new space theme and maybe that one will be more to my taste.
There's way more options for LEGO now than there's ever been before and as much as I miss the themes from when I was a kid, I always look forward to seeing what they'll do next.
There's been a few duds of course, but that's bound to happen when they're trying to stand out and be interesting.
@@SineN0mine3
Everything you said is correct, but it's not necessarily mutually exclusive with LEGO's refocusing towards branding as opposed to more "generic" themes. You can definitely trace a gradual shift from the 90s and early 2000s with more "instant story, just add plot" themes like Adventurers, Rock Raiders, Alpha Team and Life On Mars that start to focus more on having a set background story and recognizable characters, into the fully story-driven themes of the late 2000s and early 2010s like Monster Fighter, Ultra Agents and Dino Attack, and then into full-blown multimedia franchises like Ninjago. All while also gradually expanding their licensed theme selection in ways that technically overlap with classic generic themes.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, it just means that LEGO doesn't really do generic or even semi-generic "instant story, just add plot" themes outside of City, Friends, and the occasional Creator or Icons offering anymore, so you really shouldn't expect them. If you want new miners, you're going to have to get them in the form of new wave of City: Miners or a new season of Ninjago based on fighting off a new subterranean threat.
As I was born a year before the theme releasing I wasn’t able to collect any of these sets, I had heard lots over the years about this particular theme and I definitely hope we can get it back one day
I had almost all the sets growing up, definitely one of the more unique sets ever made
Lol same
I wasn't even born D;
@@Pugg-Gaming Damn what are u doing here kid? 💀
@@trip9114 idk
I felt like Rock Raiders had much more charm than Power Miners. I preferred the color schemes, monsters, characters, vehicle designs and storyline of Rock Raiders. It's also my favorite theme. I wish they just continued it, but I guess the new take was alright, and the sets were a bit more interesting I suppose.
I loved rock raiders and its game. Alpha Team and Life on Mars were solid sets too. I always affiliated them with Rock Raiders for some reason.
Yes! Rock Raiders had so much personality in their designs and sets. They felt like a bunch of scrappy underdogs that were easy to root for.
I think that would've been a good avenue for improvement for the Power Miners and a possible alternate Wave 3: introducing more miners with more varied designs, perhaps even a rival faction like the Aqua Raiders to the Aquanauts.
I feel the exact same way. Have you seen RR Slugger’s retrospective on the series?
@@smugplush I absolutely agree. I like the minifigures on a basic level, but they repeat enough to become boring compared to the unique funky grit of Rock Raiders, and I think I feel that way about everything in the theme
The fact that there are still fans hoping to revive the theme makes me want to share my old build which I recently updated for fun (I combined the Stone Chopper, Mine Mech, Granite Grinder, Claw Digger, and Thunder Driller). One of my favourite themes along with Rock Raiders, really wish Lego would make a new successor theme, or at least go back to having more original themes.
i mean the fans of roch raiders managed to annoy lego for so long until they released power miners ..... so it can happen again
I really want to see your Power Miners moc! :D
@@WeArePassionatesOfCreativity Presently I am busy, so once I get around to taking pics of it I'll link it here (hopefully it wont be long and I still remember by then) :D
Power Miners are the best. I have so much of those sets that I will always see one of them when I'm just casually building Lego.
very much agreed
Yes they are i used to buy one and in 2009 and i still have the pieces
Nice. I didn’t exist yet, but my dad collected them and i do find some of the pieces while building legos
I actually kinda want set 8709 from the line
@@MortexBerri yeah that one looks pretty cool
Every time I watch one of your videos I cry a little, lego was huge in my life when I was little, it was one of the very few things that made me happy, I used to hide from my mom and to calm down I would play with legos, I had a small power miners skid steer like kit that I loved, my grandmother gave it to me, thank you for making me remember some of the better times from my childhood, please keep it up
Since I discovered the theme too late, I didn't have any Power Miners sets, but I loved the theme. It's one of my favorites.
Power Miners is one of my all time favorite series that got chopped (like the 2010's Space Police) and it definitely deserves a revival in every sense.
Man I remember Power Miners
I was a fan of those giant monsters especially because someone I knew had the fire one
Wished they would remake this theme but I’m positive all the giant monsters would be brick built and not molds
So I'm old enough that I remember the Rock Raiders sets and I used to play and love the game, and when Power Miners came out, I originally disliked it before I realised that considering it's set on Earth rather than in space, it's not a reboot but a prequel theme to Rock Raiders.
I don't know if that's how Lego saw it themselves but that's what made sense to me and how I chose to look at it. If the theme was to ever come back then I think that's what I'd want to see, would be that transition from them being Power Miners to them being Rock Raiders, as they start mining out in space.
I remember specifically hunting all of these down when I was younger. The lime green color pallet was very attractive to me. I’m lucky to have them all! Also collecting all the different rock monsters was a thrill lol
Fun fact is this is basically a reimagining of a previous theme set from several years beforehand that I remember from my childhood called Rock Raiders. You can see similar design concepts updated and reimagined for a Lester generation with newer bricks and building techniques.
He said that in the video.
So sad I didn't start following lego until 2016, I really like the design of the power miners and I wish that Lego decides to continue this or even start re selling every set from the first wave
I have all the sets from wave 1 and 3. I distinctly remember crying to my mom when they removed Power Miners from the Products page on the Lego website. I loved these sets so much.
I was always more a Bionicle fan growing up, I think mostly cause it tended to be cheaper than regular system. But power miners was one of my all time favorite themes. I watch the animations on Lego's website non stop, and was always building mocs with what little orange and lime pieces I had laying around.
Bionicles are cool
I still remember it, watching the commercials like cartoon, religiously looking up stop motion fan made movies with these sets and wanting one of my own too, on the christmas day i got the drill and the crystal king. I remember having a either red and blue rock monster or a red and green rock monster. Either way, before that i just had the lego pile, don't know where it came from, but me and my brother had this huge bag of lego bricks and we just build freely from that, which was fun but i always yearned for a set. And finally i had it, for years it was displayed and i was so hurt when i lost the rock monsters (i was a very messy kid and still as an adult i misplace things all the time, it's a pain), but the drill was still there. Determined to put it all together by the plan, it took me quite a while but i was so happy with it.
That was the only lego set i ever had, so it makes me even more sad that this line got discontinued. Since if i'll ever move to a bigger apartment and have more room and will get into the mood to get some, they'll probably be jacked up in prices. But maybe there's some other cool sets, but i'd love to get my hands on one of these again.
I was 2 years old when Power Miners came out and I am honestly really sad that I never got to experience this theme.
Yeah same. It happened to like, a billion sets for me.
i was born when rock raiders came out and was sad as a child that i couldn´t get them really but then they anounced power miners witch was just rock raiders with a lime green to orange colour sceam ---- really loved it ---- i have all the sets of the first and second wave exept the big drill
The powerminers drill rig that can go vertical was my "i didnt get the train for christmas" moment, i brought it on my own eventually, still have fond memories of that thing
I think I recall having one or two sets from this theme. Particularly the Crystal King. I don't remember much, since it was so long ago, but the green pieces for its hands bring up memories of building it. While I never knew the theme was that popular, it's a shame that it got shelved.
Say, wasn't Power Miners the LEGO theme that got a video game spin-off that's impossible to beat, due to a bug? Or am I thinking of Rock Raiders?
(Also, because I'm obligated by law to point it out, you misspelled "instant" as "instatnt" at 1:34.)
You're thinking of Rock Raiders
I had one or two of the lava monster sets. Don’t know where the monsters or miners are but they’re somewhere in my box of legos. The only thing I remember of the set(s) I had was that it came with Rex, a Yellow lava monster, and an Orange lava monster
I was digging around my house for some of my old Lego sets and found 3 of these in my old bedroom closet. Brings back some awesome memories
I never bought these sets, but it looks like a really cool theme.
Lego should bring the theme back
Thank you for covering this!
I miss the Clutch Powers movie and this theme 😢
R.I.P.
I’m amazed to see this video pop up and make me relive my childhood. I bought so many PowerMiners and Atlantis sets
The only thing I didn't like about the sets is it was lacking in the amount of bricks with the price tag on the various sets. The minifigs and monsters were worth the price, but in the end, I wish they would have revitalized the original Rock Raiders to upscale a lot of the sets. However, I still love the theme!
Rock Raiders is still the greatest Lego Video Game of all time (considering when it came out and the thought that went into it) Grew up trying to beat the game but after playing the game for over 15 years, can now finally beat it. It is a chore just to get it to work on new computers, but it is possible
Yep. This was a messy theme in comparison. I just cannot comprehend who thought light blue, lime and orange were a good combo.
Even though me and my sister only had a few power miners sets, I adored this lineup. I loved watching the CGI story shorts that were abridged in the commercials. I remember there being a lot of other online promotional material too, like the rock monsters on the surface where actors would play the rock monsters in giant inflatable costumes doing wacky real world things. The best videos were the ones where the lego engineers that created the sets would talk about their creations with some humor behind them. It was cool to see the people that took the time to create these sets and always made me envious of building them, myself. Thank you for reminding me of how much joy I got from the sets, but also the online content too.
I loved that era. Power miners, agents, space police, and to a lesser extent that alien invasion one, were all great interesting themes with awesome builds.
I remember being so happy watching the Clutch Powers movie, seeing how they included my little rock monsters!!
Literally started crying while watching this. My extended family always knew me as the boy who loved lego and all that. So I was gifted The Crystal King on 9 separate occasions. I had several other sets too, but always picked them apart to build my own ideas. I still remember those countless hours I spent looking for the orange crystal, endlessly digging through my several boxes of mixed lego. I can almost feel the LEGO's semi-sharp edges against my fingertips. Great memories.
Was such a cool theme, brings me back to early 2010s when I used to own many of wave 1 & 2; being a young child then most unfortunately haven't remained intact with the only one I have left still whole being the command rig. I'd never heard of the 3rd wave though which surprised me as I loved the theme
TBH 3th wave was pretty bad ---- they changed the colour sceam (replaced orange with blue) and the sets where just pretty mediocre
What a damn trip down the Nostalgia lane, I LOVED seeing these commercials. Sadly we could not afford much toys in my childhood, so we had very few lego sets. Atleast one of them was Power Miners themed, maybe the Fire Blaster set. I distinctly remember first getting my hands on one of those little crystal guys, and seeing how their mouth opened to store the crystal, just as it was advertised. Glad we got some imagination as kids, and when winter came and the tractors plowed snow into huge piles, they formed the perfect "mines" to us. Armed with plastic shovels, we had become power miners ourselves, searching for crystals and fighting the monsters. Amazing how seeing some commercials gave enough fuel to fire hours of imagination adventures. I fondly look back on these sets, even though I didn't get to tamper with the biggest sets.
I never bought any of the power miners sets, but the sets look really cool! I wish this theme was never discounted!
My brother got that phase 3 set with the big guy they captured, I remember helping build that soda machine and wanting more of the sets, I was so sad to hear it got discontinued
I don’t know if I could say this is my favorite theme but it is definitely one of the plethora of spectacular themes from the 2000s
I absolutely loved PowerMiners, and still pick up the sets when I can. I think this is where I developed a love of the color lime green, which turns out to be a good color for this summer's wave of City sets--such as the grocery store and passenger train!
Luckily the theme was revived in Lego Worlds. There was a spectacular biome, unlockable rock monsters to spawn in and a couple of really fun vehicles.
Great video, really brought back some nostalgia.
I miss this theme so bad :-(
same
@@bestyoutubeshorts5625 it was truly great!
God bless you for this reminder! I had a handful of these sets as a kid, and was obsessed with them. I even remember a handful of the other themes that were cancelled too; especially the space police.
this was honestly the best theme of sets released in my opinion
Darn i still remember this. Man this takes me back
Yes on eof the best themes ever, I got some from 1st and 2nd wave, but not the 3rd with lavamonsters, unfortunately, I really would love a re-booth
yes it was amazing!
What would be amazing is if Lego did reruns (or redesigns) of some of the best sets of these old themes, similarly to how they did Ninjago Legacy sets. Some of the redesigns in the legacy sets are amazing, and allowed me to get a version of a set I really wanted but missed out on. Imagine: Lecacy Power Miners, Atlantis, Aqua Raiders, Mars Mission, etc. I really like the idea, and have had multiple dreams where it was real.
My first ever lego set was the rock rusher, and I loved that thing to death- still have the geolix big fig as a matter of fact. I also had the crystal sweeper back in the day and I still remember the thrill of waking up on christmas morning and unwrapping the massive box of that thing. To this day it’s probably one of if not the best christmas gift I ever got 🔥🔥🔥 good memories
I never got on board with Power Miners, because I was sad that the Rock Raiders were gone. Now I wish I would have picked up some sets.
My first lego kit was a 2010 Power Miners atv-looking vehicle, the one at 7:42. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Definitely do more videos like this plz. Can you do like some on Space Police was it? And Exo-Force for those who remember that?
Power Miners and Bionicle practically made my childhood lol. I remember playing all of the games and watching the video shorts on the Lego site when it had just come out. The Thunder Driller was my first “larger” Lego set and that theme had some of the best designs of any (even now).
When I was a kid, this theme was hands down my favorite along with Lego SW. I grabbed every set I could and made a point of collecting all the different rock monsters. LEGO showing off combining the different sets sold it the most for me in retrospect. It lead to many happy hours of building the wildest mining machines I could imagine when I got bored with the intended design. And best of all, my creation looked more or less at home in the theme. No randomly colored blocky abominations like many of my SW mocs at that age. You were given the means to build and expand upon the theme without any of your work looking like it was out of place.
my god this was my absolute favorite. such a cool aesthetic, i loved the orange and green colors of the miners and the neon of the monsters. i had so many of the vehicles like the mechs of the multiple waves and the giant drill. the little sweeper and grabber things were awesome too. and the metal armor and helmet with visor of the later wave were my favorite for moc warriors. the play features were amazing too, moving parts on armor and helmets, the monsters could hold stuff in their mouths and hands, it was just perfect. so nostalgic and i'd honestly play with these things as a 19 year old haha
I was lucky enough when I was a child to be able to have a complete collection of the Rock Raider theme, when I found out lego was giving us something very similar, I was so happy! I grew up with the Rock Raiders lego set and video games, then power miners!
As a proud owner of all of the power miners sets, I still stand by this as one of the best themes ever.
I loved the theme as a kid and yesterday I saw a great offer on eBay, the Granit grinder sealed in the box for 15€. I couldn’t resist and bought it directly.
4:19 the set is named "Crystal King," season 16 of Ninjago's main enemy is called the Crystal King, maybe a reference?
No. Just obvious and plain cannibalization.
One of my first Lego sets was a power miners set, it was from wave 3, it was a small little mech suit with a water cannon and a lava monster, it was a tiny set but I’ll always remember it super fondly. Same goes for the rest of the theme, I wish I would’ve gotten more of them
I remember Power Miners when it came out in 2009. I was 5 at the time. I drooled over those sets SO BAD, and I was so jealous when some friends of mine got them. Sadly, I missed out on getting them - my parents didn't seem to thrilled at the idea. (I had mostly City sets at the time).
However, i managed to get a secondhand Thunder Driller set in 2016 when I was 12 - complete with the original box and all - only missing 1 sticker. Sadly, I never got any of the others, but I played with that set like crazy for a while! Eventually, it got disassembled and it's parts were used for building MOC's, but last year (I think), I dug out the parts and rebuilt the set, I think I am only missing 1 part.
Honestly, I like both this and Rock Raiders a lot, and wish Lego would bring back at least one of them. I kind of like Rock Raiders slightly more, but I think Lego would be more likely to bring this one back as most of the parts/colors are either still in production or were more recently discontinued, unlike Rock Raiders which uses so many old and rare parts and colors.
Still, Lego really should bring back one of those themes, or at least introduce another successor (maybe with a backstory connected to either Rock Raiders or Power Miners).
I remember getting a couple of these sets as presents when I was very young and being absolutely overjoyed with them
The best way to revive the series would probably maybe be a fully playable Power miners 3D game where you would actually mine and attack the rock monsters, there have been numerous lego games that make this possible like Lego worlds for example, though digging wasn't it's main focus.
Being 20 now, I got only a handful of Power Miner sets for my young birthdays, and I miss it so much. Such a cool concept with so much potential
I don't remember Power Miners, but I definitely remember Rock Raiders. Never got that much into them as I was mainly into Bionicle by that point.
Yup, along with Ninjago, Atlantis and Dino 2010 as for original themes, this series got me back into Legos and really glad I collected these sets. Sadly they aren't fully assembled anymore and due to damage which cause the stickers to peel and not having space for them, this series left my mind but I never truly forgot about it. Part of me wishes they continued the theme, it was a really cool theme and hope to see it return one day.
This theme was my late childhood. I remember being absolutely devastated when they disappeared from the shelves.
I remember these sets being in the LEGO Clutch Powers Movies!
Still have my Crystal Sweeper built, it’s one of those sets I’ll never take apart. Power Miners was such a cool theme, it just felt so different, while also reminding those old enough of Rock Raiders (I was 6 when that line came out and have memories of building the sets with my Dad). The Power Miners builds were so much fun and very ambitious. The line being cancelled was actually one of the things that pushed me away from LEGO (along with rising prices).
yeeesss, i distinctly remember Power Miners being my absolute favorite as a kid, I was so sad when it was canceled abruptly. I still have the Thunder Driller all these years later
Damn this was nostalgic! I was a huge power miners fan back in the day and I particularly remember importing a second wave set from america to get my hands on it early before it was released in the UK. I don’t actually remember ever seeing that particular set in the UK and have no recollection of the third wave either. Such a shame it was discontinued so quickly.
Yeknow, I had rediscoverd these generes of Legos because I rewatched Lego The adventures of Clutch Powers!
Power Miners, Atlantis, and Space Police!
The nostalgia.
I remember browsing the lego store to look at cool sets with one of my friends back when it came out. good times.
there was a lego movie, an old one, where at the start the main protagonist is working for the powerminers, it was my first time seeing the sets and it was a very unique expirience. unfortunatly i never owned one, but my friend had that truck with the two blades up front.
I think I remember the movie, instantly thought of it while watching this, do you remember the name of it?
I think the movie was like a weird trip of wacky ideas and sets or something, I think I even remember an ogre doing some riddles and a stair case thrown in lmao 😂
@@Jordan_Cross thats definitely it. The guy was named something powers, and he lead a team into defeating a wizard i think. But yeah a weird one but very nostalgic
@@nicktheocharis126 ahaha I went on an investigation and found it, it's Clutch Powers, maybe the best movie ever made by Lego, so much nostalgia lmao
I loved the design videos and shorts that the team made with the sets, similar to those of Mars Mission and other themes of that time. Seeing the toys being played and play features working perfectly gave a sense of security about the sets themselves (also seeing the thunder drill turn into a hanging carousel was iconic)
Mars Mission was one of my favorites along with Space Police.
Aquazone was my favorite set growing up. I have a lot of fond memories of building my Deep Sea Predator, playing with it, customising the build into a space vehicle with wings and a freely rotating "tail fin" for counterbalance (pretty sure this makes no sense, but I was a kid, and I thought it was really cool). I remember really wanting some of the Stingray stuff, but they were all more expensive, and my family didn't have a lot of money.
The nostalgia, I literally had 90% of the power miners sets, I was obsessed as a kid
Brought back some good memories. I loved this LEGO theme growing up and was sad to see it suddenly disappear. I hope that one day LEGO will decide to finish the storyline of Power Miners and bring some more sets along with it.
Also me and my brother managed to get 2 of these sets back then, the gems and stuff were honestly key to our interest, along with the look of the figs. We wanted more stuff to use as money
I have about 70% of this collection, been slowly collecting over the years, just a dope time in my childhood
I remember having this, Atlantis and Ninjago as a kid, very nostalgic stuff
I still have my crystal sweeper. Most lego sets I owned were star wars themed, and I would typically build them and then display them. I didn't want to break them and then lose peices. But my sweeper got some pretty good use since it was just so fun to push it arround and see what it could sweep.
Power miners and Atlantis were my favorite non licensed themes 😢
Power Miners was my favorite theme as a kid. I had the stone cutter, mine mech, granite grinder, and lavatraz. I also bought the thunder driller as an adult, when I got back into Lego. I've always gotten a kick out of silly details in power miners sets, like the vending machine in lavatraz, the coffeemaker in the rock wrecker, or the banana in the supply crate for the titanium rig. It helped sell the effect that the miners weren't heroes per se, just ordinary workers stepping up to do a dangerous mission.
I say we're due for a revival of the theme. The mining subtheme in City just didn't cut it.
0:45 Rock Raider PC game was pretty fun as a kid, same with the Lego racing where you could build your own vehicles
Omg, I almost forgot about them. I was like 5 when they came out and I remember always carrying my rockmonsters with me. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Oh my heart, I remember looking at those in the lego magazine and wishing I could get them, makes me feel old.
I remember my first Lego set being a Power Miners set, it being one of the lesser priced sets with the blue rock monster. I never actually put it together and still have the pieces lying around, but my collection from when I was a kid is just a big bin full of bricks so I could never find the original parts. I regret never getting into them after that.
Rock Raiders was also a great and exciting theme for the time. It brought a lot of new pieces and story concepts and the minifigures have a lot of character.
There was also a Rock Raiders video game which was, for the time, one of the most innovative rts/city builder games around
I've had one set from the third wave, and I liked it very much. Good ol' times.
I remember they had the Power Miners in LEGO Rock Band. Looking back, I would've loved these sets back in the day.