Lego Rewind Ep.3- Rock Raiders/Power Miners
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Actually, I recall that Power Miners actually did get a complete ending in a two-page LEGO Club Magazine comic. If my memory is correct, the bigfig in the Lavatraz set was the last of the Rock Monsters, and by defeating him the earthquakes stopped happening. Not the most riveting ending, but it gave the needed closure my eight-year-old self.
That... is pretty weak. I get it that the lava monsters are an upgrade from the rock monsters, but do they really expect us to believe that mid-tier one was the final boss? Not a giant two-headed lava monster had the theme gone on long enough?
Well that was the end of the series, but one character appeared in another theme, Atlantis, which connected the two. There are so many references to other system sets from other themes, it seems like theres a shared universe. I mean not like the lego movie, or dimensions, i would love if there was a video connecting everything together, such as Atlantis to Aqua Raiders and Power Miners, to Ninjago connecting to Ultra Agents, which was connected to Agents, which connected to Alpha Team
Maroon Cactus these lists here are themes that are connected
1. Aqua raiders-Power Miners-Atlantis-Pharaoh's Quest-Alien Conquest-Dino-adventures
2. Monster Fighters-Galaxy Squad-Ultra Agents
3. Agents-Racers-City
All these themes are connected in Lego magazines (for example brains (power miners) joins the Atlantis team, the Atlantis villains, pharaohs quest villains and dino villains worked for the alien conquest main villain in a comic and josh thunder and Johnny thunder but everyone knows that, Solomon blaze is in galaxy squad and ultra agents and there's a comic where Lord vampire (monster hunters) brings down the aliens from galaxy squad and there's a game called the robot chronicles which connects the third list
Awesome, it makes me glad that they put this all together
Cool car 161 another thing that slipped my mind, in the Ultra Agents app, there was a revealing of the old Agents uniform, which means those two are connected also. Ultra Agents shared characters with Ninjago, which could mean those are connected as well
I love this series to death right now, it's hard to find actually sophisticated analysis of Lego themes as opposed to 3 minute unboxing videos by a shouty dude
Thanks, dood. I'm just hoping this series gets some more traction. These videos take too much time to edit for me to justify uploading them this frequently. I'll have to slow down to once a month or so after episode 4 if things don't pick up.
NickonAquaMagna Don't feel too much pressure to rush out anything you feel doesn't warrant the time it takes to put out this sort of video, just know that I and I'm sure many others have your back all the way.
1. Love the IT crowd reference
2. Either yelling guys unboxing or a little kid or a silent video with stop motion building it for a minute
Bruh
"Then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have aliens; a dark and grim universe where humans aren't valued" .... clearly you've never heard of warhammer 40k!
Too true, too true. lol
I was about to comment this. Alien looks sanitized compared to a day in 40k.
He must hear about the Emperor of Man.
I was just looking for this
True
I loved the Rock Raiders game, might have been one of the best LEGO games ever.
Earven same yo, same
That synth music was excellent too!
I got the game as a gift when I was 10 years old. The last time I played it was 2 years ago, when I was 24!
Just so you know, someone is making a free remake of the PC game in the Unreal engine, called Manic Miners.
6 words LEGO Star Wars the complete saga
"Power Miners" was such a great theme. Shame the second year wasn't quite as good before the theme died. Perhaps the first year didn't make as much money as Lego wanted, so they didn't put as much work into the second year. That's my thoughts anyway.
Hmmm... where else have I seen that happen before?
Oh yes...
*gets war flashbacks*
Yeah sounds like familiar fail scenario, but that's why LEGO usually making only 3 year runs of themes, but sometimes i have a feeling they could earn a lot if they would listen more to the fans feedback
btw when you're going to make a rewind on Exo-Force ?
I do not know.
oh just a bit out of topic, you're kind of a Sonic series fan right ? I had an idea for a story that could be a base for a game from series, and for new characters, woudl you like to read about them ?
I remember when the Power Miners came out. I loved the theme, colors, and vehicles. The alternate builds were so much fun to build. Power Miners released at the time when the Star Wars Clone Wars sets were dominating and I really didn't like the way the faces of the minifigs in those sets looked at the time. I just love the underground digging idea. As a kid I loved to dig in the dirt, so this theme really clicked with me. I remember having all sorts of scenarios built in my room. So much fun.
Rock Raiders was my jam. i LOVED that theme with a passion. the hover scout, the chrome crusher, the granite grinder, it was AMAZING. The game only reinforced my love for it.
I had 2 older brothers who both total 90s kids, I was always so jealous of their rock raiders sets. When Power Miners was first teased with that animation of the drill bursting through the cave wall into a rock monster I was SO excited. I still remember the hype
Power Miners was my jam
I was born a bit late to the Rock Raiders theme, but I did play the game, and my god is it awesome! It's somewhat of an Age Of Empire clone without all the combat obviously. It was a ton of fun. Shame I couldn't find any Rock Raider sets though.
Rock raider sets are super expensive on the secondary market. It's a shame, cause eventually I'm going to buy them all. 🤣
The best thing I remember about Power Miners is the tie-ins it had with the Clutch Powers Movie.
Good lord, when I first saw the Power Miners color scheme, I bloody hated it. I thought it was extremely garish and there was so much of the unappealing green! Nowadays, it's been long enough that I look back on this with nostalgia. There's been a great number of good LEGO ideas over the years, and this was one of them.
This is a very cool show, I love your analysis of these old lego themes, it is very refreshing content!
i don't doubt you , i also love this series as well
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I had the PC version of the Rock Raiders video game back in the early 2000's and played it a lot (but never beat it), so it's pretty nostalgic for me even though I didn't get any of the sets until much later.
I remember seeing Lego Power Miners when I was growing up. Now that I look back at many of these themes, I appreciate them better than I did in my day, so I thank you for all the themes you've been able to cover overall.
Power Miners are still my favourite Lego sets of all time.
It's nice to see that someone else remembers them
Did you know the underground atmosphere for Rock Raiders was inspired by the Dinotopia books by James Gurney? You can especially see this in the Dinotopia book "The world beneath".
Ah Power Miners, probably my favorite Lego Theme from my childhood.
Omg this is so fun going through all this videos and seeing all the old sets I saw and sometimes had when I was a kid. I'm only 25 now but I feel super old XD thanks for making these videos man
I loved playing with legos as a kid, but I was never a lego maniac. It was mostly because my family never had too much money at their hands to buy toys, so all I had was a box of old bricks with a few other old sets thrown in as well.
Still, I liked looking at the boxes on store shelves. And when I saw Power Miners there, they caught my attention immidiately. I had to have at least one. I scrambled some money from my allowence and bought myself that Granite Grinder. A shame I couldn't afford more, because the colors and builds were great in this theme.
i absolutely loved the granite grinder when i was a kid, there was something fun about that set that the others don't have, but i can't quite describe it
Good ol' Power Miners. I swear, I'll have the phrase "Let's get that double-geared drill on the Thunder Driller" in my head until the day I die.
I still have the scene of the miner throwing the dynamite in a rock monster's mouth yelling "Hey Rocky! Catch!!" In my head after all these years
I only ever had one Rock Raiders set (the little hovercraft thing that came with Jet) but I remember loving it, especially the turquoise console piece.
It's an nice piece for small vehicles. It's also used in darth maul's speeder.
Jet is such a cool character. Love her white hair and helmet. I also like how the set comes with a variety of tools.
I loved the Rockraiders game a lot. There's some intense satisfaction from unearthing and exploring an alien planet.
Unfortunately the sets were't in stores anymore at the time. I remember composing vehicles and buildings that had a similar feel, which works pretty well with rockraiders rough aesthetics.
Just bought Rock Raiders set (the one with drill, dish and laser on top) and went to re-watch this video so I can appreciate the set even more!
"Time before the time before time"
On the island of Mata nui 6 canisters arived on the beach and out came tale 6 toa
Six canisters washed up on a golden beach.
Both these themes were fun and interesting, rock raiders was revolutionary in bringing us our very first big fig, were as rock raiders had some interesting sets, overall I prefer reck raiders but power miners is also fun, I just prefer the style and story of rock raiders
Atlantis was so dope. Really had some great minifigs
I remember my friend having a rock raiders game. I would come over and watch him play. I kinda miss that game.
I loved lego at the time of Atlantis, Power miners and early ninjago and the functionality of s1 power miners were super fun, and I have always wanted the big sweeper one that actually dumped them into the back.
I remember getting all hyped for the Powerminers, When the first appered on the shelfs. After a few smal sets my parents got me the old Rock raiders game, which then bought me to the point, where i completle stopped Buying Power miners, in oder to get the old Rock raiders via eBay. I might dig them out some time soon. (pun intended) Just for old Times sake.
Man, power miners was one of the first Lego themes I ever really got into(the first being bionicle and the second being aqua raiders 07), and I'm honestly surprised at how well a lot of those sets held up over the years
Man, Aqua Raiders was great. So clean. Atlantis is basically the same thing, just more loud and with more of a story.
NickonAquaMagna there's a dead Aqua raiders guy in the biggest Atlantis set
Is Lego just doing a thing, where they revive a theme under a new coat of paints, 15 years after it died?
Are we gonna get "Neo Ninjas!" in the 2030s?
Is it the same corpse that was being digested by the octopus in Aqua Raiders?
NickonAquaMagna Possibly, I do know it's from the shark gate set in Atlantis. I'm also extremely happy as Jangbricks and Just2Good inspired me to build my two Lego power miners sets, while watching this video I've been playing with them (The crystal sweeper 3:42 and mine mech 3:37)
In my childhood i played the game to death even though im not sure if i actually know what i was doing.
Ah yes, 2009-2010 nostalgia. I ended up collecting most of the Power Miners vehicles over time; was the best thing in the world for 12-13 year old me. The Thunder Driller or whatever it was called (the big drill tank) was probably my favorite. I still have them lying around and they're only really missing a few small pieces. I'm still kind of proud of my self for not destroying them and scattering the pieces to the four corners of the Earth like I did with the other Legos I had when I was young.
Absolutely LOVE the use of ratchet dreadlock music🙌🏽
I sure love me some Rock Raiders! Great video, as always Nick.
Was looking for this one
I didn't grow up with Rock Raiders as I was just getting into Lego at the time those sets were released (had to start with Town and such). The world and characters of that theme seem interesting. Certainly see the Alien visual cues.
Power Miners on the other hand was definitely a Lego theme I was really into. Like you said in the video, the functions and colour schemes turned out really well and made for great sets both for play and display. The Thunder Drill,Claw Digger and Crystal King would probably be some of my favourite sets. Just a shame that Lego canned it so soon into its second year, but I guess that's a growing trend with Lego's action themes. *tragically remembers Exo-Force*
Looking forward to hearing your take on Bionicle's ancestors in the next episode!
The power miners music was solid too i’d be watching tv and add would come on and then BOOM EPIC DRILLS AND MUSIC one of my favourite Lego themes
I grew up with power miners so I’m probably biased but it’s one of my favourite themes of all time. Every set had a mining function, even the polybag, and it was a theme that exemplified what I love about Lego at the time, that it was focused entirely on affordable fun toys for kids. Plus shiny plastic crystals pretty
Power Miners was resolved in a comic in the Club Magazine.
I loved Rock Raiders so much as a kid and even as an adult I really dig the vibe and aesthetic it has. I remember as a kid playing with them in the dark with flash lights to better emulate the caves in my brain and it just created this unforgettable atmosphere to little me.
Power Miners was the first Lego Theme that I was seriously invested in as a kid. I inherited a massive amount of classic city and space sets from my mom and her brothers so I didn't really buy too many new sets aside from the occasional police cruiser or helicopter. But Power Miners was something that I didn't have anything resembling it at the time and so I became a bit obsessed with it, and many of my friends jumping in on the hype certainly helped that as well. The 8961 Crystal Sweeper was the most important thing in my life for a while.
Also, has anyone else noticed that LEGO slowly switched from introducing around 2 action themes a year which lasted for around 3 waves to having Ninjago and one other longer-running theme (Nexo Knights)? There has not been another new non-licensed system theme since 2015's Pirates, and the last sci-fi-y theme was Ultra Agent.
Yeah. I think they're planning these themes out to last longer.
Earven yeah but ninjago has changed a lot since the beginning as the have ditched one of the biggest draws being the cards and spinners and personally I think it should have ended after they defeated overlord
dont say that dude! People love ninjago more than any other theme! Might i add that it is the best selling lego theme out right now. So you can thank ninjago for keeping lego going!
Yeah, I think that’s one reason I stopped buying anything. Star Wars set were the only thing keeping me going at that point and they were ALWAYS way too overprice for my blood. All there ever seemed to be was Ninjago, Chima (I think?), and city. They all either bored me, or I just thought they were a step up from duplo on the seriousness factor.
@@haydenbritt1237 star wars sets were getting repetitive, that's what made me stop buying 'em. I loved SW the Clone Wars, but they never made sets for it apart from the 2008-2012 line
Rock Raiders all the way. I never even had any of the sets growing up but I had the PC game and have since bought some of the sets and Rock Raiders specific pieces to make my own MOCs. If Life On Mars is my favorite Space sub theme, Rock Raiders is right behind in second place. I cant really talk about Power Miners, it came out during my Lego dark age and still to this day is just kind of "meh" to me. It's kind of funny, Lego was suffering through the 90s and early 2000s financially, but that's when I think Lego put out the most interesting stuff. Stuff from about 2004 to maybe 2010 never really interested me. Today they have gotten better (love the Lego Movie sets, probably just becuase of all of Benny's Classic Space themed sets) but to me will never top stuff like G1 Bionicle, RoboRiders, Slizers, Ice Planet, Fright Knights, Insectoids, Exploriens, Life on Mars, Xalax, *cough* Galidor *cough* and Rock Raiders.
...I think I like space sub themes a little too much lol
The Rock Raider video game was actually pretty interesting. I played it as a kid and played it again later. It was a bit easy as an adult, but challenging as a kid. But well, it was not a bad game.
Rock Raiders was one of the first things that got me into Legos when I was a little kid. Not just the sets, but the game as well. I'm pretty sure I have almost every set they came out with, including the base, transport ship, and heavy miner. The characters looked great and were very unique, the whole aesthetic fit the theme really well, and I loved the concept of space miners with advanced technology.
Really love their starship too, kinda wish they had made a set for it at some point, even if it was just a static model meant for display, like a few of the old Lego Star Wars ships.
Power miners were my favorite and first LEGO sets. I miss them.
i had power miners. such a good theme. i hope lego do something like this again maybe in a few years time.
Oh I love Rock Raiders especially the colour scheme, great! (I actually think the game was one of the best ones, Lego ever made) Power Miners was quite nice to though.
I'd like to see a revisited episode about these themes. I just yearn for the mines
I freakin' loved the Rock Raiders game and sets!
Power miners is extremely nostalgic to me. I adored those technic action features as a kid!
I remember Rock Raiders! I had the big HQ set. I actually have the laser cannon from that set sitting on my desk as I type this.
The old lego intro is nostalgic
Enjoying these immensely :)
I loved Power Miners so much, I bought every single set besides the two mini ones since they were never at my stores. I still have them away packed in boxes.
haha the lego rock raiders set made me so happy
I got the set at 3:08 years and years ago. I'd since reporposed it with the cockpit going to a spaceship, the chainsaw going to some bloke I called "Tom", and the minifigure's head going to some sort of villainous robot war general called "Galac Attack". (My dad came up with the name.)
Really never owned any of these sets but I love watching your video, gives me ideas on my Lego Space Mountain Mining Moc that I'm building as we speak. Thank you for the inspiration
I can just imagine someone having like a hall, full of Lego, like one of EVERY Lego set ever created, and the entire thing is set up like this HUGE interconnected storyline where everything has a purpose and meaning behind it, like the cities are from the Lego City Sets (of course) but further away there's the fantasy sets, sci fi sets, heck, even platforms for sets that okay off on other planets, or like the avengers and justice league, alongside transformers and the robots from Pacific Rim.
And this _'world'_ includes old and modern sets
(Idk why I went into detail that much, but this would be awesome.)
I loved rock raiders. I had the chrome crusher and the pc game. As a kid I loved the character driven minis and clear story. I remember some 'comics' of images of the sets + 'photoshop' in my school library the idea of a cannon story was exciting without stopping you making your own fun.
I would love to see a theme with a similar color scheme and aesthetic as Rock Raiders, but with the new mechanics and building techniques Lego has developed over the years. Since I never bought any Power Miners sets, I'd love to get something similar to them but with a darker setting.
Power miners and Atlantis were my two favorite series of LEGO. I still nearly every single set from each of them in my room. Thanks for the trip down memory lane man.
I can’t help but look back to when I used to have a few power miners sets with nothing but nostalgic fondness.
power miners was the best theme I ever experienced as a kid. I even got all the sets!
Oh... I miss that old LEGO intro.. so nostalgic.. :(
In my humble opinion... Power miners is the best unlicensed LEGO Theme toy wise! The functionality for each were both simple and gripping. Aesthetically it isn’t as good as most space themes but, they don’t grow old!
Holy shit you just brought back so many memories with that vintage lego intro
I did have some Power Miners and I enjoyed the functionality and some of the sets like the sweeper one in the first wave did things I didn't know lego could _reliably_ do.
Watching these is making me want to get into collecting Lego again!
I love both these themes. I have a couple Power Miners sets and I was too young for Rock Raiders, but Rock Raiders left an incredible impression on me later due to it being highlighted in a way out of date Lego Encyclopedia at a local library and the fact that my cousin handed down the Rock Raiders game along with a PS1 and other games to me when I was ten.
Loved power miners so much, I miss it!!! Really great vid!!!
Power Miners was my favorite theme growing up. Great vid man keep up the work!
Honestly, all I really remember is--
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR!!!!!
--the wonderfully hammed-up captain voiceover in the game
Also I think when I played the first Dead Space it kinda made me think of this.
Don't think I had any of the sets-- far as I remember I was more into the Slizers.
you seam to forget that most of the biger rockraider sets included electronicks in the for of a "mininglaser".
I do have a few powerminer sets but I wish I had had the posibility to have grabed some of the powerminers sets.
That's something I'll have to mention in the update video coming up.
I used to have a bunch of the power miner sets, brings back memories.
Power miners was my childhood
Power Miners was my favourite Lego series when i was little.
An idea I'd love to do for a mining theme. The Rock monsters building mining machines to harvest crystals. Maybe even competing with each other until they find out the deeper they go, the more they discover their planets secrets.
I like the sets with lots of transparent pieces. I really like the power miners sets because of the functions and the little rock monsters with their gem compartments.
I actually played that game years ago when Gametap was still a thing. I think you should give it a go if you ever have a method to do so. It was pretty decent, and a bit challenging in places.
I think a lot of success of Rock Raiders come from solid choice of "industrial" colors and designs that appeal to parents/granparents AND addition of sci-fi elements for kids. If you're interested in what can be done with greys, browns, turqoise and neon colors look at art of gamedev MORDS (he made Primordia and now works on Hibernaculum, both are in this "dirty hi-tech" style)
I had set with dozer and rock monster (4950), it was really cool and I wish my parents could afford more sets from that theme.
Power Miners was my jam. Love it.
In my opinion it’s kinda nice when themes just end because you get to make how it ends but only if the story is more blunt not a mortal blow
"I'm afraid I haven't played that game" oh you poor child you don't even know what you're missing
I haven't been feeling the best lately (darn Hyperglycemia), but this video helped me feel a little better. I saw Power Miners a few times on store shelves back when it was released, but I never went out of my way to actually get any of the sets. I was burned out with LEGOS at the time, so I just said "Eh, this looks cool, but I ain't getting this."
Rock Raiders looks cool, if only for the first big fig. I know that's shallow, but it's a cool tidbit if you ask me.
I loved the powerminers stuff, the comercials were great and the rock monster videos were great
God this just hit me with a level of nostalgia I forgot even existed. I loved that video game.
Power miners was my jam, like, I could barely afford to buy them but my god I STILL DID
As a Rock Raider nerd, I can only imagine the Power Miners machines in the Rock Raiders color scheme.
i keep coming back to this video
As a 27 yr old man I can confidently say rock raiders next to Johnny thunder was my absolute favorite.
Awesome video!!
I'm quite aware of the fact that this is super late, but I just wanna say that this series is amazing. As someone planning out a massive Lego project (A custom City with detailed history and lore based upon both real life and Lego (sub)themes that I feel fit) and it's so hard to find someone actually giving in depth overviews of the story and concepts brought by each theme rather than just showing every set released in the theme with no explaination. Sure, I'm not always sticking exactly to the lore of the themes as Lego laid them out (For example the Vikings in my story both fight the monsters and dragons Lego intended, along with being invaders to my Lego Archipelago in a vauge mirror to the Viking invasions of the British Isles) but having the basis Lego set out to structure my stories and history around makes things much easier and gives my setting more of that Lego vibe. Thank you for the good work, and I wish you all the best
Nice review, I am enjoying this series.
I loved power miners and lego Mars mission SO WOW I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A NICE MIX OF THESE. I WISH I HAD MONEY AND WOULD BE ABLE TO GET ALL OF THESE OLD SETS MAN
power miners was the only theme that I got every single set from the first year, sad to see it go it was a huge part of my childhood
I remember as a kid I got that drill Mech at a garage sale long after the line had ended. I loved that thing, still wish I had it in a complete form.
This series is great! These r the sets I grew up w : D
4:17 got that on my 10th birthday
I got the Giant 4x4 technic remote control offroad car for my 10th birthday :D my.god 6 years already
I freaking LOVE the power miner theme. Got every set in the first two runs, the third wave came when I moved states and I ended up mission out on all but one ;-;. sadly I was only like 4 years old when rock raiders came out but I have always liked them and accumulated a couple sets over the years