Lego Rewind Ep.3- Rock Raiders/Power Miners

[@CCupCinema]

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.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

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?

[@marooncactus7111]

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

[@legoroan9866]

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

[@marooncactus7111]

Awesome, it makes me glad that they put this all together

[@marooncactus7111]

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

[@Cheesemounta]

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

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

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.

[@Cheesemounta]

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.

[@legoroan9866]

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

[@Garmantula]

Bruh

[@KillerSmile559]

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.

[@ChloeAriT]

I loved the Rock Raiders game, might have been one of the best LEGO games ever.

[@haydenbritt1237]

Earven same yo, same

[@TheStanishStudios]

That synth music was excellent too!

[@Pantalaymo]

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!

[@ComatHam]

Just so you know, someone is making a free remake of the PC game in the Unreal engine, called Manic Miners.

[@JethammerTakeoff]

6 words LEGO Star Wars the complete saga

[@DG-ns1yh]

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

[@penguinmaster7]

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.

[@Shade2800]

"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.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Hmmm... where else have I seen that happen before?

[@Shade2800]

Oh yes... *gets war flashbacks*

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

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 ?

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

I do not know.

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

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 ?

[@seanhooper446]

"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!

[@westernstealth873]

Too true, too true. lol

[@digitalcthulhu143]

I was about to comment this. Alien looks sanitized compared to a day in 40k.

[@Crazyd6666]

He must hear about the Emperor of Man.

[@whitewolf44a]

I was just looking for this

[@christopherreynolds4506]

True

[@LostHeadStudios]

Power Miners was my jam

[@NoahProductionsNP]

This is a very cool show, I love your analysis of these old lego themes, it is very refreshing content!

[@AidanMartin]

i don't doubt you , i also love this series as well

[@BunnyGirlMet]

Noah Productions [NP] Lolrahk

[@jollythejackalope]

Power Miners are still my favourite Lego sets of all time. It's nice to see that someone else remembers them

[@SantiagoOchoa-hf9hn]

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

[@legogodzilla]

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.

[@ethanstatler1827]

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.

[@NachoLemon]

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.

[@johnskinner7271]

Rock raider sets are super expensive on the secondary market. It's a shame, cause eventually I'm going to buy them all. 🤣

[@lbricks7631]

The best thing I remember about Power Miners is the tie-ins it had with the Clutch Powers Movie.

[@ToaTenitrus]

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.

[@RRSlugger]

I sure love me some Rock Raiders! Great video, as always Nick.

[@StaticFuzz]

Was looking for this one

[@philippaul6039]

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

[@st4r64]

Ah Power Miners, probably my favorite Lego Theme from my childhood.

[@homm3bonedragon242]

I'd like to see a revisited episode about these themes. I just yearn for the mines

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

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".

[@alexm469]

The old lego intro is nostalgic

[@starfeather3047]

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.

[@meermeneer2278]

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

[@hab0272]

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.

[@Crazy-Drokon]

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!

[@Aspensauce64]

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

[@jblask2]

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.

[@allthebestnamesaretaken.3220]

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.

[@cephery8482]

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.

[@meteorsr2339]

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.

[@woebegone_kenobi]

Atlantis was so dope. Really had some great minifigs

[@cosmicsquid1285]

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

[@Erynash]

Power miners and Atlantis were THE best Lego themes they made. If anything comparable was ever released, It was so long most of us were not even here yet. These were some of my best lego memories.

[@ODST_Parker]

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.

[@qionsaber2870]

I remember my friend having a rock raiders game. I would come over and watch him play. I kinda miss that game.

[@CameronM1138]

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.

[@hab0272]

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.

[@GeorgeB435]

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!

[@theunderscoreddouble5740]

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

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Man, Aqua Raiders was great. So clean. Atlantis is basically the same thing, just more loud and with more of a story.

[@legoroan9866]

NickonAquaMagna there's a dead Aqua raiders guy in the biggest Atlantis set

[@Mayeur000Donz]

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?

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Is it the same corpse that was being digested by the octopus in Aqua Raiders?

[@legoroan9866]

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)

[@motionlessproductions2478]

Absolutely LOVE the use of ratchet dreadlock music🙌🏽

[@Cent_Reviews]

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

[@drevas7779]

I loved the powerminers stuff, the comercials were great and the rock monster videos were great

[@ghastlyghifin4029]

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.

[@shadyhunter975]

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

[@Jbread456]

power miners was the best theme I ever experienced as a kid. I even got all the sets!

[@AminalCreacher]

Power miners is extremely nostalgic to me. I adored those technic action features as a kid!

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

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.

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

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

[@atlas16198]

3:48 really like the mine mech(8957), good play value in a small package I like how the rollcage piece - by virtue of being used on a relatively small model - ends up really defining the shape of it in a way I find very charming. just wish the legs weren't so awkward

[@atlas16198]

I'm actually in the middle of modifying my own into the Rock Raiders colorscheme, since I figured it would be the best of both worlds (the better aesthetic + the better functions). I'd say it's a better time than ever to do so now that teal is back, but of course Lego isn't producing the proper brown and gray shades anymore, and there's no socket bricks in old dark gray, so I have to make do with what I got

[@purplehaze2358]

I can’t help but look back to when I used to have a few power miners sets with nothing but nostalgic fondness.

[@Lugbzurg]

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.)

[@tee361]

Holy shit you just brought back so many memories with that vintage lego intro

[@LeoxandarMagnus]

Power Miners was resolved in a comic in the Club Magazine.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

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.

[@chondrya942]

"Time before the time before time"

[@spiderspartianProductions]

On the island of Mata nui 6 canisters arived on the beach and out came tale 6 toa

[@Mael_Str0M]

Six canisters washed up on a golden beach.

[@maximilianlorenz206]

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.

[@benhiscox-smith3449]

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.

[@wispkeeper277]

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.)

[@DamianV8501]

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.

[@westoncorey3117]

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.

[@joshuamueller3206]

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.

[@TobyEchozap]

i had power miners. such a good theme. i hope lego do something like this again maybe in a few years time.

[@austinmarschner8036]

I was super into power miners growing up, one of my favorite memories was from Christmas Day and me and my mom spent all day building the big set with the spinning scoop wheel that spun when you moved the vehicle forward

[@richardsorgo8600]

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.

[@zachallan7545]

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!

[@reidwithoutacause]

I loved the power miners so much as a kid. The fact the rock monsters could open their mouths blew my mind.

[@dusanboricic2017]

Power miners were my favorite and first LEGO sets. I miss them.

[@afish2281]

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.

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

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.

[@ChloeAriT]

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.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Yeah. I think they're planning these themes out to last longer.

[@gamerguy9729]

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

[@Jbread456]

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!

[@haydenbritt1237]

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.

[@meermeneer2278]

@@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

[@brettschmeisser2568]

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

[@Hammer_Of_Olympia]

God this just hit me with a level of nostalgia I forgot even existed. I loved that video game.

[@PeteOfDarkness]

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.

[@TheGhostRydr]

I freakin' loved the Rock Raiders game and sets!

[@PrimeStarStudios]

Watching these is making me want to get into collecting Lego again!

[@grimm1206]

I used to have a bunch of the power miner sets, brings back memories.

[@smauggerr]

The best lego series when I was a kid!

[@dogsneezer259]

Power Miners was my favourite Lego series when i was little.

[@LilyTheMentallyInsane]

This line is actually called the adventures of clutch powers because thats the only part about it anyone remembers

[@actionjackson448]

Power miners was my jam, like, I could barely afford to buy them but my god I STILL DID

[@R4V3-0N]

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.

[@gezi5927]

Alpha Team and Rock Raiders seem very similar

[@Mrbandit81]

For some resin some of the Lego City builds popped into mind, going with the crystal or gold peaces, going with Lego City Arctic, Mining Experts, or Volcano Explorers. Some resin could see someone taking what bricks they have an building something close to the Power Miners or Rock Raiders but with out the BIG minifig maybe, I know I would try to build something close to it. Think I've seen more of the Power Miners, never picked any of the set's up but they looked pretty cool from what I saw on the commercials.

[@christopherforrest5713]

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

[@KristofferEk]

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.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

That's something I'll have to mention in the update video coming up.

[@stokedsteezy]

Power Miners was my favorite theme growing up. Great vid man keep up the work!

[@thebomb252]

haha the lego rock raiders set made me so happy

[@MedicMainDave]

5:03 can confirm this, because I own those sets twice, and the titanium drill rig 3 times...

[@jellyandjam9646]

Loved power miners so much, I miss it!!! Really great vid!!!

[@CaneMcKeyton]

I definitely loved the Rock Raider's universe and story line, and all the characters were very distinct and memorable. And boy was kid me super disappointed that their ship, LMS Explorer never had an official model

[@Skelentor]

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.

[@FelrinKirla]

As a Rock Raider nerd, I can only imagine the Power Miners machines in the Rock Raiders color scheme.

[@randomdudeontheinternet4389]

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.

[@Shockwave677]

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.

[@alicyjinx8923]

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

[@TheGhostRydr]

I was obsessed with Rock Raiders when I was a kid and I played the game a lot. I really enjoyed Power Miners when it came out. Season 1 was excellent but season 2 was awful aside from the lava monster, something I wanted to see back in Rock Raiders as they were in that game along with ice monsters. I'm hopeful that LEGO will revisit the concept again in the future, hopefully sooner rather than later.

[@BM-yy8db]

I realise I'm commenting on a video from 2017 but I wanna say that the gigantic sawblade-covered deathmachine that is the Power Miners Rock Wrecker has a tiny coffee machine included in the cockpit. Rock Raiders sets were cool, but they didn't have a tiny coffee machine. That said, Rock Raiders had the video game that in my opinion still holds up today as arguably the best Lego game and one of the best games of that particular genre overall.

[@goudguppy]

I have actually collected every power miners set, because I really like the look of them. But the sets where already not being sold anymore when I started collecting so I got a lot of good cheap buys from people who didn't know the value of the sets.

[@Brainstorm_2002]

I remember going to a old friend’s house and he had a power miners set it was one of the smaller ones. he showed me the videos online and i was hooked. unfortunately i couldn’t find any of the sets. I still want that sweeper set that picks up rocks and gems

[@Atriox2004]

Power Miners was my jam. Love it.

[@maniacalcoast2742]

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