I've gotten a lot of comments about why I have not covered the second wave of Power Miners sets. Unfortunately, I do not own about half of the sets from wave two, and they are costly to obtain. I'd love to do a video on them one day, but for now that video does not exist.

Power Miners was such a special Lego theme. I’d love to see Lego do a remake or even bring the entire theme back!

The cool drinks mashine is one of the best playfeatures in Legos history

I really loved how they gave their suits and helmets that shiny look like those proximity suits that the airport firefighters and volcano scientists use

I love how absolutely giddy you are over the play feature on the Claw Catcher. I totally get it. Power Miners was the theme that got me into LEGO, my first set was Thunder Driller. Play features like the one on the Claw Catcher, the Crystal Sweeper, and the Rock Wrecker always intrigued me, even though the only one of the three I ever had was the Rock Wrecker.

Dude, these videos are some of the best set reviews on KZfaq. Reviewing every kit in a theme’s wave is such an engaging twist on the standard single set reviews. I hope you do one of these videos for every wave lego has ever made, your presentation is just top notch!

Long Live Power Miners! My all time favorite original LEGO theme. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Fun to see these from a Rock Raiders perspective. I wish that it got a second wave, we know now that one was planned but ultimately canceled. We now know there were prototype ice and lava monsters, plus a giant slimy slug for that canceled second wave! So painful to learn 😭

I remember being a kid when the first promo images for the second wave appeared. I remember wishing for a "Lava Queen" to go with the Crystal King.

The water aspect felt weird. I get what they were going for, but the 'water' theming felt like an afterthought. It lost focus on it being about 'mining' and became Power... Washers? Going the magma route was super smart though. I wish they had really gone into lava-style vehicles like Lego city volcanic explorers subtheme, where they just needed further heavy duty equipment for mining magma crystals, maybe a magma diver or transport, an attack on magma base. They could have used a lot of transparent red bricks and maybe transport the 'lava' via tipper buckets of giant scoops/containers to contain the lava monsters in. It would have been epic to see the lava monster erupt from a mini volcano, maybe followed by a cascade of transparent red blocks.

I remember having "set theory" talks with my best friend, one set idea I always wanted to see was a boat that sailed on lava lakes, with enemies being lava sharks naturally. I believe I thought they would be based on the large model of Lego shark lol. I have so many great memories of Power Miners and the sets should still be buried in my collection somewhere waiting to be unbagged and rebuilt. Do you see yourself going over the middle wave of Power Miners? I would adore seeing you roll the Cave Crusher around, might be my favorite vehicle of the line but that's hard to pick lol. Thank you for these retrospectives! They're absolutely amazing and a fantastic trip down memory lane!

The sheer joy on your face as you chucked the rock monster into the back of the truck was strangely heartwarming. Great video!

I can totally see why you love that vending machine. Something incredibly great about that vending machine is that it actually was remade in one if the Monkie Kid sets. They remade it to look slightly better and to fit much more flavors, such as spider and egg yolk. 😂 this was a great theme!

10:07 this is just the joy of a happy man, and it's amazing. I can feel the happiness of a working feature for a toy it's just beautiful

I would have loved to see a crystal beasts wave. It would have revolved around different crystalized monsters/creatures and the power miners would have to stop them from reaching the surface. Great video btw

I recently got the Claw Catcher for the first time and I’ve been obsessed with the play feature too! I don’t even know why, it’s just so satisfying. I will say, it was clever of them to use the hinged lid as a backboard for the lava monster, cause when I put it all the way back and then tried to catch him, he just went flying lol

"Just use your imagination. You'll get over it" This part had me dying on the floor laughing 🤣

That looks like a great theme. Those are also some very unique figures, I ve never seen anything quite like that style. Great review!

It is so nice to see people who share the passion of Lego being so happy while playing with them, even when they are far older than the intended age range. Awesome video.

I've always been one of those people who instinctively hates everything new or different until it's at least a few years old, so as a kid I thought this wave was stupid and paid no attention to it. Looking back now, there were some really cool ideas in here, and I'm a bit sad I missed out on it growing up. Definitely gonna pick these up to finish my Power Miners collection! Great video =D

Truly an amazing overview, its straight to the point but not rushed, it has personality but it doesn't go off the rails, its super informative and relaxed. Thank you for making such great content! :)

Last year, when I got back into Lego, I saw a lot of people complain that Eruptorr was a letdown in comparison to the previous waves' crystal king, but I definitely agree with you and think that this (big-) fig (?) is glorious

18:38 I know its not intentional, but that punch really sold the rock monster "breaking out"

This is crazy. I remember all the power miners wave one sets very vividly, but I barely even recognize these sets.

Man I love the Claw Catcher, for one it has those exclusive Bionicle pieces, for two the function succeeds!! So many sets fail because their functions don’t work properly, but that one is awesome just awesome!!!

I hope in a few more years we get another Rock Raiders spiritual successor, it's such a fun theme :)

That claw grabby thingy made my childhood, wish I'd gotten more into power miners at the time tho.

I just want to say your videos always put a huge smile on my face whenever I see them, so thank you for that!

Thank you for this, this brought back so much nostalgia, I remember being so happy when I got the monster chucking vehicle set for Christmas. You earned a new subscriber :)

Power Miners was one of my favorite themes. Would have loved to have seen a more organic, brick-built underground mine with lots of rock creatures and maybe another big fig or two. The in-house themes are some of my favorites, and this one was excellent!

great nostalgic breakdown. I was always a Rockraiders fan more but these are still cool

I already know all the Lego sets I tried to watch other people reveal them but even knowing I know what's coming up next I'm still so excited for you you make it so entertaining I'm glad you're back

Dude I unlocked a whole bunch of core memories watching this, Power Miners were my favorite lego sets as a kid, so much so I had a birthday party that was Power Miner themed🤣

I loved the claw catcher when i was a kid, it was so much fun

You talking about the throw function really made my day :)

OMG I know it was like a year ago but I love you and your brother in Lego Masters! I can’t believe I found your channel.

A Crystal King-sized Lava King would've been awesome, especially with the redesign of the eyes they did for this last wave (that a prefer to the rock monsters). But all the green and orange vehicles were genuinely great and this last wave was kind of weak so i guess it's good that they stopped before it get worse. The grabbing Claw Catcher was the best thing to come out of this last wave for me. Also still mad we never got a trans-yellow crystal in this small set...

My favorite theme ever! Remember watching Monster see Monster do on the website as a kid

the vending machine in this set was one of my favourites, i remember whenever i made a base i would include that vending machine.

The base was one of my last Lego sets and the vending machine was the highlight for me and my friends. We were so excited about it and the big lava monster was also great.

Always love your reviews. Like you been getting some of the earlier sets through bulk buys.

I remember getting the Magma Mech as a kid, I enjoyed it so much. I remember it having so many more pieces though! I guess that just goes to show how big pieces were used a lot more back then. Nowadays, a mech of this size would probably have at least 400 pieces (and it will have longer arms, probably)

Power Miners were fantastic. Those Sets still look great and the play value is still exeptional. Loved the part 1 video, love this one. However we are missing the middle, including the two big sets. I sincerly hope a part 3 video is coming. The Titanium Command Rig was an absolute win. With it's 100 usd price tag it is already commanding in driving mode but in drill mode it towers over the whole range. Terrific play value. Very sturdy set too. The 80 usd set was the Underground Mining Station. That was big aswell but ours fell apart often from heavy playing and the play features are plenty but slighty on the useless side. Still great set. And the two remaining vehicles, the Cave Crusher and Rock Wrecker were fantastic too. I only wished they varied the bigfigs more. In four sets you get Geolix twice and Tremorox twice. Also you clearly have the Crystal King, so that needs to be properly featured aswell. Also in those five sets you get a total of only one rock monster! That is just mean.

If you ever track down all the wave 2 sets, I think everyone would appreciate another one of these vids on it!

I loved the outfits that the miners had in this wave. They were some of the coolest looking outfits for bounty hunters.

I had that grabby set! And those commercials.. I remember those, the rapid-fire announcer voice as someone builds the set at super speed. I had an Atlantis and space set too.. the pieces are undoubtedly just dumped all separately in the big bin downstairs. But thank you for letting me remember this bit of nostalgia

I used to own the claw catcher as a kid and that was one of the first lego sets that got me into Lego 🥰

If Power Miners continued I'd say an underground crystal cave or the home of the crystal monsters would have been great. From the monsters' side they could introduce purple monsters, or crystal homes. From the miners' side obsidian/diamond tools maybe lime green-black vehicles. But oh well it was a fun tour to the past. Thanks for the video series! :)

YOOOOOOOOOOO This was the lego wave that got me into them when i was young! glad to see people talking about it, it gives me a great deal of nostalga.

The claw catcher set holds a special place in my heart, I loved watching the power miner videos and I wanted all of the sets (especially thunder driller) but the only one I got was claw catcher. I loved that thing so much, my only regret was taking it apart, it ended up in my big lego bin and I don't know if I even have all the pieces anymore. I hope so, it was a great set.

heyy awesome! And by the way I just found an almost complete aero tube hanger on a local online marketplace for 35€ :) Your original video on Life on Mars really caught my attention. Gonna mess around with all those weird parts trying to find cool MOC uses

I didn't get many Power Miners sets as a kid, but Claw Catcher and the Crystal King were the rare ones I did get. The function of Claw Catcher brought me so much joy!

Loving this Channel and the effort put into the videos! Maybe a video on the Atlantis theme too? Not sure how easy the sets are to find

Awesome review, power miners and rock raiders are some of my favorite themes

Probably my favorite theme after Exo-Force. Thanks for the great nostalgia trip!

I would've loved more terrain sets. The whole thing takes place underground and, even though some of the builds include some rocks, there are some City sets that do the whole "Mining" thing better by incorporating the environment and play features. It would've helped with the immersion to place the terrain set(s) with the vehicles to sell the whole "underground" thing for sure.

What I would have loved to seen from it next is to explore more of the lava lions and then in the final set you can have this like big Cliffside with a bunch of sets and everything that you can place on and have the lava king with two eruptors with

Your videos are so (Simply) well done! Please keep up the good work. It's very subtle yet very good! (I especially love all the stuff you've done with Johnny Thunder and Alpha Team!) One quick question that's kept popping in my mind and where I've watched your videos... Is what are some good places you use for Legos in the aftermarket?

Somehow, watching this person being happy while talking about LEGO-sets is making me happy

I remember loving these sets and the commercials for them as a kid. I especially liked the see through monster figures and the gimmick of them hiding crystals in their mouths. Also I wonder if the designer of the water drill mech had seen Gurren Lagann.

I got the claw catcher for Christmas growing up, a great set

Really loved those sets, I remembered searching online for alternate builds and mocs from others to expand the theme for myself. Sadly its a bit hard to come by in Hong Kong while I tried to get some of the sets I didn't own when I was a kid.

I’ve got all of these except Lavatraz on display. Love em so much. Got Eruptorr tho, got him from a neighborhood kid as compensation for him stealing my smaller lava monsters. I think that was a net positive in the end considering his price these days!

Exo-Force ! Yes ! I am trying to get hands on the whole thing for a reasonable price myself, some sets are very easy to get and some are so hard, but I hope to have it one day (might just give up and pay a lot of money for it one day). But seeing them all on your table would be awesome.

power miners was a rite of passage. the day you got a power miners set was the day you turned from a boy to a man.

Man I need to get my hands on some of these power miners sets, they look awesome😆

Looking back, the color design of this final wave of sets was very strange, but I was mostly in it for the rock monsters and I feel their new appearance here is perfect. And the mini gigs got a lot better this time around too. Loved Combustix so much

I imagine the magma mech is so easy to get now because it probably sold relatively well back in the day. I mean come on, who could resist something that cool looking?

There 2 videos sent me on a nostalgia trip for the lego lines I grew up with. Would love to see a feature on Aqua Raiders, which also doesn't get enough love nowadays imho

I think I figured out how Power Miners (and other short-lived contemporaries with decent potential) could have survived: use Bionicle’s model for releases. Part one of the first wave (Spring - Early Summer) is your “first contact”. You have your medium ($20 - $50) sets be primarily the Power Miners, and run smaller ($5 - $15) sets for the Rock Monsters as first discovered by the miners. Maybe a $60 exclusive set in there. Part two of the first wave (Late Summer - Autumn) is your rising stakes. The medium sets are now the Rock Monsters, and your big ticket holiday items ($60+) are things like a Miner fortification and/or a Monster hive. Holiday Season for the first wave involves nice bundle deals and maybe one or two more last minute exclusives just to squeeze that extra cash. Wave Two Part One, you go back to medium and small sets, but split each size in half between the factions, so you have this feeling of the ongoing conflict. Maybe the Miners are becoming more militant and the Monsters are summoning more varied brothers in retaliation. Wave Two Part Two, climax of the first arc. Your medium sets are more of the same (maybe updates to older designs), and your big box sets are the ultimate weapon of the Miners versus the ultimate Rock Monster. Sprinkle in some creative Polys and combo/alt build instructions on the website, and booooooy, you got yourself a recipe for money.

So, I just watched all three parts of the revisiting of the LEGO Power Miners and I have to say, I enjoyed this a lot! You actually make this whole thing enjoyable and fun to watch whilst giving the info one wants to know! I subscribed. If you ever come across Space Police (another favorite of mine) please do a revisiting! I'd love to see what you think about those sets!

i never saw this as a reboot at all as a kid, all this looked like was simply an advancement of the plot of the story, theyre just digging deeper underground where things are getting hotter and hotter and now theyre fighting magma monsters. it just made a ton of sense for me

The unadulterated joy at the gripping mechanic was just a pleasure to watch. I know we had this set, cause I remember the red lava monster, wonder if my brother still has it somewhere.

The claw catcher is the definition of that crab meme that is captioned like: "me when I GET YOU", thats all I was thinking about when looking at it.😂

As a Kid i never really realized that that this "next part“ of the Power Miners only had 4 sets… somehow it always felt like there was much more to them. I had the mech and the monster grabber as a kid and was just as amused by the grab and throw mechanic as you were xD Remember always making the crystal king fight the magma mech fight in a direct hand to hand battle like pacific rim or something haha. Obviously also always wanted to have lavatraz… even if it was just for the insanely cool bigfig rock monster. I generally just always adored the idea of the Power miners ending up in other areas under the earth, finding monster that have adapted to the environment. My guess always was that next would be ice/frozen caves or maybe even flooded ones, needing for them to get a whole array of underwater mining vehicles. And honestly, that also is what I want more of… more monsters either big, small or king size, more vehicles with large drills, or claws…. God I just wish they would bring this theme back.

I would have traded my childhood for that beautiful claw catcher, I love the new magma and water gimmick, so sad to see it go

Cool sets!

The reason why there is no 13 is that it was a scrapped mech design that could transform into a truck. It was later used for an atlantis set designed by Mark Stafford.

Im glad i grew up with this and Lego chima

Great pieces and colors, maybe one day that theme will come back..

I remember these Lego I always wanted one of these sets

You really should give a look at the ExoForce sets. I remember having 2 of them, but it's just as flashes that came and went into my head when I got it, I barely remember the box! The figs are still on my collection, but not as treasured as I wanted to, unfortunately. Because damn, it had unique ideas, sick designs for the mechs even at the time, this anime style being remembered to this day, at least with some pieces; I'm sure it could be great having a modern series of it.

I think it would've been cool to see a set based around the lava monsters, maybe a giant lava fortress or something where you get loads of lava monsters and play features with power miners vehicles included so you could drill away the side or something. That would've been so cool so you could have a place where the power miners could have their final battle

The blade pieces on the Mechs claw arm and the pieces forming the claws of the Claw Catcher are all from Bionicle. The ones on the Claw Catcher are Barraki armor from 2007, the blades on the Mech are from 2008

Its funny, i absolutely loved power miners as a child and got a lot of the sets. Even got a bunch of the rock monsters and crystals from the secondary market. Still have one of them on my keychain to this day. ( all the grey printing on his torso is Gone and the arms are very loose) But the lava stuff i never got any of those sets. They just felt too different from the rest. The coloursceme but also the figures. Only recently got a couple of the lava monsters at pure chance at some garage sale.

What i'd like to see would have been something in tbe shape of an oil rig. The center of the earth is encompassed by a mantle of molten lava irl so having something to hover over it would have been pretty neat.

Given you asked; One of the things I'd always wanted from lego miners was a full scale bucket wheel excavator, like a much bigger version of the Crystal Sweeper. Maybe for a "Wave 4", it would be the mobile base like the Wave 2 command rig, with the lore being it digs deep into the lava zone to get water deposits, for all their tanks? But mainly, if you're doing a theme around mining, why wouldn't you use some of the largest vehicles ever built?

2:10 I remember slapping on the Ninjago katana holders on Rex's back for bulk to make my own Fallout Powerarmor

WOAH I HAVENT THOUGHT ABT THE ATLANTIS THEME IN YEARS woah thank u

I loved the sets from this wave but I wish it leaned more into the idea of traversing a terrain full of lava. Like how early waves were mining equipment, maybe have some rigs based around lava lakes. To spitball some ideas I’m imagining something like a raised oil rig esque mining platform that’s fortified for lava lakes. Or maybe a hexapedal walker with legs long enough that it can walk on the floor of lava lakes. Regardless, all of the power miners waves bring me boatloads pf nostalgia and I thank you for the blast from the past!

oh boy who would have thought years later that those blue bionicle armor pieces would be so sought after a decade later.

Let’sgoooooo more power miners!!!

What a lovely video ! Will you make a similar video for Atlantis, I mean is THE underwater theme and nostalgia hits hard with power miners and Atlantis

If the series had continued I would have liked some more location builds, not always vehicles. But I'm also curious: did the brown rock piece brake when it fell of the table? That sound was pretty bad... I really hope you cover the second wave some day, keep up the great work!

After months of thinking about buying some Power Miners sets, I finally pulled the Trigger and bought nearly all of them for 230€. I'm misssing stuff like the Boulder Blaster and the Underground Mining Base. I'm also pretty sure that the Underground Mining Base never released in Germany. Every Set has a german name, besides that one. I also only find like 1 listing on eBay for it in Germany. I couldn't find any information on it anywhere regarding a german release of this set. I even looked in the LEGO Magazin around the time of its release. Anyway, really great Video.

Im late to the party but great video! Rumor has it that vehicle number 13 does exist and was produced but not as a power miners set. Supposedly Atlantis set 8080 was the 13th Power Miners vessel but was repurposed for underwater exploration.

Man I just now want to pick Lavatraz from my storage and play with it. Such an amazing playset ! Extremely cool… drink ! 😂

POV: you go to the Lego store, but a mob of Cheesey Studios fans chanting “BRING BACK POWER MINERS”

I didn't really grow up with Power Miners stuff, but the vehicle that I personally believe they SHOULD have gotten, and it's honestly kind of criminal that they didn't get, was some form of bucket-wheel excavator. Some sets have something similar, but there is no real bucket-wheel excavator set in the Power Miners lines, and it would've been amazing to have a bucket-wheel excavator as a flagship of a line.

Hey man, Love your Videos! I have a suggestion, how about making your own Power Miners sets with that signature looks and play feature. I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO SEE THAT!!!