Power Miner Pictures

ClassicCastlesetsftw · Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:44 pm

Mog wrote:I love lime green and orange, but the pieces are too "Duplo" for me. You can hardly tell that the vehicles are made out of multiple pieces. The Duplofication of LEGO must be stopped!

Okay, it's mainly just that theme. But still.

If I wanted a playset, I'd buy a playset. I buy LEGO because I like to be able to make more than just one thing. You really can't, with any of those sets.

That was my first thought when I saw the pictures of these sets. WAY TOO MANY BIG PIECES. What ever happaned to usuing inginuity to try and make complicated structures out of normal bricks. Nowadays it seems that the Designers at TLG are making more and more Poop type pieces. I salute the designers who designed the creator sets and actually used some ingenuity. The pieces i use the most from sets that i buy are the small normal bricks and pieces. I rarely ever use Poop pieces or abstract pieces that only have 1 use.

Quickblade22 · Post by **Quickblade22** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:43 pm

I think like most people here, the Rock Monster is the only real appealing piece to me. I'll definatly find a way to acquire some and make use of them. I do love the new colored crystals though. Lime Green and Orange makes me sick to look at. It reminds me of (well lets just say a time period that I don't like)

The good news is that some of the younger crowd seems to be into it a little more than my age group. Sells for Lego is always a good thing.

Nice list Bruce.

Peppermint Pig · Post by **Peppermint Pig** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:00 am

Bruce N H wrote:I hadn't really thought of skellies, as they're in a bit of a separate class (with martians, droids, etc.) that aren't really interchangeable with figs (except the heads, of course). Slopes as skirts is a good addition. Any idea when that was first introduced?

Bruce

After looking at the part, it was not first used for figs, but its first fig use was castle in 1990:

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn. ... as097&in=S

MoonCheese · Post by **MoonCheese** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:27 am

Wow, it's from 1990? I thought it was a recent thing introduced a few years ago!

Peppermint Pig · Post by **Peppermint Pig** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:35 am

The piece has been used since the '70s I believe, but not as a minifig part.

Crazylegoman · Post by **Crazylegoman** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:36 am

Aliencat wrote:The cool thing is, we got to play with these rock monsters and some more Power Miners stuff in october at a closed meeting with Jan Beyer and the designer of Power Miners, Marc Stafford, with a bunch of members of De Bouwsteen and Lowlug.

Marc Stafford?! Isn't he the AFOL from Georgia who won $43 million?

David

albero78 · Post by **albero78** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:54 am

I don't like these sets at all. The positive side is that I'll save some money for the castle sets...

timber_wolf899 · Post by **timber_wolf899** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:04 pm

My first impulse was to bash these sets BUT......

Graned I do not like them as much as the MM mining rigs, but that being said The armored drilling unit impresed me much more in persn than on box art, so i really would like ot see some of these units.

Crusader · Post by **Crusader** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:11 pm

Personally I can't stand the colors, but my boys probably will. We'll get a smaller set or two for the rock monsters, but we'll probably pass on the line overall. Just not enough space and money.

xzerix · Post by **xzerix** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:22 pm

Not my thing, really, but I can forsee a few Brinklink purchases of the Rock creatures and the new crystals - They'd be right at home in a dwarven mine...

I guess I'm going with the crowd here - I'm interested in a few of the pieces but not really the sets.

Aliencat · Post by **Aliencat** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:10 pm

Crazylegoman wrote:
Aliencat wrote:The cool thing is, we got to play with these rock monsters and some more Power Miners stuff in october at a closed meeting with Jan Beyer and the designer of Power Miners, Marc Stafford, with a bunch of members of De Bouwsteen and Lowlug.
Marc Stafford?! Isn't he the AFOL from Georgia who won $43 million?

Haha yeah my bad, I must have not been paying attention while typing that, I don't know where Stafford came from. I meant Marc but I forgot his last name, he also designed the Exo-Force and Agents series, and I really can't think of his last name right now. Marc X.

Crazylegoman · Post by **Crazylegoman** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:48 am

Aliencat wrote:Haha yeah my bad, I must have not been paying attention while typing that, I don't know where Stafford came from. I meant Marc but I forgot his last name, he also designed the Exo-Force and Agents series, and I really can't think of his last name right now. Marc X.

Actually I misremembered also. I was thinking of Mark Staffa the AFOL from Georgia who has a very similar name. You got me so curious, I just had to go look it up.

David

natelite · Post by **natelite** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:39 am

Crazylegoman wrote:
Aliencat wrote:The cool thing is, we got to play with these rock monsters and some more Power Miners stuff in october at a closed meeting with Jan Beyer and the designer of Power Miners, Marc Stafford, with a bunch of members of De Bouwsteen and Lowlug.
Marc Stafford?! Isn't he the AFOL from Georgia who won $43 million?

David

holy cow...guess he has no trouble supporting his hobby now!

Rubberchickenknight · Post by **Rubberchickenknight** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:49 pm

I think Mark Stafford worked on Exo-Force. His Cthulego stuff and mecha are pretty awesome.

Aliencat · Post by **Aliencat** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:50 pm

Mark Stafford it was then