Review: 8960 Power Miners ~ Thunder Driller (Photos!)

[Mirandir]

Also, I like the new vented slope piece (you can see it in the fire crotch picture) but I wish I had them in black instead of lime green.

You should checkout the new 8168 Ferrari Victory set. If I'm not totaly colorblind it has four black of those "slope-vents". You can see them on a photo on the back of the box. Which I held in a toystore as late as this afternoon. :)

[Brainbox]

Oh yeah, I'm getting this. Thanks for the review.

First off, it's a piece of proper machinery (albeit one with an open cockpit area and a crotch-burning furnace). I love proper machinery! Second, it looks a bit like The Mole from Thunderbirds. Once again, I love Thunderbirds. The counter-rotationg mechanism shoud be great, the rock monsters are awesome and I do quite like the wheels. The top half of the combo model is kind of neat as well.

But I promise you, the crotch-burning furnace will be the first thing to go.

[LEGOMAN132]

Looks very nice

Can't wait to find them in the stores where I live

[The Crazy One]

Thanks for the review! I love the set.

A more sensible Crazy One.

[Motti]

Nice review. (especially for us old guys). I just bought one. I figured out that the rough stickers (the black and white stripes) both keep minifigs fomsliding (as in real life) but also are glow in the dark! As for the price, I think that the large pieces and abundance of lime green pieces makes up for this. (I also think that the fire aimed at the crotch is supposed to be a furnace where you put in coal or something, despite a sticker which reads "oil").

[Derek]

I saw a Power Miners display at Target today, and they had one of the showcase clear boxes there, with this set on a lever, so you can push it and see the set move. It really was cool how the drill turns, but I doubt I'll get this, and if I do, I would wait for a sale, and it would only be for the orange monster (the best one, IMO) Thanks for the review!