Random minifig of the day: pm025
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is pm025 Rock Monster - Firax (Trans-Orange), a Power Miners figure that was first produced during 2010. It can be found in 2 sets.
Our members collectively own a total of 12,860 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $11.90.
Image and minifig data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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Love these little things.
Pour one out for the homies who never got to play with the best theme (that would be me).
@Harmonious_Building said:
"Pour one out for the homies who never got to play with the best theme (that would be me). "
I'm more of a Rock Raiders guy, but I'll admit that Power Miners had the better monsters. I wish I'd gotten more of them, although I do have both the sets that this guy came in.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"Pour one out for the homies who never got to play with the best theme (that would be me). "
I'm more of a Rock Raiders guy, but I'll admit that Power Miners had the better monsters. I wish I'd gotten more of them, although I do have both the sets that this guy came in."
I’m deeply uncomfortable realizing that Power Miners is now older than Rock Raiders was was Power Miners came out… gotta love mining themes with unusual green colors, monsters, and crystals! They’ll always be some of my favorites.
The memes neither lie nor exaggerate: Power Miners was such an awesome theme. To hear people look back on it so fondly as a classic warms my dead cold heart.
I was always bummed we only got 3 of the 5 Rock Monsters as fire variants. Granted green and blue fire might sound odd compared to orange, red, and yellow... but you *can* get fire in those colors and they look awesome.
Got every rock monster from both waves, and even the one from Rock Raiders. Still pissed about the trans-yellow crystal.
@Harmonious_Building said:
"Pour one out for the homies who never got to play with the best theme (that would be me). "
What do you mean? OG Blacktron is back.
I love these guys.
These guys were great!
Lavatraz!
Power Miners was the best theme. Creative concept and a lot of fun.
I didnt get any of the lava sets but had most (all?) of the regular small rock monsters like these.
The animations were hilarious too.
I started making a Power Miners prequel set in the interwar period with regular realistic miners discovering the rock monsters and then using real mining equipment to fight them, and later modifying their equipment (like very mild dieselpunk)
To fight the lava monsters I had vintage fire trucks and a fire launcher based on the WWII era M16 GMC anti aircraft gun (four water blasters instead of four .50 cal machine guns).
I also made a mining vehicle based on the WWII era Mathilda flail tank but no turret (just a small cab for the driver) and the orange propeller style pieces as rock grinders instead of chain flail (used for removing mines)
Oh and the PM characters I made their ancestors.
Look at this funny little character.
I don’t think we’ve ever had a RMotD that looked so bored and just done with being here. Cheer up little guy, everyone thinks you’re great!
I'm personally not a huge fan of Power Miners due to its nearly exclusive focus on vehicles, the technic-y and sometimes skeletal builds and the color scheme which I find simultaneously colorful and drab due to the prominence of dark gray. But the rock monsters were great! I have the crystal king :)
This guy is one of the 3rd wave so it's specialized as a lava monster.
Cut from the same cloth as https://brickset.com/minifigs/pm027, who would later on return on a wildly different scale in 70325.
There's a quite lot to unpack there, very possibly involving time and relative dimensions in space.
Fun fact: you can attach these arms on a regular minifigure