Does anyone else wish they stuck with the original blue overalls uniform instead of making it all silver? It would feel more consistent to me if they just kept the original outfits

Who's blasting fire? That looks like water, unless it is super hot fire!

@Miyakan said:
"Who's blasting fire? That looks like water, unless it is super hot fire!"

Maybe they figure it’s like firefighters.

On of the only Power Miners sets I had as a kid. It's a good one.

The yellow rock monster was my favourite colour out of every rock monster.

I kind of liked the lime and blue color scheme better than the lime and orange of the first wave. Kinda wish they had done a few more sets. I remember this being a fun little car to build.

Called “Fire Blaster” but that Little Rock dude doesn’t have the orange lava colours of the magma themed monsters. It’s called Combustix though so I guess maybe they’re made of sulphur or something

Loved Power Miners! My son was obsessed with them, and had most of the sets (he still has, in pieces - must rebuild them...)

Still have this set! I was a bit disappointed that the crystal wasn't trans-yellow, though.

One of the only two Rock Raiders sets we could afford, I always wanted the Thunder Driller or Crystal Sweeper but almost never got anything more expensive that $15... and a majority of them were the same Indiana Jones motorcycle chase set because adults didn't really care for my input on what I wanted lol.

@Your_Future_President said:
"Good guy and a bad guy in a 10$ set. A self contained story.

Unheard of now a days"

You don't look at the non-licensed themes, do you? lol
Ninjago especially is known for sub-$10 battle-in-the-box sets with (even a Polybag last year) and even Dreamzzz had them.

I'm not a huge fan of Power Miners despite usually really liking the original themes. This set in particular doesn't do it for me especially. For example, it has a rollcage that has the driver stick out of the top and it's a small wheeled vehicle with the function to spray water. Riveting. The first wave had the mine mech for a similar price point (I recall this one was weirdly overpriced over here actually, more similar to the Granite Grinder (the Power Miners one). In either case those are a lot more exciting with the movable mini mech of the Mine Mech and the drilling function of the Granite Grinder. This one doesn't really move besides rolling around.
I get why it's a water-spraying vehicle: the lava monsters. But as a toy, it's not nearly as interactive as something that digs or hacks or drills or scoops up the monsters. I think something gimmicky like a water catapult would have been more fun. The Claw Catcher has it right, being a vehicle with claws that dunk the lava monsters into a 'tank of water' at the back. At this size there's not that much they could have done, but this wasn't it if you ask me.

That said, I like the larger sets of this wave of Power Miners fine. And the Combustix was cool and probably the main draw to this set anyway beside the excellent metallic silver miner with the visor that looks like the Ice Planet visors but without the antenna.
The colors are also pretty good.

Btw, although my comment is a bit negative about today's set don't let it dissuade you if you do see more than I do. In fact, I hope there's something I'm missing :)

I was really into the earlier Power Miners waves, but this was the only one of the 2010 sets I got (for not whining too much when I got my flu shot).

I liked the blue dome and shiny silver suit, but it bugged me that the "yellow" crystal didn't match the monster anymore.

i loved this set but it was confusing does it shoot at fire does it shoot fire and the lego worlds video game made it confusing(er?) it shot water and made pools that could/would turn into very deep trenches of doom

@pumpkinwashingmachine said:
"i loved this set but it was confusing does it shoot at fire does it shoot fire and the lego worlds video game made it confusing(er?) it shot water and made pools that could/would turn into very deep trenches of doom"

This one blasts water at fires, because the enemy is a lava monster. At least... I hope. Fighting fire with fire is never a good idea.

76008 The Mandarin's Final Showdown shoots fire. It also blew itself up before it could appear in the film... probably. It kind of reminds me of this set, weirdly enough.

@Nuclearxpotato said:
" @Your_Future_President said:
"Good guy and a bad guy in a 10$ set. A self contained story.

Unheard of now a days"

You don't look at the non-licensed themes, do you? lol
Ninjago especially is known for sub-$10 battle-in-the-box sets with (even a Polybag last year) and even Dreamzzz had them."

Even licensed lines give us the occasional 76335. (And yes, in the comics Ghost Rider is an antihero, not a full-on bad guy, but "vs." is right there in the name.)

Looks more like a water blaster.

This set deeply annoys me for a very minor reason: The gem included doesn't match the lava monster! In fact, I don't think we ever got a trans-yellow 5-pointed crystal at all.

@Your_Future_President said:
"THIS WAS MY ABSOLUTE FIRST SET EVER
What a throwback.

Good guy and a bad guy in a 10$ set. A self contained story.

Unheard of now a days"

Man, 30697 only costs four bucks, and it contains one absolute good boy and one absolute monster. It also contains a story, and unfortunately, it revolves around that hammer.

It is not a pleasant story.

@Arnoldos said:
"I'm a Rock Raider at heart but Power Miners was cool too. What wasn't cool was how brittle the pieces were. Every Power Miners set I owned had at least one part break on me."

Lime parts? I know Bionicle had problems with that color around the same time.

Huh. I have never seen part https://brickset.com/parts/4632100/plate-1x4x2-3-w-tube before I took a close look at today's image. It's not even an uncommon piece, it's apparently been in over 100 sets, starting with various themes in 2008... which I guess does correspond with the beginning of my slide into the dark age, so I can't be too surprised that I never saw it. But yeah, I just wondered what piece that bit sticking out the back of the vehicle here was meant to be, because I didn't recognise it, and went poking around the set inventory to figure it out...!

I do like that Power Miners dug out the old Rock Raiders helmet design, and their little monsters definitely look more fun than the big mostly-static classic rock monster - especially with all their use of transparent colours -; but I feel like the one downgrade of any note from Rock Raiders was the minifigure designs. Aside from their faces and subtle outfit differences, Brains, Doc, Rex and Duke all look much the same to me; in contrast, each Rock Raider character was plainly unique even just at a glance, with different colours, helmets, and even more varied facial hair.

Power Miners are probably indisputably better sets (although I must admit, the abundance of lime green is slightly hard on my eyes...!), but it was the world-building and characters that made me fall so in love with Rock Raiders more than anything else; and as far as I know (and do correct me if I'm wrong!) Power Miners just didn't seem to give as much focus to those aspects.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Arnoldos said:
"I'm a Rock Raider at heart but Power Miners was cool too. What wasn't cool was how brittle the pieces were. Every Power Miners set I owned had at least one part break on me."

Lime parts? I know Bionicle had problems with that color around the same time."

The problems were with the socket joints, and looking over the Power Miners line, I don't see any of those in lime green.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Arnoldos said:
"I'm a Rock Raider at heart but Power Miners was cool too. What wasn't cool was how brittle the pieces were. Every Power Miners set I owned had at least one part break on me."

Lime parts? I know Bionicle had problems with that color around the same time."

The problems were with the socket joints, and looking over the Power Miners line, I don't see any of those in lime green."

Yeah I've had to replace the socket joints on my mine mech and crystal king sets a time or two. Maybe that is what is being referred to?

I think this was the first, and still possibly only time, that I completed a full wave of sets in any theme. There were only 4 Power Miners sets in 2010, but I really loved them at the time! I wasn't able to collect all of the original rock monster colors, but with all of these I remember I liked the idea that each lava monster was just a slightly "hotter" version of the last. From yellow, to orange, to red.

This particular set was a fun car to play with as a kid, but looking at it now it could definitely be improved! That little squirt of water doesn't really seem like it's going to be enough to stop many lava monsters.