Lego Power Miners Crystal Sweeper

Mining is a tricky business. It's kind of a man's world, and it seems employment as a miner is pretty rare these days in the western Lego-buying enthusiast countries. Mining is kind of one of those alien type of activities like space walking. Mining in cool astronaut garb seems pretty glamorous. And what could be best than mining for nice colorful crystals with some incredibly huge machine, particularly when it's a motor you get to put together?

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The Lego Power Miners 8961 Crystal Sweeper is a fairly large set. It has 475 pieces and weighs in at about 40 pounds. The biggest and best part of this set is the huge auto-rotating harvester itself. It indeed makes the mini figures look tiny. Their tininess seems to be part of the whole appeal. The Lego Power Miners 8961 Crystal Sweeper comes with two miner mini figures and two rock monster mini figures.

But it's foremost to grab up all the crystal before the rock monsters get there and take it all. Those guys are hungry, and their beloved food is crystal rocks, so the rock monsters think they're at a huge buffet!When you unleash the suited Crystal Sweeper, you can get the crystals before the rock monsters gobble them all up. The vehicle spins its harvester wheel to fetch crystals and drop them in the rear-mounted bucket.

There's also have a side-mounted laser crane that can drill straight through rock! Furthermore, you have a bike and ramp for those times when you have to be fast and nimble to accomplish a rescue, or an escape!

But make sure you watch out for the monsters: they have an awesome double-launching catapult, and they're not afraid to use it.

The Lego Power Miners 8961 Crystal Sweeper is the kind of Lego set that makes kids (and their parents!) wish there were such astonishing machines in the full scale world. It would make a astonishing Christmas toy gift.

Lego Power Miners Crystal Sweeper