#8957 Mine Mech Review

Here's the first review on my blog, and it will be Power Miners #8957 Mine Mech, sponsored by Brick Bastion.

Details:

Theme: Power Miners
Name : Mine Mech
S/N : #8957
Year : 2009
Pieces : 67
Minifig : 2
Price : RM46.90, SGD16.90, USD7.99, GBP5.85

The Power Miners theme are mostly using lime green and orange. And as the box, it is lime green. The box art, include us the size of rock monster together with their name on the side while at the back of it it shows us the function of the set together with the alternate model of combining two sets.

About the content, there are sticker sheet, instruction booklet, 2 packs of bricks and a pack of Boulderax. It is a good thing that LEGO pack the rock monster separately, it prevent them from getting scratch by other bricks and the rock monster is ready fix for us.

As for the minfigs, there are only two. That would be Brains and Boulderax. Brains torso are both side printed and even the legs are printed. Brains got two face expression too. A normal one and an excited one.

As for Boulderax, it has a big mouth and able to keep crystal inside it, oh... and dynamite too. The rock monster can eat aything as long as it can be kept inside them. Inside the minifig is all smooth surface unlike the rough surface of bricks whereby you can attach pieces in it. The hand is well molded and the crystal pieces can attach to it.

While the mine mech, is quite small as it got short leg and hand. However , the articulation of the legs seems not to be affected by the size. The claw is movable and da blade is turnable. Other than that the black case thing that are protecting the cockpit can be open and close. There are place for you to hold the pick-axe and the dynamite.

Below are shot of completion and the extra part that we get from this set.

Playability: 8/10 There are a lot of movable parts like claw, leg, blade and opening cockpit
Design : 7/10 The hand of this mech is just ugly and short.
Price : 8/10 The price per piece seems to be acceptable.
Overall: 8/10 Nice colour, good accessories, nice minifig.

Well, I guess that's all for now.

Set sponsored by Brick Bastion.