Doing something totally different today to coincide with whatever I was randomly obsessed with at the time of recording, we’re looking at a goofy lil Lego piece and everything it’s been through!
My very normal obsession with this piece mostly comes from Power Miners, but there’s a bunch of different variations of it that came from all different branches of Lego, so I’ll be looking at every single one and why they’re pretty sick.
#lego #crystals
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Music Used:
Casually – Breath of Fire 3
Dreams of an Absolution (Theme of Silver) – Sonic ’06
Main Theme – Killer Instinct Gold
Can’t Take it Anymore – Toree Genesis
Track 2 – Lego Rock Raiders (PS1)
Suspicious Cook (Theme of Dr. Baldhead) – Guilty Gear Missing Link
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I first remember seeing these in "Auquanauts" set commercials and they were silver then, I never owned any but the piece was memorable. It was basically the McGuffin that the sides were fighting over, this might actually be a reference to Manganese nodues which are a deep sea resource that just begining to be mined today despite decades of speculation and hype which was created by the use of them in a cover story to recover a Russian Submarine. Most of my sets were from the M-tron magnet based line and the rival sets with a black/white/green glass theme.
Get out of here with that Rock Raiders Slander!
Wait, Lego discontinued the chrome pieces?
Sad.
>and that series is—
Rock Raiders, oh yeah!
>Power Miners.
…Aww, I feel old now.
Well, i enjoyed myself. I don't know why I sat through it all, but my brothers and I always liked that piece too. It didn't help we were Sonic fans….
I like how two Powerminers sets share names with Ninjago sets.
The boulderblaster. Granted in Ninjago it's Cole's boulderblaster.
And the Crystal king.
them nails
me: waht you got?
Yellow, in a trench coat, hat and dark glasses: 20 minutes about the varieties and appearances of a specfif lego piece
me: I've never even played with legos, I didn't even know there was specific lego sets, or pieces
Yellow: well are you buying?
me: of course!
I see your 30385 – Rock 1 x 1 Crystal 5 Point and raise you 41669 – Bionicle 1 x 3 Tooth with Axle Hole, otherwise known as the Bohrok eye.
Ok but have you ever seen that clutch powers set with the little baby magma rock that had the orange 5 point crystal piece in its mouth.
11:42 i got the really feking big one as my first lego set for my birthday so so many years ago by now xD
it's still around somewhere, in all appart pieces tho.. but it was that set and thus my knowledge of the crystal block that made me click on this video
I loved this piece, I always wanted to have a load of them for the couple of Power Miners sets I had (and my own builds), I never knew the design was that old though!
i have this one too
I have a Pearl Gold version, Trans Orange, Trans Red, and Trans Med Blue.
Transitioning from girl to trans neon green
Brilliant video got me heartbroken in the end, when I learned that this is a pokemon and fighting games channel (not a lego channel).
The lego city silver one looked transparent blue if you hold it up to a light
Bonus points for using Killer Instinct music
i'm glad power miners is getting the love it deserves. it's sad lego doesn't do themes like these anymore
I was waiting for even a single mention of Ice Planet. Oh well.
I knew where one set that yellow one was gonna be used it, I collect lego food trucks
slay
18:42 I have that piece got it in a bag at the flea market was wounding where it’s from good video
AI HAVE IT
Now I'm kinda annoyed that we didn't get this piece recoloured in trans medium reddish violet for the Ninjago 2022 summer wave. With the bad guys using that colour heavily and having a crystal motif. Big missed opportunity.
as a mars mission enjoyer i love the lil diamond shaped pieces. so satisfying to hoard them all in one place
Reject pokemon. Embrace lego channel
i'll paypal you €20 but only if you promise to buy a new-condition chrome green with it, if u don't have one and this is your fave lego piece I need for you to own one lmao
"An energy crystal HAS been found"
But how good is 30385 competitively?
I had a chrome green crystal, but as a kid I let it get wet and most of the green is gone.
Bud? Your nails? I warned you about the chemicals in the water bro.
If there's trans light blue, there should also be trans pink and trans white.