The set would have been improved enormously by a minifigure or two, so Lizru wouldn’t have to carry the burden of storytelling alone. The Space Mining Mech is a nice-looking central model with good styling but limited playability, and the two alternate models struggle on looks, logic and playability.
Just to complete the scene, I used a few of the remaining parts to build a couple of enemy vehicles, because it just didn’t feel like a proper LEGO set without some arbitrarily evil baddies to provide opposition to the benevolent occupying IKEA corporate commandos. Instead, a strange two-headed robot of some kind is placed in the pilot seat. The central cavity of the body is reserved for the pilot, and while it is large enough to fit a minifigure, none are included. (Oh, hey, Lizru! Shouldn’t you be over in Mixels?) I can understand the designer’s desire to create a more ‘classic’ mech, but when so many LEGO themes are full of big ol’ robots smashing each other it is disappointing to see the battle-centric features of armoured shoulders and big weapons showing up in what is usually a more realistic theme. Real-life mining vehicles are built low to the ground, because mining usually involves digging into the ground. Despite being branded as a mining mech, it seems to have the structure of a mech meant for more violent pursuits. Their population may be small but their extraterrestrial mining equipment is certainly not when completed, the mech’s torso is ten studs wide at the shoulders, making it the robot equivalent of a bodybuilder.
The Sorbs are an officially recognised minority, with their approximately 70,000 people living mainly in Germany and the Czech Republic. As it turns out, the horizontal bands of blue, red and white denote the mining mech as belonging to a West Slavic ethnic group, the Sorbs. Inverted 6 x 2 slopes w/ cutout help shape the widening torso above the waist, and a variety of slopes and tiles cover most of the mech’s body, giving it an angular, utilitarian look.Ī nice detail on the front of the robot is the coloured bands on the sides of the chest, positioned about where one might expect to find some kind of identifying symbol. The construction of the mech begins with the hip joints and the first of a series of brackets that will hold the torso together and allow detailing on the front and back of the mech.
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