All right, you know the drill

TBB alumn Simon Liu definitely knows the drill, as this nifty LEGO bot shows. In a striking yellow and dark blue industrial color scheme, this bot looks like what I always hoped LEGO’s various mining themes would be (first Rock Raiders in 1999, then Power Miners a decade later). It does sport that huge chrome drill that only ever came in a pair of Rock Raiders sets, and subsequently doesn’t get used in fan creations nearly as much as I’d like.

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Oh, and did I mention the bot is modular? And that Simon has built more than one?

Here’s how the bot breaks down into a central cube (with goodies inside) and modular legs and attachments.

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How about one that seems inspired by the loader from Alien?

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And of course, it’s modular in the same way, around a central cube. While still walking on four legs, it has a very different setup than the mining mech.

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