LEGO Power Miners 8960 Thunder Driller

LEGO set 8960 Thunder Driller, released in 2009 as part of the Power Miners line, has 236 pieces. Its inventory breaks down into 102 different lots, across 12 colors.

Inventory of set 8960

The inventory of set 8960 lists 236 pieces, spare parts excluded: 102 different lots (one shape in one color) for 94 part shapes. The box also contains 14 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 8960

Main color: black, making up 22% of the parts, followed by lime (22%) and light bluish gray (20%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 8960

83 of the 94 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 8960

One part shape in set 8960 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 4 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 8960 from another set

Share of the parts of set 8960 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 39%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 8960 within its line

With 236 pieces, set 8960 ranks #8 out of 16 Power Miners sets in our database, which have an average of 268 parts. Among the 254 sets released in 2009, it ranks #96.