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I think you're making a big assumption by thinking that HF fans in general all wanted the same things you did. I didn't particularly want a more mature Hero Factory (not if it meant losing its lighthearted, cartoony tone), and I definitely didn't want more characters (not if it meant more of the established characters falling by the wayside). As for more emphasis on story? Well, I guess that could have been nice, but it depends on what you mean by emphasis. Making things like the online games more story-driven and putting up more online bios and weapon descriptions is one thing; but spreading the storyline across as many different media as BIONICLE did is a whole different beast. And saying LEGO "killed" Hero Factory is a little bit presumptuous. The decision to bring back BIONICLE was apparently made about two years ago, after Hero Factory had been going fairly strong for about three years. At that point Hero Factory's fate was pretty much sealed, and it's possible that keeping it running once the BIONICLE theme was ready for launch was never even a goal of theirs. Nevertheless, the LEGO Group's designers kept Hero Factory going and kept bringing new innovations to the table. Personally I think Hero Factory's final year has been one of its best as far as sets are concerned, and the "Invasion from Below" animated episode was great on a visual level even though the writing for it and "Brain Attack" was rather poor. Well a lot of people wanted hero factory to be more character driven and just deeper in general. While I don't think it would have been as complicated as say bionicle I would have liked something beyond those little TV specials, although I hear the secret missions books weren't too bad(but there were only six of those anyway). I doubt HF could have been selling all that great if they decided to cancel it after two and a half years in production, unless I can see some exact sales figures I highly doubt the lego execs would just spontaneously say "hmm HF sales figures are doing really well, I know let's cancel HF and bring back bionicle".

I agree. Hero Factory is most probably gonna be discontinued without Lego caring too much about the loose ends it will have at the end. Just take in count all the resources and effort that is being put on Bionicle 2015, and that HF's story was designed in an episodic way making it easier for kids to jump into it at anytime, and also making it easier to finish when Lego wanted to. I must admit I hated the way lego treated the HF fanbase, HF fans asked for new characters, lego said "nope", HF fans asked for more emphasis on story, lego said "nope", HF fans ask for a more mature HF, lego said "nope". As far as I'm concerned lego killed HF themselves because they were scared of.......what were they scared of again?

True dat. It was an awkward consistency when every character in a wave carried the same oversized blaster. It takes away from the character's character. Though I did like Kongu's dual blasters. Yeah Kongu was my favourite at the time, I also felt the masks got less detailed over the years(another thing this new line has fixed). Really? If anything, I felt they got more detailed, overdetailed, even. The original masks all had a simple elegance to them, while later masks seemed to depend on loads of textures and grooves to cut a defining silhouette. That's why, of the new redesigns, the Miru is my least favorite; it is covered with unnecessary mechanical detailing, and that annoys me. I disagree(at least in the toa's case)over time you could barely tell them apart, not to mention all those half masks we got, maybe it wasn't less detail but all I do know is they did something wrong.

True dat. It was an awkward consistency when every character in a wave carried the same oversized blaster. It takes away from the character's character. Though I did like Kongu's dual blasters. Yeah Kongu was my favourite at the time, I also felt the masks got less detailed over the years(another thing this new line has fixed).

One thing I love about the new sets is the fact they're not focusing on some blaster of some kind, none of the toa have blasters which is fantastic, I prefer them having swords spears axes(etc etc). One problem with the later waves of the theme was those blasters, half the time they overshadowed the melee weapons, and in 2008 they barely had melee weapons at all. Sure the protectors have got blasters(which I really like)but at least they mix it in with other weapons.

Maybe they do... But what if instead of mask packs they distribute a single mask for a happy meal toy it isn't exactly a set that way but a piece. It could be the grand hunt for the masks of power at the island of McDonalds, budabupbabaa I don't know about that but I doubt that would happen, sure there was TLM cups but remember it was licenced via warner bros and they only gave them cups(and I believe lego did not manufacturer them). I don't think lego would be willing to risk their public image, after all look what happened with shell.

But we don't know if there are any Hero Factory sets in 2015 yet. We need proof. Perhaps an announcement from Lego that Hero Factory is ending might work. I mean, it worked on Bionicle in November 2009, so we would probably wait for that this November, according to my calculations since the IFB TV episode didn't go well (which could be the reason why it is not shown in our TV sets). And also, I believe leaked pictures of future Hero Factory sets usually won't come out until until the end of October every year, if I calculate correctly. Anyway, there are some things unresolved. I mean, we don't know about who the guy that got the Hero Factory plans and the guy that sent the Brain to attack the Hero Factory are. We don't know what will happen next after a cocoon is in the Alpha 1 Team's Dropship in the end of the IFB TV episode, either. And also, what about the anti-Hero-Factory government conspiracy in the cancelled Secret Missions books? What about the live-action Hero Factory movie? I feel it's sad to see them unanswered. If Hero Factory is really ending as we speak, then I hope that the story would wrap up with the Hero Factory fighting against a Villain Factory that the unknown Breakout guy seems to want to use the Hero Factory plans to create. I feel that Hero Factory needs more time for this and perhaps other unresolved things, so it could end. It would also give us small sets similar to Bionicle Stars in 2010 (like Hero Factory Stars can they be called?), in its (future) final wave. And here's legos response "since when did we care about hero factorys story, and since when did we care about the fans", sorry to say but hero factory is gonna go.

He mentions deeper characters, the more lego talks about this the more faith in the reboot I have.

Something interesting I noticed about the early concept art for Tahu was that he has a round piece with a symbol on his chest, kinda like the hero cores, I wonder if it was an idea they had during development.

Well to be fair those were just prototypes so they could have changed to become more appealing, not to mention these prototypes used actual lego pieces whereas galidor did not(seriously what were they thinking with that).

Well for those of you who aren't aware of what this was cybots was a cancelled lego theme that was in development during 1995, I'd recommend you look at the brickipedia page on the planned theme(there you can view the prototypes and back story). Links here:http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/CYBOTS So what do you think of the theme? What do you think the models would have looked like(had they gone past the prototype stages)? Could it have been successful? And had this theme been released how do you think it would have affected the future of constraction themes?

I wonder if they will have names in story only(kinda like what they did with the word toa), I also wonder if they will be known as Vakama Nokama Matua(etc etc).

I'm so excited that I'm gonna patiently wait till they're released, what did you expect me to start eating my Toa nuva or something like that.

Although I haven't seen the movie I will say I have my doubts about it, seriously WB TLM took 6 years to be released and now you guys are squeezing every little aspect of TLM and making a spin off of it, not to mention being made in far less time then TLM. What's next lego Milhouse the movie.

Presenting bionicle the live action movie, directed by Micheal Bay.

Source? http://brickset.com/article/9492/false-alarm-no-lego-in-happy-meals

Question 1: unsure I don't think I can judge the story until it's been told, whilst I see the potential in the story idea I think I'll have to wait until the graphic novels are released and hopefully the story Ekimu and Makuta is fleshed out a little more. Question 2: yes I see no reason why kids won't get into this, though to be fair there can never be a guarantee of huge booming sales for any product(ain't that right chima marketers). Question 3: I like it One thing I was worried about when it came to a reboot was that they would go to far and make into something that isn't bionicle, thankfully I was wrong, they seem to be very respectful of what bionicle was whilst creating something new.

Personally I wouldn't like that at all, and besides it's not gonna happen anyway, lego have some kind of policy in place that stops them selling sets with food.

They probably do then! And the back of Makuta's hammer looks like a Lord Of Skull Spiders' leg claw and a smaller claw. Certainly seems to support the idea that they will be released in summer 2015.

I just noticed something about the trailer, the mask makers hammers appear to use the same piece as the protectors stud launchers.

This is what would ruin it for me, so it's early next January, I just got a big amazon package and I open Lewa, and what's inside is not the pieces but instead is a pile of SD cards, so I plug the SD cards into my computer and each one is a clip of a lego exec laughing at the screen. I assume it was a mistake and decide to open another one, what's inside is the same, then another one and it's the same thing, I then hear mass reports of this, lego comes with a statement saying "ha ha we got you all, no one is to receive these sets until January 2030, in the mean time we're going to release another theme, we are proud to introduce lego galidor meets Ben 10. The whole year would be ruined for me. I'd disagree, sure there are some things such as Kopaka being clumsy and Pohatu being afraid of the dark, but for the most half they're pretty much the same as their original personalities.

Huh there seems to be a sorta Kung fu legend feel in the trailer.

Even better, the personalities are pretty much the same.

One question regarding the story, how did all the masks miraculously land on three different podiums conveniently placed across the island?

Woohoo Makuta returns, and Ekimu huh, I wonder how that's supposed to be pronounced?