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So, if you ask pretty much any member on BZPower or other LEGO networks, chances are they will have at least one prototype piece. Now that BIONICLE has been over for a couple years now, I still have yet to see a Hero Factory prototype piece. I haven't found one in searches or discussions, and am wondering why there aren't any floating around in the world.Surely LEGO still uses prototypes to design new pieces in themes, especially in ones like Hery Factory. If that's the case, where do they go afterwards?If anybody has seen one, has one, knows about one, or anything, I'd be glad to hear about it, and I'm sure others would as well. -
This is like the greatest thing since BIONICLE! Who else likes it? What sets do you guys have? Just wondering? I have about all of them except some 2011 villains and most of the 2010 villains. The Furno Bike is an amazing set in my opinion by the way!
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As the title says above, can the Hero Factory: Breakout game still be played now? For me, I started playing the game in the end of the second half of 2012 with my Dell computer, but I got busy with school work until today. When the Hero Factory website got rid of some things, including its oldest online games, in 2013, I tried to continue playing the game, but my computer can't allow me to log in. I tried to play the game in my brand new High Point laptop, but it didn't work for some reason. My laptop asked me what the problem, so I can report it. I did what it said, but I still can't play the game. Can someone help me? Do any of you guys have a similar problem, too? -
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Hero Factory's official Facebook was quietly shut down today. I suspect the announcement of its cancellation isn't far off. I'd say most likely after NYCC, because they'll want to space out the announcement of BIONICLE 2015 and the announcement of Hero Factory's cancellation pretty well. Are you sad that HF is gone? I wish that it could have gotten a proper sendoff wave like the Stars for BIONICLE, but I admit I'm glad that it will be completely out of BIONICLE's way in 2015.- 46 replies
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Some quick context: when Duckbricks recently visited Christian Faber, he received more than 200 GBs of preliminary documents about Bionicle, Hero Factory, and other Lego themes. There’s story outlines, prototype images, and a lot of other interesting stuff. From what he’s said on his Discord, there’s a lot of content in there that’s still confidential or sensitive, so he’s slowly working through it all to figure out what he’s allowed to share. He’s been releasing some select screenshots of the safe content on his Discord in the meantime, so I thought I’d compile some of the HF info that’s been revealed so far. Rocka’s true role: At one point, the Breakout storyline was going to reveal that “Daniel Rocka” is actually an alias used by Hero Recon team leader Merrick Fortis to conceal his true identity when he goes out on missions. IMO, this would have worked so much better than the story we got, where it's randomly revealed that this nobody rookie was inducted into the black ops branch offscreen. Revealing that he was actually an experienced Hero operating undercover all along would have fixed so many of the problems I had with Rocka. The Villain Factory: There seem to be a lot of different variations of plans for an evil antithesis to the Hero Factory. One version features a villain named Kashtar/Kashtra Khan using a factory on his planet to create and send out “Villain Qores” embedded in jellyfish-like creatures. Upon landing on a planet, these creatures would incorporate surrounding materials from their environment to make bodies for themselves and gain elemental powers, in what appears to be a very early version of what would ultimately become Brain Attack. This storyline also includes a whole complex backstory revealing that Makuro (referred to interchangeably in the document as Makura and Makuta) was originally leader of the "shadow people", with Khan being his jealous brother who took over leadership and waged a war against the "light people". Another concept reveals that Von Nebula was the one who received the Hero Factory plans after the Breakout, and used them to create a Villain Factory. He then manufactured battalions of “anti-heroes” who invade and destroy Makuhero City. My personal favourite, which would have tied Hero Factory directly to Bionicle, was the reveal that Mr Makuro was a/the Makuta, and secretly operated a Villain Factory beneath the Hero Factory. For every Hero that was produced, a villain was also made, giving Makuta total control of both supply and demand. Other reveals: Mark Surge at one point had Daron as his first name. Similarly, Natalie Breeze was going to have Julie as her first name. At various points in development, Black Phantom was known as Warr Lord, Over-Lord, and Over-Lorde. This was changed to avoid being too similar to Fire Lord. This is somewhat speculation on my part, but it looks like Fire Lord and Black Phantom may have originally been the same character at some point, or were at least based on the same initial design. A lot of the prototypes for the Warr Lord/Over-Lord characters show him with more red in his colourscheme, horns on his head, and similar jetpacks on his back as the Fire Lord set had. This might also explain why their builds are so similar. The Breakout storyline was originally going to have a more gritty, serious vibe to it, with the document directly comparing the cat-and-mouse game between Rocka and Black Phantom to Die Hard. A villain called Madminder would have featured in the Breakout storyline. Breakout would have featured two new heroes referred to as "Veteran" and "Razor". Bulk was originally going to face a villain called Terra-Quaker during Breakout. Core Hunter was originally called Head-Hunter and had a very different colourscheme. Jawblade was originally called Depth-Charge and had a blue colourscheme with a much more humanoid design. One document says he would have had a power that allowed him to inject a virus into “both people and computers”. In different documents, Toxic Reapa is referred to as Plaque-Reaper and Plague Reaper. At one point, he too is stated to have a virus-related ability, with his effecting robots. Voltix was at one point called Kill-Switch. Thornraxx was originally hyphenated as Thorn-Raxx Splitface was originally called Brute-Force XT4 was originally called Breakdown. One common detail that keeps cropping up is that HF was – similar to Bionicle – originally going to develop a darker tone and overarching storyline as it went on. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of these interconnected concepts got dumbed down into standalone stories like Brain Attack and Invasion from Below. This stuff appears to be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of lost HF content, so I’m excited to see what other reveals come out when Duckbricks finishes going through everything.
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The Hero Recon Team (to those unaware) was a hero designing tool on the Lego website back around 2011. It let you design your own hero, and order it, with the pieces to build it, custom instructions and a very slick box. I recently found my old Recon Team instruction booklet, and I'm curious to hear anybody else's experience with the Recon Team, and I'd love to see the Heros you guys made from it! I remember I was at my grandparent's house on their laptop and found the Hero Recon Team creator on the Lego website, and I thought it was so cool. I made my hero and somehow convinced them to order it for me, and it's one of the coolest things I've ever had. Unfortunately I had mine made during the 3.0 update, at that time the exclusive chest piece was no longer available, so I didn't get the chest piece at the time.
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Stormer X.L. Built for the Hero Factory Special Ops Collab, I decided to reinterpret Stomer XL, turning its XL model into an XL gadget. This Stormer is an expert in infiltration, its XL backpack is a submarine truster, useful for infiltrating marine structures. The helmet attached to the backpack is fully articulated, you can open or remove it from Stormer. Yes, basically it's based on Solid Snake from MGS1, I even built a Famas just for him. 19/02/22
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Hi, guys. Today is the 10th anniversary of the summer 2011 story arc called Savage Planet, when its two-part TV special was aired on Nicktoons on September 5, 2011. The story arc is about six members of the Alpha 1 Team, Stormer, Furno, Bulk, Stringer, Nex, and a new rookie named Daniel Rocka fighting against a new tall and monstrous skeleton-based villain called the Witch Doctor, who was an ex-teacher from the Hero Factory organization named Aldous Witch and is obsessed with collecting and using Quaza, and his army of mind-controlled techno-organic animals to save a jungle planet called Quatros (the place could give you what Bota Magna from Bionicle 2001-2010 looks like). It’s all started after the villains from the Ordeal of Fire arc in 2011 were defeated, Aldous was trying to use the Quaza, the thing that is used to make the Heroes’ Hero Cores, to supercharge himself because he is interested in it, but Stormer stopped him, and Aldous was exiled as a result. He went to Quatros, where its core is sustained by a large amount of a special kind of Quaza to keep the planet healthy. Mining Quaza in the place is illegal because of that fact about the core, but Aldous collected a corrupted piece of Quaza and a skull from a mysterious and ancient temple. When he created a staff of these things, it turned into into the evil monster called the Witch Doctor, who uses the staff to become powerful. He put corrupted Quaza on four species of animals in the planet and then uses his staff to mind-control them. It’s like how Makuta Teridax from Bionicle 2001-2010 mind-controls many species of Rahi with his Infected Kanohi masks (this similarity was to celebrate Bionicle’s 10th anniversary during the time?). The species of animals are Fangz, Waspix, Raw-Jaw, and Skorpio. He collects the Quaza from the core to make an evil army, and doing so is hurting the planet. The Heroes got new animal-based armor and weapons, and they are called Heroes 3.0 because of them. Their armor gives them the abilities of the animals, and they wear them to adapt to the planet. This is the last set wave to use numbers, sadly, when Breakout, Brain Attack, and Invasion From Below should have used 4.0-6.0. I was also expecting the coming years to do a similar tread with the six heroes in the early and late 2011 story arcs, but there’s inconsistency. At least I was happy with Breakout having all nine heroes in a way. Anyway, the story arc also introduced Heroes’ “XL forms”, which are Hulk-sized forms similar to Takanuva in 2008. In this story arc, Rocka is the first to have that. Speaking of Rocka, his design is based on Furno, and he wants to be like Furno. Stormer, Furno, and Rocka are basically the main protagonists of Hero Factory. His first name was unknown until Leto decided to have Daniel as his first name officially, right? Wished Lego could have said it right away, like how the other heroes happened. The story arc ended when Rocka XL and Stormer defeated the Witch Doctor by destroying his staff while the other heroes removed the Doctor’s animal servants by removing their corrupted Quaza to free them. Furno then returned the core’s stolen Quaza back to it to save the planet from dying. The Doctor is affected for his crimes. According to a guide book, Nex was looking for something that rumors were talking about, but there weren’t. He fought a snake, and that was about it. Weird. Anyway, the leader of the Hero Recon Team, Merrit Fortis, got upgraded with the 3.0 armor and was exploring Quatros a little bit. Nothing much from there, either. Weird. Hero Factory FM never continued since the Ordeal of Fire story arc. As for the sets, they are good for the most part. Some of the Heroes and WD have weapons for hands, though, and Stringer has uneven forearms. Bulk has a flimsy design on his wrist blades. WD is the tallest HF set in general, but he has a wonky design. I mean, there’s an asymmetrical waist and stiff joints here and there when the set tried to be giant. For my favorite sets, I love Nex, Furno, Waspix, Skopio, and Rocka XL the best because Nex has a weapon on his forearm, which most his friends don’t have, Furno looks awesome, Waspix has four arms, wings, and a stinger, Skorpio is an intimidating scorpion, and Rocka XL looks awesome with his spiky design. The episodes are good, as it shows a rivalry between Furno and Rocka, Rocka trying to be like Furno, and I love the fight with Waspix and Skopio, and final battle the best. It’s pity that Surge, Breez, and Evo missed out. Breez could have tried to talk to these animals. It’s quite interesting that Nex said that he loves her, even though that Natalie doesn’t have any romantic relationships with any Hero. There are two online games that the story arc is known for, Mission: Savage Planet and Jungle Crushers. They are good games. Sadly, we never had new installments from these things. Well, we have the Breakout online game in 2012, which is a very great game. So, what do you guys think of the story arc? Happy 10th anniversary to it!
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well, this is a project i'v had in the pipes (the pipes in my brain) for a while now, and hey, it's about time it showed some fruit! it's worth mentioning (to me at least) that this was going to be written, and in the Epics forum. but, as you can see in my Art Topic, that has clearly changed. another note: this'll get kinda dark, but I'm trying my darndest to keep it within BZP appropriate levels of dark (nothing worse than slight oozing blood-analogue from the mechzombies is all.) and, though i'm quite capable of drawing someone getting disemboweled in full view, (no i won't link that!) i like my proto where it is, thank you. ^haha, look at the rambling, this is a comic topic! where's the comic? The Cast: Nita The Comic: Latest Page Chapter one An initiation worth writing home about. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
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Yep. You heard correctly. Common Sense Media, a parent/kids age rating website, has these reviews for HF: Rise of the Rookies / Savage Planet I mean... WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Hero Factory... a... a... a... 18+?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Please. Somebody PLEASE explain.
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Alright, everyone. I thought it was time to make a thread to consolidate everything about a Hero Factory continuation, be it theories, wants, stuff, etc. There are already quite a few threads with smaller parts, but basically just throw all your ideas here. So far, just explore pages 1 and 2 of this forum and there's quite a lot of stuff. Anyway, my big thing would be a TT game, as I have FREQUENTLY stated in my previous posts. I already made a thread with some of my ideas, so you can check it out (but I'm not forcing you). For those of you who don't know (but I'm pretty sure you do know), TT, a.k.a. Traveller's Tales, have made almost all of the mainstream LEGO games since LEGO Star Wars (I think). You've got licensed serieseseses like Marvel, Batman, Star Wars and Harry Potter, and original LEGO works like Ninjago, Chima and City. The TT games are always great (almost finished Batman 1, and it's a blast) and I'm pretty sure there's at least one other person here who would like to have a TT Hero Factory game (even though, not be pessimistic or anything, it probably won't happen). Maybe you would want a double, triple or quadruple TV special, like Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Or another Secret Mission book? Or maybe a Hero Factory FM episode? Or an Amuzo mobile game (hey, I'm just throwing everything at this topic)? Really, there's so many options. Feel free to discuss them. I'd love to hear!
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I was just thinking the other day, what if the amazing Hero Factory FM was still going during later Hero Factory lines? Coverage of other episodes like the mission to Quatros would be awesome, and there would obviously be interviews with the new kids on the block, Evo, Nex and Rocka. It would also be awesome if Mak Megahertz got attacked by a brain mid-episode. What are your thoughts?
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This is a mod of Core Hunter I made. https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0025.jpg https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0026.jpg He has the same type of shield that Breakout Breez used. https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0027.jpg https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0028.jpg And his left arm is modular. He can swap out a variety of tools and weapons https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0029.jpg His standard Hero core stealing claw https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0030.jpg A spike for both hacking computers and stabbing https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0032.jpg A tentacle that can act as a whip or for grappling https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0033.jpg His plasma shooter https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0034.jpg A large sword. https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0035.jpg A mace on a cable https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0036.jpg A Buzz Saw https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0037.jpg A Drill https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0042.jpg And a canister arm that can shoot Fire, Ice or Electrical Blasts https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0040.jpg https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/CoreHunterV2/hpim0041.jpg Comments and criticism appreciated
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Years ago around 2010 when Hero Factory first launched. I created a Moc of the character from the Hero Factory FM podcasts. DJ Mak Megahertz https://brickshelf.com/gallery/takanuinuva/herofactory/034.jpg Cut to a decade later and I decided he needed an update. Mainly to his head and back builds. So here is the updated design. He is basically a walking radio station able to broadcast from anywhere by himself. Comments and criticism appreciated
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So, here's something I started making the other day, it's a Hero Factory timeline of media. Click here to go to the timeline. Right now it's just got episodes 1-6 and 8-10, but soon I'm going to update it with material from HeroFactory.com, novels, games and alternate reality material (some of the reality names are going to be made up, but they'll follow the same sort of thing the official reality title). I'm also eventually going to make a downloadable edition for when the timeline's done, which will look something like the attached image. Hope you enjoy it so far!
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Recently I've managed to get the HF Breakout game working through Pale Moon but I can't find a downloadable PC version on BMP or anywhere. Does anyone know where I can find the game?
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I kinda got bored so I decided that I would make a Hero Factory quiz. You can find it right over here. It's on Kahoot, which I know is usually used for educational-related stuff, but it was just a little bit of fun. Please tell me what you think!
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The only ones I can really think of is how much Mr. Makuro bears a strong resemblance to Turaga Matau, his mask specifically. Another one is the Bohrok (I wonder what it's even called; an eyepiece?) part in the Furno bike. Does anybody know anything else, I'm really interested in hearing more about these discoveries!?- 4 replies
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Hi, guys! I see that constraction is gone this year. No sign of them in toy fair this year, either. You know, in this decade, constraction was getting weaker and weaker until it’s gone this year. It’s shocking to look at it this way. I bet constraction are complaining about it right now. Why does constraction deserve this terrible fate? Lego shouldn’t have done this. I think Lego is so busy with other Lego themes and has budget issues while Ninjago, The Lego Movies, Star Wars, and the Super Hero themes are popular. First, Bionicle G1 is gone, then Hero Factory, and lastly Bionicle G2. There’s no replacement for Bionicle G2, and their stories are unfinished. This is a cruel world we all live in now. (Crying in tears of sadness) To be honest, without constraction, I don’t know what to buy from Lego. I felt like that I have no great purpose in my life that makes me happy (Ninjago is something that I follow though, even though that I am more of a constraction person than a playset person, to be honest, but I like the TV show). We are in a dark age/Great Depression, y’all. I hope that Lego will bring the constraction category back somehow. Bionicle deserves a lot more praise and respect because it is one of Lego’s most popular themes in history and it saved Lego from babkruptcy when it began. Hero Factory is an okay theme, but I feel it could have potential, like Bionicle, and needed some improvement to fix things up. I hope that Lego could satisfy the fans by bringing back Bionicle G1 a little bit just to finish up the G1 story to resolve its unresolved stuff. Same goes to HF and Bionicle G2. Plus, a good Bionicle G3, HF G2, a Sonic Generations-equse crossover with Bionicle G1 and G2, a Bionicle and Hero Factory crossover and cinematic universe-equse theme in terms of story, good TV shows that are like Ninjago (like have 10-13 TV episodes per season while the season is based on a storyline), but be more accurate to the sets and have 3D animation be good 3D animation in the style of Transformers: Prime), either good 3D animated theatrical movies or theatrical live-action movies with humans and the planet Earth as the constraction themes’ own cinematic universe (in the more child-friendly style of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not the wacky The Lego Movies), and good TT Games Lego video games with console versions (in the style of the Super Heroes games, not The Lego Movie 2). I mean, I think the constraction deserve to have these good stuff. I feel that they have that potential. So, what do you think, guys? Man, I need these themes back in my life.
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What do you guy thinks about the knockoffs? Personally I think many knockoffs of gen 1 are actually pretty well made. The issues I see are the higher probability of getting pieces in bad condition, and the fact that the pins and axle usually don't fit well with neither the knockoff or the original pieces. On the other hand, the Hero Factory and gen 2 knockoffs are really bad. Besides the issues I said before, the plastic is really cheap and weak and it's almost imposible to pose them. Here's a video where I tell the diference that I have found between fake and real Bionicle pieces. It's also in Spanish on my channel if someone of you speak Spanish.
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Hi, guys! Ever since Bionicle: The Legend Reborn happened in 2009, Lego had been limited with Tinseltown Toons’ Lego stuff before Lego stopped using the company in 2014, when they made that silly Hero Factory web episode called Invasion From Below. In 2003-2005, we witnessed Lego creating three direct-to-video Bionicle movies, made by Miramax, which is a Disney thing (Disney should buy Bionicle to make it healthy again. Just my opinion.), where the characters are organic-looking cyborgs rather than looking like their actual Lego sets. It’s kind of a nice feel. They were the first things in Lego media. They had some good qualities, like the dark tone of the story and good character development, despite that not all sets appear in the story, some don’t look accurate, some designs were lazily created, like some masks and the red eyes, some important story content weren’t in the movies, and there weren’t any movies in 2001-early 2003 and 2006-2008. Some designs look a little weird, like that there are no mouths behind the characters’ masks. In 2009, for some reason, Lego replaced Miramax with TT, and TT, along with Universal Studios, made The Legend Reborn, which is a loose continuation to the trilogy. The movie uses more professional and more popular voice actors rather than reusing the ones from the trilogy. This movie also is where the characters look very accurately like their sets. I mean, they are living toys, like Toy Story (Lego is into that in all other Lego media since the movie) and Bionicle Heroes video game in 2006, and some of the characters have mouth guards that open and close, and they have organic teeth. However, there are some silly things in the movies, like the spinning axles, misplacement of the pieces and armor, not all characters carry all of their weapons from their sets, like the Thornax Launchers, Mata Nui’s sword should have appeared in his canister set, not all sets appear in the movie, the script is kind of wonky, as the script seemed a little rushed and there were less action, as we see characters talk and observe things often, the Glatorian heads look like skulls opening their mouths when they talk rather than having actually lips that express emotion (tell that to The Lion King remake this year. Lol.), and some designs were made lazily, like the Skopio using stuff from the Skopio XV-1 (I mean, what was that for?). It would also be nice if Malum would fight Mata Nui if the Vorox that Mata Nui fought is one of Malum’s Vorox. Plus, the Matoran in the prologue did the same repeated design thing and red eyes thing as the original trilogy. Originally, that movie was going to be a trilogy, where the second movie coming in 2010 and the third in 2011, but it got cancelled for some reason as Bionicle’s G1 toy line got cancelled for some reason. We were left with that silly cliffhanger from The Legend Reborn. However, we got a draft of a script for the fifth Bionicle movie, which wasn’t canon anymore, and in 2010, Michael Dorn, Mata Nui’s voice actor that we know and love, narrated a series of web video slides called The Mata Nui Saga, where Mata Nui completed his mission in restoring Spherus Magna (but Michael didn’t narrate in the last slide for some reason). That’s where Greg Farshtey released a few serials that continued the G1 story, with some things explained and where we should have see the Great Beings come back, but he stopped at June 2011, where there are two unfinished serials, thus the story is unfinished (what good comes out of that. Please finish the story for sake of us. Seriously. I wish Disney could help with that, too). Then, we have that TV short called Lego Altantis and Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers in 2010, which were made by the creators of The Legend Reborn. They follow the same pattern as The Legend Reborn, but they are original stories, so some of the cons that I mentioned are fixed, but there are no sequels for them (there should be, though, because the Atlantis toy line continued in 2011 and Clutch Powers has a cliffhanger). Plus, the Atlantis short has some cons, like the designs don’t like their sets for some reason and not all sets appeared in the short. Then, the Hero Factory TV show happened, it was made by the creators of The Legend Reborn, too. Like The Legend Reborn, the show is based on a constraction theme and followed the same pattern, but like Atlantis and Clutch Powers, it has an original story, so some of the cons that I mentioned are fixed, as the characters look like actual robots. However, there are still some problems, like not all characters have their weapons from their sets, the script is sort of wonky, as there are some cliffhangers and unresolved things, there are ten episodes that are like specials where they deceased by one episode every year, some characters look like their prototype sets, like Rotor’s gray shoulder armor, not all sets appear in the show, like Vapor, Thornraxx, XT4, Core Hunter, Breez’s Breakout form, Bulk’s Breakout form, and Nex’s Breakout form, some designs are lazily made, like Toxic Reapa’s eye color and Arachnix, which was never used as a gun, and reused, the release dates for the episodes weren’t announced immediately, not all episodes are released in DVD for some reason while the DVDs that had the episodes were wonky and never had scene selections for some reason, and there are some noticeable production mistakes, like scratches on some of the characters’ armor appear out of nowhere (if Disney decides to buy HF, too, it should fix all of those problems). Talk about false advertising a little bit. Some fans like to think that Bionicle and HF share the same universe, like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because of TT. In 2014, for some reason, Lego stopped using TT for some reason, and Invasion From Below was made by different companies while HF got cancelled in that year for some reason. However, that episode and many other Lego media, like Bionicle: The Legend Reborn, followed the same pattern as the TT stuff, while most of them, like Ninjago, Legends of Chima, and Nexo Knights did a much better job with most of the characters and the scripts, even though some things seem like false advertising, like not all of them included everything from the sets. Along the way, Bionicle’s 2015 online shorts, Mixels and Unikitty did similarly while being 2-D animated. So, my point of this topic is this: What’s your review on TT’s Lego stuff and what’s up with them? For me, well, TT did a good job copying the sets, but it was kind of cheap with many qualities, like the accuracies to the sets and the scripts, which caused some inaccuracies to happen and the scripts to be wonky. Their stuff weren’t as popular as Ninjago or the Lego Movies. What do you think, guys? Do you think TT deserves a second chance?
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Hi, guys! You know, Hero Factory is known for having a “TV show” as the main medium that tells the story, and the TV show is actually a bunch of 22-minute episodes that act like specials that decreased by number every year until 2014 when it ended. Plus, there are five Secret Missions chapter books, which went from 2012 to 2013, some online games, which are pretty cool, and a song by Cryoshell for Breakout. Well, I wish here are more stuff. Plus, HF kept making some mistakes and missing some things. Not too satisfying. I tell you what. If I could change HF, it would be like this: 1. Make the TV show act like a real TV show, like Ninjago. I mean, have each season be based on one of the storylines and have at least 10-13 22-minute episodes. More screen time for some important characters would be nice, too. 2. Give more character development on the characters (well, the heroes are good, though some need to be worked on). I mean, the villains are just video game enemies and bosses to be defeated and never fully came back to be threats again. I would like to see that Von Nebula is the one responsible for the Breakout and using the plans to create a Villain Factory. The Galactic Conspiracy should either be excluded or be made significant. I also don’t know why that new rookie Hero and his villainous foe in Breakout were there when they have no story significance. Seriously. How things in HF’s story is weird. There are a lot of unresolved stuff, including those silly cliffhangers in Brain Attack and Invasion From Below, and the story hasn’t been finished before the theme ended. I would very strongly suggest these to be resolved and finished, respectively, and make the them go a little longer to accommodate that. Plus, have the Heroes make peace with the Jumpers from Invasion of Below instead of killing them. 3. I would love to have a water theme, ice theme, underground theme, and sky theme before the events of Breakout. We have Ordeal of Fire and Savage Planet (Jungle) in 2011, but these themes could be interesting. I would imagine them to be half-of-year-long themes with six of the Heroes each. Ordeal of Fire had Furno, Stormer, Surge, Breez, Nex, and Evo (2.0) and Savage Planet had Furno, Stormer, Rocka, Nex, Bulk, and Stringer (3.0), so these new themes of mine would go like this: First arrangement: Stormer, Furno, Rocka, Evo, Surge, and Breez (4.0), Second arrangement: Stormer, Furno, Rocka, Nex, Evo, and Bulk (5.0). Plus, other arrangements. You get the math here. 4. Have Vapor, Core Hunter, XT4, and Thornraxx appear in the TV show. I mean, seriously. Why leave them out? That’s annoying. Plus, have Bulk, Breez, and Nex appear in the TV show with their Breakout forms. 5. Make the characters in the TV show look more like the sets. I mean, Rotor having silver shoulder armor, like in the prototype version of his set? Seriously. Have the characters in 2011 have five fingers instead of four. 6. Give the characters in the Invasion From Below arc five characters instead of four. It’s a silly downgrade. 7. Have Stringer and Nex appear in Brain Attack and Invasion From Below. I mean, they’re absent. What’s up with that? No one wants to be chopped liver, you know. Plus, give them their own Brain Attack monsters and IFB mechs. 8. Fix the designs on the sets. Give some of the sets hands because they don’t have hands. Give Breakout Nex a second pair of cuffs, so he can capture XT4 completely. I could say that about Stormer when he fights against Speeda Demon. Make some of the sets’ arm look less weird. They look bent. Give Rotor and Vapor eye holes. Make Jawblade’s and Core Hunter’s wrists able to be cuffed. I mean, they’re so chunky that it’s hard to cuff them. 9. Fix the color schemes on the sets. There’s a lot of lime green. The silver on Breez is placed weirdly. I mean, Breez having a silver helmet? Not a good choice of color. Stringer needs to make up his mind with his secondary colors. Lol. 10. I don’t know why Brain Attack and Invasion From Below happened when there is a villain (probably Von Nebula) making a Villain Factory, so I would suggest have the Villain Factory be dealt before the events of those two arcs happen (where I would put Brain Attack in between). 11. Have Voltix and Core Hunter and all other escaped villains be recaptured, so they wouldn’t cause trouble more. 12. Have that live-action HF movie happen already. The Hollywood Reporter mentioned this back in April 2012 where Universal Studios is planning to get the right for it, but they haven’t done anything since. I wouldn’t trust Universal on anything, neither on Sony. I would trust Disney or Warner Bros. for this. Plus, put humans and the planet Earth there if that were to happen. I mean, it’s live-action. 13. Do a crossover with Bionicle and perhaps other constraction themes with original stories (Slizers/Throwbots and RoboRiders) to do a shared universe story (like the Marvel Cinematic Universe). I mean, they’re similar (and a friend of mine did say something like “Stormer is my favorite Bionicle character”, which is hilariously wrong. Lol.). I would like to think that Velika from Bionicle 2001-2010 actually would team up with the HF and Bionicle villains to try to take over the universe to bring order of his own way to it. I also like to think that the Great Beings from Bionicle 2001-2010 have created Mr. Makuro while Spherus Magna from Bionicle 2001-2010 was destroyed. It would make things much more interesting if that were to happen. 14. Make HF’s sets less expensive. 15. Have HF be promoted more. Those commercials and a bunch of other stuff made some things and sets under-promoted. Seriously. It’s like ignoring them. 16. Make the Invasion From Below episode be much more like the past episodes before it. I mean, it got cheap in quality, and it used voice actors that we don’t know. 17. Either re-continue HF and/or do a G2 (I would recommend finish G1 the most before G2). So, there. Man, what a mess that HF have made. It would be nice if my ideas have happened to make HF much better, like Bionicle. Seriously. What about you guys?
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Many people have been saying how Hero Factory has been doing so much better than Bionicle. However, without actual sales reports from Lego or Lego employees to back up these claims (as far as I know), I have been very skeptical about it.I have also become very interested in Dungeons and Dragons and so, with the announcement of D&DNext, there was much talk across the blogs. One blog used Google Insights to show how Pathfinder (the competing RPG) had surpassed Dungeons and Dragons a little after 4th Edition D&D was released in Google searches. Now, while Pathfinder didn't actually start outselling D&D until this past year, it was a good indicator of what people were interested in.So, I decided to put Bionicle and Hero Factory in. The results I got are shown below.(Blue is Bionicle, Red is Hero Factory)I found this graph to be rather interesting. A few notes before I go on: Bionicle didn't dip below Hero Factory until around 2011 and HF didn't have a definite "lead" over Bionicle until the second half of 2011. That's after two waves of Hero Factory. It also doesn't really seem to show that Bionicle was dying in 2008-2009 compared to earlier years. While this only goes back to 2004, 2005 looks like it was a rather weak year, but late 2006 through early 2007 look stronger. The time TLR was released (approximately) is one of the top 3 or 4 peaks for Bionicle since 2004.Hero Factory, at least as far as Google searches indicate, has not been nearly as successful as Bionicle. That's not to say that it's been a complete flop, but it doesn't look like it is as much of a hit as Bionicle. Now this could potentially be attributed to Bionicle having a stronger fan base. I disagree. Hero Factory has had several TV series that got much more publicity than TLR did by having them premiere on TV rather than go directly to DVD.It is also worth noting that Ninjago has completely passed any levels that Bionicle or Hero Factory had, leaving them in the dust.(Blue is Bionicle, Red is Hero Factory, Yellow is Ninjago)Because we don't have actual records from Lego, I don't think it can be said that Hero Factory is more successful than Bionicle and that Bionicle was a dying franchise. These numbers seem to suggest otherwise.(Or maybe this just means that whatever Greg Farshtey works on turns out to be really successful product lines )Please correct me if I’m not reading these graphs correctly or am not aware of some announcements from Lego saying the HF is doing better than Bionicle was.Let's Keep Bionicle Alive,Lewa Krom
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I am looking to buy physical copies of the Hero Factory comics, as eBay searches only bring up 5, 6, and 7. As a result, I am much more interested in getting copies of 1-4, but would not be opposed to a bundle of all the comics. Please let me know if you have copies that you would be willing to sell. Open to negotiation, but please stay reasonable. Most comic book database sites have these books listed at or only slightly above MSRP. Thank you!
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Hi, guys! I know that Hero Factory ended 5 years ago, but if you are aware that Ninjago’s new wave of sets, Legacy, is basically a wave of remastered sets from the past in a modernized (with new pieces), we could think about remasters of Hero Factory sets to cheer ourselves up. Plus, Hero Factory is kind of successful, very strong theme at that, and is the second best constraction theme, so it should have this kind of treatment to have us think fondly of the past, but in a modernized way. People tend to think about the remasters nowadays. So, what sets would you like to be remastered? For me, well, here’s some stuff: 1. Preston Stormer - his Breakout form, but be more icy 2. William Furno - his Breakout form, but be like more fiery 3. Daniel Rocka - his Breakout form, but give him a sword and make his arms even 4. Dunkan Bulk - his Breakout form, but give his a big main gun, like a large cannon, or a drill. 5. Jimi Stringer - his Breakout form, but his secondary colors would be either yellow or orange, or just blue as it is. 6. Mark Surge - his Breakout form 7. Natalie Breez - her Breakout form 8. Julius Nex - his Breakout form, but give him a hand (literally) and another pair of Hero Cuffs 9. Nathan Evo - his Breakout form, but also give him a hand (literally) and make his arms even 10. XPlode and Rotor pack - Their arms need to be fixed. Plus, make his spikes shoot like guns, like in the TV show. Rotor’s arms need to have hands as well. Plus, put eye holes in his helmet. 11. Corroder and Meltdown pack - again, their arms need to get fixed (make Corroder’s arms bend-able) and give them actual hands. 12. Thunder - again, his arms need to be fixed and give him hands and the Nebula Gas Cannon. Plue, well, probably make him able to curl up like a ball. Plus, make the guy look symmetrical. 13. Vapor - again, his arms need to be fixed and give him hands. 14. Von Nebula - again, fix his arms and the place where his head is. Also, well, make his design look more impressive. 15. Drilldozer, Nitroblast, and Jetbug pack - make their heads look more unique and fix Drilldozer’s and Nitroblast’s arms and make them even. 16. Fire Lord 17. The Witch Doctor - make him look symmetrical and fix his arms and legs. Plus, give him a hand (literally) and his head look like an actual head. 18. Toxic Reapa, Jawblade, and Splitface pack - give TR and Splitface hands and make Jawblade’s wrists being able to get cuffed 19. Thornraxx and XT4 - make them look less weird. I mean, make Thornraxx look more like a bug with legs, give XT4 hands and make his head look less weird. Also, make their torsos less weird and bigger. 20. Core Hunter - well, fix his torso, make his Hero Core Removal Tool able to actually grab things, and make his wrists able to get cuffed. Make his arms not stubby, either. 21. Speeda Demon - well, I would imagine his vehicle being modernized. 22. Black Phantom and Voltix pack - well, probably make BP’s Arachnix drone red. Also, make Voltix’s arms not stubby. Plus, make him shoot from his horn-like things on the sides of his heads. Lego should really remaster those guys to help fans relive memories. This would be split into two waves and hopefully be less expensive. Perhaps put them in packs. I never included the vehicle, 2013, 2014, the enslaved animal sets much because they’re not as great as the ones that I listed. I know I put a lot of stuff in my list, but to be honest, I’m going with the Heroes the most because they are the main characters in general. Plus, it would be cool to have Von Nebula and Black Phantom and Voltix because they are like some of my favorite villains, too. What about you guys? What sets would you like remastered?
