Lego Rewind Ep.27- Hero Factory
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What do you mean, are you from now on a Hero Factory fan?
Where
Please give us a time stamp? I seriously want to see.
7:34
I miss Lego CHIMA
Weird flex moment: stormer from the first wave of hero factory was actually named after me through a lego club promotion.
Wow stormer was my favorite
That's actually really cool
Dang boi that’s tough
You are badass
Say that on a date and she’ll accept your marriage proposal you haven’t even made yet right then and there
I remember on the Lego Hero Factory website there was a section where you could build your own Hero and buy it with a neat box and even an instruction booklet. I still have mine, that was a cool concept.
Kind of like (I think) how you could order the pieces from a studio build. I'm pretty sure you used to be able to order them but I dont know.
that was epic but i never got mine ordered
I remember a game where u has to capture villians as a character from hero factory. I wish they didnt had to removed it
In Lego Digital Designer, they still have Hero Factory pieces.
I still have my stack of customize hero factory robots, they where amazing, they where literaly the first Lego before the legit Lego I bought at the store, sad, they broke
Too young to experience the entirety of Bionicle
Too old to miss the tragedy of end of Bionicle
Just in time to experience Hero Factory in full
Yeah I know the story wasn’t the best but the story’s I made up were great
Same here, my first constraction set was Nex, and I was a fan from then on, until Invasion from Below. I got really hyped for Bionicle G2, but never had the opportunity to but the sets.
dude same hero factory was so cool back then
Aint that the spirit of Lego ❤
The seasons were great imo but as a bigger story it just wasn't that good. My favorite season will forever be the first one, the episodes were really great and as a kid some of them were just straight up horror
The bionicle and Hero factory movies were my childhood even though i didnt have many of the figures
On the topic of constraction continuing, I still think that BIONICLE could be brought back and work well. That may sound crazy after what happened with G2, but I happen to have lived long enough to remember a similar action figure franchise that was almost destroyed by its own G2. That's right, I'm talking about Transformers, a rich and pretty convoluted franchise that has had countless re-imaginings and iterations throughout the decades. In fact, Transformers shows that convoluted lore and complex story telling can HELP keep make new incarnations successful.
What BIONICLE needs to thrive is a Beast Wars, as in, a line that is so good in the media and story it offers that kids and former fans can't help but be brought in.
Could Nick's own Nova Orbis work as inspiration?
@@austinreed7343 I think it would be a perfect starting point, from what I've gathered from his videos his story takes place in the far future. You could have Glatorians and Matoran/Toa integrated into a new society and set it like 500 years in the future or something. Then have some new threat (Aliens of some kind) invade the planet and a new team of heroes has to find the Mask of time to stop the invasion or something. Connect the story to the old one instead of trying to reinvent it like G-2 tried and failed to do.
Invasion from Below definitely shows the potential for an Exo-Force reboot, since those figures are more flexible than your average Exo-force mech.
they're even built similarly, with a canopy on the chest instead of having any sort of head unit.
We just need a new Mecha theme for LEGO in General
I'm genuinely excited for a mecha theme. Seeing how many mecha they've created in Ninjago and Nexo Knights, I think they'd look phenomenal.
Nick on Planet Ripple, maybe if instead of the Hero’s fighting giant creatures, what if they went full exo force and have the villains turn from simple crooks to full fledged terrorists, having the villains piloting giant robots themselves, and the Hero’s are forced to raise their game. Imagine how cool it would be. Though I do like the creatures themselves, they look really cool, and they would make really convincing rahi, I just wish they gave the species an actual name, at least brain atack actually named the animals that the brains took control of real names like that was their species, but instead we just got Flyer Beast
@@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269 heros fighting giant monsters makes more sense
How Lego could simultaneously make everyone extremely happy,
1: Take Hero Factory.
2: Take Bionicle.
3: find some way to make it cross over.
4: Profit.
5. Add in Slizers and RoboRiders to taste.
500 years in the future, a Matoran finds the mask of time while exploring the wreckage of the Mata-Nui robot. He puts it on, not knowing what it is, and rips a whole in reality leading to the Hero Factory universe. Also rips another whole letting *inset new villians here* and Now Toa, Glatorian, and Hero Factory Heroes must team up to defeat this new threat.
R H and that kinda works too
Tried that and it failed
@@arbysandtehchief5494 Ok but... what if tahu IS furno...shit.
Hero Factory is what got me into LEGO, and later into Bionicle. While it had lots of flaws, it was in many the Bionicle of the kids post 2010 such as me. I would really like this theme to return, but obviously that is never going to happen. Thanks for making this great video.
I just want to see constraction again
I missed Lego Hero Factory. It was the first Lego I've ever had as a child and his name is Splitface.
Damn, me too. I'm from Vietnam, back then there weren't a lot of LEGO to play, and Hero Factory was one of the first LEGO commercial of my life.
I liked the Breakout wave, my personal favorite, it felt so comic book like with the various different villains each going on their own (though you could totally pretend they all teamed up for a Injustice Gang sort of thing), and the heroes each going on their own specific mission/villain hunt and being modified for said missions helped make them stand out from each other, I really loved how they had the fire guy embark on the mission underwater
The shark and acid green guy were the ones I had, and they were awesome.
Same, I thought it was the most creative by far as a kid and even now
I would play the game on the hero factory website for HOURS.
@@bittiger Yooo same
@@dylanmccoy3243 I got both of them, and then Rocka, Stormer XL, Speeda Demon (the green guy with motorcycle), Bulk, Toxic Creepa, Jawblade, Nex, and I think thats all of them. Breakout was the best Hero Factory theme ever made
Loudest sounds on the internet:
-windows xp start up sound
-THX 1983 intro
-Nick's intro
Imagine if Lego did a special anniversary thing where they brought back all of the old moulds for Bionicle pieces and did re-releases of old sets, they'd sell out in an instant.
Hmm maybe
Yes please get that in my life now
I just had this same thought yesterday. What a trip that would be.
it would be a good idea, but i dont think LEGO still has all those old molds anymore
As in you have old bionicle
With the construction of Hero Factory,
I think it would be cool,
But the Hero Factory doesn't seem
To be much more flexible,
Not that I ever built one.
2 of my favourite things:
Ratchet and Clank
Hero Factory
Preach 🤘
Herp Factory imo ad some really badass designs. Like many of there Heros/Villains looked very brutal in there desing, as if they wouldn't show mercy to there enemies with a lot of guns and meele weapons like Buzzsaws and sharp claws.
They built heroes, and my childhood.
I did too
It was a damn fine theme
SAME
Preach.
@JP Nelson Did you even see the video? Hero Factory got off to a bad start, but since 2012 at the latest, the sets have had the quality of a Bionicle set. Bionicle is about the story, Hero Factory is about building your own character. The new sytem from Hero Factory was awesome and you could even use it with Bionicle. Bionicle was a very long time from 2001 to 2010 and the story became more and more difficult to explain to new beginners. Hero factory wanted to be so simple, it did not want to have a proper profound story, which is perfect for beginners. I think it's a shame that so many hate Hero Factory because of its weak story. Hero Factory and Bionicle were toys and both did a good job as toys. Bionicle was your childhood, and Hero Factory was his. Let him like his childhood but he does not say anything against yours.
And besides, what I find very funny: At that time the Afols Bionicle hated because it was not the same as normal Lego. Why you Bionicle fans defended you and found it not fair, because both are from Lego and there are just other parts. And today you hate Hero Factory and Bionicle G2 because it's not the same as Bionicle G1. And the people who played with Hero Factory have to defend themselves that they are just different parts than Bionicle G1.
"Ended tragically when the stars did not align"
I see what you did there, you clever devil you
Whats the secret of the RED STAR
I didn't get it
@@alexandros6935 The final wave of Bionicle sets was called "Bionicle Stars" and it was... well, downright pitiful in terms of quality. It was a terrible way to send off such an amazing theme.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr I honestly thought they were better than they actually were cause of the stop motion animations done to promote them so I thought they had more posibilty than they actually did
Still have no idea how they did those animations?
Yeah this theme would have potential to return on its own, like hell they wouldn't even need to reboot it really just bring some more new characters, maybe even make it like a bit of a community-driven theme that most popular and best quality characters(with rule of no parts modification) would be turned into actual sets, maybe even like give the creators preview of new parts, just to add them in new wave, and let them figure out what they can do with them
It seemed they wanted a community aspect of hero factory when they first made it with the whole “make your own hero” thing, but they deviated from that when they started to make more specialized builds.
@@CentralPALocos I think that's understandable though. It will easily cost them a lot to keep the custom build production intact. It's good to have the company to listen to their customers/fans, but too risky for a business to last.
I got into Hero Factory around 2013 and kinda regret hating on it for so long like so many Bionicle fans at the time and with Constraction being phased out after a 20 year run I kinda miss Hero Factory now that it's been gone for almost 5 years warts and all. You never know how much you appreciate something until it's gone y'know.
I did the same thing with nexo knights and now original Lego themes are rare.......fml
@@matthewbrown7834 I just hope Lego doesn't give up on Constraction or original story based lined
@@DaimosZ well as of now we will just have to wait and see.
Maybe they can make a action figere line with a less bare bones story that keeps you hooked like bionicle but with the flexibility for fan storys like hero factory.
@@matthewbrown7834 I've thought of my own take on that concept to be honests
I hear ya, there. I didn't start appreciating CCBS until Witch Doctor came out, and he was by far one of the most impressive sets I'd ever built, and I think I also had him built longer than even the also amazing Maxilos. It was amazing just how filled-out he was, and it honestly is something I wish they did more with in later series. I don't have many regrets for other HF waves, but if there's one wave I really wish I had gotten some sets from, it would have to be the final one. I honestly never even knew it was a thing, but I would have bought the sets like hot cakes, because it was essentially the closest I think we'll ever see to the likes of EXO-Force, again, especially with how creatively stagnant LEGO has become by this point.
I remember your old videos on Hero Factory, Nick. I was just rewatching your video on Invaders from Below and looking back on my comment, I think I was a little too harsh on Hero Factory. Yes, following Bionicle G1 did set up some high expectations that HF couldn't have lived up to, but it gave us the great CCBS system that Bionicle G2 would capitalize on. While I wouldn't say Hero Factory is anything special, the fact that the CCBS system came out of it does make the theme noteworthy for that reason alone.
7:35 brickitect cameo!
Hi mandr
I know this might be a bit late, but a cool fact I have is that my uncle was one of the workers on the Hero Factory comic book. He was an ink and coloring guy. He knew I loved hero factory and when I called him to talk about seeing his name in the comic and he told me as much as the NDA would allow but he said there were more comics he would be working on. It was so cool as a kid seeing my uncles name in comic books. Johnny Rench was his name.
When I was watching this video, I picked up a hidden theme of hero factory behind the "mass produced heroes"
First year: the flaws of the old ball and socket connections
Ordeal of fire: introduction to ccbs
Jungle year: showing how it can make creatures as well as characters
Breakout line: friction extenders help add more weight
Brain attack: how they could add functions
Invasion from below: how it integrates with Lego bricks
Huh, that's honestly pretty rad. I'd almost add Bionicle G2 as implementing most of those along with adding more Technic sub-assemblies. My biggest grip looking back is that we didn't really see too much integration with system pieces. It would have been amazing to see figures with Technic-driven functions and System-level detailing all on the backbone of CCBS. Ah well, I'd love for LEGO to surprise us someday.
Cool
The thing is, only 2 breakout sets had friction adders, and one of them only used them in the arms
@@LauraLowe they still used them somewhere, so it still counts right?
@@iannations2543 It gets points for introducing them, but sets later in CCBS's life used them way more effectively.
I still have a little hope that someday someone on youtube will say "Hey remember Hero Factory?"and maybe there could be a reboot.
I would love that, seeing how Lego is seeking a new production deal with Universal, if they do end up making a Hero Factory movie, that would be great, and that was rumored a while back
@@Merdicano they should do nostalgia for a selling point as hero factory fans are now in late highschool or college just like i am
I'm not going lie but Hero Factory was my childhood
mine too. I think I actually enjoyed it a lot as a kid (even though I'm only turning 16) despite knowing a fair amount about bionicle lore or at least the waves of sets and associated stories. I remember having a glatorian and a toa mahri Gahli set
Break out
Same Hero Factory was my childhood too
Mine too i still have 3 sets
Similar too, I have more preference for it because I grew up more with it than Bionicle
Bionicle 2006 Inika trailer: "You may look like a hero, you may feel like a hero. You may be 1 in 1K, you may be many. You may have new masks, new armor, new equipment, (...) But IT IS NOT WHAT YOU GOT, IT IS WHAT YOU DO WITH IT...that makes you...a HERO!
Hero Factory logo: We build heroes (in a factory).
Me: *Facepalm*
Sees Lego Rewind in new videos: Drops everything to watch it...
True LOL
Dennis Cantrell
It’s just as valid as Defunctland.
I used to play with these all the time and one of the last main villains was an electro dragon and I remember being so proud of myself for adding a sword and a gun and making him stand upright kind of, I made a lot other combos and that was probably the best part, I really liked surge and the fact that he changed into becoming one of the main characters, great memories
This series didn’t grab my attention until the Breakout wave. The only one I cared for was Evo. Mostly cus he looked like Samus Aran with that arm cannon. Not gonna lie, I was gonna get Breez JUST for those shoulder pieces, but they were green. I ended up losing Evo to the bottomless pit that is my LEGO collection. May he Rest In Peace.
You mean rest in PIECES. .....Was that in bad taste?
Nick on Planet Ripple, well I set myself up for that one. Good👏 pun 👏
Same hated that the connections to the helmet could break off so easily aswell cause i lost Evo and Furno's helmet to them breaking there but the helmets were intact other then that
My favourite was Furno. I loved his big figure version with the Cape. I thought he was so cool
OK I'm well past my whole "Hero factory killed bionicle and killed my childhood" mentality but that's one thing that actually irritates me. I can't believe how wasted the story was. When you look back on it, Bionicle had a very generic story when it first started. Heros come, grab the McGuffin, stop the bad animals, beat the villain. It then took that premise and expanded with character development and lore. Hero Factory seemed like it wanted to escalate with its story but never did. The fact this line ended without a proper finale makes it feel like these characters are the exact same as when the line first started. I can appreciate some of the sets but the story was weak and even simpler Lego themes like knights kingdom or Ultra agents had rising tension.
Bionicle also had the advantage of having a mystery behind it, Makuta for me never appeared until 2003 (never finished the online game) so I had no idea what he looked like and by the time the comics moved onto the bohrak line I was still wondering what the Toa did to stop Makuta or if he just tricked them, almost like the immediate threat of the bohrak made me forget and try to figure out where they came from and why they were doing what they were doing, that level of mystery kept me going for years and unfortunately hero factory didn’t generate that level of mystery and even when it was getting to that point they let the opportunity slip through there fingers letting a good line suffer because of it
Well it was dished out when cartoons were starting to decline into generic kiddy bullshit you see on tv these days. I guess they wanted to simplify the story, but went too far and just gave us the kind of thing you see everywhere else. The less said about the show, the better.
Grant Moore While I can see what you’re saying, I generally like to not think about brain attack and IFB since they are really where the series died. Really if you just look at waves 1-3 I can see a pretty well developed series with pretty decent characters. Breakout was generally just good as a story, but was the last episode to really have those original GOOD characters. But if you were to include BA and IFB I could see where you are coming from.
@@kira-dk2mx This is why, while i like Breakout and it's my favorite in terms of the show, Ordeal of Fire is a close second. Why? Because, something i only realized in later years rewatching it, the villains, are literal druggies. No joke. They're literal drug addicts, even being sent to rehabilitation at the end after being captured.
Some say CCBS isn't very versatile.
*BUT GORUZ KNOWS OTHERWISE*
Ahh a classic jangbricks meme
It''s actually the superior constraction system and they should bring back Bionicle combining elements of G2 and G1 to satisfy everyone, I even have my own custom story in mind and I even made a new Makuta part of a villain group using older ones after a war had ended.
I get that holy crap
Aw jeez the wave of childhood wonder waiting for a new Jang video just hit me
@@PrettyDamnDandy Jang needs to mit he lied about having a wife out of fear people would think he's gay, realistically you'd find it impossible for there to be a woman who settles for a man who reviews Lego 'cause it's not Transformers.
Ya know I still don’t get the stigma between LEGO fans and Bionicle. They’re made from the same company. I saw Hero Factory start and gave it a pass, like a lot of LEGO stuff and kinda regret it to a degree.
Neither do I. I've tried to understand it, I've heard the reasoning, but I think the criticisms, however valid in some cases, are overblown.
@bryan diaz varela I am a member of a Bionicle MOC group and when all three systems of technic, bricks, and CCBS are used with each other it has made some amazing stuff.
I was super salty with how Lego let bionicle die in such a pitiful way and then introduce a less articulated lineup of figures and dumb the story down. I got a few sets here and there but they never caught my full interest the way bionicle did. Hero factory did have some interesting concepts but like you said, were often half baked ideas. Great video as always!
That's exactly my gripe with Hero Factory. The story wasn't just dumbed down, it was half-assed. And as someone who was attracted to Bionicle because of the story, and then the sets, HF wasn't doing it for me.
I hope someone has a Hero Factory display somewhere. having all of the sets together with backgrounds and all of the characters posed in fight scenes would really bring it to life.
Hey Lego! Here's a way to get maximum profit off of us: Make a whole Lego line that is just basically a redistribution older lines, most of us would basically eat that shit up quick.
I remember when I first saw Hero Factory; something about its presentation struck a chord with me, and I found myself investing in more HF sets than I ever did Bionicle (not that I don't love both). It had that nice mix of color, style, and story that held on to the essence of classic Lego. Sure, the TV show wasn't that great, and some waves were better than others, but Hero Factory got a lot of stuff right from the get-go. It's a shame Lego isn't doing original action figures like they used to.
I quite like how this gave a open minded look on the Hero Factory line. I thought some of the figures had kinda cool designs for their time.
Don't get me wrong Bionicle is better but hero factory is my favorite lego theme ever
Also breakout is the best one
Yup
Yes I have breakout Rokka and Stormer they are my favorites in my small hero factory collection
I think Breakout Bulk is the best normal sized hero
“I need a hero!”
Im holding out for a hero till the end of the night
@@ratbat1072 he's gotta be strong an' he's gotta be fast an' he's gotta be fresh from the fight!
@@genericfriend2568 I NEEED A HEEROOO
Sometimes I look back at Bionicle and Hero Factory and I think: People like to compare Bionicle and Hero Factory, but comparing the two wouldn’t be both a fair comparison. The two are simply too different.
No matter how much I love Hero Factory, I will never forgive Lego for not making Brain Attack Stringer and then making an unfaithful finale toy-line.
the joints that would crack if you sneezed in its vicinity is the best line ive ever heard
Hero Factory was my childhood....Because I was A kid when Bionicle stopped and Herofactory sets started blowing up
I grew up with the Toy-line and the games it had like Breakout, Brain Attack, and invasion from below. The show was also nostalgic but I was a bit annoyed that they didn’t follow up On Villian factory. Every time I listen to That Herofactory monster song I get nostalgic
I remember the last two years of Hero Factory very fondly, especially invasion from below. Being the kaiju fan I am, I had a blast playing with those
Hero Factory has always been one of my favourite series of lego sets, closely tied with Mixels.
I just love what you can do with them.
I remember seeing Hero Factory on the Lego site when it was new (before the sets sold). When I saw the commercials, I was hooked. (It even made me forget about Bionicle until years later like 2012 when I got into Bionicle again)
When 2013 rolled around, I didn't buy any of the set (It was around the time I slowly stopped caring about Lego until late 2017 and 2018 when I started to collect since then). But then around the time when Invasion from Below was released, I decided to buy one (Probably cuz I started to like mechs more and more). It was the first time I ever bought a Stormer set.
Now years after that in 2018, I was thinking back to Hero Factory, and I didn't really like the monsters in Brain Attack and Invasion from Below. I mean the point of the sets was that the heroes fight against evil monsters and villains. Yes 3.0 had monsters (But I think they made it more right), but I find BA and IFB's monsters (kinda) bland fsr. What I liked about the villains in the previous sets was that they didn't only have different personalities, but they had unique look. Well BA had interesting looks, but they kinda felt a bit lame to me. But the monsters in IFB.... OMG what happened here? They looked like they copy pasted each other but had different parts just to make them "unique". I mean yes, they are the queen's children, and it makes sense, I get that and it's nothing wrong with that. But it felt like Lego didn't have any more interesting monster designs left, and have no other choice to take the original monster and change them a bit.
If Hero Factory made a some sort of return (but not like what happened to Bionicle), I want to see new and interesting villains and monsters. (and probably even returning villains and monsters)
Funnily enough, I think the Brain Attack monsters might make better G2 antagonists than the Skulls or Shadow Beasts.
The hero factory cartoon was good,except for invasion from below,plus josh keaten didn't do furno justice
dektoonics Inc., I’m a massive fan of Hero Factory and Bionicle, but I agree with you, the Invasion from below cartoon was hot rubbish
@@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269 i wouldn't call it hot garbage,it had some good ideas.unfortunately,the cheap animation and voice acting just makes it underwhelming for me and the down grade in writing
dektoonics Inc., ok maybe I was being a little harsh, and the sets from what I can tell looked pretty cool (I only got one), it had a lot of potential to be a spiritual successor to Exo force it just got wasted
@@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269 and now we may never have a true conclusion to hero factory
dektoonics Inc., actually I’m working on a fan made sequel to Breakout, but its VERY early in development
I loved hero factory still do, even now, occasionally I will buy one for nostalgia and enjoy it because, they are fun to pose.
That Breakout line is still top tier, almost every single set was awesome and that cartoon was pretty decent. 2012 was a good year
Core hunter literally is wearing a VR headset
Literally taken the words out of my mouth, I'm frankly speechless that a lot of my own musings have been put into words better than I could really articulate.
It always bothered me that HF had this clash of "build what you want" with innate character personalities. This wouldn't be a problem in something like Bionicle that had such a focus on serialised narrative. HF however had this awful habit of dropping incredible plot twists for a monster of the week format that just couldn't hold up. It really emphasised the number of redesigns a character would go through and also de incentivised following the theme. Why care about any of these characters or plot threads when it gets reset before it's even released?
The treatment of constraction storylines by LEGO post Bionicle G1 is in of itself an interesting discussion. I feel that in it's twilight years G1 became this convoluted animal that was very tough for newcomers and even seasoned fans to keep track of, and LEGO is scared to reach those levels again. Unfortunately I think their storytelling fell incredibly flat, especially so in G2. I feel no attachment to it at all, to a point where I'm likely going to sell off a lot of the sets: I don't think they'll be remembered or have the same impact as those original sets. As figures they may be more advanced, but it doesn't hold the same charm or care. Bit of a transformers effect I feel.
I don't feel this way with Hero Factory though, I have more respect for it in the sense that it was proud to do it's own thing, and for that it should be remembered and respected.
You know what's funny? I think the Brain Attack monsters make better G2 antagonists than the Skulls or the Shadow Beasts. They have giant Kraata-lookin' things on their heads, for crying out loud.
I'm still keeping my G2 figures because all the revamping I've done to add my own touch to them has made me irreversibly attached.
Im glad i had Hero Factory in my childhood it was so much fun .
I really wish hero factory would come back.
Ni Ne me too buddy
Oh. My. God. This along with Ninjago were my lego childhood! I actually got creative and made a super character that could transform into a bunch of different “vehicles”. I tried to use normal pieces to spice him up, and I actually made a lego version of the Infinity Gauntlet that I gave him that was super posable but 100% made by me with no instructions. It was one of my first times experimenting with Lego. I feel so old now lol.
I was never that big into Hero Factory.
Dunno.
It never gripped me like Bionicle.
Hero Factory was my childhood....Because I was A kid when Bionicle stopped and Herofactory sets started blowing up
I grew up with the Toy-line and the games it had like Breakout, Brain Attack, and invasion from below. The show was also nostalgic but I was a bit annoyed that they didn’t follow up On Villian factory
@@dunkboyxd6618 i remember playing Brain Attack, as well as watching the animation for it
because it's hot garbage compared to any bionicle series
this series/franchise or whatever was the first lego I got my hands on, I was so amazed at how much customization you can make that I pretty much bought almost every set of the Breakout line, Voltix was the first, I quickly threw away the instruction manual cause I thought his lightning head for tusks was kinda funny, next was Breeze, her shield quickly becoming the bane of all cross-stick parts, aka the small red connector piece, so on a so forth I played and reuse the pieces until it all shattered...
Honestly, despite its flaws, this was my favourite lego series/franchise discount Bionicles.
I literally dropped what I was doing
I did the same in Literally the middle of class.( we weren’t doing anything anyway sooo)😂
Man hero factory was my childhood
I remember being completely obsessed with corehunter. I’m pretty sure I’ve used his parts for some other unholy monstrosity though
LEGO needs to make something like this again. Not a reboot, just something like this.
I love Hero Factory and have always appreciated it since it was the thing that introduced me to BIonicle. I started with first wave and followed it all the way to its bitter end. When they introduced that breakout plot point, I was hyped to see the next wave, and well I sorta followed up? Even with Hero Factory gone, I still love it to this day and have been working on a continuation of it's story from brain attack onward.
i was excited to the idea of the 'Makuta brotherhood' equivalent in HF to be honest.
This series is so rewatchable. I love it
Breakout was by far my favorite Hero Factory wave. By far the best figures and the best story premise. There was so much more variety and that version of Rocka was by far my favorite figure, probably my favorite figure of the whole series. I also really liked the Invasion from Below theme. I love the minifigs and some of the mechs and kaiju were great. Again, Rocka's was easily my favorite.
He's a Juice-Pouch Hero. (Got studs in his eyes...)
Thanks for making this man, I always appreciate your outlooks on these. I got into BIONICLE pretty late in the game, 2007 with the Creeps from the Deep's gonna be feeding off cha mind, Creeps from the De- er, Barraki, so BIONICLE's end didn't sting as much as some fans I think. It did feel weird to play with the toys after it though, but I appreciated Hero Factory being there. I'm honestly pretty surprised at all of it's hate, like I'm at least glad they did something to alleviate the pain. Sadly I don't have a lot of the toys, I had other LEGO themes I was more invested in, but I've got a few. Mark Surge, Rotor, Corroder, Evo 2.0, Surge again (Breakout), and the Rocka mech. I agree that Breakout was the best line, the character designs felt so much more cohesive than before, while still largely looking great. I still kick myself for not getting Breez, Reapa or Core Hunter... but you can't get 'em all, right? I never minded CCBS, I just wish we got more to expand on it.
Thanks for another great episode man, I'm glad we have you in the LEGO community! Toodles!
ahh yes hf my second favorite lego theme, i hope they give hero factory another chance in my lifetime.
I wish Core Hunter had appeared in the show. But I think I see why he didn't.
I wonder if Core Hunter is canon with the animated series, because Breez and Bulk still have their 2.0 costume in Brain Attack ...
@@niconobi There was a book with him in it. I'm not sure how it fits in with the canon though. Not that continuity was necessarily HF's strong suit.
@@legoawcstopmotioner9435 It's true, I noticed it with Breakout, I love these 2 episodes but there are problems like Evo who is like Furno while he was different in Orderal of Fire.
For the books, I supposed that it happened in another storyline, a little bit like Five nights at Freddy's, but it seems impossible...
Hero Factory kinda springboarded my "growing up" moment. I tried to embrace it after Bionicle ended and I liked the new building system and designs, but the story was so kiddy and surface level that I kept getting disappointed. I was also starting high school and figured toys were behind me. But luckily I didn't lose that spirit entirely. Especially since we're all so nostalgic now. I'm glad people still keep things like this alive.
Brickitect cameo! Great video, a theme I wish I got a few of but it was kinda start of my dark age. Something that would be neat if they ever created a new theme like Hero Factory or Bionicle is a brick box kinda like classic boxes or that unikitty builders box where its a bunch of parts, inspiration for said parts but also just no limits ti build any character you can dream of without tearing apart the other sets to do so.
Ye, same with me, but about Bionicle g2
I just wasn’t interested but n them at the time :c now I’m buying the creatures for double price (;-;)
For any Bionicle fans who rip HF, please remember that for a lot of us we were too young to get into the lore or sets (I only managed to get 4 Bionicle sets before it ended), so I grew up with and loved Hero Factory. I hope you can understand that while we most likely do like Bionicle, it was HF that was special to us and gave us a good childhood just like Bionicle did for you.
My god. I remember so many of these old francises from my history and this just keeps on bringing more and more nostalgia. Thank you so much for making this
I’ve been a huge fan of these videos since the Power Miners/Rock Raiders Video popped up in my recommended a while ago. I’ll be sad to see it gone for a while, but I’m excited to see how you finish out this season, and also what you’ll have planned for future videos like your Thomas or Alita video.
These videos are way too good to be on RUclips. Well done once again!
This was my favorite lego series
>Sees Lego Rewind and Hero Factory in the same title
*Y E E E S*
I remember listening to the hero factory pod cast when I was little
Okay, taking a survey here:
Is Hero Factory FM or Piraka Rap the most embarrassing thing Lego has ever green-lit, aside from (insert Galidor joke here)?
God I loved core hunter.
I WANT MORE LEGO HERO FACTORY!
This is literally my childhood: hero factory and ratchet and clank music
I think this series was great. Also mechs from invasion from bellow was one of few mechs in that times that had knees
You know, I wish Hero factory can at least end its own story, rather than get discontinued.
A wonderful video. HF was a line that meant a lot to me, and has shaped a lot of what I do now. It was my gateway drug, my BIONICLE. I love HF, though I can admit that it wasn't the greatest objectively.
Also yes, Playing with Fire was...A thing, a bizzare, wonderful thing that I remember to this day. It was probably the first web series I actually watched aside from the official HF story.
14:43 I still have this orange boi under my table...
Brain attack had potential. I like the designs and most of the helmets but I wish they keyed more into the style of the year. They shoulda made the beasts more animalistic like the savage planet animals and the heroes more medieval looking, kinda like nexo knights with futuristic knights. Make bulk a Paladin, give Breez small daggers, have Rocka use that crossbow from breakout and maybe put a print with a reticle on it for his visor to replace his scope on his mask or something.
It woulda been nice if we got more base colour on the characters aswell. Save things like trans blue for the villains or silver for bulk. The heroes have to pop on store shelves so the kids go “I want that one”.
I hope that if Constraction returns to Lego, we will get a hero factory Reboot. I Like Bionicle and Hero Factory equally and all, but I feel that hero factory would have the best chance at a reboot. Since Hero Factory's premise is so simple, It will be easy for new people to get into, giving it a high possibility for success(for a while at least). I could see it becoming the next Ninjago, if the cards are played right this time.
Could you imagine what could be done? we could see some amazing builds and maybe color packs like you mentioned in your trains episode.
still, im sad that hero factory is gone now. It was really fun having to build cool robots my myself and with friends. I'll miss it, except the remade bionicle, that was a mistake.
Hero factory has always been, and still is, my favourite lego theme. These design were just great, and even now after a decade since the series ended, most of them still hold up. I have a fair share of them up for display and am still on the hunt for some of those i missed out on as a kid. This is what got me both into lego and actiom fogures, and i will alwayd cherish this series
Great video Nick, I'm honestly surprised at how fitting the Ratchet and Clank music is with Hero Factory.
Was I the only one who noticed that ferno xl's shield is the hero factory it self? Speaking of which
The fire element behind make me realize the hero factory being destroyed in the end of the brain attack would have been a better way to keep the theme fresh.
Yeah i experimented a little bit and now my Core Hunter looks pretty nice
Bought about a hundred bionicle/herofactory sets for about $30.. About 18 kilo's of lego of which 13 kilos belong to the bionicle/hero factory sets. This sure has some sadness in it..
Gosh I remember when I built half a meter long Brain from this series using 90%of the parts I had.
You know, this is a random thought, but if Lego ever did a Slizers reboot, I'd be down for it.
Something I rescue from Invasion from below is the concept of doing mech/mechas
Feel old yet?
The flyer Beast will always be special to me, because my first MoC came from it. His name was Cyborg.
I like how your art looks on that Hero Factory comic, looks dope af
I forgot something actually came of Hero Factory. Shame they just developed this new standard for these figures and then never experimented with parts the way Bionicle did
I got into hero factory when I won that electric dragon at 11:54- from a national Geographic magazine!
Imagine if we'd gotten a Hero Factory serial
What turned me off of HF was how little personality it really had -especially in comparison to Bionicle; the concept was just nowhere near interesting enough to hook me and only made me roll my eyes at how trite it could be. Even the designs of the toys more often than not didn't stand out to me as little more than generic. Despite the cool brochure and the Greg Farshtey books doing a decent job to make the concept sound more interesting, the brand overall just continued to waste most of it's potential, experimenting more than finalizing.
It just doesn't and I suspect never would amount the cool and otherworldly persona that Bionicle had. even if only focused on one era, Bionicle toys more often than not still stood out with tons of unique personality. HF just... didn't
I grew up with the world and characters of Bionicle, but Hero Factory and it’s system felt so much more usable than the more Technic centric G1 Bionicle. I guess there was less of a learning curve? Sure, those huge Technic things from Bionicle were awesome, but making something like that as a 10 year old would be super daunting without instructions. With Hero Factory, that difficulty gap felt smaller, and a lot of what you know from Furno 2.0 is still relevant for something like Fire Lord. I don’t think I’d say the same for a Voyatoran and Brutaka.
But with CCBS, all the components are still there for you to discover and exposit on yourself. New techniques and pieces show up in the main lines and you try to incorporate those into older designs. Eventually you get the best of System, Technic, Bionicle, and CCBS. The designs and complexity evolved with the builders, it didn’t go backwards like with Bionicle.
Basically, what I’m saying is that I made a lot more MOCs with CCBS parts than I ever did without CCBS. Yeah, that pretty much says it.
But the story was still bad. Worse than G2, yeah I said it.