My LEGO Nexus Organization

Discuss the new line here.

the big white guy better be awesome

Big white guy? You mean Stormer?(I'm only using the 'last names'. ;))

The current sets better only be the Small Sets-just because we did not get pics of 'canister' sets does not mean that there will not be any.

Oh yeah, and IMO, the BIONICLE Board should be turned into 'LEGO Action Figure Themes Board', seeing as HF uses the nearsame pieces as BIONICLE, and BIONICLE is classified as an Action-Figure Theme by LEGO.

LAFT Board would include:
Bionicle
Exo-Force
Hero Factory

Ben 10 goes into LEGO- it''s licensed.

KZ: Bionicle's too big to have to share a board. And besides, Exo-Force isn't an action figure line, otherwise Agents would be too for having the Robot, and Power Miners... Exo-Force is system. ;)

Exo-Force was classified as an Action-Figure Line in Shop@Home-that's what I'm basing it off of, and Action figures can be made out of system. Power Miners and Agents are not because the majority of sets are usual vehicles. Exo-Force had Mechs primarily. No other Line ever did.

Rahkshi: The pieces will fit perfectly, as they use the Glatorian hands, the Glatorian heads, and variants of the Av-Matoran limbs. ;)

And as for the price, if it's more than the Stars, it's an even better deal, because it's 7.99. =P

KZ: So then, where's the heads? Action figures usually have heads.

@Blade: Some new variants of Avtoran Arms....

Oh, and guys? According to Greg the story team is the same as the one for BIONICLE. Except for Greg, who stays on BIONICLE.

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KZ: Not all of them, some have the old arms. ;)

Really? Hmm. So Greg's not gonna be on it too?

MsRR: Already kinda known *Points to BZP*... But, thanks for posting everything at once, even if it's from that site. Also, you put about look at more pics there... Yet they're already in the post. =P

Blade, you are incorrect, those are Av-toran limbs with more natural bended position.

That's weird, I thought sure I had seen an Av-toran limb on one of the 6 revealed... =/

Has anyone noticed the fact that they seem to be brining back different Eye colours again? =D

Looks like typical Glatorian eye colours to me... Three Orange, 2 Trans Limegreen, and 1 Trans Blue. ;)

ya can't see stormer's eyes. ;)

Stormer is the coolest IMO (pun not intended, but whatev).

The one thing that sticks out to me about all of these sets is that the arms are VERY lacking. The whole set seems to be well armoured and weaponed, except for the arms.

MTM: *Points at holes in helmet* But you can see his head, which is Trans Ice Blue, like Strakk, Gelu, and Mata Nui. ;)

ZLS: Yeah, well it's not like any small set before the Stars were well armoured in the arm department. And it seems like a throwback to the Nuva in a way(Look at their legs and feet). For a line that's not supposed to be Bionicle... =P

eh, Lego didn't do a bad job. At least we get new pieces.

Yes, those new pieces'll be good, especially the new masks(Finally I can make a female that's not blue. ::)), and the more '01-like limbs that are Av-Matoran styled. =D(Those leg limbs'll definitely come in handy)

Also, you can bump the piece count up to definitely four confirmed for each, as those legs have armour. And those legs also seem to have a connector at the top, judging from the top of the armour piece. Therefore, the armour and the leg is separate. =) Plus there's the fact that the legs and armour are different colours... ::)

Why is the line called Lego Hero 'Factory'? The Factory part seems odd.

Apparently heroes are built for certain situations or something, based off that description. But who knows, that could mean adaptive armour or something. ::)

What are the LEGO heroes? I don't see them on the products page.

Those are still 'secret'.

Lionytai: They won't be up until the summer. >_>

From the sets I've seen on BZP, the only problems with this new line are the name, Hero 'Factory', the set names, which I'm not so keen on having them as human names after getting used to Bionicle, and the sets seem to be Agori sized, not Glatorian size. But they look quite well designed, and it should be good mixing those pieces with Bionicle to create... more Bionicles.

Are the names seriously that bad? It's not Bionicle. It's not supposed to be Bionicle. Therefore, Bionicle rules are out. And as was pointed out on BZP, it saves the trouble of there being a legal department, because they don't have to make sure the names aren't accidentally infringing on another place's language, ala the Tohunga/Matoran incident.

Well, that not that bad, I'm just saying that, in my opinion, they don't sound the best. But then it's probably because I've been a fan of Bionicle since it started. :)

I think the names are dumb too, but they are human, and I'm guessing this line is supposed to be humans who wield elementally charged weapons, so the names are good for the line of sets.

if they're secret why discuss it here?

Lionytai: ... Let's put it this way. They're not leaked... But Lego themselves haven't actually fully put it out. And besides, there won't be a site out now, like how the Bionicle site doesn't update until the sets are out at their official time.

So LEGO told us a little bit, and you want us to discuss about it. So it's not a secret!

Let us put it this way: we are all living inside a giant robot named grater of cheese LMB people don't know about it or will get them confused with another thing, like they did when they called Glatorian Gladeoninikas. So it's a secret to them.

But if it's a secret only very little people know about it. But here it's a lot of pople.



I think the names are a bit strange too.

>_<

LEGO hasn't released it themselves. Until then, and until August or so, there'll be no site. That make any more sense?

Yes, but why will LEGO want to say something about it first? Then It won't be that surprising or mysterious.

... If LEGO doesn't say anything about it first, how will anyone know the line's out, or such? They have to say at least some things, and the site still won't be up for a while, likely.

Why does someone need to knwo that the line's out, but not everyone?

............

It's like how NP got the exclusive reveal of Megaman 10, but Capcom never said anything themselves until a few days later. Except in this case, a few days is a month or so(Toy Fair, you see).

LEGO do needs a lto of time to prepare for anything.

Does it really matter? All I know is that they look like they have some pretty good pieces and the arent bionicle, which I am not much of a fan, the do not pose enough of a challenge for me, and they don't look as cool as mechs XD

So is this to replace Bionicle?

Yes.

Oh, and I set no expectations for the names so I cannot say my opinion on them.

oh yeah why is no-one complaining that Natalie is unfeminine?

KZ: How is it unfeminine? Unless you mean the set, and that's likely because we're just too used to it now... =P

I mean the set...

BTW, Blade, why do you think we're too used to it?

Let's see, we've had can sets that aren't all that feminine for the last... 10 years almost? ;)

*coughKiinacough*

What about Kiina?

Hope the canister-sized females of this line are like Kiina...

I forgot the word most can sets. ;) *Points at Gorast* =P

Why are males always more than the female sets?

Lionytai: ... What?

check out BZP guys. ;)

Epic awesomeness.

And it seems the return of Hordika-like feet... Except backwards. I can see how that'll give more human movement. ^_^

Trailer doesn't work for me. DX

So I can't see either the Awesomeness or Failness of it.

People may say it's fail, but I liked it.

It's an av-matoran like torso, possibly elongated. The limbs are what we've seen, though CGI pic two shows Blaze with fully stretched out arms, ala Bendable knees Nuva. Feet seem to be like the Hordika feet, except backwards, and I'm wagering a guess that there's built in axles. Chestplate and emblem unfortunately appear to be one piece, which is too bad. Weapon is two pieces. ^_^

I mean that most bionicle are male. And most of the minig=figs are male. We wished the females were better.

It's likely to try to attract the boys in the target age, or so.

But the feet aren't shaped like Hor - Wait...

Oh I see...

It resembles more like Kalmah feet though.

And the trailer was pretty awesome.

... or at least it surpassed the Glatorian Commercials...  ::)

I thought more girls love shopping....

Lionytai: -_- You missed the point. The female sets are likely not designed to be uber girlie so that the target age group boys will still get the female sets.

B~T: =P I didn't mean the shape. =P Though, those red feet'll be very useful for a future Zero MOC...

I know...

I meant the placement of the "old hand" piece on the foot.

Lots of good pieces in these sets are good for MOCs.

The newer(?) pics on BZP make me not like the line so much, although it does resemble Bionicle, which is a plus. Some of the sets look poorly designed, but it may just be the pics and posing of the sets.

The bike is cool though, as is the large orange set.

maybe it's not sure to come out yet. Changes may be made.

Here is a look at a new teaser video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGdyqANMg0

Lionytai, they are already in production.. AND will be shown at the International Toy Fair in NY.
TOY FAIR 2010
February 14-17
Jacob K. Javitis Convention Center
New York, NY

Unfortunately, you must be 18 to attend.

The hands are like the ones of the Glatorian.



We have to be 18 to attend? To bad for me, I'm not 18 and I don't live anywhere near NY.

The hands are the Glatorian Hands. Same for the Heads. They've been using them in everything that requires hands(Except B10), and I like that, because they're better than the old hands in the actual hand category.

Lego has ran out of creativity of Bionicle.

These aren't Bionicle, and that's not correct. They only just made new heads and hands last year, so they can't make new ones every year.

Pictures  ;D. I'm wondering for what 'Bionicle' on the boxes stand.

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Oh, Black Thornax Launcher!

And Bionicle's likely an 'inspired by' or something...

I prefer the orange thornax launcher. ;)

They aren't posed brilliantly here, you can't see them properly... especially the green guy.
EDIT: (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tilius/HeroFactory/hero2.jpg) There's a green kalmah tentacle in that meltdown set!

TBD: Wait 'til BZP gets to Toyfair. ;)

And that's interesting...

*Looks at first pic* ... Is that a green Thornax Launcher on the grey-green one?

Oh, now I see the orange one.

Hey, is it my imagination, or did I see a recolored Hydraxxon mask on one of those things? O_o

Seriously...recycling masks? Lame. Most of those sets look pretty weak, I might get a few though. Like maybe those two vehicles. =D

EDIT: Hey...the "windshield" on that bike...it's a Bohrok Krana cover...thing. =P

Nope, you saw correctly.

And about those recycled masks thing... *Points at Ackar and Berix* And what's bad about it anyway? We get old masks in new colours. I wouldn't mind; especially since I missed out on Hydraxon, even if I'm likely not getting any of these.

But it's no different than the Mask packs or the two in Tahu Stars.

I like recycled masks, I was so disappointed when they stopped making the mask packs, they were awesome!

I am so glad Xple doesn't have BT thighs.... but it looks like Eltdown has them.


And they need to pose the sets better.

Thunder looks like he (she?) has an Inika torso though...

Yeah, I think it's a remade Bohrok. =P Since it shares the teeth/eyes as well. ::)

KZ: It looks a little different to me, but we'll have better pics soon. I never did mind the Inika torsos though...

@Blade: Eyes. Bohrok Eyes.

And as if the American Toyfare posers were any better... ::)

KZ: Ah, I messed that up, but I thought they were the eyes. =P Now I remember they had separate teeth.

True, but we'll get pictures of more than the boxes, and maybe more angles. ;)

... Say, did anyone get the prices? Or did they not say this year?

MsRR said they were released, so somehow we could find them in stores.

No, they're in PRODUCTION, not released. They're Summer wave sets.

Sorry, I always misunderstand things.

If they are still in production then we might not be able to get the prices.

They have the prices planned ahead of time...

LEGO must be getting really fond of thornax launchers using zamors... Look at Power Miners (Lavatraz).

Now these use zamor Launchers using Zamors. And probably one other theme too.


I'm not surprised though, the Thornax launcher is the most versatile and the Zamors are the most versatile projectile.

Plus, they're more appealing than the Thornax, since they come in multiple colours. =P

Sometimes they need to put differnt parts in different themes. They can't do that much new parts at a time.

We know. We're just mentioning that it's only like a year old, and already it's being used in a lot of things, much like the original Zamor Launcher was.

Maybe Paradox's right. Lego is crazy about that part.

Bionicle mystery solved!

'From the makers of
BIONICLE
Characters'

Or do you mean the lego hero factory?

I mean that logo that everyone's been questioning about, so I did not mean Hero Factory, as I was referencing what was on them; but wasn't what the mystery was about.

Then why post in this topic? Shouldn't it be posted in the Bionicle topic?

It's printed on the Hero Factory boxes and canisters, lionytai, so it's meant to be posted here. ;)

With the newest toyfair pics, I have to say that Meltdown and all the larger sets are awesome. Plus Meltdown has the most pieces of all the canisters, 50 (the inika-build BIONICLE average). And I can say that Rotor and VN use Inika and Makuta torsos, respectively. Not to mention Blaze and Stringer are awesome. Not really liking the other heroes or villains, but I'll give Xplode and Thunder a chance. But not Corroder. Despite being green, he reeks of terribleness. And the Furno Bike +Rotor?

LOTS OF ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE

And the Dropship's function looks kind of cool... But Meltdown, Rotor and the Furno Bike are my favourites of this line.

I almost have to agree with KZ on the HF sets. Meltdown, Rotor and the Furno/Blaze Bike are good, but as for the heroes I still really can only say that I 'like' the white one.

Thunder's colour scheme is not great, IMO. It just looks too plain. Corroder has useful parts, but it does not look good as a set.
X-Plode had potential, but he suffers from skinny arm syndrome, as do many of these sets.
Meltdown looks cool, but the mask is somewhat odd. Still the best of these 4 sets.

The larger sets are good for the most part.
Rotor is packed with orange but I'm not sure about him as a set, since he seems kinda odd in some way.
Von Nebula has a decent colour scheme, and those blue/black plates on his back look like cool pieces.
Furno/Blaze Bike has orange, which is nice, and overall looks pretty good.
Dropship is cool and kinda reminds me of 2008. Having a function is nice, but it should be able to hold more  people.

Like they say, Rotor is a mutated Pohatu Phantoka. He has Orange, grey, and a propeller. They both have that in common...

ROTOR=POHATU PHANTOKA's FATHER =P

Although the Furno Bike's Price is kind of bad... but I don't mind. As long as it manages to beat the Kaxium.

I wonder if Hero Factory characters will be on MLN?

They probably will get an MLN promotion, probably with two sides, good and evil.

Like a 'HERO Factory Hero Badge: For assisting the heroes in battling the villains!'

Or a 'HERO Factory Villain badges: For sabotaging the HERO factory with the help of the Villains!'

Orange? that's quite a rare color. You must really like the sets

Orange wasn't rare, last I checked. It's been in most fire-themed sets of BIONICLE; Power Miners has supplied useful recolours too; HERO factory's Furno Bike and Rotor have loads of it and that adds up to a lot of orange.

how can you like him with that arm?

Well, it's a cool looking piece, although it will be terrible for MOCing. But he looks the coolest IMO (No pun intended).

And I've found that most of the HF sets have bad arm designs...

small sets or canister sets?

only 1/2 the small sets have the 1-piece arm.  as for the large sets.... *shudder*

large pieces aren't good with MOCs.

Saying that large pieces have no sue in MoCs proves you have no imagination. Every piece can fit in something some way.

You know what I like about Von nebula? He reminds me of Cahdok and Gahdok with his no-elbowed arms.

And the asymmetry just makes the villains cooler. After all... why must every single detail be symmetrical? Why must every single non-Human have Human proportions? Why must they be like BIONICLE 'or else'?

I'm not saying asymmetry is bad, but the arms do not look well designed at times, and the lack of posability in some of the arms is bad.

@Lionytai: large pieces are hard to incorporate into MOCs, but at times they can be very useful. It takes a lot of skill to use large pieces well.

-true, but the 1-piece big arms are still freaky. i want pose-able wrists back D:

-depends: say, the piraka asymmetry disgusts me, but others (say hewikki mahri) are fine by me.

-i'm not a big stickler for that

-because i'm a fan of the bionicle storyline - the sets just supplent the story to me.

That's true, but I didn't say they are useless. I just said that they are hard to put in MOCs. Now I add most of the time, it is that way. (Unless you are building Bionicles)

*Points at Krika* Instant use for Stormer's arm. =P I'm sure people wanted an explanation for his Krika holds that Ninrah Ghostblaster up. ::)

woah it blade!

anywho, i'm not sure I'll be getting any of these sets. They seem unrefined. And pricey.

They've been pricey since the Mistika, we just struggled through it. ;) I think it's just the fact that it's a new line that's actually showing how pricey Bionicle was getting.

The sets get more an dmore expensive..that's not abnormal.

Yeah, but they are a little pricey; especially here. They're like 10 or 11 dollars for the Heroes. -_-

That's better than Taiwan here. I bet they'll cost 500 NT at least, which is 17 US dollars.

Over here they'll probably cost 7.

The prices are way too different in differnt countries.

KZ: do you mean US dollars or English pounds?

English pounds.

The Pound Sign is not working on my keyboard. # comes up instead...

Well, I guess that's about 12 or 13 US dollars.

Apparently, Preston Stormer has an Ice-Plasma weapon... How useless is that?

Ice is cold, Plasma is hot.

How does that even work?

*imagines weapon being used*

Ice: *meltmeltmtelt*
Plasma: *burnburnburn*

Which would mean it would be useless, since one would get destroyed...

Plasma is not neccearily hot. Think of your plasma TV if yuo have one. When it is not used, it's not hot, but it's still plasma.

Plus, it shoots one at a time, likely. ;)

There are both hot and cold plasmas... which kind of Plasma are we talking about?

Seeing as the most common one in BIONICLE is the heated ones, that's what I'm going in. I'm talking in BIONICLE Terms.

And not to mention, plasma TVs don't exist.

They don't?

BTW, we think plasma as hot because it can be heated to very hot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

yes, they do.

No, they don't. Plasma TVs do not exist. They USE Plasma, but they are not made out of Plasma. Therefore, they are not Plasma TVs, they're just TVs that use Plasma.

And, BOT. Now.

by that logic, cheese graters do not exist, as they are not graters made of cheese.

and i agree.... BOT is necessary.


so, has anyone seen the epic meltdown artwork some guy drew on BZP?

Nope, didn't see it. Never go on BZP.

So we know that the HEROs are coming out in summer?

Yes, we've known that for many months now; that's never been in question. ;)

Ah, I see, it seems that I am the one who's always fall behind in the subject "News".

I just thought of this, and I wodner if Hero factory will have anything similar to the BIO Codes/Kanoka Club.

And also, apparently, Makuhero is the name of the city the heroes are in. MAKUhero=MAKUta? Or MAKUhero=MAKU*insertstuffhere*

Makuhero's confirmed? And your theory could be interesting... But I'm not sure...

It's a theory? O_o

You're beginning to take things too literally...

Also: 'apparently'.

Well it sounds like the Makuhero=Makuta thing could be a theory, but since we know almost nothing, it could just as much be referencing a Makuhita or something. ::)

Ah, I see. Where'd you hear about it though?

Universe: BZP
Continent: LGD
Country: HF Topic
Area: Some random post I read anonymously as an anonymous member using the anonymous option to make myself anonymous using the anonymous option to make myself anonymous using the anonymous option to make myself anonymous...

That's where I heard about it.

Right now, my favourite sets are Meltdown, Xplode, Rotor, Von Nebula and the Furno Bike.

Meltdown: IMO everything just flows on him so well
Xplode: I just like the skinny look.
Rotor: Giant Pohatu Phantoka. And I like Pohatu Phantoka.
Von nebula: Black. Black. Black.
Furno bike: vehcile-ORANGE.

I thought there were only 6 sets now, or are there more?

There are 14 sets:

Heroes:

William Blaze
Preston Stormer
Natalie Breez
Duncan Bulk
Jimi Stringer
Mark Surge

Villains:

Xplode
Meltdown
Thunder
Corroder

Titans:

Von nebula
Rotor

Vehicles:

Furno Bike
Drop Ship

We still don't know the winter sets of 011, because we can't.

Nice. I have full-blown pictures of some of them, if you want.

see BZP for pics of them all. =P

@Indy-don't quote the post above you, please. Forum Rules ;)

So, any of you guys going for more than one or two of the sets? For me, it depends on when they come out...if a Wii or DS game comes out in the same month, those guys will collect dust on their shelves. =P

my collection usually is dependent on gifts. =P with maybe 1 or 2 actually being purchased by me.

i want Natalie and meltdown, and, tho extremely unlikely, von nebula.

Does Toysrus have them now?

No; as has been mentioned a few times now, they're the summer sets, meaning they won't be available anywhere until around July or later.

It's not just me, or does Von nebula have hints of light blue on him?

BLACK+LIGHT BLUE+SPIKES=AWESOME

I like his head, too.

Is it Furno or Blaze? I don't know, they keep on changing it...

I've noticed blue; but I don't know if it's light or not.

@ Wario-Man,

I know that. :P Someone else posted before me, and they must have deleted their post or something... :P

@ Kongu,

I don't think I see blue... maybe.

I don't think I see any blue, I have problems with colors.


Yes, black with spikes is awesome.

The blue's on stuff like the spikes and such. ;)

Oh. I'll check and see if I can see it... again.

So blue is not a main color,  I guess.

No, it's like the purple on the font on your banned, the main colour is black, but there is blue in there.

Ah, I see,partly blue in there

wish i had one of those spine plates. would make a great iron wolf.

Iron? I thought iron is like a grey-ish color.

So what do people think of the new 'BRAIN ATTACK' wave? Personally I think it's pretty decent so far. Most of the heroes look pretty good except Bulk, who broke his streak of being a good set. The villains are kinda half-half. Pyrox and Ogrum look decent enough, but when it gets to Scarox and Bruizer... particularly Bruizer, they don't really seem too good. Especially Bruizer's weird arm. What were they thinking when they designed that? Unless it's a vehicle, HF parts and technic don't really mix IMO.

Bulk has a Nex kinda feel to him with all that Trans Orange. 0_o The heroes look cool with their visored helmets, though. Do the visors come off, by any chance?

Yeah. The helmets and visors are separate pieces.

I personally don't like the visors at all.  I think they look loads better without them.

Each to his own, I guess. They look better in person. They don't really look too out of place IMO. If anything, I think they add to the helmets as I can tell the helmets were designed to be used with the visors, causing a few certain sets to look weirder without the visors.

Excellent... Now I just have to remember what Surge's helmet looks like; and if he's even in Brain Attack. xD

Brain Attack's a full-year theme like Breakout was. Evidence of this can be seen in the Brain Attack vid on the HF site, which shows an unknown white villain and we see a Brain Attack version of Stormer, as well as the core of a yellow hero who I presume to be Evo, and the back of a blue hero with wings who I presume to be Surge.

So here's the sets we know so far:

Winter 2013:

Heroes:
Rocka
Bulk
Breez
Furno XL

Villains:
Pyrox
Ogrum
Scarox
Bruizer

Summer 2013:

Heroes:
Stormer
Surge(?)
Evo(?)

Villains:
Unknown White Villain

Since that hero line-up for summer seems a bit small for the summer, I'm guessing Nex and Stringer will also be sets., and I would assume that we're also getting another flying villain, since I assume the white villain is paired up with Stormer.

Ah, I see. *Nods* I wonder why they lessened the amount of heroes per wave, though?

I don't think they did. Breakout's first wave had 5, the second had 4, totalling to all 9 currently known heroes. This year it's probably going to be 4 heroes first wave, 5 heroes second wave. They should probably introduce another hero so they can even out the waves.

Hmm, true... I was talking more about the first three waves.

In the first wave, LEGO was still shifting from BIONICLE to HF.

In the second and third wave, LEGO had created an entirely new building system with the shells and bones. We also generally got an average of a few titan sets, 3 medium-sized villains and six heroes. Now, it's shifted so that the heroes and villains are of various sizes, which, for marketing reasons AFAIK, allows them to sell a wider mix to the target audiences.

Hmm, that's true.

Now they've moved on to making mechs for minifig sized heroes fighting against 'giant' beasts.

A bit disappointing the beasts all use the same head with different printings, but oh well. They also continue to completely forget two heroes exist.

Stringer and Bulk, I'm guessing?

Stringer and Nex, actually. Bulk appeared first wave last year and will appear summer this year. Stringer and Nex have not made an appearance since 2012, and they're not in the summer wave as evidenced by the mini movie they put up. (which is quite bad.)

Oooh; I see. Huh, that seems pretty odd then, that's too bad. =/

The new Winter sets are cool, and a new take on HF, and although the villains have the same heads, they are unique enough. The summer sets are not as exciting to me, as the building system is slowly reaching a point where creating unique villains is getting difficult, with the use of the same bone and shell pieces. The combinations that are possible with this structure seem endless, but very bare bones and lacking in bulk and fleshed out characters.