One of the best things about ccbs is that it's backwards compatible with all the old bionicle systems, and that makes for such amazing mocs. You can even attach ccbs armor to old limb parts with some techniques. I'm really sad that ccbs was Essentially abandoned.
i don't think it was abandoned at all, bionicle evolved to ccbs, then ccbs to ballshaft. the complexity of build you can achieve with all the "lego buildings systems" is impressive.
I missed Bionicle G1 due to being born in 2003. Hero Factory was my childhood. And while the Bionicle G2 sets were awesome, I still want Hero Factory to come back. Like, if Lego alternated betwwen Hero Factory and Bionicle every 5 years or so, that'd be awesome, and everyone could be happy.
That’s a neat story! Yeah, a ton of people are like you who grew up with Hero Factory, and I’d love to honestly see constraction return in any way, shape, or form
Perhaps they could remake Bionicle G1 and rerelease the old bionicle sets with the stronger joint connects that hero factory has. And if Hero Factory could be brought back, pray it won't get rebooted.
I was 11 when we lost Bionicle, I really wish that they treated better when they returned. The thing I loved the most about Bionicle was their aesthetic design and their story that inspired me instead of making me feel embarrassed (like hero factory did). What I loved most about hero factory was that I could rebuild them as many times as I wanted without them breaking. Unfortunately the Hero Factory parts were clearly not designed with the bionicle aesthetic in mind, not saying they needed to go back to the old system, but the smooth Hero Factory pads looked out of place on Bionicle, should have made some redesigned pads instead of those stupid skeleton pieces.
@@Stringer7390 i can only agree. G2 had some good parts for mocs (at least that transparent body armors of skeletons and theyre parts was usefull for me), but other than that, g2 brings nothing good
Even if I'm a Bionicle fan, I really like Hero Factory and did collect some sets. While I did sadly sold them, the CCBS and some Hero Factory pieces were truly outstanding for me with it's simplisity and uniqueness of this system.
i admit i wasn’t interested in hero factory back then, but looking back, i regret not picking up any of the villains because they have a lot of awesome designs! i recently subscribed and i really enjoy your content! i look forward to bonke content.
Bionicle never really got cancelled imo, the main story ended with Makuta killed and Mata Nui uniting everyone in a new world, Hero Factory was the one that got cancelled, with no definitive ending
No, there was more planned, but they put it on hiatus, and the stars line was made to end bionicle quickly with an intended bang, but more of a whimper. I think constraction would've been better off with hero factory continueing rather than bionicle G2
The reason Invasion From Below didn’t work is because it was pretty much a reboot of the whole series. New voice acting, new intro. It was just… weird. Regardless of Invasion from Below, Hero Factory was THE GOAT. It will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you for making this video!
Oh man, hero factory brings me so much nostalgia! I love hero factory with all my heart! I know the whole lore, the stories, the books, everything! When it came out in 2010, I was just 7 years old and I was very open to the idea of hero factory. I loved the quaza, I loved the witch doctor, I loved everything about it. Hero factory is one of my favorite themes ever! I remember back in 2013 I was reading the hero factory wikipedia basically every day, and I would go to the hero factory lego website every day! When Atlantis was discontinued, the only sets I kept buying were the hero factory ones and the technic ones! I loved the whole theme up until invasion from below. Invasion from below was basically a reboot. New voices for all the heroes, and no classic intro, and the heroes looked completely different. I still love watching the original 2010 hero factory episodes on my DVD, ordeal of fire, savage planet, breakout, and brain attack. My favorite is definitely the original ones and also I really love the ordeal of fire! Wow hero factory is probably the single greatest lego theme ever, only after lego Atlantis and lego technic
I wasn’t even close to having all the figures (at least I got all in 2.0), but this theme was a big part of my childhood. Even with a few figures, I could play for hours on my own, let alone with my brother and cousin. I loved every figure of every wave, and still find them awesome to this day. I will always remember HF as the greatest original LEGO theme, even if it is “underrated”.
What I love about the Hero Factory villains (specifically the first year and breakout) is that they are great henchmen. I like to think of them as dark hunters, that way you can add bodies to the Shadowed One's army.
It’s about time HeroFactory got recognition, it’s pretty much the reason I even got into lego. I had a couple small sets but that was pretty much it, I remember getting almost all the breakout wave sets one Christmas it was so awesome. Thanks to it I’m a huge LEGO fan and love themes such as Bionicle and Ninjago, that’s pretty much it but still it will always have a special place in my heart.
Yea man hero factory is the thing that really got me into Lego at first I thought it was ninjago but the more I think about it the more I realize it was hero factory and even now like I bought lots of ninjago sets recently but they are getting very repetitive so I went into Star Wars as I didn’t have any sets now I have 2 but I realized what I am truly wanting to buy is hero factory and bionicle these 2 themes are the themes I like building the most, playing with the most, looking at the most I grew up with hero factory and I was born the same year the legend reborn was made so i didn’t grow up with bionicle but looking at it and hero factory I get a feeling that I want to do more with these
Great video! You expressed your point of view in a pretty clear and objective manner. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who saw this grew a new appreciation for Hero Factory, one of LEGO's most underrated themes!
I like how hero factory encouraged you to build your own hero and looking at the peace’s introduced in break out and brain attack it opened up a whole new level pf customization for moc builders.
5:10 actually when I think of hero factory the story immediately comes to my mind. For me, the sets weren't the strongest point, but it was the awesome story which I absolutely loved!!!
Bruh invasion from below was my favorite mostly because it showed how i could use ccbs with my minifigs by using it to make large mechs, it literally blew my mind as a kid and influenced how I used the system form that day forward. Nowadays I only really use ccbs as an easy way to make large stylized walkers or mechs that i can fit minifigs in to avoid the overall clunkiness of the regular lego brick
Look, I love Bionicle. I was sad to see it go as a kid. But as that same kid, growing up and seeing the Hero Factory sets on shelves kept me happy in a way. I made a point to get at least one set from each year (until Invasion from Below, because I was going through a phase) and each time, I was enamored. Each new version of the same character seemed to improve upon where I had problems with the last. “I don’t like Surge, he doesn’t have knees or elbows.” Here’s 2.0! “I don’t like Stormer 3.0, I miss his old head.” Here’s Breakout! “I wish Furno would just get to be leader already.” Brain Attack! It was simple fun, with tons of customization options for signature characters and creatures. I’m kinda sad that it didn’t work out, because looking back on Hero Factory makes me appreciate what LEGO was doing just a little bit more.
yes when i was a kid i totally made a hero recon team character and bought it, was soo awesome! i recently found the building instructions for it again, so crazy you get a custom building instruction
I fricken loved Hero Factory, it was my childhood!! Don't get me wrong I love Bionicle, but Hero Factory holds a special place in my heart just as much as Bionicle
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It’s actually a headcanon of mine that Hero Factory is set in the same universe as Bionicle G1. The idea is that Makuhero City is located on Spherus Magna, and the Heroes were made to basically do work carried out usually by Toa, but on other planets.
Funnily enough, Christian Faber's original plan for _Hero Factory_ was for it to be a stealth sequel to _BIONICLE,_ and that the ending of _Hero Factory_ would segue into a _BIONICLE_ reboot.
@@DuckBricks I would too! Unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the LEGO community agrees. From what I've heard, I don't think people actually even like the concept of it anymore, which is a crying shame.
I like the older building system aesthicly, but ccbs grew on me during breakout. Also if I remember correctly the breaking problem was solved by when glatorians came out (at least in my experience).
I preferred hero factory over regular bionicle when it came out, the show was badass and i spent DAYS in the online game that let you create your own hero
I genuinely enjoyed hero factory when I was a kid. Got as many sets as a kid possibly could for it. I can remember building the sets properly and then striaght after taking them apart and just making whatever I wanted with them. Honestly was so flexible with what could be done. I still occasionally get my hero factory pieces out and screw around with them. Just broke my heart when they stopped doing them.
Is it weird I want constraction sets to coexist? Like Bionicle can be the one where the deep Lore can build a strong theme and mythos with the Toa and a deep dark villain because I loved the combination of rich lore, mystery, mythological elements, heroic themes, Sci-Fi and organic technology with robotics with serrious story beats. Hero Factory could come back as a simpler but still rich idea of a sandbox of heroes being made as mocs to fight diverse vilains and creatures, exploring many worlds and ideas with a general team of characters while adding your own superhero builds to the mix fostering a fun loving creativity while keeping things loose and not so serrious.
Man, that would be the dream scenario - we got close in 2013 with chima and HF and later on with G2 and Star Wars, but multiple concurrent constraction lines, especially original ones, would be incredible
Looking back, i definitely do think Hero Factory got too much hate. I think it was because a lot of Bionicle fans felt betrayed by Lego when HF replaced Bionicle. Trust me, I was one of those fans. I also think the first two waves were suffering from an identity crisis, with introducing the new series and bringing in CCBS system. I will still prefer the original building system, but CCBS is more stable and easier to use. I will say though, HF had excellent villain sets, Meltdown, Nitroblast, Raw Jaw, and Witch Doctor were some of my favorites...even if they were more expensive than Bionicle’s sets.
I only owned a couple of Bionicle G1 sets, and I was far too young to really understand the theme and the stories that accompanied them, so Hero Factory really was the constraction theme I grew up with. I did get Rocka 3.0 as a child, but mainly started getting sets when Brain Attack launched in 2013. I loved the sets. They really felt of great value to me.
I love hero factory!!! It’s story was easier to manage, the first mini-series was very well done, and they consistently improved upon the hero’s design to make them unique. Now if only they had stuck to the larger lore they tried to do in breakout and also not gone to minifigure size.
I think the only thing I liked about HF is actually given them FIST/ HANDS! I don't get why it had taken them that long to molded those past the Bionicle era! One of the missed oppertunity was a "Villian" Factory! Yes I know they got villians but those one expensive and it would of been cool to have villians in the same price tags as the heroes! Also it would of been a cool plot story in that the villians gotten the source on how to make the heroes and started to make villians from the core!
I get that and yeah, I can definitely understand your point; I just like being able to attach things by ball joints because it makes each limb inherently more useful
@@DuckBricks Yeah, it's just a matter of preference. I'm not saying one is better or worse then the other. And I probably prefer it that way because that's what I grew up with, having throwbots and later bionicles. And since I have asperger, I'm verry advert against changes hehe
if HF and BN get reborn, i hope it gets alternated every year to give designers a break to think up new ideas, because that's ultimately the problem both lines had during their fall.
For bionicle g3 LEGO should take the things they learned from bionicle,hero factory and Bionicle g2 and use that knowledge to make the PERFECT remake of original bionicle for modern audiences!
CCBS did have a lack of molder detailing on their pieces. Sometimes you're stuck with printed details from savage planet or breakout stickers even and it limits things.
I am 16 and if hero factory were to return or if I can find ANY of the sets I will snap them up as fast as I possibly fucken can, I miss this series so much
Another best things hero factory did better than ninjago is the villains In ninjago most side villain are comic relief but hero factory make them an actual danger for the hero
May I ask where you got the high quality, HD footage for breakout? The only one I can find is in 240p and that's the quality I watched it in as a kid back in 2012
I am coming around to Hero Factory. I used to hate it with a passion, but you're right that it's simplicity is good. I feel so conflicted about simplicity though, when it comes to the story. It is smart from a business perspective, and at the end of the day that's what matters to Lego, but I feel like there's lost potential in it. I personally loved the complexity of Bionicle. I re-discovered it five years ago or so, and have been spending that time actually figuring out the lore, and it has been a magnificent ride. For me, that's what is the best part, is the story. I actually never built a single figure, never owned one, so I think that kinda skews my perspective. I get that a simple story is good for people to get into something easily, but like I just stated, if someone is interested enough, they'll do the hard work. But I also get that that's just one demographic of people, some people are just looking for a quick adventure. All this to say, I'm glad that both exist, and that they're different, so that more people can be satisfied. And that I am definitely in the complexity camp lol.
I don't know if anyone realized that invasion from below was about people just drilling in random sealed place for reason and then sending heroes to wipe out one entire species of creatures that were older than people who lived in the antropolix, so that means that the invasion from below was about genocide of ancient creatures
The only reason I am scavenging for bionicle G2 sets is for the pieces to upgrade my hero factory sets or even G1 bionicle sets. Maybe I should buy more of those series 3-5 hero factory sets...
I think one underappreciated part of HF is the music. The soundtrack is surprisingly great. Here is a playlist of all of the tracks. th-cam.com/play/PLC-MQNsGyHQO7YXRn2jWcEc83PpUj1Qep.html
i dont know if anyone else noticed, but there is a large aesthetic overlap between the animation of The Legend Reborn and the first 3 waves of Hero Factory episodes, some aspects like the glatorian heads are just direct carryovers, but the spinning technic greeblies and general grittyness of the characters are very similar
Yes! That’s because unused concept art and 3D models from the Legend Reborn were actually directly reused in Hero Factory’s first TV episodes, with stuff like the Stone quarry being taken directly from Bara Magna art!
As much shit as I gave Hero Factory when I was younger, the G2 Bionicle sets are peak Bionicle to me. Def miss the technic aesthetic, but the function and builds were so cool. And this is coming from someone who grew up with every year.
Another excellent Top 10. As a Bionicle fan, there's plenty of good things about Hero Factory. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the simplistic storyline (I don't hate it by any means). There's definitely ideas I like from fresh ideas, the premise about superhero robot cops, and the CCBS system which remains one of my favorite LEGO systems to this day.
i actually kinda like it tbh, back in time of hero factory i was makin my own stories with both bionicles and hero factory characters. damn, how fast were getting old. it seems like yesterday i was playing there, controlling sources of good, evil, and crime, now im adult. time sure flyes.....
Great vid, even though sometimes I hate being the only one that likes both of them because I always wanted to make my own MOCs using both the Inika build & CCBS parts.
Daaamn I almost forgot about Hero Recon Team. I built and ordered two characters through the service, each with the unique black and silver chest plate
Man i missed this as a kid, i really agree about the ccbs system on hero factory simple but really vastly customizable and the whole my own creation(M.O.C)thing was the best like made your own characters. But sadly it ended i wish it would kept going from invasion from below. (Series was very interesting to watch and explore creations)
Nobody realizes nex and evo's breakout helmet represents their 2.0 headgear alot? Evo got the guards in all his forms, and nex got that mouthpiece in his breakout and 2.0!
If HF ever returns, we need all the nine Heroes to take place in the storyline, not just a portion of them. In Breakout, they did 9 heroes and 9 villain sets, which was good, but for some reason didn't show Breeze, Nex and Bulk in the show? Anyway, I hope all nine of them return
I personally don't get how new limb molds in g1 were a bad thing,it added more variety,sure ccbs had alot of armor variety too,but made it harder to make more dynammic looking figures,tho this was an issue with g1 aswell,I've seen alot of moccists work around this by mixing the old and new system or using technic some how to give the limbs an arch,sorry if I derail from my original issue with this "pro",but I think new molds work better when it comes to especificc character designs,and I could understand the argument of it giving way for recolors and opening up mor eposibilities for moccing,but more times than not the same limb pieces feel a bit more retricted in being customizable.
I understand how you feel about bionicle not being as sandbox as hero factory and I’m starting to feel the same way now as a kid it was easy to re imagine my bionicle heroes and villains in different scenarios than in canon because I didn’t know the bionicle lore very well back then but now that I’m grown up and I know the lore better find it kind of hard to imagine my bionicle toys having different adventures than in canon....either that or Its the fact that I’m an adult now and am not as big with playing with toys as I use to
I was born in 2004 so I only remember the end of bionicle, which was basically just the Legend Reborn movie and a Gorast and Onua set so when Hero Factory came along I thought it was a continuation from the Bionicle story and I loved it
Great vid The only thing I really disagree with is the ccbs portion because in theory the system is a great idea but in practice, re-skinning the same skeleton gives the feeling of buying the same figure over and over again for the consumer; and visual design wise the figures tend to get kinda clunky looking. Also it did rely on technic for bigger builds like witch doctor. When it comes to pleasing audiences while not breaking the band; I feel audiences prefer having a wave of clone sets with mostly new elements, like the toa metru, to remixing pre-existing with minimal additions, like the mahri. The Bohrok were loved but Bohrok kal were panned. Most ccbs is in Marhi territory (with invasion from below being an exception). Both build styles have to hit a balance of new part introduction and good reincorporation of old ones; Bionicle had a harder time with the former while HF had it with the latter and then former.
Well, Hero Factory is very good theme because it is another action figure theme to have an actual and good story other than Bionicle. It may be second rate, but it has a lot of charm, like a series of TV serials and that online game called Breakout. It’s very similar to Bionicle, and I always believe that it shares the same universe as Bionicle G1 because of that. When people vote in Lego Ideas for Bionicle and if Bionicle wins and does well with LI, I dearly hope they would acknowledge HF.
Regarding point number four in this video I want to point out that bionicle DID make a couple movies that illustrated the story and got kids to know the lore better but they didn’t create movies for EVERY year of bionicle like why didn’t lego make bionicle movies for the 2006-2008 year of bionicle especially because 2006 was my intro to the theme and it’s such a shame it didn’t get a movie for that year it would have helped me understand the plot a little bit
The thing i like about hero factory, is that the story is nore simple than bionicle, with essentially just being robot hero fight robot vilan, unlike bionicle with the whole multi year story arks, even though those were pretty cool, both themes deserve love as some of the coolest lego themes
I was a person who never gave hero factory a shot and found Bionicle G2 nearly insulting. However I hate how after all these years regret I never gave G2 Bionicle a shot and CCBS as a whole.It's a shame to hear that CCBS is "dead".
Dang yeah, I know a ton of people in your position and it’s really a shame because G2 had some of the best Toa sets ever and even Hero Factory did some really cool and interesting stuff build-wise
This was the starter series for me (no joke), and I LOVED IT!!! I came across it back in 2013 or so, when my friend showed me the first series movie, and I instantly loved that. My first ever set was the Nitroblast, and even with some pieces lost, I still have him until this day. Then the 2014 rolled in and along with it the absolute blast of a wave: The breakout. Got almost all of them, not all though, which back in the time made me pretty sad. Much worse was though that my younger brother slowly but surely lost or broke most of the pieces and thats making me even more sad. Anyway, I think overall it is far better than the Bionicle, since its modern (Bionicle is enciant), and just feels more bad-ass to me. Its also sad truth it is heavily underrated :( .Anyway great video! ;)
Hero Factory had some really really good character design, especially the villains. Just literally looking at the heros especially when they are getting upgraded in the breakout series, their armor and gear was just plain flat out fucking *cool*. Sure HF could and would have gotten a way deeper story if it wasnt for lego pulling out, but really the series was meant to be simple fun and they sure did deliver just that.
One of the best things about ccbs is that it's backwards compatible with all the old bionicle systems, and that makes for such amazing mocs. You can even attach ccbs armor to old limb parts with some techniques. I'm really sad that ccbs was Essentially abandoned.
they better make something just has good, or even better
has long has its conbinable with bionicle and ccbs, then im happy
i don't think it was abandoned at all, bionicle evolved to ccbs, then ccbs to ballshaft. the complexity of build you can achieve with all the "lego buildings systems" is impressive.
i honestly really didnt like ccbs or ballshaft
I missed Bionicle G1 due to being born in 2003. Hero Factory was my childhood. And while the Bionicle G2 sets were awesome, I still want Hero Factory to come back. Like, if Lego alternated betwwen Hero Factory and Bionicle every 5 years or so, that'd be awesome, and everyone could be happy.
That’s a neat story! Yeah, a ton of people are like you who grew up with Hero Factory, and I’d love to honestly see constraction return in any way, shape, or form
Perhaps they could remake Bionicle G1 and rerelease the old bionicle sets with the stronger joint connects that hero factory has. And if Hero Factory could be brought back, pray it won't get rebooted.
I was 11 when we lost Bionicle, I really wish that they treated better when they returned.
The thing I loved the most about Bionicle was their aesthetic design and their story that inspired me instead of making me feel embarrassed (like hero factory did). What I loved most about hero factory was that I could rebuild them as many times as I wanted without them breaking.
Unfortunately the Hero Factory parts were clearly not designed with the bionicle aesthetic in mind, not saying they needed to go back to the old system, but the smooth Hero Factory pads looked out of place on Bionicle, should have made some redesigned pads instead of those stupid skeleton pieces.
Yes I agree, would be fresh and cool every time! 😃
on god
Hero factory was my childhood, I spent a large majority of my elementary school as a hero factory fanboy and it’s absolutely completely underrated
Awesome! It certainly is a very underrated theme and one of the most unique constraction lines
same
Breakout was so good that it made g2 more than disappointing. Seriously what happened to the villain wave!
Yeah, the breakout villains were somehow leagues better than G2’s villains IMO
Breakout is what got me into hero factory, though my first set was from brain attack I always wanted toxic reppa and furno but never found them sadly
@@Gingy_2006 before my mom gaved all my bionicles and hero factory to charity, i had voltix and speeda demon from breakout. from heroes it was breez.
If they made more Hero Factory instead of G2 Bionicle, then fans of Bionicle would be less outraged by the Bionicle reboot.
@@Stringer7390 i can only agree. G2 had some good parts for mocs (at least that transparent body armors of skeletons and theyre parts was usefull for me), but other than that, g2 brings nothing good
Even if I'm a Bionicle fan, I really like Hero Factory and did collect some sets.
While I did sadly sold them, the CCBS and some Hero Factory pieces were truly outstanding for me with it's simplisity and uniqueness of this system.
I remember using the "hero creator" thing when I was younger, only never to get one, and now I'm disappointed I don't have that dual-color mold
Dang, same here, I wish I got that dual color part on BL as it's impossible to find nowadays
@@DuckBricks for the record I ordered one with the mold and they sent it without it and an extra head visor with no explanation!
And his custom name was John Ice Powers! 😆
I stg I remember ordering one and very specifically choosing the dual molded torso, never got it 😢
i admit i wasn’t interested in hero factory back then, but looking back, i regret not picking up any of the villains because they have a lot of awesome designs!
i recently subscribed and i really enjoy your content! i look forward to bonke content.
Thanks for the sub and I appreciate it! And yeah, a lot of the villains are surprisingly really unique and cool!
“Very simple clone sets”
THE IRONY
Haha yeah
honestly the 2011 hero factory sets had more variety than the toa metru
You’re right about that
That’s true - I always prefer gear functions (which is why I love G2 so much set-wise)
personallity, though
bruh I didn't realize that Mark Hamill was Black Phantom
He was also Von Nebula
Yup, that blew my mind as well haha
He was Witch Doctor as well!
WHAT
Black phantom just got 1 point cooler. Seriously look at that armor
Bionicle never really got cancelled imo, the main story ended with Makuta killed and Mata Nui uniting everyone in a new world, Hero Factory was the one that got cancelled, with no definitive ending
Very true.
No, there was more planned, but they put it on hiatus, and the stars line was made to end bionicle quickly with an intended bang, but more of a whimper.
I think constraction would've been better off with hero factory continueing rather than bionicle G2
Dude nice collection! Hero Factory was my favorite lego theme growing up and this gave me such nostalgia lol
Awesome, glad you enjoyed!
Nice to see HF getting some love!
Glad you enjoyed!
00:00 dude is living my childhood dream. God that's a lot of sets. And the Bionicles and Hero Factory sets in the background
Haha if you're interested I have full collection showcase videos up on the channel
The reason Invasion From Below didn’t work is because it was pretty much a reboot of the whole series. New voice acting, new intro. It was just… weird. Regardless of Invasion from Below, Hero Factory was THE GOAT. It will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you for making this video!
Oh man, hero factory brings me so much nostalgia! I love hero factory with all my heart! I know the whole lore, the stories, the books, everything! When it came out in 2010, I was just 7 years old and I was very open to the idea of hero factory. I loved the quaza, I loved the witch doctor, I loved everything about it. Hero factory is one of my favorite themes ever! I remember back in 2013 I was reading the hero factory wikipedia basically every day, and I would go to the hero factory lego website every day! When Atlantis was discontinued, the only sets I kept buying were the hero factory ones and the technic ones! I loved the whole theme up until invasion from below. Invasion from below was basically a reboot. New voices for all the heroes, and no classic intro, and the heroes looked completely different. I still love watching the original 2010 hero factory episodes on my DVD, ordeal of fire, savage planet, breakout, and brain attack. My favorite is definitely the original ones and also I really love the ordeal of fire! Wow hero factory is probably the single greatest lego theme ever, only after lego Atlantis and lego technic
Awesome!! Glad you enjoyed!
I wasn’t even close to having all the figures (at least I got all in 2.0), but this theme was a big part of my childhood. Even with a few figures, I could play for hours on my own, let alone with my brother and cousin. I loved every figure of every wave, and still find them awesome to this day. I will always remember HF as the greatest original LEGO theme, even if it is “underrated”.
What I love about the Hero Factory villains (specifically the first year and breakout) is that they are great henchmen. I like to think of them as dark hunters, that way you can add bodies to the Shadowed One's army.
I kind of imagine Hero Factory as Bionicle in the distant future.
It’s about time HeroFactory got recognition, it’s pretty much the reason I even got into lego. I had a couple small sets but that was pretty much it, I remember getting almost all the breakout wave sets one Christmas it was so awesome. Thanks to it I’m a huge LEGO fan and love themes such as Bionicle and Ninjago, that’s pretty much it but still it will always have a special place in my heart.
Totally agree! Hero Factory is super underrated
Yea man hero factory is the thing that really got me into Lego at first I thought it was ninjago but the more I think about it the more I realize it was hero factory and even now like I bought lots of ninjago sets recently but they are getting very repetitive so I went into Star Wars as I didn’t have any sets now I have 2 but I realized what I am truly wanting to buy is hero factory and bionicle these 2 themes are the themes I like building the most, playing with the most, looking at the most I grew up with hero factory and I was born the same year the legend reborn was made so i didn’t grow up with bionicle but looking at it and hero factory I get a feeling that I want to do more with these
If Lego ever brings Hero Factory back, please tell them to bring back Jimi Stringer.
Best character
@@CentralPALocos Just got his breakout version today. One of the best, but Bulk is better.
Stringer was a PRIME character! My favorite was Bulk, but Stringer definitely came close!
Man your so lucky to have all those sets, even double of some. Bionicle and hero factory were a couple of my favorite themes in lego.
Thanks, and great to hear! They’re some of the best themes
I happy that your so nice to some of my favorite themes like HF and Chima.
Chima ❤️Ive got 5 Sets still not opened
@@legobioniclemocmaker4553 I have a few and I do like the show.
@@markperl3869 nice
Oh yeah I am a big fan of basically all LEGO themes, and HF + Chima in particular are very underrated
@@DuckBricks I know, they were steps in the right direction of originality and creativity
Man looking back at hero factory, it deserves more attention,
I wholeheartedly agree with you!
As someone who was born too late to get bionicle, I appreciate hero factory for providing me with constraction pieces
Great video! You expressed your point of view in a pretty clear and objective manner. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who saw this grew a new appreciation for Hero Factory, one of LEGO's most underrated themes!
Thanks for the comment, glad you agree!
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I like how hero factory encouraged you to build your own hero and looking at the peace’s introduced in break out and brain attack it opened up a whole new level pf customization for moc builders.
5:10 actually when I think of hero factory the story immediately comes to my mind. For me, the sets weren't the strongest point, but it was the awesome story which I absolutely loved!!!
The happiest moment of my life until that point was getting a season 1 Bulk figure for my 7th birthday.
yep, Core Hunter definitely looks like a character that Greg Farshtey would want to write about.
Bruh invasion from below was my favorite mostly because it showed how i could use ccbs with my minifigs by using it to make large mechs, it literally blew my mind as a kid and influenced how I used the system form that day forward. Nowadays I only really use ccbs as an easy way to make large stylized walkers or mechs that i can fit minifigs in to avoid the overall clunkiness of the regular lego brick
I was only able to get one of the creatures sadly but that didn't stop me from trying to create my own mechs with the pieces i already had
I loved it too, one of the funniest story I have played
I love how the in-universe character who created the hero factory, looks like he came out of the Bionicle universe.
Look, I love Bionicle. I was sad to see it go as a kid. But as that same kid, growing up and seeing the Hero Factory sets on shelves kept me happy in a way. I made a point to get at least one set from each year (until Invasion from Below, because I was going through a phase) and each time, I was enamored. Each new version of the same character seemed to improve upon where I had problems with the last. “I don’t like Surge, he doesn’t have knees or elbows.” Here’s 2.0! “I don’t like Stormer 3.0, I miss his old head.” Here’s Breakout! “I wish Furno would just get to be leader already.” Brain Attack!
It was simple fun, with tons of customization options for signature characters and creatures. I’m kinda sad that it didn’t work out, because looking back on Hero Factory makes me appreciate what LEGO was doing just a little bit more.
yes when i was a kid i totally made a hero recon team character and bought it, was soo awesome! i recently found the building instructions for it again, so crazy you get a custom building instruction
I fricken loved Hero Factory, it was my childhood!! Don't get me wrong I love Bionicle, but Hero Factory holds a special place in my heart just as much as Bionicle
🙏 Thank You So Much Again Chris >>> Your Tour of LEGO HERO Factory brought back so many memories that we are reminded to Pursue now that we are a bit more Mature & Appreciative! Really Glad we have DuckBricks to bring many Like Minded Fans together to Bond & Share LEGO Bionicle & HERO Factory memories & to deal with the Time~Sensitive World we are currently living in! Many Bionicle Fans from 2002 to 2022 who have Passed On >>> It is Comforting that , One Day we will meet again in a Better World & Realm & explore Real World of the Toa! Unity. Duty. Destiny! 🕯🌷🌿🌍💖🇩🇰
It’s actually a headcanon of mine that Hero Factory is set in the same universe as Bionicle G1. The idea is that Makuhero City is located on Spherus Magna, and the Heroes were made to basically do work carried out usually by Toa, but on other planets.
Funnily enough, Christian Faber's original plan for _Hero Factory_ was for it to be a stealth sequel to _BIONICLE,_ and that the ending of _Hero Factory_ would segue into a _BIONICLE_ reboot.
I have a decent amount of hero factory, it was what led me to become a bionicle fan!
I remember getting the first hero factory book, I still have it!
Nice! They had some pretty quality books!
A lot of times I just liked collecting the sets for more cool pieces to do my own thing with. The system is so great to play with.
100% agreed! I love CCBS and hope it makes a return someday
@@DuckBricks I would too! Unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the LEGO community agrees. From what I've heard, I don't think people actually even like the concept of it anymore, which is a crying shame.
All I remember from hero factory is the 2d game where you pick up different guns and kill things. It was called something like brain attack
Haha yeah HF had a ton of fun iOS/see games for the different years
I like the older building system aesthicly, but ccbs grew on me during breakout. Also if I remember correctly the breaking problem was solved by when glatorians came out (at least in my experience).
this was my favorite theme when I was growing up. I still have a couple complete builds from; Break out, Brain attack and, Invasion from below.
I preferred hero factory over regular bionicle when it came out, the show was badass and i spent DAYS in the online game that let you create your own hero
In an ideal world, we could have seen Hero Factory as a decent sister series running along side Bionicle or other Constracion
I feel like Brain Atack could have been a teaser to a villain factory since those brains were made in a factory it seems
I genuinely enjoyed hero factory when I was a kid. Got as many sets as a kid possibly could for it. I can remember building the sets properly and then striaght after taking them apart and just making whatever I wanted with them. Honestly was so flexible with what could be done. I still occasionally get my hero factory pieces out and screw around with them. Just broke my heart when they stopped doing them.
Is it weird I want constraction sets to coexist?
Like Bionicle can be the one where the deep Lore can build a strong theme and mythos with the Toa and a deep dark villain because I loved the combination of rich lore, mystery, mythological elements, heroic themes, Sci-Fi and organic technology with robotics with serrious story beats.
Hero Factory could come back as a simpler but still rich idea of a sandbox of heroes being made as mocs to fight diverse vilains and creatures, exploring many worlds and ideas with a general team of characters while adding your own superhero builds to the mix fostering a fun loving creativity while keeping things loose and not so serrious.
Man, that would be the dream scenario - we got close in 2013 with chima and HF and later on with G2 and Star Wars, but multiple concurrent constraction lines, especially original ones, would be incredible
Looking back, i definitely do think Hero Factory got too much hate. I think it was because a lot of Bionicle fans felt betrayed by Lego when HF replaced Bionicle. Trust me, I was one of those fans. I also think the first two waves were suffering from an identity crisis, with introducing the new series and bringing in CCBS system. I will still prefer the original building system, but CCBS is more stable and easier to use. I will say though, HF had excellent villain sets, Meltdown, Nitroblast, Raw Jaw, and Witch Doctor were some of my favorites...even if they were more expensive than Bionicle’s sets.
Agreed - HF wasn’t nearly as bad as many make it out to be
I only owned a couple of Bionicle G1 sets, and I was far too young to really understand the theme and the stories that accompanied them, so Hero Factory really was the constraction theme I grew up with. I did get Rocka 3.0 as a child, but mainly started getting sets when Brain Attack launched in 2013. I loved the sets. They really felt of great value to me.
I love hero factory!!! It’s story was easier to manage, the first mini-series was very well done, and they consistently improved upon the hero’s design to make them unique. Now if only they had stuck to the larger lore they tried to do in breakout and also not gone to minifigure size.
I think the only thing I liked about HF is actually given them FIST/ HANDS! I don't get why it had taken them that long to molded those past the Bionicle era!
One of the missed oppertunity was a "Villian" Factory! Yes I know they got villians but those one expensive and it would of been cool to have villians in the same price tags as the heroes! Also it would of been a cool plot story in that the villians gotten the source on how to make the heroes and started to make villians from the core!
What I don't like about CCBS is their torso with a shell. And shells in general. Basically I prefer ataching things using "technic" rods and pins.
I get that and yeah, I can definitely understand your point; I just like being able to attach things by ball joints because it makes each limb inherently more useful
@@DuckBricks Yeah, it's just a matter of preference. I'm not saying one is better or worse then the other.
And I probably prefer it that way because that's what I grew up with, having throwbots and later bionicles. And since I have asperger, I'm verry advert against changes hehe
I think the wave 1 hero factory villains were some of the best titans Lego made. Really good builds and designs overall
if HF and BN get reborn, i hope it gets alternated every year to give designers a break to think up new ideas, because that's ultimately the problem both lines had during their fall.
For bionicle g3 LEGO should take the things they learned from bionicle,hero factory and Bionicle g2 and use that knowledge to make the PERFECT remake of original bionicle for modern audiences!
CCBS did have a lack of molder detailing on their pieces. Sometimes you're stuck with printed details from savage planet or breakout stickers even and it limits things.
I am happy, that i grew up with HF.
It is just such a shame i did not bought more sets, because some pieces are so hard to get.
Thankfully HF isn’t too too expensive on Bricklink so you could always try to obtain those older sets!
@@DuckBricks Yes and no, i mean they are pretty accessible in the world but not that much in my country.
I am 16 and if hero factory were to return or if I can find ANY of the sets I will snap them up as fast as I possibly fucken can, I miss this series so much
Another best things hero factory did better than ninjago is the villains
In ninjago most side villain are comic relief but hero factory make them an actual danger for the hero
If I could get hero factory with the insane in-depth lore and care for Bionicle, that would be peak, at least for me.
May I ask where you got the high quality, HD footage for breakout? The only one I can find is in 240p and that's the quality I watched it in as a kid back in 2012
Hmm, I have it saved to my computer but I believe it came from online streaming sites like kimcartoon or something along those lines
I am coming around to Hero Factory. I used to hate it with a passion, but you're right that it's simplicity is good. I feel so conflicted about simplicity though, when it comes to the story. It is smart from a business perspective, and at the end of the day that's what matters to Lego, but I feel like there's lost potential in it.
I personally loved the complexity of Bionicle. I re-discovered it five years ago or so, and have been spending that time actually figuring out the lore, and it has been a magnificent ride. For me, that's what is the best part, is the story. I actually never built a single figure, never owned one, so I think that kinda skews my perspective.
I get that a simple story is good for people to get into something easily, but like I just stated, if someone is interested enough, they'll do the hard work. But I also get that that's just one demographic of people, some people are just looking for a quick adventure.
All this to say, I'm glad that both exist, and that they're different, so that more people can be satisfied. And that I am definitely in the complexity camp lol.
That’s a cool story and a very unique one! Glad you like both and can definitely agree with the point of liking Bionicle for the complexity
I don't know if anyone realized that invasion from below was about people just drilling in random sealed place for reason and then sending heroes to wipe out one entire species of creatures that were older than people who lived in the antropolix, so that means that the invasion from below was about genocide of ancient creatures
Hero Factory isn't bad, fight me.
I agree!
Fight against you? Perish the thought! I'd prefer to fight ALONGSIDE you!
bro after like 10 years i found this shit again sooo happy my childhood was hero factory
if "finally fucking fixing ball joint connections to literally never break" isn't like number 1 I will be surprised.
Great video! Breakout was awesome in every way. I would love it if you did more videos on HF!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed! I will look into doing more HF videos as well!
The only reason I am scavenging for bionicle G2 sets is for the pieces to upgrade my hero factory sets or even G1 bionicle sets. Maybe I should buy more of those series 3-5 hero factory sets...
Nice! Yeah G2 has a ton of really great parts and sets, just a shame the story was so lackluster
@@DuckBricks yeah. It gets harder every minute as everywhere I check, no one sells complete sets.
Yeah, G2 is insanely rare nowadays and on Bricklink, complete sets are astronomically priced
@@DuckBricks exactly!
I think one underappreciated part of HF is the music. The soundtrack is surprisingly great. Here is a playlist of all of the tracks. th-cam.com/play/PLC-MQNsGyHQO7YXRn2jWcEc83PpUj1Qep.html
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. The main Hero Factory theme is just a classic, nothing more to say.
i dont know if anyone else noticed, but there is a large aesthetic overlap between the animation of The Legend Reborn and the first 3 waves of Hero Factory episodes, some aspects like the glatorian heads are just direct carryovers, but the spinning technic greeblies and general grittyness of the characters are very similar
Yes! That’s because unused concept art and 3D models from the Legend Reborn were actually directly reused in Hero Factory’s first TV episodes, with stuff like the Stone quarry being taken directly from Bara Magna art!
As much shit as I gave Hero Factory when I was younger, the G2 Bionicle sets are peak Bionicle to me. Def miss the technic aesthetic, but the function and builds were so cool. And this is coming from someone who grew up with every year.
Another excellent Top 10. As a Bionicle fan, there's plenty of good things about Hero Factory. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the simplistic storyline (I don't hate it by any means). There's definitely ideas I like from fresh ideas, the premise about superhero robot cops, and the CCBS system which remains one of my favorite LEGO systems to this day.
i actually kinda like it tbh, back in time of hero factory i was makin my own stories with both bionicles and hero factory characters. damn, how fast were getting old. it seems like yesterday i was playing there, controlling sources of good, evil, and crime, now im adult. time sure flyes.....
People are always hung up on the story huh?
Great vid, even though sometimes I hate being the only one that likes both of them because I always wanted to make my own MOCs using both the Inika build & CCBS parts.
This was and still is my favorite Lego theme.
Daaamn I almost forgot about Hero Recon Team. I built and ordered two characters through the service, each with the unique black and silver chest plate
I believe Bionicle, and Hero Factory are two halves of the same whole, each with their own identities, but part of the same system.
Man i missed this as a kid, i really agree about the ccbs system on hero factory simple but really vastly customizable and the whole my own creation(M.O.C)thing was the best like made your own characters. But sadly it ended i wish it would kept going from invasion from below. (Series was very interesting to watch and explore creations)
Nobody realizes nex and evo's breakout helmet represents their 2.0 headgear alot? Evo got the guards in all his forms, and nex got that mouthpiece in his breakout and 2.0!
I used to have one of the lego hero factory sets back in the days .
I’m honestly surprised that Lego hasn’t brought hero factory back
Preston Stormer ( White ) , Evo ( Yellow ) & Furno ( Orange Crimson ) seem to be my Favourite Characters in LEGO HERO Factory! 🌍
If HF ever returns, we need all the nine Heroes to take place in the storyline, not just a portion of them. In Breakout, they did 9 heroes and 9 villain sets, which was good, but for some reason didn't show Breeze, Nex and Bulk in the show? Anyway, I hope all nine of them return
I love the Hero Factory! I grew up with it.
Bro I miss hero factory, I still have a ton of them and have my witch doctor up on a shelf in my room, thought the breakout story line was the best
I would love titan like sets for different one time heroes fighting one of those one time background villains.
I personally don't get how new limb molds in g1 were a bad thing,it added more variety,sure ccbs had alot of armor variety too,but made it harder to make more dynammic looking figures,tho this was an issue with g1 aswell,I've seen alot of moccists work around this by mixing the old and new system or using technic some how to give the limbs an arch,sorry if I derail from my original issue with this "pro",but I think new molds work better when it comes to especificc character designs,and I could understand the argument of it giving way for recolors and opening up mor eposibilities for moccing,but more times than not the same limb pieces feel a bit more retricted in being customizable.
I understand how you feel about bionicle not being as sandbox as hero factory and I’m starting to feel the same way now as a kid it was easy to re imagine my bionicle heroes and villains in different scenarios than in canon because I didn’t know the bionicle lore very well back then but now that I’m grown up and I know the lore better find it kind of hard to imagine my bionicle toys having different adventures than in canon....either that or Its the fact that I’m an adult now and am not as big with playing with toys as I use to
I was born in 2004 so I only remember the end of bionicle, which was basically just the Legend Reborn movie and a Gorast and Onua set so when Hero Factory came along I thought it was a continuation from the Bionicle story and I loved it
Great vid The only thing I really disagree with is the ccbs portion because in theory the system is a great idea but in practice, re-skinning the same skeleton gives the feeling of buying the same figure over and over again for the consumer; and visual design wise the figures tend to get kinda clunky looking. Also it did rely on technic for bigger builds like witch doctor.
When it comes to pleasing audiences while not breaking the band; I feel audiences prefer having a wave of clone sets with mostly new elements, like the toa metru, to remixing pre-existing with minimal additions, like the mahri. The Bohrok were loved but Bohrok kal were panned. Most ccbs is in Marhi territory
(with invasion from below being an exception).
Both build styles have to hit a balance of new part introduction and good reincorporation of old ones; Bionicle had a harder time with the former while HF had it with the latter and then former.
It would have been nice if they made the masks in different colors so when you did make your own hero it wouldnt look like another canon hero
Well, Hero Factory is very good theme because it is another action figure theme to have an actual and good story other than Bionicle. It may be second rate, but it has a lot of charm, like a series of TV serials and that online game called Breakout. It’s very similar to Bionicle, and I always believe that it shares the same universe as Bionicle G1 because of that. When people vote in Lego Ideas for Bionicle and if Bionicle wins and does well with LI, I dearly hope they would acknowledge HF.
That would be neat!
Regarding point number four in this video I want to point out that bionicle DID make a couple movies that illustrated the story and got kids to know the lore better but they didn’t create movies for EVERY year of bionicle like why didn’t lego make bionicle movies for the 2006-2008 year of bionicle especially because 2006 was my intro to the theme and it’s such a shame it didn’t get a movie for that year it would have helped me understand the plot a little bit
Gotta say. The art for ifb was the best. I may make them posters.
100% agreed, I think it was the same concept artists for Bionicle G2 and it looked fantastic
do you have for real all those Hero Factory??????
Literally WOW
The thing i like about hero factory, is that the story is nore simple than bionicle, with essentially just being robot hero fight robot vilan, unlike bionicle with the whole multi year story arks, even though those were pretty cool, both themes deserve love as some of the coolest lego themes
Nah, bonkles ate every other theme for breakfast. Nothing will ever beat that storyline.
I remember buying some hero factory sets back in 2013-2015 good times
Ahh man I miss constraction
May not be the best theme, but it was definetly an important one.
I was a person who never gave hero factory a shot and found Bionicle G2 nearly insulting.
However I hate how after all these years regret I never gave G2 Bionicle a shot and CCBS as a whole.It's a shame to hear that CCBS is "dead".
Dang yeah, I know a ton of people in your position and it’s really a shame because G2 had some of the best Toa sets ever and even Hero Factory did some really cool and interesting stuff build-wise
This was the starter series for me (no joke), and I LOVED IT!!! I came across it back in 2013 or so, when my friend showed me the first series movie, and I instantly loved that. My first ever set was the Nitroblast, and even with some pieces lost, I still have him until this day. Then the 2014 rolled in and along with it the absolute blast of a wave: The breakout. Got almost all of them, not all though, which back in the time made me pretty sad. Much worse was though that my younger brother slowly but surely lost or broke most of the pieces and thats making me even more sad. Anyway, I think overall it is far better than the Bionicle, since its modern (Bionicle is enciant), and just feels more bad-ass to me. Its also sad truth it is heavily underrated :( .Anyway great video! ;)
My Lego childhood was Hero Factory, Star Wars, Bionicle, Ninjago
Hero Factory had some really really good character design, especially the villains. Just literally looking at the heros especially when they are getting upgraded in the breakout series, their armor and gear was just plain flat out fucking *cool*. Sure HF could and would have gotten a way deeper story if it wasnt for lego pulling out, but really the series was meant to be simple fun and they sure did deliver just that.