Hero Factory 2013

[Cahillrebel]

Just the name of that makes me excited.

[xxlrocka]

WOO! 100 pages!

Anyway, I look forward to this "Dragon Bolt XL" because I'd like to see how you can make it any larger than it already is.

[DraikNova]

Basically, I'd use a hollow skeleton made out of bone and skeleton pieces, then cover it up with armor shells. That technique worked well enough with my last large HF MOC. The wings are going to give me trouble though. Any ideas?

[Cahillrebel]

Make a larger version of his actual wings. Maybe extend each section of the wings.

Depends on the moc's size.

[DraikNova]

Well, about the same size as this MOC of mine, or perhaps larger.

[Cahillrebel]

O_O Didn't expect to see that. The moc is cool. Now back on topic. If you made the wings double the size on xl, you could adding cladding on the front side and wing pieces on the back. Are you thinking of keeping the function?

[Dorek]

I don't think discussing MoC's is really "on topic" =P. Isn't that why we have the CCBS topic?

Also, for anybody who read Secret Mission 3... did Kirch actually die, or just the brain controlling him? I don't have the books for reference, and somebody brought that up.

[Cahillrebel]

This is talking about making an official set better. Doesn't really belong I don't think.

[Aanchir]

I don't think discussing MoC's is really "on topic" =P. Isn't that why we have the CCBS topic?

Also, for anybody who read Secret Mission 3... did Kirch actually die, or just the brain controlling him? I don't have the books for reference, and somebody brought that up.

No, Kirch did not die. He collapsed with the rest of the crew as the brains controlling them abandoned ship, but several robots that Breez had rescued came in to move the bodies to safety, and since Aquax survived the brain detaching from him (and was functioning again within minutes), there's no reason to think that the brains detached in a manner that would permanently disable their hosts.

I got Secret Mission 4 a couple weeks ago before Spring Break, and I was quite impressed, though I'm surprised at the amount of continuity being established in these stories. They still function as stand-alone stories for the most part, but SM#4 picks up almost directly after the events of SM#3, and the idea of a galactic conspiracy is not entirely wrapped up, mentioned as something the Hero Factory will have to keep an eye on in the future. So we'll almost certainly be seeing that plot thread come up again.

Overall I'm quite impressed that Greg Farshtey has been able to take the more-or-less straightforward alien invasion story that forms the backbone of Brain Attack in so many different directions. The synopsis and short preview of SM#5 in the back of SM#4 don't exactly fill me with confidence that this story arc will be as closely tied to the overarching Brain Attack storyline, but then again I'm confident that this story can be pulled off after reading the previous books in the series.

Still need to watch the Brain Attack webisode, but I might find time for that this weekend.

Edited March 23, 2013 by Aanchir

[DraikNova]

O_O Didn't expect to see that. The moc is cool. Now back on topic. If you made the wings double the size on xl, you could adding cladding on the front side and wing pieces on the back. Are you thinking of keeping the function?

I probably won't keep the function. I'll probably add cladding to the wings though. I might try and make a giant brain actually, using bone pieces for the limbs.

[Cahillrebel]

That might be a challenge. I think keep the slug on would be more realistic since the other sets have the same size slug. I don't think they grow when infecting each creature. They probably made the slugs on the episode smaller before they latch on by accident. I have no clue.

[Dorek]

No, Kirch did not die. He collapsed with the rest of the crew as the brains controlling them abandoned ship, but several robots that Breez had rescued came in to move the bodies to safety, and since Aquax survived the brain detaching from him (and was functioning again within minutes), there's no reason to think that the brains detached in a manner that would permanently disable their hosts.

I got Secret Mission 4 a couple weeks ago before Spring Break, and I was quite impressed, though I'm surprised at the amount of continuity being established in these stories. They still function as stand-alone stories for the most part, but SM#4 picks up almost directly after the events of SM#3, and the idea of a galactic conspiracy is not entirely wrapped up, mentioned as something the Hero Factory will have to keep an eye on in the future. So we'll almost certainly be seeing that plot thread come up again.

Overall I'm quite impressed that Greg Farshtey has been able to take the more-or-less straightforward alien invasion story that forms the backbone of Brain Attack in so many different directions. The synopsis and short preview of SM#5 in the back of SM#4 don't exactly fill me with confidence that this story arc will be as closely tied to the overarching Brain Attack storyline, but then again I'm confident that this story can be pulled off after reading the previous books in the series.

Still need to watch the Brain Attack webisode, but I might find time for that this weekend.

Didn't think the brain removing him would kill him, just that he purposefully exited the spaceship with Kirch's body (they tried to have Stringer jump off a building, so why not?)

Also, is SM4 actually after SM3, or after the episode? SM4 apparently mentions a second brain attack, so E10 could occur in the interim.

[Cahillrebel]

I think the next episode will take place after the last one and might go into SM4 possibly. Not really sure yet.

[Dorek]

Well, we don't even know if there is a "next episode", and SM4 does mention a Brain Attack that didn't actually occur in the books, so. Is there a passage in SM4 that explicitly rules out that possibility?

[Cahillrebel]

Maybe it mentions the ones that comes after the episode then. i got nothing to we know about next year's storyline.

[Vinyl Scratch]

Well what'd you know, the Hero Factory website changed /again/.

And there's some scary noise that just scared me, holy hell.

EDIT: Holy heavens this website is even buggier than before. GOOD JOB LEGO

Edited March 24, 2013 by Vinyl Scratch

[DraikNova]

Buggier than before? How?

[Aanchir]

Buggier than before? How?

I haven't seen any crippling bugs, but some of the timeline items (specifically, the Brain Attack villain images and the webisode trailer) slightly overlap one another instead of being staggered properly on my screen, and the "Download" link for the Brain Attack Rocka (44002) image instead links to a poster of Breakout Rocka (6202). You can see the proper 1000x1000 Rocka image by editing the URL of the 700x700 preview image, but its color quality is severely lacking compared to the 1000x1000 images of other sets and even compared to the 700x700 image of the set, with the green parts in particular horribly oversaturated.

Incidentally, there also is no Pyrox image under the "Images" header, but this is not a bug so much as something that was not even uploaded.

Interface-wise, one of the bigger changes I see is that parts of the backdrop are animated, which I don't recall on the previous version. I can see how this might cause problems for some users. Although Brain Attack and Breakout content are now divided up with separate headers, Breakout content (or more accurately, all pre-2013 content) is still arranged somewhat arbitrarily.

Also, probably not a new error, but when you switch to the "products" header and click any product, then click the "X" to close out that product's pop-up window, it reverts to the overall (non-product-specific) timeline, which is a bit irritating.

Still, at least the interface is fairly clean-looking, which makes me hopeful that it might be redeemable with future refinement.

[Cahillrebel]

How bad could this updated site be.................O_O. What is that noise! Sounds like Frankenstein beating the heck out of a brain slug and slicing it in half! AH!

[xxlrocka]

How bad could this updated site be.................O_O. What is that noise! Sounds like Frankenstein beating the heck out of a brain slug and slicing it in half! AH!

Are you talking about the noises Scarox, Pyrox and Ogrum now make?

[Cahillrebel]

Yea. They happen while you are looking at the normal site. Not just when I look at the characters. Freaks me out.

[Gatanui]

Strange, I cannot hear anything. Neither on the front page nor on the villains' profiles.

-Gata

Edited March 25, 2013 by Gatanui

[MakutaNocturn]

Well, about the same size as this MOC of mine, or perhaps larger.

IMO it's not big... but ok. Btw: I don't like the site for 2013 :p it looks like a mess, it works slowly... it just makes me not to look at it.

[Cahillrebel]

I don't understand. It looks like they only designed it based on a phone website or something similar.

[Xeros610]

-----------Don't know if someone has tell this before and if is the case I would look as an id*ot-----------------------

Hey some big news I got updated my game (On Android) and is cool, 12 new armours, 2 new levels BAD THING is it needs money to unlock but, hey, is cool, also weeapons and a trailer on the beginning, is really COOL!

Sorry for the word on the 1st line

Edited March 26, 2013 by Xeros610