Hero Factory 2013

[ToaJaller78]

where did you see that?

It's obvously fake. I will admit I freaked out though.

[bacem]

oh, i see. fake, huh. would be awesome if that were true.

[Dorek]

Nope, real. Promotional image used to advertise an event held in Legoland Windsor two weeks ago. Link.

[bacem]

Nope, real. Promotional image used to advertise an event held in Legoland Windsor two weeks ago. Link.

oh, so it's not about HF-bionicle crossover after all. but wait, new HF area in legoland? yeah! finally HF gets more attention.

[Dorek]

Just a building event in Legoland Windsor. I was kidding about the crossover part, they just used the toys in conjunction for the image, which shows that hating one or the other is dumber than a sack of rocks.

[Bfahome]

Obviously the proper response is "lol lego knows hero factory sucks so they have to use bionicle to promote it".

[Dorek]

Touché.

So I got Surge and Evo today. Both are awesome, though Evo is a bit awkward with not knowing where to put his weapons. I just sheathed his trident and gave him one of the accessory pack blades. Speaking of those, I now have three... I don't really know what to do with the third.

Got the same problem people appear to be having with Surge's printing, but I think it gives him a nice, baleful look. Color distribution is also pretty neat, surprisingly.

All in all, two good purchases. Don't have Stormer and Frost Beast, but I think I can do without them.

[vexorian]

That ugly Bionicle stuff makes even the weakest HF wave look good in comparison. Cool.

[Chro]

That ugly Bionicle stuff makes even the weakest HF wave look good in comparison. Cool.

Hahaha, the way the kids in the image screwed up Mazeka and Nuparu, you may have a point. XD

[Aethersprite]

I got them from a shopping mall in my city in Poland. This is a very good shop. Here are the pictures of...

... an amazing 3D Brain key chain...

There's a Lego event at a mall near my home and they're giving out those keychains to anyone who visits the HF booth. There's sort of a play area where kids can make HF MOCs from a huge bucket of HF parts from the summer sets. (It's kinda easy for anyone to steal some of the pieces there... Hmm.)

Anyway, at the aforementioned event, there were some sets on display, including CHI Razar. Link: http://sg3-attach.ymail.com/sg.f1932.mail.yahoo.com/ya/securedownload?mid=2_0_0_3_3512_ADOwCmoAAAcbUhS%2FAgGh%2BGemc4Y&pid=2&fid=Draft&inline=1&cred=_R7qlrrNCHXMpqYIKKQXCIHdPk2Sxz9UoPOt.7UZg.hXiWA-&ts=1377091579&partner=ymail&sig=43ZvwdApf5uG8fRJng5wMg-- (Pardon me, I'm not really good at uploading images, so here's a link to my email instead.)

If you look at Razar's upper arms (and on his wings as well), you'll notice the 3-size armour pieces are transparent, in the same colour as some windscreens from Lego City sets. Last time I checked, those pieces were supposed to be solid black. Has anyone encountered these pieces? I'm pretty sure the set wasn't a prototype, Lego isn't quite a big thing in my country, so most of the sets on display were most probably built out of the box.

[Aanchir]

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There's a Lego event at a mall near my home and they're giving out those keychains to anyone who visits the HF booth. There's sort of a play area where kids can make HF MOCs from a huge bucket of HF parts from the summer sets. (It's kinda easy for anyone to steal some of the pieces there... Hmm.)

Anyway, at the aforementioned event, there were some sets on display, including CHI Razar. Link: http://sg3-attach.ym...5uG8fRJng5wMg-- (Pardon me, I'm not really good at uploading images, so here's a link to my email instead.)

If you look at Razar's upper arms (and on his wings as well), you'll notice the 3-size armour pieces are transparent, in the same colour as some windscreens from Lego City sets. Last time I checked, those pieces were supposed to be solid black. Has anyone encountered these pieces? I'm pretty sure the set wasn't a prototype, Lego isn't quite a big thing in my country, so most of the sets on display were most probably built out of the box.

That image link doesn't work for us because it's personalized to you. But I'm quite intrigued by what you say about the shells on his arms and wings. If you're talking about Transparent Brown (Bricklink's Trans-Black/Peeron's Smoke) I don't believe I'd even seen any hints that those parts EXIST in that color. It's not especially normal to see a prototype version of a set in a LEGO store, so it DOES make me wonder exactly where those pieces might have come from.

Edited August 21, 2013 by Aanchir

[Aethersprite]

That image link doesn't work for us because it's personalized to you. But I'm quite intrigued by what you say about the shells on his arms and wings. If you're talking about Transparent Brown (Bricklink's Trans-Black/Peeron's Smoke) I don't believe I'd even seen any hints that those parts EXIST in that color. It's not especially normal to see a prototype version of a set in a LEGO store, so it DOES make me wonder exactly where those pieces might have come from.

Oops, let me link it up to a proper image site.

EDIT: Here you go.

I'm actually tempted to pic up Chi Razar (I was already planning on skipping him) just to check this out, but my budget is bursting for this month already. Maybe next time.

Edited August 21, 2013 by Lockon Stratos

[WARHEAD]

Oh man, those are sweet. Protoypes maybe?

[Leewan]

Beautiful. Too bad the actual set has black armors.

[Aanchir]

Beautiful. Too bad the actual set has black armors.

I dunno, black 3M shells are rare enough and useful enough that I'm plenty grateful. Recolors are great but sometimes you have to ask yourself whether a part in a newer, rarer color is really better than a part that's more compatible with what you've already got.

[Gatanui]

How did the pieces get there?

-Gata

[MakutaDreadscythe]

On a completely different note I got Aquagon a while ago and I finally realised what bugged me the most about him. The hilts on his swords are significantly thicker in both dimensions. So I replaced them with the...things...from the ends of the brown rahkshi staff (I don't know what they're called) to give it a more trident/axe feel. That, and I needed the blue swords.

[SmoothJazz]

I dunno, black 3M shells are rare enough and useful enough that I'm plenty grateful. Recolors are great but sometimes you have to ask yourself whether a part in a newer, rarer color is really better than a part that's more compatible with what you've already got.

Eh. 6 on Pyrox, 4 on Scarox, 3 on Toxic Reapa, etc. If you buy villain sets, you get tired of them soon enough. I'll take a recolor over a somewhat uncommon part any day.

Edited August 22, 2013 by SmoothJazz

[Leewan]

I agree, I personnaly have enough 3M black shells so I can't complain. Plus, IMO, trans-black shells would make of Razar an instabuy, for me : 6 trans-black 3D shells, 4 purple, and 2 5M shells, this would be a gold mine.

[Aanchir]

Eh. 6 on Pyrox, 4 on Scarox, 3 on Toxic Reapa, etc. If you buy villain sets, you get tired of them soon enough. I'll take a recolor over a somewhat uncommon part any day.

I do buy villain sets, but I don't "get tired of" parts. It's very normal for me to run out of certain parts especially if I have some larger work-in-progress MOC. The more parts I have in the same colors, the better.

I don't have Scarox because I don't really like that set, and I thought my younger brother might get him. But evidently unlike me he DOES get bored of getting the same color sets for several years in a row. Before I got CHI Razar at Brickfair (at a great bargain, too), I was having a hard time finding enough black and silver metallic parts for all of my MOCs.

Black, Silver Metallic, Titanium Metallic, and Bright Red are currently the absolute most useful Hero Factory colors for me because so many parts exist in those colors. If we DO get recolors in future sets, I'd prefer for them to be in colors that already exist in Hero Factory but are not as common, like Bright Blue, Bright Green, Dark Red, Earth Green, Transparent Bright Green, etc. Having new colors OTHER than the ones that have already been in Hero Factory hardly does me any good, and I can't think of a lot of uses I'd have for Transparent Brown shells. That color has not been used once in Hero Factory, and it's not the least bit energetic-looking like the majority of transparent-colored shells.

So it's not that I dislike recolors. It's that I want my recolors to have actual uses and not just be different for the sake of being different. Imagine if the friction joint or 3M C-beam came out in Light Purple (Bricklink's Bright Pink) or Aqua (Bricklink's Light Aqua). It'd be different, but neither would be a very useful color if it's just one part, and one you don't usually need to draw attention to.

[SmoothJazz]

I agree, I personnaly have enough 3M black shells so I can't complain. Plus, IMO, trans-black shells would make of Razar an instabuy, for me : 6 trans-black 3D shells, 4 purple, and 2 5M shells, this would be a gold mine.

I totally agree. Hopefully those are misprints and will make it into some of the sets. (Though I doubt it.)

Also, why are those called "trans-brown"? There isn't anything brown about them.

Edited August 22, 2013 by SmoothJazz

[Gatanui]

Also, why are those called "trans-brown"? There isn't anything brown about them.

When you look at parts of that colour (especially on the edges) you'll notice it's indeed some sort of transparent brown.

-Gata

Edited August 23, 2013 by Gatanui

[Aanchir]

I totally agree. Hopefully those are misprints and will make it into some of the sets. (Though I doubt it.)

Also, why are those called "trans-brown"? There isn't anything brown about them.

It's not "trans-brown" with a hyphen. That's Bricklink notation and it gets confusing when you're using it with other naming systems. TLG's names typically either spell it out in full (transparent brown) or abbreviate it with a period (tr. brown).

And yeah, the color IS brownish, even if it's not nearly as brown as, say, Brickforge's Trans Brown). If you stack a bunch of Tr. Brown parts together it can become a lot more evident.

Incidentally, all of Carapar's blended parts (except the squid ammo, of course) are Tr. Brown blended with Flame Yellowish Orange. It's never been an especially common color in BIONICLE OR Hero Factory, though it was used in BIONICLE's very first year as the color of Onua's Kanohi Kaukau.

[Gatanui]

It's not "trans-brown" with a hyphen. That's Bricklink notation and it gets confusing when you're using it with other naming systems. TLG's names typically either spell it out in full (transparent brown) or abbreviate it with a period (tr. brown).

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I know you're all into LEGO colours and that's really great, but I don't see how trans-brown can in any way be confused with something other than transparent brown or tr. brown. O.o

-Gata

Edited August 23, 2013 by Gatanui

[Aanchir]

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I know you're all into LEGO colours and that's really great, but I don't see how trans-brown can in any way be confused with something other than transparent brown or tr. brown. O.o

-Gata

Haha, maybe you're right. It just disorients me a bit when I can't tell immediately what naming system someone's using. It's worst when multiple naming systems are being used, since some color names like "Brown", "Aqua", and "Dark Green" refer to different colors depending on whether you're using TLG's terms or Bricklink's.