Do you remember Hero Factory

[@mitchellbambam5926]

Considering the scale of the Breakout, I think it would’ve been cool to have two more episodes to give time for everything packed in, and to be able to see every hero and villain show up. This is mostly just because I wanted to see Core Hunter in the show.

[@blackbolt175]

Bulk vs Core Hunter would have been the best and out of all the heroes sent out Bulk would have the most dangerous because in Lore Core Hunter has killed heroes so bulk fighting an actual Serial Killer would be dope

[@ballsackboi505]

It would’ve been nice to see other Heroes like Nex, Breeze, and Bulk on their own side of the Breakout situation and Dib talking to them giving them an in-canon reason they weren’t with the main group.

[@blackbolt175]

@@ballsackboi505 It would prob be because the villains are the worse of the worse and they would cause more chaos in different planets and those three might need to be speced out in top of the line gear and bulk could get a proto type of the core clamps so core hunter wont be able to steel his core

[@lewlewlaser037]

I think the characters who weren't in the breakout episodes were canonised through a novel by Greg Farshtey.

[@mitchellbambam5926]

@@lewlewlaser037I haven’t read book 1 in years, but you’re probably right!

[@iblamerichey]

Remember? Hero Factory and Bionicle is what I play with EVERYDAY. Lego will never peak again.

[@alegsb3943]

Well if you have that mindset nothing will ever be good enough anymore

[@iblamerichey]

Erm…@@alegsb3943

[@Xx0bamaGamingxX]

​@@alegsb3943 but he's right tho

[@alegsb3943]

@@Xx0bamaGamingxX how can you know at all what the future will bring

[@alegsb3943]

@@Xx0bamaGamingxX how can you know at all what the future will bring

[@mace1535]

Hero factory is/was criminally underrated.

[@Stringer7390]

Definitely

[@Ad-fu6tj]

Hero Factory games were also underrated. Unfortunately, I can't find videos about games that are not Breakout, Invasion or Brain Attack and I clearly remember games based on Savage Planet and Season 1

[@mace1535]

@@Ad-fu6tj Yeah I remember there being a mobile game at some point too, can't remember which line it was though.

[@chris_aguy2141]

I remember seeing the change with hero factory, even as a kid it wasn't watchable.

[@MikaGroth]

I LOVED hero factory when I was small, this vid brings back tons of memories

[@jonathanhahn6955]

Me Too Indefinitely :-)

[@milkiassamuel780]

I am so glad I am not the only one who LOVED Hero Factory as a kid. I collected so nearly every set from Season 1-5. I don't know why but me and my little brother were super into this show and we would always playout scenes from the show, maybe because back then I didn't grow up with Transformers yet so this was a surrogate Transformers for me. My favourite seasons were between Savage Planet, Breakout and Brain Attack. Such cool ideas and I had no idea how much star power was in the show.

[@deludedfruitcakesanonymous5593]

"But it leads to absolutely nothing" Pretty much Hero Factory in a nutshell there. I think my favorite parts of the series were the early days, when it seemed fresh and fun, like Bionicle mixed with a cop show. (BTW, check out Hero Factory FM. It was a fake radio show that the website hosted that, while corny, was pretty fun to listen to as a kid.) But over time it just became really dull as none of the plot elements really went anywhere interesting and the writing failed to raise above "standard 2010's kid's toy show". There was a brief rise in interest with the the next few themes, the sets were always fun to look at at least, but there was never much of a plot to follow like in the old days with Bionicle. Apparently it the story was originally going to be that the Hero Factory was actually more of an antagonistic force to the galaxy at large than you'd think. The idea of "manufactured heroes" is a pretty juicy story concept with a lot of potential for thoughtful writing even for kids. Unfortunately it didn't take.

[@tunebeat3809]

Plus, if Lego go for the idea that Hero Factory isn't entirely a good force, they should have genuinely good characters that want to protect innocent lives from hostile threats.

[@Majorlydevilish]

So I don't think Invasion from below was a bad idea, it was just a bad idea for hero factory. Some of the problems that Hero factory ran into, when looking back, were 1. after breakout HF kinda just became a dumping ground for Lego's half baked ideas they didn't want to make new themes for. 2. It got repetitive to collect the Same Characters over again, like I don't think a new Hero was introduced after Rocka. I think it would have been better for each wave to have like 3 returning characters, and 2-3 new characters. These are all problems I see in hind sight, But I loved hero factory as a kid and still do to this day.

[@AMiniSentry]

Hero factory was and is legit my childhood favourite Lego line

[@Nex2997]

How could I forget my childhood? This theme is awesome, I still hope it comes back one day

[@kiyoshiizumi02]

Yes I remember Hero Factory. It was my whole childhood, i watched all the seasons, nearly owned every set, played every game. Sadly as i got older my mother made me throw away half my figures, but i kept 2 of them- my Brain Attack Surge, whom Ive slowly made into my own custom hero, and Brain Attack Breeze. Ive continued to upgrade with new parts over the years. Glad to see people still talking about it.

[@BoofHead.]

11:31 dude no way you just dist them like that, i remember them as a kid and played the moble game based around that episode so fire, best child hood memorys, or maybe i'm just to nostalgic

[@braydenpage1808]

I loved it too. The movie was definitely the worst of them all but that game was very fun. I personally liked the Brain Attack game more though.

[@poweroftheprimes7616]

2:08 Some of the heroes and villains do actually get hit on rare occasions, unless if it's ordeal of fire, because the heroes were just BOMBARDING the fire villains

[@skoobzkb]

It was a spiritual successor to Bionicle in my eyes. Not as peak but it was still pretty good.

[@wonghy1115]

So few remember this masterpiece of a theme. When I was a child, I watched breakout bloody 700 times in the car's DVD players. My parents had the damn vocal script memorised lmfao

[@kingcam4117]

I like both Hero Factory and Bionicle but I personally grew up with Hero Factory and where it dropped for me is Attack from Below because the voices were all different and the heroes looked all weird from their previous versions, only thing that was the same even slightly was their helmets and the fact they could take those off was much different than usual, also the generic Lego piece weapons really just lowered the creativity from the more complex ones of the buildable, pretty much, action figures they had before and the way it was so big of a change from Brain Attack or Savage Planet just made it feel out of place and like the average super hero v monsters instead of produced heroes against scrappy looking bad guys, I still have DVD copies of the first movie and Savage Planet and their still my favourite of the Hero Factory things other than the figures themself which I still have a bunch of pieces for

[@tyrxian6452]

I think the problem with Hero Factory was always how loose the worldbuilding was: why do they have regular human names? Everyone we see in the show is robotic, so who are they protecting? What separates the Heroes built by Hero Factory from civilians?

[@silverfox8917]

It just wish breakout started an overarching story where its not so black and white, have some villains that seek redemption or vigilante heros, corrupt heros or incompetent ones like sentinel prime in tf animated

[@Matt-zu2lu]

Holy crap, I never knew that this show actually came out! I was actually apart of the test audience for this show!

[@braydenpage1808]

Man, that's legendary! That'd be so cool 😎

[@bowserbreaker2515]

I really liked the TV show. The art direction looks nice, the music was catchy, and the voice cast was full of A-listers. Rise of the Rookies (Very good, not much more to say) Ordeal of the Fire (My favorite. Fire Lord was a great villain, and this episode just felt like a movie) Savage Planet (A bunch of fun jokes with a simple and fun plot that was enjoyable) Breakout (Great way to tie into the rest of the series, shame it didn't lead anywhere) Brain Attack (A little boring, but still fun) Invasion From Below (This just stinks)

[@ethan-not-a-pastafarian]

I stopped at Breakout, only knew about Brain Attack and IFB from the games

[@mazusu2823]

oh yeah i remember it vividly, was actually rebuilding Rocka XL last week

[@transformandgobricks7820]

My childhood. Been growing up watching them, and collecting almost every single set!

[@wheresprototype3507]

I wish the show had a proper full 24 episode season. We could have so much potential for the characters

[@divennaidoo7328]

I really loved Furno but I feel like there were too many heroes that were apart of the main cast but also thought the characters were a bit rushed in there development and should have had more time to show there personality but this was mainly because of the crowded cast but I really love this show though it was my first Lego show I ever watched

[@CaptainMur]

personal choldhood, i grew up in this era instead of bionical

[@pheonix8167]

I watch this on cartoon network back when teen titans old one not new kid one 😊

[@spiderwog1908]

hero factory, bionicle, early ninjago, Atlantis, space police, and pharohs quest were my childhood this video was a good trip down memory lane

[@Bronson_07]

10:04 you make a great point, in the breakout unity game it details what breeze and bulk looked like along with their LEGO sets from breakout, I guess they didn’t upgrade breeze and bulk till brain attack due to budget

[@champiggyfrm_pig5271]

I wish they put actual effort in the shows, breakout is still the cliffhanger I wish the most we got more off

[@JRexTheKing]

As a MASSIVE fan of the series, I absolutely agree with every single point you made in this video. Breakout was ABSOLUTELY the peak of the series. I loved each and every episode, except IFB. The story actually continues in the books, so if you want an actual ending, I’d suggest giving those a read.

[@Malikimusmaximus]

I really did love that franchise as well.❤😄

[@ancient6676]

I was a little too young for Bioncle when it was a thing, I knew of Bioncle I had a cousin who got a Bioncle set for his Birthday I believe it was the Baranus V7 set if my maybe 5 year oldish brain remembers correctly. So I never owned any Bioncle sets as a kid, around the time I got into the age range where I would've enjoyed Bioncle hero factory just came out, I had atleast 4 from the first wave, three heros, and two villains, and one from the third wave. I have a friend who owned a ton of the Hero factory stuff who's about three years older than me who owned a ton more of this stuff than I and was actually somebody who could keep his legos in tact unlike me. But I remember liking this lego series a ton and I got a ton of nostalgia towards this theme and I would love to see a reboot someday. Sure bioncle is the more popular one but I grew up with hero factory more than I did with Bioncle.

[@Discontinued-t6w]

Personally what I love about hero factory was the designs, characters and customisation for those sets. I remember making upgrades for one of my favourite villain corehunter. Also idk if I’m the only one but the scene where they were playing robo ball or something made me want to find that song really bad! It’s been ingrained into my memory since childhood

[@dontshootmex5588]

God, I loved Hero Factory as a kid. This is unlocking some very old and very nostalgic memories of mine.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

As someone who got into legos as a kid around the time Hero Factory: Breakout came out, Hero Factory was my version of Bionicles.

[@StopMoshin]

I never hated Hero Factory as much as other Bionicle fans, I had a fondness for it and respected that it was the new direction constraction was going for the time but there was never the depth that Bionicle had.

[@evanf1293]

I remember watching this when it aired in the early 2010s. I was really sad it ended after 2014 as it was by far one of the 2 lego franchises I liked a lot at the time though I can understand now why it ended as I do feel like IFB was what killed the franchise's future and that they recasted the entire cast. The other franchise I happened to like a lot was Ninjago which is probably my fav lego franchise to date.

[@EmannHomeless]

Yes, yes i do. Even though being more invested in bionicle as i get older, Hero Factory is what really i grew up with :) good memories

[@Mr.JoScope]

I’m 19 and a full-time college student and I still build hero factory MOCs to this day as my favorite pastime. I build both newer versions of characters from the show, as well as make many of my own. (I’m actually working on a fire lord revamp right now) I have my own personal headcanon of how the story would’ve continued after brain attack and how I would’ve changed to certain elements of the story to make it more interesting (mostly so Von Nebula can live up to the legend) I realize this all might seem silly, but it’s some thing that I truly love and I’m so happy to see the random video mention it every now, and then. Reminds me that I’m not the only one who remembers 😊

[@Carnige32]

I had a ungodly amount of these

[@n_ex13]

The way invasion from bellow played out was horrible repeated budget cuts and overly strict deadlines because Lego decided to suddenly cancel hero factory leading to bland end

[@NRGEngineer]

Well I see this video in my recommended every 2 weeks so it’s hard to forget it tbh

[@mathiaslienafa789]

Yes i remember this LEGO licence too :)

[@dunkanbulk14]

Hero Factory is now as old as Bionicle was when it ended

[@plasmashocknikola]

I have used to own those Hero Factory models when I was a kid, especially Ferno for both Breakout and Brain Attack. Honestly, I just wish that I was old enough to discover Bionicle sooner.

[@T_PLAYER]

hero factory was a huge part of my childhood. now its a decade old, and i miss the times i made my own creations and stories with the pieces i had, and worst of all. honestly, the worst part about aging is missing the times long gone

[@filippohl9097]

I own quiet a bit of these sets mainly 1.O and some jungle planet ones plus the Core Hunter which was the serial killer i think? Removing cores of his victims.

[@Dr.SwagPHDinDrip]

Hero Factory was such a fun franchise. Invasion from below was a huge fall from its glory. To me, it didn’t really even show decline in the other series, it kept at a steady line, then dropped. I do hope they make more in the future, but definitely continued off of brain attack.

[@ingesalak89]

When i was small i had Ferno as a toy. I didn't know anything about hero factory, i got it, because my mother mistaken him for iron man and she bought it for me since i was(and still am) a huge fan. But i loved that toy, i was playing with it a lot. Now that i mention i kinda miss it.

[@financialproblems9308]

i remember discovering this on KZbin and fell in love with it as a kid, too bad it went downhill

[@makswolanski5549]

Gosh, i remember how excited i was every year when the new episode came out and how didsapointed i was when they announced there won't be any more after invasion from below. There honestly wasn't a single episode i didn't enjoy and the designs really still hold up to this day. I still have some displayed, and im 9lanning on buying some of the ones i missed out on when i was a kid

[@Jackson-tv53]

I first watched Ninjago and hero factory when I was around like four and both are similar in the sense that I did not comprehend them at all my first time watching them, but it’s cool re-watching hero factory that fire Lord was voiced by the guy who voiced the clone troopers in Star Wars, at least the clone wars series

[@allglorytothefather4186]

How could I forget? Up to Brain Invaders I had all the heroes and villains, even played the Breakout game when it was on the LEGO site

[@7evenseas975]

YEAH This series, was why I fell in love with Lego. The freedom to make abominations from the sets you have, without losing them completely was always a fun activity I did with my brother. And also making them Cartoon Series was neat. I cannot forgot black phantom (Christmas set) and the brain part. The last part of hero factory started a slow decline in how much I enjoy Lego. Because there is nothing like hero factory, I want it back Bionicale was important to Lego, hero factory was important to my childhood

[@blizzardstormer5076]

actually they should continue where Breakout left off, cause Black Phantom said they wanted to make an army, probably an army of villains so we’d get hero factory vs villain factory hopefully

[@tylerjarman2121]

Hero factory was the only Lego theme I had every single set (minus its last season) I wish it would come back someday.

[@Germanica1871]

Finally a LEGO related video for me. I was never into LEGO as much, but Hero Factory level customization just ticked all the right boxes for me. Since my early childhood I was a collector of these wonderful builds. The stories were bland, yes, but as a kid I enjoyed it very much. And the customization level on these builds is simply through the roof. It really captivated my imagination and to this day I have several big boxes in my attic filled with pieces of them. It means so much to me seeing other people acknowledge this that it gets to me. Motivates me to revisit it and perhaps build them all up again, since later I just used the parts to make my own characters and lore anyway. Breakout was peak lore and Invasion from below was terrible indeed. It saddens me that they didnt elaborate further with Breakout. For example creating a plot twist that every decision made by the organization was a part of an incredibly calculating and powerful villain culmunating into a final stand and battle against him. My favourite part was never the heroes, but the villains, especially the Witch Doctor and Phantom.

[@mastereric15571]

Honestly, I do hope Hero Factory can return and actually have a good story with proper continuity. Though, I see in recent years, LEGO has kind of abandoned the buildable figures era so they probably wouldn’t want to continue. But someone can dream right?

[@gigachadpybro1697]

Hero Factory my beloved.

[@vankuper]

I remember how hard it was to find the movies in the internet back when I was ~8. Also, I think it’s one of my favorite Lego series too. However, I do like bionicles (remake one) figures much more

[@yugene-lee]

The Rocka jetpack set was so good. I still have the parts of that all over the place.

[@danikaylen2506]

YES! I really wish I had Lego hero factory sets

[@shoshosan]

hero factory was peak, i remember buying my first one, evo when going out of a cinema, and then it became a huuuuuge part of my childhood

[@TheFirstCurse1]

My second favorite LEGO theme (behind Chima). I loved all of the generations besides the final one.

[@Reik_Kregar]

This is a pretty huge part of my childhood. I rewatched this so many times.

[@Theemightyquinn101]

I got every one of these characters after Rise of the rookies, and I'd spend hours building my own creations. I loved hero factory so much.

[@kathydina3646]

I remember this, I had the green one. I remember thinking they looked a bit short, so I grabbed some spare bionicle parts and made them twice the height. I think I still have them somewhere.

[@Gamex-Frontiers]

Yeah. That gave me great memories. BRING BACK HERO FACTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jonathanhahn6955]

Me Too Bring Back “Hero Factory” Indefinitely :-)

[@MotBot419]

Now this felt like a blast from the past. I remember having initial surge figure, and eventually got the savage planet stringer and nex.

[@leader_hamlet5300]

I had a box of different hero factory characters, and I would always mix and match them in different ways. My favorite was the one villain with four arm sockets, which allowed so much creativity for me.

[@maasy05]

videos like this remind me that i did have a childhood no matter how long ago it feels

[@Mike-mf3ed]

I wish I bought more sets when I had the chance…

[@abbadullreee3298]

Same man

[@kartermanthey7796]

Savage Planet hero factory was absolutely the best line of any bionicle/ hero factory ever. Hands down my favourite and I wish I still had all of my models from then

[@rpond]

That is a terrible take, holy cow that is terrible

[@kartermanthey7796]

@@rpond thanks, that's just my opinion and I liked them. Break out and Brain attack were also great but for some reason I was more drawn to the savage beast designs in Savage Planet

[@rpond]

@@kartermanthey7796 that’s ok but saying it’s better than all of Bionicle is idiotic

[@jokervendetta7431]

the first three seasons are the best, and the vilians of the first two seasons (especially the big guys) are so freakin cool, i miss them

[@BobBob-zu2dt]

Im pretty sure I have the original series on dvd, absolutely loved it as a kid.

[@fastdumplings7198]

the hero factory books where peak. some Crazy Lord in there and the characters and plot where more fleshed out

[@RollMeAFat1]

I love the CCBS hero factory figures, especially the old hero factory custom hero thing you could do on the Lego website

[@jordenmessel]

i loved hero factory. i got into it the most when they had the animal themed armor and the witch doctor. i got most of those characters along with witch doctor. I remember them being featured prominently in a lego club dvd that came in one of the magazines

[@ERBanmech]

I really enjoyed the hero factory sets. Phase 2 was where the sets really took off but breakout will always be some of my favorite sets.

[@pakxoid_76]

Strangely, the last wave was ( and still is today) my favourite

[@deccie_playz]

imagine living on one of these planets tho

[@maniacalmurderer4123]

The first episode of this series was what made these guys so memorable to me. The mechanics, their movement, the simple but action packed plot with awesome villains to boot. I especially loved the propeller guy and explode. They had such awesome concepts and they were well-executed on screen.

[@gabribeta1368]

i grew up with theese! i still have 4 sets perfectly conserved

[@ylohvle12xb73]

I love these show its even have a game before its so old now

[@Will-sq3ip]

How could I not remember Hero Factory? I remember going to Toys R Us multiple times buying Hero Factory. Can’t I like Hero Factory but they’re good for spare parts.

[@peterandleestudios2023]

I loved this show as a kid. It was sad that Invasion From Below was lackluster

[@hypemann8085]

I love Hero Factory Its basically me coping after missing collecting any Bionicle from the ads because my parents took Ages 8+ seriously 😂😭

[@reilover69]

duuuuude, I remember this show. I used to love it and watch it all the time. I forgot the name and so I just assumed it was bionicles and couldn't find it. I also remember I owned all of the sets released for this series.

[@constellar6330]

For me, Hero Factory fell off right when Invasion From Below got out. The redesigns just felt so... alien The only ones i remember having are both from Breakout - the shark fella and Evo. Thanks for reminding me of HF, might rebuild them later. great video btw oh and also i had Bulk from Brain Attack, those pieces might be a bit harder to find lol

[@aidanadkins3829]

Every one forgot the awesome brain attack video game. I used to play it so much as a kid

[@Beefsag]

I remember playing a hero factory game on my mums phone, its so strange to be seeing a video on this all of a sudden

[@r4gy179]

the hero factory fps game on their website was soo good.. and then suddenly replaced by a sidescroller and then gone

[@tubstertoo6488]

Hero Factory > Bionicle I said it.

[@abbadullreee3298]

I agree

[@teddyepstein]

Agreed

[@unnaturaldisaster9450]

Preach brother

[@braydenpage1808]

I honestly agree. There was just too much lore on Bionicle that it got so confusing. Hero Factory was so simple. For most new Hero Factory waves there was a new movie that gave you the lore for that armor, lineup, and enemy. I genuinely miss Hero Factory 😢 still have a bunch of the sets and I love them.

[@dansiva1870]

Wrong

[@beeshoney899]

I loved watching Hero-Factory on Megamax SO MUCH!!!

[@owenacuff823]

I don’t know if someone has already commented this but brain attack had a mobile game that I believe was exclusive to the kindle. I can’t remember much about it but I remember it was pretty decent and you got to play as all the fan favorite characters which was cool.

[@RennovaMOCs]

Hero Factory was my childhood, too! It's a shame it ended the way it did.

[@hannahsmalley3570]

I loved this show as a kid and it was one of the only shows me and my brothers could agree on watching. Am I the only one who thought Hero Factory and Lego Binnacle were connected? Or am I imagining things?

[@TEA-w5h]

I remember seeing hero factory once as a kid and never saw it again

[@luxiam9148]

Proud to still have the dvd of this

[@plate_fox]

I had like 5 of them which slowly broke apart due to rather excessive use and are now combined into an abomination of limbs and weapons