Hero Factory 2013

[Infernum]

No new HF content in the latest LEGO mag (booo) but there was this cool thing advertising a combo model with Furno XL and CHI Laval, because... well... I'm not really sure yet.

I saw that combo! Looks pretty nice! Instructions online yet?

[Dorek]

Yup, just downloaded the PDF. Looks... slightly more ridiculous than in the picture, but ah well.

[Cahillrebel]

I noticed in the mag that the combo had silver mace pieces instead of the gun metal mace pieces found in Furno XL.

[Dorek]

Pretty sure that's just the lighting, but I could be wrong.

Also, the HF guidebook has a few pages up for preview on Amazon.com. Not much there, but it'll be a good book; gives some more insight into Vapor, for instance, which is nice since he fell by the wayside back in the day.

(Totally seems like Greg read HS01 for some of the stuff in the book... not that I would blame him =D. I have a lot of stuff to keep up on, though... since it's just me over there.)

[Vinyl Scratch]

gives some more insight into Vapor, for instance, which is nice since he fell by the wayside back in the day.

Wat.

How do you know.

[Phoenix_Flare]

Also, the HF guidebook has a few pages up for preview on Amazon.com. Not much there, but it'll be a good book; gives some more insight into Vapor, for instance, which is nice since he fell by the wayside back in the day.

I saw the book at walmart. I was a little dissapoted but still looks good at the same time :D

[bacem]

Yup, just downloaded the PDF. Looks... slightly more ridiculous than in the picture, but ah well.

wait, where did you download it?

[Dorek]

In the club, dawg.

The Lego Club

[bacem]

In the club, dawg.

The Lego Club

do we need to be amember first to be able to download it? i didn't see it in the building steps section.

[Dorek]

Clubcode is SWORD.

[bacem]

Clubcode is SWORD.

oh ok. thanks.

[MakutaNocturn]

That combo is weird as hell XD I prefer normal version of Furno XL.

[bacem]

That combo is weird as hell XD I prefer normal version of Furno XL.

yeah it's weird. but hey, it generates idea. i might try it, but with worriz instead, and make a few of adjustment to make it look better.

[ToaJaller78]

Who the megablocks Combined THOSE TWO??? I like it

[MakutaNocturn]

Actually, a combo made of Cragger, Ogrum and Breez could be nice.

[Aanchir]

The new combi model from the club magazine is decent, but it has the same problem that afflicts a lot of this year's combi models: rather than a unique construction, it's basically just one of the models "reskinned" with parts of the other.

It's not that models like this are bad — in truth, they probably come naturally to a lot of builders. But I feel the purpose of a combi model should be to demonstrate the variety of things that can be built by combining the parts of two or more sets, and this year's combi models don't really do a lot of that.

Today I built a couple of last year's combi models on LEGO Digital Designer, and I really appreciate their uniqueness. Once you look past the jarring color schemes and the fact that they don't form any kind of recognizable characters, they are quite imaginative designs that implement some very different building techniques from the sets used to make them.

[Dorek]

Oh hay, the character bios on HF.com are animated now. Is that new? I haven't seen it yet.

[Legofan225]

Hey guys what's that combi model that l'm hearing ?? if possible could somebody show me a pic of it ?

Edited September 13, 2013 by Legofan225

[Dorek]

If you enter the clubcode you get the instructions, but that doesn't entirely do it justice. I don't know if anybody has the scans of the magazine up yet.

[Legofan225]

A okay just first l got curios to see what is this combi model

[wghost]

Here it goes:

http://cache.lego.co...es/SWORD_BI.pdf

Edited September 14, 2013 by wghost

[Legofan225]

Wow and double wow ! big thank's for the link wghost

Edited September 14, 2013 by Legofan225

[Aanchir]

Oh hay, the character bios on HF.com are animated now. Is that new? I haven't seen it yet.

Yeah, it's new-ish (the winter sets had animations from the very beginning, but when the summer update came it looked like they didn't have the animations ready right away, so this is my first time seeing them). Don't forget to click on anything with a pop-up caption to see it animated, and wait for a while to see the brain leap off the villains or try to attack the heroes!

I'm a bit frustrated I can't read all the captions completely. The first part of some of them keeps getting eaten up by the left side of the page.

[Dorek]

Okay, so other people were having that problem too, good to know. I tried blocking the div of the banners and stuff, but it still doesn't reveal the whole thing. It's pretty easy to figure out what they were saying, but there's one or two where it's difficult.

I'm just glad they updated it. The most recent club article showed that they at least had the animations available, but it took them long enough to update. A few extra animations, though (unlike the winter wave, which just had the one) featuring the different aspects, so that's kind of cool.

Next year's website better be a vast improvement over this one, though.

[Kalhiki]

Next year's website better be a vast improvement over this one, though.[/b]

Anything would be an improvement over this year's layout.

Ah, remember the good ol' days of 2010's web design?

Kalhiki