Hero Factory 2013

[Jouster]

Ok, the summer wave is gorgeous. Much, much better than winter. Dragonbolt is lessthanthree, and Jet Rocka is also amazing. Aquagon is interesting, looks like a piranha or something like that. Evo and Surge are <3. So yeah, can't wait til Toy Fair, and I'm pretty sure the guy behind the tower is Black Phantom, I mean, it looks like him. (has the same shoulder armor, I can see his extra arms with those knives and the head looks a bit like his, yes, I have very good eyes, thank you very much)

[cosmicTraveler]

It's a good thing to see more clips of the summer sets in the trailer :)

Made me so excited when I saw Surge and Evo (Definitely getting both of them when they come out :P). I Never expected Dragon Bolt to be that huge (OMG) it's like saying "Holy Gadunka" all over again :P (Sorry I had to do it XD)

Edited January 4, 2013 by cosmicTraveler

[Jouster]

Dragonbolt

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Edited January 4, 2013 by Jouster

[DarkSurgeXL]

Wow, Jouster, how did you fdo that? Still, thank you very much!

Edited January 4, 2013 by DarkSurgeXL

[CabooseBM]

Those images were posted on a rendering/CGI blog.

[Nike2032]

Good god, I didn't expect to find this today!

Basically, I agree with everyone, Brain Attack is stunning. I'm really suprised that Lego went all out and showed all the summer sets in winter.

[bacem]

that Dragon Bolt has no brain slug attached to him. maybe that means he's not making riot on the city under brain slug's control?

[Jouster]

As the guy above me said, Bolt has no slug. On that site there's also a picture showing an excavation site thing. Maybe bolt is an extinct creature that got brought to life somehow? (Ninjago-style mega weapon?) Dunno, but the absence of the slug is quite odd.

[DarkSurgeXL]

  On 1/4/2013 at 11:57 AM, Jouster said:

As the guy above me said, Bolt has no slug. On that site there's also a picture showing an excavation site thing. Maybe bolt is an extinct creature that got brought to life somehow? (Ninjago-style mega weapon?) Dunno, but the absence of the slug is quite odd.

If you look at a Bolt's screenshot you will see a brain slug. This model is just prototype, so that' probably why It does not feature a brain slug.

[xxlrocka]

  On 1/4/2013 at 11:50 AM, bacem said:

that Dragon Bolt has no brain slug attached to him. maybe that means he's not making riot on the city under brain slug's control?

I don't know why Dragon Bolt hasn't got a brain-controlling mind parasite, but I've checked in the trailer and I just about saw 3 of the brain slug's legs.

[CabooseBM]

Yeah, the models here are incomplete, Stormer's missing his shield, for example.

Edited January 4, 2013 by CabooseBM

[Zachattacx]

I guess Rocka and Surge are taking on this behemoth,it only makes sense.Rocka is chasing him and Surge is fit for the part(wings).

But from what I've seen there is only one Dragon Bolt...

Also figured out how DB's body frames built, one wide torso connected via 2 double socket joints, which then connects to the XT4 torso and then basically add armor.

Edited January 4, 2013 by Zachattacx

[Phantoka_Chirox]

The heroes look good especially when they don't have 'long neck syndrome'.

I've got a feeling dragon bolt's head will be used in Chima in some way

[Aethersprite]

Wow. That trailer was amazing. Thanks once again for the screenshots, Vinyl.

Surge and Dragon Bolt are definitely the stars of the summer wave for me. Surge being the first time he's getting a large-sized set, looks really sweet. I'm getting a huge Matoran-to-Toa vibe from him because of this. Loving all the trans yellow that's replaced the lime green of his Breakout form. His weapon is a little disappointing, but nothing that can't be modded. I only hope his face doesn't turn out as atrocious as Bulk's, or Breez's.

Dragon Bolt is sweet. Loving the fact that he's a titan, so many great parts on him. My only gripe is the Technic assembly at his mouth - seriously, Lego? Couldn't you have found a better way to attach the lightning pieces? It really ruins the flow of his otherwise perfect design. Hopefully it'll be removable.

I can't for the life of me make out how Aquagon looks like. From what I gathered from the trailer, he's humanoid, with a circular Pyrox-ish face, and has clawed Piraka feet.

Jet Rocka looks great, as to be expected. Nice to see that his wings are Kopaka Phantoka's instead of the new HF shield pieces, else he'd just be a bulked out Surge.

Overall the summer wave is shaping up to be fantastic, and blows the winter wave away. The winter wave was really disappointing, but I think I might get all the sets of the summer wave. I'm slightly more sad about the absence of Stringer and Nex - seeing this trailer makes me think about what could've been. Oh well.

Edited January 4, 2013 by Lockon Stratos

[DarkSurgeXL]

For me Dragon Bolt is a lot larger than a titan sized set, maybe like Speeda Demon. He's got so much technic parts, and his length (with the tail) is actually too big for just a titan sized set. Still, his tail is attached to his body by a bery strange way. Also, I hope we will get these electric parts in new colur, now that i see 'em in black.

[Zachattacx]

And to store that behemoth in a bag is wow!

[bacem]

  On 1/4/2013 at 12:11 PM, xxlrocka said:

I don't know why Dragon Bolt hasn't got a brain-controlling mind parasite, but I've checked in the trailer and I just about saw 3 of the brain slug's legs.

ah, yeah my bad . i checked the screenshot again and see brain slug legs and horns.

  On 1/4/2013 at 12:55 PM, DarkSurgeXL said:

For me Dragon Bolt is a lot larger than a titan sized set, maybe like Speeda Demon. He's got so much technic parts, and his length (with the tail) is actually too big for just a titan sized set. Still, his tail is attached to his body by a bery strange way. Also, I hope we will get these electric parts in new colur, now that i see 'em in black.

and it would seem mostly limbs pieces. so Dragon Bolt would be like Scorpio, in regards of piece selection.

[Aanchir]

Wow, the summer sets do indeed look awesome. Something I can't ignore is that Jet Rocka seems to use a System windscreen, which is an interesting design decision. Also very Technic intensive, which is nice for variety's sake, though I do truly wish we could get a vehicle set that was heavily based on HF's character and creature building system. I'm certain it could be done!

Dragon Bolt is a nice non-humanoid set, somewhat skeletal in design but overall a lot more elaborate in appearance than I would have expected (I was expecting a dragon-shaped humanoid, and certainly not with such imposing wings and such a long tail). No guarantees that the design wasn't embellished a bit for the show but overall it's great to have a design that stands out so well from everything else we've seen in the theme.

Surge and Evo look nice and unique, even if they're still a bit plain as is typical of Hero sets. Hard to get a good read on Aquagon, but he'll be our first humanoid aquatic villain so that's going to be interesting.

Overall I'm very excited about what's to come.

[Gatanui]

The summer wave looks like the best of all time. Every single set (though Aquagon is too hard to recognize, but I could see yellow bone pieces on him!) looks awesome. If Dragon Bolt got dark blue cladding that would be fantastic, but he looks good enough already. Great find! :)

-Gata

Edited January 4, 2013 by Gatanui

[Shakar]

Woow, so many new things to discuss about!

Dragon Bolt is a box set -whoops, we can't say that anymore- larger set afterall. A 13 Euro set would resulted into some half-finished..thing. He looks one of the best 2013 sets, by far- looks like Lego learned some things about making dragons thanks to Ninjago (never got a set, but those dragons do look well made).

I'm really impressed at how big he looks and how looong that tail is. The wings use Ninjago/Speeda Demon giant katana, I hope they aren't in gold because that would ruin his colour scheme- trans yellow peraphs?

Jet Rocka looks crazy. It's a big, mean jetpack with a pair of huge boosters.The tr. (bright, I guess) green cockpit looks really cool, and I like the ROCKA name decoration. The jetpack is piloted by Winter Rocka in the video, so we have no idea how his form in the set is going to look like. I hope he doesn't look too "nerfed" like some Bionicle pilots were- if possible, I'd like to buy Jet Rocka and skip Winter Rocka (I can BL his sword and I don't care for his shield).

So the Villains (except Dragon Bolt, maybe) are "swarm sets". Well, 7 creatures alone couldn't threaten HF, and since the pods landed in planets presumably inhabitated by dozens of the target creatures..

Surge's weapon pieces don't look tr. yellow, rather a mix of blue and yellow like Voltix's weapons. I'd be happy if this were the case, so there can be greater consistency in the colour of HF lightning. Anyway, I'm happy we finally get to see his helmet, and I can say they did a great job in keeping the elongated look of his 1.0 helmet. I hope his wings are silver, so we get Furno's shield in another metallic colour. Anyway, awesome set.

Aquagon really looks like a 9 Euro set. His legs look short and simplistic (are those yellow bones I see on the lower legs?) and he/she (can be either, I guess) doesn't look too complex- still a lot better than Scarox, anyway. I can't make anything out of the weapon(s). I spot more tr. blue cladding, which surely can't be a bad thing.

So yeah, Summer pretty much puts Winter to shame and seems to be on par with Breakout.

Edited January 4, 2013 by Shakar

[DraikNova]

Wow. Thank you LEGO for listening to my whining for a proper dragon set. And hey, he's got the Voltix weapons I predicted! And that awesome headpiece, just wow. The construction used for the wings looks interesting, but it sticks out a lot. I just hope Dragon Bolt is not released as a 13 euro set. To do justice to it's design it needs to be at least 20 euros. Oh, and it seems Jet Rocka uses Breakout Blasters, which you can see in this screenshot. The turbines and wings also look awesome. And it seems the Aquagons are yellow and blue Jawblade-like creatures, with heads that resemble Pyrox´s.

Surge looks like an awesomeness-action-packed set, with cool wings, Breeze-style visor and a lightning weapon that uses the rare Superheroes circle piece and blue and yellow recolored flame pieces. Plus, he uses blue exo-force robot arms!

Overall, I can´t wait for the episode. Too bad Nex and Stringer are missing out this time. Or is the Brain Attack story extending to early 2014? Unlikely, but it would be awesome.

Edited January 4, 2013 by DraikNova

[MakutaDreadscythe]

Surge's weapon looks to be two recoloured Pyrox Flame pieces attatched to a trans-yellow wheel piece from the Joker/Iron Man. Looking closely at Aquagon also seems to suggest he uses the new Sword piece in trans blue with a light grey spike for a hilt (like the spikes from 2.0 series)

Edited January 4, 2013 by MakutaDreadscythe

[Nike2032]

I wonder how Lego will top this next year (assuming there will be more Hero Factory next year), Stormer already had his XL form. Furno and Rocka have both taken the spotlight twice (Furno XL / Bike and Rocka XL / Jet). What else is there to do? Are they going to go all out and give everyone an XL set I'm assuming they wouldn't do that, but hey, who knows.

Anyway, on another note, I just realized that what we see in this new trailer is probably material to be used in the upcoming episode/s of Brain Attack and I'm kinda hyped now considering we''ll see all the summer sets in action before summer actually arrives + the story of course (unless it's a two part episode and the second one only airs in summer).

Edited January 4, 2013 by Nike2032

[bacem]

  On 1/4/2013 at 4:01 PM, Nike2032 said:

I wonder how Lego will top this next year (assuming there will be more Hero Factory next year), Stormer already had his XL form. Furno and Rocka have both taken the spotlight twice (Furno XL / Bike and Rocka XL / Jet). What else is there to do? Are they going to go all out and give everyone an XL set I'm assuming they wouldn't do that, but hey, who knows.

Anyway, on another note, I just realized that what we see in this new trailer is probably material to be used in the upcoming episode/s of Brain Attack and I'm kinda hyped now considering we''ll see all the summer sets in action before summer actually arrives + the story of course (unless it's a two part episode and the second one only airs in summer).

it would be great if they did give everyone an XL set. personally, i'm looking forward to Stringer XL and Bulk XL

[Bfahome]

I wonder if they're going to try to integrate a function into Bolt Dragon's wings. Seems like a prime candidate for it.

If so, I hope it works well.