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It should do, but as generally members ignore Action Figure themes, you'll often get a better answer here instead.

If you're looking for parts, it depends on which type of part you want most. WD has all sorts of fabulous new TECHNIC pieces and a good amount of bones, Scorpio will really help for standard bone and shell collection, and BP will provide you with a good range of new bones/shells, but not in quantities as large as the other sets. BP probably also provides the best weapon pieces.

But the rest of it was done by you.

Courtesy of BIONICLEsector01, HEROsector01 and Eurobricks Toyfair correspondent Aanchir, Eurobricks is proud to present to you a second article covering the 2012 LEGO sets on show at the New York Toy Fair! This time we have snakes, spinners, battlepacks and Ninjas under the spotlight with Part 2: Ninjago! Find and discuss the 2012 Ninjago coverage here!

Thanks to BIONICLEsector01, HEROsector01 and our colourful Eurobricks Toyfair correspondent Aanchir, Eurobricks is proud to present to you a series of in-depth articles covering the 2012 LEGO sets on show at the New York Toy Fair! Read on for informative product descriptions and high quality photos, beginning with full coverage of the Hero Factory theme! Find and discuss the 2012 Hero Factory coverage here!

Hi DarkSurge, welcome to EB! As Jetrax99 has said, and you seem to have already found, there is the Official Hero Factory 2012 thread already existing, so I'll be closing this one. Why don't you also introduce yourself in the Introductions Forum as well?

The light grey bones and white thigh shells help balance Nex out a bit. He's certainly not following the same colour scheme of his previous forms, but most of the Breakout Heroes aren't doing that either. Like Surge's lime especially, the designers have chosen one of Nex's secondary colours and blown it into a primary colour position. The colour is "breaking out", if you will. The thing that irks me the designers have done so well with Evo, Rocka and now Nex at making their "original" helmets resemble their previous forms, when the other original helmets bear no resemblance to their upgraded forms. Nex's new helmet is practically the 2.0 headgear consolidated into one piece and colour. If only they did this for the Phantoka and Mistika instead.

The link in my signature should lead you to some helpful tutorials for resizing images. Reducing image size will also lessen the time it takes for you to upload the photos to Brickshelf.

As with most of the Ben 10 heads, I think the ball cups are positioned so that it looks better rather than performing better. Although rotating them 90 degrees would allow the figures to look up, it would also give them fat necks when viewed from the front (and the ability to look up/down too far). From there I think it should have been a case by case judgement of if the ability to look up was worth the chubby neck, so I'm disappointed that Iron Man, who flies looking straight up from his body, is unable to do that. It reminds me of many of the 2007 and 2008 Bionicle sets that were unable to look up, so couldn't see where they were going when swimming/flying.

There's a great review here, but you're welcome to make your own as well! The index will be back up to date soon.

Knowing the TV series, I'm sure that could be a probable explanation, but when it comes to catching agile motorcycles, a high speed steam-train doesn't seem like the best choice of locomotion. I think that by simple nature of SD's pursuer being Stormer puts SD at a disadvantage. Whether it affected set design or not, the TV series also features Stormer in both the summer and winter storylines, and a high speed Frost-like Stormer wouldn't suit the enclosed prison spaces of the Breakout story.

Great idea for a topic, but please make sure your images are under 800x600 for posting in a topic. The link in my signature should lead you to tutorials on resizing images if you're not sure how to. Good poses, but the first and third photos are a bit blurry. If you used an outdoor/plain card background you'd be able to represent the characters in more epic locations than a cardboard storeroom. I may add some of my own pictures. In general, any Hero Factory figure in a BIONICLE box art position should work well!

For a piece that size, it seems very likely. You'd need at least two connection points stop the piece from wobbling noticeably around the torso bone, as was done with Drilldozer's chestplate piece(which should hopefully return in the future). However, thinking about the back of the Hulk/Stormer armour makes me fear for the state of their backs.

You don't need to stop, just don't let it take over the news and discussion that people come to this topic looking for. Make an Evo art topic! But stay on topic here.

It shouldn't have. Toyfair is almost here - stay on topic! Please?

I've read a lot about these weather balloon cameras before, but it's fantastic to see it done by people so young, and with LEGO. Being a space enthusiast, I've made a slight correction to the topic title - 24km altitude is very high, but nowhere near space, which is usually put at around 100km high. If weather balloons could get to space, we wouldn't need space shuttles.

It's good to see a remake of a classic character, even if it's based on the Stars version. The normal Tahu has very boring arms and legs, but I was pleasantly surprised by the final Golden General version, which looks great. Good job achieving that with only standard Hero Factory parts and no TECHNIC (aside from the head). Tahu usually has mechanical orange limbs, so it looks strange for this version to have neither. I think the MOC would be improved if you reintroduced at least one feature. You could use more small TECHNIC pieces to make the arms more mechanical while still in red, seeing as orange Hero Factory pieces aren't quite in ample supply yet. The head looks very strange from the sides, but from the front it serves it's purpose. Tahu's eyes should be pink though, even if you need to use solid pink bricks/pieces to achieve it. Check if your camera has a macro option, to remove the blur of your closer photos.

I'd much rather that their heads were helmets, with Glatorian/Hero heads inside. Like other Hero Factory sets. The current non-set forms of Makuhero and Zib have been featured a lot in the animated series and promotional videos/games, so I don't know how accurately real HF pieces could portray them. They are robots though, so they could well be rebuilt in story in order to participate in missions and set waves. Maybe a case hits too close to home for Mr. Makuhero, or Zib becomes a rookie, wanting to do some field work?

Well at least they're bringing Breez forwards, not backwards. Good intentions, poor execution? I'm trying to think if there could be a marketing reason to feature a summer set early, to act as a teaser/bridge for the summer wave, but I think the Breez/Thornraxx and Stringer/Voltix swap is the most likely reason. It would be awesome if Tinseltown made an additional short chronicling Breez' mission with Thornraxx, ala Metus' Revenge. I wouldn't rely on the TV show depictions for set information. The characters are probably based on earlier versions/prototypes of the final sets, and take a couple artistic liberties, which almost always includes subduing the colours of sets to make them look more worn.

Thanks for the tip - I cleaned out all but one from my local Warehouse this evening. Today was the last day of the sale anyway.

They all appear in the Avengers film for this summer, so I'm willing to bet that the comics would feature then all fighting together against the , even though doesn't appear in set form. Or perhaps a dark ominous Marvel force. Or Iron Man and Capt could both fight against the Hulk?

I've temporarily switched your massive photo to a link. There's a great tutorial for resizing and sharpening photos here. In the case of your photo though, look for a macro button on your camera, or reshoot from further away so that the camera can focus. A clean white background helps as well.

Nope, it's done. Stringer is certainly holding his weapon like a Guitar, but it but the way he is holding it he will either be able to strum, change chords or do nothing, but not both. If only he had a chain-link strap or the cuffs could double up for that function.

I do this all the time and barely get any challenge from it. Granted I mostly build BIONICLE and Hero Factory sets, where one instruction sheet fits many different sets.

That's a trick I learned from several BZP reviews - DV's in particular I think. The sequence of assembly is usually accurate, although I'll sometimes mix the steps up slightly to show a better progression of the build. I always insist on adding the Core and helmet last, although not all instructions agree with me. I've added High-res galleries for all of my reviews. Until they're public, the photos can be found by adding the HQ subfolder to the URL as such: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sprxtrerme/Reviews/Surge4/a1.jpg Becomes http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sprxtrerme/Reviews/Surge4/HQ/a1.jpg