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Found them around here: http://www.rusbionicle.com/forumsbio/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29216&view=unread The Heroes look much better in that group shot. As I said the masks change a big deal of things. Still not like Furno but the rest are mostly ok. Fire lord has preliminary written all over it, but I like the exo-force hands (edit: trans armor!) And the villain boxes: http://www.rusbionicle.com/forumsbio/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29216&start=150

Seems brickshelf were quick enough to delete the pics, did anyone save them?

In regards to robot toys with new backstories, the originality of the idea is really never that important because everything has already been done. So it is 100% about the implementation. Regarding the implementation, well it is true that the heroes are looking a lot like neo machines, but I really think that's because of the heads, and I think that just some fixes in the heads will do it. I remember preliminar Nuva pics that were that bad, so I keep my hopes high that the heads will be fixed.

Holy heck 15000 pieces at 485 USD! That sounds like a deal from hell. Considering all the amounts of Modular /Architecture / UCS sets you can buy at 485 USD. And that used pieces come with a curse ( The sort, wash, wash by hand, sort again, find storage curse) I cannot imagine me recycling 15000 pieces, it broke my brain just by reading, plus consider the transport cost. Oh my.

I too have a LEGO room, it is called my room now what I would really like to have is room for me. Anyway, that's nice, remind to post pics of it once it is full :)

Well, just do not name your mocs and sell them as if you were selling a collection of parts. People sell licensed themes' parts all the time and there is no reason it should be a infringement.

Better with translation: Sounds like a giant Malum. Not like there is anything wrong with that. Edit: Piece counts for the lulz: Heroes All seem to be 30 pieces. Edit: Oh, Evo has 31. Nitroblast 57 Jetbug 63 DrillDozer 61 Fire Lord 125 Edit: all heroes' descriptions work like this: Edit: and the villains: All villain descriptions end with:

Anyway: http://www.ihr-spielzeug.com/magento/index.php/spielwaren/baby-kleinkind/kleinkindspielzeug.html?order=name&dir=desc&mode=list&limit=25&p=10 Seems heroes and villains will cost the same as in 2010. Also, "LEGO Hero Factory Fire lord" Edit: Plus Surge 2.0's set number seems to be 2141. Edit : and Fire Lord's is 2235 Another link for confirmation: http://www.klocki24.com/lego-2235-hero-factory-fire-lord.html Guess I will waste all my morning looking for Fire Lord's pics.

I think it is one of the three heads that come with the Collectable minifigs series 2 mime. Edit: Oh, it is confirmed in the comments section of Jenny (Part 14)

I don't think mass would be the measure. Hmnn, when I think of bad quality , and I am not really talking about collectable minifigures, I think of less resistance to use. This probably happens because of all the times I bought bulks of used parts that for some reason always contain megabloks, other brands and bootlegs, so I've seen badly used parts from many brands. Which made me conclude that when parts are relatively new, megabloks are even hard to recognize from TLG, but used parts tend to look weaker - Edges go away easier, scratches tend to be more noticeable, and so and so. So I guess that for a experiment we could sacrifice two minifigs and apply wear and use to both of them, like putting each on a container with sand and rocks and agitating it for en equal amount of time then washing them. But boy, I oppose to wasting two minifigs like that . edit: also, the weights are too small. I wonder if you could try with X figs at once

Yes, I know the reality, that for TLG , 2.99 would have been a fair price for what I proposed so people and specially kids would get them (more so if they can pick the minifig they want). TLG have stopped caring as much about product quality as they did in the past. Don't get me wrong, outsourcing and cost reductions does have an effect in collectable minifigs, but overall most recent things are clearly of a different quality than stuff I would see in 2000s. I recently got a Creator "mini robots" set, and most of the white 1x1 plates and cheese split just the third time I built the model... Recent Bionicle (sans some metru parts and glatorian helmets) tends to have better ABS than system. The flexible plastic used in 2004 is cleary very cheap and some glatorian helmets just seem to use the exact plastic I would seem in bootlegs (ie: Gresh). There is also the breaking sockets which seem like an issue with mold design rather than plastic. System sets I've been getting on the other hand tend to look cheaper than what I was used to. (My dark age started around 2001, and I just came back to system this year)

Torsos, legs, hands, heads, do not use a new mold. If it was just about new molds, there would not be a reason to use low quality stuff in those parts. I think that's the problem. Yes, it is thanks to it that it is 1.99 USD, but that's my point, the 2.0 price tag is unhelpful in terms of collectable minifigs anyway. If you want a complete set, you'll be spending 6.46 bucks in average for each fig, not 1.99, and that's assuming you can actually find the minifigs in a retailer. I would have rather prefered they had 6.49 USD prices for minifigs that have better quality than usual and you could even pick what fig to buy. In that case, you would be spending as much as with the current way (unless you abuse bar codes, which is not going to be possible in series 3), but this time, you'll have a good quality fig and you will be able to pick which one... If instead, the figs were widely available and not random, then using cheaper elements to ensure a 1.99 price tag would have been useful for consumers and it would have been a good idea. But due to the collectible nature and artificial scarcity, it does not help.

Those antivirus are a little scary in their paranoia. I mean, eurobricks has some embedded images? from ftbt? (because they are clearly not scripts) and it makes the antivirus rise alerts on eb? Needless to say that the alert on fbtb.net is disappointing at best. Then why are you still blocking access through search results, mr gooogle?

As high as 10% is, the real number may as well be 1 in 1000, but that's still too big of a number... Even if it happened rarely, it is little consolation, costumer support has been terrible in regards to these figures due to the artificial scarcity.- the people that received the worst part of the variance cannot do anything about it.Machines get recalled everyday, but flawed, expensive, hard to find LEGO collectible minifigures get more expensive regardless of the low quality and there is no solution in horizon. Out of the point. The problem I have is not that the search is hard (if you look at my posts in the initial times of series 1 I did not really have a problem with that) but that the figs' actual quality makes the search not worth it. Hey, I wouldn't mind spending in 20 of these figs if they were usual quality, but all points out that they aren't. And we can just assume that plastic differences are subjective, but printing differences are not subjective and that is a clear case in which these figures are doing worse than what you find in sets... Which I find it lame, because giving the status as collectibles and that they are so horrifyingly hard to find, they should have used better overall quality than usual.The quality is different, hey even the kind reviewers note it even though they say it is not a big deal. Edit: Ok, just for context, assuming that Series 3 will not have bar codes, and that the rarity distribution is similar to series 1, you will need 52 blind purchases in average to get a whole set. So even if you do actually want all of the figs, you are actually paying 6.5 each, and that is going to be without counting the hoarders. Great?

There is sharp and there is too sharp. In minifigs, there are a lot of places that are supposed to be round-ish. Anyway, excessive sharpness is something that remains me of bootlegs. It is not just sharpness, but you feel sharpness in places were there shouldn't be an edge, hard to explain.Another thing that must be underlined is that in the case of Minifigure Series 1 and 2, the problems with quality were not caught during early reviews and pics, but until a lot more people had access to them. It seems that the problem is not a consistent bad quality but that there is a lot of variance.

They would be excellent if they had cross sockets instead of rod ones. So it is just "good" but not excellent. Less specialized but still not versatile enough. Anyway, all the heroes are black+color, instead of the previous version in which each hero had two colors, not sure if it is a good thing or not. The villains seem to be doing the same but with gun metal. In the case of the villains, I hope it changes because it sounds like they are getting Nuva syndrome... One of the good things of 2009 Bionicle and HF was that we didn't have such an abundance in Silver pieces as before, but with the villains it seems like we will end up with tons of gun metal... Besides that, it seems that the villains are still very preliminar because the CG looks messy. I think Nitroblast has more hopes among the three villains. There is something about the mask that is very good. I like how that spike part is ommipresent (it was a VERY rare part until this, only appearing in three sets). If the spikes turn out to be transparent, it would be really awesome.

Do we even have confirmation that the cyborg has a Blactron B? If he did, just think about Wrench (I think that is his name). One of the alien minifigs in the last wave of Space police 3. Tons of old timers like me, got that set because Wrench clearly had a blacktron uniform. But I think tons of new fans still liked the set because Wrench was a cool alien and the ship it comes with is very cool. In the case of a cyborg with a Blacktron B in the torso. It is the same. Kids will like a cyborg/space pirate fig/whatever. But old space fans will also dig the fact that the character seems to be a Blacktron officer. Everybody wins. And no, it is not because he is recognizable or not. Blacktron 1-2 never looked like that minifig, so it does not work that way... If I want the cyborg (and I do). I will have to buy at least 20 of these figure bags on average before getting it. That's 40 USD on a single minifig. On average, most people will be spending a lot more than 2 USD on the figs. I do not mind doing such a hunt or search, but I do mind if the hunt and search is for a low quality minifig. It would make the whole thing pointless.Oh they are just toys but that does not mean I should accept a low quality product. They may be just toys, but my money is still my money, so I should not go around wasting it on low quality plastic. lol. Seriously. If anything putting them in random bags promotes hoarding them and selling them. So I should spend my money and shut up about the quality? What if the minifig comes without a piece ? (like happened with some reports) Just shut up and accept what I got? What if the plastic is so bad that it breaks or splits after any use? I should just be happy I spent 2 USD on a minifig that didn't last hours? I don't care if it is made in China. I do care if the printing is horribly off (making the fig useless for displays) or if the plastic looks awful (again, making the fig useless for display) or if the colors are so off I cannot combine the fig's accessories with other stuff (making the fig useless for MoCing) or if the legs are too loose (making the fig useless for playing).

I think most of the complaints are due to the helmets. The helmets make the rest of the body look out of place. I think that with heads that looked more like first HF, the heroes would suddenly look more like the first HF as well (except for the rods instead of axle holes. Anyway, although I like the idea of using system rods for accessories. I don't really understand the point of replacing the axle sockets with rod sockets, since rods can be used in axle sockets anyway. It just limits the uses of the pieces for no reason.

Set numbers and names just in case: 2063 Stormer 2.0 2067 Evo 2.0 2068 Nex 2.0 2142 Breez 2.0 2068 Furno 2.0 ???? Surge 2.0 2192 Drilldozer 2193 Jetbug 2194 Nitroblast I find it odd the hero numbers are not in sequence. It could have something to do with 2064 being a promotional set. I think LEGO is running out of four digit numbers... They are still the best launcher design so far. TLG should seriously wait 2 more years or so before intending to change them, if it is not broken do not fix it...

That's a strange conclussion considering that the Heroes seem to come with a lot more parts than their 2010 incarnations. Even the weapons are composed of multiple parts. Another strange thing is to thing that smoothness is less LEGO like. It may be less Bionicle-like but the rest of TLG was actually smoother than Bionicle. Another thing is that the new Heroes seem to use System weapons instead of technic stuff. I think TLG is intending to move to a more system-ish theme. I actually wouldn't worry that much, I do not think TLG ever intended HF to last more than two or three waves. They don't want to repeat the mistake they made at Bionicle, so this may as well be the last wave. Edit: Oh sorry for that 3D Brickthing. Wouldn't it be possible to move the 2011 posts to the new topic?

They are either canisters or the pieces are awful megablox-like combined pieces and the wave will suck.

Ok, there is a Pharao mummy that controls a giant stone snake! Only bad thing is the lack of Johnny Thunder.

Hey, if the small sets are impulse priced it would be awesome, each character comes with three weapons. The ninja weapons come in bronze and gold and the skeleton weapons are very interesting. In TLG's defense, it seems to want to create hype as one of those silly games, but then it will also introduce the kids that get into those games to the larger sets and that's more like LEGO's territory.

It seems the heroes will be "canister" sets in this iterations, I like the 2.0 in the names but who are Nex and Evo? Though lovely colors for them. Not a fan of the Hero heads though. Hope they get revamped between preliminary and release. Also hope it does not turn out like Neo Machines that the Heroes' parts that look combined are actually a single piece :{ The more I see the heroes, the more they remind me of neo machines, which is not a good thing :(

Getting the fig you want will likely cost you tons of money anyway. So the reduction in costs will not really help us. The problem is that after all the effort and money you spend to finally get the fig, you notice that the plastic is just poor and you may as well begin crying.