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.

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

Hero factory is/was criminally underrated.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

Hero factory was and is legit my childhood favourite Lego line

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Hero Factory > Bionicle I said it.

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

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

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

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

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

I really did love that franchise as well.❤😄

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had a ungodly amount of these

Man Hero Factory was cool, the idea of just having a pilot figure and a robot was cool back then

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Never grew up w/Hero Factory, never even knew there was a show. Still a great video, very informative

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

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

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.

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.

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

i still have their lego pieces as well as remembering the game they had on the computer - you had to survive hoards of lego aliens

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.

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

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 😊

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

I still cant believe it ended 10 years ago.

Thanks for making this video, you did a great job 💙

I had every single animal form hero. I had completely forgotten about them

what`s fun is talk to a Lego employ that told me they never bring it back hero factory back

This was my bread and butter growing up

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

if i remember correctly, in breakout, black phantom sent the hero factory building plans to the guy who made the brains

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

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

YES! I really wish I had Lego hero factory sets

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

imagine living on one of these planets tho

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

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

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.

Thanks for the TV series retrospective! I've been meaning to give these episodes another go. Didn't remember how bad IFB was lol. I guess at that point, they were running out of budget and had to switch studios, voices and probably the entire staff. Shame since I feel IFB was one of the best waves of HF. The sets were solid and the switch to minifigs really set the scale of how big the machines and beasts were. Pretty cool! On the theme as a whole, I love Hero Factory. It's just a shame how much wasted potential there was. Lots of cool directions they could've gone, and so many plot points that went nowhere (Villain Factory???). We've gotten a lot of info from the concept stages, and Hero Factory could've been something incredible. Still, I really enjoy the world and feel what it does offer us is a good springboard for creativity. There's a lot of potential in the concept of "Heroes built in a factory that fight crime across the galaxy."

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.

Oh my god I’ve been trying to remember the name of this and I just got so much nostalgia from this video! Thank you!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

i've never forgotten.

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.

OMG! Breakout! That was so cool! I absolutely LOVED the shark one. I cannot remember his name but my lord did I love his design and weaponry.

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.

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

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

Brain attack is literally the only thing I remember about hero factory and i thought I made that up in a dream. Glad to know this actually happened.

Hero factory mentioned RAHHHH 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

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

Literally became half of my Internet Persona-name

Hero Factory my beloved.