Same here… I looked all across the internet, but couldn’t find any listing for that piece. I guess the only way to get it would be to contact someone who got it and try to buy it from them.
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Could indeed be an interesting chest piece to get.
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Necropost lescooooo
Wasn’t a Hero Factory fan when the Recon Team thing was up and running but I got a secondhand Furno 3.0 from a friend, and in the instructions was an ad for the HRT. Dang, I wish I had done it. Looks like a fun time even if the Hero never gets purchased.
I have to ask, though, for anyone who used it, was it like a click-and-drag experience like Studio/LDD? Or was it more of a “click this part and it’ll appear suddenly?”
On the topic of purchasing, though… like others in the topic I’m on the hunt for that chest piece xD If anyone has it I’m open, I scoured eBay and BrickLink for a bit and found nothing, but apparently 2 were sold in June of 2024. Even people on the general internet are looking for this, searching through a Hero Factory Reddit showed that people are contacting people who have it regularly, or at least as of a month or two ago.
May just have to spray paint a silver one to make Merrick Fortis…
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I remember creating a LOT of Heroes in the Hero Creator with the idea of maybe buying them for myself, but I never got around to ordering one.
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Anyone know of a way to access the Hero Creator game these days?
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I don’t remember the curved barbs being in there; was that a later update.
Obviously that was a while ago, but I think I remember it being a “click a part from this menu” setup.
It also went in stages, as you can see in the above image; the skeleton was preset, and then you’d add armour, weapons, and other small accessories.
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I never did, both due to the price and finding the customization to be lacking. I always wanted to do more and LDD allowed me to do more. Like make villains, minions, etc. And at the time, I thought ordering through Design by Me would ultimately be cheaper.
I don’t have my old calculations for how I determined it being cheaper. As far as I know, child me might have been very wrong on the price front. And seeing as for this highly customized piece of work cost a grand total of $176.56 2011 American dollars for 395 pieces…I’m pretty certain child me was very wrong.
But around when the Recon service was shutting down, alongside Design by Me, I was able to save up enough to order half my HF cast before the services closed. Three Heroes, three villains, and two minions for eight figures in total. They were proudly posed and displayed for so many years and I still use all their parts.
We’re cleaning out the crawlspaces and this box was still there, just as I thought.
Can you tell my passionate hatred for making poses in digital models was strong?
If you’re wondering what the box looks like without the sleeve…
It also, technically, came with instructions.
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Even though I had heard of Design By Me when I was a kid, it somehow never occured to me to use it to make Hero Factory builds.
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Bro that’s a high IQ move!
Did anyone try to make bionicle sets through that?
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Although the hero builder in the Recon Team service was static images, it pulled all its models and part info from LDD. It was basically a gutted and web version of LDD/Design by Me, which I was able to recognize due to it sharing other features.
I already had been playing around with LDD around the initial public release days and when the service was still called Factory. So when Hero Recon started and LDD updated with a bunch of new Hero Factory parts, I went to town.
Probably but they would only have CCBS and some 2010 HF parts to use. For those who didn’t grow up using LDD a lot, by 2011 there were three different modes.
There was the regular builder mode which allowed you to buy models. Most of the parts available were also found on Pick a Brick and the part replacement service. The parts were limited to what colors were available to buy, you couldn’t make them whatever color you wanted. No constraction parts appeared until Hero Recon…*
The second mode was a dedicated Mindstorms building section. This was to help FIRST and other Lego robotics competitions plan out or test their stuff digitally. You couldn’t order parts from this section from what I recall.
Then there was the secret third mode, LDD Extended. It was a secret mode as originally, it did not appear on the menu screen as an option. I remember reading about people finding it on forums and what needed to be done to unlock this portion. Opening that unlocked a ton more parts, all of which were in red but allowed you to make them any color available in LDD’s paint tool. That’s where * comes in, as most to all of 2010 HF parts were inside, including some Bionicle Stars parts and a few, random older Bionicle parts. However, you could not order anything from the Extended version. Nor easily share and upload it to the Factory/Design by Me gallery on Lego.com either. No direct upload from that portion from what I recall.
Although technically, Extended was sometimes the fourth mode. Occasionally the third public mode was after a specific theme to promote that product line. Which meant a bunch of their parts became available for use in purchasable builds. Though you could also use it for the contests Lego was running. Which was often the primary purpose of those temporary dedicated third options.
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