Top 5 Best LEGO Hero Factory Sets from 2012 (BREAKOUT WAVE) 

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Its sad they didnt follow up on the storyline Breakout started.

So true hero factory was so goated and I wouldn’t be so involved with Lego in general if it weren’t for breakout

Agreed, they've been the only hero factory sets I've sought out as an adult. I had a few as a kid and I really liked them back then too.

I prefer Invasion From Below, but tbh my favorite movies are Pacific Rim, PR Uprising, Godzilla, and Shin Godzilla. My favorite setting is Warhammer 40K, which has multiple factions who’s whole thing is either BIG MONSTER or BIG MECH.

Totally agree, I've bought him recently, since I lost him as a cild, and he is still freaking gorgeous

Yeah, villians in HF are nearly always way more extraordinary (like freaking shark, giant fly, etc.) , but in "breakout" heros are super cool, even tough they have almost similar shapes and sizes most of them cool anyway with thier minimalistic designs (like breez, rocka, bulk, furno, stormer xl, surge)

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*2. 9488 Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid Battle Pack* Honestly, this could be Number 1, it's a great set, but I want to let the Top Spot be a surprise. Firstly before we get to minifigures since that's what Battle Packs are all about, this is one of the rarer Battle Packs that at least attempts to replicate something we've seen in Clone Wars. The Heavy Cannon is a pivotal element in the Clone Wars movie, and while it's a bit chibi-fied at least it's not another awful made up speeder or walker, it's something that exists in Star Wars! Okay, now for minifigs. Commando Droids were introduced in just the fifth episode of the series and they are one of the most formidable forces the Clones have to go up against through the series, so it's great to get a couple of them here. The ARF Trooper included is also from the fantastic Season 3 premiere episode ARC Troopers, and it's a shame that we never got to see any of the other designs from the series showcased, but I digress, to get a unique design that was different from the Lightning Squadron ARF Helmet was neat. But the biggest and baddest deal of all is the included ARC Trooper, who is Hammer from the same Season 3 premiere episodes of Clone Cadets and ARC Troopers. This was a really hopeful time for Star Wars fans because if we could have gotten the rest of Rancor Battallion or even just Fives and Echo from the Citadel Arc of Season 3 in sets, it would have been the best thing. ARC Troopers were more or less introduced in the 2D Clone Wars Microseries, they were just Phase I guys that had some neat red and blue striping, and then when the 3D Clone Wars series decided it was time to include them, we got this rad prototype Phase I.5 armor, and if LEGO had just decided to redesign the Phase II design to look a bit more like the Arc Trooper's helmet, 10 years of complaints would have never happened. The helmet would have been a bit larger to fit the minifigure aesthetic, no unsightly chins popping out, holes for accessories, we ended up in the wrong timeline. But speaking of accessories, oh man, cloth for the kama and pauldrons, what an improvement for mobility! And a new color other than black or gray for the helmet attachments! A Dark Red visor on Phase I Fox and on Captain Vaughn instead of the orange looks fantastic, and you have this set to thank for it. Without this set, you likely wouldn't have the Orange for Cody, or the Blue for the 501st either. This was also the first year that the blaster pistol was added to the lineup, and it's great to have 3 different size guns. The only downside is that the attachement packs were changed and now we no longer get DC-17's but depending on what sets you got that included them, you're good to go, plus they're cheap off Bricklink if you need more. Alright, the time has come... *1. The Planet Sets!* Yeah that's right, I'm cheating, and I'm putting all six of the planet sets released this year as the Number 1 spot. This was such a great line of collectibles. They were like the mini sets of 2003-04 and a handful of polybags released over the years, included a cool minifig to accompany the build, and it all came packed inside the planet the figure and build represented, and all for just $10 a pop! Phase 1 comprised of 9674 Naboo Starfighter & Naboo, 9675 Sebulba's Podracer & Tatooine, and 9676 TIE Interceptor & Death Star, and by far, the most popular of the whole line of Planet Sets is without a doubt the Death Star. It's two textured halves can be more versatile in MOCs than printed hemispheres, however I think that both Naboo and Tatooine have their charms, and certainly the more colorful builds, even if Death Star gave us out first TIE Interceptor in 6 years. Phase 2 comprised of 9677 X-wing Starfighter & Yavin 4, 9678: Twin-Pod Cloud Car & Bespin, and 9679: AT-ST & Endor, and while I'm sad to see the Prequels not represented here, Yavin 4 and Bespin are the second most versatile of the whole lineup because of their marbled plastics and less specific geographic features and clouds. While Yavin 4 is a jungle moon and Bespin a gas giant, because they've been made by marbling Dark Tan with Dark Green or Tan respectively, they've been used many times as domed rooftops and hot air balloons in MOCs, they're wonderful pieces to put your NPU skills to the test and then showoff. I myself have used Bespin as the top bun part of a burger shaped restaurant, and I've used both Yavin 4 and the Death Star to make a 50s Era style Atomic Bomb. Of the first 6 sets, my particular favorite is Bespine because the orange parts for the Cloud Speeder are quite nice, I bought a second copy, and then there's also the main man, Lobot. He is one of the best looking minifigures with his cybernetic implant being recreated beautifully compared to his appearance before in 7119 Twin-Pod Cloud Car, and they were able to duplicate the printing again for 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City, so it kills me they didn't bother to do that same thing for Echo in 75314 Bad Batch Attack Shuttle, but oh well. It's a shame that the hemispheres designed for these sets were never used in any other context. I bet they would have been perfect for an Octuptarra Droid or a UCS Character Model of a Buzz Droid. Even the use of them as representations of the planets in our Solar System for educational purposes was never used. Even just being used as unprinted things in sets for nice rounded shapes was not tapped. Plenty of potential could have come from these pieces, but I guess it was not meant to be as the line of Planet Sets ended the following year, never to have these pieces seen again. So there's my Top -5- 10 list of LEGO Star Wars sets from 2012. Maybe not the best year of Star Wars for me, but I'm pretty pleased with the ones I got.

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The best part of Breakout is the villains while Brain attack has just monsters with the slugs on top of the heads, except the dragon of course.

They did unfortunately, that was from a long time ago. Really missed the theme too 😢

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