Hero Factory

I have generally avoided themed Lego products -- I favor the more generic sets, but on a whim, I got one of the Hero Factory figures, and, in short order, got several of them. The good guys are all alternately Iron Man types -- like people in exo-suits, or else cyborgs. They all have amusingly prissy names like "Preston" and so on, versus their badass call names, like "Surge" and what-not.



Anyway, what sold me on these is how articulated they are -- the ball-and-socket joints make them truly fully poseable in a way I haven't seen since the old Micronauts toys of the 70s. And they're sturdily built, easy-to-assemble, and are modular, offering any number of iterations and permutations. The Heroes have a group of villains to take on, like Meltdown, the Corroder, etc. My boys love'em, and we get a lot of play out of them. Again, the highly articulated frames make them wonderful to move around and pose. Fun to assemble (and, by and large, easy to assemble, not too many pieces), and fun to play with, too. Pleasant surprise.