LEGO Hero Factory: Secret Mission #1: The Doom Box

by Greg Farshtey

From the creators of Bionicle®, welcome to Hero Factory!

The heroes receive dire prior to their original capture, Core Hunter, Voltix, XT4, and Thornaxx stole four components of what is said to be a devastating super-weapon called "The Doom Box." This device grows larger on activation, encompassing anything in its path, then collapses in on itself--a serious danger enough--but the box is capable of growing to the size of an entire galaxy!
Now that the villains have escaped, they are believed to be out to recover those components, build the weapon, and blackmail the galaxy into giving them power.

Hero Factory has to stop them.

Genres: Childrens, Science Fiction, Chapter Books, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

Greg Farshtey is the author of the popular BIONICLE chapter books and Level 3 readers, as well as the long-running BIONICLE comic book series. His day job is Editor-in-Chief and head writer for the LEGO Club Magazine and the LEGO BrickMaster Magazine.

Greg has been writing since fourth grade. After earning a degree in Communications from the State University of New York at Geneseo, he worked as a reporter, sports editor, game designer and editor, and copywriter before joining LEGO Company in 2000. Before becoming involved with BIONICLE, he wrote game material for such diverse properties as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Tales From the Crypt.

Greg is the author of more than 30 novels and guidebooks, as well as the author or co-author of more than 35 game sourcebooks and adventures.

He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Far...

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is so hard to rate a book you've read aloud over several bed-times to your small boy - do you give it your own rating or his opinion (which is after all what counts). Ben really enjoyed this book, which is interesting as it is written for older kids and uses more sophisticated language, description and structure than other books he's listened to. I'd say it is perfect for grades 3-6.

Suffice to say that he has ordered the next volume from school bookclub and is impatiently waiting for it to arrive.

[Whitney · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad. I read it because my nine year old son recommended it. He's never recommended a book to me before. *warm gooey feelings*

[David Mallory · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who is a huge fan of the Bionicle book series, I was surprised when I found out that Hero Factory (the spiritual successor) had books. This was a pretty fun read and while it occasionally had small moments where you could tell that Farshtey wanted to go deeper, it's a pretty straightforward story that would work well for kids.

[Diana Prince · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read with my son. He is 5 and loved it.

[Ethun Sheppard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought it was pretty good, though quite a bit of the book is a bunch of side missions rather than all the Heroes together.

[Taylor Campos]

its a okay story not far from normal reads

[Sherry Thornberry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this was an awful book for me. I assume "Hero Factory" is part of a series because the book did not develop any of the characters and worked based on an assumption that the reader knew all about the Hero Factory and the world in which it operated, which I did not. I also noticed there were not descriptive words hardly used at all to describe what the planets were like or what the different robots looked like. Basically there was a mysterious box that could control the world, it was severed into 3 pieces, the pieces were distributed around the galaxy, 1000 or so years later and bad robot reassembled them to take over the galaxy but was stopped by our band of heros. Sound familiar? The only good thing I can say about the book is that it did give me ideas for writing assignments. My students could do "Mission logs" and summarize an activity we did. Other than that, I did not like this book.

[Ty O'Brien · Rating 4 out of 5]

***SPOILERS***

I liked this book, my favourite part was when Core Hunter was trying to make the Doom Box and he was just standing there looking at it, wishing it would work. It was a funny part. I did not like when Core Hunter tricked the others because its not nice to trick people.

I really liked Core Hunter, he's the bad guy, but he looks cool on the cover.

[Joy Boyz · Rating 3 out of 5]

My little hero loved this book, I grudgingly gave it 3 stars. I thought the story was a little hard to follow. He's really looking forward to reading more of these, so that's a plus, he's still loving reading.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book was epic!

[Ric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bought for the kid at home. It's a nice to introduce kids to reading novels.