User blog comment:Echo 1/Great Beings?/@comment-3059528-20110125032221/@comment-1221909-20110125035446

First off, Hero Factory is meant to be the successor of BIONICLE, not a continuation of it. If these two LEGO brands were going to exist within the same storyline, then there would be no need to retire BIONICLE in the first place. Just reset it on a different world.

Secondly, the physics and nature of the universe in both universes are very different. In the HF universe, they don't have elemental powers, or rely on mystical Kanohi masks, which kinda sperates them. HF tries to rely more on futuristic real-life physics, whilst BIONICLE relies on physics that seem more like magic. The histories of their universes are also too different, and are rather incompatible.

The two continuities are just too dissimilar.