Kre-O Battle Changers In-Hand Images

These are what Kreo Transformers should've been in the first place.

Mkall wrote:These are what Kreo Transformers should've been in the first place.

True and agreeable

I didn't think I would buy any Kre-o stuff but these are very tempting.

I still want more microchangers. These are great but if these and the new "transformers in different costumes" blindpacks are replacing them I'll be disappointed

I knead dis. I knead dis NAO!

I really like that starscream. I can't wait for the Soundwave with Rumble, Frenzy, and Laserbeak.

These are cool.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I really like that starscream. I can't wait for the Soundwave with Rumble, Frenzy, and Laserbeak.

100% agreed.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I really like that starscream. I can't wait for the Soundwave with Rumble, Frenzy, and Laserbeak.

Yeah, Soundwave is gonna rock.

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The problem i have with collecting Kreons compared to LEGOs is the quality.

One thing that LEGO never failed me is that the quality is always top notch. What see at the packaging, you're gonna get 98% accurate to it. Clean mold, sharp printing. Nice colors.

I've collected Micro Changers, some Kreo sets and combiners, but they rarely come out satisfying to me. Their tampograph, especially silver is very poorly aligned. My recent purchase Obsidian has quite an amount of misaligned printings. A micro changer I got Trailbreaker, which I liked because of the nice chest print I see in the packaging, well the print is horribly misaligned.

So far the very VERY best Kreon i got was Jalguar from Series 8 i think. That Kreon has nice colors, and super sharp printing. I could stare on it all day long.

I see Kreos are improving, now with actual transforming figures, and I'm glad. Hopefully they work out with this printing issue, especially their silver printing. I wanna enjoy collecting them.

zwann wrote:The problem i have with collecting Kreons compared to LEGOs is the quality.

One thing that LEGO never failed me is that the quality is always top notch. What see at the packaging, you're gonna get 98% accurate to it. Clean mold, sharp printing. Nice colors.

I've collected Micro Changers, some Kreo sets and combiners, but they rarely come out satisfying to me. Their tampograph, especially silver is very poorly aligned. My recent purchase Obsidian has quite an amount of misaligned printings. A micro changer I got Trailbreaker, which I liked because of the nice chest print I see in the packaging, well the print is horribly misaligned.

So far the very VERY best Kreon i got was Jalguar from Series 8 i think. That Kreon has nice colors, and super sharp printing. I could stare on it all day long.

I see Kreos are improving, now with actual transforming figures, and I'm glad. Hopefully they work out with this printing issue, especially their silver printing. I wanna enjoy collecting them.

Give it time. Lego has been doing this for a LOOOOONG time without any real competition in the building block department. If Hasbro keeps doing their Kre-O's then we'll see an increase in quality with them. Of course, Hasbro makes most of their money from other toy lines, so Kre-O, being relatively new, might get the axe if they need to do some cuts.

Can't wait for them!!!

It's been a while since we last heard about the Hasbro Transformers Kre-O Battle Changers, but thanks to their YouTube channel, we now have a 15 second commercial showing off some stop-motion animation for the line! Check out Grimlock, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in the embedded clip below.

Whatever happened to the 6th wave of Kre-O? The one with Blackarachnia, Seaspray Gears. Did they show up anywhere?

Did Grimlock stomp Cobra Commander?

Heads up, a lot of the new Kreon parts are NOT compatible with the old ones.

RiddlerJ wrote:Whatever happened to the 6th wave of Kre-O? The one with Blackarachnia, Seaspray Gears. Did they show up anywhere?

Asia.


It really looks like Kre-O's on it's way out...

Great Golden Grimlock, that commercial is hilarious!

With the official Hasbro commercial just showing up, we're happy to share fellow Seibertronian chuckdawg1999's video review of the Optimus Prime set from the Transformers Kre-O Battle Changers line. Check out the video embedded below!

I was never sure if I'd see these sets released in the US but with a commercial popping up on Hasbro's YouTube channel there may be some hope yet. Optimus Prime is a fun build but keep in mind that the Transformation may be a bit fiddly causing parts to pop off.

I'm really happy we'll be seeing these at mass retail. I was starting to think they were going to be canceled.

Noideaforaname wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:Whatever happened to the 6th wave of Kre-O? The one with Blackarachnia, Seaspray Gears. Did they show up anywhere?

Asia.

And, like Chuck said in his video, Canada... I've seen that wave on display at the nearest TRU for over a month.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm really happy we'll be seeing these at mass retail. I was starting to think they were going to be canceled.

I've also seen a lot of these in the last month or two... people really need to start telling me when I'm walking past rare finds

Something distressing I noticed in that Battle Changers commercial. The Kre-O website it gives at the end is kre-o.ca. ".ca" is the typical suffix for Canadian websites...

Samsonator wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:Whatever happened to the 6th wave of Kre-O? The one with Blackarachnia, Seaspray Gears. Did they show up anywhere?

Asia.

And, like Chuck said in his video, Canada... I've seen that wave on display at the nearest TRU for over a month.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm really happy we'll be seeing these at mass retail. I was starting to think they were going to be canceled.

I've also seen a lot of these in the last month or two... people really need to start telling me when I'm walking past rare finds

If you see Starscream and Grimlock let me know

RiddlerJ wrote:Whatever happened to the 6th wave of Kre-O? The one with Blackarachnia, Seaspray Gears. Did they show up anywhere?

It's been out in Canada. They're actual blindbags too, no codes on them. Wasn't able to find Blackarachnia or Gears, but I got Seaspray. My Seaspray has a Decepticon symbol on him though, instead of an Aubotbot symbol. So it might be worth money.

Samsonator wrote:And, like Chuck said in his video, Canada... I've seen that wave on display at the nearest TRU for over a month.

I've also seen a lot of these in the last month or two... people really need to start telling me when I'm walking past rare finds

Man, you could've been making a mint off these things selling them across the border.
... assuming shipping, etc. didn't completely kill it.

Samsonator wrote:Something distressing I noticed in that Battle Changers commercial. The Kre-O website it gives at the end is kre-o.ca. ".ca" is the typical suffix for Canadian websites...

Well poopy.

I guess it's good none of the newer Kre-O sets are absolute must-haves for me.

What newer sets are we talking about? The RID capture vehicles?

RiD, these transforming ones, the Cowboy Optimus/Knight Megatron/Pirate Starscream things... anything post-AoE.

Noideaforaname wrote:RiD, these transforming ones, the Cowboy Optimus/Knight Megatron/Pirate Starscream things... anything post-AoE.

Really? I was thinking that these would be released closer to the TV debut of the RID cartoon. I'm surprised these were supposed to be out soon.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:If you see Starscream and Grimlock let me know

When next I pop out to a TRU I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Last time, he brought us Optimus Prime, but today, fellow Seibertronian chuckdawg1999 has shared a video review of another Kre-O Battle Changer: Bumblebee! Check out the embedded video below, and let us know if you're interested in these little fellows, currently only around in Canada.

After Prime I wasn't sure about The Bee but I have to say the build was nicer resulting in a solid bot with decent articulation. As mentioned in the video care should be used while transforming the arms as I don't feel the shoulder balls are made of the sternest stuff. Bumblebee is a much better kit overall and I would recommend it over Optimus as a first purchase.

I reviewed Battle Changers Grimlock on my twitter account! He's brilliant, I just wish he came in G1 colours instead. Not too much of an issue, he's still awesome. Looking at Optimus and Bumblebee, I'd have to say that I'll probably go for Starscream instead of those two.

I have been asked to post my review of Battle Changers Grimlock here. So I shall!

I was surprised to find Kre-O Battle Changers Grimlock at my local Toys R' Us during my Boxing Day toy store rampage.



Grimlock was released in Canada in late 2014, although they are listed as not being available until Spring 2015. Hasbro seems to be doing some wacky things with their release dates when Canada and the UK get releases BEFORE the US does. Grimlock is an 82 piece set who's colours more match the Age of Extinction toy than the G1 toy. This doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. He stands roughly 10cm (4in) tall in dino mode, and there's no storage for his weapon, unless you want to stick it in his tiny dino hands (which I do).






Grimlock transforms exactly as you'd expect him to. The head and sides of the dino mode are attached to the same spinal component and all fold back and down. His lower portion swings forward to form legs and feet, and the dino legs twist at the knee to form his robot arms. Pretty standard in terms of a recognizable G1 accurate Grimlock transformation!



His robot mode stands just shy of 9cm (3 1/2 inches), and looks exactly how a Kre-O Grimlock should! Again, the colour looks more like AoE Grimlocks' colours, but that doesn't bother me one bit. The helmet actually bothers me a little more with the fact that, instead of using a new helmet design, they use one of the generic Kre-O helmet designs. I guess I can't be TOO mad at that since it still looks like the guy, though.



The face and torso have tampographed details while the sword, shoulders, and the grey pieces on the sides of the shins have stickers. They're alright stickers, I was honestly reluctant to put them on at first, because I thought he'd look better with them off, but nah, he looks better this way! The articulation is surprisingly awesome! I wish all regular Transformers were as bendy as him!



In relation to other Kre-O figures, I'd say he's the right size! They come up to about thigh level to him. I'm one of those nut bars who like things to be a certain scale to each other, and I think this scale works for Kre-O Grimlock!



I saw Optimus, Bumblebee, and Starscream at the Toys R' Us as well. I knew Grimlock was also going to be released with them, but I didn't see him until after I started digging. He was buried in the back of the shelf. Good thing I found him or I might have had to settle for getting one of the ones I was less enthusiastic for. First world problem averted!

Pick him up when you see him. After seeing Bumblebee and Optimus, I'd say this one is definitely the winner of the first wave. Hopefully there'll be more releases after this. I'd love to see Megatron given the same treatment!

Why not have some more Kre-O Transformers Battle Changers reviews for the weekend? Thanks to fellow Seibertron.com member Fires_Of_Inferno, Canada-dweller with easier access to the figures for now, we take a look at Dinobot leader Grimlock in his brick form, including some thoughts and size comparisons - check it out below!

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I have been asked to post my review of Battle Changers Grimlock here. So I shall!

I was surprised to find Kre-O Battle Changers Grimlock at my local Toys R' Us during my Boxing Day toy store rampage.

Grimlock was released in Canada in late 2014, although they are listed as not being available until Spring 2015. Hasbro seems to be doing some wacky things with their release dates when Canada and the UK get releases BEFORE the US does. Grimlock is an 82 piece set who's colours more match the Age of Extinction toy than the G1 toy. This doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. He stands roughly 10cm (4in) tall in dino mode, and there's no storage for his weapon, unless you want to stick it in his tiny dino hands (which I do).

Grimlock transforms exactly as you'd expect him to. The head and sides of the dino mode are attached to the same spinal component and all fold back and down. His lower portion swings forward to form legs and feet, and the dino legs twist at the knee to form his robot arms. Pretty standard in terms of a recognizable G1 accurate Grimlock transformation!

His robot mode stands just shy of 9cm (3 1/2 inches), and looks exactly how a Kre-O Grimlock should! Again, the colour looks more like AoE Grimlocks' colours, but that doesn't bother me one bit. The helmet actually bothers me a little more with the fact that, instead of using a new helmet design, they use one of the generic Kre-O helmet designs. I guess I can't be TOO mad at that since it still looks like the guy, though.

The face and torso have tampographed details while the sword, shoulders, and the grey pieces on the sides of the shins have stickers. They're alright stickers, I was honestly reluctant to put them on at first, because I thought he'd look better with them off, but nah, he looks better this way! The articulation is surprisingly awesome! I wish all regular Transformers were as bendy as him!

In relation to other Kre-O figures, I'd say he's the right size! They come up to about thigh level to him. I'm one of those nut bars who like things to be a certain scale to each other, and I think this scale works for Kre-O Grimlock!

I saw Optimus, Bumblebee, and Starscream at the Toys R' Us as well. I knew Grimlock was also going to be released with them, but I didn't see him until after I started digging. He was buried in the back of the shelf. Good thing I found him or I might have had to settle for getting one of the ones I was less enthusiastic for. First world problem averted!

Pick him up when you see him. After seeing Bumblebee and Optimus, I'd say this one is definitely the winner of the first wave. Hopefully there'll be more releases after this. I'd love to see Megatron given the same treatment!

If gold is the color of royalty, then him Grimlock king!

Slapping that SEIBERTRON.COM on someone's pic review? *smh*


The scale-junky in me wants to see them do BIG Transformers out of these. Don't really need giant versions of figures I already have.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Really? I was thinking that these would be released closer to the TV debut of the RID cartoon. I'm surprised these were supposed to be out soon.

Err, I think we're getting confused. From my perspective, anything unreleased is "NEW." There haven't been any new Kre-O stuff here, the US, since AoE premiered. These Battle Chargers, by the sounds of things, were *supposed* to have been released here months ago. Since they haven't, I'm making a general statement about all unreleased-in-the-US/"new" Kre-O.

Noideaforaname wrote:Slapping that SEIBERTRON.COM on someone's pic review? *smh*

It wasn't intentional, but I've been arguing with my connection since Thursday - so there it stays for now.

The Kre-O display at Toy Fair 2015 was small but not without its own reveals. We get a nice look at the Kreon Warriors and Sideswipe Roadway Rundown set. Also on display at Toy Fair 2015 were new Kre-O sets including Battle Changers Drift, Blitzwing, Hound and Shockwave. Blitzwing and Drift are triple changers.

No pics of the Bumblebee and Optimus combiners?


Blitzwing coming with 3 heads sure is handy since I have a regular custom Blitswing that'd love a crazy face. But a metallic gold helmet? Odd.

Looks like they combined just about every Drift into that one. Colors/chest based on MtMtE, triple changer like Movie, minions like RiD.

And those "Warriors" are getting a second wave. Too bad most of them are repeat characters. Looks like some of them have hair. Uh...



Kreon are going weird and totally away from what got people hooked on.

Noideaforaname wrote:Looks like they combined just about every Drift into that one. Colors/chest based on MtMtE, triple changer like Movie, minions like RiD.

I think the only one they missed is Shattered Glass Drift, and since he's a FunPub character who never appeared in anything anyway, and trying to include him would probably make things confusing, I can see why they skipped him.

I'm just surprised they picked Drift, with those modes I'd have expected Springer.

I was hope for an announcement for at least one more line of micro-changers with the new combiner characters, Alpha Bravo, Rook, Offroad and such to mash into our existing Kre-o combiners.

That said trying to push an 8th guy onto Superion may be hard.

Noideaforaname wrote:No pics of the Bumblebee and Optimus combiners?

Hmm, weird, thought I had sent those through. Sorry about that! The connection in there was a bit rough.

ScottyP wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:No pics of the Bumblebee and Optimus combiners?

Hmm, weird, thought I had sent those through. Sorry about that! The connection in there was a bit rough.

We got some in the later galleries though!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... als/32225/

Va'al wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:No pics of the Bumblebee and Optimus combiners?

Hmm, weird, thought I had sent those through. Sorry about that! The connection in there was a bit rough.

We got some in the later galleries though!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... als/32225/

Ah, there it is! http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsi ... &image=110

ScottyP wrote:

Va'al wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:No pics of the Bumblebee and Optimus combiners?

Hmm, weird, thought I had sent those through. Sorry about that! The connection in there was a bit rough.

We got some in the later galleries though!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... als/32225/

Ah, there it is! http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsi ... &image=110

That's just dumb, but i kinda like it

Yeeeess!
I think this if my favorite reveal. It's just plain absurd, the kind of thing people joke about, but I got a list of Kreons that could use those very same helmets (which won't be used in combined mode), so inexplicably it's both a stupid novelty and a highly useful set.

Now the trouble is can I even find it.

3 out of 4 of those heads on Bumblebees limbs seem to be in a great deal of pain..... But that one leg is having a blast.

Editor wrote:3 out of 4 of those heads on Bumblebees limbs seem to be in a great deal of pain..... But that one leg is having a blast.

You have any idea how hard it is for me not to imagine them screaming with pain/joy every time I look at the image, now..?

It isn't over yet! For all the Kre-O fans out there, Seibertron.com has uploaded a gallery showcasing the new direction that the line is going into revealed by Hasbro at Toy Fair 2015, from Battle Changers, to Warriors, to the disturbingly amusing Bumblebee and Optimus Prime combiners - check them all out by clicking on any of the images below.

Noideaforaname wrote:
Yeeeess!
I think this if my favorite reveal. It's just plain absurd, the kind of thing people joke about, but I got a list of Kreons that could use those very same helmets (which won't be used in combined mode), so inexplicably it's both a stupid novelty and a highly useful set.

Now the trouble is can I even find it.

Holy crap, what is even this? I saw the Optimus made out of tiny Optimii before I noticed the GIGANTIC Bumblebee with little screaming heads for limbs!

To be fair...it is Bumblebee...

RAcast wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:
Yeeeess!
I think this if my favorite reveal. It's just plain absurd, the kind of thing people joke about, but I got a list of Kreons that could use those very same helmets (which won't be used in combined mode), so inexplicably it's both a stupid novelty and a highly useful set.

Now the trouble is can I even find it.

Holy crap, what is even this? I saw the Optimus made out of tiny Optimii before I noticed the GIGANTIC Bumblebee with little screaming heads for limbs!

To be fair...it is Bumblebee...

funny thing is hasbro beat us fans to it none of us fans would have thought to make to make combiner out of all movie bumblebees that are on shelfs

Va'al wrote:

Editor wrote:3 out of 4 of those heads on Bumblebees limbs seem to be in a great deal of pain..... But that one leg is having a blast.

You have any idea how hard it is for me not to imagine them screaming with pain/joy every time I look at the image, now..?

You good Sir.
Are welcome.

So to quickly review this piece:
+ + + + =

Va'al wrote:

Editor wrote:3 out of 4 of those heads on Bumblebees limbs seem to be in a great deal of pain..... But that one leg is having a blast.

You have any idea how hard it is for me not to imagine them screaming with pain/joy every time I look at the image, now..?

Me too. It's cracking me up, it's like it's saying "Heeey I'm a leg!"

Those Battle changers look really good. The two I have were solid builds and fun to transform back and forth. One complaint I have from them is I wish there were a few more locking points in vehicle mode. I think Drift will have those, at least I hope it will.