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Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:25 pm

I'm pretty disappointed with the Kre-O designers. I was able to make a significantly more accurate Devastator with 99% of the SAME pieces included in the box...

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:50 am

very cool. Can you do some more pics? like the sides and back maybe.

Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:15 pm

I'm actually going to make a post a YouTube video explaining what I did. I'll post a link here once I've done that.

News Credits: 7 · Fri Apr 12, 2013 2:07 pm

The great thing about Kre-O is that it's easy to fix most things to your liking, and often times you don't need to get extra sets (and even if you do, you're not limited to just Kre-O's library, you can use Lego or Megablocks or whatever).

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:35 pm

I just briefly looked at the box, then made my own from the bits including Hook.

Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:49 pm

Seibertom wrote:I'm pretty disappointed with the Kre-O designers. I was able to make a significantly more accurate Devastator with 99% of the SAME pieces included in the box...

And by "99%," you mean all the parts in the box and two more whole kreons. :roll:

It looks good, if a bit on the super-duper-shoudler-kibblly side.

That's not a bad thing though, it's like a caricature of Devastator, which is really what Kreons are anyway.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:31 am

Nice execution on this, interested in seeing that video now.

Sun Apr 14, 2013 11:24 am

Link for the video please?

News Credits: 1 · Sun Apr 14, 2013 11:26 am

Yeah, a video would be cool. Your remake of this guy looks good

News Credits: 3 · Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:02 pm

Seibertom wrote:I'm pretty disappointed with the Kre-O designers. I was able to make a significantly more accurate Devastator with 99% of the SAME pieces included in the box...

That does look like a more accurate Devastator, but -- to be fair to the designers -- they have a lot of other considerations beyond accuracy to worry about.

For instance, it looks like you have Scavenger and Bonecrusher attached to the shoulders using their heads. I suspect that a choice like that could be considered too unstable in a toy design setting. In a play situation, kids would probably be knocking them off all the time and losing pieces. But for just sitting on an adult's shelf, it's probably fine.

Good eye, though!