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News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:22 pm

The next and final San Diego Comic Con 2014 exclusive has been revealed, and will give lovers of Kreons a run for their money: Kreons Class of 1984! Thanks to io9.com we have a look at this exclusive pack of thirty Kreons, new entries being Rumble, Frenzy, Gears, Sunstreaker, Shrapnel, and Ultra Magnus! This set also features little extra accessories, including among them a boombox and cassette tapes. The price for this set is reported to be $59.99. Images of the set have been mirrored below!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:32 pm

Now THIS is gonna garner some attention!

Lots of toy-accuracy going on with these. Blue Bluestreak, visor-eyed Brawn, face-masked Bumblebee, visor-eyed Gears, gray-eyed Hound, visor-eyed Huffer, silver-visor Jazz, blue eye-masked Mirage, mouthplated Perceptor, silver-eyed Rumble and Frenzy, yellow-eyed Skywarp, yellow-visored Soundwave, red-visored Trailcutter, red-eyed/blue-mouthplated Ultra Magnus, visor-eyed Wheeljack, visor-eyed Windcharger, and a lot of other odds and ends. ;)^

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:33 pm

Very cool to get a proper Shrapnel. The one out now (red diaclone homage) just doesn't count.

Also at $2 a Kreon, that's a fantastic price.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gallifreyan Autobot** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:38 pm

Mindmaster wrote:The next and final San Diego Comic Con 2014 exclusive has been revealed, and will give lovers of Kreons a run for their money: Kreons Class of 1984! Thanks to io9.com we have a look at this exclusive pack of thirty Kreons, new entries being Rumble, Frenzy, Gears, Sunstreaker, Shrapnel, and Ultra Magnus! This set also features little extra accessories, including among them a boombox and cassette tapes. The price for this set is reported to be $59.99. Images of the set have been mirrored below!

I like this Aww yea

I wonder what the class of 86-89 will be probably has post movie character headmasters target masters pretenders power masters and ones that originated from Japan :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 9 · by **triKlops** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:40 pm

Friggin awesome set; excellent value for money as well!

by **shockblast2** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:47 pm

This set doesn't make sense. If it were the class of 84 it should be the original 18 autobots and 14 decepticons.

Nice price point thought. Too bad it barely makes up for the admission and the rest of the costs associated with going.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:50 pm

shockblast2 wrote:This set doesn't make sense.

A set of 30 of the most beloved/iconic G1 characters that includes all of the 1984 cast (minus the three non-humanoid ones) doesn't make any sense?

by **Coptur** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:00 pm

No Reflector no sale sorry hasbro >:oP

Website · by **Fires_Of_Inferno** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:03 pm

No Bluestreak, no Reflector, and no Skyfire.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:05 pm

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:No Bluestreak,

Top-row, second one from the left, between Arcee and Brawn:

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:24 pm

Aren't Arcee and Magnus technically "Class of '86?" Nonetheless, I WANT THIS.

If it were the class of 84 it should be the original 18 autobots and 14 decepticons.

I would have gone for that as well. But Magnus and Arcee are pretty cool additions.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:33 pm

ScottyP wrote:Very cool to get a proper Shrapnel. The one out now (red diaclone homage) just doesn't count.

Also at $2 a Kreon, that's a fantastic price.

yeah, that shrapnel is getting the red one's parts, since they're inexplicably going with something other than those pincers. the improved seekers look great, skrapnel and sideswipe are mixed up, but that's not a major issue. my only real complaint is that they dont seem to have included a red pair of the pieces they're using as piledrivers, so we could use rumble as rumble instead of frenzy

I'm not saying I'm right, just that the choice should be up to the user!

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:49 pm

My god, that is a beautiful set! All those Kreons, mini-Rumble and Frenzy, original toy accuracy, mullets, floppy discs, rubik's cubes, brick cell phones, VHS tapes, and at an absolute steal! Too bad it'll no doubt sell out long before I could possibly even think "buy."

On the flip side, there are a LOT of repeat characters...

by **Peridot** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:53 pm

THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER MADE except for MP-10

I will be buying this.

EDIT: Oh my god Sunstreaker has a mullet. A FRAGGING MULLET.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 5:50 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
shockblast2 wrote:This set doesn't make sense.
A set of 30 of the most beloved/iconic G1 characters that includes all of the 1984 cast (minus the three non-humanoid ones) doesn't make any sense?

To be fair Sabr, if you look at the accessories, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak and Ravage *ARE* included in cassette form.
Also the only thing *REALLY* confusing me is why Shrapnel is using smokestacks instead of pincers. I hope they fixed this for the official release

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 5:53 pm

durroth wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
shockblast2 wrote:This set doesn't make sense.
A set of 30 of the most beloved/iconic G1 characters that includes all of the 1984 cast (minus the three non-humanoid ones) doesn't make any sense?

To be fair Sabr, if you look at the accessories, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak and Ravage *ARE* included in cassette form.
Also the only thing *REALLY* confusing me is why Shrapnel is using smokestacks instead of pincers. I hope they fixed this for the official release

Good eye!

Website · by **Fires_Of_Inferno** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:11 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:No Bluestreak,
Top-row, second one from the left, between Arcee and Brawn:

Huh, I thought that was Smokescreen. I wish they'd make Bluestreak grey again.

by **Darth Jumpy** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:28 pm

I hope that some versions of the characters that are seen in this set makes it into some of the main line toys. I would love to get some cassette pals for my Kreon Soundwave.

News Credits: 2 · by **sabrigami** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:37 pm

Wow! that is nice. I want this. That is a lot of value.

Do they have these for sale even if you can't attend?

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:40 pm

sabrigami wrote:Do they have these for sale even if you can't attend?

SDCC exclusives, if there are any stock left after the convention is over, is put on Hasbro Toy Shop usually the following Monday. I imagine this and the Dinobots set selling out really quickly.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:57 pm

OK, I'll ask, do the figures Transform?

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:10 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:OK, I'll ask, do the figures Transform?

If they're anything like the regular retail Kre-Os, then they should. I mean, they actually fall apart and you have to put them back together into their alt modes, but it's still changing from 1 form to the other.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:19 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:OK, I'll ask, do the figures Transform?

If they're anything like the regular retail Kre-Os, then they should. I mean, they actually fall apart and you have to put them back together into their alt modes, but it's still changing from 1 form to the other.

They look to be the regular non-transforming Kreons rather than Micro Changers, due to a lack of a noticeable amount of excessive kibble parts that enable transformation.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:56 pm

that's not of course going to stop me from replacing the micro changers that have corresponding figures in this set with these. Because that arcee and shrapnel at least are much better than the blind bagged ones. Brawn... might be? I dunno. Trailcutter probably is better than his set figure, but isn't there another one of him in series 6?

News Credits: 2 · by **sabrigami** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:57 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
sabrigami wrote:Do they have these for sale even if you can't attend?

SDCC exclusives, if there are any stock left after the convention is over, is put on Hasbro Toy Shop usually the following Monday. I imagine this and the Dinobots set selling out really quickly.

Awwwww. that kinda sucks :-(