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Some neat entries in here.

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Online retailer Red Mercury has revealed another upcoming wave of Kre-O Microchangers! Some pretty interesting new entries from across the Transformers universe. Check out the list and image below:

• Decepticon Runamuck
• Fuselage
• Autobot Gears
• Frostbite
• Autobot Seaspray
• Trailbreaker
• Decepticon Blackarachnia
• Skimmer
• Decepticon Skalor
• Sunstreaker
• Scattershot
• Autobot Wheelie

Nice! It's been so long I forgot what the previous wave was. Anybody notice what looks like a new (Wheeljack?) helmet on Sunstreaker?

Nope that's Wheeljacks head. I wish these would turn up more in the UK. My local Morrisons still has 2 full boxes of Wave 2 and I have never seen Wave 3 in retail, let alone the second or third wave of the Combiners

Oh, now they get the "Trailbreaker" name back.

And "Decepticon Blackarachnia"? Don't tell me they lost her name now, too.

"Decepticon" Blackarachnia? So they lost the rights to her name too, or only have it trademarked parsed into two words so they want to cover all their bases, or some other toy company's actually using it...?

Haven't collected these yet, but if her Kreon's the least bit more show-accurate than her original Tarantulas repaint in some way, this may be the wave that gets its foot in the door to my collection. BW Kreons are more versatile than most anyway, because they can sort of scale properly with most regular G1 toys.

Bumblevivisector wrote:"Decepticon" Blackarachnia? So they lost the rights to her name too, or only have it trademarked parsed into two words so they want to cover all their bases, or some other toy company's actually using it...?

Sabrblade wrote:Oh, now they get the "Trailbreaker" name back. :roll:

And "Decepticon Blackarachnia"? Don't tell me they lost her name now, too.

I think it has more to do with the area the trademark has been applied for. We should still have "Blackarachnia" and "Trailbreaker" is normally out of reach for regular "Boys' Toys", but "Construction Sets" is a whole new area with a slightly different availability. See "Kre-O Sinnertwin" vs. "Prime Twinstrike" >:oP

And finally we have a Skalor!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I think it has more to do with the area the trademark has been applied for. We should still have "Blackarachnia" and "Trailbreaker" is normally out of reach for regular "Boys' Toys", but "Construction Sets" is a whole new area with a slightly different availability. See "Kre-O Sinnertwin" vs. "Prime Twinstrike" >:oP

And finally we have a Skalor!

That makes sense, but I'm still scratching my head over Kre-O Sinnertwin, since when Twinstrike was announced, a lot of us thought Hasbro just wouldn't risk putting "Sinner" on any toy, period.

And yes, I'm technically happy about the completion of the Kre-O Seacons; heck, I'm ecstatic whenever I see the Piranacon set in stores. But then I look closer at the actual figures, and think of all the Arms Microns I could be saving up for instead. No, I won't be buying too many exceptions from this line besides DB, and even she's still a maybe.

Well, Blackarachnia certainly looks...masculine...

Fuselage appears to be Octane and Skimmer might be DOTM Air Raid.

Sabrblade wrote:Fuselage appears to be Octane and Skimmer might be DOTM Air Raid.

Good call! I am spotting oddities in the form of Trailbreaker and Scattershot, as they already have figures in the Kreon line-up. Movie versions perhaps?

Blackarachnia, Skalor, and Sea Spray are must haves. I could pass on the rest.
Definitely going to give Sea Spray the diver helmet and flippers.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Fuselage appears to be Octane and Skimmer might be DOTM Air Raid.

Good call! I am spotting oddities in the form of Trailbreaker and Scattershot, as they already have figures in the Kreon line-up. Movie versions perhaps?

There are 2 versions of scattershot, right? G1 Technobot and the missile launcher from cybertron. So who is this new guy?

i still havent seen the last 2 waves in my area, granted the only one i want from those is hot rod but still. As for these guys blackarachnia looks interesting, if these actually show up in my area i might get her.

Try walgreens or a other pharmacies. I have only seen wave 4 at Walgreens and my
Local comic shop.

They make Wheelie before Blurr. That's insulting.

kirbenvost wrote:Nice! It's been so long I forgot what the previous wave was. Anybody notice what looks like a new (Wheeljack?) helmet on Sunstreaker?

I'm thinking cut off the facemask part and it will be accurate.......

^ MHawk44 (from TFW) did just that --and a few other mods-- on his custom Sunstreaker, it turned out great!


It's about time they reused that Wheeljack helmet. Thought they'd have done a Slicer by now...

Whooooooooo! Wheelie!

I'm getting about half this wave but the only one I care about is Wheelie. Then again I said I only wanted Hot Rod out of the last wave and ended up with nearly all of them eventually so that's probably going to happen again. Though why another Trailbreaker? He got a single set along with Windcharger form Beast Hunters.

C'mere you little Kreon crack

So, what exactly makes these movie Kreons? I can't name a single one of these that appeared in the movies (from what I can remember, it has been a while), except for Wheelie. And even Wheelie seems to be G1 based. Did they just restart the numbering on the Micro-Changer series?

Darth Jumpy wrote:So, what exactly makes these movie Kreons? I can't name a single one of these that appeared in the movies (from what I can remember, it has been a while), except for Wheelie. And even Wheelie seems to be G1 based. Did they just restart the numbering on the Micro-Changer series?

They're movie in name only. The main sets are AoE style, wouldn't make sense business-wise to make another subset for the Kre-O Transformers line. Besides, some figures are Movie style in that they supplement the Combiner sets, like Torosaur, Skrapnel and Silversnout from Wave 1, and Frostbite from this wave. I can't tell who belongs to what combiner tho.

Obviously they wouldn't include the bots in the big sets in these waves, but there's a whole trilogy's worth of characters without Kreons they could have done. Barricade, Frenzy, Blackout, Bonecrusher, the Dreads, Sideswipe, Starscream, Megatron, the Fallen, Jetfire, Ironhide...

The Transformers Facebook page gives us official and high-def look at the upcoming Kre-O MV4 Micro changers wave 2. The following is included with wave 2.

• Sunstreaker
• Decepticon Skalor
• Trailbreaker
• Autobot Seaspray
• Scattershot
• Autobot Wheelie
• Frostbite
• Skimmer
• Decepticon Blackarachnia
• Decepticon Runamuck
• Autobot Gears
• Fuselage

I think they could've done so much better on Beachcomber, Null rays? Seriously, there was no way to get some shoulder mounted round things?