Kre-O Micro Changer Combiners Obsidian and Volcanicon Sighted at US Retail

It's neat to see the Kreons bust out of the cycle of homages...although I might wait for this guy to go on sale before I pick him up.

Not sold in stores I can get to + Not homages/No character info at all + Teammates all looking the same = Pass, unless I find them on sale online

But Volcanicon IS kinda tempting. Especially since one of the component bots is called "Farside" and has a thagomizer, plus the gold parts would come in handy for Dinobot customs...

Sorry to sound like a jerk here but how can we "...make sure to flag any toy sightings..." when the Kre-o line hasn't been supported properly on the sightings page for nearly two years? The last product added was the Micro-changer preview wave in mid-2012. None of the micro changer sets have been on there.

Found these at a Toys R Us in Sugarland, Tx. When we went to pay for them, they would not ring up and said that they have a sell date of May 17th. The woman working the register called over her walkie and told whomever that they needed to be pulled from the shelves. I thought for sure she was going to tell us that we couldn't buy them, but she saw how my son was so excited and she told us, "I shouldn't sell you these and I could get in trouble, but what the heck!" She told my son that he was lucky because he would be the only one in the area to have them! That made his day!

The Hobbybase Facebook page is reporting that the wave 2 of the Kre-O Age of Extinction Micro Changers do not feature the handy codes that is used to identify which character you are buying. Will this prevent you from buying future waves of Micro Changers or will this just intensify the hunt for you? Sound off in the Energon Pub.

Here is a reminder of which characters are featured in wave 2.

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

I might just buy a whole case, if that's what they're going to do...

Where's this at

do people not feel the bags? i have become a master with lego mini figures so i dont see why you could not do the same with these.

Fc203 wrote:Where's this at

Hong Kong

Doubledealer93 wrote:do people not feel the bags? i have become a master with lego mini figures so i dont see why you could not do the same with these.

Nope that was the beauty of the codes.

Man, they just keep mucking up this line worse and worse. TRU-only, a bunch of wrong faction symbols, now they're taking away the easy-to-identify codes...

Granted I already have to resort to eBay/secondhand online venues for these things as it is, so it being truly blind bagged isn't directly that big of a deal, but seeing how the current AoE wave guys go for $8+ I'm kinda dreading the effect there.

Doubledealer93 wrote:do people not feel the bags? i have become a master with lego mini figures so i dont see why you could not do the same with these.

Considering half the Kreons this wave use the same two helmets, that might not exactly be so easy.

Only one i wanted was Blackarachnia but i guess i wont even bother now

Well, shit. I only really wanted Wheelie and maybe Sunstreaker, Gears, and Seaspray. Now I'm going to end up with a dozen Skalors.

This is more than a bit annoying since the bag-in-a-bag packaging makes feeling them tricky. Any word if there will be code bumps along the bottom of the bag like Lego does?

No thanks DONE.

Hate to say it but I'm done if this is true. There's no way I'm gonna take a chance and guess or pay a premium online to cover the inconvenience of someone opening a bag and looking. Bad enough I'm going to have to go that route for wave two, or is it three, the one with Powerglide

LOST Cybertronian wrote:The Hobbybase Facebook page is reporting that the wave 2 of the Kre-O Age of Extinction Micro Changers do not feature the handy codes that is used to identify which character you are buying. Will this prevent you from buying future waves of Micro Changers or will this just intensify the hunt for you? Sound off in the Energon Pub.

Here is a reminder of which characters are featured in wave 2.

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

They did this with the first wave in Europe as well. Hasbro lost money from me again with their awful AOE line

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

Doubledealer93 wrote:do people not feel the bags? i have become a master with lego mini figures so i dont see why you could not do the same with these.

Nope that was the beauty of the codes.

early days of the lego mini figures we had codes too and people just started feeling the bags. it really is not hard. just feel for a unique part, or a unique combination of parts. like lets say there are 2 guys with the same helmet, they might not have the same gun or something. look for the different gun. lego people went through what you guys are going though a long time ago and we get by just fine.

You can't feel these like Lego, as Kre-o uses more basic parts. Lego uses more custom made parts for the figures and much easier to figure out. But this doesn't matter much, as they seem so hard to fine on shelves anymore and only at Toys R Us. So, I just pick the ones I want off E-Bay and save my time and gas. Oh well! >:oP

Yeah, forget that.

There were even additional characters I would grab that I didn't originally want just because I knew who was in the bag and was able to decide on the spot.

But totally blind guessing? I'll just save my money.

That sucks, but if someone is picking up a case I am happy to go in together and split the bounty. PM if or when this happens and we can work out the details.

RiddlerJ wrote:But totally blind guessing? I'll just save my money.

Here's an idea: bag swapping. What I'd do is grab some baggies on a regular basis, and trade the doubles for ones I don't have. Like we all have done with like presents in cereals or snacks when we were young (like the Dutch and Belgian youth with Flippo's ).

If mailing isn't a problem for you guys maybe we can start a Kre-O Microchanger Trading Thread in the B/S/T forum?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:But totally blind guessing? I'll just save my money.

Here's an idea: bag swapping. What I'd do is grab some baggies on a regular basis, and trade the doubles for ones I don't have. Like we all have done with like presents in cereals or snacks when we were young (like the Dutch and Belgian youth with Flippo's ).

If mailing isn't a problem for you guys maybe we can start a Kre-O Microchanger Trading Thread in the B/S/T forum?

That's a great idea but there's two problems:

1) how would shipping be handled?

2) there aren't even case assortments so say Sunstreaker might be rarer and then the question is raised is it worth an even trade with a Gears?

I wasn't sure if the news about the new micro changers being totally blind bags was true until today. I found the newest wave of GI Joe blind packs, and these are totally blind bags. In fact of the. 3 I got I already have a double.

philswitch engage wrote:I wasn't sure if the news about the new micro changers being totally blind bags was true until today. I found the newest wave of GI Joe blind packs, and these are totally blind bags. In fact of the. 3 I got I already have a double.

I'm just throwing up my hands at this point and saying I'm done. Not worth the effort.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:2) there aren't even case assortments so say Sunstreaker might be rarer and then the question is raised is it worth an even trade with a Gears?

Maybe it'll be different now that they're "true" blind bags, but from Wave 2 of the TF Kreons all through movie Wave 1, every case I saw, either purchased or freshly put on store shelves, had 2 of each Kreon.

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:2) there aren't even case assortments so say Sunstreaker might be rarer and then the question is raised is it worth an even trade with a Gears?

Maybe it'll be different now that they're "true" blind bags, but from Wave 2 of the TF Kreons all through movie Wave 1, every case I saw, either purchased or freshly put on store shelves, had 2 of each Kreon.

I can tell you that was not the case as I know Kup was short packed in whatever wave it was in. I only know this because I tried to look for fellow WOJM host Mike and he clued me in.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've found two of each character per box in every wave after the Preview.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:2) there aren't even case assortments so say Sunstreaker might be rarer and then the question is raised is it worth an even trade with a Gears?

Maybe it'll be different now that they're "true" blind bags, but from Wave 2 of the TF Kreons all through movie Wave 1, every case I saw, either purchased or freshly put on store shelves, had 2 of each Kreon.

I can tell you that was not the case as I know Kup was short packed in whatever wave it was in. I only know this because I tried to look for fellow WOJM host Mike and he clued me in.

Weird, I split that wave case with someone and the box had exactly two full sets. Could be mistakes made here and there I suppose.

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:2) there aren't even case assortments so say Sunstreaker might be rarer and then the question is raised is it worth an even trade with a Gears?

Maybe it'll be different now that they're "true" blind bags, but from Wave 2 of the TF Kreons all through movie Wave 1, every case I saw, either purchased or freshly put on store shelves, had 2 of each Kreon.

I can tell you that was not the case as I know Kup was short packed in whatever wave it was in. I only know this because I tried to look for fellow WOJM host Mike and he clued me in.

Weird, I split that wave case with someone and the box had exactly two full sets. Could be mistakes made here and there I suppose.

That's a possibility as I can't see Hasbro paying people to stuff boxes and make sure there's one of every figure.

Does anyone have a Fuselage or Wheelie to trade/sell? I have about 5 different characters from this wave if anyone is interested.