Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 12:26am CDT

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A bit of interesting news for you Seibertronians out there this evening, coming from a seller off of Chinese auction site Taobao. It seems some unreleased Kreo figures have made there way to the site, specifically different warrior variants of Bumblebee, Optimus, Ultra Magnus, Grimlock, Megatron, and Starscream. These, in addition to an interesting "Soccer" Bumblebee figure, have never seen the shelves of retail, and aren't expected to any time soon, so if you're a Kreo completionist, this might be the time to jump on these Kreons. Check out the figures in the photos below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com, your ultimate Transformers resource.

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Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1838763)
Posted by o.supreme on November 3rd, 2016 @ 9:51am CDT

interesting...looks like what would have been a 3rd warriors assortment. Not sure about the Soccer BB. I'll definitely check into these. Also as many were searching for TR Brainstorm at Walgreens my local ones had microchangers series 4 still. The packaging said 2016...so I assumed they were part of the rereleases with the new tampographs, but the packaging still had the serial # which distinguished which figure was in each packaging. When I saw series 1&2 at dollar general, they did not have these....?

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1896439)
Posted by Va'al on July 13th, 2017 @ 8:32am CDT

Here's some sudden news from a line that most may have forgotten: Transformers Kre-O Battle Changers have been spotted at Dollar General store (the actual location is not given by the source, user Eddie of Talk Transformers)! And not just old figures again, but two new sets entirely: check out below images of Shockwave and Grimlock, plus newcomers Ironhide and Megatron!

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1896450)
Posted by o.supreme on July 13th, 2017 @ 9:06am CDT

Interesting. My local DG has had repacks of older stuff for a long time. If it would have been the proposed Blitzwing & Drift Triple Changers, or the BB and Optimus Combiners we never got I would have been all over those....

Maybe then there is a sliver of hope those unreleased 3rd wave of warriors kreons might show up there?

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1896473)
Posted by Targetmaster Kup on July 13th, 2017 @ 10:22am CDT

I'll be stalking the local Dollar General stores for these!

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1896488)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 13th, 2017 @ 12:04pm CDT

These are really interesting. I guess Hasbro sees a viability in market 6 stores. There were also RID sets that apparently were never released.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899766)
Posted by WreckerJack on July 25th, 2017 @ 10:42pm CDT

We have some brand new images of some Transformers RID Kreo sets. While the original post is in Japanese, we can gather that several characters from RID will become Kreo figures. Optimus, Bumblebee and Grimlock and Sideswipe will get three different colorations making a total of 12 figures to collect. The actual source is Eddie Mendelez, snakas just showed the images.

Also upon translating this article it is important to note that these figures were found at Dollar General. So if you are around Japan it might be worth it too have a look.

The same poster as the discovery report of Kre - O battle changer the other day, this time also found shops in Dollar General.

Let us know which Kreo figure is your favorite on the boards.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899778)
Posted by Etseterrestrial on July 25th, 2017 @ 11:24pm CDT

Looks like they'll have knee articulation. Neat.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899781)
Posted by WreckerJack on July 25th, 2017 @ 11:32pm CDT

"Sideswipe" looks more like Knock Out in my eyes.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899790)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 26th, 2017 @ 12:42am CDT

Etseterrestrial wrote:Looks like they'll have knee articulation. Neat.

And elbows. These are based off a China exlusive line that was made for a kids show.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899808)
Posted by Cybertronius Primus on July 26th, 2017 @ 4:46am CDT

On a related subject, TLK Leaders are finally hitting the shelves in the UK.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899840)
Posted by Big Grim on July 26th, 2017 @ 8:03am CDT

I kinda like these. Particularly Prime and Grimlock.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899851)
Posted by o.supreme on July 26th, 2017 @ 9:16am CDT

Good to see Kreo-O is not entirely dead. I was not aware Dollar General existed in Japan. Should I eve bother checking my local store? They had many of the repack sets, but haven't seen anything new like these. See my want list, I'm still looking for the unreleased Series 3 Warriors...

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899863)
Posted by Glarryg on July 26th, 2017 @ 9:49am CDT

Awww, yeah, more Kre-o! Can't wait for these to show up.

WreckerJack: Sideswipe's resemblance to Knock Out is no coincidence; that helmet was originally made for a Knock Out Kreon. They didn't seem to make Sideswipe quite as red here as he usually is, though, so the similarities kind of add up.

Glarryg

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899867)
Posted by william-james88 on July 26th, 2017 @ 10:04am CDT

o.supreme wrote:Good to see Kreo-O is not entirely dead. I was not aware Dollar General existed in Japan. Should I eve bother checking my local store? They had many of the repack sets, but haven't seen anything new like these. See my want list, I'm still looking for the unreleased Series 3 Warriors...

From article:

Also upon translating this article it is important to note that these figures were found at a Dollar General store, and not Japan - so keep your eyes peeled for your next visit.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1899873)
Posted by o.supreme on July 26th, 2017 @ 10:19am CDT

ok, so when I read things before 7am, I see them as

FAKE QUOTE

note that these figures were found at a Dollar General store, IN Japan

OK, that's good, makes a lot more sense. Also on my recent vacation I was able to visit many a "small town" USA, and noticed many of them had a Dollar General, kind of cool.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (1900052)
Posted by Rysquad on July 27th, 2017 @ 12:21pm CDT

These are neat.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (2009001)
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on February 8th, 2019 @ 4:29pm CST

So glad I found this (hopefully not dead) thread. I've recently acquired the Class of '85 set and I want to know: once opened, can it be resealed?

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (2010195)
Posted by dirk2243 on February 14th, 2019 @ 10:10am CST

Decepticon Stryker wrote:So glad I found this (hopefully not dead) thread. I've recently acquired the Class of '85 set and I want to know: once opened, can it be resealed?

What I found from a review was that is claims to be resealable...... I never opened the one I own so i can't speak from personal experience although I am sure someone on this site probably has that actual answer. Great find though. I Loved this line.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (2010196)
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on February 14th, 2019 @ 10:34am CST

dirk2243 wrote:
Decepticon Stryker wrote:So glad I found this (hopefully not dead) thread. I've recently acquired the Class of '85 set and I want to know: once opened, can it be resealed?

What I found from a review was that is claims to be resealable...... I never opened the one I own so i can't speak from personal experience although I am sure someone on this site probably has that actual answer. Great find though. I Loved this line.

Thanks! I honestly never expected anyone to reply to this.

Re: Previously Unseen Kre-o Wave 3 Warriors and Soccer Bumblebee listed on TaoBao (2010204)
Posted by o.supreme on February 14th, 2019 @ 11:04am CST

I am a huge Kreon fan, unfortunately I didn't feel qualified to respond because I never opened my class of 84, or 85 set either. For the longest time it was my goal to collect all the individual TF Kreon mini figures (not counting humans).

The last time I counted, I had everything released from 2011-2015, and it was 354 unique individual TF Kreon's. Of course I never got the unreleased "Warriors" series 3, or the Soccer BB, or some of the later customs that started showing up in family dollar/dollar general stores. Also i was really saddened that we never got a class of 86 set, but by that time, the writing was pretty much on the wall.

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