Kre-O

The ever-hilarious Kre-O shorts are back with a new video starring the Micro Changer Combiner Devastator! In this short we learn why Decepticons are no good at playing soccer, with hilarious results! Check the short out, embedded below:

Some more new Transformers toys have made it to US retail, and this time out it's a new release in the Kre-O line! Micro Changers Wave 2 has hit the US. Wave 2 was spotted in a Target in Tucson, AZ by 2005 Boards member Gen. Magnus and adds Acid Wing, Arcee, Blight, Hardshell, Bulkhead, Groove, Hoist, Lugnut, Perceptor, Powerglide, Scourge and a Vehicon to the mix! Happy hunting, Kre-O fans!


UPDATE: 2005 Board member Plowking has been kind enough to share with us the identification codes for this wave of Kreon Micro Changers. The Numbers below are the last two digits of the numbers on the back of each blind pack:


66 - Bulkhead
67 - Hardshell
68 - Blight
69 - Arcee
70 - Acid Wing
71 - Vehicon
72 - Scourge
73 - Powerglide
74 - Perceptor
75 - Lugnut
76 - Hoist
77 - Groove

Great news for Kreon fans! Site sponsor Robotkingdom has update their Facebook page revealing a new upcoming Kreon 5-pack. If you have always been a fan of the Kreon figures, but not the Kre-O building sets, these new five packs will have you covered. Both of these sets include the Kreons that were included with the first series of Kre-O building sets. Set A consists of; Optimus Prime, Sentinel Prime, Megatron, Soundave and Starscream. Set B consists of; Mirage, Jazz, Bumblebee, Red Alert and Skywarp. The packaging of these figures show art work for four of the figures with the fifth being a question mark. But as the image shows, both mystery figures are revealed. Both sets will be available for preorder tomorrow, March 22nd on Robotkingdom.com.

Check out the image after the break.

A new advert has begun airing for the new Kre-O Micro Changers and Micro Changers combiners. The advert features both in a huge sprawling battle scene that showcases all the best elements of both Kre-O subseries. Check it out embedded below:

Last but not least in our Kre-O Micro Changers Combiner images is: SUPERION!

It is I! SUPERION! Defender of the skies! Scourge of the DECEPTICONS! I am the Combiner perfected, with absolutely no mental or physical flaws! Why, I just might be the most awesome AUTOBOT ever created!

Hobbies: Defending the skies. Talking about myself.
Rival: The beastly BRUTICUS.
Fondest memory: The day I first combined into this awesome form you see before you!

Many more Kre-O Superion images after the jump.

Autobase Aichi reports that Japanese publications TV Boy and TV Magazine are advertising that the Kre-O Transformers building sets will be making their debut in Japan shortly, with Toys R Us Japan beginning pre-sales in Late March. The first sets to be released in Japan are drawn mainly from last year's releases and include:

• Battle for Energon set - 5,775yen
• Stealth Bumblebee set - 3,990yen
• Street Showdown set - 3,990yen
• Rotor Rage set - 2,940yen
• Basic Optimus Prime Construction set - 525yen
• Basic Bumblebee Construction set - 525yen

The battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons continues as Predacon beasts join the Decepticons in the fight to conquer the world. With the Kre-O Transformers Beast Hunters Ripclaw Strike building set, you can recreate the story of Ripclaw as she comes to Earth to search for the all-powerful Energon.

• Col Daniel Witwicky
• Ripclaw

Many more Kre-O Transformers Beast Hunters Ripclaw Strike after the jump.

Check out High-Res images of Kre-O Predaking fresh from the case at TRU. Being a big fan of the Kre-O line will keep you busy Trans-Building each character 3 times and then forming Predaking.

Ah, there’s nothing like hunting a terrified group of teensy KREONS through the jungle. Yes indeed, nothing gets my Energon flowing like plucking off a victim’s legs, putting them on the wrong way, and watching the poor fool run backward into trees. You might call it mean, but I just call it funny.

Hobbies: Hunting. Messing with tiny KREONS.
Favorite food: Steak. Rare.
Rival: TRAILCUTTER. Like I care about nature

Many more Kre-O Predaking images after the jump.

Check out High-Res images of Kre-O Bruticus. It's amazing how much articulation you can get out of building blocks. I promise you these combiner sets will keep you busy Trans-Building for hours at a time.

Some other KREONS call me dumb. But I have one thing to say to them – “BRUTICUS Annihilate!” Other KREONS might be smarter, but no one is as strong as me. Anyone who faces off against me better have plenty of spare parts, because I break KREONS like little toys!

Rival: SUPERION. He thinks he’s so smart and cool just because he’s made of airplanes.
Hobby: Knocking over the things DECEPTICON HOOK builds. Hilarious.
Fondest wish: To fly. Like an airplane. Even though I still think airplanes are dumb.

Check out High-Res images of Kre-O Devastator fresh from the case at TRU. Being a big fan of the Kre-O line will keep you busy trans-building each character 3 times and then forming Devastator.

CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR cannot be defeated. Puny AUTOBOTS are always scorching me with their tiny lasers, but nothing hurts CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR. I smash and dismantle all who oppose me! Then I kick their bricks into the closest river!

Hates: AUTOBOTS. Thinking.
Favorite TV show: The one with the guys who blow stuff up all the time.
Prefers: Devastating to constructing.

Many more Kre-O Devastator images after the jump.

The official Transformers Kre-O site has updated with a trio of documents giving the bios for the Kre-O Micro-Changers Preview Wave, Wave 1 and Combiners Wave 1. The bios are all written in a firmly tongue-in-cheek style, with some highlights including:

Galvatron's Bio - Nothing stands before Galvatron! I am supreme! I am totally awesome! I am the scariest thing ever to come out of the mouth of a weirdly pudgy planet monster! Look upon me and despair!
Spinister's Hobby - Hiding fusion bombs in the Autobot restroom.
Airachnid's Fondest Memory - The time I webbed ARCEE to the floor and let INSECTICON tickle her.
Dirge's Favorite Childhood Pet - I had a pet toucan, but it ran away.
Springer - Yeah, I could turn into a car, too. I just don’t feel like it.
Devastator's Favorite TV Show - The one with the guys who blow stuff up all the time.

That's just a taste - head on over to the Kre-O official site to check out the rest!

The remaining three Kre-O Beast Hunters sets have been released at US retail. Building set Battle Net Bumblebee and figure packs Dragon Assault (with Kreon Generation 1 Trailcutter Microchanger) and Mech Venom (with Kreon Generation 1 Windcharger) have been sighted in Toys R Us in Southern California by 2005 Boards member Sky Ray.

Happy hunting everyone!

Last but not least, check out these official images of the Transformers Beast Hunters Kre-O sets - while there is nothing we have not seen previously these are new official images, check them out!

Beast Hunters Kre-O Building Sets

• Ripclaw Strike
• Battle Net Bumblebee
• Beast Blade Optimus Prime

Beast Hunters Figure Pack Assortment

• Dragon Assault - Trailbreaker VS Grimwing
• Mech Venom - Windcharger VS Corhadra

Check out these official images received from Hasbro of the Transformers Kre-O Micro Changer Combiners, Wave 2:

Abominus - and his four component Kreons Hun-Gurr, Cutthroat, Sinnertwin (Twinstrike?) and Rippersnapper

Defensor - and his four component Kreons Hot Spot (Hot Zone?), First Aid, Blades and Streetwise

Piranacon - and his four component Kreons Snaptrap, Tentakil, Overbite and Nautilator

Check out these official images we have received from Hasbro of the Wave 2 and 3 Kre-O Micro Changers Assortment:

Transformers Kre-O Microchangers Wave 2

• Arcee
• Acid Wing (Acid Storm?)
• Blot / Blight
• Bombshell / Hardshell
• Bulkhead
• Groove
• Hoist
• Scourge (Generation 1 style)
• Vehicon
• Lugnut
• Perceptor
• Powerglide

Transformers Kre-O Microchangers Wave 3

• Beachcomber
• Cheetor
• Guzzle
• Huffer
• Kickback
• Long Haul
• Nemesis Prime
• Nosecone
• Ramjet
• Seawing
• Sharkticon
• Thrust