So it looks like Ratchet is there and a red dinobot i forget which is which or is that stinger?, plus the human made ones.

I have never seen these combiners before?

 

Jetwash instead of Jetfire (a name Hasbro is currently using)
Skrapnel instead of Shrapnel, and in wrong colours (another name Hasbro is currently using)
Mindswipe instead of Mindwipe
Wingspan Hawk instead of Wingspan

Even though the Kreo department is separate to the Transformers mob at Hasbro, someone must have done some research for Fangwolf and Jarugar (as JP toy names and forms), so how come they failed on the more obvious Hasbro Gen1 names?

 

What your missing is that building blocks are a different category than action figures as far as name rights go. It's entirely possible for them to have the Jetfire name for a figure and have it not be free under "building blocks" so they go with Jetwash there.


-ZacWilliam, and Skrapnel is not in the "wrong" colors, he's in Obsidian team colors which is very intentionally making him part of the new Combiner team.

 

I'm not too sure about the original combiners...I've enjoyed the G1-inspired ones, but they all start feeling the same after a while.

 

Agreed. While I love my Kreons, they are very much based on the idea that they are a little super-deformed version of something I already have a mental image of. It's a little hard to get the same about of "character" out of these when they're all uniformly colored and all new names. Still, they look like a lot of fun and I'm really digging the new parts.

I agree. They all do have the same skeleton after all. In a lot of ways, it's only the fact that they are classic combiners that keeps me interested. I think it's awesome to be able to own a tiny Computron for under $20, for example. But I guess it's like art vinyls and such, eventually making everything on effectively the same body has deminishing returns.


Either way, I'm stoked to see Kreons continue, and I'm super-happy to see them continuing on with more obscure 86+ characters. Let's hope it stays alive long enough to make all of Liokaiser (and let's get the 6th Seacon too   ).

 

I was just trying to wrap my mind around, and list everything in those sets yesterday... Now I get to look at them with a bit more detail. ...

Does anyone know who the red bot (looks like OS Ironhide) is who comes with the Lockdown air-raid set? ... I know the other two are Lockdown (obviously) & Hound .

Also, according to my count there are 43 new unique Kreons based on what is revealed in this post (excluding generic-cons & humans) anyone else get a different number?

 

The packaging says Sideswipe but it looks like Leadfoot.

 

The Kre-o sets do offer a strange inside into what the movie might be about. In the Galvatron Factory Battle especially. Have you noticed the Megatron and Sentinal Prime heads seating in jars from that set? If the sets are a true inside into the movie then I would think what they are building in that factory is Vehicons since there are many of them in all the sets.

I'm not sure I would read to much into the helicopter blades. With the custom packs they are not micro-changers so they are not meant to transform and they always include some kind of alternative backpack thing for each figure. They don't always fit with the characters alt. mode.

I've been rather puzzled about that Sideswipe/Leadfoot figure too.

 

Could just be an early packaging error. Custom Galvatron says "Galavatron" on all pictures, but I dont know anyone who has actually ordered and recieved one online to confirm that is truly how the packaging is.

 

Not gonna lie: Love all the new characters being introduced, love it. Totally okay with Cybertron Snarl being renamed to his Japanese name of Fangwolf, it means that he could co-exist with the Dinobot!  

But seriously, new characters! Totally fun. It gets weird and annoying to just see the same endless reuses of certain characters that have been around since 1984, and I love the idea of kids getting new favorites from these brand new guys. They're not throwaways- they're potential. Heck, today's Farside or Power Surge could be tomorrow's MTMTE Swerve or Tailgate.

I should say that I adore dozens upon dozens of classic G1 guys, and I'm totally fine with updates of figures and characters, but there's a limit, you know?

Anyway, yeah. Awesome awesome awesome, love that Kreos are introducing new characters and designs, even if they don't have fiction yet.

 

Anyone want to venture a guess as to Torosaur's allegiance (hero or villain)? He's the only one that has no distinguishing marks, and appears to be an original character.

 

Looks like these just started showing up on eBay from taiwan sellers. Hopefully this means it wont be too long before they hit TRU shelves.

 

Link?

 

Those microchangers look okay.