KRE-O Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by transfan681, Apr 4, 2012.

  1. mightyspacepope

    mightyspacepope Well-Known Member

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    Megatron's Mobile Murder Machine!
     
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    Yeah scoring and cutting it off is much cheaper and easier.
     
  3. mightyspacepope

    mightyspacepope Well-Known Member

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    I like to think that for Megatron's crazy scheme of the week that he builds a giant Mad Max-style truck cab to go joyriding around in. This was after they all get hammered on Energon:
    The Decepticons Get Drunk on Energon - YouTube

    Also, the gun turret that comes with Kre-o Windcharger is perfect for mounting on the rotating piece on the back of the truck
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    And... the instructions only tell you to put about half of the claws on the front of the truck. Obviously, they are incorrect.
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  4. cardensb

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    I can't bring myself to do that without buying doubles...

    See post #230 of this thread (page 23) for the part information.
     
  5. DirkMaximus

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    I made it. You can grab it here if you'd like:

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    Nope yscohb

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    Quickslinger/Slingshot is really cool when you remove his helmet and attach his wings upside-down on his waist.
     
  7. mightyspacepope

    mightyspacepope Well-Known Member

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    So... I used the TRU BOGO 50% sale today to get 2x of the GI Joe Kre-O base. My girlfriend and I plan on converting them into a base for my Autobot Kreons!
     
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    I need not even realize it was BOGO day until I got home and looked at my receipt. I would have bought more TF sets...
    Picked up all of the Joe sets today.
     
  9. JETFIRE-XL

    JETFIRE-XL Robot Hunter

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    bigger big prime trailer

    Kre-o primes trailer seems a little stubby but having two kits solved that issue. The five panel prime trailer.
     

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  10. Optimist Prime

    Optimist Prime Black Knight

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    This, sir, is a thing of beauty. Thanks for posting the decal, which I can't help but feel makes my designs look shabby. I'll definitely be using it - if I wasn't so much of a toy-style Jetfire fanboy I'd swipe more of your ideas here too.

    I'd like to see that Ironhide helmet get released in more colours, it's a lovely design.
     
  11. mightyspacepope

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    Could you toss a picture up of what you mean? I tried this last night and couldn't quite make it work.

    Unless you totally don't put the helmet on at all? I wonder if a Hook Helmet painted white would make him look more like G1 Slingshot?
     
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    That looks excellent! If I see another super cheap set at a discount store I might get it just to try that.
     
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    Sorry, I can't find my camera cord, but here's a terrible drawing of what I did. I'm still trying to figure out a way to incorporate a helmet, though.

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    Do you know what I mean now? If not, I'll try to look for the camera cord and post pics later.
     
  14. Noideaforaname

    Noideaforaname Pico, let's go up to Zuma

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    Target now has the Microchangers on the end of the aisle the mainline Transformers are on. Hopefully that's a permanent home. A rather limited range, mostly just the same 4 or so bots (Airachnid, Bludgeon, Dirge, and whoever #44 is (Quickslinger?)).

    Grabbed an extra Dirge for my Whirl custom. Now Whirl looks like he's cosplaying as Dirge...

    Just need Springer, Warpath, and custom fodder. (and then the Combiners and next waves will hit)
     
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    jetfire a work in progress

    hard at work on this guy size looks right now for the rest
     

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    I tried to do that, but you can't have a helmet without it hitting the wings if I recall correctly. Not that he really needs one in theory.. but it looked funny without it to me... like.. he was naked.. haha.
     
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    I'm surprised that a lot of these come with that "body armor" that blocks the chest details. Instead, they could use those "backpack" parts with the 2x1 block + single peg in the middle to accomplish the same thing.
     
  18. Scrapper6

    Scrapper6 Lord of Constructicons

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    Nabbed me a Predaking today... *SIGH* Ok, first of all the main bots look great, the fact that Razorclaw is the only one who uses that dumb Tac Vest in robot mode is appreciated... I wonder why they don't bother telling you to put the beast kibble on the backs of Divebomb and Torox in robot mode.

    Torox could use the stability of the added parts on his back so he can balance while aiming his dual-barreled blaster and Divebomb's entire tail assembly can sit on his back and look more like the G1 toy. (Plus it incorporates all the pieces minus the talons in robot mode.)

    Now here's where I have a seriously annoyed problem, one of the stickers for the arms peeled completely off the sticky part, once I took the sticky part and attached it to the limb and then rubbed the peeled off bit onto that it seems to have glued/adhered itself down alright. (But I'm ready with the scotch tape if necessary to fix it. I dearly hope I won't have to resort to it.)

    UGH these damn stickers are a pain sometimes, if they aren't peeling and curling up on the main Kre-O models they're too stubborn to come off the sheet right and not screw up. Hasbro really should consider printing details on for such tiny pieces.

    Razorclaw's helmet looks a little odd on him though. Eh' they can't all be perfect, besides his helmet also has to double as Predaking's and I'd much rather have an accurate Predaking helmet than Razorclaw one.

    Just need to find a bloody Rampage now from Wave One to have the whole set, it is really frustrating to walk into Wal-Mart and find a box on the shelf from a distance only to find it's completely empty and the stock person didn't bother tossing it.
     
  19. craftsmith

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    finally opened my spare vortex and sideswipe kits today. made rodimus custom and a cybertronian vortex.
    But the most fun came with kreo fodder.

    first i made BLADES
    using
    =vortex copter parts
    =sculpted cliff jumper spare helmet
    =kreon driver white arms
    =random bits for chest
    =the rest was sideswipe body, legs and head

    next up we have ski-ing vortex using pink lego skis, his alt mode was a snow mobile but it just looked wrong no matter how other kreons mounted him.

    the othe one is made from cliff jumpers legs, wapaths body, a backpack, spare head from rampage and sideswipes head. i call him CHECKMATE, cause i added stickers from sideswipe kit and two guns from x2 spare sideswipes.
     

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    i hear you with the stickers, the worst one is mirage, cant get the chest sticker to stay put on the rounded edge, i used super glue in the end.
    i got about 4 spare rampages, if you wanna come to the uk to collect, lol.