Toy Review - Kre-O Wave 1

[EFFalcon]

and one more of the whole set

[Doubledealer]

Optimus Prime is like "Bumblebee, did you leave the back door open AGAIN? My jodhpurs are flapping in the draft and you just know how that affects my mood at this time of month."

[griffin]

One last picture before they get put away onto the shelves...



I was most disappointed with the Optimus set. When completing the robot and base, there was heaps of parts left over.
If they were going to create a base out of left-over parts after making the robot mode, that doesn't look like anything official anyway... why not use up all the left-over parts?
I was able to almost double the size of the base, allowing for all of the mini-figures to be placed on it (see above, compared to the official image in the first post).
It just seems like a waste having those parts there and not using them if they can be used on something that isn't based on anything official.

[Sutton]

Hopefully if they do more of these in the future, they'll ditch the ugly human companions in favour of extra Kreons. Some people on the fence about these might have been swayed if the Kreon count was higher.


I remember being disappointed back in 1999(ish) when Star Wars Lego first showed up. I was hoping for lots of Stormtrooper army building action but it was not to be due to a clause in the Lego licensing contract that basically meant each set had to have a set number of parts-to-minifig ratio maintained so as not to infringe on Hasbro's action figure contract.

But Hasbro have no such excuse with these. I challenge anyone to find me a kid or collector who wouldn't prefer a 'Grimlock' Kreon to 'Random Green Specialist Guy'.

[bowspearer]

Thought it was worth noting that it's possble to use up all of Jazz's spare parts but the spare hat in robot mode, and everything but said hat and his head in vehicle mode. I'll post pics later on.

[jena]

Random observation that I can't erase from my mind: when I look at the pictures of the big Optimus set in robot mode, his feet look like he's wearing socks with thongs. Anyone else see what I mean? Or am I going nuts.

[Sutton]

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/inde...howtopic=60641

Yeah, that's right, fully transformable and fully remote controlled.


There's been Lego nutcases working on these things since 1984, you're going to have to do better than non-transformable robots with inconsistent/incoherent instructions. Let me know when you're ready to step up to the plate and take this thing seriously, Hasbro.

[Sutton]

And why hasn't Hasbro done a remote controllable transformable transformer yet?

And no, these don't count:

[i_amtrunks]

Finally got around to constructing Ratchet and Prowl.

Both have very nice and sturdy builds for robot modes, wiith little repetition and plenty of room for variations and adaptions as wanted/required, hoever following the instructions by the letter(picture) results in a decent looking figure.

Both vehicle modes are much simpler than I was anticipating, and left far too many bricks over, especially Prowls. Also the weapon sprue choice is brilliant, just wish there was somewhere to put all the spare weapons since they really are only made for the minifigs. Love all the tools and the stretcher or Ratchet, and all the different eapons for the SWAT member, they are nice added touches.

Certainly worth the US$ I paid for them, but I am glad (for Prowl mainly) that I did not pay the Australian retail prices. Sideswipe is the only other set that I have some inerest in, but I may wait and see on him, and hope that the next wve of figures has been modified and design better than the first wave, I am all for modification of lego based sets, but the base design should be one of the better ones.

[Sutton]

Transformable G1 Prime using the Prime and Sentinel sets...

http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=35047

It's not perfect but it's a very good starting point. A few alterations and this thing could be absolutely brilliant...