Toy Review - Kre-O Wave 1

[KillinSpoon]

First off, these are for you Hursty. As a tease Of what may potentially come :P
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Okey dokey, where to start. These guys in their boxes are pretty tiny. Well, a lot smaller than what I thought they would have been (I was under the impression the boxes were a lot larger, the basic Optimus and BB boxes are considerably smaller than this also).

Upon opening the boxes, the insides were pretty secure mainly because the instructions are too big for the box and actually compressed everything.


Oh yes, the instructions are upside down and the stickers were in different locations within the box (as in different layers).
Here are a couple of photos of the bags in the boxes and then inside the even bigger box which I took these photos within XD I didn't touch these inside the box, I grabbed photos first.


I started with Mirage and this was where my initial annoyances began.
Now, I may just be comparing these to lego but the holes inside of the studs really really annoy me. They are so randomly placed and don't really fit in.

As you can see here, two of the same piece. Though the hole is on different sides... :/
Another thing that I found quite interesting to note is that the actual stud length seems to be a miniscule too short, the pieces don't feel so secure connecting. I confirmed this by attaching some pieces to lego bricks.

With lego on the bottom, everything was perfect but the other way around wasn't so secure...


Check out this hilarious piece! It's two 1x1 flat pieces on top of one another


Mirage minifigure. I don't seem to have the same QC problems everyone else is having, this minifigure is saaa-weeeeeeetttt!


One of the things that I realised was the ingenuity of piece placements. In this pic for example there is a closed hinge which seems out of place (there is actually one underneath the axle piece, I deleted the photo because it was even worse than this one), however...

Upon placing the next piece, it creates a nice bit of detailing which actually looks quite good on the final F1 car.


:3 1x1 slopes!


More ingenious applications to incorporate as many pieces as possible into both modes.


Good use of hinges here, I just liked this step because it wasn't as halfassed as the first hinge you place on (which is sideways and hangs off thebase of the car...).


Completed vehicle mode! I didn't apply stickers because too be honest, I just don't want to yet :P
Note the extra pieces, Mirage doesn't have any redundant pieces but there are still a few in vehicle mode (pretty much all the balljoints of the robot mode...).


Disassembled, ready to start the robot mode!


Mister Peng-wennnn


Yeah... No. Also, extra pieces.
Now, onto Jazz. Upon cracking this baby open and tipping out all of the pieces I noticed something which is highly annoying and unavoidable...


Ah well...
Having learned from the monstrosity that is the Mirage robot mode I decided to kick this one off as a robot so that I didn't have to pull it apart twice.


While this one is a lot better than Mirage, it doesn't do a thing for me (although it would look stacks better with the stickers actually applied).


Extra pieces.


Completed vehicle mode + extra pieces (all the joints again).


You're probably wondering what happened to these guys.
Well, I didn't like them so I decided to melt them.
I actually recorded it and have uploaded it to youtube just to entertain and annoy some people.


Overall, I really love the engineering behind these vehicle modes. Paying the $16 each for these vehicles is worthwhile to me, whether or not you feel the same is completely up to you. I can totally see the robot modes appealing to little kids, they don't do anything for me though.

The plastic quality is actually quite good, obviously not lego quality but it is the closest I've ever felt. It laughs at megabloks. I would recommend them and may be picking up more when there are more sales