As I said it is now early evening and so on with the review.
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These images are slightly out of proper order for a typical Kre-O review. Transformers Fans allow me to reveal to you the glory, the power, the awe-inspiring-might that is,
Megatron!
And forgive me for channeling Lugnut there. This Kre-O model is quite impressive in vehicle mode, and it gives you a total of 4 Kreons. I scored this character from TRU at the discounted/clearance price of 22.98$ His full MSRP is 39.99$ if memory serves, same price as Starscream only with twice the number of Kreons. (What's up with that Hasbro?)
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Based on his DotM vehicle form this version of Megatron is massive, scale-wise he's definitely not in league with his subordinate Air Commander. He uses a lot of stickers for details, and could even pull Prime's trailer if you had both sets. (Stop thief!)
He's just all around bad a$$.
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You can store Kreon Accessories in the compartments on either side, provided they are small enough. He includes six large tires and rolls quite nicely, oh yes, and they're rubber.
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There's also an added play feature, Megatron's rear compartment is a Kreon prison. That's right you can have him capture Autobot or Human Kreons and haul them around while the driver is up front. Or you can store the un-used pieces in there since like all models not every piece is used in vehicle mode. And there aren't enough to even attemp making some kind of mech mode or anything.
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Meet the Kreons, from left to right we have, Specialist, Shockwave, Megatron and Police (Officer?), four Kreons. Each one with their own unique look and feel.
I am sad to report that my Megatron Kreon has begun cracking in the wrists up the arm, and I never even put anything in his hands or anything like that.
While the Kreons are all solid looking figures their quality is much to be desired, a few of my Autobots have started cracking as well straight down the middle of the torso, I had a few theories about that, however my primary belief at this time is that the initial batch of Kreons are just too tight at the waist joint. It's fine for standard displays without moving anything, but if you twist the waist so their upper torso is facing sideways and leave it like that for an extended period of display time, the tightness and too-thick nature of the connector peg will eventually cause the cracking of the torso. (I strongly suspect.)
Still. All four of these Kreons are impressive looking, from the cute evilness that is Megatron to the twisted logical mind of Shockwave, the Specialist has a great scarred head piece print making him suitable to act as Megatron's driver and the Police Officer is a victim just waiting for capture.
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Here's the image of the box finally, 2011 design is mediocre and tends to give some the blahs. (Myself included.) Functionally though they're superb.
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And the instructions at last. As always I can't get over how refined these manuals are compared to LEGO brand instructions.
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It took a large number of reviews to finally do it, but here's a shot of the interior of the instructions at last here's what a typical Kre-O Set instruction step looks like.
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Behold! Leader and Air Commander standing side-by-side for our comparison shot. (This is one of the older reviews where I didn't have him in vehicle mode to do the comparison. Megatron is slightly taller than Starscream not counting his wing assembly.
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In robot mode we naturally have pieces that are left over, my initial attempt at building something was this. I haven't a name for it, just showing it off.
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Here are those left-over parts again this time being used to bulk up his shoulder mounted cannon. And that's the last of the images unfortunately, I was trying to streamline a bit when taking Megs photos.
The robot model has been modded by many fans to make it look 'better' than the official build of this model. Personally, I don't think there's much wrong with the model. It is lanky and decently articulated. The smokestacks from vehicle mode also double as missiles, so you'd better not lose one of them by firing it off somewhere. Otherwise the truck model will suffer for it.
Overall I give Megatron a solid 5 out of 5 bricks, he's an awesome looking monster of a truck and a decently impressive looking robot mode, the jail cell even fits on his back and his fully functional in robot mode as well so the added play value is still there for the younger crowd. The Kreons are great too, in spite of the QC problems I feel that these Kreons are perfect for displaying, even playing with if you are careful and avoid too much rough housing.
I hope this review isn't sounding too distracted or anything, interruptions while typing can be a nuisance. Anyway, this time I mean it when I say Friday we'll be covering the large Bumblebee set. His review will be covered in two posts due to the number of photos taken for him.
