KRE-O

[blueshift]

I can definately see myself buying these up at half the price. Maybe when they're on sale.

[kayevcee]

Kre-o is the only new TF stock any shop around Ames has had in the last month. I saw them the other day. If anybody can't wait I can still grab some and bring them back with me on Saturday.

-Nick

[Philip Ayres]

They're out here Nick, argos have them

[Deleted]

i have got kre-o sets i thought they were great but the kreons are very poor quality well done hasbro making things out of cheaper plastic and making them more expensive to buy, all so you can selfishly get more money for yourselves. shame on you

quality of a poundland transformer: 2/10
quality of a hasbro transformer these days: 5/10
quality of a hasbro transformer up to 2004: 8/10

thats my opinion (i really hate hasbro now they are a really crap company)

[blueshift]

Aug 7, 2011 12:21:42 GMT @soundwaveman said:

i have got kre-o sets i thought they were great but the kreons are very poor quality well done hasbro making things out of cheaper plastic and making them more expensive to buy, all so you can selfishly get more money for yourselves. shame on you

quality of a poundland transformer: 2/10
quality of a hasbro transformer these days: 5/10
quality of a hasbro transformer up to 2004: 8/10

thats my opinion (i really hate hasbro now they are a really crap company)

While I don't like to bash companies because there's often a lot going on behind the scenes and I realise they don't cater to adult collectors exclusively, I have to agree on this. Size has gone down, quality has gone rock bottom and yet price has increased so much. No other toy companies have gone the same way, it is absolutely baffling. All I can think of is they are using the movie to cynically squeeze every last pound of profit out of the line at the cost of quality.

[legios]

Aug 7, 2011 12:21:42 GMT @soundwaveman said:

iwell done hasbro making things out of cheaper plastic and making them more expensive to buy, all so you can selfishly get more money for yourselves. shame on you

Making money is why Hasbro exist though. Their function is to make profit for their shareholders. The thing that will make them change strategies is if it proves to have a negative effect on their profits, so if you don't like the quality of what they are producing then don't buy it. If enough people do the same that it affects their sales figures then they will have to make decisions about what to do differently.

In the end it comes down to voting with ones wallet.

Karl

[Bogatan]

Aug 7, 2011 13:14:23 GMT blueshift said:

Aug 7, 2011 12:21:42 GMT @soundwaveman said:

i have got kre-o sets i thought they were great but the kreons are very poor quality well done hasbro making things out of cheaper plastic and making them more expensive to buy, all so you can selfishly get more money for yourselves. shame on you

quality of a poundland transformer: 2/10
quality of a hasbro transformer these days: 5/10
quality of a hasbro transformer up to 2004: 8/10

thats my opinion (i really hate hasbro now they are a really crap company)

While I don't like to bash companies because there's often a lot going on behind the scenes and I realise they don't cater to adult collectors exclusively, I have to agree on this. Size has gone down, quality has gone rock bottom and yet price has increased so much. No other toy companies have gone the same way, it is absolutely baffling. All I can think of is they are using the movie to cynically squeeze every last pound of profit out of the line at the cost of quality.

I was thinking about this the other day. Is it just my imagination or have Hasbro generally produced poorer/simpler figures for the movie lines than the classics/support lines?

I don't mean I don't like the designs, but that especially with DOTM they are smaller and simpler yet the Generations that preceded them were generally larger and almost insanely complex in some cases. The Prime toys seem to be back up in complexity if not size at the end of the year so is it possible Hasbro are trying to maximise profits from movie toys because the movie will sell them while the classics support line which is a little more collector focussed sells on the toys themselves.

[blueshift]

I don't mind lack of complexity, most of the ROTF figures were TOO complex, especially that sodding Leader Prime. Frankly if an adult cannot do it, what chance does a small child.

[Bogatan]

I don't even mean in terms of transformation, just the types of joints and connectors used on the DOTM toys looks simpler and cheaper to make than what has come before also they seem to be built from fewer parts.

*ROTF leader Prime rules*

[Philip Ayres]

I'm going to slap you on Friday for that Andy!

[The Doctor]

I still have nightmares about that toy.

-Ralph

[legios]

Aug 7, 2011 13:55:55 GMT Bogatan said:

*ROTF leader Prime rules*

Only the waste-land that results from the fact that most people won't go within a mile of it.....

Hideous thing.

Karl

[Bogatan]

Did they do a premium/masterpiece version of the mould? If they did I must look at getting it at some point.

[Philip Ayres]

You've got the HFTD Battle Blades version?

[Bogatan]

No just the original, didn't think the battle blades version was significantly different aside from the blades.

[The Doctor]

It probably still makes children cry though.

-Ralph

[Stomski]

Aug 7, 2011 18:01:29 GMT The Doctor said:

It probably still makes children cry though.

Well that's something that you and it have in common!

[Shockprowl]

Aug 7, 2011 13:55:55 GMT Bogatan said:

*ROTF leader Prime rules*

I have one.



But have never opened him!!!!! For the fear! The fear of what my Dear Cyber Chumbs have said for unto him/it!


I HAVE THE FEAR!!!!!!

[Nigel]

The KRE-O advert was on Cartoon Network during Thundercats on Saturday.

[The Doctor]

Tesco have special end-cap KRE-O displays with a 'SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE' yellow sign.

-Ralph

[bertie]

I like Kre-O Jazz.

[The Doctor]

I was tempted by the TRU promo but between CB Doctor Who and the odd bit of LEGO, my budget is pretty much sewn up for these kind of things. I do desire the Kreons mightily though.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

This week's issue of Doctor Who Adventures (#240, pollybagged with Silent mask) has a KREON Optimus Prime minifig packed in as a freebie!

-Ralph

[Nigel]

Ooh, really? I must remember that when I go to the post office tomorrow.

[The Doctor]

Mini Prime now guards the computer.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Kreons go Walkabout in New York

[Bogatan]

Feel a bit bad for those who paid a small fortune for Matrix Prime after Botcon, though I wish I had cashed in now that Who Prime is in hand.

Really cant believe that the TF comic didn't get one of these for issue one though.

[Nigel]

It makes perfect sense to me: Hasbro's promoting the range to potential new customers, who are in the right target market (by age) and are likely to be customers of similar products (Character Building). Giving Kreons away with the Transformers comic is, to a certain extent, a waste of marketing spend because Transformers readers are already customers.

The Botcon Prime was on my buying list for Auto Assembly; now it seems that it was a good thing there were none there.

[Bogatan]

True but with it being an issue one and a new subline, the Kreo might have brought new toy fans back to the comic and introduced the comic readers to a Kreo which they might not have tried yet as its so new.