The Entire History Of Kre-O TRANSFORMERS

Anyone remember the long line of Kre-O building block sets from Hasbro? With sets heavily influenced by the Transformers? Let's look back at all the released sets and Transformers themed Kreons. This includes everything from buildable figures, vehicles, Micro-Changers, Kreon Warriors, cancelled sets, and featured Manga artwork.
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[@knuclear200x]

Kre-o was partly the reason why I stopped being such a Lego loyalist. Lego wasn't getting stale yet, but their only other IP's were star wars, marvel and DC. Mega Construx and Ionix were also doing cool things

[@joevictor53]

Cobi is why I started looking elsewhere. Also Mega

[@IamWone]

For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️ May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️❤❤

[@Lego_Ninjago_]

Honestly, they only made me like LEGO more.

[@jamesmendoza456]

@@IamWone dude okay I’ll go back to buying Legos

[@nightshriek420]

I think my biggest complaint with Kre-O Transformers was the fact that you had to take the sets apart to transform them

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

I agree, any Transformer you have to take apart and put back together to change forms isn't a Transformer at all, they were like those human made Transformers in the Bayverse movies, at least if they had made sets of those ones then the transformations would be true, cause that's how the human made transformers changed.

[@RedKnight_1]

I love Kre-O still own some old sets and new ones. Earlier this year I managed to get the Giant Optimus Prime set and I love him. Right now the ones in my room is the Big Kre-O Optimus, Superion combiner, Bruticus combiner, Golden Optimus, small Optimus, Small comic con exclusive small Optimus, and chibi Optimus riding chibi Grimlock, and a sea con. But that’s only some of the sets I own.

[@IamWone]

For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️ May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️❤❤

[@CardboardBots]

I had no idea that they made so many of these things. My son and I thought we had a ton of them, but obviously we were barely scratching the surface. We got them cheap when Target was going bankrupt.

[@NightmareZerogbs]

You have no idea how thankful I was that my aunt gifted me a repeat big Starscream so that I could have both jet and robot modes without the hassle of the rebuilding process.

[@kachowskien]

It’s a shame as quickly as Kreo popped onto the scene they left while the tolerances of the parts should have been better the sets were fun and I won’t forget the memories of building some of my favorites like the Sentinel Prime set (and the minifigure breaking the same day I got it) and the Superion set

[@soundwave3365]

16:39 that's me... I'm in a video... I'm in tfanpage101's video.... I'M IN TFANPAGE101'S VIDEO!!!!!!!!

[@IamWone]

For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️ May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️❤❤

[@foxyplayz1399]

Aye congratulations!!!

[@ulester3092]

@@IamWonewhat’s this got to do with transformers

[@jdanimations9819]

I’m glad you covered this IP. It’s such an obscure thing that I felt that very few people only looked at because you can only find these very few and far between.

[@SpudsAreGreat]

“BUMBLEBEE NOOO” “hi”

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

*_"cue the music"_*

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

My parents did not see a difference between Lego and Kreo and they just knew I loved Transformers It was GREAT.

[@ARHaslage]

So, when Hasbro runs out of ideas for G1, I guess they will have no choice but to start dressing up their characters as gangsters, ninja and cowboys. Who needs new characters anyway.

[@DerpyIsHuman]

Don’t forget pink dress’s.

[@brandonandcharlene9527]

Great video. After getting out of toy collecting all together, my son was just 5 when we attended BotCon 2011 together when Kre-O was introduced. It was a fun way for us to have Father/Son time together and collecting the sets was cool. When the Kreon mini figs came out I became obsessed with getting them all, even the exclusives. We did pretty good, even getting several sets not released in the U.S. (first 2 waves of warriors for instance, and much of the RiD 15 line only released in Canada). By the end, we had all the standard sets released and over 400 unique Kreon Mini figs. However there were prototypes (like warriors wave 3 & 4), and a few other exclusives I never got, but we had an awesome display for a while. Just this year though, my son turned 18 and had gone on to other interests, so he agreed we could sell our collection. It was fun while it lasted. I would hope that LEGO proper might re-introduce TF mini-figs at some point, but doubtful.

[@criticalboot2567]

kre-o had such good ideas for the sets, a huge shame a few weren't able to be released but its cool that we got as much sets/figures as we did, I personally had the bank and construction site sets which i kinda ended up selling last year (minus 3 figures i still have and a couple left over parts lol) but i do really want to start a collection again, but specifically the kreons as they are pretty cool and imo are a lot better than what lego would do (i mean what other minifigures can transform like that) but also its a fun artstyle also thanks for including the pic i sent on twitter, i was not expecting to see that haha

[@thefirebrothers3739]

Dam, Kre-O lasted for way longer than I thought. Awesome video man!

[@Powertrigger5000]

Thanks for indirectly encouraging me to dig up my old kre-o sets from a giant lego bin I have. I rebuilt the Grimstone combiner, albeit with some kreons missing (had to sacrifice some lego minifigures for the combine mode), and that Mirage and Optimus Prime two pack. Certainly brought back a lot of memories, as cheesy as that sounds.

[@alpphire]

8 minutes in, and I had come to realize, there are a seriously insane amount of transformers characters. Like... Jesus Christ. And I thought sonic the hedgehog had a huge cast.

[@nitex4193]

my experience was getting the optimus figure in the activity book, taking it to school and my teacher taking it and never giving it back

[@cookieninja_1396]

Yoo never have found someone making a deep analysis on Kreos History lol glad you did this one was my childhood

[@MahadShahzad08]

I love lego transformers alot. That why i got into kreo. Although there designs were hideous. The heads of the kreons was the major reason i loved them. I build my own lego g1 accurate possible and sometimes transformable transformers and the head were the pieces i needed since lego didn't do transformers. I wish they were still popular now.

[@civicmimiv]

The first Kre-o bumblebee was my first ever transformer-branded toy.

[@shibumi8]

I didn’t even know they continued for so long. I always thought they stopped around the time RiD came out as those were the only sets my local Toysrus stocked. Pity I’d have loved to have gotten some of those manga versions.

[@mettaton1669]

This video reminded me that i have a few of these guys. I'm messing around with them now, and while they're not the greatest, they are some fun little guys. I have 6 of them. Thrust, Seawing, Sharkticon, Beachcomber, Wildrider, and Alpha Trion.

[@dogcades]

Great video! Went in on the series hard. Biggest disappointment for me was they never came out with a 1986 yearbook set --would love to have had a Unicron, etc.

[@zetaTF]

Great work💪

[@171QA]

Great editing. XD

[@leafyisnthere9396]

For a couple of years, like 2015-17 I had an obsession with the transformers, my parents got me many different things and presents over the span of those years. I loved them, I spent countless hours with the small combiner sets and the larger transforming figures.

[@levidenniston5298]

4:12 I had that set!!! I loved it as a kid. The fact that you could get Optimus and megatron in one set is unheard of in today’s world, and I loved transformers so much at the time that I didn’t even care that they were knock-off Lego.

[@JackAttackMLP]

My favorite growing up was the Kreon Bruticus (Out of a combining 3 pack) and the Mirage and driver combo, I used to use both of the minifigs all the time. Had the Stealth Bumblebee set as well.

[@bumblebricks3669]

This makes me happy :)

[@Wing-Zero-si1eu]

Those were the good days for the franchise. I remember getting the Optimus Prime one for Christmas 2012. It was a fun time.

[@Fries101Reviews]

I got 1 Kre-O Set for Christmas back in 2012 or 2013 but it wasn't a Transformers one 😭

[@Jarjarbinksreallife]

great vid

[@Zip33033]

4:26 At this point I just want to cry because I probably received this set when I was 10 years old and lost most of the details without knowing how much I will like them now. Currently my constructor looks just like a dump of dead lego figures without faces, hats, arms etc. and some random stuff which appeared out of nowhere.

[@SKippySounds]

The "transforming" minifigures were honestly my favorite part of the series

[@HumanThing-fm6xt]

I remember in the early 2010’s my local target put these sets in the Lego aisle so for the longest time I thought Lego already made Transformers sets and didn’t know why everyone was so hyped for the new Optimus Prime set

[@Mythic2099]

i didn’t buy to much of these sets but taking this look back i wish i collected some of the blind bag figures

[@superholymexicandolphin]

i remember getting some of the blind bags at my local Walgreens every time I went oh the nostalgia plus I remember the first ker-o set I got was the Sentinel prime brick build set when I was 5-6 years old I never finished building it sadly

[@PufferFish.N]

Oh I used to have these, they're awesome

[@rodimusunicronus2089]

What's funny is, the missing member of superion, menasor and defensor all share the same missing member as combiner war initially release Bruticus also missed blast off, which is also somewhat accurate because we didn't get a shuttle blastoff from hasbro

[@Lego_Bobba]

I have the armored up sideswipe, and he's really cool, I got it at a flea market for $7 not long ago

[@Zzplys]

I only got two of these Kre-o sets for Christmas way back, the mini Optimus and the Huge Optimus with the trailer

[@NZP208]

Kre-o battle changers was peak Kre-o imo. i wish they actually sold the triple changers

[@zeroenjoyer2550]

I realized that you missed a pack of 4+1 secret kreon pack. As far as I know there was a batch with Optimus, Sentinel, Megatron, Soundwave and secret Starscream and the second batch with Mirage, Bumblebee, Jazz, Red Alert and secret Skywarp. This was absolute banger if you were a kid with low budget and wanted the main cast of transformers.

[@TFanPage101]

@@zeroenjoyer2550 I've known about them, but they were also repacks, so I mixed that in when mentioning some of the unmentioned sets (like human kreons)

[@Slamdance3535]

Microchangers were the bomb, so goofy and adorkable.

[@J03L-]

I owned some of these sets, I found the plastic to feel cheap and didn’t last like Lego does. Also the quality wasn’t always good out of box

[@squallreviews788]

I miss kreons. I had bought most of those sets back in the day. I used the vehicle mode builds to display with the G.I. Joes.

[@fenrirthedestructive4422]

I want that Hawaiian Shirt Drift, I would pay an unreasonable amount of money for that

[@DemarcationMedia]

These guys are so strange XD Some of them look awesome and some just look wweeeeiiirrrddd.

[@mberrios1875]

a kreon victory saber wouldve been so fire wtf

[@kup796]

I only ever had the big sets of Optimus and Megatron and I loved them

[@bucketttz]

I thought no one else knew about this until now.

[@Angelo-lx6if]

Excellent, now you should cover bot shots

[@becktrovato6737]

The mini figures look cool

[@Amon_Gus799]

I had no idea this line went beyond year 2

[@lorddeez1385]

I have one partial figure left from when i was a kid. We were lego loyalist, so we lost most of the parts to the figure. No idea what character it was, but all we have now is the legs and waist, as well as the head. Oyr kid selves decided to give him a name: boogie. And now he is apart of our "family lore" lol

[@MarkCerbo]

Kre-O is a collaboration with Korean toy brand Oxford Toys, which also released some Kre-O exclusives only in Korea and Japan with the Family Mart convenience store. It is unfortunate, that Hasbro discontinued the brand.

[@M64bros]

U remember I used to have an Optimus prime one when I was young and it was such a good time

[@Richy_Rockman8386]

the only kreo thing I have is the micro changer guzzle. unfortunately his arm and leg broke off their ball joints.

[@cloudy6555]

The yearbook of figs is one of my favorite con exclusives

[@BiGJefe167]

I thought Kre-o had died. But didn’t know existed in 2015 at all. Never saw them in stores every again tbh

[@evanf1293]

I partly enjoyed K-reo for its time in the 2010s but was shocked they were still making toys after 2014 as I thought that was the last year they made them. But it turns out it was 2016/17 not 2014.

[@MRSpartan288]

I got bumblebee and jazz but he has a lot of missing pieces, turning it into a normal car

[@CharlieEiland-ym2rt]

I always saw these on Amazon thinking they were the coolest things ever until lego made optimus and bumblebee 😂

[@owensanfordstuff]

My first time seeing post 2014 sets

[@gordonschnick12]

Loved the Kreons

[@kyro24gaminggg46]

Man i wish they bring back this brand i remember when i was younger i wanted the figures so badly especially megatron but i only got the big built optimus prime n the smaller one with bumble bee

[@Plasmarexofficial]

13:42 have the bumbleebee

[@Jam-jb3cn]

I remember I had the lockdown and AOE prime weapon sets they were the best

[@Napo1492]

I hope they try this again but just with the blind bags and the battle changers

[@ulester3092]

I still own the bumblebee and megaton sets

[@NeoXNeo2007]

12:07 I remember I had iron Hyde he was very fun

[@NemesisApoc]

I will never understand how they failed to maximize the Kreon playability by designing a Kre-O Ark or Nemesis.

[@OptimusPrimeBloxxer]

Man, I remember growing up with KRE-O. It’s sad that it couldn’t stick around for more time because of the closing of Toys-R-Us.

[@romanquintero6323]

So… they made a Sentinel Prime with a Headmaster that makes perfect sense with the entire toylike because you can swap the head into any body… AND IT’S A BOTCON EXCLUSIVE 😭😭 god I want that now

[@jbradfield659]

optimus prime vs zombies was the coolest Game ever

[@smileyr]

Kreo did some good I really appreciate the kreons aspect of the transformers. However the biggest issue with kreo in my eyes was that the sets didn’t transform which defeats the purpose of transformers. If you wanted to have a robot mode you would essentially have to break the set down and rebuild it again which was a pain. If you wanted both robot and vehicle you would essentially have to buy two of each set. I think if they had did what Lego had done with the Optimus prime and bumblebee where they actually transformed it would have done better

[@JollyMcCrowner]

I loved the optimus vs megatron 2-pack

[@Yuri-yc2dj]

Battle changers was so damn good, I actually owned the single pack Optimus Prime, I wish they could've done Starscream, cuz the boys would've been complete, but damn I need that Soundwave.

[@Eeyoi2006]

I loved kreo

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

11:18 For the same reason we got “Frozen Armor Batman and Acid Armor Batman figures back in the day. Or Medieval and Pirate Spawn figures. PROFIT.

[@Convoy2005SPIH]

2011-2015 take me back

[@mr.d6486]

i really would like to collect as many as these as possible and create my own MTMTE/LL crew. and somehow make a lego ver of the ship. i really wish kreo did this offically

[@myang12003]

Takara made a G1 styled brick built optimus prime that could actually transform even before LEGO Optimus prime, but he has one eye and he’s very rare.

[@tylerjayyt4965]

Could you imagine owning all these...

[@BugsyFoga]

I miss kre-o😢

[@LNHofficial]

Kreo transformers were a big part of my childhood and i loved them but let's be real. The pieces just broke... like a lot...especially with the figures

[@jacobtaylor1843]

Kreo transformers is back

[@puvaaneswaranpathmanathan8111]

staring contest. 👀

[@myang12003]

Can you do a video of all official LEGO transformers before LEGO optimus prime?

[@philipcao1275]

I always wanted to collect Kreo minifigs, and I still might. But unfortunetly I bought one years ago, and the quality of the plastic felt super cheap. The pieces of the figure either didn’t come apart no matter how hard I tried to pull. Or the pieces didn’t fit together properly. Like the torso was constantly coming apart by itself. And once i removed the weapon from the hand the hand immidiately widened, and was unable to hold the gun anymore. And all this happened right after I opened the packaging. Perhaps it was just my specific copy. I’m not saying all were like this. But it put me off from buying more. Even though I really liked the way the figure looked.

[@foxyplayz1399]

Curse Hasbro for not giving us a wise guy Nemesis Prime lol

[@tylermorgan5230]

Kero is my childhood man

[@SemyonusPrime]

Wait a minute! Why the seaspray is decepticon? 7:54

[@jr_estudio]

Maybe its shattered glass seaspray

[@hilbert7179]

1:43 Fandub Eggman mentioned.

[@glxblrt]

surprisingly wide line of characters

[@myang12003]

8:26 Kitty!

[@Eeyoi2006]

Sad that kreo doesnt have a predaking for beast hunters. But you could get that workd if warcry dragon that looks like him

[@myang12003]

Did you have to completely disassemble the sets in BTR?

[@Zernki]

I still have the Kre-o Exclusive roblox event items

[@kreospree5727]

A little fun fact, when kreo re-released their blindbags, they updated some of the prints and use the latest mold of the kre-ons (you can tell by the new hands, hole in the neck, and bar sized holes under the feet)