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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[@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.

[@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

[@Sigma53772]

​@@IamWone he's a prophet not God

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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 🙏🏿❤️❤❤

[@Whigatronimusprime]

They still make kreo transformers?

[@IamWone]

@@Whigatronimusprime 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 🙏🏿❤️

[@damienjohnston-peters6478]

I still have all my sets, and boxes. I still have the whole devastator set. And the Megatron Optimus pack they go for a ton of money now

[@IamWone]

@@damienjohnston-peters6478 for our sins we deserve hell, but God sent Jesus to die for our sins so we could have redemption and eternal life if we repent and obey him in faith ✝️❤️❤️❤️

[@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.

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

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

[@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.

[@Unfortunate_developement]

Kreo. The name sends shivers down my spine. My younger brother, a fool at the time, was about to mix the bins for Lego and non Lego. I could sense the impending doom as he dumped both containers into a horrid amalgam of bricks. The gravitational forces emitted from the resulting singularity had caused all bricks and small figures to drift into the dreaded pile. We are still recovering to this day.

[@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.

[@Overtune07]

“BUMBLEBEE NOOO” “hi”

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

*_"cue the music"_*

[@civicmimiv]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@gayema664]

There is alot.....especially repeating chatacters or just plaine recolors. Megatron had 3 versions of himself. Megatronus(not the fallen or prime, he just took its name),megatron,and GALVATRON!(who later in IDW made him a different character entirely for some reason). Not to mention cyberverse gave SO MANY different versions of characters along with a certain now netflix owned game where different versions of characters fighting. The cast of oneself is almost as insane as marvel or dc but definitely bigger then how many bens thrre are in ben 10. Theres also combiners,evil clones,glass shatters(basically just reversed characters),bayformers,reconstructed,rebooted,etc. Every character of transformers may have at least 3 versions of themselves including a possible female or male varient from transitioning(either consentual or not). Its honestly insane that some random bot could have different versions that act like totally different characters. Especially Arcee and bumblebee.

[@alpphire]

@@gayema664 sheer insanity to it is just so perfect for transformers. I’m sure a lot of those recolors were just simply for toys but even then it just feels so right.

[@gayema664]

@@alpphire that iis correct originally it was just for toys, but now all those recolors made a multiverersal shinanigan of multiple personalities making different favorites for people demanding that character in media forntransformersm examole being cliff jumper and bumblebee. Despite cliffjumper being exact recolor of bumblebee originally he gotten a liking to people that they demand him better respect as well as less death scenes as if optimus doesnt fucking dies in every iteration of transformers(he robo jesus)

[@hypertech116]

Pokemon has far more than 1000 characters. I think Pokemon's cast is still bigger.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Slamdance3535]

Microchangers were the bomb, so goofy and adorkable.

[@MjGraham-i7f]

First 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@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

[@ShockwaveFPSStudios]

It’s almost ironic that Hasbro made their own LEGOs, only to ditch their LEGOs in favor of partnering with LEGOs for Transformers toys many years later. It’s like Hasbro gave up and realized that LEGO’s the chosen one.

[@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.

[@M64bros]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@CharlieEiland-ym2rt]

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

[@bucketttz]

I thought no one else knew about this until now.

[@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.

[@cookieninja_1396]

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

[@Angelo-lx6if]

Excellent, now you should cover bot shots

[@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.

[@space0for0name]

I miss my kre-o bumblebee set... which I played with just one time and then i took it apart and used it's pieces as spare Lego pieces.

[@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

[@LovelySt28]

10:46 I have a grimlock like that, it's in my collection to this day. It's sad I couldn't buy the others in the collection 11:53 i also have this west megatron, it's cool

[@bman1128]

I never had any kre-o sets myself, but i always thought they were awesome! Wish they would make a comeback!

[@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.

[@Fries101Reviews]

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

[@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.

[@MRSpartan288]

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

[@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

[@convoyfax]

same thing happend to me once, with me was my gogo's, its really sucks this thing teachers do, i feel sorry for you bro

[@Richy_Rockman8386]

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

[@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

[@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

[@alobaymar]

I think some of the big sets like Sentinel and Bumblebee would have been better if they didn't have those Ohio heads

[@lonelypotato5352]

I still have my Kreon Bumblebee!

[@myang12003]

Takara made brick built animated optimus prime and bumblebee and they could actually transform and they came out before LEGO Optimus prime and LEGO bumblebee

[@briandain8432]

My Battleship, Star Trek, GI Joe/Cobra & TRANSFORMER KREOs are right in my Custom Lego Castle Greyskull, Snake Mountain, Cobra Temple of Darkness... Not the crappy builds, but the PERFECT Minifigs. Just those little ball joints are getting a little loose & some have broken.

[@ulester3092]

I still own the bumblebee and megaton sets

[@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.

[@briandain8432]

I got the HQ on Super Clearance just for the Big Autobot Symbol, i used with Every Orange Lego i could find (sorry Milano) for a Sweet Autobot Shuttle!!

[@Cheeseyu3000]

While Hasbro discontinued Kre-O, the line actually still continue with The chinese tokusatsu Armor Hero set in china

[@TFanPage101]

@@Cheeseyu3000 I don't even think those are official

[@Cheeseyu3000]

@@TFanPage101 Its official at first, Hasbro collab with the chinese company Auldey to make it. But then the next line release and it became its own thing without mentioning of Hasbro or Kreo.

[@briandain8432]

I used the Large Optimus Prime head on the Hulk Buster, cus the HB head looks more like a Chest... Kinda like an Ironman Power Master!!

[@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.

[@myang12003]

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

[@SemyonusPrime]

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

[@jr_estudio]

Maybe its shattered glass seaspray

[@jbradfield659]

optimus prime vs zombies was the coolest Game ever

[@hilbert7179]

1:43 Fandub Eggman mentioned.

[@SilverScarletSpider]

10:45 probably the best kreo set

[@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.

[@ejarfunkle505]

now I want a set of all the g1 characters since i lost the originals I had when I was a kid. AND I CANT FIND A GOOD SET ANYWHERE

[@NemesisApoc]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@gayema664]

Kre-o was cool when it lasted. I had like 1-2 sets. The biggest proboem I had was taking them apart to even transform and some characters were bigger then their rivals for some reason. I enjoyed how they can move around abit it was a great combination of mega blocks and lego I wish lego did something about minifigs. Then some also don't even transform. If you loose a piece you can transform either. Honestly mega blocks is still my favorite lego like brand because of the poses it can do. Especially now it can do better poses then actual do better then actual action figures and honestly that's kinda sad and its smaller and cheaper!

[@half-faust]

I find the inclusion of so many generic human figures so weird, like did anyone actually want those? I assume those were cheaper/easier than including more Transformer Kreons but they just feel pointless.

[@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.

[@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

[@myang12003]

Did you have to completely disassemble the sets in BTR?

[@Plasmarexofficial]

13:42 have the bumbleebee

[@NZP208]

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

[@victorleppas3067]

I had the big optimus ve megatron, the vehicules where fine but the robots where to me not fun to play with or just ... Pose at all because of the hard joints and somes parts where fragile as hell

[@louisbogli1804]

Sorry but outside of the big Optimus movie figure, am I the only one who find all of those figures and sets ugly as hell ?

[@pawarl.o.s.881]

I got mirage back then. The mirage kreon had two left (or right I don't remember). It sat in my closet for years until I got rid of it at yard sale. I don't regret that decision.

[@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

[@Miyamoto_fett]

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

[@Awpos]

We really don’t need this much detail. Your voice is too annoying to hear every single minifigure

[@S77StopMotion]

Great video!! I still have the classics 84 e 85 box !

[@JollyMcCrowner]

I loved the optimus vs megatron 2-pack

[@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.

[@kup796]

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

[@SKippySounds]

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

[@the_rustydoornob1164]

2:31 I had a mirage and still use his pieces in car Mocs to this day, I also had a red transformer that I don’t remember (maybe prime?) that had a rlly useful bending 2x4 where the hinge was in the middle

[@the_rustydoornob1164]

13:51 Yee that’s the one I got as a kid! I got one of these and a battleship one (I loved that movie for some reason) which had some rlly cool pieces

[@Zernki]

I still have the Kre-o Exclusive roblox event items

[@becktrovato6737]

The only good thing about mega blocks and keo are the mini figures

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

These sucked, I got the wave with evil prime for $2 each

[@charperalta9489]

all the figures i'm intrested to get ripclaw 5:57 big grimlock 10:03 transformable shockwave 12:03 (newest holy grail) underbite 12:41

[@charperalta9489]

its the only underbite that could scale with the rid figures

[@SpydogStudios]

I hate when super-cool ideas for toys are made but then discontinued cuz “Oh not all the kids know about it so its not selling as well” or “Its too much effort to make”😡

[@Eeyoi2006]

I loved kreo

[@myang12003]

The battle changers were the only good kreo sets

[@Napo1492]

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

[@mberrios1875]

a kreon victory saber wouldve been so fire wtf

[@ConvoyRBLX]

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.

[@charjrperalta1658]

12:20 is is sad this is ptobably the best mainline underbite well ever get

[@channel5slimdanganimation539]

do you think they'll come back😟??

[@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

[@Noveler00]

I have the Class of 85 set that I'm will to part with. I got them with the intent to use them as figs for DnD, but I never pulled them out. I got too much stuff and it's only collecting dust.

[@TFanPage101]

@@Noveler00 I'm not opposed to it