Takara Tomy Kre-O Web Comic Episode 11

Wahoo! The series ins't canceled! It just had a change of artist.

Let's see there's:

Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Purple silhouette guy
A Constructicon
Jazz
Ratchet
Bulldog
Mindwipe
Weirdwolf
C-X
Alligatorcon
Cerebros (different guy from Fortress, apparently)
Ironhide
Mirage
Hound


Huh, not much fanwankery here besides C-X and the Alligatorcon.

I thought kreo was dead. You dont see them in stores anymore. The shelves they use to warm are now being warmed by constructobots. When will hasbro learn todays kids dont want to build crap ? They want the real figures not lego and erector sets.

Rated X wrote:I thought kreo was dead. You dont see them in stores anymore. The shelves they use to warm are now being warmed by constructobots. When will hasbro learn todays kids dont want to build crap ? They want the real figures not lego and erector sets.

This is TakaraTomy and Japan we're talking here. Not Hasbro. but I know you're going to ignore that for whatever reason anyway.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rated X wrote:I thought kreo was dead. You dont see them in stores anymore. The shelves they use to warm are now being warmed by constructobots. When will hasbro learn todays kids dont want to build crap ? They want the real figures not lego and erector sets.

This is TakaraTomy and Japan we're talking here. Not Hasbro. but I know you're going to ignore that for whatever reason anyway.

I missed that. But honestly Im surprised. Usually dumbed down TF toys are geared towards the "western market". Takara usually makes nothing but the good stuff. I wonder if they'll end up with constructobots as well ?

Rated X wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rated X wrote:I thought kreo was dead. You dont see them in stores anymore. The shelves they use to warm are now being warmed by constructobots. When will hasbro learn todays kids dont want to build crap ? They want the real figures not lego and erector sets.

This is TakaraTomy and Japan we're talking here. Not Hasbro. but I know you're going to ignore that for whatever reason anyway.

I missed that. But honestly Im surprised. Usually dumbed down TF toys are geared towards the "western market". Takara usually makes nothing but the good stuff. I wonder if they'll end up with constructobots as well ?

Actually, TakaraTomy releases just about anything Hasbro has after some tweaking. So yes, we can expect Construct-Bots over there and the "dumbed down" TF toys for the new movie. They have kids there too, you know?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rated X wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rated X wrote:I thought kreo was dead. You dont see them in stores anymore. The shelves they use to warm are now being warmed by constructobots. When will hasbro learn todays kids dont want to build crap ? They want the real figures not lego and erector sets.

This is TakaraTomy and Japan we're talking here. Not Hasbro. but I know you're going to ignore that for whatever reason anyway.

I missed that. But honestly Im surprised. Usually dumbed down TF toys are geared towards the "western market". Takara usually makes nothing but the good stuff. I wonder if they'll end up with constructobots as well ?

Actually, TakaraTomy releases just about anything Hasbro has after some tweaking. So yes, we can expect Construct-Bots over there and the "dumbed down" TF toys for the new movie. They have kids there too, you know?

Even robot heroes and rescue bots. I always assumed their kids stuff was kaybaya figures and arms microns in coin operated candy machines. In other words, stuff that adults like too. Just my guess from what i see on these front page stories...

Rated X wrote:Even robot heroes and rescue bots. I always assumed their kids stuff was kaybaya figures and arms microns in coin operated candy machines. In other words, stuff that adults like too. Just my guess from what i see on these front page stories...

I said "just about". I could see Rescue Bots being imported for the heck of it though All in all, despite having a larger portfolio of lines especially for us collectors (like Bandai does), TakaraTomy is still a toy company and Hasbro's analog in Japan, thus they're paying at least as much attention to kids as Hasbro does.

Back on topic, I'm a bit surprised nobody said anything about the gator resembling Skullcruncher a bit with the window in its head.

There's also the fact that this comic is written in, you know, Japanese.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Back on topic, I'm a bit surprised nobody said anything about the gator resembling Skullcruncher a bit with the window in its head.

The whole comic is based on the G1 episode City of Steel where the Decepticons turn Prime's body into an Alligatorcon. The last panel even shows Prime's severed arm firing at random.

Emerje

It doesn't appear to be intentional, but Megatron just looks less "Animated" in the first panel he appears, when compared to the last. But it could be just the art.

The Takara Tomy Kre-O web comic has returned for episode 12 of cute cuddly Transformers Kre-O goodness. Check out the latest episode mirrored for you below.

I'm all for homages and such, but did he really have to include the Legion from Kiss Players?

The Solar Power Tower
Waspinator
Someone who looks like a Constructicon
Megatron
The Thunder Arrow
TCC Astrotrain
Grand Galvatron
Legions
Squeezeplay
Horri-Bull
Fangry
Knock Out
Starscream
Menasor
Devastator
Bruticus
Soundwave
Wreck-Gar
Hoist
Grapple
Optimus Prime
Bumblebee

Sabrblade wrote:Squeezeplay
Horri-Bull
Fangry

Or Cancer, Bullhorn and Wilder

These things tickle me so much.

I bought one as a lark and then overnight I spread to 30 and now I want them all.

Yes, even Legion ones

Also, the middle panel is a homage to this:

I'm not sure what exactly Megatron's ultimate plan was, but I'm guessing it's far more ambitious than his Decepticons can handle.


Is Japan being weaponized/fortified a reference to something? Seemingly every other thing is.


EDIT: Love how Waspinator is in pieces at the end!

Noideaforaname wrote:Is Japan being weaponized/fortified a reference to something? Seemingly every other thing is.

Good catch. That homages a manga issue from TV Magazine.

I remember looking up clips from the English Headmasters dub, and saw a clip of Galvatron transforming into a planet and declaring, "I am Unicorn!" I sort of want to know what is up with Grand Galvatron now.

Darth Jumpy wrote:I remember looking up clips from the English Headmasters dub, and saw a clip of Galvatron transforming into a planet and declaring, "I am Unicorn!" I sort of want to know what is up with Grand Galvatron now.

Grand Galvatron was to have been the ultimate result of Galvatron's long term master plan for the middle arc of the Headmasters cartoon. Throughout the midway point of the show, the Decepticons had been conducting a long term campaign of raiding planet after planet for their energy resources, with Galvatron keeping the true purpose of all this energy looting a secret. Eventually, though, his plans came to light when his confided his true plan with Sixshot: He was going to use all the harvested energy to reconstruct the planet Earth into a gigantic new body for himself called "Grand Galvatron", and become ruler of the universe. Though, this plan to incorporate the Earth into Galvatron's systems had one small detail that did not sit well with Sixshot: In order for Galvatron to complete this goal, he would also require that some parts from the bodies of the best of the best Decepticons (which included Sixshot) be integrated into Galvatron to compensate for any weaknesses he'd have.

Though, this plan never came to fruition since Galvatron was killed in battle before the plan could be set in motion.

Here's a video with more on the subject:


And here's the silly Malaysian English version that you mentioned:

Episode 13 of the Takara Tomy Kre-O web comic is up for your reading pleasure. Check out what your favorite characters are up to in this latest chapter.

Knock Out
Megatron
Some small claw thing
Galvatron
Starscream
Crowned Starscream statue
Pink/purple fire-handed guy (it's early in the morning, so forgive me )
Armada Thundercracker or Micron Densetsu Starscream Super Mode
Machine Wars Starscream
Slipstream
Bonecrusher
Scrapper
Either Scavenger or Mixmaster
Breakdown
Great Galamen
Quintesson
Two more weird-looking things
Scourge
Cyclonus
Optimus Prime
Rodimus Prime
Armada Laserbeak
Some Megatron helmet
Sharkticon Megatron helmet
Thrustinator

Sabrblade wrote:Pink/purple fire-handed guy (it's early in the morning, so forgive me )

Beast Machines Thrust?

NovaSentinel wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Pink/purple fire-handed guy (it's early in the morning, so forgive me )

Beast Machines Thrust?

Could be.

Now for those three other things...

Claw-thingy = Arms Micron Gra
Alternate Megatron helmet: I thought Animated, but I'm not so sure...

Don't ask about those two other blobs.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Don't ask about those two other blobs.

Sounds ominous.

Oh, they're the aliens from "Webworld".

Also, that extra Megatron helmet isn't Animated Megatron's, it's Super Megatron's.

Sabrblade wrote:Oh, they're the aliens from "Webworld".

Also, that extra Megatron helmet isn't Animated Megatron's, it's Super Megatron's.

The Alya from Torkulon? Sneaky.

And seriously? Super Megatron, with the two circles in the crest? In my defense I wasn't that far off then, as Animated Megs is based on him,

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And seriously? Super Megatron, with the two circles in the crest? In my defense I wasn't that far off then, as Animated Megs is based on him,

What do you mean?

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And seriously? Super Megatron, with the two circles in the crest? In my defense I wasn't that far off then, as Animated Megs is based on him,

What do you mean?

You mean the circles, or the analogy? If the latter, at least the helmet designs of Super Megatron and Animated (Earth Mode) Megatron are a match.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And seriously? Super Megatron, with the two circles in the crest? In my defense I wasn't that far off then, as Animated Megs is based on him,

What do you mean?

You mean the circles, or the analogy? If the latter, at least the helmet designs of Super Megatron and Animated (Earth Mode) Megatron are a match.

Woah, that's weird. Your post must have been edited since I meant to ask about this quote:

That still leaves Megatron's helmet... if it actually is Megatron's...

Note to self: let thoughts finish before hitting "Submit"

Y'know what? Let's just call the extra Megatron helmet a double homage and call it a day.

Mindmaster wrote:Y'know what? Let's just call the extra Megatron helmet a double homage and call it a day.

But we weren't arguing...

Anywho, it seems the new artist is taking a different approach to senaking in obscure stuff. Whereas we first had tons of obscure characters, now we have complete episodes. The previous one mainly spoofed The Master Builders, the one before that City of Steel, now we have these: Transformers the Movie with Galvatron's birth down to the grid pattern in the background, and Starscream's coronation scene. And then Headmasters' Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime with Optimus and Rodimus Prime at the same time, obviously. Webworld, any episode with Galvatron's sparking (like FFoD pt.2 and The Big Broadcast of 2006)... Are there more?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Y'know what? Let's just call the extra Megatron helmet a double homage and call it a day.

But we weren't arguing...

I know, I wasn't trying to imply there was an argument. I was just saying, let's say it's a double homage.

I'm not really sure how it's a homage to Animated Megatron since the homage in question only comes from the deco, which is Super Megatron-based. The shape wasn't in question.

Otherwise, we'd have to label the helmet a homage to Animated Megatron in every single issue it appears in since it's the standard Kre-O Megatron helmet, and no one's claiming the same for the Sharkticon Megatron helmet yet the only thing about that helmet that homages Sharkticon Megatron is just its deco.

Sabrblade wrote:I'm not really sure how it's a homage to Animated Megatron since the homage in question only comes from the deco, which is Super Megatron-based. The shape wasn't in question.

Otherwise, we'd have to label the helmet a homage to Animated Megatron in every single issue it appears in since it's the standard Kre-O Megatron helmet, and no one's claiming the same for the Sharkticon Megatron helmet yet the only thing about that helmet that homages Sharkticon Megatron is just its deco.

And I was talking from a deco point of view with the Kre-O helmets. I also said that between Animated Megatron and Super Megatron individually, the helmet designs match.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I'm not really sure how it's a homage to Animated Megatron since the homage in question only comes from the deco, which is Super Megatron-based. The shape wasn't in question.

Otherwise, we'd have to label the helmet a homage to Animated Megatron in every single issue it appears in since it's the standard Kre-O Megatron helmet, and no one's claiming the same for the Sharkticon Megatron helmet yet the only thing about that helmet that homages Sharkticon Megatron is just its deco.

And I was talking from a deco point of view with the Kre-O helmets. I also said that between Animated Megatron and Super Megatron individually, the helmet designs match.

Well, what is it about the deco of Animated Megatron's helmet that would make a Kre-O version of it different from the regular Kre-O Megatron helmet? Since the "SM" is the only thing on the helmet that points it to Super Megatron.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I'm not really sure how it's a homage to Animated Megatron since the homage in question only comes from the deco, which is Super Megatron-based. The shape wasn't in question.

Otherwise, we'd have to label the helmet a homage to Animated Megatron in every single issue it appears in since it's the standard Kre-O Megatron helmet, and no one's claiming the same for the Sharkticon Megatron helmet yet the only thing about that helmet that homages Sharkticon Megatron is just its deco.

And I was talking from a deco point of view with the Kre-O helmets. I also said that between Animated Megatron and Super Megatron individually, the helmet designs match.

Well, what is it about the deco of Animated Megatron's helmet that would make a Kre-O version of it different from the regular Kre-O Megatron helmet? Since the "SM" is the only thing on the helmet that points it to Super Megatron.

*puts on her proper glasses*

Well I'll be darned. The "S" looked like two circles to me, that's what threw me off.

Episode 14 in Takara Tomy's Kre-O web comic series has been posted. This one prominently features the Kreon Protectobots among others, check out the comic mirrored below:

I see Smolder, Cannonball, Maccadam and a Paradron Medic!

Protectobots
Smolder
Cannonball
The prototypical versions of Isami and Tobio
Sixshot
Phoenix
Lander
Maccadam's mustachioed bartender
Skyfeather
Heatrock
Swindle
Metroplex
Vortex
Bruticus
Defensor
Groove
Optimus Prime
Paradron Medic

Sabrblade wrote:Swindle?

Swindle

Sabrblade wrote:Some guy with a white visor

Groove

Groove is only in the last panel, gold face, behind first aid.

Heh, Blades gets attacked by Decepticons with emergency vehicle alts. Well, I don't know if Cannonball technically has one, but he's repainted from them at least. Probably would've been more appropriate to use Barricade or Tailwhip or whatever other Protecta-Cons there are.

Whoa-hey, is that Kreon Skyfeather in panel 5?
Edit: OH MAN, TINY HEATROCK TOO!

I'm assuming that's Metroplex's transformation cog Swindle is running off with.

Kreons - so cute

Noideaforaname wrote:Heh, Blades gets attacked by Decepticons with emergency vehicle alts. Well, I don't know if Cannonball technically has one, but he's repainted from them at least. Probably would've been more appropriate to use Barricade or Tailwhip or whatever other Protecta-Cons there are.

First Aid, not Blades. What's interesting is that they retained their current US names, down to Streetwise being renamed Streetsmart.

"Thrust" is indeed Skyfeather and the other guy is indeed Heatrock from the Gaia Guardian kits. Good eye.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:First Aid, not Blades.

D'oh! I can never keep track of these Autobots.

And the episode homages is The Ultimate Weapon from Season 3, with First Aid depressed, and Swindle stealing Metroplex' transformation cog. I have a fondness for that one, because I sympathise with First Aid, plus the Netherlands are in it. And it's not necessarily a false portrayal...