Transformers Kreon Top 10

As promised, here is my Kreon figure Top 10 (from my collection anyway, there are many more I still need to get). I've loved Kreons for a long time now, and honestly I think they're one of the strongest lines that Hasbro have brought out in a while. I will be only discussing the Transformers Kreon figures here, as I have very few non-robot guys right now.

Sunstorm

First up is Sunstorm! Odd choice right? Well my main reason for including him here somewhere is because this was the figure that made me like the line. TECHNICALLY he was my second figure, as I had already gotten the Mirage building set (it was cheap) and wasn't impressed, so I ignored the figure, but when I got this guy (he came free with an issue of the UK's Titan Transformers comic) I fell in love, dug out my Mirage set, and started splashing out on more figures...LIFE RUINED!!

Landshark

Next up is some proof on how ruined my life is now, a part of the expensive Botcon set from this year's convention (I got mine at Auto Assembly). I like this figure because he is likely the only version of Landshark that I could, or would even try to afford and own. The design is lovely, and I am sure his alternate mode is great (I tried Transforming the Botcon 2014 set, but without instructions it is impossible!)

Gigatron

Gigatron, or as most people know him, Overlord is on my list for a lot of the same reasons as Landshark was. He's a figure that normally I would never be able to reasonably afford (plus this one looks ten times better than his full sized Botcon toy too...). 

Also, who doesn't love Overlord? Just a pity he didn't come with a small brick to go on the bottom of his foot to represent Pipes or something!

Guzzle

Guzzle is here because he shoes just how important the comics are. Before he appeared in Last Stand of the Wreckers, Guzzle was just another random character who got very little love, how he is so popular that Hasbro have made a couple of toys of him in recent years, including this very nice one here.

Strika

Strika, from the 2013 Botcon set is here because a) I lover her design and play features (her visor etc) and b) if you fiddle around with her just a bit, she can actually transform into an armoured truck of sorts, which none of the rest of her set can even come close to!

"Sideswipe"

Here is Sideswipe from the Age of Extinction toy line. Right? Well that's what the box and instructions say! Actually this toy is based off of Leadfoot from the Dark of the Moon toy line (this was most glaringly obvious when you remember that Sideswipe from the movies was silver....)

The best thing about this figure, is that since Leadfoot was never properly released in the UK, due to the line ending, we never got a proper Leadfoot toy, unless we imported from Japan (which I do plan to do one day)....of course now I need a Roadbuster and Topspin Kreon too....crap!

"Nightbeat"

You all knew I was going to put my favourite character on this list somewhere right? Seriously, I would buy a pregnancy test kit is it had Nightbeat's face on it (for whatever reason). But there's something a bit off about him though right? This is clearly based on Punch, not Nightbeat. Most likely he was originally meant to be a Punch/Counterpunch toy, but they couldn't figure out the Counterpunch half, and just renamed him. 

I still like him though, despite all the lies!

Vehicons

Vehicons have become somewhat of a staple in the Transformers mythos over the past few years, and as such we've had a fair few released for the Kreo lines, from the Blind Pack version who turns into a car, and the 3 Pack who came with Cliffjumper that are based on the guys from Prime, to the mass produced AOE versions with their magnetic backpacks and helmets for Dinobots to chomp on.

These guys are so great for crowd-filling, and I wouldn't be surprised if most collectors just had a load of these on their displays, to show massive bloody battle scenes!

Autobot Troopers

The Autobot Troopers, also known as Autotroopers, also known as Autroopers are a small group oof Autobots who tend to act like the Vehicons for the Decepticons, and as such are great.

What is not great is that most Autobot Troopers are either expensive (like the TFA Botcon sets) or come with creepy half-naked girl models (Kiss Players T.T). And even this set wasn't exactly cheap as I had to get him through a specialist toy dealer online due to poor distribution in the UK (made even more horrible since I needed this set for the Quest Blaster too!

Optimuseses

Finally, despite my many complaints about CERTAIN characters getting way too many toys released (Optimus and Bumblebee for instance) there's still no way to get around how cool Optimus looks in this series. Basically all of them (bar Orion Pax) share all the same parts, possibly with a different weapon, and are just painted slightly differently each time, yet they always look wonderful!

The AOE versions in particular show off how effective these sculpts are by using vastly different paint jobs of each of his main releases (shown above, in the back). And of course the lovely Orion Pax was an exclusive with the Character Encyclopaedia, which is fitting due to his archivist role.

Well there's my countdown! I hope you enjoyed, and let me know if you have any other figures that you enjoyed more than my selection, or if you have any more topics you would like me to cover in the future.

Thanks for reading!