New Beast Hunters Kre-O Sighted at Retail: Beast Blade Optimus Prime and Ripclaw Strike
Monday, January 28th, 2013 8:57PM CST
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Posted by Nemesis Maximo on January 28th, 2013 @ 9:47pm CST
Posted by RAcast on January 28th, 2013 @ 10:40pm CST
Posted by kenshen on January 28th, 2013 @ 11:39pm CST
Posted by RAcast on January 28th, 2013 @ 11:46pm CST
kenshen wrote:the design on these Kre-os are really attractive. but i've heard the plastic quality is kinda bad. one of the main reasons i'm avoiding the line
Who'd you hear that from? I wholeheartedly disagree, it's at least as solid as the average Lego stuff. That said, the tolerances on the hip joints are off on one in every few kreons, but it only causes a little stressing, it's not going to damage anything.
Posted by necr0blivion on January 29th, 2013 @ 1:46am CST
RAcast wrote:kenshen wrote:the design on these Kre-os are really attractive. but i've heard the plastic quality is kinda bad. one of the main reasons i'm avoiding the line
Who'd you hear that from? I wholeheartedly disagree, it's at least as solid as the average Lego stuff. That said, the tolerances on the hip joints are off on one in every few kreons, but it only causes a little stressing, it's not going to damage anything.
I second that, owning several Kre-O sets. Brick quality on par with LEGO, the main fault is in the design/plastic used for the Kreon (miniatures) wrists. 25% of mine have stress marks out of the box, swiveling the hand will usually take care of the other 75%. I'm hoping the new Kre-O combiner packs don't suffer the same issue, but I haven't heard anything about it yet.
Posted by Tresob on January 29th, 2013 @ 8:11am CST
As for the conversation on the quality of the building sets, my impression is that Kre-o relies more heavily on plates than bricks. Where a Lego set seems to stack up a couple of bricks, Kre-o seems more likely to ask the builder to layer two or three times the number of plates to achieve the same height or thickness...which, in my opinion, are often a real pain to take apart. It is harder to get a grip on plates than bricks, and many plates end up with little gouges on their edges cause by fingernails or instruments I've had to use as wedges to separate pieces.