November 15, 2012

Kre-O Transformers 38771 Street Showdown, Autobots Wheeljack


And the fever continues... not the medical ones but the hype for Kre-O constructing blocks Transformers. Got this set that also includes a Decepticons Knock Out which I'll probably be reviewing in the next upcoming blog post. But the good guys (Autobots) from the set gets a showtime first.

Have always loved Wheeljack because whenever I check out a Transformers toy and if it is Wheeljack, it always has the best looking bot mode. But not the case for this Kre-O incarnation. Because the set contains 2 bots and it is a medium set offerings, there are limited bricks to put into the box hence Wheeljack seems light in details.
And it suffers a "long neck" syndrome with its head sitting too high up its shoulders on a 2 piece pile up plates. It need tweaking to bring it up to speed.
With a little help of some Lego bricks, I added details to the shoulder part. Also used its windshield parts, which isn't utilized based on the instruction build, for the chest part. Finally, a wheel guard part from Jazz completes the modification.
I was told it now looks like the Transformers Prime version. I have no idea at all.
Wheeljack is actually in a running - one legged - pose from the last 2 pictures above. Good balance thanks to the waist ball joint articulation. This one thing gives a whole additional range of poses.

Wheeljack is smaller than Bumblebee but bigger than Jazz. So it is a mid size bots I would say and I'd love to categorize Bumblebee together. In real fact, Bumblebee should be smaller. It'd be cool if Kre-O can differentiate the category like how they does for the other Transformers toys.
A back shot to show how it looked like from behind. Have also done a little bit of modification here but nothing drastic.

Picture courtesy from <Till All Are Mine> blog.
Here is how Wheeljack looks like straight out from the official instruction sheet. See the long neck?
One thing I'd love Hasbro to improve is definitely the fingers. These just look like stumps.

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