Kreon Class of 1984
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The Kreon Class of 1984 is a San Diego Comic-Con 2014 exclusive Kre-O set, done up in the style of a Cybertronian high school yearbook circa 1984. Opening the case reveals the 30 Kreons inside, arranged like yearbook photos. Each one is also given a "voted on" descriptor in that same vein.
Contents
- Kreons
- Arcee (Prom Queen)
- Bluestreak (Class Chatterbox)
- Brawn (Class Jock)
- Bumblebee (Best Spark)
- Cliffjumper (Most Fearless)
- Frenzy (Most Spirited)
- Gears (Class Grouch)
- Hound (Friendliest)
- Huffer (Biggest Rust Bucket)
- Ironhide (Best Bot To Bring Home To Primus)
- Jazz (Most Rad)
- Megatron (Best Frenemies (With Starscream))
- Mirage (Best Dressed)
- Optimus Prime (Most Likely To Succeed)
- Perceptor (Class Brain)
- Prowl (Best Logic Processors)
- Ratchet (Class Fixer)
- Rumble (Most Likely To Shake Things Up)
- Shockwave (Best Optics)
- Skrapnel (Most Repetitive, Repetitive)
- Sideswipe (Prom King)
- Skywarp (Most Punctual)
- Soundwave (Class Gossip)
- Starscream (Best Frenemies (With Megatron))
- Sunstreaker (Best Looking)
- Thundercracker (Most Indecisive)
- Trailcutter (Class Clown)
- Ultra Magnus (Teacher's Pet)
- Wheeljack (Most Likely To Blow Himself Up)
- Windcharger (Most Likely To Run Out Of Energon)
- Extra Accessories
The set also comes with a block of extra parts, all painfully '80s themed. Most are just common pegless plates with tampographs on them, which means you should be careful clipping them into Kreon hands to avoid scraping the deco off.
- Mullet wig
- Boombox
- The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack LP
- Mobile phone
- 5¼ inch floppy disk
- Can of hair spray
- "I (Autobot symbol) 80s" poster
- Concert ticket
- VHS cassette
- Puzzle cube
- "Buzzsaw" cassette tape
- "Laserbeak" cassette tape
- "Ravage" cassette tape
- Kre-O logo block
Notes
- Like all of Hasbro's Comic-Con exclusives, leftovers of this set were to be sold online via Hasbro Toy Shop. However, there were no leftovers by the end of the convention, it was that popular. As such, this $50 set commands on average twice that amount online.
- The Kreons' tampographs are largely toy-based, with many characters sporting their toys' "mask and visor" faces instead of the more humanized cartoon model faces (particularly the Mini Vehicle bots), yellow optics, etc. It's not wholly consistent, though, with some characters' cartoon details coming through. Plus, FIRRIB.
- You might have noticed that for a "Class of 1984" set, there's a few not-from-1984 characters in it.
- Arcee and Ultra Magnus are certainly the most egregious examples, not having shown up until 1986.
- Perceptor, Shockwave and "Skrapnel" are from the 1985 product line, though in all fairness the latter two did show up in the "1984" season of the original cartoon, so we'll give them a mulligan on those two.
- Oh and obviously the The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack didn't come out until 1986.
- One can only assume that some of these got used to fill gaps in the grid due to the limited cast members available in 1984 (what, no Reflector?), and in a "we may never do another set so make them now" mentality (especially for Arcee).
- Speaking of odd choices, some of the Kreons' accessories and coloring are head-scratch-inducing. Many characters are given "wings" despite their toys not having any, like Bumblebee/Cliffjumper and Ironhide/Ratchet. Bluestreak appears in his infamous "blue Bluestreak" deco, only with white instead of silver. And Skywarp is an explosion of purple parts.
- The concert ticket is a scaled-down version of the "2014 Reunion Tour" ticket packed-in with the Knights of Unicron boxset, also from this year's SDCC.
- The following year's SDCC would feature a similarly themed set called the Class of '85, which, as the name suggests, included Kreons based on characters from the second year of the toyline.
