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A humor webcomic published in the Takara-Tomy website to promote the Transformers Kre-O building sets. It has become infamous for featuring Kreon versions of Transformers who haven't been released in the Kre-O toyline at the time of publication.


Transformers Kre-O provides examples of:

  • Built with LEGO: And since bricks are both the equivalent of Energon and pieces of buildings and constructions, technically what the Decepticons want is to steal structures to eat (albeit this equivalence isn't consistent from strip to strip).
  • Early-Bird Cameo: A Kreon Windblade appears here, months before she appeared in IDW's comics.
  • Grand Finale: The final webcomic has the Autobots and Decepticons getting transported to Earth, specifically that of Isami Tatewaki's home from Transformers: Go!. The Autobots and Decepticons briefly fight before Optimus points out the other Decepticons might forget about Megatron so the Autobots and Decepticons work together to build a rocket ship (accidentally building Bumblebee into it!) and blast off for home. As the Kreons leave, Optimus Prime assures Isami that some day they'll meet again, then tells you that his Kreon friends may be hiding by your side, too. And as long as you believe, you'll always be together.
  • Mythology Gag: Tons in every strip. For instance, the Grand Finale is a shortened version of Child's Play, the strip takes place in Isami's home from Transformers: Go!, the fight between the Autobots and Decepticons is a Kre-O version of the back-of-box artwork of the 1984 toys from Generation 1 Bumblebee is accidentally built into the rocket in reference to an animation error from the Child's Play episode (where improper layering of cells made it look like Bumblebee was sticking out of the rocket) and Isami's other possessions include the original Optimus Prime Kreon, a Cloud Megatron toy, a portable game based on Power UpVT6, Music Label Frenzy/Rumble headphones, and most obscure of all, a Power Cycle (a "transforming" bicycle released during the 80's).
  • Nobody Poops: Averted at least twice, no matter how illogical this is for sentient machines.
  • Running Gag: Whenever Sideways appears, only his leg will be seen. In Strip #10, we finally see his whole body, only for him to be swiftly buried in rubble with just one leg peeking out.
  • Series Fauxnale: Strip #10, with the Autobots finishing Autobot City, an attempt to show in a single strip most versons of characters with multiple looks (like Bumblebee), a full-on Decepticon attack, Sideways finally showing his face, and the Decepticons resignating and peacefully co-habitating with the Autobots. This is undone with no explanation as a new author takes the strip.
  • Shout-Out: Many strips are shortened parodies of adventures from other Transformers series.
  • Skewed Priorities: Vortex's only priority is guarding the base to the point in New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!, he's able to get the other Combaticons to quit a fight against the Autobots (while the group was combined into Bruticus, no less!) and guard the base together...leaving Starscream alone against Megatron...
  • Tickle Torture: The "training" the Constructicons get to not be defeated by being tickled again is this.
  • Toyless Toyline Character: While there are many background characters whose Kreon version was created for the strips, the most notorious case is Sideways, who frequently appears showing just one leg, until he appears in full in strip #10... only to be buried in rubble, with just one leg showing.
  • Verbal Tic: Vortex ends all his statements with -ex.

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