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Showing posts with label Oxford Toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxford Toys. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2015

KRE-O ® Star Trek Series 2: Quark!

11.19.2015 – Star Trek Deep Space Nine is a series that made a difference. It’s a Star Trek series that wasn’t set in a starship, but in a space station known as Deep Space Nine where interesting characters you’ll see that was aired for seven years.

One of them is a bar keep named Quark a Ferengi, but not just some alien who just serves drinks he’s one of the most interesting characters in the series.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

KRE-O ® Star Trek Series 2: Gul Dukat!

11.12.2015 – The last wave for KRE-O’s Star Trek blind-bagged assortment features popular characters from the television series and not based on the JJ Abrams' films. This second wave also includes underrated secondary characters too.

For those not familiar with the television series from the late 1980s beginning with The Next Generation spawned three more spin offs and filled with interesting characters and one of them is from Deep Space Nine’s Gul Dukat!

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

KRE-O ® TF AoE Series 1: Skrapnel!

11.03.2015 – The fifth wave of the blind-bagged Kreon Micro-Changers could probably the second to the last run for KRE-O with most of the characters are either created only for this line in a live action movie theme.

There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to characters created for this wave that doesn’t have any support of fiction. But probably it might have a tie-up with a pre-existing character like this Insecticon known as Skrapnel!

Thursday, October 22, 2015

KRE-O ® Star Trek Series 2: General Chang!

10.22.2015 – Star Trek is one of the popular science fiction series of all time and currently developing its thirteenth feature film. In the previous films there has been great adventure with the crew of the USS Enterprise.

There has never been anything like the original crew from the classic TV series. Don’t forget the TNG crew is all a great cast as well as the one developed by JJ Abrams. But the last of the first six films has one of the memorable villains with General Chang!

Thursday, October 15, 2015

KRE-O ® Star Trek Series 2: Mugato!

10.15.2015 – Star Trek is a big universe that the television series from The Next Generation to Enterprise lasted eighteen years. Not including the classic Original Series that started it all, which lasted three seasons and becoming a cult phenomenon.

The Original Series itself has bigger stories and memorable characters that even though it was cancelled it still syndicated that built that foundation for the newer series. As mentioned there are characters and one of them is the hairy Mugato!

Friday, October 2, 2015

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 3: Atomic Man!

10.02.2015 – G.I. Joe as a brand is celebrating fifty years since its first ‘action figure’ was introduced in 1965. For the following years it has evolved which mirrors what is actually happening in its succeeding era.

You’ve got military-related themes in the 1960s and in the early 1970s and then there was the Adventure Team in the mid-1970s, which tackle the environment at times, became weird and KRE-O has them too.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

KRE-O ® Star Trek Series 2: Salt Vampire!

10.01.2015 – Star Trek has a rich world of stories, ships, technology and alien worlds. When Hasbro acquired the rights to produce merchandise for the well beloved franchise the fans thought the toy brand would produce action figure but they didn’t.

What they have acquired is the rights to produce building toys based from “Star Trek Into Darkness” in 2012 for the KRE-O brand. They produced ships and mini-figures based from the film. What’s surprising is the blind bags were something worth getting because the wave 2 is based from the TV series that includes the Salt Vampire!

Friday, September 25, 2015

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 2: Ripper!

09.25.2015 – When you talk about the Dreadnocks the first thing that comes up in your mind is a band of misfits led by Zartan, a master in disguise. Zartan can change his skin color when exposed to sunlight, but never was about band of misfits.

The toys of course have all the Dreadnok members, but in KRE-O only a handful was produced and one of them is popular due to his whiny voice. He’s name is Ripper a Dreadnok who has specialty in ripping out on everything metal and more about him…

Friday, September 4, 2015

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 5: Lifeline!

09.04.2015 – Kre-O’s G.I. Joe line may not have any new sets, but most of the micro figures continue to make its way to US retail and as convention exclusives. Currently the blind bags are a hot commodity in the community due to its limited release.

The latest series so far is Wave 5 which features another 12 characters from the “A Real American Hero” line and a member from the classic 1970s Adventure Team. For now here’s a closer look at G.I. Joe Team’s resident field medic – Lifeline!

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

KRE-O ® TF AoE Series 1: Nightbeat!

09.01.2015 - Kre-O’s Micro Changers have entered its last waves which is under the “Transformers: Age of Extinction” banner though not entirely tied-up with the said film. But it shows how the series has evolved from just a micro figure with Kreons.

The second to the last wave represented as Series 1 under the ‘Age of Extinction’ line with random characters from obscure to the familiar ones you’ve seen in action figure. But there are old characters too like this Headmaster named Nightbeat!

Saturday, November 1, 2014

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 2: Tunnel Rat!

11.01.2014 – G.I. Joe is an Elite Team and each soldier is unique with their designated expertise. You won’t see any cannon fodder unlike in the ranks of the Cobra Legion that some might appear redundant in appearance.

But with G.I. Joe each character would probably your favorite hero. There’s no other Joe that’s not unique and when you talk about a special character few comes to mind unless you haven’t seen the G.I. Joe Movie in 1986 that featured Tunnel Rat!

Thursday, October 16, 2014

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 2: Land Adventurer!

10.16.2014 – G.I. Joe has been Hasbro’s property since first introduced in 1964 with 12 inch figures represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces. But by the 1970s it features a different kind of military unit with the Adventure Team.

This line of action figures introduced the features such as "Kung-Fu Grip", "Life-Like Hair" and "Eagle Eyes". But when Hasbro & OxFord Toys team-up to bring this team in block form for their KRE-O G.I. Joe line they produced them as a rare special.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 3: Torch!

10.01.2014 – When you talk about Kre-O and the G.I. Joe brand the line will have “good versus evil” concept. Of course you’ve known a lot of Joes out there but what about the hierarchy of the Cobra legion?

Cobra is a large terrorist organization and it has its own sub group that sometimes mistaken to be anti-heroes when they are actually not. The Dreadnoks is that sub group of punks, thieves, and psychos led by Zartan and one of his lackeys is Torch!

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 3: Lady Jaye!

09.23.2014 – Kre-O continues to expand the brand with established properties under Hasbro other licensed rights from movies, videogames, and television series. Currently they have TransFormers, Dungeons & Dragons, Star Trek, and G.I. Joe.

The most popular interest for the Kre-O brand is the blind bags, which has been consistent with G.I. Joe. The third wave only included one female character in Lady Jaye based on her classic action figure!

Saturday, September 6, 2014

KRE-O ® G.I. Joe Series 3: Low-Light!

09.06.2014 – If you grew up having the vintage G.I. Joe figures back in the day you’ll probably familiar with a few interesting characters that were introduced in the later part of the series.

Recently Hasbro’s Kre-O G.I. Joe blind micro figure blind bags pay tribute to the nostalgia of “A Real American Heroes.” One of them is Low-Light, which was part of the Wave 3 characters based from the vintage night spotter released in 1986…

Monday, October 22, 2012

KRE-O TF Kreon Micro-Changers Spotlight!

10.22.2012 – American brand Hasbro and Korean toy manufacturer Oxford the toy companies behind the successful KRE-O building sets has jump on the mini figure packs that LEGO and Mega Bloks have enjoyed a big market of interest for this particular theme.

Some collectors or anyone is only interested in the mini figures minus the building sets and as you all know LEGO has been at the forefront with this theme.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

SDCC 2012: Kre-O Star Trek Unveiled at Comic-Con!

07.07.2012 – Space could be the last frontier in Science Fiction and yet man has not yet discovered the possibilities of faster than light space travel to reach its destination. For anyone who has been wondering if there’s a possibility for the Star Trek to have a license product similar to LEGO Star Wars.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

OxFord Toy Sighting at Top Mart!

03.20.2011 – Yesterday we checked the local area of Tongyeong City a province in the capital of Busan South Korea regarding their local toy brand. It seems they have their own type of building toy inspired from LEGO® incorporating their concept.

One of their mini supermarket have some particular toys and one of them is OxFord Toys a Korean made building toy, which outside of their country is unfamiliar to most who are into LEGO® sets that has been a pioneering brand for more the 50 years.