Huge G.I. Joe Kre-O gallery from NYCC Preview Night at HissTank.com
Ruh Roh, Raggy. I was afraid of this.
Okay, so first images are now flooding in from the New York ComicCon preview night, courtesy of HissTank.com and from what we can tell, looks like the Kre-O stuff is G.I. Joe’s main showing. While I am a bit disappointed about that… I’m also feeling like I’m in a little bit of trouble here.
Those Kre-O’s actually look pretty sweet.
I can’t envision buying them all, but I’ll be damned if those aren’t some really imaginative sets there. Some vintage looking stuff, tons of real vintage-accurate Kre-On mini-figures, but to me, the coolest thing of all is that there are some new concepts built within the Kre-O vehicles themselves. Mech suits (with a new looking Cobra driver), a nice battleship, what looks to be a playset of sorts, and a bunch of vehicles of various sizes. I love the Cobra Urban looking vehicle.
Some really imaginative stuff. I imagine a bunch of this was likely repurposed from other Kre-O sets (particularly that battleship set, which I would imagine came from the Battleship movie Kre-O line). But really a lot of those Kre-On mini figures are quite cool looking and have a lot of style.
An interesting combination.
Will it be successful? No idea. But it does look pretty fun. I can’t promise I’ll jump into it with both feet, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t at least a little bit intrigued by what they are showing here. Images are on HissTank.com, and I would expect coming very soon to other sources as well. When I have some more time, I’ll mirror some pictures and talk a bit more about them.