>>5370468>>5370840I thought Kre-O sets were pretty cheap, all things considered.
I think the issue is that aside from Transformers, they just had really shitty properties. I mean, fucking Battleship? The new Star Trek movies? Even the GI Joe line wasn't really so good.
Also, the Kreon minifigures looked like ass. They're stylized to the point that they look like weird robots. Which, again, works perfectly fine for the Transformers minifigures....not so much for literally anything else. God, they just looked so bad.
Also, the plastic quality wasn't so good. I bought one Transformer set that literally had sand somehow molded into the brick. I have no fucking clue how that would happen. Plus, minifigures tended to always have broken parts, stress marks on lots places like the wrist sockets, and really poorly placed decals and paint on the minifigures. Faces were often skewed at an angle, and chest and leg paint was usually thick and sloppy somehow.
Also, the final builds were often really weird. They were kind of in between LEGO and Mega Bloks for how the final product of their sets worked.
LEGO had a fuckton of different pieces, and each piece can be built up to usually make a really seamless looking set or build. Mega Bloks has a lot fewer pieces, but the pieces are specialized and designed so that the final product actually looks like a straight-up toy Jeep, or ship, or vehicle or whatever.
A lot of Kre-O stuff...the final product just looks like a bunch of bricks some kid stacked together, and then a couple of highly-detailed, well-sculpted pieces slapped on that look really out of place. Examples are like, the Transformer heads and hands that look more like they belong on actual TF action figures than in a building set.
Kre-O failed because just about aspect--the properties, the minifigures, the builds, the sets, the quality--was all really low, or awkward at best.
