I hit the store today with the hopes of finding some of the new Retaliation figures. I ended up in TRU and didn't find those, but I did find the Dragonfly XH-1 Kre-O set. It was the only GIJoe Kre-O item they had on the shelf. It looked as if they were redoing that sections so I would think there will be more later in the week and weeks to come.
The only real reason I wanted this set was the Kreon Wild Bill and the Cobra Trooper with the CLAW. For $19.99 I almost passed, but since it was the only set on the shelf I decided what the heck.
Wild Bill is sort of neat. I can think of a few redesigns I'd do if I were to make this, but over all he's ok. I'm not crazy about the arms for one thing. It works ok on the Transformer Kreons, but it can end up looking odd on these guys. It's passable though on figures such as this one.
He comes with his pistols and hat as you would expect. There's a "handle" of sorts on the hat so you can pose Wild Bill holding his hat in his hand.
He doesn't fit so well in the helicopter with the Calvary hat on. I tried a few different ways and I just couldn't close him up in there. It may be a way to do it, but I gave up.
He comes with a helmet that you can put on him and that allows him to fit into the helicopter. It has a fold down night vision scope/tracker sort of thing. He looks fine wearing it.
Speaking of the helicopter, it's roughly like a re-offering of the Battleship version. There are several differences such as the skid lander versus wheels, the guns on the side, the tail section, and a few other ideas. It's close enough that originally I had thought there were no differences but you can see in the following images what's changed.
There are various stickers also to apply as you build. It's sort of fun if you get into it. I wasn't too thrilled at first since I wasn't so much into the helicopter, but as I was building, it did become fun. It took me about an hour building it all.
Once it's built, it is a pretty neat design for a building toy. I admit I prefer what Lego usually offers better as the designs are more refined. Kre-O is like the earlier days of Lego where there are just so many pieces and Lego didn't want to go too far out there making specific pieces per sets. Now days they will to some extent. Hasbro is just now really getting off the ground with this stuff so I'm sure they are not willing to invest in too many item specific parts yet. So they work with what they have. Over all I think it's not a bad design. I haven't yet decided if I will get the full line, but this one makes it tempting.
