Acid Wing

Acid Wing is a Decepticon from the brick-built world of Kre-O.

Can only be combated with an antacid blaster.

Acid Wing thinks he looks pretty good. I mean, who doesn't love day-glo green? Bots trying to shoot him down sure love it, since it makes him such an easy target. Yeah, he could go for something less conspicuous, but... style, man!

Toys

Kre-O

• Acid Wing (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2013)
  • Collection: 2
  • Bag number: ***** 70
  • Accessories: Logo brick (2013), logo plate (2016 only), 2 clip-on rifles

As part of the second wave of blindpacked Micro-Changers, Acid Wing is a Kreon mini-figure with parts to rebuild him into a bright green jet. He shares the same parts and construction as the preview wave's Sunstorm, though his instructions do not have you use the extra jet-mode bricks to assemble a funky two-handed double blaster for his robot mode like you do with Sunstorm. You can anyway, though. We're not here to tell you how to play with your imagination-expanding building-brick-based figures.

This Collection was still in circulation at "dollar" stores and drug stores up through 2015. They eventually lost the individual-identifying bag codes, but other changes were hidden inside the bag. The 2015 releases replaced the 2x4 logo stand-brick with a new 3x4 logo plate. The Kreon was also given the slight retooling to the arm seen in the 2014 Kreons, making the "cuff" parts more sharp-cornered and better adapted to being used as studs. Some of the add-on pieces may also be slightly off-color, possibly due to a change in factories in mid-production.

• More information on Acid Wing at TFU.info

• Acid Wing (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2016)
  • Collection: 2
  • Accessories: Logo plate, 2 clip-on rifles

In 2016, Collection 2 was re-released in a whole new production run for Dollar General stores in the US as part of a large collection of re-released Kre-O sets. But where most of these releases are nigh-identical to the originals, the re-released Micro-Changer blind-bags use the almost-entirely-retooled 2015 Kreon, with slightly-differently-hued plastics than the originals. (It is possible for some of the add-on pieces to be in the older hues.) Acid Wing's torso tampograph underwent a slight color change, replacing the dark gray with solid black, though the leg tampos remain dark gray.

Sadly, this release has no individual-identification code on the bag, requiring you to use the feel-through-the-bag method or just buy blind and hope.

Notes

• Despite the name difference (possibly a case of lost trademark), he is based on Generation 1 Acid Storm.
• Acid Wing's instruction sheet parses his name as a single word, "Acidwing". We're going with what's on the bag-back, the two-word version.
• The Kre-O Character Encyclopedia bizarrely categorizes him as a Predacon. No, we don't know either.