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I used to buy one or two online. Now it's pretty much all online. Nothing on the shelves, not to mention I'm cutting back overall on my TF spending.

The past month or three has had me spending pretty minimally. Haven't been having much luck with ebay and the price bump in the deluxes and commanders has me totally turned off. I really REALLY like FoC Shockwave and Prime FRumble...but there's no way I'm paying 15+ for either of them, small as they are. I'm really excited for Voyager Ultra Magnus though, and I spend right about $22 on Kre-O MegaBee and Sideswipe, both of which I'm quite happy with!

When was Solar Storm Grapple released? 18 months ago? That was my last purchase at retail.

Its not even worth going to the stores that are around me in Australia. There's next to no distribution so now I just stack it or POL it. The prices are cheaper too, so as long as I let it build up for a month or two, the shipping evens out and I'm guaranteed my figures without the hassle of searching.

Sad really. I actually used to enjoy trawling the stores for new figs. Sometimes there would be a nice surprise. RTS windcharger was one of those.

quickmixed wrote:
Sad really. I actually used to enjoy trawling the stores for new figs. Sometimes there would be a nice surprise. RTS windcharger was one of those.

Yeah... i miss those "surprise" figs that you didn't expect too see and scooped up,paid for at the till and went home with a restrained frenzy of excitement to open up when ya got back home.

But i get the same excitement now waiting for that wrapped up present at my front door to open up like as if i was a kid again. It's the same vibe just different execution.

monstergrotusque wrote:

quickmixed wrote:
Sad really. I actually used to enjoy trawling the stores for new figs. Sometimes there would be a nice surprise. RTS windcharger was one of those.

Yeah... i miss those "surprise" figs that you didn't expect too see and scooped up,paid for at the till and went home with a restrained frenzy of excitement to open up when ya got back home.

It's the same thing for some of us now, except we're doing it with figures that should be common. It really is sad.

monstergrotusque wrote:
But i get the same excitement now waiting for that wrapped up present at my front door to open up like as if i was a kid again. It's the same vibe just different execution.

Very, very true.

PrymeStriker wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:

quickmixed wrote:
Sad really. I actually used to enjoy trawling the stores for new figs. Sometimes there would be a nice surprise. RTS windcharger was one of those.

Yeah... i miss those "surprise" figs that you didn't expect too see and scooped up,paid for at the till and went home with a restrained frenzy of excitement to open up when ya got back home.

It's the same thing for some of us now, except we're doing it with figures that should be common. It really is sad.

Sad, indeed. Even my wife has a concern over me being down in the dumps about this. Don't get me wrong, she loves the fact of not being drug around every retail store in the tri-county area, but she knows how I loved hunting them down. She said I have developed this look of defeat on my face...

Well Christmas is right around the corner, hopefully that will increase the inflow and outflow of transformers.

headsortails wrote:Sad, indeed. Even my wife has a concern over me being down in the dumps about this.

I just went through something very similar. I actually told my wife I was done collecting. I feel so beat up over it as well. I mean, I know it's a toy, but when you get down to it, it feels a bit like defeat. And defeat can be hard sometimes.

Then...lo and behold I see new figures released online and I get tempted to start up again.

I ask myself, will this ever stop and do I want to feel like this for the rest of my collecting life?

Sometimes, I feel like I should just wait until the end of a line and then go back and collect all of them. At least hunting for past toys, whether it be on here or on eBay, can be fun. You know people have them and you know someone has spent enough time with them that they might be willing to part with them.

I don't know, but I just feel like throwing in the collecting towel. It's seriously irritating.

UK stores have been terrible for a long time, unless you like Movieverse/Prime stuff. The last TF I bought in a UK store was about 6 years ago - and I got some last autumn in the US.