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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Baha08 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:43 pm

what trilogy are you talking about? allthough i never watch anime so whatever. any ways they have anime trilogys?! :-?


The Armada, Energon, and Cybertron trilogy.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Doubledealer93 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:47 pm

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what trilogy are you talking about? allthough i never watch anime so whatever. any ways they have anime trilogys?! :-?


The Armada, Energon, and Cybertron trilogy.


oooooohhhhh. i thought you ment something like gundam or naruto ro somethin like that? :oops:
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Baha08 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:51 pm

Nope but they way it was put it they might as well made it into Naruto.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Zeds » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:23 pm

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WTF! Hasbro UK really likes to screw with you Brits. I would riot or offer more bullets to the gun that Hasbro UK keeps shooting themselves in the foot with. Maybe in time they will get it right and aim for their collective heads!
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Crosscheck » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:03 pm

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This is what I like to refer to as Overlord Syndrome. Way back when, the UK was blessed with the Overlord Powermaster figure that had previously been only available in Japan, and the United States did not get it.

Now, fifteen years later, the people in the UK have to pay the price for it. Ultimately, I don't know why Hasbro seems so intent on screwing over the fans across the pond, but they seem to have perfected the method for doing so.

Part of the solution, a UK fan needs to mail me a G1 Overlord, and perhaps the Overlord Syndrome will be cured.

...HEY! It was worth a shot!

I honestly wouldn't be worried until the UK is a few waves behind the US in terms of Animated.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Solrac333 » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:08 pm

:grin:
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby leokearon » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:33 am

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It seems strange that they would be cancelling it since they showed the show in Ireland during the summer and are advertising and are giving us new stock and it is selling well.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Ravage XK » Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:42 am

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Hmm, our local TRU is alwasys stocked to the gills with figures from Animated, Movie and the odd Cyberton Leader. I havent seen so much TF gear in there ever, including during the height of the movie sales.

I dont know which channel TFA is shown on in the UK but its not one of the main, freely available ones otherwise I would have seen it in the listings.

I have only just in the last week seen a TV advert for TFA and it features the Prime/Megatron + DVD box set which is how old?

Hasbro UK dropped the ball once again. They should all be fired and I will do their job. Honestly, how hard can it be?

1. Ensure a decent supply of figures comes into the UK
2. Make sure that GMTV, ITV or the BBC gets the cartoon, NOT CARTOON NETWORK or whoever and ensure it is aired straight away.
3. Make new or dub the American adverts well in advance of the UK launch.

Oh look. I just did their job for them.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Hard Hacker » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:57 am

I hope they don't.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Bluevolt » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:56 am

This is why Tesco is selling off stock @ half price then.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Fu Manchu » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:21 am

they had a decent stock in Toys R Us at the weekend.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Kryptoniteking » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:06 am

Most know my opinion about the show and the toys. My nearest Walmart seems to have a problem moving them from the selves as well. My friends that have kids don't like the show so they don't like the toys. They're all over the Ben 10 stuff!
Spectacular Spider-man is a better written, better animated show and has a better theme song... Hands down!
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby rpetras » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:08 am

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That's odd. My local stores (several each of TRU, Target & WalMart) seem to rotate through their animated stock pretty well.

The peg warmers in my area are SunStreaker and Prowl.

I've heard at least 2 parent/kid conversations where the parent was looking at Sunstreaker and the kid was like "No, mom, I want Bumblebee. I don't know who that is."
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:21 am

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It's odd really, Transformers Armada does well in the UK, sucks so much in Germany that Energon gets canceled.
Then Cybertron shows up in Germany, well what the rest of Europe left that is.
Movie lines does well in the UK, Germany still has wave1, except TRU.
Now Germany gets TFa on the best children's channel, adverts for the toys on that channel regularly during the week, 2 adverts back to back before and after the top viewed weekend cartoons. And they seem to get shipped out in big cardboard shelves that don't fit into the usual toy store corner. The shelves are almost empty every time I go to a store! And the very same line just seems to die out in the UK :shock:
Seriously, that is fu**ed up!
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Tekka » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:25 am

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I blame Gordon Brown for being negligent. Parliament needs to address this failing Transformers issue and make Hasbro UK get their act together. :D Then they can worry about minor things like impending financial doom.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:28 am

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Tekka wrote:I blame Gordon Brown for being negligent. Parliament needs to address this failing Transformers issue and make Hasbro UK get their act together. :D Then they can worry about minor things like impending financial doom.

yea down with the government, ANARCHY ANARCHY!
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Ravage XK » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:34 am

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Tekka wrote:I blame Gordon Brown for being negligent. Parliament needs to address this failing Transformers issue and make Hasbro UK get their act together. :D Then they can worry about minor things like impending financial doom.



Nah, its all Matt Finchums fault. ;)
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Moonbug » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:50 am

Worry no more, [url="http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-news/story/7793/Transformers+Animated+Wave+4.5+NOT+cancelled+by+delayed+within+UK.html"]Hasbro UK have replied[/url] and the line has not been discontinued and they do still plan on releasing Wave 4.5 just later in the year.

So that's it. Its just been delayed.
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:52 am

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Shi* I'm glad, I was starting to worry! :shock:

What a relieve. :)
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Sledge » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:54 am

Don't worry, we can still hate Hasbro UK over their not importing exclusives. Oh Fracture, will you ever be mine? :sad:
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Tekka » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:54 am

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That IS good news... Why the delay though? Still have a backlog to go through?
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Nekoman » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:00 am

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Perhaps they’re waiting until they sell all of their overstock?
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Tekka » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:04 am

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That's what I said... :(
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Nekoman » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:07 am

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Ah, sorry, didn’t register with me…
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Re: Hasbro UK to cancel Transformers Animated!

Postby Electron » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:09 am

You take the Good, you take the bad and there you have the facts of life "oh the facts of life!!!"

i think thats how it goes
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