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metaphorge wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

metaphorge wrote:(Alternate stereotypical self-deprecating joke regarding my national identity: "Well, we invented Transformers, so we should get them first!" )

Should we assume there's some satire in there somewhere?

Prowl wrote:What? Yes, of course I'm serious.

I'm always serious.

Oh good. Thanks for the clarification. There can be so much ambiguity in a typed message.

As an American fan, I know how lucky we are. I have no problem with our UK fans getting first dibs on the PRID line. No problem at all. My problem is with Hasbro. Parts of Asia and Canada received the First Edition. Parts of the US received the Deluxes. The UK was skipped altogether, but they got PRID when no one else did. On top of that, they postponed DOTM/Movie Trilogy 'til God knows when.

It's all over the map like pure craziness. What are they doing?!?

Speaking of Movie Trilogy.... I saw a case at Wal-Mart last night... "MV3 OPTIMUS PRIME WITH PLAYSET BASE"

Any clues as to what that is? Could it be the trailer set? The box was wide, but I have no idea how long.

That is one sweet looking figure. I like that optimus as well.
I wonder will there be a voyager class t.f.p. starscream released any time in the near future?

decepta-scott wrote:That is one sweet looking figure. I like that optimus as well.
I wonder will there be a voyager class t.f.p. starscream released any time in the near future?

El Duque wrote:

RhA wrote:He looks awesome. I'm very afraid that he's going to be a rubberfest, though. There's a voyager coming? I'm gonna hold out for that.

Yep.

To be honest we here in the UK are more suprised to have these than you guys in the US. We are used to being shafted when it comes to TF releases, we will not be getting the last waves of movie toys( Soundwave, Dino, Q/wheel jack, Air Raid, Buzzsaw, Skydive), didn't get any if the large scale human allience figures and none of the gen 1 reissues.

And with the UK government increasing tax levels and getting rid of the small items excise waver importing a deluxe figure just became prohibatively expensive(if the figure costs £12-18 from Japan or America plus shipping and the 20% tax isn't paid by the shipping company the UK postal services will charge a handling fee of between £12-18 making a toy you paid $20/£12 for cost you around £40 with extra tax shipping and handling).

To be honest in America even with the bad distribution you have easy access to get almost any figure through bbts, entertainment earth etc at reasinable prices.

You should try talking to guys in Italy, they can't even import things any more as many companies will not ship there and they get a handful of toys officially released each year.

Not easy being a TF fan in Europe.

It's sad. I was so excited for this line, and now I have no interest at all. Pass on everything.

TimothyR wrote:same goes for prowl.

cant wait for these to get the US! Y U NO IN USA YET?!?!?!?!?

Part of me just wants to wait it out for a leader class version of Megatron, since this one's definitely disappointing where I'm concerned. A lot of the issues I have are just the minor things, like the weapon, the head sculpt, the head sticking out in his alt-mode and so on, but they do add up. I think I'll probably only nab him if the figure's on sale or if a leader class figure of him isn't announced by around this point next year that improves on this one's issues.

The same size as voyager movie Megatron huh? Anyone have a comparison shot of that figure with First Edition Prime?

Edit: Nevermind. I found the picture of Prime Prime & Megatron. Not too shabby.