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Unlikely to be much use to anybody, but I thought I'd drop a note that Asda / WalMart are currently selling off their Cyb Voyagers at £9.98, reduced from the Rollback price of £16. Mind you, my local - which is apparently the biggest Asda in Europe - only has C-Soundwave and Nemesis Breaker, which they've had a shelf full of for months. I picked up a lion since I'd been waiting for the price to come down anyway.

Local TRU has... one Classics Jetfire, plus one or two of the Giant Planet cement mixer, whatever he's called (keep calling him Quickmix without any idea whether it's right or not), and a load of the Energon Micromaster Constructicons. I think I've counted three new boxes on the shelf since before Christmas.

Reading TRU has Classics Jetfire too,
Picked him up and have to say that he's amazing!!

TRU also had some of the Classics re-paints of the LoC minis,
Might have to be getting some of them soon...

Cheers,
Doug

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

What's annoying is that they ALWAYS seem to wait until I have the toy before bothering to stock it... grrr.

I could really do with a local TrU.

Redimus wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

What's annoying is that they ALWAYS seem to wait until I have the toy before bothering to stock it... grrr.

I could really do with a local TrU.

In my expierence, they don't tend to be much better

I gave up on TRU when it came to reissues....same crap each time I went in. Its why I turned to the internet for reissues

Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

JetfireUK wrote:Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

Hasbro UK must believe there are little to no TF collectors in the UK.

I guess they could in some measure be forgiven for having that impression if we consider the tendency for the UK collector to import from either the US or Japan rather than wait for a Hasbro UK release...

Vicious circle much?

Hey guys, can I get some links to UK based parts traders? I had a few saved in a PM but they've been wiped and Mangohero is the only one I remember.

To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).