The Energon Pub

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:50 am

The others have been here for a while. The insecticons moved but that Prime is just sitting. That they all have security strips I'm sure doesn't help either.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:59 am

Editor wrote:The others have been here for a while. The insecticons moved but that Prime is just sitting. That they all have security strips I'm sure doesn't help either.

Are you that kind of individual?

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:03 pm

Am I the only one who thinks that CW Armada Megatron looks terrible? Giving him the shapes of G1 Megatron's body totally strip him of how awesome his initial design was.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:17 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Editor wrote:The others have been here for a while. The insecticons moved but that Prime is just sitting. That they all have security strips I'm sure doesn't help either.

Are you that kind of individual?

Me? I couldn't care less, but it will turn off MIB collectors.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:30 pm

Editor wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Editor wrote:The others have been here for a while. The insecticons moved but that Prime is just sitting. That they all have security strips I'm sure doesn't help either.

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Are you that kind of individual?

Me? I couldn't care less, but it will turn off MIB collectors.

Oh, I didn't think about the fact thay it may bum out MISB collectors. I was more thinking along the lines of they can't be STOLEN that easely, thus they remain on the shelves. :-?

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:04 pm

So look what I found, at a Walmart of all places?!

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:52 pm

shajaki wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I was lucky to find the G1 Megs in store due to the diligence of a dedicated store clerk. Still, IDO want the Armada version as well. However, I'm confident that he'll be at 30$ on clearance down the line. I'm waiting for that.
*also hope for that*

I am in that same boat.

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Editor wrote:For what it worth, TRU Surrey BC had Year of the Goat Soundwave yesterday.

No tags, but the clerk said it was $219.99.

Over here, we got the Platinum Soundwave (220$) Optimus (200$) and Insecticons (110$). Those things are priced so high, even the scalpers don't want them and the things are shelfwarming.

These things just came out a little over a month ago, I dont think its fair to call them shelfwarming. By that principle, the entire TF section would be out of date except for the RID Optimus and Drift.

NuclearConvoy wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that CW Armada Megatron looks terrible? Giving him the shapes of G1 Megatron's body totally strip him of how awesome his initial design was.

I think the opposit simply based on the alt mode. The alt mode only homages Armada Megatron of the two.

shajaki wrote:So look what I found, at a Walmart of all places?!

[img]picture_of_nemesis_prime[/img]

That is definitely a first. Maybe we will eventually get swerve and acid storm which have yet to make an appearance in Canada.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:42 pm

william-james88 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Editor wrote:For what it worth, TRU Surrey BC had Year of the Goat Soundwave yesterday.

No tags, but the clerk said it was $219.99.

Over here, we got the Platinum Soundwave (220$) Optimus (200$) and Insecticons (110$). Those things are priced so high, even the scalpers don't want them and the things are shelfwarming.

These things just came out a little over a month ago, I dont think its fair to call them shelfwarming. By that principle, the entire TF section would be out of date except for the RID Optimus and Drift.

Usually, as far as MPs and Platinums are concerned, they used to not last a month in store. When MP Optimus (MP-10), MP Soundwave, and the latest MP Grimlock re-issue came out, ALL AT 100/125$CAN, they got cleaned out extremely fast. By collectors, and many scalpers, due to all of them popping up on Ebay really fast and at double or triple the price.

The latest collector items may not really shelfwarm, but you gotta admit that selling them for DOUBLE the price of similar item used to go for, like only last year, it put some serious breaks on the sale speed.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:45 pm

william-james88 wrote:
shajaki wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I was lucky to find the G1 Megs in store due to the diligence of a dedicated store clerk. Still, IDO want the Armada version as well. However, I'm confident that he'll be at 30$ on clearance down the line. I'm waiting for that.
*also hope for that*

I am in that same boat.

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Editor wrote:For what it worth, TRU Surrey BC had Year of the Goat Soundwave yesterday.

No tags, but the clerk said it was $219.99.

Over here, we got the Platinum Soundwave (220$) Optimus (200$) and Insecticons (110$). Those things are priced so high, even the scalpers don't want them and the things are shelfwarming.

These things just came out a little over a month ago, I dont think its fair to call them shelfwarming. By that principle, the entire TF section would be out of date except for the RID Optimus and Drift.

NuclearConvoy wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that CW Armada Megatron looks terrible? Giving him the shapes of G1 Megatron's body totally strip him of how awesome his initial design was.

I think the opposit simply based on the alt mode. The alt mode only homages Armada Megatron of the two.

shajaki wrote:So look what I found, at a Walmart of all places?!

[img]picture_of_nemesis_prime[/img]

That is definitely a first. Maybe we will eventually get swerve and acid storm which have yet to make an appearance in Canada.

Really? I got swerve at a Toronto Target back in summer 2014.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:18 pm

NuclearConvoy wrote:Really? I got swerve at a Toronto Target back in summer 2014.

Woah, we never got Swerve in Quebec. In the major retail stores, that gen legends line ended with Tailgate and Shrapnel. The only other that were found were at winners.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:20 pm

william-james88 wrote:
NuclearConvoy wrote:Really? I got swerve at a Toronto Target back in summer 2014.

Woah, we never got Swerve in Quebec. In the major retail stores, that gen legends line ended with Tailgate and Shrapnel. The only other that were found were at winners.

I also saw Cosmos there but had to pass on him for financial reasons.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:42 pm

william-james88 wrote:
NuclearConvoy wrote:Really? I got swerve at a Toronto Target back in summer 2014.

Woah, we never got Swerve in Quebec. In the major retail stores, that gen legends line ended with Tailgate and Shrapnel. The only other that were found were at winners.

I bought Acid Storm at Target with a clearance tag to boot.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:41 pm

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:08 pm

shajaki wrote:

That's cool, but now that TRU is the leader in prices (who would have thought), I buy all my local retail TFs there. The only thing I will get at Walmart is Arcee if they ever get her before TRU. For some reason, TRU really lags behind walmart. I reported a sighting of the wave 2 deluxes at walmart a month ago and only now is TRU getting them.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:49 pm

So, the Stunticons are in at TRU in Canada, they're on sale AND amidst them I found one lonely American version with packed in comic.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:53 pm

Guess I'll try stopping in again on my way home.
One of these trips will be fruitful......

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:08 pm

Editor wrote:Guess I'll try stopping in again on my way home.
One of these trips will be fruitful......

There's a TRU attached to the subway station that I use every day so I check in regularly. Somehow I keep getting toys with minor defects (has Hasbro QC really dropped this much or am I just unlucky?) But I love seeing stuff coming in. I had to argue with TRU to sell me the Dead End I got today because he wouldn't scan (American version) And I had to hold off on buying them all. Offroad looks good in person, while Breakdown doesn't. I really wish more American toys got accidentally shipped to Canada. Pack-In comics beat "collector's cards" any day. I want this entire line. I'm not sure if I can afford to get all the combiners coming out though...

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:30 pm

My local TRU is a block down the street from me so it's dead easy to stop in. Punch postal code V3T 1N9 into google maps, and you can see how close it is.

While i'm fine taking a quick look and saying hi to the staff that recognize me, I just don't enjoy doing it more than a couple times a week.

I'm there to shop after all, not hang out.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:23 pm

The one near me gets stock in on the most random basis lol, most of my stops are in and out without purchase.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:18 pm

For a baffling long time, Walmart had not updated their Transformers selection online. Well, today, they are offering Wave 1 of combiner wars as well as both leader megatron toys. And the later are 5$ cheaper than Toysrus.

http://www.walmart.ca/search/transformers%20generations

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:45 pm

speaking of megatron, I finally found the g1 deco version in store, first time I see him

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:48 am

BC TRU's should have got their wave 2, looks like my location received a single box or two.

Grabbed myself the Stunticons (thank you current sale), nobody touched Air Raid yet.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:11 pm

I want to buy everything cuz of the amazing sale now but I'm too tight.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:53 pm

NuclearConvoy wrote:I want to buy everything cuz of the amazing sale now but I'm too tight.

So ask for a raincheck so that you can go back and get the toys you want at the same deal as this week when you are more financially stable. Today is the last day to get a raincheck.