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Seibertron wrote:

dahpadre wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

What? Did you get banned from the ILL thread?

Yeah I did. Did I really overstep my bounds there? I swear I do my best not to try to openly recruit you guys there out of respect for Tony and the guys that work really hard on that site. We all have a mutual respect I believe.

I sent a message to my counterpart Tony_Bacala to see if he can look into it since I didn't get a message from anyone. I'm assuming Tim Formas banned me because he's the only one of you that I don't have contact with and if I recall correctly he's the one who Paul butted heads with. I'll see what Tony says when he has a chance to respond.

Nightwing2617 wrote:What's up guys? Agent 007 back again, had to create a new ID cause my old account got trashed. Anyway work is now doing it's reset, I snagged a HA Jazz today. There's still more in the back along with all the other new figures.

gonzo23 wrote:That's pretty funny!!!

Seibertron @ TFW2005.com wrote:Yes there are some there that aren't here but TFW's Illinois sightings forum has more active participants. I didn't allow my staff to start a sightings forum until a few years ago which is why it's not as popular since many of you already established a home here. Plus there's the misconception that we don't allow regular conversations to happen in our toy sightings forum as well, which isn't one of our rules either.

I don't generally post in this topic because I'm obviously loyal to my site. I don't want to ruffle feathers either by posting here and promoting my website. I'd be upset if a TFW staff member was over in their state's topic on Seibertron.com forum's recruiting people for TFW so it wouldn't be fair for me to be here recruiting you guys.

I'll figure out what it is that you guys don't like about my site eventually. I might just have to buy you guys off with beers one-by-one.

gonzo23 wrote:He's dusty, but good!! If anyone is going to glenview or highland park targets, ha jazz is not out so you have to ask someone to check in back!

Seibertron wrote:

Nightwing2617 wrote:What's up guys? Agent 007 back again, had to create a new ID cause my old account got trashed. Anyway work is now doing it's reset, I snagged a HA Jazz today. There's still more in the back along with all the other new figures.

I'd be happy to see if I can revive your "Agent 007" account for you and merge the two accounts, or at least delete the old one so you can have your proper username, unless you'd just prefer to have the Nightwing2617 account. LMK!

Which Target do you work at?

Thanks for keeping us posted about HA Jazz. It's an awesome figure. I'm working on his gallery for the site right now.

First-Aid wrote:Hey guys, I'm playing with a band now in the Chicago area...would love to have everyone come out next time we play so I can meet everyone (and maybe even buy drinks for everyone)...is anyone else interested? I can post dates here if you are...(we're not playing too often because I'm playing with two other bands in the Rockford area...us keyboard players are soooo hard to find...)

Seibertron wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Hey guys, I'm playing with a band now in the Chicago area...would love to have everyone come out next time we play so I can meet everyone (and maybe even buy drinks for everyone)...is anyone else interested? I can post dates here if you are...(we're not playing too often because I'm playing with two other bands in the Rockford area...us keyboard players are soooo hard to find...)

Any chance you're going to be in the Chicago or Schaumburg area? I'd be game (but only if you let me buy YOU a drink).

Seibertron wrote:

marshall dusty wrote:Ryan, last i heard Banzaitron was at the TRU on Western Ave. in the City. voyager prime was also found there but someone picked him up.

Thanks for the tips. I'm good without him for the time being. I have 1 loose one left, was just hoping to get some picks of one MISB for the galleries. I love this repaint for some reason. I think I just really like the mold. Bludgeon was one of my favorites as well.


I've got the Voyager Prime as well. Working on his gallery later today.

marshall dusty wrote:also, which one is HFTD HA Bumblebee ? do you mean battle blades and not human alliance?

HFTD HA Bumblebee is the same toy as the ROTF HA version, but Sam Witwicky has different paint apps. Not a big deal, but I'd like to get it since I'm working on the Human Alliance Jazz gallery right now.

Also are the forums a little easier for you to read now that I darkened the background on one of the alternating posts and added the little Autobot and Decepticon dividers?

Seibertron wrote:Going by a tip from TFW, I was able to get HFTD Human Alliance Bumblebee (which has the Sam Witwicky variant I wanted) from the HIP Target. I also needed a new HA Jazz because two pegs on the one I got earlier this week from Walmart.com were snapped off. Really frustrating to transform a brand new figure and discover this. I'm going to return the one to Wally world. That's at least my 3rd Transformer in the past year with broken or missing parts. I've held onto the others but enough is enough. The other two were HA Sideswipe (his "battle mask" snapped off the 1st time I transformed him) and the ROTF battleship scout was missing part of his leg. I never returned them because I hate returning stuff but I'm done having this happen to me.

Sadly, the "repackager" has oddly already struck the HIP. There was a silver concept Corvette (just a regular toy that's about the size of a deluxe figure) packaged in a HA Jazz box. I don't understand how someone could've already bought a brand new figure that just started showing up in stores during the past couple of days, swapped it, returned it, and it's already out on the shelf with the first sighting at that store. I wish they'd catch this guy or these guys. I hate seeing someone do that - it screws over the store and/or an unfortunate customer if a parent doesn't know better. Whoever's doing that has to have a mental disorder of some sort or a screwed up conscience.

HIP Target also had the other stuff that Target has had, minus the Target exclusive 2 packs. No wave 2 stuff yet.

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

Seibertron wrote:

dahpadre wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

What? Did you get banned from the ILL thread?

Yeah I did. Did I really overstep my bounds there? I swear I do my best not to try to openly recruit you guys there out of respect for Tony and the guys that work really hard on that site. We all have a mutual respect I believe.

I sent a message to my counterpart Tony_Bacala to see if he can look into it since I didn't get a message from anyone. I'm assuming Tim Formas banned me because he's the only one of you that I don't have contact with and if I recall correctly he's the one who Paul butted heads with. I'll see what Tony says when he has a chance to respond.

dahpadre wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

dahpadre wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

What? Did you get banned from the ILL thread?

Yeah I did. Did I really overstep my bounds there? I swear I do my best not to try to openly recruit you guys there out of respect for Tony and the guys that work really hard on that site. We all have a mutual respect I believe.

I sent a message to my counterpart Tony_Bacala to see if he can look into it since I didn't get a message from anyone. I'm assuming Tim Formas banned me because he's the only one of you that I don't have contact with and if I recall correctly he's the one who Paul butted heads with. I'll see what Tony says when he has a chance to respond.

WOW! Hopefully Tony takes care of things. I've heard some interesting things about the local Mod over there, but really? I saw no harm or foul. I didn't take your comments as trying to steal TFW members, but to get them to post over here as well. All you can say is whatever and just become a full lurker.

Seibertron wrote:

Nightwing2617 wrote:What's up guys? Agent 007 back again, had to create a new ID cause my old account got trashed. Anyway work is now doing it's reset, I snagged a HA Jazz today. There's still more in the back along with all the other new figures.

I'd be happy to see if I can revive your "Agent 007" account for you and merge the two accounts, or at least delete the old one so you can have your proper username, unless you'd just prefer to have the Nightwing2617 account. LMK!

Which Target do you work at?

Thanks for keeping us posted about HA Jazz. It's an awesome figure. I'm working on his gallery for the site right now.

Seibertron wrote:

Seibertron @ TFW2005.com wrote:Yes there are some there that aren't here but TFW's Illinois sightings forum has more active participants. I didn't allow my staff to start a sightings forum until a few years ago which is why it's not as popular since many of you already established a home here. Plus there's the misconception that we don't allow regular conversations to happen in our toy sightings forum as well, which isn't one of our rules either.

I don't generally post in this topic because I'm obviously loyal to my site. I don't want to ruffle feathers either by posting here and promoting my website. I'd be upset if a TFW staff member was over in their state's topic on Seibertron.com forum's recruiting people for TFW so it wouldn't be fair for me to be here recruiting you guys.

I'll figure out what it is that you guys don't like about my site eventually. I might just have to buy you guys off with beers one-by-one.

I've got 65 posts on TFW over the course of 8 years. Was this quote really enough to warrant banning me?

First-Aid wrote:Hey guys, I'm playing with a band now in the Chicago area...would love to have everyone come out next time we play so I can meet everyone (and maybe even buy drinks for everyone)...is anyone else interested? I can post dates here if you are...(we're not playing too often because I'm playing with two other bands in the Rockford area...us keyboard players are soooo hard to find...)

marshall dusty wrote:sorry for the post, figuring out the multiple quote thing here.

marshall dusty wrote:ryan, the pm wasn't for me right? for nightwing? also, which pegs are the ones that could be busted on jazz?

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:So the new HA Sam is smaller than the original, which was itself already far too small for the car. *facepalm*

dahpadre wrote:Anybody by way on the south side of town come across the new voyager prime, let me know. I'm looking for it. I have an extra seaspray MISB, I can either trade, or if you just stash it in the store (preferably TRU) I can do an even exchange.

Seibertron wrote:

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:So the new HA Sam is smaller than the original, which was itself already far too small for the car. *facepalm*

Actually the original is too big for the car. He barely used to fit. His neck actually "transforms" so that he can fit. The new one fits just fine without having to adjust his neck.