The Energon Pub

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:57 pm

tru burbank has nothing but 2 leader brawls, a couple of the new real gears, and all the new robot heroes including BB/barricade.

by **opengl** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:11 am

San Marcos Fry's got some more Alternators in--about 3 Rollbars and 3 Sunstreakers to add to the massive pile of Skids and Riccochet's. Still marked $24.99, tho. Shoulda had one scanned to be sure.

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:44 am

opengl wrote:San Marcos Fry's got some more Alternators in--about 3 Rollbars and 3 Sunstreakers to add to the massive pile of Skids and Riccochet's. Still marked $24.99, tho. Shoulda had one scanned to be sure.

frys as in the electronics store? might have to check them out.... tf toys are popping up in the most unexpected places :-?

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News Credits: 3 · by **coolpop** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:55 am

tom brokaw wrote:
opengl wrote:San Marcos Fry's got some more Alternators in--about 3 Rollbars and 3 Sunstreakers to add to the massive pile of Skids and Riccochet's. Still marked $24.99, tho. Shoulda had one scanned to be sure.

frys as in the electronics store? might have to check them out.... tf toys are popping up in the most unexpected places .

Yes, if you're new to collecting Alternators, Fry's would be great place to pick up Ricochet, Rollbar, Skid & Sunstreaker for $25.00 retail. However, you can consider getting Rollbar at HTS for $20, get it over $25 to use $5 off coupon (code: TFPEPSI expires 6/30/08, I haven't tested it yet).

Cheers!

News Credits: 1 · by **twee** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:47 am

Cool, are any of those Alternators absolutely worth owning? All I have is Rodimus, but I wouldn't mind beefing up my Alt collection.

News Credits: 3 · by **coolpop** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:19 am

twee wrote:Cool, are any of those Alternators absolutely worth owning? All I have is Rodimus, but I wouldn't mind beefing up my Alt collection.

Oh yeah Alternators are really worth collecting, great alt/bot forms & fun to transform. However, be prepared to shell out $20-$120 each, I would say average figure goes for $30-$60 plus shipping from eBay, loose ones at about $10 less.

I try to collect at least one figure from each mold initially, afterwards I will patiently wait for better deals on remaining figures.

There's one vendor at Frank & Son Collectible Show (near entrance) with about 10 different Alternators, so checking this place out might help you acquire few more figures that are no longer available in stores.

Good luck with collecting Alternators, I'm sure you'll love them dearly.

Cheers!

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:50 pm

coolpop wrote:
twee wrote:Cool, are any of those Alternators absolutely worth owning? All I have is Rodimus, but I wouldn't mind beefing up my Alt collection.

Oh yeah Alternators are really worth collecting, great alt/bot forms & fun to transform. However, be prepared to shell out $20-$120 each, I would say average figure goes for $30-$60 plus shipping from eBay, loose ones at about $10 less.

I try to collect at least one figure from each mold initially, afterwards I will patiently wait for better deals on remaining figures.

There's one vendor at Frank & Son Collectible Show (near entrance) with about 10 different Alternators, so checking this place out might help you acquire few more figures that are no longer available in stores.

Good luck with collecting Alternators, I'm sure you'll love them dearly.

Cheers!

about how much does the guys at frank and sons sell his alts?

News Credits: 3 · by **coolpop** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:07 pm

tom brokaw wrote:
coolpop wrote:
twee wrote:Cool, are any of those Alternators absolutely worth owning? All I have is Rodimus, but I wouldn't mind beefing up my Alt collection.

Oh yeah Alternators are really worth collecting, great alt/bot forms & fun to transform. However, be prepared to shell out $20-$120 each, I would say average figure goes for $30-$60 plus shipping from eBay, loose ones at about $10 less.

I try to collect at least one figure from each mold initially, afterwards I will patiently wait for better deals on remaining figures.

There's one vendor at Frank & Son Collectible Show (near entrance) with about 10 different Alternators, so checking this place out might help you acquire few more figures that are no longer available in stores.

Good luck with collecting Alternators, I'm sure you'll love them dearly.

Cheers!

about how much does the guys at frank and sons sell his alts?

Nemesis Prime: List 60 / Haggled to 55
Skid: List 18-25 / Can haggle to 16-20
Sunstreaker: List 25
Meister: List 50
Grimlock: List 80 (way too high)

Several other ones I forgot list prices already, but mostly in 35-60 range I believe.

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:45 pm

-burbank target, nothing
-burbank best buy, nothing (wanting to see if they had megs and ratchet)
-north hollywood target, 1 leader megs, titanium ss and rodimus
-burbank frys, alts skids, sunstreaker, rico, and rollbar, also a couple of 3" titanium blackout, rodimuses, and thunder crackers.

by **Obsidian_Prime** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:12 pm

Thanks for the updates, coolpop.

by **opengl** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:45 pm

Oceanside Wal Mart @ Jefferson and 78 had one ultimate Bumblebee and a bunch of alternators came in. Lots of Sunstreakers, Riccochets, Rollbars and Skids--some on the lower shelf, some on the top of the opposite shelf in overstock toward the middle of the aisle.

Wal Mart @ College and Marron had dick all. That place seems to consistently have dick all.

by **achuc** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:11 am

target in arleta, ca had a whole bunch of g1 starscream and jazz this past saturday. that is all i have been seeing at targets lately

went on a trip this weekend to solvang, ca and i had a chance to stop by a walmart in lompoc, ca. let me just no one buys toys there from what i saw. I found everything i was looking for in transformers and I am done. Did see alternators and i found a whole bunch of gold foil 30th anniversary star war figures!

ALSO THEY HAD TRANSFORMERS 20th Anniversary DVD Edition OPTIMUS
ON SALE!

what a weekend!

News Credits: 1 · by **twee** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:04 am

opengl wrote:Oceanside Wal Mart @ Jefferson and 78 had one ultimate Bumblebee and a bunch of alternators came in. Lots of Sunstreakers, Riccochets, Rollbars and Skids--some on the lower shelf, some on the top of the opposite shelf in overstock toward the middle of the aisle.

Wal Mart @ College and Marron had dick all. That place seems to consistently have dick all.

Nice, I was just at the Jefferson Wal-Mart yesterday. I'll have to check it out tomorrow for those Alts.

And yeah, I haven't been to the one in College and Marron in God knows how long because they never have anything. I actually live on the other side of that hill up College, in those new houses to the right.

by **Kingplay** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:16 am

Anyone see Titanium Ultra Magnuses?

by **docbenspock** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:50 pm

norcal here, any one seen a good deal on any classics grimlock? or even titanium rodimus? more importantly the grimlock, i'm just missing him and megs to complete my classics wave 1. well just the molds i'll worry about the repaints later.

thanks!

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:03 pm

inglewood target, cheetor and fallen titaniums (i snagged the fallen), real gears nightbeat and meantime, 2 ult BBs, 4 g1 jazz repaints, 1 leader megs, few of the gi joe 25th anniversary boxed sets, and 2 leader primes.... i stashed 1 leader prime, pm me for details if interested.

by **Malicron** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:52 pm

Kingplay wrote:Anyone see Titanium Ultra Magnuses?

Yesterday at the Eagle Rock Target.

by **achuc** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:21 pm

dumb question... What's so special about Titanium Ultra Magnus?

News Credits: 1 · by **twee** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:36 pm

Oceanside Wal-Mart on Jefferson had the Alternators opengl mentioned, and they also got in a couple Cybertron figures. Also, if you look at the tags closely, a couple of them say "CLSC RAMJET" or "CLSC GRIMLOCK". I don't much care for the Grimlock, but it'd be pretty nifty to nab a Ramjet.

Oceanside Target had a good number of G1 Jazz and G1 Starscream movie repaints on the TF endcap, along with a bunch of new Wave Real Gears and a Tit 6" Optimal Optimus in the aisle.

I think TRU gets its stuff in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I'll probably check there tomorrow morning.

by **Kingplay** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:24 am

achuc wrote:dumb question... What's so special about Titanium Ultra Magnus?

G1 Titanium Ultra Magnuses are pretty cool!

News Credits: 1 · by **twee** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:16 pm

All the Targets in my area have nothing but G1 Jazz and Starscreams. Target Greatland in Encinitas got in two Titanium Fallens and Cheetors, so if you're looking for those, you know where to go.

Oceanside TRU has jack too, but last time I hit jackpot on Thursday, so I'm making it a point to get there tomorrow.

by **lull** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:12 am

Hello. For the past couple of months I've been checking this site for figure updates and for that I thank you. I noticed that some of you suggest going to Frank & Sons to purchase the new figures. I recently went and I noticed that almost every single booth that sells TF's had every single new deluxe, voyers etc., in fair amount of quantities. To me it seems that these guys might be the very same guys we refer as scalpers. For some reason I can't find one single bumblebee or any of the new deluxes, but these guys do and sell them for great profit(bumblebee is $10 retail, going for $25(minimum) at Franks). Now, some of you might think this is a deal, but is it really. It's time for us to stop purchasing these figures from them so they can atleast knock the price down. I would understand if these figures where no longer being made, but they've just came out and I have yet to find any new deluxes in any of the stores I go to. It just bugs me that they're charging so much. I'm sure most of you don't care, but just decided to pass the info to see if any of you think the same.