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Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:10 pm

Oh wait:

The Toy'r'us in Highland Park has the green legend ROTF Devastator, and I believe the Veron Hills does too.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:40 am

Great Elite Guard Prowl gallery, I see I'm not the only one that could not get that figure to hold the traffic signal weapon. I'm also surprised your're still pumping galleries out with your big day coming this weekend! Again congrats and best of luck with your future together with the "Mrs." :grin:

News Credits: 2 · Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:02 am

dahpadre wrote:Great Elite Guard Prowl gallery, I see I'm not the only one that could not get that figure to hold the traffic signal weapon. I'm also surprised your're still pumping galleries out with your big day coming this weekend! Again congrats and best of luck with your future together with the "Mrs."

Holy crap, is that THIS weekend??? Wow, congrats Ryan! As someone who has been happily married for nearly 11 years, I have a little advice about the wedding: take some time to soak it all in. My biggest regret about my wedding day is that it was all so fast that I didn't have a chance to enjoy it and even now it fades in my memory. Soak it in, enjoy it, live it up. Most importantly, remember it.

Off that subject Seibs, I know you ordered the newest wave of TF figs from KMart.com...(at least I think you did)...did they send you the correct order? Was thinking about doing it myself but don't want KMart to eff it up.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:17 pm

Got some more goodies today, Second Bruticus set from TFSource, so those extra limbs don't got to waist. Also I got 13 classic crystal sons of cybertron sets.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:26 pm

THIRTEEN sets? Holy crap...can't wait to show this to my wife so she'll quit complaining about MY collection. Thank you for saving me a ton of grief 8-}

Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:59 pm

2 MP Grimlocks at Crystal Lake TRU. No new waves there, Crystal Lake Target, or Algonquin Target. Algonquin TRU still has three Green Legends Devastator, and a few of the Wave 2 Scouts.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:40 pm

Bloomingdale TRU has 4-5 Breachers and Insecticons there, no MP Grimlocks, and three green EZ Devastators. Nothing else new there.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:17 am

No word of the HFTD wave 2 deluxe figures or wave 2/3 Generations?

News Credits: 5 · Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:49 am

Orland Park TRU has about 10 Generations Megatron and Darkmounts. They are all in boxes above. The cases say w2r1. I picked them up on Saturday already. Now I just need Soundwave then I can relax a little.

Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:01 pm

Dont get it twisted, Padre did a group order on those Sons of cybertron sets.

Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:43 am

i picked up elita-1 tuner skids and side arm sideswipe at bolingbrook walmart tonight 1 case on floor and i was all over it

Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:44 am

still looking for wfc megatron and animated rodimus

News Credits: 2 · Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:25 am

Fun little side note: went to the Weird Al concert here in Rockford last night. He used the video clip from Transformers Animated of Wreck-Gar talking to Ratchet and saying "I am Wreck-Gar. I Dare to be stupid"...then immediately played Dare to be Stupid. Made my night.

Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:24 am

First-Aid wrote:Fun little side note: went to the Weird Al concert here in Rockford last night. He used the video clip from Transformers Animated of Wreck-Gar talking to Ratchet and saying "I am Wreck-Gar. I Dare to be stupid"...then immediately played Dare to be Stupid. Made my night.

Oh snap.

Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:01 pm

Hope your wedding day went well, Ryan! Congrats!

News Credits: 1 · Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:30 pm

There was a MP Grimlock at the Orland Park TRU that I reluctantly passed on. $70 is a bit steep for me these days. Getting married in a few months will do that to you! #-o

There were no 2nd wave Generations figures a la Darkmount, but as previously stated in this thread, there were several boxes on top of the display shelf which likely had the new figures. I'm considering passing on Darkmount and just opting for Skullgrin when he is eventually released and I'm on the fence about WFC Megatron, so I didn't pursue it any further. Even Soundwave is looking a little less impressive in recent pictures we've seen, though he could be a pretty good stand-in for Classics Soundwave in robot mode.

Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:20 pm

I haven't gone out searching for anything

A lot on the broke side these days.

Congrats a little late Ryan

As a serious side note, how many guys from the Chicago area are planning on attending Slag-A-Con in Indiana on Oct 9th?

News Credits: 9 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:41 pm

TRU at Golf Mill had about 5 of the "Rampage Among the Ruins" sets, and a few green Legends Devs too. I might go back for that set, I'm diggin' on the original, and mixing and matching might be fun.

News Credits: 3642 · Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:51 pm

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:TRU at Golf Mill had about 5 of the "Rampage Among the Ruins" sets, and a few green Legends Devs too. I might go back for that set, I'm diggin' on the original, and mixing and matching might be fun.

Hey Hip-Hoptimus Rime, it was nice meeting you finally tonight. Glad I was able to hook you up with Battle Hooks Prime. Hopefully we can help each other out more in the future since we're practically neighbors. I'll keep an eye out for the TRU TFA Rodimus and Ironhide for you.

Did you see the Rampage Among the Ruins set today or yesterday? I was there around 1pm today looking for the set but no dice. I saw the green Legends Devastator but none of the Rampage Among the Ruins. The guys at that store are really awesome. One of them was calling the Highland Park store looking for me and another guy was out back looking on the pallets that just arrived from their truck today. I came up empty handed but at least they were trying to help me out. Does anyone know what the set is called in their computer system or what the stock number is?

On a sightings note, I saw all of the wave 2 legends at Golf Mill Walmart and Golf Mill Target. Target exclusive 2 packs were in full force at the GM Target store as well.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:45 am

Hey, Seibs, thanks. I saw those Rampage Among the Ruins sets at TRU on Wed night, about 8:00. I hit a few places that night- TRU, Target, and Walmart at Golf Mill, and Rosemont Target. That's the only TRU I went to, so they must have been there. I believe there were 4 sets.

Can't go looking tonight, have a thing at my daughter's school. Weekend's taken up too, but I'll check the TRUs near my work next week.

News Credits: 3642 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:28 pm

nilocomic wrote:Hope your wedding day went well, Ryan! Congrats!

Thanks! We got married and had our reception at Fountain Blue in Des Plaines (just past the Target on Mannheim north of Touhy). It's an incredible family owned business. They took very good care of us for the past year with all of our planning and took extremely good care of us the night of our wedding. It was a perfect day.

News Credits: 3642 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:33 pm

dahpadre wrote:Great Elite Guard Prowl gallery, I see I'm not the only one that could not get that figure to hold the traffic signal weapon. I'm also surprised your're still pumping galleries out with your big day coming this weekend! Again congrats and best of luck with your future together with the "Mrs."

Glad you liked the Elite Guard Prowl gallery. I thought I did get him to hold it. How is he supposed to hold it properly?

I'm always pumping out galleries, wedding or not. Working on Terradive and Tomahawk's galleries yesterday. Hopefully I can get them posted in the next few days but we'll see.

We're not sure when we're taking a honeymoon yet but hopefully sooner than later. Got bills to pay first!

Thanks for the congrats!

News Credits: 3642 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:41 pm

First-Aid wrote:
dahpadre wrote:Great Elite Guard Prowl gallery, I see I'm not the only one that could not get that figure to hold the traffic signal weapon. I'm also surprised your're still pumping galleries out with your big day coming this weekend! Again congrats and best of luck with your future together with the "Mrs."

Holy crap, is that THIS weekend??? Wow, congrats Ryan! As someone who has been happily married for nearly 11 years, I have a little advice about the wedding: take some time to soak it all in. My biggest regret about my wedding day is that it was all so fast that I didn't have a chance to enjoy it and even now it fades in my memory. Soak it in, enjoy it, live it up. Most importantly, remember it.

Off that subject Seibs, I know you ordered the newest wave of TF figs from KMart.com...(at least I think you did)...did they send you the correct order? Was thinking about doing it myself but don't want KMart to eff it up.

Yep it was last weekend. Thanks for the advice and the congrats! It sure went by fast but we made sure to enjoy every moment. One of the greatest moments last weekend was when we finally got in our limosine to head downtown for pictures at Millennium Park. I felt like such a huge burden had been lifted off my shoulders. No more planning ... nothing could change anything at the point. The wedding day was going to be what it was at that point so we just got to sit back, relax and enjoy the beautiful day. The weather was perfect. Traffic was great. Everyone had a great time. Everything was just absolutely perfect. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect wedding day for us. Lori looked absolutely beautiful!

And the best part is we've got tons of pictures and videos already from friends and family not to mention the professional photographer and videographer we hired from George Street. It turned out to be a pretty well document event, thankfully, that'll help keep the memories fresh.

As for the kmart order, it turned out to be every bit of a disaster as we had all expected. They didn't send me a single figure that I had ordered. When I called the number to work out the return, the woman gave me a hard time about it. She kept saying "but sir, we sent you something similar, correct?" to which I replied "yes, but not exactly what i had ordered. it'd be like you ordering a red shirt and receiving a blue shirt or ordering a gallon of milk and getting a gallon of orange juice". She finally refunded me the shipping fee and all I had to do was take the order back to the Kmart in Des Plaines.

My order had become a "MyGopher" order at a store about 3 hours away. They basically just took my order, went out to the aisle, found a bunch of "similar" items and stuffed it in a box and shipped it off without a care in the world. I still don't get how Kmart is in business. It is, without a doubt, one of the worst ran companies in the world.

News Credits: 3642 · Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:43 pm

I meant to post that the Golf Mill TRU had the wave 2 HFTD scouts in stock. I almost grabbed the Insecticons to use in a multi-Insecticon gallery but decided against that just knowing there'll be inevitable repaints at some point.

Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:03 am

that is why i hate kmart.com totally useless people working for that company and joliet toys r us had 4 Rampage Among the Ruins sets as of about closing tonight