The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:56 pm

I have to reiterate Awakion...welcome to Seibertron.com! As no one has done so yet I will post the disclaimer:

WARNING: SEIBERTRON CONTAINS NUTS!

Welcome aboard comrade!

Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:38 am

Checked the Warrenville Target around 10:45am.

For deluxe class, which is currently on sale for 8.99, they had several soundwave, tons of rampage, breakaway, a few sideways and smokescreen, 1 skids, 1 shoulder cannon bumblebee and wheelie. For Voyagers, which are unfortunately not on sale, they had a BUNCH of ironhide and demolishor, 2 each of the fallen and ratchet, 1 prime and 1 starscream. The biggest one to report is that they actually had a couple superion combiner sets left on the endcap, and they are on sale this week. As usual, the leaders they had were megatron and prime...I've not seen jetfire here in the south burbs yet.

Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:09 pm

The Target on Lake Cook Road near or in Buffalo Grove has a couple Superions as of Monday afternoon. I think there were three left when I .... left.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:10 pm

As of last night, and earlier today, anybody still looking for a Jetfire the TRU on 82nd & Cicero (burbank) has at least 4, possibly more, I did not look beyond that. Also they have at least 2 scalpels, reverb, dune runner and the next wave on robot replicas (fallen, sideswipe). A ton of voyager megs, mixmaster, & the fallen. All on sale, plus you get a $10 gift card for $30 in transformers. Anybody need me to pick one up for them cause they are not able to make it out there let me know. Shoot me a PM

Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:02 pm

There is ONE human alliance bumblebee at the TRU by Fox Valley Mall in Aurora. It is stashed behind a couple of leader megatrons to the left of the front TF display. It is on the shelf above the optimus kids bikes and with the TF party supplies. Note, I did not hide it there but I did find it there. Anyone interested better high tail it down. If grab it for someone, but I don't have the spare cash. Good luck to you.

Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:04 am

Picked up a Jetfire from the Northridge Walmart in Rockford at about 4:30 this AM. I don't know off hand if they had any others, I saw it, grabbed it and booked...

News Credits: 3642 · Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:21 am

Found Leader Class Jetfire last night at the Target in Des Plaines off Mannheim. I took advantage of the "buy 4 get 20% off" deal at Target. Picked up an additional Leader Class Optimus Prime, deluxe Soundwave and deluxe Ravage. I have another Jetfire enroute from Amazon.com which will enable me to do comparison shots in my gallery of Prime and Jetfire with them in the individual mode as well as their combined mode. Can't wait to see what the combined mode looks like. Leader Class Jetfire's alt mode might possibly be one of my favorite alt modes ever ... which is saying a whole helluva lot since I'm not a big fan of the Jetfire character in ROTF.

News Credits: 3642 · Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:23 am

awakion wrote:Checked the Warrenville Target around 10:45am.

For deluxe class, which is currently on sale for 8.99, they had several soundwave, tons of rampage, breakaway, a few sideways and smokescreen, 1 skids, 1 shoulder cannon bumblebee and wheelie. For Voyagers, which are unfortunately not on sale, they had a BUNCH of ironhide and demolishor, 2 each of the fallen and ratchet, 1 prime and 1 starscream. The biggest one to report is that they actually had a couple superion combiner sets left on the endcap, and they are on sale this week. As usual, the leaders they had were megatron and prime...I've not seen jetfire here in the south burbs yet.

Glad to see that you made it over here. Welcome to Seibertron.com awakion!

News Credits: 2 · Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:43 am

Was going to mention that Jetfire was available on Amazon for those having issues finding him...he's even eligible for free 2 day shipping....though personally I couldn't wait that long...heh heh

Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:56 pm

Hey all, I'm new to the forums and located in the Central Illinois/Champaign-Urbana area. I don't know if anyone else is, but it's a pleasure to meet everyone. So far nothing too spectacular to report. No real great finds yet.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:10 pm

monkymn00 wrote:Hey all, I'm new to the forums and located in the Central Illinois/Champaign-Urbana area. I don't know if anyone else is, but it's a pleasure to meet everyone. So far nothing too spectacular to report. No real great finds yet.

Welcome to Seibertron.com! I will once again post the disclaimer for the good of the new member:

Warning: Seibertron contains nuts.

Glad to have a set of eyes down in the Chambana area!

On my own note, got my jetfire today from Amazon and...HOLY CRAP! His alt mode is the same size as my 6 week old Husky puppy! AWESOME!!! Sightings-wise (rockford): Belvidere, E. State, and Riverside Wal-Marts are rocking mixmaster and Voyager megatron as well as mudflap, Int barricade, Cannon BB, and Ravage deluxes. Target on State finally got the 6" Titaniums and Superion gift sets in finally.

Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:15 pm

monkymn00 wrote:Hey all, I'm new to the forums and located in the Central Illinois/Champaign-Urbana area. I don't know if anyone else is, but it's a pleasure to meet everyone. So far nothing too spectacular to report. No real great finds yet.

Welcome! Great to have another newbie here aside from myself. ;c)

News Credits: 9 · Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:24 pm

Wow, no long-weekend sightings...

Walmart near Golf mill had several Stratosphere and Voyager Megatrons. I bought a Stratosphere, he's pretty cool, don't even mind the giant feet. Baby Prime is so funky!

News Credits: 9 · Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:18 pm

Forgot to mention something truly distasteful I saw at the same Walmart. They had the WM exclusive Ramjet and Skywarp figs, and one of them had a ROTF Starscream inside, carefully posed and tied down w/ the twisties, package taped back shut. Then I saw another one, same thing. So some walking turd sells his soul to save a few bucks on a couple toys. Nice. I can't wait to see somebody trying to pull that at the Customer service desk, I'll call him out in a heartbeat.

Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:13 am

orland park walmart has a few stratosphere's left and 2 jetfires as of ten minutes ago if anyone wants them

News Credits: 5 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:52 pm

Toys R Us on 84th & Cicero in Burbank has several of the new wave RPM's, Ultimate Bumblebee's, and 3" inch titaniums

News Credits: 3642 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:02 pm

I found a bunch of new figures at the Walmart off I-75 in Gaylord, MI, on my way back from Mackinaw City, MI to Chicago, IL yesterday ...

Mixmaster - 2 remaining
Voyager Megatron - 2 remaining
The Fallen (Robot Replicas) - 1 remaining
Sideswipe (Robot Replicas) - must've been there at some point but gone when I got there)
Scalpel - 3 remaining
Dune Runner - 3 remaining
Reverb - 3 remaining

I stopped at the Walmart in Big Rapids (nothing really new there), Walmart in Benton Harbor (had new Voyagers and a couple of Reverbs) and then at the Walmart in Michigan City, IN which had probably the largest Transformers selection (and section) of any Walmart I've been to recently. I picked up the Breakaway variation there as well as the 3 new Scouts ... but should've waited for the Scouts until I got home because I had them there waiting for me from HTS. Devastator was waiting for me as well when I got home from BBTS.

News Credits: 3642 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:03 pm

awakion wrote:
monkymn00 wrote:Hey all, I'm new to the forums and located in the Central Illinois/Champaign-Urbana area. I don't know if anyone else is, but it's a pleasure to meet everyone. So far nothing too spectacular to report. No real great finds yet.

Welcome! Great to have another newbie here aside from myself. ;c)

Welcome to Seibertron.com, monkymn00 and awakion

News Credits: 5 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:23 pm

Does BBTS have devastator in stock? I hate to do a pre-order, but it seems everybody who did that from BBTS is getting him now. I just hate to have my CC tied up for the funds.

News Credits: 3642 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:03 pm

dahpadre wrote:Does BBTS have devastator in stock? I hate to do a pre-order, but it seems everybody who did that from BBTS is getting him now. I just hate to have my CC tied up for the funds.

I pre-order everything from BBTS. They allow you to cancel your order up until the item comes in stock. If I find an item in stores first, then I go home and cancel my preorder. BBTS only charges your card once the item is in stock. My Devastator arrived yesterday and I (surprisingly) can't wait to do his gallery. I've gone from disliking this figure to liking it once I saw ROTF. My only wish is that I could find a wrecking ball toy to complete Devastator.

News Credits: 9 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:40 pm

Seibertron wrote:My only wish is that I could find a wrecking ball toy to complete Devastator.

You'll need two, chief.

How does the Fallen Robot Replica look? I too am sold on ROTF Devastator, just debating when to buy him. And, you know, how... *pulls lint out of empty pockets*

News Credits: 9 · Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:46 pm

Human Alliance Bumblebee at TRU in Downers Grove! They had 3 at the front of the store when I went in, and when I left... still three.

Just couldn't bring myself to buy him at $34.99, having spent some money on other TFs recently.

They also had the new 2-inch Titanium 2-packs, expensive as hell at $14.99. Also had the Battle Pack sets of the new hot wheels-sized TF RPMs. I bought Optimus Prime vs Bonecrusher and Jazz vs. Brawl. they are really COOL! (I realize that, at $7.99 each set, could have spent another $16 and bought HA BB, but thst's how it went down, what can I say?)

News Credits: 5 · Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:50 am

HTS has a nice little combo deal up for Optimus and Jetfire. You can buy for $79.99 together http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByCategory.htm?CD=121&BR=496&ST=SO&ID=24519&PG=1

News Credits: 3642 · Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:03 pm

I snagged 3 of the RPM sets at the Golf Mill TRU last night. There was at least one (can't remember if there were two) Robot Replicas "The Fallen" at that TRU as well. I keep seeing The Fallen, but no RR Sideswipes yet.

Also snagged the 3rd wave of Gravity Bots at the Golf Mill Walmart (the new Bumblebee and Skids). Had plenty more on the end cap for the rest of you that are completionists like me.

I'm looking for a Bumblebee/Barricade RPM set and RR Sideswipe if anyone happens to see those products. Just let me know what store in the northwest suburbs and I'll be there.

News Credits: 3642 · Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:51 am

Finally transformed my Deluxe Skids last night ... turned out to be the green teeth (no paint apps) version even though he had the stamped number on his package that people initially thought was the gold tooth version.

I stopped by the Mannheim Target and North Ave Wal-Mart to find a gold toothed one (which I guess you can see through the package so I'll have to try this again). No dice at either store for any Skids figures. I was surprised that I couldn't find him at all.

Anyone know of a retail chain/store around that has a lot of Skids figures? I'm planning tonight on stopping at TRU, Kmart and Meijer (the latter two because they usually have older figures in stock - I can't believe I'm calling a figure that's been out for 6 weeks an "older figure").