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RodimusConvoy13 wrote:damn, TT.. the only reason I'm up right now is cos it's 11 am here. 6 am on a saturday is early!

PQP and I are going out hunting at 7AM...

Me want movie toys...

Good luck!

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Good luck!

Well, this is the release date so we should be going to stores and tripping over TFs if we're not careful...right?

I would think so.. just leave some for me when I get home next saturday

JTKranix wrote:EDIT: Damn, I forgot to grab a Wreckage for you drive-by

No worries man! I am still stoked that you hooked me up as good as you did thus far! I will be heading out today anyways so I will take a peek for one when I get a chance.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I would think so.. just leave some for me when I get home next saturday

I'm sure Andrew and I will clean out every store this AM between us. Every item gone, and they won't get more in for a month.

Seriously, I'm not going to buy everything, I'm not JT, I'm not a millionaire, I'm going to try to take it slowly, and buy over the course of a month or two... watch me come home with just about one of everything...

just judging from some of the pictures i've seen, we are going to be inundated with the movie toys. there should be more than enough for everyone!

one of my friends is picking me up later and we are swinging by the local TRU, so i sure i will be getting something. damn bills had to come in this week and i have to give up my TF movie money to pay them.

at laest next weeks check i will have holiday pay and an awesome haul to grin about.

It will be interesting to see what non movie toys are released. I do wonder if they plan on continuing the classics line though.

...I'm from Michigan, an DAMN do I want Ultimate Bumblebee! I'll have him fight Zeta Gundam, yeeeeaaah.

Shadowman wrote:...I'm from Michigan, an DAMN do I want Ultimate Bumblebee! I'll have him fight Zeta Gundam, yeeeeaaah.

Glad to see you joined us, even if I'm not sure whether you're serious or not...

All right, I have to live vicariously through you guys.. TT and PQP.. how went the hunt?

tigertracks 24 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:...I'm from Michigan, an DAMN do I want Ultimate Bumblebee! I'll have him fight Zeta Gundam, yeeeeaaah.

Glad to see you joined us, even if I'm not sure whether you're serious or not...

Nope, I'm serious. I desperately want Ultimate Bumblebee, and I depserately want to SOMEHOW make a stop motion dealy of him fighting the Zeta Gundam.

It would be EPIC.

Shadowman wrote:

tigertracks 24 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:...I'm from Michigan, an DAMN do I want Ultimate Bumblebee! I'll have him fight Zeta Gundam, yeeeeaaah.

Glad to see you joined us, even if I'm not sure whether you're serious or not...

Nope, I'm serious. I desperately want Ultimate Bumblebee, and I depserately want to SOMEHOW make a stop motion dealy of him fighting the Zeta Gundam.

It would be EPIC.

but are you really from michigan.

ionacus wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

tigertracks 24 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:...I'm from Michigan, an DAMN do I want Ultimate Bumblebee! I'll have him fight Zeta Gundam, yeeeeaaah.

Glad to see you joined us, even if I'm not sure whether you're serious or not...

Nope, I'm serious. I desperately want Ultimate Bumblebee, and I depserately want to SOMEHOW make a stop motion dealy of him fighting the Zeta Gundam.

It would be EPIC.

but are you really from michigan.

I'm from Kalamazoo. Second county East of Lake Michigan, second county North of Indiana. Southwest Michigan. You want Global Coordinates? 42°17′24″N, 85°35′24″W.

Hey everybody! If you had or hadn't noticed, I've been incommunicado for a while. I've been preparing for a move for quite some time. I'm sure all of you who've had to move a large toy and/or comic book collection can understand how time consuming it can be. Anyhow, the move is nearly complete and I just thought I'd give a wave.

In other news, I won't be setting up at the con tomorrow but I am hoping to go for a bit just to hang out and pay back that loan from noob.

Well, that's about it for now. Hopefully, I'll be back to regular posting once I get settled at my new place.

We went exclusive hunting this afternoon.

At the Okemos Target I found 5 Robovision Optimus Primes, bought 2. They didn't have any of the Sector 7 exclusives out.

The Okemos Toys R Us had at least 10 of the Decepticon Desert Attack 2 packs out. I picked one of those up.

Target on W. Saginaw in Lansing had 5+ of the Sector 7 exclusives. I picked up one of each. They also had 5 Robovision Optimus Primes.

I stopped at the W. Saginaw Wal-Mart, they had one deluxe bonecrusher out and that was it

tigertracks 24 wrote:Drive By, I'm just teasing you. I love all the TF helicopters. I still think my favorite may be Quickstrike, or the japanese version of E-Bulkhead (Superlink Sprung).


Damn Tigers! They had a 4 run lead going into the 9th inning and lost, 12-11... What in the hell is wrong with them? I hate the fact also that Cleveland seems to have both the Pistons and the Tigers numbers right now.

Movie toys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the Tigers, what do you expect?

Well, I must say Ann Arbor Sucked this morning if anyone was looking to get a bunch toys!!

TRU = Sh*t!! They had primes, 2-packs of Blackout and Scorponok, Ultimate Bumblebee (or what-ever), a few Iron-hides, 1-Ratchet, no Starscreams at all, and absolutely no new Deluxe class toys period They put out about 50 more of the Protoform Turds! Can you believe it! They had a bunch of other little things, but the selection of "real" toys sucked!

Target on Carpenter road had about 5 cases of Deluxe class, but only 3 different figures!?!? WTF kind of case ratio is that!?!? Where did they all go considering they said they had not put any out before today I had been entertaining the idea of picking up wreckage (which I have passed up 3 times allready, so my own fault). They also had no Blackouts and no Ratchets at all, just tons of Ironhide and Starscreams. Everything else was normal.

So for anyone looking to score, A2 sucks!!

In terms of everything else I wanted, I scored my stuff at the Target. I picked up all the Robot Heroes and because I'm such a G-1 snob, these are my favorites (along with one other toy) of everything that came out today

I did pick up the Robo-x-ray-brighteyes-contact-wearing-heat-vision Prime.... or what ever the hell its supposed to be

Also, I had not seen this prior to today and had no idea it was even made, but the Real Gear Booster X-10 Rocks!! Its freaking Lazerbeak!! I love it!! Hands down the best new toy in the movie line. I loves me my G-1

Shadowman wrote:

ionacus wrote:but are you really from michigan.

I'm from Kalamazoo. Second county East of Lake Michigan, second county North of Indiana. Southwest Michigan. You want Global Coordinates? 42°17′24″N, 85°35′24″W.

Ionacus, I invited him here, because I found out in another thread he was from MI. Besides we're not territorial like that anyway. We even let the occasional folks from Ohio post without penalty or harassment.

RC, well I got an S-load of stuff, but it wasn't easy. The stores in the area obviously did not think this was as big a deal as we all thought. But I was able to score everything that I wanted to get right now...and the real gears are the best...and yes TFP Booster is sweet!

I hope they do a gold repaint of him...

We did not see any of the Robot Heroes Exclusive 5 packs, or the Desert Battle TRU thing. We were very underwhelmed at the importance that stores put on updating displays.

PQP you now need to be careful as to which voice changer you get, but I imagine the 'real' ones will sell out, and the 'fake' ones will be those we see on clearance forever (like the Vader voice changer).

It was fun though! I have yet to open my voyagers, and OP Leader class...oh and I have not opened the robot heroes either. Can't wait to get the little cuties out!

tigertracks 24 wrote:
RC, well I got an S-load of stuff, but it wasn't easy. The stores in the area obviously did not think this was as big a deal as we all thought. But I was able to score everything that I wanted to get right now...

We were very underwhelmed at the importance that stores put on updating displays.

Well, I can't say I'm glad to hear Ann Arbor was not the only area to be crappy. I was really exited to see the displays this morning simply because its awesome for the TF line as a whole, and I was underwhelmed as well. I wish they had taken it more seriously.

I went to Meijer on carpenter road just now to get groceries and all they had set up was 1 endcap. The regular spot within the aisle was all the really old stuff like alternators and Cybertron.

WallMart on Elsworth only had an aisle spot set up that was about 5 feet wide.

Welcome Shadowman

I went to the Target on Edgewood and snagged Leader Megatron as he was the only one there, and a Wreckage! There were a crap load of Ironhides, a couple of Starscreams, some of the Sector 7 toys, Real Gear stuff, a Wreckage (might be more than one) and all sorts of other things. There were two Leader Op's left when I was there. all in all it looked pretty full. So if you can get to em go for it.

As for Leader Megs.. I am a bit underwhelmed. He has no head OR waist articulation.... He is also a pain in the ass to stand up properly. I am hoping Brawl and Ops will be better leader figs.

Leader Prime is cool. The transformation is difficult, but intuitive. One thing I don't like is that mine does not seem to be able to have the automorph stop from trying to release itself. The automorph makes the head automatically pop up and spreads the chest open causing lights, and sound.

The head doesn't want to stay down in truck mode. The little hatch cover is tilted up because it is trying to activate and has that kind of give... it's a little disappointing, but he won't see truck mode much anyway.

Voyager Ratchet seems to be my favorite figure so far(besides Blackout and Wreckage). I guess he's my favorite autobot. He's tough, and solid, alt mode is cool. Head sucks, and I found out his hip joints are not too tight, but otherwise, I like the overall look and feel of him.

Ironhide is OK. I don't like how his chest does not attach and it stays loose...

Starscream has a nifty transformation, but just doesn't look a thing like any Starscream ever, except in alt mode.\


I guess I have to take that back overall, I like Spyshot and Booster x10 the best, so far. Simple Tfs, good ideas, decent homages to what came before, and nifty real looking almost life size alt modes.

tigertracks 24 wrote:Leader Prime is cool. The transformation is difficult, but intuitive. One thing I don't like is that mine does not seem to be able to have the automorph stop from trying to release itself. The automorph makes the head automatically pop up and spreads the chest open causing lights, and sound.

The head doesn't want to stay down in truck mode. The little hatch cover is tilted up because it is trying to activate and has that kind of give... it's a little disappointing, but he won't see truck mode much anyway.

Voyager Ratchet seems to be my favorite figure so far(besides Blackout and Wreckage). I guess he's my favorite autobot. He's tough, and solid, alt mode is cool. Head sucks, and I found out his hip joints are not too tight, but otherwise, I like the overall look and feel of him.

Ironhide is OK. I don't like how his chest does not attach and it stays loose...

Starscream has a nifty transformation, but just doesn't look a thing like any Starscream ever, except in alt mode.\


I guess I have to take that back overall, I like Spyshot and Booster x10 the best, so far. Simple Tfs, good ideas, decent homages to what came before, and nifty real looking almost life size alt modes.

Ironhide's chest does snap into place you just have to play with it a bit

Drive-By wrote:I went to the Target on Edgewood and snagged Leader Megatron as he was the only one there, and a Wreckage! There were a crap load of Ironhides, a couple of Starscreams, some of the Sector 7 toys, Real Gear stuff, a Wreckage (might be more than one) and all sorts of other things. There were two Leader Op's left when I was there. all in all it looked pretty full. So if you can get to em go for it.

As for Leader Megs.. I am a bit underwhelmed. He has no head OR waist articulation.... He is also a pain in the ass to stand up properly. I am hoping Brawl and Ops will be better leader figs.

Awesome man. I saw I missed a call from you, leave a voicemail! I stopped by that same Target earlier, nice haul with that leader class Megatron. I haven't seen one yet, was it $45? If it is I think I might just order a couple from hasbrotoyshop.com and use the free shipping promo code cause they have them for $39.99.