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News Credits: 3 · Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:38 pm

Glad to hear places have been restocking (and that the Belleville Walmart finally had something new, lol)

Lookie what I did XD

"Highbeam" animated style

News Credits: 194 · Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:56 pm

Highbeam wrote:Glad to hear places have been restocking (and that the Belleville Walmart finally had something new, lol)

Lookie what I did XD

"Highbeam" animated style

yes, I was surprised to find them at belleville. But even more surprised to find new stuff at the canton meijer.

I like the animated highbeam. that's cool.

Did anyone else watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles tonight? it was really cool.

News Credits: 5 · Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:39 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:Oh and I have to ask the Comic guys again, did Beast Wars Ascending #4 come in last week. Some people seem to have gotten it, but there was nothing for me...

Yeah, got mine last week. I don't know if it's a problem on Diamond's end or IDW's but this sort of thing seems to be happening a lot with TF books lately. Kinda reminds me of what happened just before Dreamwave went under. Not that I'm speculating or anything.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:30 am

And now for some Detroit Auto Show updates :3

Guess which car's gonna be there???

GM Style '08 pics

Scroll down a lil bit and you'll see Bumblebee in the first row

!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!! Sky, several friends, and I will all be going on opening day

I'm sure we'll have loads of pics to share, including pics with our fav Camaro! *so excited*

News Credits: 194 · Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:43 am

I was checking out an article on Newsarama.com about the retailer reaction to the whole Spidey One More Day/Brand New Day... Bob Smethers, owner of comic city, is quoted twice.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=142819

now, should we go into that forum and start asking why none of the comic city customers on our thread are getting their TF comics? :grin:

BW: The Ascending and Sourcebook #3 both came out last week. Matt, it sucks you and PQP aren't getting them when they're on your pull list. Send an email to Bob. info@comiccity.com or bob@comiccity.com.

if that doesn't work, there's always Stadium! :grin:

Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:46 am

God Magnus wrote:It's a small comic and toy convention that is held on a semi-monthly basis in Livonia. It also serves as a sort of informal meet-up/hang-out for us Michiganders. Some of us set up tables, some of us go to buy or trade, and some go just to hang out. It's always loads of fun and the next one is January 20. You can find more specific information about it here.

Ha!...a 'con in my hometown. That's awesome. I'll have to venture back for that.

Highbeam wrote:And now for some Detroit Auto Show updates :3

Guess which car's gonna be there???

GM Style '08 pics

Scroll down a lil bit and you'll see Bumblebee in the first row !!!

I also read that the car for the new Knight Rider series is supposed to be there. Though I'm not a fan of the new car being a Mustang (nothing will replace the custom Trans Am from the old show in my mind), seeing the new car would be cool.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5V9Fkgtc4Y
I know it was a corny show and all, but I have fond childhood memories of it

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:47 pm

The Ypsi Walmart restocked on practically all the original deluxes, FAB's (Blackout, Barricade, Bee, etc.), Voyager Starscream and Ratchet, and some of the movie Robot Heroes. Nothing else though, which was disappointing.

News Credits: 17 · Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:28 pm

Dewitt Meijer had:

4x Nightwatch Optimus Prime
4x First Strike Optimus Prime
1x Offroad Ironhide
2x Evac (I bought one)
2x Cliffjumper
3x Landmine
2x Autobot Camshaft

News Credits: 6 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:53 am

Hey gang...was just looking around walmart.com and came across this

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... id=8224018

you can pick Death Star Vader, Megatron, or Brawl (Vader is like 5 bucks extra) for 40 bucks and get that craptastic Prime Unleashed Turnaround...

They also have a pick 4 for 20 deal...but not many figures worth picking up but if you have been holding out on some of the not so rare starwars figures or you missed proto starscream...

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... id=8065431

News Credits: 194 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:01 pm

Well, I just placed a preorder for the Encore Minibots and Omega Supreme!!! those definitely weren't the the figures I expected to be the next Encores. very, very cool. :grin:

News Credits: 5 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:12 pm

Totally gotta get me an Omega Supreme. This is the first reissue I've been excited about in a long time.

News Credits: 194 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:00 pm

God Magnus wrote:Totally gotta get me an Omega Supreme. This is the first reissue I've been excited about in a long time.

I'm excited about the minibots too. I can finally get bumblebee with the anime head and not pay Tfpredaking $200 for his TFCollection version of the minibots :grin:

of course, I could have picked them up for $30 at WYSIWYG back when they had them... but I was like.. pfft.. I don't want the mini bots :BANG_HEAD:

I have been playing with my Nightwatch Prime here at work. The leader class figure of Prime is so awesome.

Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:33 pm

JTKranix wrote:Dewitt Meijer had:

4x Nightwatch Optimus Prime
4x First Strike Optimus Prime
1x Offroad Ironhide
2x Evac (I bought one)
2x Cliffjumper
3x Landmine
2x Autobot Camshaft

Portage Walmart:
Autobot Ratchet
Voyager Starscream
Nightwatch OP

Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:14 pm

JTKranix wrote:Anyone catch Animated? It was fantastic this week!

Just caught it on youtube.

Grimlock: "Car robots...bad!"
It almost seemed as if he was hinting at another Transformers series...this made me chuckle

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News Credits: 3 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:51 pm

Ypsi Target

* Voyager Prime, Rescue Ratchet, Thundercracker
* First Encounter Barricade set
* Final Stand Bee set
* Wave 1 Scouts
* Allspark Legends sets
* Wave 1 FAB's
* Wave 2 Cyber Slammers
* Leader Prime, Megs, and Brawl

Ypsi Meijer

* Deluxe Allspark powered Camshaft, Cliffjumper, and Landmine (grabbed one of those for myself)
* Voyager Offroad Ironhide, First Strike Prime, Evac
* Leader Nightwatch Prime
* FAB Prime, Smokescreen, Ramjet, Ironhide (the new one)
* First Encounter Barricade set

Class time, later!

News Credits: 194 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:56 pm

strange... meijer getting the new stuff before target and walmart... that's crazy :grin:

News Credits: 6 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:57 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:strange... meijer getting the new stuff before target and walmart... that's crazy

And me without a Meijer!

Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:40 pm

Maybe some of this awesome stuff will appear up here in the next few days... We're still a barren land of dusty shelves and empty peghooks.

And now it's been decided I am going to the auto show. Maybe.

I suppose, if nothing else, I can drive around a little bit after the con on Sunday and try to find myself an Evac and a Ramjet.

News Credits: 194 · Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:50 pm

I stopped at the ann arbor/saline road meijer. they had 2 evacs, 3 first strike primes, 4 NW primes, 1 offroad ironhide and 9 each of the new deluxes. also they had some of the new FABs. I picked up an evac.

News Credits: 1082 · Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:55 am

You know Meijer in Westland, back in the day...they used to have things quite often before other retail stores, sometimes close to the first in the US.

Just wanted to share with you 'young punks' who think Meijer is a toy wasteland.

News Credits: 194 · Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:06 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:You know Meijer in Westland, back in the day...they used to have things quite often before other retail stores, sometimes close to the first in the US.

Just wanted to share with you 'young punks' who think Meijer is a toy wasteland.

I'm not a "young punk," but Meijer IS a toy wasteland... usually :grin:

sometimes they aren't though.. as shown by the new wave of TFs

News Credits: 17 · Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:20 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:You know Meijer in Westland, back in the day...they used to have things quite often before other retail stores, sometimes close to the first in the US.

Just wanted to share with you 'young punks' who think Meijer is a toy wasteland.

I'm not a "young punk," but Meijer IS a toy wasteland... usually

sometimes they aren't though.. as shown by the new wave of TFs

Meijer is a giant pile of steaming toy turd 99% of the time which makes me sad

Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:43 pm

Saw Cliffjumper, Landmine, and Camshaft today at the Allen Park Target, two each. They also had 3 Voyager Primes, 2 Thundercrackers, and 1 Rescue Ratchet, 2 First Encounter Screen Battles, 1 Last Stand, plenty of Scouts(all the way back to the first wave, at least one of each), Wave 1 Allspark Legends, and plenty on Wave 1 and 2 FABs.

Still nothing at the Allen Park Meijer...

Meijer sucks.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:17 pm

*pouts because all the meijer, walmart, target,kmart and toys r us's in the warren/detroit area haven't gotten new deluxes yet and he wants a cliffjumper*

News Credits: 3 · Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:40 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:You know Meijer in Westland, back in the day...they used to have things quite often before other retail stores, sometimes close to the first in the US.

Just wanted to share with you 'young punks' who think Meijer is a toy wasteland.

Funny thing is, when I used to live in Westland, I used to call it "Wasteland" all the time (I lived there since I was a wee lil kid)

It's about time Meijer got it in gear!