The Energon Pub

Of course, maybe this post will be completely ignored, but I'll share it anyway.
First, I'm not talking about what I bought online. That's not true finding. Any idiot with money can buy a Fortmax online. But it take a extremely lucky idiot to find one cheap in some store.

Faery tales aside, were you browsing a random store, toy hunting or not, only to find some great and rare Transformers at a good price?

Lemme share my incredible findings first. A few months ago I found a Universe voyager Dropshot for only 20$CAN+taxes at Rossy's. I remember seeing it way back at that store for around 35$. The same one was at last at a reasonable price so I snached it up. No regrets. That toy is great!

Some months ago, I found a Universe ultra Onslaught sitting in a dark corner at Sears. They had two, but because it was 35$+tax, I only took one. No regrets then again. Appart his lame woop sound, this guy is a lot of fun and great to transform.

3 weeks ago, I went to a lost toy clearance store. You know, the kind of store that is only in a far out place where you have no choices but to take a cab to go there? At least, the cab fare was not lost beacuse I could have bought a dishwasher at the next store over, and I found 3 out of 4 2007 Movie Screen Battle sets. First Encounter (with Barricade), Desert Attack (with scorponock), and Final Battle (with Longarm). Unfortunately, they did not had Capture of Bumblebee. Oh well, at 15$+tax each, it's not too shabby. That also had Animated Supreme Optimus Prime, but even at 30$+tax, I passed on this abobination.

Today's haul... MAN, TODAY'S HAUL!

I finally found the HFTD scout Hubcap that I missed at my local Walmart. They put back a bunch of HFTD scouts back on shelves. Unfortunately, Hubcap was at full price, meaning 10$CAN+tax. Of course I bought him anyway. No way I'm gonna miss him again. He's much better in person than in pictures lemme tell you.

But the real finding is at a "not so" dollar store, Magiprix. They have all the usual cheap dollar store crap. They have also a lot more bizare and more expensive items. Shopping there is like treasure hunting. You'll never know what you're gonna find. I went there to find and buy a "collector" lolita porcelain doll for my mom. I found the doll. It was a little pricey, but she is beautiful and it was the only store around to carry the thing. While I'm there, I went BOOTLEG TF HUNTING. I found a knock-off G1 Seeker and a knock-off dragonfly TF. Both at 3$+tax each, and both of a surprisingly good quality!
THEN SUDDENLY SOME WILD M.I.B. VOYAGER ANIMATED TRANSFORMERS APPEAR!
I found one TF Animated voyager wreckgar and TWO TF Animated voyager Atomic Lugnut! all at 23$+tax each! I'll keep one Animated Lugnut sealed and I'll open the others.

Ouf!

Okay the, I'll repeat.
POST YOUR UNEXPECTED STORE FINDINGS HERE! (NOT online, duh...)

In England we get wave 1 of new lines fairly promptly (except for TFP) but later waves often don't show up. Long after Universe had died down suddenly I found myself staring at Cheetor, Dinobot and Inferno ON HALF PRICE!

After the 2007 Movie toys had been out for a few months, and there was a lull where there was nothing new, I found a sealed Energon Overcast. I had just gotten a used Energon Jetfire, so it was a cool find.

I went & got the #125 comic of the TF G-1 On-going today. on the way home I went to a TJ Maxx store. I saw+bought 2 RTS Wrekgars for $6.99 each.

Not that I bought it, but I found Atomic Lugnut in TJ Maxx the other day. I haven't seen TFA toys in their store since spring.

Wish it had been Starscream xP


About a week or two ago I found RTS legion class Starcream and Optimus in TJ Maxx too. I'd never seen them and never expected to see them, so I quite happily snatched them up for $4 and then went about hunting for Megatron and grabed Prowl while I was at it. Haha