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Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Strange, since all my movie boxes have artists renditions of the bots heads on them, and all of them i bought here in the uk from places like tesco, tru and amazon.

None of my local Argos stores have this pack. Im in 2 minds over it, seeing as I have leader Prime already.

Will just keep checking Tesco etc for Bumblebee.

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Strange, since all my movie boxes have artists renditions of the bots heads on them, and all of them i bought here in the uk from places like tesco, tru and amazon.

You're lucky then! I've attached a VERY sketchy picture showing my European/English box Ironhide bought from TRU, you can see the picture in the bottom right corner shows a photo of the converted toy! If you look at the Prime/BB 2-Pack you can see the Head shots!

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Strange, since all my movie boxes have artists renditions of the bots heads on them, and all of them i bought here in the uk from places like tesco, tru and amazon.

You're lucky then! I've attached a VERY sketchy picture showing my European/English box Ironhide bought from TRU, you can see the picture in the bottom right corner shows a photo of the converted toy! If you look at the Prime/BB 2-Pack you can see the Head shots!

OOh i see now. Ok i never paid any attention before, as what i want is IN the box, i just keep the boxes cos i am a packrat so i never paid much attention to them. But now you show me my ironhide and ratchet have the pic of the bot in converted mode, so do my jazz, barricade and leader prime boxes. Not a big deal to me but i notice the difference now.

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Strange, since all my movie boxes have artists renditions of the bots heads on them, and all of them i bought here in the uk from places like tesco, tru and amazon.

You're lucky then! I've attached a VERY sketchy picture showing my European/English box Ironhide bought from TRU, you can see the picture in the bottom right corner shows a photo of the converted toy! If you look at the Prime/BB 2-Pack you can see the Head shots!

OOh i see now. Ok i never paid any attention before, as what i want is IN the box, i just keep the boxes cos i am a packrat so i never paid much attention to them. But now you show me my ironhide and ratchet have the pic of the bot in converted mode, so do my jazz, barricade and leader prime boxes. Not a big deal to me but i notice the difference now.

Fair enough! It's annoying though how the Euro packaging lacks all the info on the back, If you're a collector that wants to keep them boxed (Sacrilage) the American ones would be the ones to get!

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Sonray wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:Just got mine in Worthing, Sussex. Really nice pack. It's good to FINALLY see the 08 Bumblebee! Don't really think much of the Voyager prime though, Not a patch on the Leader class! The packaging is the American so it's nice to have some Non-Tri-logo bits in the collection!

Tri Logo?

Yeah, In England and Europe we get the Tri-logo packaging, basically, it looks the same but the info on the back is in several languages and the Picture on the front is a photo of the toy in Converted mode! In America you get a cool artist impression of the robots head and all the writing is in English! Also you get all the stats on the back!

Oh yeah, anyone else noticed that this version of Bumblebee seems to be Orange???

Strange, since all my movie boxes have artists renditions of the bots heads on them, and all of them i bought here in the uk from places like tesco, tru and amazon.

You're lucky then! I've attached a VERY sketchy picture showing my European/English box Ironhide bought from TRU, you can see the picture in the bottom right corner shows a photo of the converted toy! If you look at the Prime/BB 2-Pack you can see the Head shots!

OOh i see now. Ok i never paid any attention before, as what i want is IN the box, i just keep the boxes cos i am a packrat so i never paid much attention to them. But now you show me my ironhide and ratchet have the pic of the bot in converted mode, so do my jazz, barricade and leader prime boxes. Not a big deal to me but i notice the difference now.

Fair enough! It's annoying though how the Euro packaging lacks all the info on the back, If you're a collector that wants to keep them boxed (Sacrilage) the American ones would be the ones to get!

Yeah and pay double the amount it cost to buy the figure from a UK shop? Screw that.

If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

my 2 pack finally arrived yesterday. I love the 08 BB he is sweet!
It seems that the Argos onlien have him it by the truck load, but no stores have received the stock, go figure!

HotRod_G1 wrote:my 2 pack finally arrived yesterday. I love the 08 BB he is sweet!
It seems that the Argos onlien have him it by the truck load, but no stores have received the stock, go figure!

Does the BB look like he has a bit too much orange in the paint? (Compared with the pics on this site)

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

Ha! I have five Argos', three TRUs, three Woolworths' and one Entertainer in my immediate vicinity!


Now, finding one that stocks this set is the game. Get ready for a long match.

The Master Blaster wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

Ha! I have five Argos', three TRUs, three Woolworths' and one Entertainer in my immediate vicinity!


Now, finding one that stocks this set is the game. Get ready for a long match.

I think i'll move there then....do you talk with funny accents though?

Ive never even seen an entertainer around here, nor have i ever been in one. Yep thats how useless essex is. Two argoses btw, 2 woolworths, one TRU, thats it. Lame.

Sonray wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

Ha! I have five Argos', three TRUs, three Woolworths' and one Entertainer in my immediate vicinity!


Now, finding one that stocks this set is the game. Get ready for a long match.

I think i'll move there then....do you talk with funny accents though?

Ive never even seen an entertainer around here, nor have i ever been in one. Yep thats how useless essex is. Two argoses btw, 2 woolworths, one TRU, thats it. Lame.

The accent varies wildly. I have no accent, but one of me mateys be a ruddy farmer! It's funny when he gets angry, cos he speaks farmer.

The Entertainer is decent enough. It stocks a fair few tfs and whatnot, but nothing special. The Woolworths are for the most part useless. But the TRUs, thar be summat special!

in reply to the paint job, no mine doesn't have an orangeish tint. I am very happy with him. Transforming him back to car mode was a bitch as with all TF hasbro instruction sheets they are very lame and hard to follow. If you do get him make sure to not force the hood, make sure you flip down the panel behind his head before you start the shoulder chest area.

Hello new here and i'm new to the whole posting thing so if I make any mistakes I'm sorry.

I've been to 4 different argos stores to get this niether one had it,and 3 of them were extra's and just looking on there website there are no stores near enough for me to get to, and as i can't drive this pose's a problem.

Argos sucks, they never seem to stock anything from there catologe i want.

But damn this is only £25?!?!

Heh, only? Isn't that close to $50 US? For a Voyager and a Deluxe? Man, they got you Brits trained well when it comes to prices.

Noobatron wrote:

But damn this is only £25?!?!

Heh, only? Isn't that close to $50 US? For a Voyager and a Deluxe? Man, they got you Brits trained well when it comes to prices.

Tell me about it! Over here we are being charged £40 for leader class £20 for Voyager and £10 for Deluxe ( All approx)

In the states aren't you paying $40 for Leader $20 for Voyager etc... That's $ for the £, someones making a lot of money out of it!

HotRod_G1 wrote:in reply to the paint job, no mine doesn't have an orangeish tint. I am very happy with him. Transforming him back to car mode was a bitch as with all TF hasbro instruction sheets they are very lame and hard to follow. If you do get him make sure to not force the hood, make sure you flip down the panel behind his head before you start the shoulder chest area.

Strange about the colour, it's just that mine seems a bit darker than the 74 version!

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

BLOODY HELL!!!
I'm from Worthing!!!
Sorry, I didn't think I'd ever meet someone where who lived near by.
Anyway, as to the Argos situation, I know, we have an insane amount, but I haven't bought anything from any of them so I don't know what figures they have. What waves have we got released?

Justicity wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

BLOODY HELL!!!
I'm from Worthing!!!
Sorry, I didn't think I'd ever meet someone where who lived near by.
Anyway, as to the Argos situation, I know, we have an insane amount, but I haven't bought anything from any of them so I don't know what figures they have. What waves have we got released?

I only bought from there because I saw this topic!

As to the waves, Argos seems to have the first wave and i'm assuming the second (They have Bonecrusher, I think that's the second) they also have the nightwatch prime if you want a repaint! Worth annoying them once in a while, they'll probably get newer stuff as it's released!

Still better than Woolies and Gamleys!

Gee-atron wrote:

Justicity wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

BLOODY HELL!!!
I'm from Worthing!!!
Sorry, I didn't think I'd ever meet someone where who lived near by.
Anyway, as to the Argos situation, I know, we have an insane amount, but I haven't bought anything from any of them so I don't know what figures they have. What waves have we got released?

I only bought from there because I saw this topic!

As to the waves, Argos seems to have the first wave and i'm assuming the second (They have Bonecrusher, I think that's the second) they also have the nightwatch prime if you want a repaint! Worth annoying them once in a while, they'll probably get newer stuff as it's released!

Still better than Woolies and Gamleys!

Nice, when I get some money I'll take a look.
Oh, if you didn't know, Lions farm Sainsburys has quite a good range of figures.
Oh Gamelys is crud. I go in there nearly every time I'm at Churchill square & they have nothing, ever.

darknightdown wrote:Argos sucks, they never seem to stock anything from there catologe i want.

Tell me about it. I almost fainted when i i got mine, i would never have thought id ever get anything from argos that i wanted as they NEVER have anything that i want in stock/what they advertise in your books.

Gee-atron wrote:

HotRod_G1 wrote:in reply to the paint job, no mine doesn't have an orangeish tint. I am very happy with him. Transforming him back to car mode was a bitch as with all TF hasbro instruction sheets they are very lame and hard to follow. If you do get him make sure to not force the hood, make sure you flip down the panel behind his head before you start the shoulder chest area.

Strange about the colour, it's just that mine seems a bit darker than the 74 version!

So is mine, but it isnt a problem to me. It looks better with the darker yellow.

Justicity wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

Justicity wrote:

Gee-atron wrote:

The Master Blaster wrote:If I can ever find this set in stock near me, I'll buy it.

Although Worthing is the ar*e of Britain, we're lucky to have 3 Argos stores! 3 yes 3....

BLOODY HELL!!!
I'm from Worthing!!!
Sorry, I didn't think I'd ever meet someone where who lived near by.
Anyway, as to the Argos situation, I know, we have an insane amount, but I haven't bought anything from any of them so I don't know what figures they have. What waves have we got released?

I only bought from there because I saw this topic!

As to the waves, Argos seems to have the first wave and i'm assuming the second (They have Bonecrusher, I think that's the second) they also have the nightwatch prime if you want a repaint! Worth annoying them once in a while, they'll probably get newer stuff as it's released!

Still better than Woolies and Gamleys!

Nice, when I get some money I'll take a look.
Oh, if you didn't know, Lions farm Sainsburys has quite a good range of figures.
Oh Gamelys is crud. I go in there nearly every time I'm at Churchill square & they have nothing, ever.

I get a feeling that Gamleys may get a load in nearer Christmas! same goes for Woolies aswell. I think they held back because there were so many Supermarkets (ASDA, TESCO) selling the deluxe range at bargain prices!