The Energon Pub

Redimus wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:

Lord Crump wrote:Happy birthday Red!


A year older, a lil wiser? Or maybe a lil poorer thanks to our favourite robots in disguise?


Let there be drink and merry!

A year older, a little poorer, and LOT stupider. lol

Aha! Just what I like to see, someone growing older DISgracefully!

BTW anyone here want to sell me their MP-02 Ultra Magnus?

Edit, ignore
misread, thought you were selling. lol

Make that a LOT stupider.

Ah, alcohol; the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems!

JetfireUK wrote:I agree with you - it does make sense. What frustrates me is that originally only European cars made it across to the UK such as the Subaru and Mazda. Now we have the Wrangler Jeep, Dodge Viper and Ram and Ford Mustang. WTF happened?

Oh yeah *PLUG* a few figures up for sale on Carmbombya.

Yeah and don't forget that Jeremy Clarkson had a Ford GT so there's another that a lot of Brits will know of!!!!

JetfireUK wrote::P

Epic Heroes have the figure for sale at £150 - there's no f***ing way I'd pay that much for a figure that was released at £65. Bastards.

So how's the hangover, Red?

That's the problem with anything you buy in the UK. A good example of us being screwed, Masterpiece Megatron costs £100 from EpicHeroes.com, yet I have bought it for a little over £50 from abroad. A good example of a possible screwjob - The new X-Box 360 Elite, 120G Hard Drive and it costs £245 in the States. Now how much do you reckon the Brits will have to pay for one when it's released here?

Redimus wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:

Lord Crump wrote:Happy birthday Red!


A year older, a lil wiser? Or maybe a lil poorer thanks to our favourite robots in disguise?


Let there be drink and merry!

A year older, a little poorer, and LOT stupider. lol

Aha! Just what I like to see, someone growing older DISgracefully!

BTW anyone here want to sell me their MP-02 Ultra Magnus?

Edit, ignore
misread, thought you were selling. lol

Make that a LOT stupider.

Sorry, mate. Forgot to wish you a happy Birthday. hope you had a blast anyway!

soundwavegt wrote:

JetfireUK wrote::P

Epic Heroes have the figure for sale at £150 - there's no f***ing way I'd pay that much for a figure that was released at £65. Bastards.

So how's the hangover, Red?

That's the problem with anything you buy in the UK. A good example of us being screwed, Masterpiece Megatron costs £100 from EpicHeroes.com, yet I have bought it for a little over £50 from abroad. A good example of a possible screwjob - The new X-Box 360 Elite, 120G Hard Drive and it costs £245 in the States. Now how much do you reckon the Brits will have to pay for one when it's released here?

I'd hate to think of the mark up herer on the X-box - lemmie guess at least £490?

Still, I think that a 3-old figure which isn't that sought after should be that expensive - here's hoping that I find a cheap one from somewhere

I recently bought a Cybetrron Primus in a very damaged box for £40 at the Bullring Entertainer. I also happened to notice the Power Warriors, (fairly) cheap knockoffs of what appear to specifically be the RobotMasters line. There's also a little shop in Sutton CVoldfield that might still have a few 4 inch Titanium Primes and a Classics Bumblebee for £8, aprice that veers dangerously close to what the Americans are paying for it.

Also, I seem to recall I promised to give someone here £26 for Unicron. Whoever it was, please PM me, as I seem to have forgotten.

excuse my silence in this thread for the past few days. I've had a few connection errors that I've had to sort out.

Exulted Unicron wrote:excuse my silence in this thread for the past few days. I've had a few connection errors that I've had to sort out.

That's simply not good enough

I've nothing really to report - I'm stuck at deciding what big figure to get as a final treat before I move over to Ireland later this year.

How about Fort Max

I've nothing really to report - I'm stuck at deciding what big figure to get as a final treat before I move over to Ireland later this year.

Get something really, REALLY big and expensive!

I wanted to go on an online bday tf splurge yesterday, and coupld find nothing i wanted for a price i was willing to pay ANYWHERE...

Before we started getting tfs with actual avialability in this country, I probably would happily paied theo nline prices, now, i done wanna.

I may preorder mp3 soundwave + rumble n frenzy when it closer to release, same with mp skywarp.
Otherwise the only thing that interested me was a reissue astrotrain, and i think nearly £30 is to much for that.

I'm waiting for BBTS to bloody ship me my G2 convoy..I may have committed a no no by goinh ahead and buying the Pepsi Prime reissue

Redimus wrote:I wanted to go on an online bday tf splurge yesterday, and coupld find nothing i wanted for a price i was willing to pay ANYWHERE...

I hate those - you just WANT something but can't bloody find it.

Fort Max might just fit in the back of my car - just

Supercollider wrote:http://www.toywiz.com/locstarscreamtransformershasbrocybertronseries1legendsofcybertronmini4figuree.html

Actually looking further the $28.00 delivery is a guide price it's $10.00 making it all $16.99 - under my £10.00 limit. If I buy (probable) I'll post my experience of ToyWiz in case other brits decide to use them.

It arrived today and ToyWiz aren't bad at all, but watch out for the shipping charges also if you use Paypal they can only send to your paypal registered address.
It arrived within 1 week of the order they have order tracking but I didn't need to use it, they delivered in a A3 jiffy bag, then a sealed cardboard box which was then packed with brown packing paper. Sweet!

Glad to hear Toywiz are good at delivery. I ust might use it if they get something I want

Me again!

Right, my thoughts so far as UK leaving presents are as follows:

1) Either version of BT Smokescreen as it's the best looking
2) MP Ultra Magnus - great looking but hard to find/too expensive
3) MP Brave Exkaiser not a Transformer, but looks great
4) BTA Sunstreaker - I love vipers and IMHO looks the best in both modes
5) Re-issue Predaking - he's huge, evil and orange
6) Hybrid Prime - he might be tiny but he seems equally posable as MP Prime and he has Roller!

My question is, what should I go for? All these figures look great but apart from BTA Sunstreaker I don't know what they're like to own.

being a G1 nut, I'd say Predaking...badassed and awesome gestalt

Exulted Unicron wrote:being a G1 nut, I'd say Predaking...badassed and awesome gestalt

Bugger I forgot to add a badass category!

Okay, so that's one vote for Preds...

I'll second that vote.

You buggers

Predaking would be the most expensive (and largest) of the lot, wouldn't it? £100 for a MIB version - stickers applied!

MegaDave wrote:And we are only ONE country in europe. Those statistics dont really tell me anything about transformers popularity in europe. Okay so a US based website has more hits by users in the US and Canada - thats got to be a given pretty much. Also an english launguage website has more hits from people in english speaking countrys, forgive me for not being rocked to the core about your revelations here ryan.

Sure it does, not to mention that it is a reflection of Hasbro's sales in Europe based on speculation, the "disgruntled Brits" comments, the absence of products in countries such as Germany and the lack of certain products in the UK. While it's not shocking that most of the people who visit this site are from English speaking countries the fact that Seibertron.com is a U.S. based website is irrelevant to the users because it is an all-encompassing Transformers website. We report on UK, Australian and Canadian Transformers news just the same as we do with US news.

MegaDave wrote:If not for the popularity in europe then transformers may have disappeared completly in the late 80s. I collcted many of the turbomasters, micromasters, predators and aquaspeeders in my childhood nd those lines included a lot of figures made specifically for the european market.

I completely agree with this. Europe's continued sales of G1 may have been what convinced Hasbro to do G2 and then Beast Wars itself. Something happened though and Europe's interest in Transformers waned drastically after the end of G2. Transformers only started selling again in Germany after a 10 year absence. Did Beast Wars not air over there? Did Hasbro's takeover of Kenner in 95/96 affect how Transformers were sold/distrubuted (whatever the process is) to Hasbro UK? Something happened that made the sales of Transformers suffer greatly in Europe after the mid-90s.

MegaDave wrote:I know that hasbro europe could be getting a lot more of my more than they currently do but because i hae access to the internet and i dont have complete trust that the figures that i want will be released on these shores i can obtain myself.

High Command wrote:Your statistics are shewed in favour of North America as this is a US based site. I'd be interested to see how that would compare with a Canadian based TF site, and even a UK based one. Also important in considering is that the UK has a much smaller population then the US. That means that the 9% of visiters we make up, more substantial then it sounds.

I don't think the statistics are skewed. Do you go to websites because of the locality of the website or because of the content? The beauty of the Internet is that, for the most part, content is king regardless of location. What do you think would be different on this website if it was based out of the UK?

High Command wrote:US population: 301,574,000
UK population: 60,209,500

If we do a crude calculation and say that the US has aproximately 5 times as many people and we scale up the UK percentage we'd get a figure of around 45%. Meaning that by scaling up the UK population 5 times to match the US, we'd have a proportionally higher percentage of visiters to this site (45% as opposed to 9%).

While I understand your logic, it is irrelevant because the numbers are what they are. Of this site's entire traffic that it receives, over 70% of the users are from North America. Transformers are most popular in the U.S. for whatever reason. Or maybe Hasbro is just dropping the ball over in Europe but I would think that if there was a euro to be made overseas that they'd be there doing whatever they cold to make it. The reality is that the product must not be moving or else they'd be selling more of it over there.

High Command wrote:Furthermore I'm sure you've noticed but the UK posters here are quite a vocal group. I'd be interested to see a similar pic chart detailing the volume of posts made on the forums by each nationality and see how that compares with the first one.

I've been aware for a long time that the foreigners have made up a very vocal part of the forum community here. It is not reflective of this site's traffic. The overall site membership is almost identical to the top 10 country list for the geo-locations of Seibertron.com's users. I would fathom that the European community is socially a tighter-knit group of fans because of your close proximity to each other. You don't live 3,000 miles apart like you can here in the States.

Predaking may be expensive, but he's kick-ass and makes your collection look alot cooler

Well, my collection is pretty small now - only 30 or so figures and I have a real mix:

MP Optimus, Starscream and Megatron
BT Sideswipe, Hound, Deadend, Swindle, Ravage and Laserwave
Alt Silverstreak and Wheeljack
E-hobby Colbalt Team and Twincast w/ Flipsides
TFC Megatron, Soundwave, Soundblaster, Blaster and Perceptor
TRU Re-issue Optimus and Hoist
Reissue Starscream
Gen 1 Jetfire

Predaking could be a cool addition - simply as he's huge. Watch this space

Is that soundwave single chested or the soundblaster repaint?