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Crosshairs: I am jealous! Kick-OverOFF is a great looking toy. My fave repaint of the Jazz mold so far.

Lockdown: PCC Undertow is a great wee toy. I want an oversized KO of him in Octopunch colours.

Kick-Over/Kick-Off review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTNalN9 ... ture=g-upl

Lockdown91 wrote:went on a hunt today around my home town Warrington near Manchester, went to 3 Asda's and in the third one I found both Deluxe Ratchet and Arcee, both at £9.97, bought them both but at least others will know they're starting to show up more.

Also bought power core combiner Undertow for £4.97 at toys r us just because I never checked out that toy line and he didn't look as bad as some of the others did

I've been desperately searching for Arcee and Ratchet to no avail thus far. It's nice to know they're around, fingers crossed it wont be long till they show up here.

If I see him in the shops I might well pick up a Prime Ratchet to stand-in on my Classics collection. At least until I see some final pics and some reviews of the expensive iGear one, and find the money for that.

In other news, Kapow toys have the latest wave of Prime deluxes in stock. Kinda crept up on me that one, and they appeared to only be selling Airachnid as part of the set of 3 which is sold out now (not that I wanted her after seeing the pictures) but if you're after Dead End (aka Waspjack) or Bin-man Bumblebee, head on over.

edit:GAAAAAH!!! my ebay hunting has gotten the better of me. saw the auction pic, of the Magnus/Skywarp 2pack. read that it was mint, bid, because although I have Warp, I WANT Magnus. Read on...auction is for Skywarp only. Never wanted to see that "You have been outbid" message more in my life.

Was in asda the other day, they hade some TP stuff. Didn't have much time/effort to take stock lol, but it was mostly cyberverse. I think they had commander starscream, maybe prime.
Got meself legion vehicon (alright) and cliffjumper (amazing). They also had ratchet and, to no surprise, BB.

Not happy with Tesco. After a month of having a shelf tag for commanders at an 'introductory price' and the due date for them coming and going with no sign of any stock they've reorganised the toys and the commander tags are gone. Also hadn't expected them to have a sale on deluxes while it was just the first wave on the shelf, or I wouldn't have bought more than Soundwave and 'Jackie at full price. Grrr.

waaaaghlord wrote:Not happy with Tesco. After a month of having a shelf tag for commanders at an 'introductory price' and the due date for them coming and going with no sign of any stock they've reorganised the toys and the commander tags are gone. Also hadn't expected them to have a sale on deluxes while it was just the first wave on the shelf, or I wouldn't have bought more than Soundwave and 'Jackie at full price. Grrr.

My local Tesco in Cannock has proven to have been a very happy hunting ground for Cyberverse Commanders much to my sons delight. We've managed to get them all so far with the exception of Dreadwing. They actually had Dreadwing the other day, unfortunately my boy had been a bit naughty so he didn't get him then and when we went back he'd been sold but luckily we managed to get Ironhide instead.

Now deluxes (that aren't Bumblebee) on the other hand...

I have 2 tescos local to me, both have the same lot of wave 1 commanders, legions and deluxes. Of which I own all the ones I'm interested in.
Hoping to come across Dreadwing and Ironhide soon... It's been the same stuff on shelves for 5 months now!

yes! got outbid on Skywarp (and not Ultra Magnus like the picture suggests) with still 3 days to go! Now I can see about hunting down some other stuff.

TRU have the Jackhammer set, and a lot of Cyberverse stuff,
But still only wave 1 of Deluxes. I really want a Vehicon to show up soon.

(Although they do have a Leader Sentinel Prime for 29.99. Might go for him after all.)
EDIT: Got Sentinel in the end. Unpacking him now!

ASDA had 1 each of Arcee, Wheeljack, Ratchet, Cliffjumper and Soundave, and one Bumblebee for each of them. On the plus side, I now have Ratchet. Couldn't say no for a tenner.

Also picked up my latest delivery from Kapow toys today. Pre-owned Prowl and Bluestreak, pretty cool, and TFP Dead End! I love this guy! Crazy paint job, and his freaky head. I'd wanted him as a vehicular version of Waspinator, and whilst he does sort of vaguely work as that, it's an alt universe version where Waspinator izzz on zzzteroidzzz. Dead End is badass, with his discorave colour scheme and screaming devil face and neon frikken swords. He doesn't give a £"(% ! Highly recommended.

craggy wrote:ASDA had 1 each of Arcee, Wheeljack, Ratchet, Cliffjumper and Soundave, and one Bumblebee for each of them. On the plus side, I now have Ratchet. Couldn't say no for a tenner.

Also picked up my latest delivery from Kapow toys today. Pre-owned Prowl and Bluestreak, pretty cool, and TFP Dead End! I love this guy! Crazy paint job, and his freaky head. I'd wanted him as a vehicular version of Waspinator, and whilst he does sort of vaguely work as that, it's an alt universe version where Waspinator izzz on zzzteroidzzz. Dead End is badass, with his discorave colour scheme and screaming devil face and neon frikken swords. He doesn't give a £"(% ! Highly recommended.

crap, now you've compared him to waspinator, I must own a dead end...

Wasp-shot23 wrote:

craggy wrote:ASDA had 1 each of Arcee, Wheeljack, Ratchet, Cliffjumper and Soundave, and one Bumblebee for each of them. On the plus side, I now have Ratchet. Couldn't say no for a tenner.

Also picked up my latest delivery from Kapow toys today. Pre-owned Prowl and Bluestreak, pretty cool, and TFP Dead End! I love this guy! Crazy paint job, and his freaky head. I'd wanted him as a vehicular version of Waspinator, and whilst he does sort of vaguely work as that, it's an alt universe version where Waspinator izzz on zzzteroidzzz. Dead End is badass, with his discorave colour scheme and screaming devil face and neon frikken swords. He doesn't give a £"(% ! Highly recommended.

crap, now you've compared him to waspinator, I must own a dead end...

I'd say "don't blame me" but since he's an awesome toy, I'll take responsibility here. You'll love him. and feed him. and water him. and take him for walks. please can I keep him please?

I got Cyberverse Ironhide, the only one from the entire wave and only one of him too.

OMGOMGOMG VOYAGER MAGNUS! i must own one...
idk bout any of you guys but I think of tfp Magnus, Ironhide and Hot Shot as wreckers as well?
Also @ArmadaPrime I won't be able to get to town this weekend to get you a present but i'll try for the week after

Roll call time. Aside from DM and myself who's confirmed for AA this year?

Nope. Would love to, but no.

Have a great time guys, and enjoy the celebration!

There's always next year mate. I've missed the last 2 because of tight finances and a string of house moves. I've actually moved 3 times since I last made it to AA. So glad the current place is not only nice but also with a stable house mate (unlike the last one, very long story...) and looking to be pretty long term. I really hope that I'll be here until I'm in a position to buy a place of my own.

I've not got tickets or money, so I guess that means I won't go...
At one point it did look like I might, but well... Nothing happened.
Maybe next year can be my first AA.

I'd quite like to go to a TF con of some description, I think, but time and money prevent it. I'll stick to seeing what I can pick up at the various comic-cons I visit.

Just gonna quote this cos I was about to sat exactly the same thing :p

Va'al wrote:Nope. Would love to, but no.

Have a great time guys, and enjoy the celebration!

EDIT: also just saw the masterpiece soundwave pics. Do want.

waaaaghlord wrote:There's always next year mate. I've missed the last 2 because of tight finances and a string of house moves. I've actually moved 3 times since I last made it to AA. So glad the current place is not only nice but also with a stable house mate (unlike the last one, very long story...) and looking to be pretty long term. I really hope that I'll be here until I'm in a position to buy a place of my own.

I'm one of the Auto Assembly organisers - saw your discussion and just thought I'd pop in and say we hope as many of you as possible can make the show! And thank you everybody for your continued support of our fan run, non-profit convention

Welcome to the ODB prez, not really a sightings thread as we just got bustled over here from toys when this forum was added to the boards and forced to rename when they standardised the format. Great place to shoot the breeze on TF and other matters, do a bit of trading, and just have like minded vibes with a bunch of other Brit (and token German and Italian) TF fans. I usually try to get a Seibertron meet up going at some stage over the weekend at AA and while I'm sure you'll be busy please feel free to join, put some faces to names and knock back a couple of cold ones with us.

Cheers for the welcome dude if I get chance I'll certainly try to pop over. I'll be the one who's constantly running :3

Tesco had Arcee and Ratchet in today. £10.53 or something like that. Nearly £11 anyway. Nice to see this wave filtering through the shops. Still quite a few Bees, but there was at least one of all the others so far. Didn't look at Voyagers or Cyberverse, though the ones at the front were not new.

Also went to the post office and picked up my Coronation upgrade kit for Classics Starscream. Very nice! Won't be using the Leader-1 head. The additional wing hinges looks like they'll be cool, but not sure I want to risk messing with the toy.