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News Credits: 2 · Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:51 pm

I checked on Tesco.com and the price is still 25%off so I don't know if its an anomaly.

I also just got a stock alert for Skyquake at toys r us.com get em while they're hot!!!

News Credits: 7 · Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:11 pm

I can confirm wave 3 deluxes at my local Tesco for £6.50. Couldn't take advantage since I'm tight on rent which goes out on Monday.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:50 pm

Well, flipping heck, yes, my tesco has the half price reductions too... God I wish I wasn't next to broke. I snapped up a Cindersaur vs Smokescreen set though, for an Abominus leg stand in, til I can get Rippersnapper and Blight. So, for the price, (£4.50) Classic look Smokescreen was basically free, nice!
Oh and I ended up with a kreo mole from Thunderbi- I mean Nosecone too.

News Credits: 4 · Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:35 pm

I'll be checking Tesco tomorrow then. I might buy a non-gummi Abominus, or as many pieces as I can get if they're half-price. Possibly a deluxe or two too.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:41 pm

Hey guys I'm back with news.

Stockport Toys'R'Us have Beast Hunters Cyberverse Legion Blight and Rippersnapper they are £4:99 each so I got myself A Rippersnapper happy hunting my friends

I also grabbed Myself an MP Soundwave :BOWDOWN:

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:18 am

Ooh, darn, Rippersnapper and Blight are out? If anyone's near a TRU with them in, I may have to call upon someone to middleman me them at some point... Even if it's just Blight. Gotta complete by Abominus...

News Credits: 2 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:38 am

Wasp-shot23 wrote:Ooh, darn, Rippersnapper and Blight are out? If anyone's near a TRU with them in, I may have to call upon someone to middleman me them at some point... Even if it's just Blight. Gotta complete by Abominus...

Hey Wasp, I'm popping to toys r us either later today or tomorrow so I will have a look for you if you like

My FoC Magnus, Screamer and sideswipe just turned up from Toys r Us online ( I grew impatient with not finding them in the shop...) still after air raid and Kickback so I will be haunting Toys r Us until they are mine!

News Credits: 15 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:45 am

If you are going to the Chatham store I'd be interested to know if they have FOC Starscream, thanks.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:52 am

I will be popping to Chatham, hopefully later this afternoon (my wonderful Mrs permitting

).

I'll have a look see and let you know what they have. I'm hoping they are are there, they weren't last week when I popped in, I wants me a Kickback!

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:25 am

Oddimus Prime wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:Ooh, darn, Rippersnapper and Blight are out? If anyone's near a TRU with them in, I may have to call upon someone to middleman me them at some point... Even if it's just Blight. Gotta complete by Abominus...

Hey Wasp, I'm popping to toys r us either later today or tomorrow so I will have a look for you if you like

Thanks, a Blight would be super!

Ravage XK wrote:If you are going to the Chatham store I'd be interested to know if they have FOC Starscream, thanks.

The last time I was in Chatham, they only had FOC Soundwave and Grimlocks, no deluxes. The only Generations deluxes they had were the IDW ones.

News Credits: 15 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:29 am

Wasp-shot23 wrote:
The last time I was in Chatham, they only had FOC Soundwave and Grimlocks, no deluxes. The only Generations deluxes they had were the IDW ones.

Yeah, that's all I saw.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am

Oddimus Prime wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:Ooh, darn, Rippersnapper and Blight are out? If anyone's near a TRU with them in, I may have to call upon someone to middleman me them at some point... Even if it's just Blight. Gotta complete by Abominus...

Hey Wasp, I'm popping to toys r us either later today or tomorrow so I will have a look for you if you like

My FoC Magnus, Screamer and sideswipe just turned up from Toys r Us online ( I grew impatient with not finding them in the shop...) still after air raid and Kickback so I will be haunting Toys r Us until they are mine!

if you like Air Raid, the Japanese version goes very well with it as a pair.

I've heard that people like Sideswipe better than Jazz, but if that's the case Jazz must have been really bad. It's like when you see someone in a perfectly tailored suit, wearing white socks and sandals. A waste of potential awesome.

Magnus is even worse than that, just because it looks so good, but its tiny, and suffers a bit from Ironhide Depression Syndrome. Otherwise he's bloody fantastic.

I've only seen the Not IDW Cause There's No Comics But They're Still More Expensive Here Than In America Deluxes at TRU lately.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:00 am

I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

News Credits: 5 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:58 am

Just popped to Tesco and found Constructbots Soundwave and Wheeljack half-price at £7.50 and Beast Hunters voyagers at £10, deluxes were £6.50. As far as I could surmise, in the brief time I had with two nieces going mental and trying to knock my cap off with magic wands, this offer should be on until the third of October.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:23 pm

Wasp-shot23 wrote:I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

£9.50 and we're not getting the comic either. So...?

News Credits: 2 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:01 pm

Toys R Us Chatham was unfortunately bereft of anything interesting

Sorry Wasp and Craggy, no new toys for you guys.

Only new thing was the Prime / Predaking 2 pack that wasn't there last time I looked. I would have been interested in it, but I wan't the other 3 Voyagers much more than slightly differently painted versions of the same old wave 1 Voyagers

Gotta say, size problem aside, I love FoC Magnus. Sideswipe is a bit simple and seems kinda enormous next to Magnus, but then again Prime and Jazz have the same issue. Screamer is just awesome. Really love the mould, bit mode especially is really faithful to the game.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:37 pm

craggy wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

£9.50 and we're not getting the comic either. So...?

I don't get what you mean... Exchange rate doesn't apply to toys, they're marked up at a standard price point, 12.99 be that pounds or dollars. It's the same equivalent cost to an American or a Briton.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:31 am

Just added BH voyager Prime to my collection today.

Got him from Tesco's for £11, but with my price match voucher he actually only cost me £2.22!

News Credits: 1 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:37 am

Wasp-shot23 wrote:
craggy wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

£9.50 and we're not getting the comic either. So...?

I don't get what you mean... Exchange rate doesn't apply to toys, they're marked up at a standard price point, 12.99 be that pounds or dollars. It's the same equivalent cost to an American or a Briton.

Exchange rate does apply to toys surely? $14.99 is about £9.44, while the RRP for a deluxe class figure in the UK is £12.99. So we Brit's pay more.

News Credits: 6 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:03 am

Woohoo! Picked up the Abominus gift set, commander OP (both for my little lads birthday), and BH voyager ultra magnus all for £26.50 total from tesco! Everything seems to be half price so its well worth taking a look.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:28 am

I just thought I'd post so nobody thinks I'm dead. I also found Rippersnapper and Blight at a toys'R'Us and now have a complete Abominus.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:38 am

MightyMagnus78 wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:
craggy wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

£9.50 and we're not getting the comic either. So...?

I don't get what you mean... Exchange rate doesn't apply to toys, they're marked up at a standard price point, 12.99 be that pounds or dollars. It's the same equivalent cost to an American or a Briton.

Exchange rate does apply to toys surely? $14.99 is about £9.44, while the RRP for a deluxe class figure in the UK is £12.99. So we Brit's pay more.

Well, yes exchange rates apply to anything, but that's not a factor on how things are priced in separate countries. If you want to go all the way to America to use cheaper dollars to make a saving, be my guest, but equivalent cost is the same worldwide. Each person in each country pays 12.99 of their currency to buy a deluxe where it is that price. If exchange rate made a difference to overseas prices, where do you have the reference point? Is the UK the standard, making figures comparatively cheaper when in dollars, or is it the other way around? This is why price points on items like toys are standard, because they're globally distributed things. It's not like the price of corn or petrol or wine. It's a futile argument to say something is cheaper in another country with a whole different currency, you can't really compare these things so arbitrarily.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:18 pm

Just got back from toys r us in Northampton. Came home with legion blight and legion Air Vehicon.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 1:11 pm

Crumplezone wrote:Just got back from toys r us in Northampton. Came home with legion blight and legion Air Vehicon.

Oooh winged Steve has finally made it over?

*rushes to all shops simultaneously to buy ALL THE STEVES!!!*

News Credits: 4 · Sun Sep 15, 2013 1:15 pm

Wasp-shot23 wrote:
MightyMagnus78 wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:
craggy wrote:
Wasp-shot23 wrote:I wouldn't say they're more expensive... Most TRUs in the US charge $14.99 for deluxes!

£9.50 and we're not getting the comic either. So...?

I don't get what you mean... Exchange rate doesn't apply to toys, they're marked up at a standard price point, 12.99 be that pounds or dollars. It's the same equivalent cost to an American or a Briton.

Exchange rate does apply to toys surely? $14.99 is about £9.44, while the RRP for a deluxe class figure in the UK is £12.99. So we Brit's pay more.

Well, yes exchange rates apply to anything, but that's not a factor on how things are priced in separate countries. If you want to go all the way to America to use cheaper dollars to make a saving, be my guest, but equivalent cost is the same worldwide. Each person in each country pays 12.99 of their currency to buy a deluxe where it is that price. If exchange rate made a difference to overseas prices, where do you have the reference point? Is the UK the standard, making figures comparatively cheaper when in dollars, or is it the other way around? This is why price points on items like toys are standard, because they're globally distributed things. It's not like the price of corn or petrol or wine. It's a futile argument to say something is cheaper in another country with a whole different currency, you can't really compare these things so arbitrarily.

no, but you can compare them with cost of living, average wage and cost of other items. A video game that's a standard $60 on release if £40 here. A Big Mac meal is only a couple of dollars, whereas it's a fiver here. Very few companies simply swap the currency icon on their products from one country to the next, because they can't get away with it.