The Energon Pub

Nothin much to say today- yet anyways.

But me sis will be getting me one of the two movie Skyblasts for crimbo, and I'll buy the other one meself.


That's all for now.



I do indeed look forward to uni.
I think Nottingham is my second choice!

Supercollider wrote:Bad news.
After passing on Movie Swindle at Netto's last week a mate showed me his one... It's not bad really, not bad at all, it would make a very passable movie Shockwave with not a lot of work. I realised I'm not gonna see an Alt or even E Shockblast in my preferred price range (under £20.00) in a hurry so kitbashing Swindel would work out very well.
Can I Find the Damn figure now! grrrrr!

I can pick it up for you - there are a few at the Sainsbury's near me. I think they were £9.99 so throw in a few quid for postage and I can get it for you.

Leonardo wrote:John Lewis seems to have a lot of Rescue Ratchet and Movie Thundercracker.

As does Toys R Us, those damn things are everywhere

Supercollider wrote:Did Movie/Game Payload ever make it to the UK either?

I think I saw him in John Lewis for £6.65 and didn't get him What is his alt-mode?

Redimus wrote:And all you at uni, what are you studying, cuase I had WWWAAAAAYYY more hours than you guys when I was there.

Are you all artists and historians or something?

Yup, 3rd year History student No classes but I have to do a hell of a lot of reading, in fact I'm supposed to be doing some now but instead I'm here...oops

The Master Blaster wrote: I do indeed look forward to uni.
I think Nottingham is my second choice!

Second? Are we not good enough for you? What's your first choice and what are you applying for?

waaaaghlord wrote:

Supercollider wrote:I realised I'm not gonna see an Alt or even E Shockblast in my preferred price range (under £20.00) in a hurry

My Tesco had Alt Shockblast for £15 the other day. That'll be less than £20 posted if you want me to grab it for you.

Yes Please Mr. Waaaaghlord!
Though the wife will probably kill me as there are still 4 more figures to arrive in the post from before she banned me from buying any more! (and i'm still trying to sort buying/swapping Octane's Universe Dev/sixbuilder).

doomboy536 wrote:

Supercollider wrote:Did Movie/Game Payload ever make it to the UK either?

I think I saw him in John Lewis for £6.65 and didn't get him What is his alt-mode?

SWAT van or something like that - I'm only semi interested as he may be a cheap way to pad out my heavily outnumbered Con army when my wife relents on my buying.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Payload-movie.jpg

Supercollider wrote:SWAT van or something like that - I'm only semi interested as he may be a cheap way to pad out my heavily outnumbered Con army when my wife relents on my buying.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Payload-movie.jpg

Nope, didn't see him. Though I must say he does look very cool...why does Hasbro hate us?

doomboy536 wrote:

Redimus wrote:And all you at uni, what are you studying, cuase I had WWWAAAAAYYY more hours than you guys when I was there.

Are you all artists and historians or something?

Yup, 3rd year History student No classes but I have to do a hell of a lot of reading, in fact I'm supposed to be doing some now but instead I'm here...oops

I'm doing Geography, also in my 3rd year. I should be doing reading as well but books bore me to death.

Side note - I want Dropkick and Payload dammit, why can I not find them anywhere

jazzrules wrote:

doomboy536 wrote:

Redimus wrote:And all you at uni, what are you studying, cuase I had WWWAAAAAYYY more hours than you guys when I was there.

Are you all artists and historians or something?

Yup, 3rd year History student No classes but I have to do a hell of a lot of reading, in fact I'm supposed to be doing some now but instead I'm here...oops

I'm doing Geography, also in my 3rd year. I should be doing reading as well but books bore me to death.

Side note - I want Dropkick and Payload dammit, why can I not find them anywhere

Reading is boring - I'm giving up in a little bit and then going to start making a poster to find another housemate for next year. Baah to boring stuff

On a far happier not, check this out!

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

Supercollider, you want to look at this as well!

Supercollider wrote:

waaaaghlord wrote:

Supercollider wrote:I realised I'm not gonna see an Alt or even E Shockblast in my preferred price range (under £20.00) in a hurry

My Tesco had Alt Shockblast for £15 the other day. That'll be less than £20 posted if you want me to grab it for you.

Yes Please Mr. Waaaaghlord!
Though the wife will probably kill me as there are still 4 more figures to arrive in the post from before she banned me from buying any more! (and i'm still trying to sort buying/swapping Octane's Universe Dev/sixbuilder).

I'll nip into town tonight and snag him if he's still there. I'll give you a PM once it's in hand.

My first choice is Birmingham University- the school of Physics and Astronomy. I plan to do a MPhys in Astrophysics.


My other choices were Durham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Manchester.



No parcels tonight. Maybe tomorrow will bring more tf goodness.


Thanks a load doomboy! I was planning on getting my bro Dropkick for christmas, and you've just paved the way for me!


Three gifts down, one to go

Simon Plumbe, one of the organisers of Auto Assembly, has posted some preliminary information on next year's event at TF@TM, with a full announcement expected within the week.

The date will be either July or August of next year and the venue will be the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham, the same venue that hosted the last two events.

http://transformers.proboards1.com/inde ... 949&page=2

This event is timed perfectly with my starting uni. Hopefully I'll be at Brum U too.



What better way to announce my return to the big city than AA?

doomboy536 wrote:On a far happier not, check this out!

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

Supercollider, you want to look at this as well!

Sadly in typical Play.com fashion they are pre-orders with a release date they'll keep putting forwards and forwards. nearly all the FAB's they have they are the same (just checked and holy crap they're in stock!!!!), and they're still saying that Cla. Starscream hasn't been released yet.
http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html
(Play are crap and franky lie when they haven't got stuff in stock, that and they still have much to learn about packaging anything that's not a CD/DVD/Video Game)

The Master Blaster wrote:My first choice is Birmingham University- the school of Physics and Astronomy. I plan to do a MPhys in Astrophysics.

ARRRGH Scientist!!! *flees*

Unlucky mate, you'll actually have to do some work. Long live being a lazy bugger

Brum is a good place though, got a couple of mates there plus I live locally. My parents also went there, met in Fresher's week and got engaged after a few months - I did the same, only at Nottingham

The Master Blaster wrote:Thanks a load doomboy! I was planning on getting my bro Dropkick for christmas, and you've just paved the way for me!
Three gifts down, one to go

No probs man, out here in these scourged lands that Hasbro forgets us DBs gotta stick together

Supercollider wrote:Play are crap and franky lie when they haven't got stuff in stock

Only 2 days to go for those though...hopefully won't delay them much more. I was considering picking some stuff from play.com but seeing as though they are crap, I might try ebay for the first time. Eeek!

waaaaghlord wrote:Simon Plumbe, one of the organisers of Auto Assembly, has posted some preliminary information on next year's event at TF@TM, with a full announcement expected within the week.

The date will be either July or August of next year and the venue will be the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham, the same venue that hosted the last two events.

http://transformers.proboards1.com/inde ... 949&page=2

well at least it makes it easier to find! any idea when the tickets go on sale?

doomboy536 wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:

doomboy536 wrote:I wanted a 5 day weekend, but they wouldn't let me have it. Curse you Nottingham University, you make my life so unfair

welcome to my neck of the woods!

You a student or a local?

i'm a local, born and bred! i wish i was still a student, but having said that i'd still have issues keeping money in my bank account!

doomboy536 wrote:

Supercollider wrote:Play are crap and franky lie when they haven't got stuff in stock

Only 2 days to go for those though...hopefully won't delay them much more. I was considering picking some stuff from play.com but seeing as though they are crap, I might try ebay for the first time. Eeek!

I'd almost be prepared to bet you that on 23rd it will still say pre-order available on 23/11/07 and then a few days later they'll change it to something like Pre-order 16/12/2007.

I might have been a little harsh about play but generally if you compare them to Amazon then they pail in comparison.

Toy/Gadget wise I've bought Cla Cliffjumper & Play Arts FF7: Advent Children Could & Sephiroth from Play and frankly they just throw the boxes into a large jiffy and don't care. The Play Art's boxes arrived undamaged but Cliffjumper's card was heavily battered which I didn't appreciate as I was originally intending to keep him MOSC. They have specific jiffys for DVD's CD's etc so they arrive fine (E.G. Firefly & KoTOR II arrived mint)
anyway If you're aware of play's slapdash attitude to packing stuff you'll be fine.

Ebay's can be more of a risk but has great benefits when you suddenly spot a bargain when the seller clearly doesn't know what they're got and worded their item so no-one would guess it was, say, a lot containing Titanium Soundwave, Classic Voyager Prime & SW:TF Anakin (AOC: jedi starfighter) and you pick them all up for £5.00.

ThunderThruster wrote:any idea when the tickets go on sale?

Not yet. I'm checking the AA site fairly regularly though, so I'll be sure to update once the proper announcement is made.

There has now been a full announcement made at Auto Assembly's website.

http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com ... AA2008.htm

The date for next year's event will be Saturday August 2nd, the venue will be the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham, and ticket prices will be £16 for adults and £8 for children.

Guest details and an online booking form for the event are still forthcoming at this time.

Oh dear god.

Is this the first time NONE of the home nations have made a major tourniment?

Bye bye McLaran, bye bye.

I find it amusing everyone piles on to blame the manager when the players are so crap. :p They need a swift kick up the behind, bunch of overpaid nancies.

Tekka wrote:I find it amusing everyone piles on to blame the manager when the players are so crap. :p They need a swift kick up the behind, bunch of overpaid nancies.

Agreed 100%, another problem is that too many foreign players play in the Premiership, so very few English ones are good enough to be in the national side due to the fact that they don't play as often. Look at Arsenal, I think only 4 of their first team are English (although I could be wrong about that)

Not that I follow football, but I take it our disgrace of a national side failed to do anything of note apart from get overpaid yet again?

Personally, I hate football, but I just happened to hear it on the radio this morning. =/ I'm more of a Tennis man... Yes, go ahead. Mock me.

Tekka wrote:Personally, I hate football, but I just happened to hear it on the radio this morning. =/ I'm more of a Tennis man... Yes, go ahead. Mock me.

Okay!

You...and your tennis balls...white shorts...Wimbledon?

I got nothing

I don't really like football (or any sport). I do, however, despise the amount of money that top league players get paid just for kicking a football around when the people who do really necessary jobs, like teaching, get paid so little.

jazzrules wrote:I don't really like football (or any sport). I do, however, despise the amount of money that top league players get paid just for kicking a football around when the people who do really necessary jobs, like teaching, get paid so little.

Word to that - my mum was a teacher and she got paid an annual salary that was less than a week's wage for a premier league footballer. Awful stuff