The Energon Pub

Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

JetfireUK wrote:Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

Hasbro UK must believe there are little to no TF collectors in the UK.

Hey guys, can I get some links to UK based parts traders? I had a few saved in a PM but they've been wiped and Mangohero is the only one I remember.

To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).

Glyph wrote:I guess they could in some measure be forgiven for having that impression if we consider the tendency for the UK collector to import from either the US or Japan rather than wait for a Hasbro UK release...

Vicious circle much?

Well thats mainly caused by the fact that we have to wait for our TFs for so long after the US get theirs, and that they have an annoying habbit of cutting the series short and missing figures. We have to import to make sure we get the figures we want.

I think you would find 9/10 collectors would wait if we knew we were going to get all the figures in the line but I can't see that happening for anything other than the movie toys.

I'm still missing Energon Galvatron and Cybs Dark Crumplezone for this reason.

I should give H-UK some slack as they have got better, but considering todays' "global market" surely it's better to release figures worldwide at the same time?

Then again I haven't bought a UK release for at least a year although that might change if I can find a cheap C-Soundwave...

Cheers Glyph,

I'll take a look tonight in my local Asda after work. He's the only current figure that piques my interest.

High Command wrote:To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).

I thought this catch up that H,UK has been going through is only to get in line with the US for the movie figures release. If however they do manage to keep in line i'll be buying a lot more figures from UK outlets.

They still need to work on their wholes in their figure assortment though.

Crumplezone wrote:

High Command wrote:To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).

I thought this catch up that H,UK has been going through is only to get in line with the US for the movie figures release. If however they do manage to keep in line i'll be buying a lot more figures from UK outlets.

They still need to work on their wholes in their figure assortment though.

Agreed on both points.
Undoubtably they will be relasing the movie toys to fit with it's UK release. I was half expecting for them to miss out on classics, to bring us up to speed. Thankfully they did a decent enough job at bringing the final waves of cybertron to us, without missing too many figures out, with the final waves turning up and not being to difficult to track down. Instead of just the final 2-3 waves being skipped the missing figures have inexplicably been spread throughout the whole line and from several differnt size classes. I still can't work out why they do that. Apart from the obvious "hasbro UK are run by monkweys" answer.

Dark Perceptor wrote:

Redimus wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

What's annoying is that they ALWAYS seem to wait until I have the toy before bothering to stock it... grrr.

I could really do with a local TrU.

In my expierence, they don't tend to be much better

Ok i take that back. Went into my local TRU and they actually had things i needed in Cyb GF Vector Prime and wave 1 of the Classic Legends

One thing I did like about the distribution of the Cybertron figures, was that they put different waves into different store chains. So we did not have shelfwarmers clogging every store.
Hopefully this is another practice they will stick with.

Well http://www.play.com have put 5 new items up for preorder:
Transformers: Optimus Prime Helmet Voice Changer
Transformers: Optimus Prime Movie Arm Blaster
Transformers: Starscream Movie Arm Blaster
Transformers: Optimus Prime Vs Megatron Battle Pack
Transformers: The Movie - The Ultimate Edition (2 Discs)

Bagh! Nothing except overpriced Classics Prime and Megs in FP. And it appears I missed Escalation #3. Anyone know where I can reliably get classics Astrotrain in Newcastle?

Anyone after a TFC Megatron could consider this guy. £45 in hand ain't bad considering TFC Megs is already selling out on preorders.

Result - just picked up my main current want on ebay - a reprolabeled Alt Meister, £17 delivered - not to bad.
The guy is also selling a few other modded alts cheap including Tantrum (the reprolabeled Rollbar).

shockwaveuk wrote:Anyone after a TFC Megatron could consider this guy. £45 in hand ain't bad considering TFC Megs is already selling out on preorders.

Meh, ive still got my original, Its the MP version im salivating for...

Alright lads.
I need to visit here more often, damn the additiveness HMW!

How the hell did the yanks get a longer thread than us, surely we have more to complain about than them?

Can we begin to build a list of all the good traders like ShockwaveUK has suugested? Link them all on the frontpost or something?

This thread was so handy for that previously.

Just checked out my local Toys r us in Northampton. They have Cybertron Quickmix, Skywarp, Unicron, Hotshot(original version), Galaxy Force Vector Prime, and Classics Jetfire!

soundwavegt wrote:Just checked out my local Toys r us in Northampton. They have Cybertron Quickmix, Skywarp, Unicron, Hotshot(original version), Galaxy Force Vector Prime, and Classics Jetfire!

I know I live one mile round the corner from them.

shockwaveuk wrote:Anyone after a TFC Megatron could consider this guy. £45 in hand ain't bad considering TFC Megs is already selling out on preorders.

Thank you. MINE.

Anyone know how to contact Metroplex UK? I tried sending an order via e-mail and I get a 'failed to send' message.

I hope ALL the Movie toys come to the u.k because if they dont,

KNOOK wrote:I hope ALL the Movie toys come to the u.k because if they dont,

Not sure I want all... Unlike like Cybertron and the Classics, this line looks VERY flawed, and I kno if Hasbro UK stocked all of em, I'd end up buying far too many tfs I dont really like that much. Its the same reason I have any SWTFs, the easiest shop near me to get tfs from only stockes SWTFs (goddamn you asda).

I do however hope they have a wider avialability than the more recent lines have had in the shops.

Anyone ever had problems with play.com? I use them all the time and I've never had a problem but I ordered a £700 laptop over a month ago and still haven't received it. I've sent 2 order queries to try and determine what's going on but I've had no reply to either.