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Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:14 pm

Has anybody ordered from Xybertoys lately? I placed an order a few weeks back that I got a paypal receipt for but no order verification from Xybertoys. I e-mailed to ask about it a week ago but have heard nothing. The site hasn't been updated in about a year, is Xybertoys still in business?

Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:34 pm

The Legend wrote:Has anybody ordered from Xybertoys lately? I placed an order a few weeks back that I got a paypal receipt for but no order verification from Xybertoys. I e-mailed to ask about it a week ago but have heard nothing. The site hasn't been updated in about a year, is Xybertoys still in business?

I know this doesn't help, but...

I friggin' love your avatar

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:02 pm

Dead Metal wrote:So who else can't wait for AA to happen?

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it is only 3 days to go. :KREMZEEK:

I got My Drift and WFC BB today My only problem with BB is one of his wheels is very loose.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:10 pm

munkimus prime wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:So who else can't wait for AA to happen?

MMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it's only a few days away. I wonder if we're going to have another idiot asking if we can go in when there's a large group of people waiting to go in again this year.

I remember that idiot we were next to eachother in the line at the front and thil little troll comes over and asked that god I wanted to mock her so bad bye saying. "Let me see a huge line of people and rope blocking the way in WTH do you think" :-x

. hope she isn't going to ask that again if she does I will say that

News Credits: 8 · Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:40 pm

The Legend wrote:Has anybody ordered from Xybertoys lately? I placed an order a few weeks back that I got a paypal receipt for but no order verification from Xybertoys. I e-mailed to ask about it a week ago but have heard nothing. The site hasn't been updated in about a year, is Xybertoys still in business?

i ordered a couple weeks back, and got it ok

what did you order?

Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:09 pm

Electron wrote:
The Legend wrote:Has anybody ordered from Xybertoys lately? I placed an order a few weeks back that I got a paypal receipt for but no order verification from Xybertoys. I e-mailed to ask about it a week ago but have heard nothing. The site hasn't been updated in about a year, is Xybertoys still in business?

i ordered a couple weeks back, and got it ok

what did you order?

Device Label Blaster and Encore Cassetes.

News Credits: 7 · Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:27 am

Hey guys, hope everybody heading to AA has a blast, really sorry I can't make it this year, have some drinkies for me. Expecting loads of pictures and semi-coherent accounts of the weekend. May you all overspend on toys and drinks and love every minute of it!

News Credits: 1 · Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:01 am

waaaaghlord wrote:Hey guys, hope everybody heading to AA has a blast, really sorry I can't make it this year, have some drinkies for me. Expecting loads of pictures and semi-coherent accounts of the weekend. May you all overspend on toys and drinks and love every minute of it!

Don't worry man I will Drink 20 Cyders for you 8-}

Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:08 am

Asda Morley Sightings, ROTF Activators at about a tenner each.
Prime, Bee & Megatron in stock.

All bar Megatron looked ok but fall into that can't be bothered middle ground as they seem decent figures with good poseability but they are a little too 'grown up' for the younger audience the kiddified design is pitching them at. Mini-collider, at nearly 3 didn't seem fussed for them at all, prefering his Bumper Battlers Animated Bee or straight to Armada Deluxe-scale Prime.

Have a blast at AA all who are going!

News Credits: 767 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:45 am

waaaaghlord wrote:Hey guys, hope everybody heading to AA has a blast, really sorry I can't make it this year, have some drinkies for me. Expecting loads of pictures and semi-coherent accounts of the weekend. May you all overspend on toys and drinks and love every minute of it!

I will Gav, I will. Oh could you send me your address so I can send you something?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:48 pm

I have just finished packing for the AA and i will be setting off tomoz do we have a meating place this time

News Credits: 5 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:56 pm

well im just about packed, just got to sort out my laptop

News Credits: 2 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:16 pm

I'm going to find the hotel in about ten minutes. Not 2 hours like last year. #-o

I'm ready to go, with just a few more things to pack.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:22 pm

munkimus prime wrote:I'm going to find the hotel in about ten minutes. Not 2 hours like last year.

I'm ready to go, with just a few more things to pack.

haaaa i was the same took me age's, kept walking around in circles

News Credits: 5 · Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:38 pm

well im set to go just got to wait to be picked up now!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:08 pm

Sorry if this has been asked already but does anyone know if ROTF Dirge is going to be released in the UK?

News Credits: 4 · Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:37 pm

Supercollider wrote:For me they just feel like an anti climax.

Yay Combiners!....oh....drones....

It doen't help that I didn't like the energon combiners hands & feet and PCCs are just too similar. With 3rd parties doing such great updates for the other combiners they just pale in comparison.

I'm more interested in the a few of PCC scout 2 packs just for the scout figures.

I'm thinking somewhere along the same lines. I like that they're combiners. Except, I don't like that they're really not. They're Transformers with boots and gloves. I'm still amazed that Hasbro is ok with taking giant steps backwards in combiner technology.* Maybe, MAYBE, if the combiner arms and legs had loads of articulation in them I could get behind the idea of no robot mode for the limbs. Maybe. But without it, I don't care how much "auto-morphing" (auto "Morphin' Time!"?) they put in, it's still half-assed compared to the very simple in hindsight (or: since I was

Scramble City designs.
I do like the look of the 2 packs, and the Dinobot combiner has me a wee bit interested. I'm also curious as to the repaint potential of some of them. So far I see a G1 Menasor and G1 Devastator pack at the very least being very easy to accomplish. The question is: Will Hasbro bother to make these? and also Will Hasbro UK manage to get them here?
Sadly, I think the answer to at least one of these questions will be "no".
Meanwhile, I eagerly await news that MP Grimlock has arrived in TRU shops in the UK.

edit: * the lack of robot modes for combiner limbs is made even more laughable by the 4 alt-modes that the 2-pack Minicon's can take on. I'm not too sure if I like the clear plastic used for them, but I do marvel at the engineering.

Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:06 am

Sat at home, no money, wishing I could be at AA getting exclusives and new figures.

Please feel free to send me any figures you buy there, and decide you want me to have

News Credits: 6 · Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:45 pm

Oh, to be at AA.....

For any of you in the Leeds area I dropped into TRU at Birstall and their action toy specialist (their name for him, not mine) told me that they were due to get new tfs next week, definitely generations plus maybe more. Heading over on tuesday hoping for WFC Prime and Bumblebee, will keep you posted.

Supercollider - Having got PCC Bombshock and the Combaticons I will say this. Look great combined, poseability crap (the legs on mine pop off at the slightest touch). Personally, I am pretty disappointed but that doesn't mean I won't be dumb enough to get more.

News Credits: 36 · Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:08 am

Searchlight wrote:Sorry if this has been asked already but does anyone know if ROTF Dirge is going to be released in the UK?

He was a wave 7 figure which has (theoretically) been and gone as the Wave 8 assortment has been spotted. I have only seen his case-mate Alliance Bumblebee once, so can only assume that they have been out "there".

Unfortunately late-wave figures do tend to ship in smaller numbers.

Try here.

Might be worth e-mailing first tho', I doubt they will have been able to update the site during AA2010.

Hope that helps.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:35 am

Pretender Skywarp wrote:
Searchlight wrote:Sorry if this has been asked already but does anyone know if ROTF Dirge is going to be released in the UK?

He was a wave 7 figure which has (theoretically) been and gone as the Wave 8 assortment has been spotted. I have only seen his case-mate Alliance Bumblebee once, so can only assume that they have been out "there".

Unfortunately late-wave figures do tend to ship in smaller numbers.

Try here.

Might be worth e-mailing first tho', I doubt they will have been able to update the site during AA2010.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply, will definitely give that website a try.

News Credits: 36 · Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:58 am

I've used them myself a couple of times, with no issues as have a few other posters in this thread.

Hope you manage to get one :O)

Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:41 pm

Hi Guys,

Thought I'd mention that Smyths in Charlton has pretty much everything at the moment. All of wave 1 Generations (which was annoying as I'd just got Drift and Thrust from Kapow) for £9.99. Picked up all four anyway and kept the Kapow ones MIB.

ROTF voyagers at 9.99, although the usual bland selection of Desert Tracker Ratchets and Fallens. I think leader class stuff was on special too.

Power-core combiners are there too in all flavors. Didnt note the price as they dont really interest me.

After, what, 8 months of Toys R Us and the usual rubbish, my first trip to a Smyths almost made me pass out with joy.

News Credits: 36 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:23 am

Boys and Girls,

I was only ble to attend AA on Saturday but have written a review of it here in the GD forum.

If someone could expand on Sundays events that would be great. Be sure to update it with your toy-hauls too!!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:49 am

The AA was amazing I won an autographed pic of Tracy Strong and I did bid against Myself #-o

I just got back this morning and I got a great haul.

Knight Morpher Commander
Device Label Cheetor
PE-01F
PE-01R
Crystal Animated Rodimus and Prime
The Cyclonus Rodimus and Galvatron 3 pack
Energon Jetfire
Battle Ops BB
Beast Wars Leo Convoy
Beast Wars Break and Dead End 2 Pack
HA Barricade
HFTD Hubcap
HFTD Insecticon
HFTD Side Arms Sideswipe
HFTD Hail Storm
Generations WFC Megs
Generations Darkmount/Straxus
Recon Ironhide
Japanimated Blackout
Power Core Combiners
Sledge
Leadfoot
Icepick
Double Clutch
Mud Slinger
HFTD Legends Long Haul

Thats My Haul what did you guys get Munkimus was the only one of you guys I saw.