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No sightings of Magical Trevor?

ArmadaPrime wrote:

Va'al wrote:Updated my own collection thread, with some photos.
Bad quality, small, and nothing special. But it made me feel good.

Anyone into their PCC sets, TRU are doing some interesting half-prices.
And still have the multi-buy offer going on too!

linketylinketylink.
also, might check that sale-ness out. but my local tru isnt terribly helpfully located.

Not sure what link you speak of..

So here's the thread.

And TRU is being annoying, so I can't link it.

Va'al wrote:

ArmadaPrime wrote:

Va'al wrote:Updated my own collection thread, with some photos.
Bad quality, small, and nothing special. But it made me feel good.

Anyone into their PCC sets, TRU are doing some interesting half-prices.
And still have the multi-buy offer going on too!

linketylinketylink.
also, might check that sale-ness out. but my local tru isnt terribly helpfully located.

Not sure what link you speak of..

So here's the thread.

And TRU is being annoying, so I can't link it.

i meant to your collection looking nice

and yeah, havent seen trev in a while....

HELLO!!

Im back! Sorry about that, stayed away longer than I had planned but had an awesome weekend in Blackpool and fantastic days in Leeds (if youve never been, its great!). I wont go into it to much except played LOADS of games and consoles and ate alot of fish and chips! Yum! I did pick up something rather strange though which youll see later in the post. Lets see what I have missed.........

I see the email to Hasbro about forthcoming toy release was met with a resounding, lets fob them off to some other department. It'll probably do the rounds til someone can be bothered to answer it properly. But at least you got a reply Nova . Sasha might be the only person in the office, LOL! And DONT LEAVE NOVA, DONT LEAVE!!! Think of the poor transformers, youre their owner, like Andy in Toy Story. What will they do without you . Also, if you cba, just have a break (but short)! youll regret it when youre older, like I did, hence collecting again . AP - sort him out please . Get him to read it aswell!

Some Kapow Toys stuff discussion. Havent even looked at ANYTHING by them at all so I cant possibly comment on much. I still have alot of originals to get. But by what people have said about the joints on the Heavy Labor, oh dear is all I can say. Such a shame! Free replacement toys for all anyone?? =D!

HA = Human Alliances?? I dont have any of that either, and it doesnt interest me at the moment, obviously unless it went on sale. As for PCC - I have the majority of them from the TRU sale, used in conjuction with a 20% special discount voucher from the internet . But am missing a few, Skyhammer being one I think (nice review wasp btw! The sky was pretty amazing to!!). And a few of the 5-pack combiner ones aswell - which in my opinion should all transform properly and not just stick on . Got them for a fiver at Tesco having a toy clearout! WOo! Skyhammer does look good though.

Mr O! Im back!!! (thanks for thinking of me =D).

Va-al, nice display case and collection! Bigger isnt neccesarily better, in more ways than one "cough cough". =D. I need to get some for mine, my nemesis, DUST, is the bane of my life! Its also nice to see, that I hadnt relised, youre collecting in 2 different countries =D. Cover all your bases!

Riiiiiiiiiiiight, now to my sightings news, sort of! A friends dad gave me a whole box of TFers as he was having a clear out =D! How nice of him! Included, to mention a few (all G1), was a Hot Rod, Mind Wipe, Grimlock (yeah another one), Wreck Gar, Hound, a few headmaster heads, with alot of others! Was gobsmacked with the selection. None in mint condition, but still very lucky I think.

And now to the odd find, has anyone ever heard of a transformer called Carroll? LOL!



Its a KO of Arcee! And a pretty good one at that! I like how it has TRANS then formers in smaller font, a decepticon type symbol, and its HIGH class apparently . I couldnt find any info online about it so.............comments please!!!

SORRY ITS LONG, IVE BEEN AWAY!

20% discount voucher? Where?!
LINK!

I caved in and bought myself a PCC.
The only one in store today, Crankcase and Destron, and it was on a whim, so I might give it to my brother instead.

Ho-hum.

Sorry, i must have invoked the ****.

Caroll?? LOLOLO!

sooooo guys i guess this is the end. it's been a great journey and i hope you all go on to fulfill your collecting dreams. i will have the sales list on monday so until then, goodbye...



JUST KIDDING! Damn even if i was leaving i wouldn't go all wishy-washy on you guys! that would be torture for everyone!!! now back to the good stuff. unfortunatley hasbro have not yet responded to my email so no news on that front, and Va'al, i like your style! I too have a small collection (50-60 pieces) but that's mainly because i can't afford much. however i did 'stumble' across £20 this week (no i didn't steal it...) and my nan sold some paintings and gave me £100 as well! good times, but i won't spend it all on tfs...

NovaSentinel wrote:sooooo guys i guess this is the end. it's been a great journey and i hope you all go on to fulfill your collecting dreams. i will have the sales list on monday so until then, goodbye...



JUST KIDDING! Damn even if i was leaving i wouldn't go all wishy-washy on you guys! that would be torture for everyone!!! now back to the good stuff. unfortunatley hasbro have not yet responded to my email so no news on that front, and Va'al, i like your style! I too have a small collection (50-60 pieces) but that's mainly because i can't afford much. however i did 'stumble' across £20 this week (no i didn't steal it...) and my nan sold some paintings and gave me £100 as well! good times, but i won't spend it all on tfs...

YESS!!!
NOVA YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND.
guess you saw all the fun you would be missing out on, and all the heartwarming goodbye sob stories, and figured you couldn't leave evven if you wanted to.
i'll admit though, you did proper scare me for a bit.
and yeah, knowing you, you'd just be like "bye." if ya left
but yeah, with that sort of money at leaast SOME of it oght to go towards...idunno...university :p
actually, with the new module that durham do as part of the study on education focusing on how it is portrayed in harry potter (seriously. look it up. it's true.) then who knows in another four years there might be a course devoted to transformers studies.


glad to have you back, man. glad to have you back.
EDIT: just as a side, did you deliberately make the post just the right length so that when i loaded the page i only saaw the top paragraph and was all like :'(. then scrollled down to hear the good news? XD

yea i did, just to make it that little bit more convincing...because i'm cruel.
And i don't know what you mean about durhams tf course, but if so, A*s all round!

There are modules in Spice Girls.

Need I say more?
(Actually, I am currently 'fighting' with a previous MA student on who is going to get the funding for a PhD on Graphic Novels. Because I can. )

when you say fighting...

I mean academically challenging each other with pieces of criticism and name-dropping.

It will get to heated e-mails, then screwing each other's applications and ultimately hatred towards the winner.

(In my mind.)

Well the support is right here if you need it! We disgruntled Brits (though we are few, and you are technically Italian! ) stick up for one another! Once more unto the breech and stuff... As you can tell cameraderie is my forte

NovaSentinel wrote:Well the support is right here if you need it! We disgruntled Brits (though we are few, and you are technically Italian! ) stick up for one another! Once more unto the breech and stuff... As you can tell cameraderie is my forte

big words from nova!

disestablishmentarianism

NovaSentinel wrote:Well the support is right here if you need it! We disgruntled Brits (though we are few, and you are technically Italian! ) stick up for one another! Once more unto the breech and stuff... As you can tell cameraderie is my forte

Cheers! Deadline is February, so there's still time to go.
In the meantime, I have to read as many graphic novels as possible... for research purposes.


(Technically, half-Italian. I have two birth certificates, one per country.)


Oh and.. antidisestablishmentarianism.

bums, missed the anti...

daaamn I wish I could do a course reading graphic novels...
robotics is not where it's at kids...well it is, but not for me...

Hey, I did have to do three years of an English Language & Literature degree first.
And am now doing an MA in Literary Translation. All to read comics and get paid for it, in the end.

One hopes.

(In the meantime, here I am waiting for Megatron Origins..)

well well supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Novas not leaving! You just couldnt do it could you ? You didnt fool me though, I had the whole post up and the just kidding bit was a little prominent . Seems you got AP though, unlucky. Anyway, glad youre not. And you have come into some money ey. I still have the Sentinels . Though saving it does also sound good, given the current economic climate. And how far off is uni? That kind of money aint gonna help unfortunately, its expensive!

AP - maybe you can be the writer of said transformer course? It can go along with all those other weird ones, like star trek!!! LOL! And yeah the Spice Girls/David Beckham ones!

Vaal - A PhD in graphic novels>!?! Sounds awesome! But I must ask, what would you be 'discovering', like whats your question youre trying to answer? If there is one. And I totally agree, you got my vote against whoever it is youre 'fighting' . If I can think of any good ones to read, ill let you know. But Im assuming youve read ALOT! Are there any that you can recommend, I havent read to many?

Antidisestab....! I think i prefer supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!! Great word right there! And wasp, do you do robotics then? Robots are AWESOME! And it is fortunately/unfortunately that is the future. I do want one of those robotic lawn mowers!

Did anyone watch the comic relief Mastermind special the other day?? If not, you should! Its on BBC iplayer for the next 4 days. Im saying because the Kiwi comidian Jarred Christmas' specialist subject was 'Transformers: The Early Years'. Never thought Id ever see that, EVER! He was mocked quite a bit to, poor guy. I managed to answer most of the questions aswell, surprised myself. Its made me want to watch the original movie again. Go check it out! Very funny!

About the TRU vouchers, there are several online voucher site that periodically release 'download and print' vouchers for all sorts of places. They vary from what they do like, percentages off certain lines of toys like Lego, but also there have been some 20% of all toys ones. You just have to keep checking up. If I find another one, I will most definately share it with you all! And for other places like supermarkets and Argos etc etc...

Is there anywhere on here, like on your profile, to upload pictures, without having to make a thread??

Hope all is well!!

NovaSentinel wrote:well well supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

to be honest that word is somewhat of a flockynockynihiliphication.

Indeed you qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl and zxcvbnm are all in good shape!

NovaSentinel wrote:Indeed you qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl and zxcvbnm are all in good shape!

y'what?
anyway, were kinda going off-topic here.

Magical Trevor wrote:Vaal - A PhD in graphic novels>!?! Sounds awesome! But I must ask, what would you be 'discovering', like whats your question youre trying to answer? If there is one. And I totally agree, you got my vote against whoever it is youre 'fighting' . If I can think of any good ones to read, ill let you know. But Im assuming youve read ALOT! Are there any that you can recommend, I havent read to many?

The big issue at the moment is whether Graphic Novels can be counted as literature.
A couple of critics (and there are just a handful, but growing bigger by the day) think that comics are just based on literature, another think of them as 'complex enough to be considered as such' and there are even those who believe they are more of a para-literature. Not exactly in it, not exactly out of it.

So far, this is what I have. But the tendency seems to be to create more and more a graphic world, based on literary ideas, quotes, characters and whatnot. The authors themselves are usually established writers (apart from the whole Transformers series. Seriously, good comics, but the prose, in my opinion, is awful). A really good series working on literary worlds/intertextuality/allusions and the relationship between comics and literature in The Unwritten, by our very own Mike Carey (other good titles for this: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Maus, Blankets, Persepolis, Palestine, The Sandman, Fables, Lucifer).

But think about Batman characters such as the Mad Hatter, or Solomon Grundy, or even the Dark Knight himself. The closer you get to our day, the more and more literary allusions, quotations and references you get.

My specific focus might actually be Graphic Novels in Translation, as this is what I'm working with at the moment. There's a massive market outside U.S. and UK, even just within Europe, and most of the titles have never arrived over here!

Sorry, I got way too into this.

(If you're interested and around Norwich in the new year, I should be giving a talk on Myths, Mutants and Superhumans: Towards a Literature of Comics.)

So, back on topic.

What do you think of the HA Soundwave ..thing?