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News Credits: 6188 · Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:27 am

The images in the Argos catalogue so far already have Vehicon and HotShot, but the figures have yet to appear. Maybe the new catalogue will bring new stock!

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:17 am

Va'al wrote:The images in the Argos catalogue so far already have Vehicon and HotShot, but the figures have yet to appear. Maybe the new catalogue will bring new stock!

Lets Hope so

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:44 am

Va'al wrote:Sorry for the extra post, but I just found something in town.

Anyone interested in a Masterpiece Rodimus for £30?

Where did you find that?! I may be interested but i'll have to see

Picked up PRID Bee and Cliff today, completing my wave 1 collection

I also bought some sharpies and did the infamous prime chest touch up (and bumblebees rear lights as well)and he looks nice! Hopefully Ratchet and Arcee should start to show up places now as well as Bulk and Scream

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:03 pm

I wish there was a FP near me.
But their prices are butt-ugly so I'm happy to wait til I see a Vehicon in tescos.

News Credits: 4 · Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:43 pm

NovaSentinel wrote: Hopefully Ratchet and Arcee should start to show up places now as well as Bulk and Scream

Haven't seen any new Voyagers (and not too bothered if I do at the moment, Bulk and Screamer don't appeal to me too much. Although maybe AM Bulk, as I think the colours are better, despite being stickers, and his wee dude is awesome.

BUT I have seen Arcee and Ratchet both at Tescos and ASDAs recently, so get looking!

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:43 pm

Aha, our local tesco's is abismal. Three Bee's and the one cliff. That's your lot. For TFs. at all. Oh, they may have had a voyager prime, iirc.
Now have legion ratchet, nice little figure. Having two of his weapon (from cliff) is epic, dual-wielding ftw.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:51 pm

I am deep deep in PCC addiction.
Seriously deep. But eBay seems to be my only friend..

Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:51 pm

Popped into Forbidden Planet in Liverpool today, All they had was bee's and cliff of wave 1 :/ a couple of Primes and Megatrons and nothing new that we haven't seen already. There's another shop in Liverpool similar to Forbidden Planet called World's Apart but it was closed due to having a refit. Went to the Entertainer in Liverpool, same old stuff. Went to the Entertainer in Warrington, same old stuff.

However I did go to 2 home bargains in Liverpool, and only one of them had the human alliance scout figure thingies. They only had the whirl's and 1 Tailpipe, I was about to bite on the Tailpipe but decided I didn't want it that much and I would just have bought it for the sake of buying it. But they were a fiver each.

I'm getting tired of seeing the same old scrap in every store, I want to see new things

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:52 pm

I got an PRID Ratchet from Tesco today and he is missing some paint apps One of his chest pieces is white it needs to be red I guess i can fix that with a gundam Marker

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:04 pm

PCC are amazing. End of. But all we got round here was bruticus, superion, the autobot cars breifly, and good (bad) old repaint and the stupids, and stupid and the repaints.
As far as 2-packs go though, we fared alright. Hence i have...7 of them? At a guess. Yes that counts as good in Berkshire.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:05 pm

Thing is, I saw most of them between TRU and Jarrolds, but never really cared.
Until now. Damn.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:13 pm

ArmadaPrime wrote:PCC are amazing. End of. But all we got round here was bruticus, superion, the autobot cars breifly, and good (bad) old repaint and the stupids, and stupid and the repaints.
As far as 2-packs go though, we fared alright. Hence i have...7 of them? At a guess. Yes that counts as good in Berkshire.

At one time or another, you could actually find every PCC figure in the UK.
We've had all the 2 packs through TRU.
Apart from Over-run.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:19 pm

Wasp-shot23 wrote:
ArmadaPrime wrote:PCC are amazing. End of. But all we got round here was bruticus, superion, the autobot cars breifly, and good (bad) old repaint and the stupids, and stupid and the repaints.
As far as 2-packs go though, we fared alright. Hence i have...7 of them? At a guess. Yes that counts as good in Berkshire.

At one time or another, you could actually find every PCC figure in the UK.
We've had all the 2 packs through TRU.
Apart from Over-run.

Yeah, there used to be a whole wall of the last wave of 2 packs. Especially Undertow.
I might go ask this week if they have any overstock hiding..

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:17 pm

Quite glad I'm not going to be at SDCC (not like I ever am anyway). I could quite easily drop several hundred on the blind packed mini 10Dohs chasing the gold versions before hitting a large section of the Hasbro offerings and a fair amount more of the indie releases. Then again I keep getting strangely tempted to start throwing money at the first series of Mike the Knight toys, so my tastes are probably fairly open to debate at the minute.

Once I get my big lottery win I'll probably just have to start globe hopping around all the big toy shows grabbing up pretties just because I can. Problem being that I don't buy a ticket all that often.

Narrowing down to what I really want AND can just about rustle up some cash for with AA looming I may yet put a shout out and see if I can find a friendly attendee to pick me up RIP Cliff and Derpy Hooves. We need to make sure Derpy sells out in record time, useless petitions aside I think this is the only way to send a clear message that censoring a character because she was presented as mentally handicapped is totally unacceptable. This goes totally against what I'd normally advocate in terms of voting with your wallet, as this is putting money in the hands of the company behind this heinous censorship, but it's the only way I can see to get behind Derpy that Hasbro are even going to notice.

Thinking about it, those 10Dohs are actually just launching at SDCC, I don't think any of the 16 designs are actually exclusives. Which just means I'm going to spend a bloody fortune 'baying the bloody things later. Things were so much simpler before Hasbro finally pushed me too far this last six months with the FE clusterfcuk and the Asia exclusives. Going from being a TF collector with a passing Doctor Who fling every now and then to a toy collector with a focus on TFs and minifigures is a big change in parameters. I figure I'll settle down to a more specialist approach and get more picky about what lines I'm buying into at some stage. Until then I'm testing a lot of waters and liking far too much of what I find.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:37 am

I sense a bitterness in the Force...

Maybe we should pool together and buy a disgruntled Brit ticket.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:42 pm

waaaaghlord, you taught me of the Derpy Hooves. I now have my favourite MLP. For the first time ever! I'd love to be at SDCC but mainly for the FOC Bruticus.

News Credits: 7 · Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:15 pm

craggy wrote:waaaaghlord, you taught me of the Derpy Hooves. I now have my favourite MLP. For the first time ever! I'd love to be at SDCC but mainly for the FOC Bruticus.

While I'm hardly a Brony and have only recently become aware of the Derpy issue that's been ongoing since February I've been getting more incensed all week as I've been researching the series of events that led up to this travesty. I feel that aside from anything else it sets a very dangerous precedent and could be the first step on a very slippery slope for the animation world. I came across this vid last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtQob9rMjg

and while it addresses what's obviously a serious issue the image of Hitler as a Brony was enough to get a good laugh out of me.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:49 am

That video...just...XD
Also, going into woodley once more later on today, aroung 3-ish. May or may not be able to check back online before then, bu should do. So I'm definately getting a screamer from barnardo's for Nova, and I'll probably grab another or w/ever depending on what they have left

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:14 am

This was the 06 Classics Starscreams that you posted about a while back, yes? I'd almost forgotten about those but I'll certainly be down for a 'Scream, thinking about it I'm not sure I really need the extra Rod I'd asked after at the time, cash or toys for your trouble if you can sort me out, just let me know your preference.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:25 pm

Diddly squat I'm afraid

They had not a single TF in, so either some crafty buggers gone and bought the lot, or they'd rotated the little stock to another store, which is a thing that charity shops do...
At least I can always rely on asda to have a figure I don't really want but will get anyway (legion bumblebee, he's not bad actually)

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:20 pm

I got my Fall Of Cyberton Deluxe Optimus this morning he is a great toy and looks awesome with the Corbot V War Axe

News Credits: 4 · Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:41 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:This was the 06 Classics Starscreams that you posted about a while back, yes? I'd almost forgotten about those but I'll certainly be down for a 'Scream, thinking about it I'm not sure I really need the extra Rod I'd asked after at the time, cash or toys for your trouble if you can sort me out, just let me know your preference.

yeah, I'd almost forgotten about it all too. Certainly didn't imagine there'd be any sort of positive outcome this long after the initial post.

Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:35 am

So last night I tried customizing my Battle in space Cyclonus into a more of a prime universe Cyclonus. Basically cutting off the nose, but his face was just too tiny to file to get rid of the tiny bumps and such left, and when I tried I just ended up making it worse so I stopped.

Now I'm wondering, the best way to fix this I think is to try a bit of Epoxy sculpt and well, sculpt him a new face, what kinda shops in the UK are best to get like the two part Epoxy sculpt, if indeed any shops do them at all in this country.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated

Also I bought a Fall of Cybertron Megatron off Ebay on Monday, I'm awaiting it's arrival!

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:11 am

FOC Megatron???! Do you mean WFC? Still hoping for a voyager foc megs at some point but i didn't think any had been announced yet?
And shame about classics scream, but that means more moneys for tfp =D also @va'al what were you saying about an mp today for £30?

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:12 am

I use Green Stuff from Games Workshop, 2 part epoxy in blue and yellow that mixes to green, about 1-2 hours working time with 24 hours to fully cure. Haven't picked any up in a while but last time I bought some I think it was around the £3-4 mark for 2 strips. Craft shops should carry something similar at a better price but since you shouldn't need much the GW stuff is probably cheaper than the generic stuff would be for a larger pack.