The Energon Pub

Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:05 pm

Sooooooo...how y'all doing lately?

News Credits: 7 · Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:25 pm

Haven't slept in a couple of days and I'm bleeding from my gums, but it's nowhere near as bad as it's been with the couple of bouts of infection earlier in the year. I've got a maxilofacial consult coming up and might need another surgery to remove the plate in my jaw that's failed. On the plus side I do have new pretties.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:53 am

Smyths have Foc wave 1 if you can't find what your after at TRU

Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:54 am

What smyths btw? Bangor one has just basic prime

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:32 am

Apparently there's two just outside Belfast, plus the one in Bangor.

Are there no TRU around you? They have all three from FoC wave 1, although have yet to see or hear anything about wave 2.

Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:01 am

Nearest Toys R Us IS Belfast, ive been to a few it was only last week i seen a Toys R Us with FoC only had prime and Jazz and it was a week till pay day lol

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:04 pm

Smyths Forestside had them up on the top shelf still in shipping boxes, not out on pegs. Best chance to snap up Shockwave if your after him.

Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:19 pm

I see Wilkinsons have the Prime Deluxe figures in for £13.

Also my Maketoys Giant is finally on its way.

(I only ordered it six months ago!)

News Credits: 7 · Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:39 pm

Had a thought. I was working to the assumption that it was wave 4 stock I found the other day, but checking the US case assortments Kup isn't supposed to be available before wave 5. I can't say what was in the full case as all that was on the shelf was the Kup and Dead End that I picked up and the Bumblebee repaint. Does this mean that wave 4 has been skipped (since I haven't heard of anybody over here finding anything past wave 3 otherwise), or are we getting different case assortments from the States past wave 3? Thoughts please people.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:41 pm

Dead End is wave 4 along with Shadow Strike Bumblebee and Airachnid, so I don't think it's been skipped. Wave 5 is Kup and Rumble, and I think we have pretty mych the same case assortments as the US, it just takes longer for stuff to get here

News Credits: 7 · Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:49 pm

Yeah, I get that. I'm just saying it's damned odd that I've found Kup before anybody has found Airachnid.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:59 pm

maybe everybody realised that she's a piece of crap and threw her out before she even made it to the shelves?

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:34 am

Managed to find Vehicon! In a shop! On a peg! A sight I though I'd never see.

Found him in Smyths Belfast Forestside. Had HotShot and KnockOut as well, and all reduced to £9.49.

Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:19 pm

Nice! Love to get a Few Vehicons!

Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:52 pm

Just seen add in the sun Today Transformers Weaponizers 1/2 Price at Smyths

News Credits: 4 · Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:53 am

Tesco had 2 Kups, Airachnid, Rumble, Hot Shot, Bin-man Bumblebee, Arcee and maybe one other on the shelves last night. Went back today after work, 1 of the Kups was gone, and I got the two blue cars.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:40 am

Nothing new in East Anglia.

I did get Animated Snarl and Swoop for £15 including shipping off eBay though!
Now to find Grimlock...

News Credits: 2 · Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:29 pm

I've decided i'm going to get myself an AM Breakdown and a DOTM Wheeljack from the Bay of E

Also what with the TFU Beta registration up, are we still gonna do that ODB clan hookup thing? if so what faction are we gonna be?

News Credits: 4 · Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:32 pm

I'd be up for some TFU game-age. Haven't signed up for the beta yet though. Probably should, but...confidence dropped with the fact that I registered for info waaaaayy back when, and there's a beta registration thing going and I didn't get an email about it? Also, the seriously low-class marketing. I want it to be good, but...well, not holding my breath.

As for faction, I say we put it to a vote.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:02 am

Managed to pick up Airachnid and Rumble in Tesco (Belfast, Newtownbreda). Must have only got one case of this wave in so far as everything else was BBee etc. Didnt see Kup or anyone else from this wave.

Dotm Wheeljack/Que arrived today. I'd kept putting off getting him until now as he'll start getting harder to find at a decent price. Have you seen the price Deluxe Leadfoot is these days!? Glad I picked him up for £30 when I did.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:46 pm

Hello, me again. Quite the Cyberverse haul in the last not quite a week including Soundwave, Mirage (I know) and Evac from Sainsbury's and Tailgate and Knockout from Forbidden Planet. Yay says I.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:50 pm

Oh, man! Ireland always gets better assortments than the mainland British Isles. I remember visiting Ireland during a summer vacation years ago and finding figures that I didn't even know existed.

Maybe this points to the reason Transformers distribution in Britain is so poor. Hasbro must just throw the cases into the Atlantic and rely on the ocean currents to ship them here. Ireland gets the best figures because they wash up on their shores first.

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:09 pm

...you may have a point.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:00 pm

Managed to snag Kup today in the same Tescos. They had alot more out on shelves this time. Still have each fig from Wave5 when I left.

News Credits: 14 · Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:02 am

Sodan-1 wrote:Oh, man! Ireland always gets better assortments than the mainland British Isles. I remember visiting Ireland during a summer vacation years ago and finding figures that I didn't even know existed.

Maybe this points to the reason Transformers distribution in Britain is so poor. Hasbro must just throw the cases into the Atlantic and rely on the ocean currents to ship them here. Ireland gets the best figures because they wash up on their shores first.

You could be on to something there! :grin:

The wife and I popped over to see family in Dublin the other week, so I made a fuss about visiting their local Smyths toy store in Fonthill.
Smyths reminds me of a cross between Toys 'R' Us and Argos (well their catalogue looks like Argos!) but better!

They had loads of Transformers stuff including Cyberverse Drillers, loads of random BotShots and battle set stuff, Weaponizers, Powerizers, FoC Deluxes (only a few), Prime Deluxes & Voyagers(loads), loads of Kreo sets, those fugly Optimus & Bumblebee 'power loader' thingys (?), masks and other stuff I cant remember!!!

I was thinking of picking up FoC Optimus but decided against it once more (gonna wait for Magnus) plus he cost more there than in TrU?