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News Credits: 7 · Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:31 pm

That's the ticket, UK Annual story What's in a Name. Not just a comics nod in the toys, A UK comics nod. There's hope for Stampede yet...

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:00 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:That's the ticket, UK Annual story What's in a Name. Not just a comics nod in the toys, A UK comics nod. There's hope for Stampede yet...

1986 annual? Which I did have, but appear to have lost. It used to be on top of the fitted wardrobe at our old house and...bugger!

EDIT: It was actually the '87 annual...

From TFwiki...

Synopsis

Millions of years ago on Cybertron, the Autobot called Divebomb was beaten in combat by a Deception whose real name he never learned; the Decepticon then stole his name.

In an attempt to regain his name and his honour Divebomb disobeyed orders and went hunting for the Decepticon. He eventually found him deep in enemy territory and engaged him in battle. Unfortunately he was again defeated and would have been killed if it had not been for Optimus Prime, who had followed him and drove the Decepticon off. As he hated Prime, this simply made Divebomb’s shame even worse.

In the present day, Divebomb, now known as Swoop, discovers that the Decepticon who stole his name has arrived on Earth as part of the Predacon team. Having lied to the other Dinobots by telling them he beat Divebomb last time, he sets off to defeat him once and for all.

News Credits: 4 · Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:34 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:
craggy wrote:edit: I really like Divebomb's colours. Would rather they'd used this paint job for the Deluxe version of this toy. Very Swoop-y.

I take it you know why that name and those colours go together?

I got the annual one christmas and still have it. I look after my things but it's very worn. :grin:

(I'd still like a toy of that Cybertron mode DivebombSwoop one day too)

News Credits: 4 · Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:37 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:That's the ticket, UK Annual story What's in a Name. Not just a comics nod in the toys, A UK comics nod. There's hope for Stampede yet...

I think UniqueToys Tantrum might be the best base mold to go with. Have seriously considered getting a custom job. Steamhammer from the first few paragraphs of the same story would be nice, and from the sounds of it a Blitzwing retool would probably do the job given the alt modes, but the picture made him look a darn sight cooler than ol' Man-E-Faces.

Sun Apr 13, 2014 7:07 am

Anyone knows when the next Generations TF are due to arrive ?

Still looks like they only got Grimlock/Soundwave and Trailcutter/Orion/Megatron ...

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:12 pm

There is a possibility they may not arrive at all.

I'm looking into it, and will confirm once I hear back from Hasbro again.

Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:35 pm

That may be a bad news ...

Considering I don't collect Beast Hunters and things like that, I am very limited right now.

I heard that FOC Kickback was found in some TRU . Is it right ?

News Credits: 4 · Sun Apr 13, 2014 5:33 pm

I can't remember Kickback himself, but my TRU did have that wave of FOC stuff, I remember seeing Magnus, Shockwave and Red M&M...I mean Sideswipe last month or so.

was at a comic-con yesterday, and Forbidden Planet in Edinburgh. Bugger all in the way of TFs really.

I mean FP had some, but it wasn't anything I'd not seen in Home Bargains for less than half the price.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:20 am

partofmelp67 wrote:Anyone knows when the next Generations TF are due to arrive ?

Still looks like they only got Grimlock/Soundwave and Trailcutter/Orion/Megatron ...

Both my Local TRU have Generations Magnus, Starscream, Sideswipe etc in abundance.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:42 am

Same in Norwich actually, I thought you meant the next lot of movie and Jetfire/Arcee/Roadbuster etc Generations!

News Credits: 4 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:14 am

kinda looking forward to the Movie Generations. The Dinos will be great repurpose fodder and look like a lot of fun. Still not sold on Crosshairs. Maybe if there's a 3 for 2 offer on or something. The Voyagers both look not bad actually. Not sure about Prime because well, he's still very Movie in bot mode, but I'll wait and see him in person. Grimlock's Voyager looks pretty decent in both modes. Shame about the weapon not being the best for posing with but I've got a bunch of other things he can wield. Oh, and there's a Bee.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:20 am

Yeah, those are the ones I have news about, that I'm trying to confirm as true or false.

The rumour so far is that they will not be carried in the UK, and we'll only get the Robots in Disguise sub-line (the simpler stuff). The source is very reliable, but still want a second opinion.

News Credits: 14 · Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:00 am

partofmelp67 wrote:That may be a bad news ...

Considering I don't collect Beast Hunters and things like that, I am very limited right now.

I heard that FOC Kickback was found in some TRU . Is it right ?

You heard right, FoC Kickback is/was/may still be in your local Toys R Us, failing that hes on their website.

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Action-Figures-and-Playsets/Transformers-Generations-Deluxe-Kickback(0129537)?searchPosition=0
Toys R Us also have a Buy One Get One Half Price on all Hasbro toys right now!

Edit: Sorry, out of stock according to their website, but may still be kicking around some stores!

News Credits: 6 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:49 am

My local asda seems to be clearing out a lot of their transformers stock. BH deluxes are 4.75, commanders 3.50 and legions are 2.00. Also construct-bots were down from 11.00 to 5.50. My local store had largely been cleared out though.

Perhaps making way for new Transformers toys?...

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:43 am

I just picked up the simplified Twinstrike and Windrazor from Toys R Us in Poole. They are in the Buy one get one half offer so that was a bonus, still think the are cheaper at Home Bargains, but oh well. The also had Smokescreen and Bee but I passed on them for now, maybe after payday.

They didn't have anything else much news worthy but they did have a few Prowls and Nightstrike Bee's, Kinda wish I had picked up the Black Bee but I'm sure I'll see it again somewhere. Would have picked up a couple of Prowls as I know some people have been after them, but unfortunately April has not been kind to my wallet.

Vaal: Are you inferring that we aren't getting the Generations range of AoE figures? Or some of the other Generations ranges that we only ever seem to get half of anyway?

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:48 am

Just got confirmation from Hasbro, all the Age of Extinction Generations range will be, surprise surprise, TRU exclusives. Mleh.

No word about the 'classics' stuff. :-?

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:12 pm

The last time I was in TRU I noticed they had upper the price of the generations deluxes and voyagers by £1. I bet this is a sneaky pre-movie move due to them now being exclusive.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:33 pm

Va'al wrote:Just got confirmation from Hasbro, all the Age of Extinction Generations range will be, surprise surprise, TRU exclusives. Mleh.

No word about the 'classics' stuff.

BUT we are definitely getting them Va'al?

It's a little bit sucky (is that even a word?) if they are TRU exclusives but its not the end of the world.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:39 pm

Definitely getting some, yes. I'm sure later waves will fall through the usual distribution cracks.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:45 pm

Va'al wrote:Definitely getting some, yes. I'm sure later waves will fall through the usual distribution cracks.

Thanks Va'al. To be honest all I really want from this line is the Dino's and Evasion Optimus (provided we get a decent paint job), all the rest are meh.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:30 am

I'll probably try and get the dinos. might just wait for any of the others to go cheap online or turn up at home bargains or the like because TRU can't shift the metric ton of Bees still on the shelves from the last film

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:42 am

Yeah, reinforcing the beasties shelf with dinoknights is a good plan right now.
Even Voyager Grimlock looks good enough to deserve some shelf love!

Actually really looking forward to seeing Strafe and Slash in hand, too.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:31 pm

Sorry if this has been answered, but is there any news on future thrilling 30 waves?

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:04 pm

Searchlight wrote:Sorry if this has been answered, but is there any news on future thrilling 30 waves?

Nope, that's the one I'm hunting down now! But knowing Hasbro UK, they'll bundle them all under Generations, meaning all of the upcoming figures other than the simplified ones will be TRU exclusives.

But I'll let you know as soon as I find out!