The Energon Pub

News Credits: 15 · Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:19 am

I was waiting on/hoping for a price drop for Metroplex.

I did notice that if you spend over £100 you get a £15 gift card so that could be seen as a price drop if there were two things at TRU you wanted.

Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:23 pm

MemphisR56 wrote:
Lockdown91 wrote:Popped into Warrington Toys R us. They no longer have the Titan Metroplex (Not that I was ever going to buy it, as awesome as it is I just don't have the space for something that large, though I admit I liked picking up the box)

Guilty! I snagged that one, sorry.

He's currently chilling in my dining room, with Chromia and Scoop.

Haha relieved to find out he went to one of us on here rather than a scalper intending to only sell on for a higher profit!

Ravage XK wrote:I was waiting on/hoping for a price drop for Metroplex.

I did notice that if you spend over £100 you get a £15 gift card so that could be seen as a price drop if there were two things at TRU you wanted.

I too was hoping for a price drop on him, would have been extremely tempted if he had dropped to between £70 to £80. Woulda just had to figure out where to put him

News Credits: 6188 · Fri Nov 07, 2014 5:33 am

There is nothing of any interest in my TRU. Or Tesco, or Wilkinson, or ASDA, or Sainsbury's or Argos or local toy shops. Harumph.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:24 pm

I can add the Entertainer and Smyths to Va'als list of nothing interesting.

News Credits: 1350 · Sat Nov 08, 2014 3:50 pm

The entertainer in middlesbrough has got robots in disguise prime toys and beast hunter stuff on sale, and wave 2 of the construct a bots dino riders. Oh and discount UK had American imports of beast hunters including dreadwing.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:13 pm

Just an FYI.

Having a bit of a clear out and will be putting a load f stuff on eBay in the next few days. G1 Roadbuster is up already, will closely be followed by a fair chunk of other stuff including Masterpiece Megs. The G1 stuff isn't in great nick but there is a load of weapons going on there as well.

I need me some monies for Masterpiece Wheeljack and Ultra Magnus so any help would be great...

Love ya bye!

I'll post links but I think my username is to the left.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:49 am

I managed to pick up Generations Cliffjumper at Forbidden planet Liverpool!
They didn't seem to have Nemesis prime in, but there were 3 or 4 other CJs there, if anybody's up this way.

I also scoped out Hero Mashers in Liverpool 1's TRU. They had Jetfire and Rodimus in, they're a lot bigger than I thought they'd be from their product shots. I went looking there for Slash and Drift, but found only strafes. So that confirms that they've started putting Wave 2 on the shelves as well as just on their website.

Generations Combiner Wars stuff is all up for pre-order on KAPOW! as you've all seen from the main page by now probably. Fire up those wallets! It's all due in Mid-December. Powerglide, Windcharger, Bombshell, Prime, 4/5 bits of Superion and Drag Strip. This will be the best Christmas ever. If they announce a legends Brawn in scale with Cliff, Gears, Bee, Huffer, and Windcharger, that will cement generations as the single greatest toyline ever for me.

Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:47 am

MemphisR56 wrote:I managed to pick up Generations Cliffjumper at Forbidden planet Liverpool!
They didn't seem to have Nemesis prime in, but there were 3 or 4 other CJs there, if anybody's up this way.

I also scoped out Hero Mashers in Liverpool 1's TRU. They had Jetfire and Rodimus in, they're a lot bigger than I thought they'd be from their product shots. I went looking there for Slash and Drift, but found only strafes. So that confirms that they've started putting Wave 2 on the shelves as well as just on their website.

Generations Combiner Wars stuff is all up for pre-order on KAPOW! as you've all seen from the main page by now probably. Fire up those wallets! It's all due in Mid-December. Powerglide, Windcharger, Bombshell, Prime, 4/5 bits of Superion and Drag Strip. This will be the best Christmas ever. If they announce a legends Brawn in scale with Cliff, Gears, Bee, Huffer, and Windcharger, that will cement generations as the single greatest toyline ever for me.

Cheers for the update regarding the Combiner Wars stuff. I like the look of Superion but really not keen on Menasor. Although the individual Stunticons look great, even if you're not getting the exact versions (slightly disappointed), his combined mode just looks...off.

By the way, I see you've got Generations Drift in your "Wants" list in your sig. Not sure if you're after him 1st or 2nd hand but I'm sure I saw him on Masterforce for just over £20 quid (new I think). If you've not ordered from them before then I'd recommend them. Had some good business with them.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:50 am

I was hoping to get my shop up and running before combiner wars hit...out of time I guess.

I'm at a cross roads with my g1 stuff, not sure what I want to do with it. I mean I much prefer the later releases but I do like having Galvatron standing next to his universe counterpart.

News Credits: 14 · Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:11 am

Before Va'al clips me around the back of my head, I know this isn't a Transformers Sighting but, like many of us here, this is the best (only?) place to mention things related to Transformers here in the UK!

Collectormania wrote:Collectormania (Milton Keynes) 22 will be taking place Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of November, we will be taking over the New Arena which is attached to the Stadium. Collectormania 22 promises to bring you some of your favourite stars from TV, Film and Comics as well as a whole host of fun activities including photo shoots, panels, autograph sessions and hundreds of stalls full of TV and Film memorabilia to browse.

They have listed as appearing on both days Transformers UK comic artists...

LEE SULLIVAN

MARTIN GRIFFITHS

LEE TOWNSEND

Sullivan is probably the most well known for his work on the covers and internal art on the original Marvel UK run of Transformers.
All three artists have also worked on the Panini run of Transformers Armada.

Despite the lack of current big names this would still be cool for new and old fans alike to catch up with these artists and chat about their times working on Transformers and perhaps get some comics signed or grab a sketch!

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:58 am

No clipping from me!

That's pretty cool, but my 2014 is spent for events now. ThoughtBubble this weekend is draining everything I have, money and energy wise.

News Credits: 6 · Fri Nov 14, 2014 11:01 pm

Seeing as I'm up anyway due to my son's vomiting bug has anyone else had an email from Kapow toys saying their generations brainstorm has been shipped? So excited! Their website says they'll be selling him from general stock from today if you haven't already pre-ordered.

News Credits: 6 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:10 am

Crankcase79 wrote:Seeing as I'm up anyway due to my son's vomiting bug has anyone else had an email from Kapow toys saying their generations brainstorm has been shipped? So excited! Their website says they'll be selling him from general stock from today if you haven't already pre-ordered.

I got my shipping notice from them yesterday aswell. Pretty excited, hope he's worth the delays. :grin:

News Credits: 6 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:08 am

Got my Brainstorm from Kapow! Woohoo! Tried uploading photos but just got a message saying file too large.

Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:35 am

Crankcase79 wrote:Got my Brainstorm from Kapow! Woohoo! Tried uploading photos but just got a message saying file too large.

Awesome, how is he? Have you encountered any issues with the head?

I was thinking of waiting out on the Takara version, but there doesn't seem to be a big difference.

News Credits: 1350 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:47 am

Well I went to toys'r'us, new stuff was sunstorm and the transformers mashers. Bizarrely they even moved the lone and battered robot heroes pack to the front to try and get rid of it.

Also thank you all for making me jealous about Brainstorm.

Being money impaired sucks

News Credits: 6 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:24 am

Apologies ZeroWolf, it's fair to say my excitement was getting the better of me! Syn13 I haven't had time to open him yet but if there's any problems I'll let you know. I'm now considering persuading the wife to let me pre-order some Combiner wars figures from Kapow as my Christmas presents . Can't afford all of them, any suggestions or recommendations?

News Credits: 1350 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:19 pm

I say "aim for the skies" and go for the arieal bots. I mean the prime is nice as well. Any chance you could get the missus to buy you mp ultra magnus for Christmas?

News Credits: 6 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 1:42 pm

About as much chance as Megatron switching allegiance to the autob...hmmm, worth a try I suppose!

News Credits: 6 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:30 pm

No QC issues on my brainstorm. His moulding detail is all very sharp and crisp. Frankly beautiful. Nice tight joints. Clicktastic ratchets. Only head issue I've experienced was a little mould flashing on one of arcana's arms which was easily trimmed with a craft knife. His neck locking mechanisms works perfectly and he has no isses with his neck joint being floppy or scratching paint off arcana's head, nothing. Just a small scratch in the teal paint on his shins.

Alt mode is beautiful and beats the pants off any of the third party efforts IMO. Transformation is very simplistic, but thats because it's nigh on identical to the G1 figure. He'll fit classics or IDW shelves perfectly.

As close as I've seen to a perfect figure in a while. Go get him.

Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:14 pm

I received my Brainstorm today too, only got the notification from Kapow late yesterday afternoon and it arrived this morning, now they're normally fast delivery but that's the quickest an item has ever arrived, not complaining mind you

I can confirm he is awesome! For the most part his joints are tight, wrists a little loose but I can tighten them, his shoulders are a little loose but tightening the screws should help with that. He even has ankle tilts, they're stiff but they are there. Arcana is actually pretty solid too, he didn't come jammed into the socket and the ball joint isn't too loose either, there's a bit of flash plastic on him but that's easily cut off.

I too am thinking of pre-ordering some combiners wars stuff from Kapow. I'm kind of wanting to get the Armada Leader Megatron (Armada is what got me back in to Transformers, growing up watching that before school) but I wish he was a little more of an update to the original toy/design rather than a retool of the other Megatron Leader, I might wait and see if the gestalts actually make it to UK stores before I bite on those though.

News Credits: 1350 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 6:27 pm

I say bite, I could be wrong but I'm going to guess that combiner wars will be a toys r us exclusive...till I enter the field of course....

Sun Nov 16, 2014 6:36 pm

MemphisR56 wrote:No QC issues on my brainstorm. His moulding detail is all very sharp and crisp. Frankly beautiful. Nice tight joints. Clicktastic ratchets. Only head issue I've experienced was a little mould flashing on one of arcana's arms which was easily trimmed with a craft knife. His neck locking mechanisms works perfectly and he has no isses with his neck joint being floppy or scratching paint off arcana's head, nothing. Just a small scratch in the teal paint on his shins.

Alt mode is beautiful and beats the pants off any of the third party efforts IMO. Transformation is very simplistic, but thats because it's nigh on identical to the G1 figure. He'll fit classics or IDW shelves perfectly.

As close as I've seen to a perfect figure in a while. Go get him.

Sounds great, I'm definitely going to pick him up sooner rather than later!

Now I just have to figure out how the hell I'm going to get the money for the Combiner Wars figures. Not bothered about Prime as I'm not into the idea of him being a combiner and I prefer the Classics Voyager figure to the way this one looks. I might hold out on Drag Strip too as I'm not a big fan of the way Menasor is looking. Waiting on some more in-hand images on him. Superion is looking great though.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:00 am

Just got back from my local. Toys R Us (Northampton). They have AOE evolution of grimlock pack reduced to £19.99.

I got mine to the til to only be charged £9.99. But that I think was a mix up with there computer. Though I'm not complaining.