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Insurgent wrote:Be nice if it is. I'd like a deluxe groove, but not enough to go mental over it. Kapow apparantly sold out within 2 minutes. Folks had it in their basket but lost it to out of stock before they could finish checkout.

Yeah, I heard the same thing. They also charged voyager pricepoint for it *and* named the item obscurely and stuck it on a non-combiner wars page. So that's with everyone who couldn't find it, and anyone who was put off by the price as well.

MemphisR56 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:Be nice if it is. I'd like a deluxe groove, but not enough to go mental over it. Kapow apparantly sold out within 2 minutes. Folks had it in their basket but lost it to out of stock before they could finish checkout.

Yeah, I heard the same thing. They also charged voyager pricepoint for it *and* named the item obscurely and stuck it on a non-combiner wars page. So that's with everyone who couldn't find it, and anyone who was put off by the price as well.

That might have been Masterforce, as I couldn't see it on their page. Kapow had Groove listed as deluxe class, combiner wars, may madness, on the CW page for £25. It was right there in the open on Kapow.

Hilariously enough, he's just come back in stock at InDemand toys. £25. Bagged myself one, theres still more if anybody needs him.

Thanks for that. Just nabbed one myself.

Having not paid too much attention to CW stuff what is the big deal with Groove? Won't he be retail shops?

Ravage XK wrote:Having not paid too much attention to CW stuff what is the big deal with Groove? Won't he be retail shops?

He's an online exclusive US and Asian market only. Practically unchanged from his unite warriors incarnation, and the only possible way to get that mold without having to pay £90+ for any of the 3 box sets it's otherwise included in.

MemphisR56 wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:Having not paid too much attention to CW stuff what is the big deal with Groove? Won't he be retail shops?

He's an online exclusive US and Asian market only. Practically unchanged from his unite warriors incarnation, and the only possible way to get that mold without having to pay £90+ for any of the 3 box sets it's otherwise included in.

Ahh, cool. Just done some reading and see that its a replacement leg to complete Defensor as he should be.

Nope. Groove, like Slingshot and Wildrider last year, are online exclusives only. And limited run. Only Groove is more limited a run apparantly, and unlike the last two who were repaints with a new head, Groove is an entirely new mould not yet seen in any form in CW (though a retool of him is coming out with Computron).


The only other way to get deluxe sized Groove would be to buy the Takara Defensor giftset.


Edit: aaaand it's gone.

In stock at Robot kingdom, cheaper but with higher postage obviously. Quite why they've made Groove so much more difficult to get of I don't know!

from TFW2005

Rumblings on TFW about Warriors Donner and Blitz er, Quillfire in Smyth's and Asda.

Didn't see any new rid warriors figures in asda today but did pick up Megatronus for £3 from the clearance section. He was the only rid warrior figure in the store.

Still, quite a nice bargain there dude!

Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

eltawater wrote:Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

Wave 5 voyagers hit regular UK retail now?

They had a Scattershot too but having been a bit disappointed with Silverbolt I can't really bring myself to buy him.

I see that Smyths have both Onslaught and Vortex listed on the website.

MemphisR56 wrote:

eltawater wrote:Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

Wave 5 voyagers hit regular UK retail now?

Didn't realise that was noteworthy. I spotted Onslaught and Scattorshot in the Nottingham Entertainer a fair few weeks ago.

Insurgent wrote:

MemphisR56 wrote:

eltawater wrote:Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

Wave 5 voyagers hit regular UK retail now?

Didn't realise that was noteworthy. I spotted Onslaught and Scattorshot in the Nottingham Entertainer a fair few weeks ago.

I mentioned that on here like 2 months back! *grumble grumble no one ever listens to me*

Also Kapow have Deluxe Groove in again. Nabbed one finally after nearly paying £35 on evil bay for him...

Oddimus Prime wrote:

Insurgent wrote:

MemphisR56 wrote:

eltawater wrote:Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

Wave 5 voyagers hit regular UK retail now?

Didn't realise that was noteworthy. I spotted Onslaught and Scattorshot in the Nottingham Entertainer a fair few weeks ago.

I mentioned that on here like 2 months back! *grumble grumble no one ever listens to me*

Also Kapow have Deluxe Groove in again. Nabbed one finally after nearly paying £35 on evil bay for him...

My apologies Mr.Odd, I've been a bit out of the loop on account of caning the overtime and looking after a preganant lady at the same time. Nothing personal!

MemphisR56 wrote:

Oddimus Prime wrote:

Insurgent wrote:

MemphisR56 wrote:

eltawater wrote:Picked up Onslaught from Sainsburys yesterday for just over 17 quid. Not a bad price really!

Wave 5 voyagers hit regular UK retail now?

Didn't realise that was noteworthy. I spotted Onslaught and Scattorshot in the Nottingham Entertainer a fair few weeks ago.

I mentioned that on here like 2 months back! *grumble grumble no one ever listens to me*

Also Kapow have Deluxe Groove in again. Nabbed one finally after nearly paying £35 on evil bay for him...

My apologies Mr.Odd, I've been a bit out of the loop on account of caning the overtime and looking after a preganant lady at the same time. Nothing personal!

Well as excuses go, I guess that's a good one

Grats dude! Hope the impending spawn doesn't impinge too much on your toys

For all those interested, Deluxe Groove just came back in stock on Kapow Toys! Managed to nab myself one which I will pay for using my birthday money this Friday

if its helpful to anyone, Over in the cambridge/norfolk devide we are still only seeing wave 3 combiner wars at most retailers. Local B&Ms have Thrilling 30 voyagers, as does the local Range store, so I would give them a check, see if they have any generations stuff you missed.

The local Toys'r'us (the Peterborough one, if you know it) has wave 4 deluxes, but only wave 3 voyagers.

They also have a load of shelfwarming fall of cybertron deployers and those 'then and now' two packs they did for AOE, but reduced to £5 if you need them, not sure how that stacks up to nation wide.

Deluxe wave 6 has been sighted at smyths, according to TFW. Specifically it's appeaered in slough.

And I just picked up the last generations Trailbreaker for my shelf. Ah well.

Guess no combaticon limbs for this country. Glad I decided to go Takara with them.

Huh. Which means we've mised out on Menasor minus an arm, and Bruticus limbs. Well, I hope this country likes Autobots.