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Actually it's quite enjoyable!

BTW - whoever wanted BT Overdrive and BA Red Alert, can they let me know?

Cheers

Okay finally got to working out my want list...

Micromaster Combiner Battle Patrol
Beast Wars Croco-Megatron and Batty-Primal
Titanium Jetfire, Scourge, Primal and Thundercracker

And thats it........spent way tooooooooo much on TF's recently!

Considering the news about new UK legislation on replica firearms makes it very unlikely that I'll get my wants - TFC Megatron and MP Megs.

Bugger.

Hey guys, just went on my local TF hunt (Uxbridge/Hayes in middlesex) and thought you'd like an update:

Toys R US:
Classics Jetfire (New)
Cyb Unicron
Cyb Thundercracker
Galaxy Force Vector Prime (?) it was gold
Reissue Red Alert
Reissue Skywarp (with bent cones)
20th Anniversary prime
Cyb Landmine
Cyb Repugnus

Tesco:
Classics Prime
Classics Megatron
Alternator Shockwave
Alternator Silverstreak
Alternator Swindle

Woolworths:
Cyb Soundwave
Cyb Unicron

Argos:
Cyb Unicron only...

The Entertainer:
Classics Megatron
Cyb Primus
cyb Metroplex (i think his name is, the huge digger thing.

thats about it, main thing i wanted to point out was classics jetfire cos i've had a really hard time finding one.

Just a reminder that Top Gear starts it's new series tonight featuring 'the crash'.

JetfireUK wrote:Considering the news about new UK legislation on replica firearms makes it very unlikely that I'll get my wants - TFC Megatron and MP Megs.

Bugger.

MP comes out in March, so there is still time, and there are TFC Megs kicking around now for a price...

shockwaveuk wrote:Just a reminder that Top Gear starts it's new series tonight featuring 'the crash'.

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Oh, and Ive thought of another want (a pricy one potentially) G1 Scorponok.

Glyph wrote:

High Command wrote:HC is really not impressed by his 390 page thread dissapearing.

Y'know, Ryan's not particularly impressed by his 2-million-or-so post forum disappearing either. But we're doing what we can and making the best of it.

What I'd like to know is, what happened to all the back-ups that were meant to protect against exactly this sort of thing happening?

Anyway, anyone who want's to come out to play, clicky here.

"BTW - whoever wanted BT Overdrive and BA Red Alert, can they let me know?"

That would be me,
How miuch do I owe you? have finally been payed
Also, do you Paypal?

Cheers,
Doug

Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

BTW Doug - I've dropped you a PM. Thanks

Unlikely to be much use to anybody, but I thought I'd drop a note that Asda / WalMart are currently selling off their Cyb Voyagers at £9.98, reduced from the Rollback price of £16. Mind you, my local - which is apparently the biggest Asda in Europe - only has C-Soundwave and Nemesis Breaker, which they've had a shelf full of for months. I picked up a lion since I'd been waiting for the price to come down anyway.

Local TRU has... one Classics Jetfire, plus one or two of the Giant Planet cement mixer, whatever he's called (keep calling him Quickmix without any idea whether it's right or not), and a load of the Energon Micromaster Constructicons. I think I've counted three new boxes on the shelf since before Christmas.

Reading TRU has Classics Jetfire too,
Picked him up and have to say that he's amazing!!

TRU also had some of the Classics re-paints of the LoC minis,
Might have to be getting some of them soon...

Cheers,
Doug

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

What's annoying is that they ALWAYS seem to wait until I have the toy before bothering to stock it... grrr.

I could really do with a local TrU.

Redimus wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:

Redimus wrote:Why do the shops in my town only stock tfs that I have... or Star Wars TFs?

Grrrr

Because you're a TF junkie?!

What's annoying is that they ALWAYS seem to wait until I have the toy before bothering to stock it... grrr.

I could really do with a local TrU.

In my expierence, they don't tend to be much better

I gave up on TRU when it came to reissues....same crap each time I went in. Its why I turned to the internet for reissues

Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

JetfireUK wrote:Exactly. I never did understand why we Brits had such bad luck when it came to the TRU Gen 1 re-issues. Sure they're more of a specialist product (i.e. usually collectors would buy them) but the same aurgument could be used stateside.

Hasbro UK must believe there are little to no TF collectors in the UK.

I guess they could in some measure be forgiven for having that impression if we consider the tendency for the UK collector to import from either the US or Japan rather than wait for a Hasbro UK release...

Vicious circle much?

Hey guys, can I get some links to UK based parts traders? I had a few saved in a PM but they've been wiped and Mangohero is the only one I remember.

To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).

Glyph wrote:I guess they could in some measure be forgiven for having that impression if we consider the tendency for the UK collector to import from either the US or Japan rather than wait for a Hasbro UK release...

Vicious circle much?

Well thats mainly caused by the fact that we have to wait for our TFs for so long after the US get theirs, and that they have an annoying habbit of cutting the series short and missing figures. We have to import to make sure we get the figures we want.

I think you would find 9/10 collectors would wait if we knew we were going to get all the figures in the line but I can't see that happening for anything other than the movie toys.

I'm still missing Energon Galvatron and Cybs Dark Crumplezone for this reason.

I should give H-UK some slack as they have got better, but considering todays' "global market" surely it's better to release figures worldwide at the same time?

Then again I haven't bought a UK release for at least a year although that might change if I can find a cheap C-Soundwave...

JetfireUK wrote:Then again I haven't bought a UK release for at least a year although that might change if I can find a cheap C-Soundwave...

Currently selling for £9.98 in my Asda/WalMart alongside Nemesis Breaker. Dunno whether other stores will have the same stock or price...

Cheers Glyph,

I'll take a look tonight in my local Asda after work. He's the only current figure that piques my interest.

High Command wrote:To be fair to hasbro UK, they've improved the waiting time for new figures quite a bit. We're now only a few months behind the US rather then a being a full year behind as we were at one point. For the end of cybertron they released a hell of a lot of new figures quite quickly and the shelves haven't been too heavy with countless numbers of repaints or earlier shelfwarmers.
However don't think I've gone soft on them! Far more annoying then the wait is the completely random list of figures that fail to get released over here. Figures such as cybertron Red Alert or his repaint Cannonball. Both of which I own, but only thanks to imports (I own the Japanese version of Red Alert and the US release of Cannonball).

I thought this catch up that H,UK has been going through is only to get in line with the US for the movie figures release. If however they do manage to keep in line i'll be buying a lot more figures from UK outlets.

They still need to work on their wholes in their figure assortment though.