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News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:29 am

Tennessee- Not the normal place for new releases to show up first, but Tennessee is where Allspark member, Agent X found this 12 pack of minicon repaints. So you may want to stop ignoring the K-Mart on your way home from work or school, and drop in to see if they have a set for you. Retail is set at $24.99.

You can see his original post, as well as, a link to a downloaded picture of the set by clicking here.

EDIT: Also Available at K-Mart.com!!! Thanks HighPrime.

Found anything worth noting lately? A first releases of something, or just something newer? Let you fellow Seibertronians know where they can look by posting in the appropriate Sightings Forum Thread, and in The Sightings Database.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:59 am

Knockdown is an Autobot and Boltflash is a Decepticon? Didn't expect that.

Additionally, anyone else find the Safeguard and Overcast teams to just be an odd mix?

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:29 am

Oops, didn't realise this was news. They showed up in Woolies on this side of the pond a week or two ago.

by **Dark Monkelus** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:00 am

darn it, you beat me with the Woolies news. Except the pack is 34.99 in the Uk, which works out something like $3,000,000.

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:09 am

You can also pick them up online at K-mart by going here:

http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_004W112410110001P

Sign-up for their mailing list and you'll get 2 $5-off coupons. One you can use online, and the other you can use if you go in-store, making these only $19.99 (gotta spend $50.00, though).

Free shipping if you spend $99, but other than Universe Micromaster Superion, everything they have can be found elsewhere, and for cheaper.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:30 am

Dark Monkelus wrote:darn it, you beat me with the Woolies news. Except the pack is 34.99 in the Uk, which works out something like $3,000,000.

Not been in a Woolies recently? It's £17.49. The £34.99 price was just so they could drop the price to what they always intended to sell it for and claim it was half price.

by **Robot4762** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:06 am

K-Mart now has exlusives? Who's next Walgreens? CVS Pharmacy? RiteAid? Macy's? why should K-mart get exlusives? :-x

BTW are those heoreoes of Cybertron in the backround? Haven't seen thoes in years.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:36 am

Those look awesome, I hope they make it over here!

by **Dark Monkelus** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:59 am

Sledge wrote:Not been in a Woolies recently? It's £17.49. The £34.99 price was just so they could drop the price to what they always intended to sell it for and claim it was half price.

Frickin A! But keep it down, my local only has 2...

by **DCybertron** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:13 pm

yay!.... why do we care about these again? I forgot. :-?

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:19 pm

DCybertron wrote:yay!.... why do we care about these again? I forgot.

Because they are new, and they are minicons.

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:26 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:
DCybertron wrote:yay!.... why do we care about these again? I forgot.

they are minicons.

Reason enough, for me :grin:

Plus, these latest generation of mini-cons are pretty involved. Some of the steps for transformation rival Leader Class figures (hello, Animated Megatron), and certainly beat out the legends series 9 times out of 10.

News Credits: 5 · by **Mr O** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:53 pm

I got them last week. £17.49. they are, this side of the pond

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by **Rijie** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:45 pm

I found them today at the Kmart in Allen Park, MI, on Van Born. None left for now, but they are out.

Minicons forever!!

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:22 pm

12 more couldn't hurt.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:46 pm

Counterpunch wrote:12 more couldn't hurt.

I hope you realize we are expecting a very precise, detailed review from you on all 12 individual figures.

Minicons and Counterpunch are like peanut butter and jelly.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:12 pm

Part of me is glad I stopped collecting these little guys After Armada.

The other Part want to go and spend all my money to get a collection to rival Counterpunch's

by **Robot4762** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:14 pm

Mkall wrote:
The other Part want to go and spend all my money to get a collection to rival Counterpunch's

i quit tryin' years ago. It's like no matter how many you get, counterpunch has more.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:28 pm

bumblebeerocks wrote:
Mkall wrote:
The other Part want to go and spend all my money to get a collection to rival Counterpunch's

i quit tryin' years ago. It's like no matter how many you get, counterpunch has more.

You know nothing of my work.

by **Skullcrunchberries** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:37 pm

bumblebeerocks wrote:K-Mart now has exlusives? Who's next Walgreens? CVS Pharmacy? RiteAid? Macy's? why should K-mart get exlusives?

It's funny you mention that, since I pretty recently picked up a complete Universe Superion from none other than CVS. Seems they're the only store that carries them anymore, either

Also, just picked this up in San Diego, CA at a Sears Essentials. If anyone else lives around there, there were a few left! And a Cybertron Legends Soundwave @_@

by **Robot4762** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:54 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
bumblebeerocks wrote:
Mkall wrote:
The other Part want to go and spend all my money to get a collection to rival Counterpunch's

i quit tryin' years ago. It's like no matter how many you get, counterpunch has more.

You know nothing of my work.

I read Seibertron years before I posted.

by **DCybertron** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:11 am

it looks like flatfoot has no tires.

by **Soldier of Shockwave** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:40 pm

IMA BUY UM ALL!

Its just a shame my local k-mart (is NASTY) and doesn't have them in stock yet. I only have about 60 but I Loooooooooooove Minicons. They really are the drug of choice in the world of Transformers. Plus I don't have any of these molds yet (not sure how that happened :???:

).

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:51 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
bumblebeerocks wrote:
Mkall wrote:
The other Part want to go and spend all my money to get a collection to rival Counterpunch's

i quit tryin' years ago. It's like no matter how many you get, counterpunch has more.

You know nothing of my work.

I'm beginning to suspect that CP has Minicon's that Takara never even gave names to. Where the heck is your minicon article?

I wanted to get into Minicon's, but I don't have the time to sit down and hunt down every single one of them. I'm happy with the few I have from Armada and will glady add this set to my collection. I may even buy 2!

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:53 pm

Got mine!

Thoughts:

Makeshift and Knockdown are assembled wrong. Their legs are attached to the wrong sides of the pelvis. Simply pop off the legs and swap them.

The packaging says "Armada Series", which is incorrect. While Mini-Cons are from Armada originally, these are Classics Mini-Con molds. That aside...

What the hell is up with the Bio on the back of the package? "Many Mini-Con teams were broken apart or destroyed utterly by the greed of the Decepticons, or the desperation of the Autobots." Meow? Since when? Revisionist history if you ask me.

The packaging gives factions to the individual Mini-Cons, they however do not have any faction symbols other than the Mini-Con one.

All that junk aside, these are great Mini-Cons!

This set is easily on par with MB1 and MB2 in terms of cool.
All the figures have individual paint aps and are fairly unique in their look.

Boltflash, Flatfoot, and Bodyblock are easily my favorites.