Transformers Titans Return Chaos on Velocitron Set Available at Deep Discount in UK and Ireland

One of those days... It had better not land in mainland Europe before my wedding anniversary this February!

Given that I've yet to see any transformers things in the home bargains stores near me, I'm not holding out much hope.

ZeroWolf wrote:Given that I've yet to see any transformers things in the home bargains stores near me, I'm not holding out much hope.

i'm checking out the stores near me (3 in total)
i'll pick up an extra one if they have any in stock

I need a Fastlane!

So, IF someone finds one of these AND doesn't want Nautica AND is willing to ship to the US, please let me know.
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Yeah, I'll just go hold my breath.

I managed to get a set from my local Home Bargains today, and while I've had bad experiences with Transformers from there in the past (brittle plastic, covered in production scars, smelling of smoke), my set thankfully didn't have many problems, the only things of note are the odd white flaky stuff on Fastlane's shoulders and thighs, clumsy splashes of white paint on the sides of Rodimus Primes' head mode, and some rather flimsy-feeling plastic on Quickswitch. But still, you can't argue with a set like Chaos on Velocitron for less than the price of one Voyager!

Munkky wrote:I managed to get a set from my local Home Bargains today

Plus one set for me yeah?

where was your store?

I've yet to try my local ones.


if i do find any i'll pick up 4 sets and sell off 3 complete sets for the same price + p&p

I have checked the Maidstone and Ashford stores in Kent and nothing, no Transformers at all.

Coptur wrote:if i do find any i'll pick up 4 sets and sell off 3 complete sets for the same price + p&p

That sounds good to me!

MCutter wrote:

Coptur wrote:if i do find any i'll pick up 4 sets and sell off 3 complete sets for the same price + p&p

That sounds good to me!

Yeah count me in if you can post to the NL

Sjeng wrote:

MCutter wrote:

Coptur wrote:if i do find any i'll pick up 4 sets and sell off 3 complete sets for the same price + p&p

That sounds good to me!

Yeah count me in if you can post to the NL

I'm going tomorrow morning.

i'm happy to post international but i'll use a trackable post option.

I won't be breaking down any boxes as i don't want to be stuck with a surplus figures i really don't want.

wish me luck!!!

High Wycombe was a wasted journey (awful shop)

2 more shops to go (tomorrow morning)

Good luck! I'm fine with breaking down the box myself

No chaos on Velocitron in any of the Blackpool area Home Bargains (All Fylde coast from Fleetwood down to St Annes), but they still had the Titans Return deluxes on the shelves for £7.99

£30! Wow, excellent price. I paid about $65 usd for mine back in April. $40 now is excellent.

Word of warning, QuickSwitch's knees are super loose, at least on mine.

Box is huge by the way, but its great set.

Sorry guys tried both stores in Bletchley and they only had twimferno and trigger-happy

Coptur wrote:Sorry guys tried both stores in Bletchley and they only had twimferno and trigger-happy

No worries, thanks for looking and following up.

Having fiddled around with each figure in the Chaos on Velocitron box set, here are my thoughts on each:

Rodimus Prime - a nice little Titanmaster, but the paint on mine's head mode has been really badly done, with white splashes either side of his helmet. I may still switch out Deluxe Hot Rod's head for this one.
Fastlane - I've never really had any attachment to the G1 clones, Fastlane himself is a bit basic of a figure, and the alt mode adds to my belief that 100% G1 toy accuracy is not always a good thing. Nevertheless, the transformation is simple enough so that my nephew would probably like him.
Nautica - I don't read the IDW comics, so again no real attachment to Nautica as a character, but I think she wears the mould a lot better than Blurr did, and the added turbine things on her shoulders are a nice touch.
"It's not a phase Mom!!" Prime - I've never owned a version of the Titans Return Voyager Optimus, but I had more fun with this one than I thought I would. The truck isn't that great, but I do love the robot mode, so much so that I may even track down the original and replace PotPie Leader Optimus with it on my main Autobot display.
Quickswitch - Bloody hell. Now I understand why Six Shot is shelf-warming in my area. While the robot mode is nice and the transformations aren't that bad, I don't like any of the alt modes at all. They all vary from meh to terrible. Though considering how much this figure has to do I won't hold it against him. Plus it's good to have a third big Autobot alongside Optimus and Ultra Magnus. I may just keep him in bot mode from now on.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rysquad wrote:For me, I assumed that because we time jumped and the humans knew about the Transformers (Autobot City, Earth Defense Command, etc.) the later Autobots didn't need to scan Earth modes as a disguise.

On the other hand, Earth vehicles by that point in time looked different from how they had looked in the 80s (and in our real world present time) anyway.

According to Floro Dery the altmodes for Hot Rod, Arcee, Springer, Kup, and Blurr were indeed intended to be future!Earth vehicles. And since Mr. Dery was the one who designed them, I would consider him a reliable source at least in this case.

And on that note, in one case I can identify a specific car the character is a futuristic version of. If you put T30 Arcee and G1 Tracks next to each other in altmode, it seems fairly obvious that Arcee turns into a future!Corvette.

On a different subject, I never got around to showing this off in this thread:



Made a custom Master Sword for my Fortress Maximus