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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2008 14:29:15 GMT
Terminally funny for those of us with dirty minds - or hubbers as we are also known.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2008 14:34:16 GMT
We should wash out our minds with soap. Or be banished to the Timelash. Whichever comes first.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Apr 17, 2008 19:15:34 GMT
I hate build a figures with a passion that man may not know. "Build a Figures" Or as I refer to them as "the random useless bit of plastic I got packed in with a toy, that apparently connects to other bits of plastic packed in with other toys I don't own.". It just annoys me to see something as a pack-in that is functionally useless to me, because the chances of me wanting a whole line of action figures is practically zero the majority of the time. Karl
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2008 15:54:15 GMT
Woolies Argyle St had a shelf full of of 17 Destroyed Cassandra's all grouped together today. Please tell me this figure is not solid packed.
And where the hell is the Cuddly Colin Baker figure, damn it???!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on May 12, 2008 16:28:34 GMT
I would imagine - and hope - it's simply a case of DC not selling very well, rather understandably. What a bizarre toy. I wonder if it was actually proposed as a joke.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 12, 2008 16:43:55 GMT
Classic wave 1 is August IIRC
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2008 17:31:09 GMT
Damn it! It was originally May!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 12, 2008 18:22:36 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2008 20:04:40 GMT
The only bright side is that if Cuddly Colin comes out in August...and TRIAL OF A TIMELORD comes out on DVD in August...then I declare August to be...COLINGUST!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 12, 2008 21:43:55 GMT
That's just wrong somehow.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 12, 2008 21:44:41 GMT
TToatL is oin the runway for August BTW. See DW thread for the remaining titles and dates I have heard rumoured.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2008 19:34:09 GMT
FPG had the Classic Series figures in today. Tenner a pop. Do they have a higher RRP than regular flavour Who figures or are FP taking the piss?
It was somewhat reality crumbling to see a peg full of Cuddly Colin action figures though. After only 24 years, damn it!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 13, 2008 19:58:51 GMT
FP will be taking the piss, although I do suspect the classics will have a slightly higher price point.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 17, 2008 10:43:01 GMT
Nick very kindly got me a surpise Sea Devil. He shall be freed from his plastic prison later. I shall report back.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 19, 2008 6:54:35 GMT
A bad day for DW toys in my house yesterday. While hunting for some Dapol Daleks to flog on eBay in Mum's loft I found that the rubber bands on my Dennis Fisher Giant Robot had perished :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 22, 2008 15:52:04 GMT
The Sea Devil has been re-named Steve Devil. He can be posed as if to do the 'To be, or not to be' bit from Hamlet.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 22, 2008 16:42:02 GMT
He has a Delbo hand!!!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2008 15:52:21 GMT
FPG has the classic series figures back in. Random fellows still a tenner a pop. Astoundingly, the prices for 4th/5th/6th Doctors have been put up to £13 - a fiver above UK retail. FFS!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 14, 2008 18:01:04 GMT
Definitely taking the piss there.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 14, 2008 18:48:06 GMT
The doctors are shorter packed and higher demand. Col is 1 per case - if you think that's expensive check eBay for him.
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 14, 2008 18:56:31 GMT
Really? We have three cases of Classic Who figures in the stock room at TRU...
Nah, I would never do that. The Cuddly Colin figures shall remain safe from scalpers while I am on patrol.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2008 22:17:00 GMT
I shall be picking one up for TRU for whenever Trial of a Timelord comes out on shiny disc.
And shorter packed or not, FPG have no excuse. It would not have cost them extra to get the Doctors: they buy by the case. I've seen them take deliveries in. They are scalping, pure and simple.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2008 0:20:15 GMT
Forbidden Planet are buggers for that at the moment. In my local they are charging £25 for for TFA Grimlock whilst the rest of his wave mates are still at a reasonable-ish price. They must have cottoned on to him being a more popular character. I don't even bother looking at the Doctor Who stuff in there as they are just taking the piss.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 15, 2008 7:01:50 GMT
Again Grimlock is one per case (2 x Blitzwing & 1 x Lugnut) and is the more popular of the once a case toy. Makes sense.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2008 11:02:11 GMT
Not when it costs the supplier to buy in no more than other figures in the range and the toy is widely available at UK retail. It's just greed.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 15, 2008 12:33:53 GMT
Of course it is. That is part of how the retail mentality works - insert Gordon Gekko world-view quote of choice here. Personally I think it is a bit iffy both morally and tactically. Especially when you are going after the relatively new-fangled entity "the adult collector". Personally it annoys me, but it is up to them how they want to conduct business. They just shouldn't expect to give me the money for something marked up considerably above the going rate. (Witness the fact I haven't bought the 1/100th Valkyrie fighter they have sitting there at twice US retail). (Judging by FPE and FPG's experience it doesn't actually seem to work. Normally anything they mark up tends to sell less well or not at all, and they end up marking it down eventually. Thus the potential profit that they think they can make does not in fact exist, and they eat the extra costs involved in dead stock. But in a kind of refutation of Pavlov they seem to persist.) Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2008 15:58:53 GMT
That does seem to be the case. When the Doctor figures were a tenner, they flew off the pegs. Now they just sit there.
I shall be putting in an order for a significantly cheaper Colin via the Agent of TRU soon!
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 15, 2008 19:32:57 GMT
I wouldn't hang around. My dentist was in today and he bought one. I think we only have two left!
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2008 20:41:52 GMT
It must be...the knacker's yard over there!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 16, 2008 10:42:53 GMT
Surely you mean The Boat Yard?
Andy
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