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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 13, 2020 21:45:56 GMT
Do I risk a venture to B&M in two weeks time?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 13, 2020 21:48:21 GMT
I will. I want those Daleks.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 13, 2020 21:50:08 GMT
Last time I went to B&M for limited Doctor Who figs they had none.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 13, 2020 21:50:33 GMT
Also still salty at that shitty looking Eaglemoss Eighth Doctor I got the other day.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 13, 2020 21:52:37 GMT
Last time I went to B&M for limited Doctor Who figs they had none. That is usually my experience, which is why I was so amazed to find the McGann set. It's the only B&M exclusive DW set I own as they rarely turn up in stores. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 13, 2020 21:53:59 GMT
I'll be checking my local B&Ms. If they fuck up the numbers again and the TARDIS set disappears after five minutes I do not want to be paying several times the RRP on eBay to keep my collection complete.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 13, 2020 21:58:27 GMT
I had to resort to Ebay to get the McGann set last time round.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 17, 2020 21:13:49 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 23, 2020 16:11:22 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 24, 2020 14:16:43 GMT
Apparently the new sets are starting to appear in the North. Scalping fuckers are photographing their hauls *in the b&m carparks* and posting them on eBay for double the cost price.
Getting twitchy. Might have to go and have a nosey in the local. Just in case. It's a new one that has only recently opened. Never been in it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2020 15:27:07 GMT
Might see if I can persuade Jen to drive me to the local one tomorrow. We are in The North.
Scalpers annoy the **** out of me. Always have.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 24, 2020 15:43:25 GMT
Manchester area has had sightings. God that sounds far more dramatic than it should do. Tyldsley and Leigh.
Nothing I can see in the south yet and nothing in mine. Guess it depends on delivery days for the lorries. My B&M is so new the toy section looks like it's just been set out for the first time. Can't see where they're actually going to put anything. Still, at least I know where I'm looking now.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2020 16:01:42 GMT
Well I am in Tameside so near Manchester. Local B&M rarely has DW stuff though!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 24, 2020 16:05:40 GMT
Now may be the time. I mentioned Manchester as I knew that was your area. The earlier sightings were further north.
Right. I have got to stop worrying about this.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2020 16:17:18 GMT
Due to lack of availability of the B&M DW exclusives over the years I rarely pay attention to them (I only have the McGann and Dalek set) but the monochrome TARDIS that comes with War Games Pat does appeal to me having seen the picture in DWM. Not getting my hopes up though!
Remember though, that they are coming out similtaneously on Amazon US this time so could get them that way.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 24, 2020 16:55:49 GMT
Fortunately I have the black and white SDCC release figures of the first and second Doctors so they will look good with the TARDIS.
There's been a bit of discussion on GB about the price of the Amazon.com ones suddenly skyrocketing. I didn't pay too much attention to it, but these sets seem to be megabucks through that route.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 25, 2020 11:26:46 GMT
Cannot stop the nagging desire to go and sit in B&M. I reckon the 3 packs are going to be fine, they get restocked fairly well going by previous years, but the TARDIS worries me. The two that came out this time last year went almost instantly. I'm also really curious to see whether it really is monochrome, or just really dark blue. Different pictures show it in different shades. One of the Pertwee ones last year was completely different in hand to the pictures.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 11:54:05 GMT
I wouldn't sit in there unless they give you a throne.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 12:06:35 GMT
BREAKING NEWS.
Andu has found the Romana pack.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 25, 2020 12:08:25 GMT
HOORAY!!
Still only reports of findings up north on GB.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 25, 2020 12:54:39 GMT
This is interesting if not that useful right now. I learn B&M have an app that you can use to scan barcodes and it'll tell you the price, which people use to find discounted items that aren't marked up as such. It seems this can actually be used to check stock in shops as the barcodes for the Who toys are on merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/category/toys/5-12-figures/ and GBers are using it to look. I can't work out how though. The app scans the barcode and recognises what it is, but doesn't mention anything about stock levels in shops.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 13:40:33 GMT
2nd Doctor TARDIS, 2 Dalek sets and the 'friends of the 13th' in my local. The Romana sets had already been scalped. Space where they had been and the other 3 packs were all over the place as someone had clearly picked through them.
The other new sets were untouched.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 13:54:35 GMT
Andu has volunteered to pop back to his another day for a Romana pack. Raging it had been scalped. It was so obvious.
I got the 2nd Doctor TARDIS as I don't have one of those models anyway and the monochrome look really appeals to me. Oh, and the Daleks as I don't have any CO ones.
Jen gave me a run in on the car as I can't currently walk more than a few yards.
A few 'stereotypes' were not wearing masks. Lots of folk not covering their noses with theirs.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 25, 2020 14:07:05 GMT
At least you got the TARDIS. In recent years they do seem to have been the harder find. The figure packs will reappear. So the scalper left the UNIT sets? I'd have thought they'd have been just as appealing as the companions pack. Report on GB that people have been spotted filling trolleys with TARDIS sets and buying out the entire stock. Last year a big fuss was made about one per customer but the shops didn't enforce it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 14:12:36 GMT
I had forgotten about the UNIT set! There was another space where they might have been.
Pleased to get a TARDIS having missed all the other ones! It does look nice.
Not sure about the figure packs. I wanted last year's Harry one but it was gold dust so missed it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2020 14:15:01 GMT
Report on GB that people have been spotted filling trolleys with TARDIS sets and buying out the entire stock. Arseholes*! -Ralph *Unless they are picking up sets for mates.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 25, 2020 15:24:19 GMT
Yes, I shall open the set in the zoom call.
Will head up tomorrow and try and claim another Romana set, if anyone else needs one let me know.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2020 10:24:41 GMT
Andu reports the 2nd Doctor is gone.
GO, PINWIG, GO!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 26, 2020 10:30:54 GMT
I'm keeping an eye on GB. Seems the sets have got as far south as Swindon now but the TARDIS sets are a rarity. If I end up paying through the nose then so be it, but I'm not going to miss this and have an incomplete collection.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2020 10:34:20 GMT
I did see a warning on GB about being careful with the tape on the TARDIS: It can remove paint/leave residue.
-Ralph
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