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Post by Bogatan on Sept 23, 2010 17:33:39 GMT
Kapows are only slightly over UK rrp anyway.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 18:20:54 GMT
OH FFS! I am somewhat displeased. It's the line I wanted to buy. Does Hasbro UK actually have a ******* clue? -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 18:24:07 GMT
No.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 18:27:14 GMT
I don't often have 'Fanboy Rage Moments', but I'm having one right now!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 23, 2010 18:31:09 GMT
If you do, fell free to post it here so I can copy it and send one to. What the hey, it surely wouldn't do any harm. Andy |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 23, 2010 18:36:42 GMT
I've just composed a lengthy and detailed email to send to my account manager in the morning to find out just what the heck is going on with Transformers' distribution at the moment.
If they're dropping Generations and backing PCC.....
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Post by Gav on Sept 23, 2010 18:39:55 GMT
Get them to release the rest of the Animated toys too, Nigel! I'd appreciate it!  |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 23, 2010 18:46:59 GMT
Sadly, as I buy from a distributor and not Hasbro itself, I probably don't have the clout. Still, I suppose I could always try popping down to Newport to picket the warehouse. Somebody in London'll have to go to Uxbridge for a simultaneous protest.
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Post by Gav on Sept 23, 2010 19:28:10 GMT
I'll protest outside Tesco in my town. It won't do much good, but I need potatoes as well.
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Post by legios on Sept 23, 2010 19:45:01 GMT
So... Wave 2 and up of Generations not coming to the UK. *sigh* I am resigned to the fact of having to buy most TF stuff on-line as we pretty much don't get it around here. But it does begin to look like Hasbro UK just don't want my business. In which case I will gladly take it elsewhere.
It was mostly the upcoming Generations stuff I was after in all honesty so once more my money shall end up supporting the US economy instead of the UK.
Karl
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Post by legios on Sept 23, 2010 19:51:27 GMT
There are some very nice things in amongst that lot. I can see myself liking a few of those. The Jazz especially is rather well-executed. Like that PCC jet as well - he looks like he has a Super Sabre nose glommed onto a somewhat russian-style main fuselage, and with the Minicon latched on he looks like some sort of demented cut-and-shut of a 'plane. Appeals to me for some reason.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 21:20:26 GMT
If what we suspect if true then the UK loose up till the end of Wave 5. Wave 6 looks like it might be a combined wave under a new name (Reveal the Shield?) with Tracks & Jazz occupying space with Mindset & Fallback.
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 23, 2010 21:34:31 GMT
I'm just pleased they're doing a Trailbreaker at all! With Jazz as well, just waiting on a Wheeljack now eh? Oh, and the other mini-Autobots. Hope they do all six in scout class.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2010 21:50:04 GMT
Wheeljack's been done. You'll not get better than Energon Downshift.
Skids & Trailbreaker are the sole remaining Diaclone cars not to have a decent dlx (or larger) size update
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 0:33:11 GMT
I'll protest outside Tesco in my town. It won't do much good, but I need potatoes as well. I will protest outside a small corner shop. They do nice rolls. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 0:34:14 GMT
Did Skids not get a Binaltech toy?
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 24, 2010 6:28:05 GMT
He did indeed get a BT version. I believe that there was an Alternator release as well.
For some reason they made him a four door mini-people carrier thing rather than the city car
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 24, 2010 6:58:47 GMT
Wheeljack's been done. You'll not get better than Energon Downshift. Skids & Trailbreaker are the sole remaining Diaclone cars not to have a decent dlx (or larger) size update Finally owning the mould I have to say theres no way you can count the Energon toy as a suitable fill in. It looks poor alongside Classics and terrible alongside generations. Better to use Actionmaster Wheeljack. I like the idea of a white tracks with new head as Wheeljack. THe legs would be the wrong way around but otherwise it isn't a bad match. But as you say we're down to a very small number of autobot cars that haven't been done in classics. So whatevers left will likely appear in the post TF3 classic line. |
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 24, 2010 7:07:40 GMT
Huh. Can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed perhaps, but them's the breaks. As Bogatan said there are hardly any Classics in the secondary market and they rarely show up on eBay (and when they do they go for crazy money). It's possible that Generations and their ilk just don't have the turnover in the UK that retailers need to justify the peg space.
I could order a large batch of later figures online and distribute them at Scotcon if folks are interested. I'll need a list in advance, natch.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 24, 2010 7:29:18 GMT
What I don't understand is that no where seem to have had any trouble shifting the wave 1s that have come out. You'd think that would make them want to restock. So is this Hasbro saying "no you didn't order enough in the first place so we aren't doing anymore?
Andy
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Post by Nigel on Sept 24, 2010 8:41:24 GMT
I think it's more the case that Hasbro UK don't want to sell anything that has no film etc to support it.
Their big brand in the boys' section this year was Iron Man 2.
Last year we had GI Joe toys because there was a film; this year, no products at all.
This year's Transformers are the film-based lines.
Every year, there are new licensed versions of their traditional brands, such as Monoploy and Trivial Pursuit, even though the standard versions are perennial bestsellers anyway; this year, there is Toy Story Play-Doh, for instance.
I could go on.
It's as if Hasbro UK don't have enough confidence in the popularity of their own most successful brands to release anything that's not media-backed.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 24, 2010 8:49:13 GMT
I think it's more the case that Hasbro UK don't want to sell anything that has no film etc to support it. That can't be true, since they're also pushing PCC EDIT: And Generations has the WFC figures! |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 24, 2010 9:16:49 GMT
I was just coming back to add to my post having realised that there are WFC toys, which makes any apparent media-based decision all the more daft! As for PCC, I can't explain that. (In general, I just explain PCC. ) But are they pushing it? Distribution is patchy and the only product I've been offered so far is 5-packs wave 1. I ordered that back in May. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2010 10:22:06 GMT
PCC (and stealth force) are more play than collector orientated. Hasbro don't see thew collector market, and never have done going right back to Beast Wars and SW:POTF. You think the TF stuff is bad ? I could write an essay on the subject of how Hasbro screwed up POTF in the UK when the special editions were out and everyone wanted SW toys.
They haven't done a great job with Iron Man 2. Yeah the film figures are out there but try finding the comic ones. I got wave 1 on day of release and haven't seen an update on UK shelves since. Wave 2 I've had for a few months from the US and Wave 3 is in the post.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2010 10:25:29 GMT
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Post by Stomski on Sept 24, 2010 10:53:05 GMT
Oooh, I thought they were going to re-release the old mould, but that is new isn't it?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2010 11:43:32 GMT
The G2 Prime ? Yes.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 12:13:16 GMT
Hasbro UK are morons when it comes to distribution. It's like they want to be the new Mattel.
I'll be buying far less TF figures then. Movieverse and Animated held little interest. I was really looking forward to Generations. Yes, online ordering is there but once you add on postage and store mark-ups (not to mention CUTA) it becomes untenable. It also cuts out impulse buys and I often like to see a toy in the plastic to decide if I want it. I'll still pick up Generations, but probably just the odd figure here and there. I would have bought a pile of Scourges to make Sweeps in 3for2 type offers, for instance and I had fancied army-building Straxus.
Though if Nigel is able to get further waves of Generations through his distributers, he'd get my cash!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2010 12:15:23 GMT
Scourge may still be an option as he's someway down the line and will end up in the merged line.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2010 12:33:16 GMT
Can't see the pic. I shall hassle Turnbull for a read of his TFCC mag when he gets it!
-Ralph
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