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Post by bertie on Sept 20, 2010 19:17:15 GMT
COMPLETELY turned off by the way War For Cybertron Optimus Prime looked in its packaging.
Tell me it is a better figure than it looks in the packaging?
Cometely misshappen and not the chunky bruiser I've seen in the pictures.
Elliott.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2010 19:33:24 GMT
It's kinda average, really. Vehicle mode is crap, but the robot mode is quite good for a Deluxe, nicely posable, only really let down visually by the grey plastic used and the lack of a 'contrast' colour.
In robot mode, CybOP reminds me of the Cobra HISS tank Optimus Prime from the Devil's Due G.I. Joe/Transformers comic.
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Post by Dezzeh on Sept 20, 2010 19:44:20 GMT
I actually quite like the Oppy bot mode, looks quite imposing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 20, 2010 19:49:37 GMT
there's something not quite right in the packaging but I forget what
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2010 18:31:12 GMT
Mmmm, then perhaps the Sainsbury's £15 price is 'wrong' after all! At a tenner, I'd go for one. -Ralph The £14.99 shelf-tag in mine has has been replaced with a new £29.99 so looks like the original price was an error after all. £30 for it is pretty mad though! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2010 9:02:01 GMT
TRU Swindon: Wave 1 PCC both sizes, Wave 1 Genertions - Thrust & WFC BB, Wave 1 HFTD dlx. A Grimlock free zone.
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Post by legios on Sept 25, 2010 10:17:55 GMT
Tesco in Falkirk has Hailstorm, Sidearm Sideswipe and Tuner Skids this morning. (I didn't realise that we were getting mono-lingual cards now. I wasn't expecting to get Hailstorm's full bio).
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2010 10:45:29 GMT
That sounds like import stock.
So did Hailstorm go home with you?
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Post by Nigel on Sept 25, 2010 11:21:02 GMT
My stock is on Euro cards. Curiously, the cases have R numbers on them (eg WV 2 R 1), which I haven't seen on UK cases before, only imported cases. I don't know what the R is supposed to mean.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2010 11:26:08 GMT
Revision
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2010 11:45:42 GMT
Rutans!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Sept 25, 2010 13:29:21 GMT
RULES obviously!  ===KEN |
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Post by legios on Sept 25, 2010 16:40:20 GMT
Reach.
I wondered about it being import stock as well. Closer examination muddies the waters slightly in that it shows that it has the US and Canadian Hasbro addresses on the back of the card, and the UK, Australian and New Zealand addresses on the bottom of the bubble.
I regret however that we can officially neither confirm no deny if asylum has been granted to a stompy, G2-esque Decepticon with enough missiles to launch a couple of good Itano Circus'.......
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2010 17:01:32 GMT
Word reaches me from Mr Merrifield that Monsterprice Grimlock is in TRU Edinburger but he is not a True Friend as he did not buy me one for a present.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 25, 2010 17:43:16 GMT
There were two there at £60 each. Very nice looking they were but I thought Ralph would prefer a copy of Drift #2....
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 25, 2010 18:26:03 GMT
I finally saw my first Stealth Force figure, the Prime one, in Birmingham Entertainer while waiting for the train. How frequent are the trains in the Birmingham Entertainer?  I took a trip to Crawley today in search of TF:Generation figures. I didn't find any, though I did spot a few other figures that are new to the area. The Entertainer were selling deluxe HFTD Bumblebee (as well as Mudflap and Wheelie) for £6.50 and the new Leader class Bumblebee for a wallet breaking £60. The older ROTF Leader class Prime was selling for a bargain price of £24.99. I also discovered that the newly opened (well, relatively new. It opened a few months ago) Toy Barnhaus store in the shopping centre is a Toymaster. I doubt that anyone else will care, but I was very surprised - it's a very good store for a Toymaster. They had HFTD Seaspray for £21 - more reasonable than the wallet-breaking £28 that FPL are selling him for, but still £2-3 more than I'm willing to pay for such a small figure. They were also selling the new Power Core combiners for £21. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2010 18:43:04 GMT
21 isn't bad for Seaspray. He's a class toy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2010 0:34:23 GMT
Having opened my Sea Spray earlier this evening, I totally agree.
Stilll, he looks a bit... empty in vehicular mode without a smaller Autobot onboard.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 26, 2010 8:06:16 GMT
But that's the point, he's designed to carry smaller Autobots.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 26, 2010 8:06:32 GMT
Hailstorm fits on Seaspray :-)
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Post by Hero on Sept 26, 2010 11:13:08 GMT
Does anyone know if Seaspray floats? (and also with passenger/s)
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 26, 2010 11:14:09 GMT
Banzai-Tron and the new Voyager Prime spotted in FPE. The latter looks really cheap and plasticy.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 26, 2010 11:47:29 GMT
I would be very surprised if it does float, unless there is somewhere you can sneakily insert some polystirene ballast
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Post by Nigel on Sept 26, 2010 12:55:00 GMT
I wondered about it being import stock as well. Closer examination muddies the waters slightly in that it shows that it has the US and Canadian Hasbro addresses on the back of the card, and the UK, Australian and New Zealand addresses on the bottom of the bubble. They shove all the addresses on everything these days. |
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Post by legios on Sept 26, 2010 14:33:45 GMT
They shove all the addresses on everything these days. So that is less diagnostic than I had thought then. Ah well. Sighted in Tesco at Polmont this afternoon were Seaspray and his casemate, along with Wave 2 Powercore combiner basics. I hadn't been in the Polmont Tesco since it opened a few months ago, but it looks like it is the better bet around here for toys - and is only ten minutes away by train (or more importantly only about forty-five - fifty minutes walk along the canal). Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 26, 2010 16:34:43 GMT
55 mins in a direction new to me, I found a giant Tesco. Alas, despite the size there was a teeny tiny toy section. However, they did have HFTD Legends: Sandstorm, Tracker Hound, Override and Long Haul.
-Ralph
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Post by Gav on Sept 26, 2010 17:10:43 GMT
My local Home Bargains had Cybertron Backstop and Brakedown for £4.99 and a Whirl from 2009 which was loose inside the box, all smashed up for £9.99. Bargain indeed...
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 26, 2010 17:23:20 GMT
Went to the Range yesterday (don't know how wide spread they are) and besides the usual over priced Transformers I found KO mini or WST Devastator and the RID Bruticus repaint for £3.99 each. Also what looks vaguely like a alternator sized Universe Prowl. But before Shockprowl gets to excited its not Prowl, one is red I think Fire car and the other is more Red Alert like. Come with some odd accesseries.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2010 17:10:29 GMT
TRU Edinburger was in a shoddy state today. Toys were all over the place and hardly anything had price-tags. One MP Grimlock was sitting in the middle of an aisle (I could find no price-tag on the shelves). In a different aisle was the Speed Stars Bumblebee track set (unpriced), the Stealth Force basics (£10, compared to Sainsburys £12 price) and Optimus Prime (£30). In another aisle was the first wave of Speed Stars ie the new RPM's that actually have die-cast this time (unpriced, naturally).
HFTD Leaders have arrived (unpriced) as have the HFTD Voyagers (unpriced). The PCC wave 1 5-packs have now turned (unpriced). Another ton of £10 Animated Voyagers have turned up.
The whole display was pretty ramshackle. None of the Speed Stars or Stealth Force toys were beside each other or even in the TF aisle!
In the nearby Tesco lurked the Stealth Force basics (£9 - do stores pick the price-point on this range by throwing darts at a board?), the SF Prime (£25) and the Speed Stars Bumblebee track (£25, which incidentally looks like it's far less involved with less to it than the RPM Devastator track).
I see here that SF Optimus Prime's retail price in the US is $24.95 so the up-to-£30 price-tag over here is especially mental.
(http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/hub-press-releases---hubworld-to-be-updated-with-the-programming-schedule-toys-from-hub-shows-170648/)
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 28, 2010 18:22:23 GMT
Grimlock RRPs at 60 quid in TRU. Not sure about the HFTD gear but I think the leaders were on the computer at 40 and the voyagers 20. That may be inaccurate. It sounds like the display was in mid-redesign and pricing tends to fall by the wayside if there aren't enough guns to go around, or if the blueshirt doing it can't be arsed or (just as likely) is under too much time pressure to get it finished to run off and get a gun before they're finished. Good times.
I hope the Stealth Force do well, but I suspect they won't.
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