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Post by elliotthopkins on Jun 4, 2008 12:13:45 GMT
Reading's Poundland doesn't get any good KOs.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jun 28, 2008 17:16:54 GMT
The new Poundland shop in my area has another set of Cybertron KOs under the Power Warrior brand. The three pack is sold in variations of four toys - Brimstone, Scourge, Nemesis Breaker and Scourge in their smaller forms. I urge you to avoid them, they appear to be constructed using random bits of unpainted yellow and green plastic and look horribly brittle.
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Post by mellowshade on Jul 8, 2008 6:07:41 GMT
The 99p store had two differenct knock offs last week. A bright green Reverse Convoy that only had the Megatron head.
Some Gobots, the big chunky kiddies toys. There were two on offer a steapth bomber and a bulldozer. I know that the bomber when originally released was larger than the deluxe sized knock off I saw. It also ddn't have any electronics. Both the plane and the bulldozer had low rate copies of their original packaging.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 9, 2008 8:46:27 GMT
I saw some KOs in a local shop called "Yes! Everything really is £1!". Three to a box with some downsized Cybertron toys in them. I only recognised the one that was used for BotCon Goldbug and two other beast-like ones. They were about 4 inches tall and really poorly made!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2008 9:34:37 GMT
One of the Glasgow Poundland has some amusing KO's in. Several pegs of seemingly infinite variations of Armada Prime cab in wacky colours with a mixing drum on the back or a bit of flatbed truck, etc.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 9, 2008 13:17:36 GMT
Graham I picked up one of those yesterday. Leobreaker and Scrouge had been released before along with Brimstone but this time in some of the packs there was a new Basic sized legends Hotshot. They had about 12 of the Brimstone (Im thinking thats not the right name flying thingy one) packed ones and just one of the Hotshot ones. I got the Hotshot one. Gotta say as far as KO go I like basic Hotshot. They also come in quite a nice box for just £1. Leobreaker and Scrouge are just pants though.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Jul 9, 2008 16:05:44 GMT
I bought a couple of Alien Terminator things yesterday. They were KO's of Legends Leobreaker and Scourge. Both were 99p each.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2008 6:37:13 GMT
I saw these on Holiday - had some KO minicons on the back too.
Also saw some more RM Kos - the usual Mirage and Wrecker Hook plus one single R-Blade
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Post by Stomski on Jul 28, 2008 8:42:14 GMT
I bought a couple of Alien Terminator things yesterday. They were KO's of Legends Leobreaker and Scourge. Both were 99p each. Wanting to see what the Alien Terminator packaging looked like, I put it into google and found details of a film by the same name. My research also found this review which can be summed up by it's closing paragraph thus... Sweet. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 28, 2008 12:57:00 GMT
I must see this movie.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 13, 2008 18:47:18 GMT
The WORST Cheetor KOs ever currently available at Poundland. What is nice though they they come in Yellow, white and red and with a power ranger type ninja action figure.
Also oversized Landcross toys. Only saw three of them but one of them came with combiner parts, a foot I think.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2008 18:56:31 GMT
Landcross is bad enough if it's the original version !
Which cheetor ?
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 13, 2008 22:37:22 GMT
Original.   I gather that the robot arms have been done way with comletely and the beast head is fixed like that. Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2008 23:44:46 GMT
Quality tat!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2008 1:40:51 GMT
Not a Poundland special as such, but rather a Woolworths one.
I found some interesting Gobots knock-offs in the Woolworths "Worthit!" budget toys section today. Basically they are combiners made from full-sized-ish regular Gobot cores with four (identical) transforming limb robots for £2 a pop. I'm not sure if they are all based on Gobots/Machine Robo or not as my Gobot-fu is not what it once was.
They had Fitor with four small futuristic shuttle dudes, what looks like a police car version of Turbo with four tiny Cy-kill limbs (quite cute actually), a helicopter (possibly Twin-Spin) with some space ship limbs, a drill tank with sci-fi crane vehicle limbs, a fire engine who looked a bit like Ironhide's animation model with four ambulance limbs and another one (can't remember for the life of me what it was)
I got the Fitor one to test out as it looked the best of the bunch. He's not bad at all, decent quality for a KO and not too far off the real thing. The four smaller shuttles he comes with are quite nifty too. I'm not sure if the "futuristic" shuttles are based on an actual Gobot or not. I would guess so going by the quality of the design but it's not one I recognise. They are very similar to Fitor in robot mode. Overall I'm very pleased with the set. It doesn't feel like it's going to fall to bits and is great fun to fiddle with whilst messing around online. I wish I'd picked up the police Turbo/Cy-kill set as well now.
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Post by legios on Oct 7, 2008 5:44:58 GMT
Those sound like they are based on some of the more recent Machine Robo toys, rather than the old Gobots releases. Specifically the "Machine Robo Rescue" line from three or four years ago. That lines main gimmick was that most of the releases were combiners, with a core 'bot and then four identical limbs.
From the sounds of it Woolworths have got versions of a fair chunk of the line there.
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Oct 15, 2008 22:44:24 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2008 23:34:04 GMT
I never fail to be amused by crazy mental knockoffs!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 16, 2008 20:11:00 GMT
Seen those before. Lized some of the other stuff in the background though !
Local Pound shop has a pile of oversize LandCross KOs. I'm not fooled, no, no. I had the official reissue and it was poor.
They also had some motorbike tfs who's origin I did not recognise (not G2 bikes)
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Post by legios on Oct 16, 2008 20:23:15 GMT
Seen those before. Lized some of the other stuff in the background though ! I'd heard of the oversized mini-combiners turning up in the states - sadly not seen most of them over here. The Legends combiner looks somewhat crazy I have to say. The reissue Landcross isn't terribly good - less sturdy than the original release was back in the day. Karl |
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 23, 2008 14:43:41 GMT
My local Pound shop has oversized KOs of the Movie series spychangers in a variety of colours.
I can barely contain my desire to own a Barricade in bright yellow.
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Post by Hero on Oct 23, 2008 16:15:19 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2008 12:46:55 GMT
A trip to Staples today revealed a Brave combiner KO from the first series - a car/plane/tank combiner. 2 pieces per box, all 3 combinations availible
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2008 13:04:47 GMT
More.... the toy in question is God Max www.geocities.com/evattype01/GodMax.htmlThe jet is white, the car is red and the tank is green. All come with their hand weapons. The revolving chest gimmicks are intact They do combine as do their weapons. |
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 27, 2008 23:08:27 GMT
Ooo. That's interesting. When did Staples start selling toys?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 28, 2008 7:40:29 GMT
No idea. I've got a spare of the tank sitting here so if anyone wants a set all you need do is buy the jet/car pack. PM me if you need me to go back there.
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Post by Hero on Nov 4, 2008 13:00:48 GMT
I got my Brave KOs yesterday. They are awesome!
I think the Drill Tank is a tribute to the groundbased TF: Victory Breastforce members, he has a mixture of features from all three.
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Post by Hero on Nov 4, 2008 22:20:25 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 4, 2008 22:34:23 GMT
You did it then ?
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Post by Hero on Nov 5, 2008 0:16:35 GMT
I got a grown up to help me.
The way the notches and pegs alligned was simple after that. Shame the colours clash really badly, I think if the Wing Max was black instead of white...
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