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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2017 19:06:55 GMT
I'm expecting much of the line to debut in discount stores!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2017 19:17:44 GMT
I've got Nitro and Cogman coming from HLJ, because Titanmaster compatibility, but that's it. Primus might have tempted me if it had come out there, but it hasn't :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2017 19:18:48 GMT
I predict that Primus will turn up in B&M for £30 by next Summer.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2017 19:39:04 GMT
I have £30 if it does..... But it's a TRU exclusive so I'm not holding my breath!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2017 20:01:54 GMT
Well in my experience TRU often do not sell their own exclusives so you never know!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Dezzeh on Sept 3, 2017 20:11:52 GMT
I've got the Japanese leader MEgatron on the way, same cost posted as the version over here and much prefer the colours, so why the hell not.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2017 20:14:28 GMT
Well in my experience TRU often do not sell their own exclusives so you never know!!! -Ralph TRU hve been quite good with their TF exclusives, especially the Movie exclusives: I've seen most of them over here. The absence of any TLK ones has come as a surprise. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2017 20:58:35 GMT
My experience with the Edinburger store is that they don't stock their own exclusives!
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Sept 3, 2017 21:15:14 GMT
The only real movement in the TLK line recently has been the arrival of 'Ot Rods in Asda, for silly prices. I want me an Infernocus. :-(
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2017 15:44:42 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Sept 8, 2017 22:46:18 GMT
Yes, that's all very well and good, but that movie thing they're tying into is long gone now. Odd move on Hasbro's part, there...
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 9, 2017 9:43:38 GMT
I thought that. Given wave three of the movie toys hasn't surfaced (or has it in America?), a whole new concept based on a film that's already been largely forgotten seems a bit redundant. I suppose it depends on whether the returns for TLK change Hasbro's plans. They were clearly going for a film a year constant rolling programme approach, and the laks/images/reveals we've had for the movie stuff implied it would keep going into next year to keep momentum before the BB movie, but I wonder if that's changed in the wake of TLK's reception. I remember Hasbro giving that conflicting news that what we've seen from the Premier line was everything for TLK, but that the line itself wasn't finished.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2017 12:21:59 GMT
Perhaps Allspark cubes also pop up in whatever the new kids cartoon is?
As for the movies, a press release had stated June releases in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for The Last Knight, Bumblebee and Untitled. As the Bumblebee release date has quietly shifted to Christmas 2018 it's reasonable to assume plans have changed. I can't see production stepping up to putting out Transformers films only 6 months apart. Studio plans change all the time.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 22, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Sept 22, 2017 22:37:35 GMT
Hooray! Bollocks.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2017 22:50:47 GMT
It's strange to live in a world when a Movie toy becomes so hard to get. Remember when the Movie lines sold like gangbusters?
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 22, 2017 23:08:00 GMT
Like we need more barricades and berserkers on the shelves.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 23, 2017 10:25:51 GMT
I reckon this means there'll be loads of them in Home Bargains and B&M in the spring. Hasbro will have made all these toys, no retailer wants them, so they'll get shoveled into the discount stores when the Bee movie hype starts.
(please).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 1, 2017 7:26:32 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Nov 3, 2017 21:06:15 GMT
Having finally opened most of my most recent purchases, I can now pass the following judgements:
The Allspark Cube figures are - in a revelation that'll surprise no-one - shite. Sure, they didn't look like good toys to begin with, but at least the Cube gimmick looked fun. And it would be. If it worked properly. Which it doesn't. And I've only got two so far, but both Prime and Drift share the same vehicle mode noises; I suspect this is why there's been no actual Megatron release, because they couldn't be bothered to come up with a suitable sound set. On the plus side, both Prime and Drift are suitably psychotic, and Drift reminds me a lot of the old Ertl Knight Rider KITT transforming figure. So that's something.
Infernocus, on the other hand, is great fun. Although mostly because I got it cheap in the TRU sale. The unified colour scheme works really well, even on the individual figures. And although it could be a negative that Skulk, the new central figure, doesn't actually have his own alt mode, it doesn't really matter. Because he's got two skull faces. He's metal as fuck. And looks brilliant.
And the Deluxe Megatron is pretty good too. I never had the original Gen 30 version of the mode, but this is really nice. The colours work nicely, I like the way that he basically collapses into jet mode, and the new head sculpt is very nicely Megatron. Happier with both him and Infernocus than I am with the Allspark Cube figures. But then, who here is surprised by that..?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 3, 2017 21:25:34 GMT
A I right in thinking the batteries can't be replaced in The Allspark cube figures?
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Post by Llama God on Nov 3, 2017 22:31:59 GMT
The Cube itself is the power source. Of course. Just like in that film. And it's rechargable - comes with a micro-USB charging cable. Not quite like in that film.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 3, 2017 22:58:51 GMT
"GIVE ME THE MICRO-USB CHARGING CABLE, BOYYYY!!!"
-Ralph
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Nov 4, 2017 0:04:54 GMT
It would be a short ending.
'Yeah, the boy wouldn't give me the cable so I got one on Amazon. Next day delivery as well.'
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Post by Toph on Nov 11, 2017 17:13:43 GMT
Out of the blue I found wave two!!!
Ridiculously, I may add. The TF shelves are only half full. And several cases worth were all stacked on the very top shelfe where you can't even see what they are, save for the bottom of the boxes.
Except for one Slug, which had been stocked to the somewhat spartan pegs.
I only realized the above was wave two, because of slug.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 24, 2017 0:51:14 GMT
Very impressed with the voyager Megatron. Excellent robot mode that has a movie accurate silhouette, only flaw is hollow forearms for the fists to fold into, everything else is proportionally right and very posable. Ankle rockers mean he always stands well. The transformation is clever and turns a near kibble free robot into a really nice jet. Vaguely reminiscent of RotF Jetfire's. Really well executed figure.
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Post by primenova on Dec 26, 2017 18:25:11 GMT
Spotted Infernocus & also the spark cube pack Sqweeks
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2018 15:48:13 GMT
Who else bought a cheap Primus?
Have a look at the clear blue spikes on his bottom flap. Do they point slightly up or slightly down? Now have a look along the top edge of the clear blue panel which includes the spikes: is there a gap?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2018 19:51:31 GMT
Mind the gap!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 27, 2018 20:10:50 GMT
I did not buy a cheap Primus. I often think I ought to, but it's a toy that doesn't have a home in my collection. Wouldn't fit with anything.
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