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Post by blueshift on Jan 4, 2017 19:52:14 GMT
Argh! I hate sales like this. Makes me feel foolish paying full price when next year I can/could pick up a full years run for £120 next January. Ah but then if you rely on that happening, it wont!! |
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 4, 2017 20:03:45 GMT
I know. Either way I lose.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2017 20:46:09 GMT
Whoever wins, we lose.
-Ralph
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Post by inflatabledalek on Jan 4, 2017 21:10:50 GMT
And Hachette do listen. The big complaint about the Who one was the incredibly inept proof reading. Sentences cut off in the middle, repeated information, the format of the cover text (is it "Story" or "Stories"), enough people moaned though that they did sort the problem out and for most of this year have paid the intern who checks these things a bit more to do a better job of it. Sorry to take this thread off topic, but at what point do the problems with the Doctor Who collection cease? I slightly regret not subscribing to it, as I would have loved the "bonus" Graphic Novels that were part of the enhanced subscription, but I've just been cherry picking the 2nd & 6th Doctor ones instead. Reason I ask and hijack this thread temporarily is I notice that the Hachette website is having a 50% off sale at the moment and so all the Who, Marvels and Dredds are only £5 each. I might grab some of the Who ones but I'd sooner avoid the ones that have problems. Bringing it back on topic - those of you who aren't bothered about subscribing to the TF Generation 1 collection might want to wait until next January. Not sure if Hachette do this every year, but you might be able to pick up everything (so far) half price if you do! Thanks for any info. IIRC the last book (in publication order) to have a really notable error was the Spearhead From Space book (cutting out the start of a paragraph about what Derrick Sherwin did next that now makes it look like Spearhead filmed months after the rest of the season). And they were on the decline before that. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2017 21:14:36 GMT
Thanks for the heads up re: the sale, Kinggrimlock. I must snag some Dredd! -Ralph Except that the website just flashes whenever I click on the sale banner. Oh, the Hachette website...why do you make it so hard for me to give you money? -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2017 18:00:22 GMT
It's either poorly distributed or selling like hot cakes in Edinburgh. Still not seen it anywhere other than 3 badly water damaged copies in one Asda. Yes, I have checked all areas in the likes of WhSmith etc.
Intriguing.
I see the new MIND BODY SPIRIT, YOUR MATHEMATICAL WORLD and BUILD YOUR OWN RSD2 partworks everywhere though! Eaglemoss' Star Trek comic only seen in one newsagent.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 6, 2017 11:55:59 GMT
Ive seen it on 2 asdas and one local newsagent. In fact the only place ove not seen it where I'd expect is tesco, but I cant find any of the partworks in there.
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Post by Kingoji on Jan 6, 2017 13:21:31 GMT
I only found it in one independant newsagent in my nearest town. I went ahead and bought it despite owning the trial version. Yay me.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 6, 2017 13:27:59 GMT
I only found it in one independant newsagent in my nearest town. I went ahead and bought it despite owning the trial version. Yay me. It had to be done. A new TF series in the UK on the shelf in a newsagent. You can't pass that up. |
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Post by primenova on Jan 11, 2017 12:42:35 GMT
#2 not out in shops that had #1, maybe slight delay in release with the weather.
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Post by inflatabledalek on Jan 11, 2017 17:36:57 GMT
2 is out in Ireland at least as Nick Roche has been very proud of the copies in his home town people have been tweeting him.
Hopefully mine will have the correct address on it this time and won't have gotten lost as a result...
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Post by primenova on Jan 11, 2017 20:23:34 GMT
Got mine - just checking the spine art
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Post by Nigel on Jan 12, 2017 14:35:48 GMT
Mine arrived today. Nice little keyrings, though I was surprised to see no copyright markings on the items themselves, only the packet.
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Post by primenova on Jan 12, 2017 18:22:40 GMT
They'll only small anyway - Optimus on the spine instead of Megatron. They should have more stock in case parcel was damaged. Parcel box was bigger with the larger poster included.
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Post by Jaymz on Jan 12, 2017 21:24:30 GMT
I've got stock of 1, 2 and 3 in the shop for the signing on Saturday.
However! #1 is misprinted, with the wrong spine image. So not sure if it's a mistake across the board and everyone will need their #1s replaced, or if they mistakenly sent me the test version of #1 instead of the proper release. I don't have a proper release #1 to compare it to.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 15:18:17 GMT
Proper release has a different spine art to the trial issue.
Proper release of issue 2 has half of Optimus head on the spine, I can't remember what the test one had on it, but I'm assuming all 4 test issues will have to have different spine art from the retail releases since issue 1 does.
On a related note I saw somewhere on facebook someone said there had been 30000 subscriptions and Hachette only produced 10000 of each volume. If that is the case I wonder if it led to them bumbing up the initial length of the series to 80 volumes (the back of the issue 1 backing card still show 74 volumes of spine art)
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 15:19:33 GMT
Oh and does anyone know anything about the poster that comes with issue 1?
It looks familiar, is it 80s work or modern homage?
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Post by inflatabledalek on Jan 13, 2017 17:25:47 GMT
A misprint on the cover of some copies of Target means all subscribers are getting a free replacement! It is the Doctor Who and the Iron Legion of Transformers comics.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 17:37:40 GMT
Whats the misprint?
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Post by inflatabledalek on Jan 13, 2017 17:48:47 GMT
They don't say beyond it means the spine won't line up with the others. Only afftecs some copies apparently.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 18:03:57 GMT
Oh yeah I see whats happened. Some of the spines are offset by a few millimeters.
Costly mistake there.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 18:05:03 GMT
Wonder how they'll deal with non subscribers?
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Post by primenova on Jan 13, 2017 20:18:47 GMT
It says that all shop copies of #7 comes with copy of #1 & us subs get replacement copy with #7. The different spine is test Grimlock arm real Grimlock face. #2 Megatron real Optimus. They must be making enough money then for an error this size if the print runs are 40000 - if 10000 for shops. But most shops I've been in had 10 copies of #1.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 13, 2017 21:13:43 GMT
Where did they say that?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2017 21:38:04 GMT
Oh yeah I see whats happened. Some of the spines are offset by a few millimeters. Costly mistake there. THE MILLIMETRES!!! -Ralph |
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Post by duffism1981 on Jan 13, 2017 21:43:14 GMT
I received the email about the spine too. Issue 1 that I received today long with the key rings does have Grimlock's face on it, but looking at the picture on the poster the entire spine art work it may have supposed to be part of an arm. though the same poster art work does have Grimlocks face being split over two spines 4 & 5, while it is mostly 3/4 of his face on the actual spine.
The Autobot key ring I received had half of the paint missing from one of the eyes, but that will probably happen over time on it being ion a set of keys anyway.
I may have missed it, but they seem to have got Jazz and Prowl mixed up.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2017 21:48:02 GMT
I wouldn't go by the picture of the whole set, I would imagine that's just illustrative. I think I counted 76 books in it.
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Post by primenova on Jan 14, 2017 7:21:38 GMT
I've posted saying they should do a dust cover for it & being cheaper.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2017 9:48:55 GMT
Hi.
The thread is being bogged down with dozens of posts about delivery issues so discussion of content is being lost. I'm closing this thread and creating two separate threads to make things easier.
-Ralph
ANDU HERE
SPOOKY EH!, I'll hive off the content posts from this thread into the content thread and the subs/delivery issues into their thread!
WOOOOOOOOO!
I AM HAUNTING RALPH!
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