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Toy Spotting / Shopping Thread!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    this went up today.

    https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformers-legends-lg-ex-metroplex-reissue.html

    im raging as i spent a fortune on the ACG edition literally just a few weeks back. but at least it means you guys have a second stab at the lad.

    it seems to be basically a slight repaint, with the chromed fact/hips, and the second blaster. so basically the SDCC version without the mini figs to display on him and white landing strips instead of black.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    this went up today.

    https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformers-legends-lg-ex-metroplex-reissue.html

    im raging as i spent a fortune on the ACG edition literally just a few weeks back. but at least it means you guys have a second stab at the lad.

    it seems to be basically a slight repaint, with the chromed fact/hips, and the second blaster. so basically the SDCC version without the mini figs to display on him and white landing strips instead of black.

    I presume it's a re-release of / identical to the 2013 Takara Generations Release. Was a possibility as soon as Trypticon was confirmed. Takara ran a poll to see what people wanted reissued, but Legends Fortress didnt make the minimum order quantiy. So i suppose it's this instead. It'll be fairly limite, and prob won't get that pre-order discount (in Japan) that so many TT items get. You prob have the rarest version of the toy, but reissues are always a risk these days. Esp if they see secondary market prices climbing.

    I might jump on this myself. Someone has been trying to twist my arm into selling them my Hasbro Metroplex.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    ah its more a timing thing.

    ive only recently got back into buying the figs and its more a "chance to get the figs i missed as a kid" kick thanks to the love "generations" is getting off the producers.

    ive fond memories of having G1 metroplex in my mits in dunnes stores in tallaght in '86 but by the time i saved up the gosh to buy him he was rotated out of stock. so he was always a bit of a "grail" fig (like swoop ! )

    in a weird way TF made me a better business head as it forced me to deal with a budget and make hard choices :D

    the ACG lad i picked up was ironically the cheapest i could find with the second blaster (i think it looks much better in his city mode as an additional tower and makes the battlestation mode look more symetricial with two mounted on his ramp/landing platforms) as the SDCC one is going for absolutely mental prices. so i'dve had no prob opting for this new lad.

    in other news theres been a bit on the business programs from morgan stanley saying they predict the STG/EURO exchange rate is gonna hit parity in 6months.

    now similar has been said about US/EURO and it DID get damn close but then drifted again so take their advice with a pinch of salt.

    anyway the point is its REALLY hitting sites like amazon. right now ya can pick up a trypticon off them -with free post- for 172 euro and some odd change . if the report is on the money then ya could be looking at picking him up for circa 150 quid down the road and that Takara Reissue of metroplex would look to hit RIGHT in the middle of that inflection point.

    just something to think on.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Anyone After a SkyLynx!

    Then you may want to check your Local Heatons!
    Managed to nab two for myself and a Mate over the weekend!

    They also have Onslaught! If anyone hasn't got one at this stage!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    just surfing smyths website and theyve a sale going on and the price cut on trypticon is a fairly decent 30 quid.

    he's going for €149.99 now.

    the deluxes are only down to 21.99 though.

    when you look at fort max now i think you could be cheeky and hold out for a €100 euro price down the road but right now considering he's just out its a good deal IMO.

    ALSO Nitro Zeus is up for 39.99. pretty much the only movie fig i want right now (i wanted to pick up steelbane too but apparently he's floppy as **** on the joints front. so may plump for the dragonstorm instead- who's also up for 78.99)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    just surfing smyths website and theyve a sale going on and the price cut on trypticon is a fairly decent 30 quid.

    he's going for €149.99 now.

    the deluxes are only down to 21.99 though.

    when you look at fort max now i think you could be cheeky and hold out for a €100 euro price down the road but right now considering he's just out its a good deal IMO.

    ALSO Nitro Zeus is up for 39.99.
    pretty much the only movie fig i want right now (i wanted to pick up steelbane too but apparently he's floppy as **** on the joints front. so may plump for the dragonstorm instead- who's also up for 78.99)

    I don't wanna say "don't get your hopes" cause i was wrong about Trypticon... but the odds of Nitro appearing at retail here are pretty slim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Deano7788


    Heads up for anyone still thinking of getting Trypticon. Smyths have a deal where if you spend €150 in store this weekend only you get 30 off so add something small and you can get it for about 120 (as I just did...)


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭AxlF


    Deano7788 wrote: »
    Heads up for anyone still thinking of getting Trypticon. Smyths have a deal where if you spend €150 in store this weekend only you get 30 off so add something small and you can get it for about 120 (as I just did...)

    What's he like Deano - do you have Metroplex too?
    I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger as the sale is nearly over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Deano7788


    AxlF wrote: »
    What's he like Deano - do you have Metroplex too?
    I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger as the sale is nearly over.

    Really like him. I don't have Metroplex (looking at the Takara rerelease potentially) but do have Fort Max. In robot mode he's shorter but kind of bulkier, and his base mode is great and fairly comparable in size. The one issue being his head just sticking out the back. I do much prefer it to Fort Max's though.

    Haven't had any issues with the hips yet so hoping that was resolved in later batches.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭AxlF


    Deano7788 wrote: »

    Haven't had any issues with the hips yet so hoping that was resolved in later batches.

    Great, that's what I was hoping to hear. I've got Hasbro Metroplex and he definitely needs a dance partner ☺️


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Some news from the lads of Dublin City comics.

    https://youtu.be/dewiDGRdpLg


    Dublin City Comics 2:The Sequel
    103/104 Capel Street, Dublin 1.
    Our 2nd store that now caters for secondhand Toys, Comics , Trades and more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    just to give a heads up kapow toys have got a stock of the hascon releases this year.

    so it arcee with ultra magnus (titan return head) and grotusque with scorponok (titan return head)

    but theyre pricey.

    arcee is 50 quid and grotusque is near 62.

    to put that in perspective theyve got leader class overlord in stock for 65 whilst the latter lads are essentially deluxe remolds of blurr and twinferno, and ALL are pre postage of about 15 quid.

    still if they float your boat heres your chance.

    https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformers-types/titans-return.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Not enough love for them to pay that price.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    Talk of a Takara version. Suppose there's enough new tooling in it that we may see the mold again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    Just to give a heads up amazon us is flogging titans return six shot for $35.50

    [url] https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Generations-Titans-Decepticon-Revolver/dp/B01BY1KSXC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1509381795&sr=8-1&keywords=transformers+sixshot&linkCode=sl1&tag=bensworoftra-20&linkId=86bad95bcfff7d5df11af37ddc7a1c6d[/url]

    Dunno what total is with tax etc cause I'm on the phone but with the exchange rate it should still be a great deal for those that missed him in stores here.

    EDIT.

    uk AMAZON selling trypticon for 136.58 euros including postage.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071LG12WX/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

    best price ive seen for the big guy so far. got him myself already for 150 in smyths though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Deano7788


    If anyone has any interest in the new Power of the Primes line/ combining dinobots/ evolving primes, wave 1 is up for preorder on Kapow with an expected arrival of 1st December.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    Dropped into Smyth in Tallaght, they're flogging titans return trypticon for €139.99

    Leader movie megs and prime are goin for 59.99 too


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Arquinsiel


    Tesco is starting to get Six Shot in for 48-ish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    movie leader megatron is up for €45.77 for the next 8 hours on amazon.co.uk due to their "cyber monday" sale.

    ditto for movie drift and baracade

    who are going for about 25.14 each

    now the deluxes in smyths are 26 odd right now so theres not much saving on them, but if ya get two together you qualify for free postage which means ya can pick up baracade and drift (for an example) for 36.62 all in.

    which works out at 18 euro odd each inc postage. so thats not a bad deal if your looking for movie deluxes on the cheap

    plus theyre still looking for near 60 for megs and prime so its a good drop off for that.

    saddly theres no generations stuff up on the sale.

    on the amazon.com US site however theres a few. 07 leader class move optimus is up for 29 dollars odd which including post/tax equals €48.41 euro. personally i dont like that one as i think its too chunky but if it floats your boad you can nab it at that price for the next 15hrs (its reduced from 79 dollars)

    theyve got TR trypticon up for 97 dollars .

    but unfortunately even though it converts to about €117 due to post and taxes it comes in at €144 - which is a fiver more than ya can get the guy in smythes right now with their 139.99 deal.

    still theyre "taxes" is somewhat of a guesstimate at time. i ordered a generations metroplex off em and got a tenner more back in tax than i was expecting when it was all processed so if you want to take a chance on it there ya go.

    happy hunting guys.

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Arquinsiel


    Smyths might actually still be cheaper if their "black friday" deal is still going.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    dropped into the one in tallaght on the way home yesterday and they were back at the usual prices.

    missed black friday there as was stuck in work, heard it was a total nightmare with hour long ques from the opening.

    on me last post, i plumped for the leader movie megs in the end. 45 quid aint bad for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    Trypticon is now €115 in Smyths.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭V9


    Starscream and Grimlock listed on the Smyths site.


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Arquinsiel


    So is Swoop, but no other Deluxe as of yet. Out of stock everywhere still though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    overlords up on amazon.com for 30 dollars, which after post and conversion is 46 euro odd.

    doesnt seem to be any import tax either cause its so cheap


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    theyre also doing a deal on power of the primes swoop so you can pick him up inc postage for 21 euro odd.

    which is basically sale price here.

    dont know how long itll last though. looks like a "year end" deal.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Titan master Astrotrain and (i think) Alpha trion are €16! in Tesco in Naas ..some smaller ones like perceptor are 10 ..havent seen them in any other tesco so no idea if its just in Naas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    dropped into heatons in the square in tallaght on a whim.

    theyve got 2 combiner wars onslaughts on sale for €15 if anyone still fancies him.

    picked up the only Skylynx they had left meself for the same price.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    HAD to post this one

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01JLRI0N6/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_40?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A12AEI8WBBTBPE

    dont know how long itll stay this cheap but a SDCC fort max for at whats todays rate turns into €80.90 with post included is a GREAT deal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Get thee to Toymaster if you want some Leader action.

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    they also had these little guys.
    But I may have gotten the last of them. Unless they have more to put out.

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    He's pretty nifty.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    lads over in seibertron.com have been saying battletraps been popping up all over the place with no warning.

    :D

    have to say i'd pick him up for pure nostaliga as i got the G1 version for my cousin for a birthday and always regreted not picking one up for myself.

    great to see prime out as he's the main fig from this line i really want (well besides volcanicus :) ) so i'll deffo be making a bee line for him.

    picked up a few deluxes off amazon.com which were fair cheap thanks to the exchange rate. got jazz swoop slug and prime master leige maximo

    the prime masters are TINY , literally half the size of a legends fig, but adorable. seriously the detail in the skullgrin shell is gorgeous. i was a bit blaise on them but now ive decided to pick em all up as their just fun figs.

    oh and for those wondering you can keep moving swoops outer wings in to meet behind his back to attain a G1 look for the character (the one thing i didnt like in his promo shots was his wings just hanging down in bot mode)

    gotta say im well chuffed to have a proper swoop in my collection. he's definitely the best deluxe in the first wave . i do love my jazz though, he got a fair bit of flack off the reviewer community on youtube but he looks great to me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall



    gotta say im well chuffed to have a proper swoop in my collection. he's definitely the best deluxe in the first wave . i do love my jazz though, he got a fair bit of flack off the reviewer community on youtube but he looks great to me

    I'm just not up for replacing Generations Jazz with him. Battletrap is great! Two nice legends figures. And a wonderful combined from.

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    Tailgates ok too.

    i think I would have been more interested in the prime masters if they where heads than faceless symbols. But the pretenders are nice enough.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    yeah its the shell im getting them for.

    plus its looking like both grimlock and hungarr (i presume) wont have any weapons coming with them bar the prime armour/feet so im gonna use em to arm up the voyager lads.

    i dropped into toymaster on jervis st today but they'd none of the leader/legends lads left. they DID have prime masters though going for €7 so i picked up vector prime (cause for some reason on amazon theyre not shipping him to ireland despite me being able to get both leige maximo and micronus prime. )

    oh and they had a sixshot going for €60 so if anyone missed out on him there ya go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Dublin City comics have the Autoclones set on the shelves.
    Along with Octone whom I only bough cause he has a ghost Starscream head included.
    As well as the Takara Targetmasters figures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Toymaster and Smyth have had Wave 1 Voyagers and Deluxs from Power of the primes this weekend in Dublin and Waterford!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Wave 1 deluxs back in Toy master


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    picked up a grimlock from jervis st on marks info.

    gotta say he's ALOT better looking in person than the pics of him imply. the combiner feet as wolverine-esque gauntlets arent as obtrusive as they seem and micronus prime in weapon mode is perfect from him.

    not only does it evoke his old "twin stunner" rifle, the colour scheme fits hims perfect.

    and hey grimlock with a twin gatling gun?

    match made in heaven.

    :D

    i cant wait for snarl and sludge to be released as the three lads together look great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    :D

    i cant wait for snarl and sludge to be released as the three lads together look great.

    They do. It's just a shame Sludge is not gona tower over the rest. Heres to a knock off oversized figure!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭V9


    Any trypticons out in the wild anymore?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Deano7788


    V9 wrote: »
    Any trypticons out in the wild anymore?

    Smyths seem to be out of stock but Kapow have it in their current sale for 90 sterling if that's any use.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    studio series grimlock up for sale on amazon.com for $49.99

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072KD9T3H/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

    with the import duties and conversion it worked out as 63.84 euro for me.

    i SERIOUSLY doubt were gonna see this lad in bricks and mortar retail store here so this looks to be the best price so far for the guy. seeing as he's the only one from the line i want im more than happy to pay 3 quid more than a sixshot at retail for him.

    dunno how long this price point will remain as all the other prices are in the late 70s and higher for him and the UK amazon site is looking for over a hunderd euro to get him.

    anyway wanted to give the heads up.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    studio series grimlock up for sale on amazon.com for $49.99

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072KD9T3H/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

    with the import duties and conversion it worked out as 63.84 euro for me.

    i SERIOUSLY doubt were gonna see this lad in bricks and mortar retail store here so this looks to be the best price so far for the guy. seeing as he's the only one from the line i want im more than happy to pay 3 quid more than a sixshot at retail for him.

    dunno how long this price point will remain as all the other prices are in the late 70s and higher for him and the UK amazon site is looking for over a hunderd euro to get him.

    anyway wanted to give the heads up.

    :D
    That design is horrible. I still don't understand folks digging it! A horrendous bot/Dino mode. And a complete characterization miss for me!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    speaking for myself its just how bang on it is to the film.

    im not a fan of bays overly complicated take on the bots and cons and have picked up very few of the toys from those lines . oddly enough "revenge of the fallen" seems to have the honor of most purchase's despite it being CLEARLY the worst film in the franchise.

    i just dug the asymetric thing they were doing then with bots like arcee , chromia and sideswipe with his wheel feet.

    even if you HATE the designs you gotta admit this version is LEAGUES ahead of the actual leader class Grimlock toy that came out for "edge of extinction". the head sculpt alone in bot mode is amazing.

    i doubt i'll even transform it that much TBH. Just sticking it on the shelf in bot mode next to "last night" leader megs. bar possibly a nitro zeus this lads probably going to be my last movie purchase.

    as for character micheal bay has a PERFECT grasp of Grimlocks character......

    ...ok he keeps calling him "optimus prime" , but its a perfect Grimlock.

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Arquinsiel


    DCC has a boxed and a second hand Nitro Zeus in at the moment, one per store. They are understandably spendey. I'd be more inclined to wait for Studio Series Thundercracker and try a headswap with some Titans Return character.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    amazons got snarl and sludge up for $16.99 which including shipping/tax is a little over €22 euro each.

    i dont know why but for ages theyve been at a higher price point so i picked both of em up so i can have some volcanicus fun.

    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭ChopShop


    Arquinsiel wrote: »
    DCC has a boxed and a second hand Nitro Zeus in at the moment, one per store. They are understandably spendey. I'd be more inclined to wait for Studio Series Thundercracker and try a headswap with some Titans Return character.

    https://hlj.com/product/TKT89175-2

    About 33 euro shipped by SAL, if you're willing to wait for it to turn up.

    Everytime i've used registered SAL, customs have pounced on me. Even for low value items.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    Dropped into Smyth on jervis St on way to work.

    They've got voyager nitro zeus and scorn for 39.99 and studio series starscream.

    Didn't expect the latter at all.

    Oh and behind the counter they got on trypticon for 114 euro, so for that lad that was looking for him there ya go.

    EDIT.

    meant to say went into toymaster too. they had a few leader megs going for 79 euro, and theyve a rake of the battletrap figs for 15 euro each. still no sign of leader evolution prime back yet though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭MarkHall


    Anyone after generations Bludgeon. He's popped up in Mr price in Blanch for 12.99.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭V9


    Potp leaders in Ken Black's. Wave 1.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    picked up that nitro zeus and amazon delivered the last two dinos i needed for volcanicus.

    snarl's a bit buggerd up. one of the ports is malformed and one of his spinal plates was bent out of shape but i could fix that with a little heat application.

    just finished combining the lads.

    mother of christ its huge. he IS rather skinny from the side and he does lean forward but you can mess with the feet to sort that.

    been using the extra fists to bulk him out like is suggested but have also used them to store the guns from slag and sludge (pointing up parallel to grims dino head) which looks ok, whilst i have him wielding the swords in each hand as daggers- so theres no superfluous kibble left over.

    he looks great combined and the scale is impressive if youve got slash in raptor mode beneath him. cant advice getting him enough.

    TBH its the first of the new combiners ive assembled (computrons still in the box) and if anything he's got me excited for abominus

    :D


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