Toy Spotting / Shopping Thread!

have to admit as a long time comic fan that scrounge DID hit all the right emotional buttons on me.

but its undeniable the unite warriors set is better looking.

still nice to see a set appear at all.

Tiggerhappy looks to be the only dude in wave 3 that I will bother to get.

was up in smyths in tallaght today and theyve got the wave 3 lads in.

everyone cept break[down]away.

no gosh though unfortunately so ill have to wait till next week to get triggerhappy and with em only hitting the shelves now there should be no problem

on an aside kapow have got broadsides and skyshadows in stock for those waiting for them. also smyths seem to have got sentinel primes and even the odd alpha trions back in .

Seems like Gnaw is lost in a sea of Bumblebees, and Kickback is shortpacked this wave.

By which I mean I got both in Toymaster.

cheers for the heads up mark !

kapow have been out of six shot for ages and i regret not getting the lad so if i can pick up one of him tomorrow i will.



hopefully we'll all get a chance to pick up a few gnaws too.

by the way there was a story on seibertron about the next line (power of the primes) which makes it sound like targetmasters (or something like it, theres talk of weapons platforms). and they seem to be compatible with titan masters so they should fit in the alt modes of this line no prob and be to scale with the base's

anyway the BIG news is the Dinobots are finally getting released in that line, all of em. along with more of the latter g1 stuff like turbomasters from 88/89 . gotta be honest i dont care about the gimmick im just happy at the idea of modern day articulated G1 dinos. they should be bad ass.

the next titan after Trypticon is said to be Scorponok too. by the way kapow toys have the tarkara version of trypticon up on their site as a pre order for circa €233 with a release date for august so the Hasbro one should be out about the same time or prehaps a little earlier. going by what happened with fort max it looks like he should be circa €150 or so. though ya might have to wait for a sale price.

still least its a bit of info on the guy.

MarkHall wrote: »

What are their remaining numbers like Arquinsiel?

****tons of Bumblebees, a couple of Gnaws, and I may have gotten the last or only Kickback. Seems like Insecticon fans might be sad, but Sharkticon army builders will at least have a chance.

I guess, looking back, based on the conversation I had in there that they're taking deliberate anti-scalper action then. While people might want to army build Gnaw there are people who have been hoping for Kickback for two years now to finish the Insecticons.

theres tons of the lad so i can see a reduction alright.

may even pick him up meself if the price is right.

on the "class" issue i dont think its fair to say leaders dont sell. its more of a character issue from what i can see.

starsceam has clout among the fanbase but even though skywarp was one of the original characters i really wanted back in the day i dont see anything to justify the simply nuts levels of supply of the guy out there. i didnt even buy the lad.

from what i can remember magnus FLEW out when he was in stock in retail here, and we never got any leader megatron (generations/armada) which is just nuts . jetfire was a no show too. i got mine off amazon.

so making ALL your leader class stock essentially niche characters like the seekers seems like a recepie for "shelfwarmers".

i mean i bet combiner wars megs would fly out if he came in.

I have high hopes for the movie. A VW Camper AND a Mark IV in a single range? Can't wait to be disappointed.

There's "important" and "vital". I'm sure the extra 20% or so revenue they get from us is nice, but if we all stop collecting overnight Transformers will still be a successful toy property for Hasbro and they'll just double down on the shampoo bottle figures.

smyths have cut their prices on the deluxes and the voyagers. for life of me i cant remeber the exact price on the voyagers but its down from 31 to about 25 i think. so if ya fancy megs or prime theyve plenty in.

picked up a hotrod today for 18.99 in jervis st. they only seem to have wave 3 left in that scale.

loads of computrons in but its still at the 85 quid mark.

If nothing else vehicle mode will be good and we can confuse Nick by having a WWI game with Transformers on the table.

just to give you guys a head ups theres something weird going on with amazon.com (the US version of the site)

theyre offering titans return leader class sky shadow for prices alternating between $71 and $49.99.

it seems to be down to them getting stock in on the 11th (tomorrow) and the "Seller" alternating between themselves and another comercial seller they fullfill for.

anyway the reason im highlighting it is if ya get the amazon price of $49.99 even with the postage and import charges that comes to €75 (or less depending on the rate on the day)

thats the equvilent of a price here of €60 with €15 postage charge if ya think about it.

as sky shadow is one i dont think well get on our shelves ala jetfire here it may turn out to be the cheapest way of getting the lad for those of ya that want to add to your "phase sixer" line.

and hey he may even drop in price if you want to take the chance on that.



bear in mind though that six shots been out an age and he's still at the $48.99 price point on em. personally im waiting for trump to do something so it hits the dollar and i can snap him up for €70 or so.

yup.

just back from the one in fonthill. no change on the deluxes reduction (still 18.99) but the voyager titan returns prime is there for €25.5 and the voyager combiner war lads are all €10.

they had onslaught and scattershot but supply is getting low , particularly on that computron. theyve only 3 left . that €50 seems to be the magic number to shift him



theyve a few galvatrons left too but for the life of me i cant remember the price he's going for. i want to say 25 but am not certain. its deffo less than the 31 he was though.

EDIT.

Just checked out smyths website.

MAJOR updates on it . if ya can find them leader prime and blaster are 25.5 but the whole of wave 4 is there and were getting sky shadow and broadside too



59.99 and 31.99 respectively so there goes me using amazon to get the lad ! heaven alone knows when theyll hit the shevles but at least now it looks like they will be.

picked up that computron set in smyths in tallaght for €50 euro today as its basically 8 quid a figure now.

seen my FIRST "Last Knight" product too.

a prime voice changer mask for €99. not my thing but it means the movie stuff should be hitting soon.

Tesco had a buttload of Last Knight stuff in today. Everything from the repackaged and new Deluxes to the Tiny Turbo Changer blind baggies. Some of the Prime Cyberverse stuff repainted to be Movie characters too.

ETA: oh and Smyth's in Swords has the TR Prime and Megs down to 25 and change, as well as the downscaled Warriors with Minicon armour packs down to a tenner.

Looks like it's saying 26.99 there. The local didn't have the prices up yet. Some of the deluxes are just repaints of AoE ones, but the new Berzerker and Barricade look okay. Not 27 quid okay, but maybe on clearance I'll get one.

They look decent TBH, and well worth risking a tenner on at some point.