Rhode Island Transformers Sightings

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  1. Fast_Draw

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    They had 5 of each of the 1st edition voyagers at 7 AM yesterday. The discs came in today.
     
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    meet and greet

    Hello all, I am setting up a New England Transformer Collectors Group Meet and Greet. Comicazi @ 407 Highland Ave in Somerville Mass. 02144 has been nice enough to donate us a space to hold this meeting. The scheduled date is Sunday January 27th from 4:00 pm untill 7:00 pm. Please consider this a formal invitation. This is a free event. Also, feel free to bring a few bots to show off, talk about and display. So come on down and meet some fellow collectors, "untill all are one." This event is hosted by JETFIRE-XL. Feel free to pass this invite along if there is someone you know that might like to attend.
     

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    A few FE Bulkheads and one FE Prime along with the new botshot sets and those Beast Hunters Soundwaves and Wheeljacks are at TRU in N. Attleboro as of late last night.
     
  4. Dolf

    Dolf New England Transformers Collectors Group member

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    Is FOC Magnus out in RI/Mass yet?
     
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    I have only seen them at the Toy Vault before the holidays.


    I have a few extras I'd like to sell locally. I'd prefer local pickup. If you want me to ship them, then that would be extra and you would have to add in the PayPal fee. Here's what I have:

    FoC Shockwave MoC x 1 = $10
    DotM Skyhammer MISB x 1 = $20 (Headrobots and Lucky Rogers by Toy Design both have a 3rd party add-on kit coming out for him in 2013)
    2012 BotCon Spinister loose/complete x 1 = $50

    $75 for all 3. PM me if interested. I have some GI Joe stuff, too...check HissTank or PM me if you're interested in that. Thanks!
     
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    And right on cue I find the good remnants of FoC wave 3 at a Walmart tonight. For some reason both Ultra Magnus figures were gone along with 1 Starscream. I grabbed the other Starscream, the Kickback, and the Air Raid. They were $15.96 each.
     
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    The Spinister figure may be sold. If you're interested in the other 2, $25 for both.
     
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    R.I. whats up

    Hello all, I am setting up a New England Transformer Collectors Group Meet and Greet. Comicazi @ 407 Highland Ave in Somerville Mass. 02144 has been nice enough to donate us a space to hold this meeting. The scheduled date is Sunday January 27th from 4:00 pm untill 7:00 pm. Please consider this a formal invitation. This is a free event. Also, feel free to bring a few bots to show off, talk about and display. So come on down and meet some fellow collectors untill all are one. This event is hosted by JETFIRE-XL. Feel free to pass this invite along if there is someone you know that might like to attend. PM me to RSVP
     

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    AAAHHHHHH TRU in Warwick is flooded with MP Thundercracker and Weaponizer Optimus and Bumblebee. Soo much for some new fun stuff around here!
     
  10. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    Dolf New England Transformers Collectors Group member

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    ^ That is pretty annoying; thankfully I got my hands on one through a fellow board member.


    Fellow RI's -- looking for FOC Magnus now, any sightings?
     
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    Damn, I wanted MP10 in a huge way for store prices. bastard. Hope he gets robbed.
     
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    Holy crap. I really wanted to get that for my brother for Xmas and ended up getting him MP TC instead. That really does piss me off. I also think it's messed up I had better luck toy hunting at Xmas at my Dad's house in California than I've ever had here. *I hate scalpers*
     
  14. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    I just hope these things actually appear on our store shelves. Warwick, North Attleboro, and Swansea still do not have a price tag on the shelf for him.
     
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    It seems that shipped sailed. I never saw them at retail, but I wasn't really looking for them either. I know all of the stores got some though. Your best bet at this point is eBay or trading with someone on the board.
     
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    Well. If anyone local has one they want to sell or trade for, contact me and come window shopping on my shelves.
     
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    You guys do know you can order from a Wholesaler (if you have a tax ID number) like this guy did right? I know people who know him.. TRU won't let you take boxes out the store without them being opened store policy.
     
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    Just like Fast Draw said that ship sailed a looonnnggg time ago.....

    Everyone expects they should hit their local TRU when all of you guys had the chance to drive an hour and grab one example Brockton, Dedham, Auburn, Peabody etc.. all had these and were listed in the sightings and none of you drove to get them? Can't complain when people have listed them in the sightings and there were like 20+ of them at the store.. And if someone on here helped you and offered to drive to get one would you offer to fill their tank full of gas???

    Can't cry when you had the chances to get one.....
     
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    Sorry, I work all day and when I'm not working I'm running my personal sewing business (working more). Last thing I want to do is use up 1/2 a tank of gas driving 2 hours to possibly get one. I don't think it's too much to expect for our local TRUs to have them.
     
  20. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    No, no I really didn't know you could do such a thing, let alone for a product that is supposed to be exclusively sold at one retailer. If I had known we could do such a thing, then I gladly would have ordered at least 2 cases for me, my brother, and our friends who also came up empty handed. Heck, I would have done this for many other items I could not find.

    Not all of us have the time to drive that far, even worse with the chance of arriving there to find nothing. Gas IS expensive. I even have the luxury of having friends in those parts who also went and looked, and they came up empty handed as well. Locally, I went to the stores and WAS TURNED AWAY by the stockers because "they were on hold" or "they were being held until street date" and this was after they had hit shelves. Only one of my friends got 1 at North Attleboro but his accompanying friend couldn't get the second one because the stock boy, who seemed like he didn't want to sell them to customers, wouldn't let him. I was then informed by the folks in the RI/Mass sightings threads on Hisstank that the North Attleboro location has two individuals that do not stock certain inventory so they themselves can buy it and flip it on eBay for profit. The manager at the store has his hands tied because these two people place the items on the shelves early in the morning and then immediately remove them for purchase, exploiting a store policy loophole to their advantage. Anything they know to be of value Transformers, Marvel, DC, etc. goes. I even placed orders for these on ToyRus.com when they were listed as "In Stock" and all my orders got cancelled. So yeah, it's not like I sat back and blew it off. I tried my damned hardest to avoid eBay.

    I'm sorry, but when a hobby you enjoyed starts to become a rat-race, pain-in-the-ass, every-man-for-himself deal just follow along and keep up with, I really being to grow tired of it.