United Kingdom Transformers Sightings

Discussion in 'Transformers Sightings' started by payres, Jul 10, 2003.

  1. awesomeist guy

    awesomeist guy the one REAL prime

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    well then all i say is THEY BETTER F*****G NOT HAVE DONE THAT
     
  2. rodster6

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    The site I ordered them from have now put them on pre-order and held back the dispatch date of my order till mid June. When I asked them why they said it was because Hasbro UK had cancelled wave 2 so they now had to order them from America and charge more in future to cover import charges. Maybe Hasbro only cancelled with that website or something?
     
  3. SgtLemon

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    I'm sure we will get Wave 2 eventually, they gave us Dragstrip and they need to give is Air Raid. Otherwise its gonna be a nightmare for their PR team.
     
  4. rodster6

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    I've e-mailed Hasbro UK and Toys R Us to see what they say. Didn't wave 2 get skipped in Germany apart from in Toys R Us?
     
  5. wildfly

    wildfly Fermenting pork tube.

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    They aren't too fussed. Trust me.

    One story contends they only recieve what Hasbro INC allows them to get based on surplus stock or production windows at the factory.


    I hope you enjoy cut and paste responses.
     
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  6. TILallrRUST

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    I feel bad for everyone waiting on a miracle for wave 2 to show up in the UK but it really doesn't effect me anymore as my Motormaster FINALLY came in the post today from Taiwan :D  and he is such a beauty!!! The only wave 2 Im after now is offroad but he's easy to pick up from Amazon.com and as I have wildrider im in no hurry to get offroad. Devastator takes priority now.
     
  7. awesomeist guy

    awesomeist guy the one REAL prime

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    annoyed about the wave 4 combiner wars being ALL retools
    if you don't know here's the list:
    Ironhide (retool of Decepticon Offroad)
    Prowl (retool of Protectobot Streetwise)
    Mirage (retool of Decepticon Dragstrip)
    Sunstreaker (retool of Breakdown)

    always retools C'MON
     
  8. rodster6

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    Wave 4 will be an easy skip for me. I have the Classics/Generations Mirage, Iron Hide, Prowl and Sunstreaker all of which actually look like the characters they are meant to be rather than cheap Stunticon repaints. I don't like anyone and everyone and their mother becoming combiners anyway. Makes the actual 'Special Teams' less special if everyone's at it.
     
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    Found wave 3 of the one step changers in my local asda trying to upload pictures
     
  10. Phamelinkprime

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    Picture of thunderhoof found at Asda, Edinburgh Straiton
     

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    It was kind of inevitable though. Even before it was confirmed, or even partly confirmed by store listings, people were speculating about a 'masquerade' set based on the Stunticons.

    I might pick up a couple - I missed out on Classics Sunstreaker and Prowl, and Classics Ironhide is a bit crap. Depends how they look and how sick of each mould I am by the time Wave 4 appears.

    CW Wave 2 being cancelled in the UK isn't a huge surprise, the writing's been on the wall for months, not least because Wave 3 has already started appearing. I'm fine with getting the deluxes off Amazon.com, but it's Mototmaster that's worrying me.
     
  12. awesomeist guy

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    wait wave 2 is cancelled officially
     
  13. G1Dan

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    Motormasters available on eBay UK for 39.99 if your interested?
     
  14. Prescient

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    I did say a few weeks ago that it's not comming anytime soon but ended up sparking a vitriolic debate of disbelief. Tru import direct, Hasbro supply the small shops. I desperately want to be proved wrong.

    Wave 3 is here so wave 2 is dead and buried until much later in the year at best. Also UK wave 3 hasn't got the comics.

    I just spoke to the FP stores local to me and they say motormaster is not comming in a known time frame. They were expecting but it didn't materialise.

    Given you could buy all of wave 2 from Amazon.com at pretty much UK rrp, from Kapow and tfs-express at UK rrp there was no need to miss out. Equally works out a similar price to get the Takara gift sets.

    Motormaster is coming with optimus maximums though and bbts have it on individual pre-order again. This means good availability around August.

    I am about to do my weekly round the southern stores so will update later.

    Also I would happily front a bbts wave 2 import if people would commit . Only prob is that it will be over rrP and on checking today voyagers are out of stock.
     
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    According to the BBTS Pre-orders Motormaster is a case revision packed in with Optimus Maximus.

    EDIT: Oops! Ninja'ed by Prescient but, given the online handle, rather apt.
     
  16. rodster6

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    So Toys R Us may still have wave 2 soon? I haven't seen any Combiner Wars in the UK outside of Toys R Us anyway. East Anglia is a wasteland for toy collecting. Tesco and Asda hardly have any Transformers at all let alone decent ones like CW.
     
  17. jon trooper

    jon trooper Starscream addict

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    Kapow have put up pre orders for the Tokyo toy show armada megatron, nemesis prime and CW leader starscream, all due late June if anyone is interested :) 
     
  18. Prescient

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    Yes and no. They just buy direct off waves and timing points vs bulk prices, not knowing content on mixed waves. It's chaos due to rapid succession releases on cw and protracted wave 1.

    like generation voyagers, wave 2 could sit warehouse stached then appear in a few months/years in the uk.

    Asda castlepoint has 1 complete set of wave 3 protector bots left.
     
  19. rodster6

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    I won't hold my breath then. My local Toys R Us (Norwich and Ipswich) always seem to be the latest in the country to get anything if at all.
     
  20. Unclejoe420

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    Amen to that; living in Hertfordshire is pretty barren for anything TF-related..