The UK Toy Discussion

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Boardwise, Feb 23, 2011.

  1. Astro-Furby

    Astro-Furby Life is strange

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    I'm doing a CCNA/MCSA entry-level network engineering course.....so there should be plenty of jobs out there
     
  2. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    CW Prowl makes me happy.

    The rest of that wave look pretty meh to downright awful. White Prime looks pretty good as a sort of stand-in for Nova but is still a waste of time/space/Thunderclash.

    Focus on that Prowl.
     
  3. simond

    simond Well-Known Member

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    On the other hand if you can get into DevOps is a real growth area at the moment and salaries are rather good...

    The problem is getting a foothold there in the first place, luckily I was already in SysAdmin and had done development before.
     
  4. scubaboy31

    scubaboy31 Digital Gypsy

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    Maybe you should just email hasbro and offer to buy the entire production run straight up. You'll be basically doing that anyway.
     
  5. Maz

    Maz Square One TFW2005 Supporter

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    Man this is taking 30 mins per photo :-/

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    All the best
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  6. tikgnat

    tikgnat Baweepgranaweepninnybong.

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    Annnnd booked AA 2015 Saturday pass. Who else is going? Last AA ever.
     
  7. Maz

    Maz Square One TFW2005 Supporter

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    Last one called "Auto Assembly" probably :lol  I'll be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

    All the best
    Maz
     
  8. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    I've got a weekend pass AND a pickup for it. I may even have been organised enough to get a room although I can't find my emails so......maybe not. Anyway it'll be full.
     
  9. Erector

    Erector I ruined the Hall of Fame

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    I'll be there. As always.

    (hi everyone!)
     
  10. scubaboy31

    scubaboy31 Digital Gypsy

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    I might go for the day. Hopefully. It would be my first and last AA all in one.
     
  11. Boardwise

    Boardwise There are no strings on me Veteran

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    I will be.....






    ... carrying on my usual tradition of not going. :p 

    As for the recent revels.
    Liking MP Ironhide and we just know, Ratchet is not far behind.
    Now just give me MP Hound!
    I might also be going for Takara Devestator.

    Combiner Wars Sky Lynx? Completely out of left field and I love it! I will own him!
    The rest of that wave I'll probably pass, except maybe Smokescreen.
    Combaticons are looking good, but I'll probably be passing on that wave.
    Think I'll be grabbing all of the Combiner Wars Legends 2016 Wave 1.

    The Club has some nice figures lined up. Universe Ramjet and Amanda Skywarp out of Generations Starscream are great.
    And their Windsweeper, Ruckus and Needlenose and very tempting. If only they weren't produced by the Club.

    And in other news, I just grabbed a CW Leader Megs from Amazon.com for about £36 shipped. That'll do nicely.
     
  12. gtf316

    gtf316 Nuked in the face.

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    I'll be there for the whole weekend, gotta make use of that lifetime pass I bought :( 
     
  13. tikgnat

    tikgnat Baweepgranaweepninnybong.

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    Aw dude (Boardwise), I haven't seen you in years.
     
  14. Boardwise

    Boardwise There are no strings on me Veteran

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    I know. It's just to near my Canadian trip to cover the expenses and time off work.

    Might try and make it down to London later in the year, especially since it was 10 years ago that I moved down.
     
  15. tikgnat

    tikgnat Baweepgranaweepninnybong.

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    10 years? Holy shit dude.
     
  16. Boardwise

    Boardwise There are no strings on me Veteran

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    I know. Doesn't feel like it.
     
  17. Cha Chi

    Cha Chi Minimondomayhem

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    "10 years" haha

    I've maybe been on tfw for half that time and it feels like flash.

    Will say this for Ironhide, he has real 80's style ques going on, this 3p never capture... The head looks so right from the side but seeming bizarre from the front. It's a good head sculpt maybe should be shorter. Looking forward to seeing more pictures.

    Can't wait for Fort max, hope they go the extra lengths for the base mode.
     
  18. Brooticus

    Brooticus "You bred Raptors?"

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    Ugh, banging hangover. But I'm relieved to find that skylynx wasn't some drink induced hallucination!

    Finally got around to sorting a facebook page for all my sculpting stuff. Not a lot to see right now, but check the link below and if you're interested in the stuff i'm doing slap a like on it!
     
  19. Sweeny

    Sweeny Electric Monk

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    Bruticus looks to be very well done and I particularly like Brawl in both modes. Fort Max could be a winner but even Hasbro wouldn't do that...would they?

    On Skylynx, ha yeah I'm still in shock! More shuttle goodness for the shuttle cloud (TM)

    After all Skylynx approves of another handsome devil being around :) 
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    May get to AA on the Saturday (first and last time). It hasn't fallen on a family holiday so just need to convince Mrs Sweeny now...
     
  20. Loosecannon

    Loosecannon Cos I know I'm right...

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    I have the go ahead for AA so that is fine.

    Considering sat/sun, but to be honest, and I know I say this a lot, but aa is quite boring if you are not there with friends or as a group. I know last year I met up with some peeps, and that was probably one if the best bits.

    You can only do so much looking at the same toys at different dealer stands...

    (There is also the dont go and spend the money I would have on more robots!)