Just paid the balance for the next two Seacons at IDToys, thats two third done!

 

B&M Hunts Cross in Liverpool has Weaponisers in (finally), as well as SS Sidewipe, Barricade, WWII 'Bee and Junker Bee. Nabbed one of the WWII 'Bees. Decent little figure, only thing is I can't seem to get the hammer to work as a gun barrel properly, it doesn't want to sit straight and close the canopy. If I do get it shut it seems to stick out to the right. Anyone else have issues with this?

 

Mines does it too, I just gave up eventually and he went back to Robot. Hot Rod was even worse

 

watford B&M had the battle masters (£3) - all 3; scout class Cybervers figures (£5) - optimus, slipstream, shadow stiker, ratchet, windblade; and studio series (£10) clunker bee, wwii bee, crankcase, sideswipe.

 

Wrexham B&M had a small smattering of Studio Series....I picked up a replacement BBM Bee (old one's door wing somehow managed to shear off above the hinge during transformation) and a KSI Sentry:



They still had Dropkick, Jazz & DoTM Ratchet. Some Siege W1 Battlemasters & Cyberverse scouts knocking around the shelves too.

 

Smyths Staples Corner in London had the Siege Wave 5 Deluxes (Crosshairs & Spinister) and Wave 5 Voyager Apeface

 

No Studio Series in Liverpool Great Homer street B&M, I'm getting major FOMO

 

Northumberland Park B&M (relatively new store) had a decent selection of SS deluxes. 2 Dropkicks, 1 DOTM Ratchet, 2 VW Bumblebees and 1 Jazz. I took the last KSI Sentry.

 

So its random then, some stores getting barricade, sideswipe, clunker bb and ww bb and the others getting the case yours had. My store didn't have the jazz / ratchet which were the 2 I wanted, as only had the sideswipe / barricade, clunker bb case.

Hmm if anyone can get a jazz and ratchet for me will cover costs + shipping etc.

 

Went to 5 B&Ms and only half of them had SS, and not the wave I wanted. Grabbed a Clunker and WW2 BB. But as said above, if anyone can spare a DOTM Ratchet and VW Bumblebee, I’ll happily cover the cost for shipping

 

It's the T30 Voyagers all over again, different cases for different stores.

 

I've just got back into collecting missing loads of seige and earthrise. I'm really after a seige Ironhide & Soundwave if anyone can help will gladly pay you before.

 

Ah good ol amazon lol

 

Yes I puzzled me for a few minutes too - you have to fold the hammer in a very specific way or either it's not straight or it won't close only one origintation works properly - he's not the greatest of moulds - very floppy and fall apart rabbit like.

Someone remind me someone had some cheap Hotrods didn't they (the WWII one) I forget who it was though - the mould may be not great but I kind liked the gun. Perhaps if bee was upscalled like Dropkick was he might work better with the larger size and some addressing of the poor joints.
But like the Camero Bee with the popping appart issues - all it really needed was a few pins in the appropriate places to help it a great deal.

I know they are going for scale but frankly I consider Jazz, Bumblebee, etc... to be WAY TO SMALL. Can you imagine how tiny a Studio Series Mudflap & Skids would be (The cars not the ice cream truck) !!!

I wouldn't say no to an overscale of the Icecream twins to be honest they might be a lot more useful if they used the fully decorated alt mode and made them bigger the robot modes would be the proper size then.
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Nothing in my local B&M - not had chance to check the ones a bit further away yet, I'm pleased to see they sell some scouts too - I was pondering making custom scout class Nemesis Prime : so I might pick up a spare Optimus.

My Local ASDA finally got the new ones in months after everyone else did. I do wonder if I should keep buying Scraplets My Local Sainsbury's has a load of them, how many Scraplets is to many ?

It's a shame the Warrior class has disappeared off the face of the earth in the UK there is so many of them i'm missing now, and because ARGOS don't sell Cyberverse Deluxes, heck knows how or even if I am ever expected to be able to buy them - as no one seems to be selling them that I can find so far.

 

Gonna have to disagree with you there. Scale is one of the best things about the Studio Series. Means we can get accurately huge characters like Blackout and Scavenger. Jazz and Bumblebee are the perfect sizes I think

 

Thanks!
I've had a little play around with it, and it looks like the problem is the way the hammer is designed. In order to get it to go the right way, you've got to pretty much force it through a friction point that feels wrong and like you're going to break it (opposed to positioning it the wrong way which has no issues and feels fine!  )
Vehicle mode looks a hell of a lot better now

 

I been to 6 b&m in staffordshire only 1 had studio series the wave with vw bee .im after clunker bee. .

 

Smyths have earthrise wave one voyagers and leaders in stock for delivery, as well as studio series mixmaster and mv1 Megatron.

 

Forbidden Planet Newcastle had some wave 8 ss figures as well as scavenger. Siege wave 4 figures were also available.

 

Zoom currently have SS Megatron and Mixmaster for £25. Pretty good deal. Very reliable and quick shipping. You can also get an extra 10% off with a newsletter signup. Offers on for the next couple days