So, went to the supermarket yesterday and found that Tesco have Legion figures at £7! £7! Commanders are £6.97. What the hell? Seriously, we get absolutely screwed on the price of TFs over in the UK and I am shocked anyone buys them at that price. They might be worth half that. It wouldnt be so bad if we actually had a variety of things to choose from, but anything larger than a Deluxe is difficult to find these days, and we dont have any Legions beyond wave three.
Go back to your corner and count yourself lucky that a 100% American company which uses foreign design and assembly staff is even aware your country exists.
I see... But I'll contribute to the named topic at hand anyway while this is still open and/or not merged off. Tescos have had Legions hovering at around £7 for several months now (in my area anyway). I really can't see how they're shifting Legions at that price. I mean especially when right next to them on the shelf are Commanders at the same price. That said, Commanders are supposed to be £9/£10 so that skews things a bit. At first Legions were seemingly hiked to £7 so they could do a 'two for £10' offer or whatever it was, but now they're just £7 as standard. Asda are at the same price. Thankfully Argos and Sainsburys are still the normal price, and often they have sales which drop the price of Legions to around three and a half quid. Remember when Legends used to be £2.99 as standard? (were they ever £1.99 right back at the beginning of the Legends size class?) Back then I used to think that was more than they were worth, especially when compared to a £9.99 Deluxe. If only I'd known what the future held... ... How much is £7 in dollars..?
Mine had 'em for £2 (well, just under) just before they stopped stocking 'em to make way for some bigger christmas sellers. I was tempted, but by the time I noticed they were out of anything good.
Quick - go buy some. lol Some reason the legions get priced at that price in supermarkets, Asda was doing it too not long ago...
Two quid?? Which ones? Surely not recent releases? I think my best Tescos Legends find was last year when they were clearing out their stock and I picked up some RTS Optimus Primes for 40p each.
Erk. I thought that the idea of the smaller classes was to have cheap, fun figures that people could pick up on a whim. I can't imagine anyone buys them at that price Here in Germany, the Legion class figures are 6 Euros in TRU but the Commanders are 15 Euros! What the hell?
Wow, that works out at £12 for a Commander. Honestly, I am now glad that we have our current system, with stupidly priced Legions and Commanders half the price you do. My sympathies.
Yikes! Sympathies indeed. I'd be reluctant to pay £12 for a Deluxe, let alone a Commander. I paid £10 for Cyberverse Ultra Magnus a short while back and felt pretty cheated even though it's a great little figure. Luckily it was broken in the pack so I returned it for a refund and found another one for £7 elsewhere.
Heh, thanks. The trials of being a European TF fan! This is why I pick up boat loads of figures whenever I visit my folks back in Britain. I got my first legion class (Breakdown) the other day, and he's cute but certainly not worth more than a fiver.
That's fine, no probs. We'll just be taking Simon Furman and James Roberts and be on our way then. Cheerio!
Legion Breakdown was the first figure I encountered a mental Tesco price hike on. I wandered into Tescos a couple months or so back and spotted Breakdown and Evac, grabbed both and was wandering to the checkout when my brain went 'Waitaminute!' and I went back to the shelves to recheck the price. Can't remember exactly what it was now but it was around six quid. As much as I really wanted those figures I wasn't going to pay out that for them so I put them back with a little pain in my heart because that was the first time I'd seen them in stores and I wasn't sure if I'd see them again. Luckily I then dropped into Argos to see my sister who works there and alongside where you queue they had Legions out on pegs for £3.49. With rising hope I checked which ones they had and there was Breakdown, Evac and Soundwave. I nabbed all three, and with my sister's staff discount I only paid around a tenner total. Much better than the almost £20 I'd have had to pay for those exact same figures just a twenty minute walk up the road in Tescos. It always pays to shop around.
Was going to respond to the "country exists" comment but i didn't really feel the need. But saying that this this topic might be the highlight of British Transformer topics for December. Hurra.
I'm quite pleased, i'm going the extra mile and ordering stuff which makes me happy from abroad. From China/HongKong... It's only money....
Commanders are £5.99 & Legions & Botshots £3.24 in Sainsburys (or thereabout) and Deluxes £8 something. So that is a little better. But the Tesco and Asda Prices for Legions are pretty silly. I can only suggest that it's so they can half price them down to £3.50 sometime soon. Speaking of which after months of searching I finally got Soundwave in Sainsburys and one sale to . Now if only the last Botshot wave of 2012 would actually show up then I'd actually be able to get a toysline with a matches set of seekers and wreckers in it.
