Does this one tickle your fancy?

EXHAUST SET : EARTHRISE (Nonnef Productions)

 

If anyone can understand it it's not a proper policy...

I just found out about it because william shatner was saying he wouldn't be able to sell to the uk from his merch store because the cost of adcitional paperwork and staffing would be too high. I guess it be like amazon us currently does working out the added vat cost at their end - but smaller companies will struggle.

 

For fuck sake, as if it isn’t going to be hard enough as it is to get stuff through fucking Kent. Do we reckon some places will now look to stop shipping to the UK because of this bullshit. At least Amazon US already have a system for this bollocks in place but don’t know how eBay sellers are supposed to work it out

 

 
Well that was.. scary!
I can't see myself making an effort to watch that again. I spotted a lot of the original cast popping up - how much make up did Weaver have on? Jeez!
I love McKinnon in The Goldbergs but not so much in this - other seem pretty throw away, sorry.  

Ghostbuster Afterlife can't come quick enough!  

EDIT: Oof, dedicated to Ramis too. And the end of credit grasp at Zuul? FFS!

 

God only knows what Breckshit will do for toy acquirement here in NI...

Far as anyone can tell we'll remain under certain EU laws (don't ask, nobody knows), items coming here from the rest of the UK will incur extra costs through paperwork alone as a result, and even at a basic level Smyths is an Irish company who can't sort out home distribution even now!

If things get really mad, I can also claim to be an Irish citizen of the EU under the Good Friday Agreement and the trade agreement Team Hair-do is threatening to break... This is just Hasbro-levels of wankery.

Mind you, on the off-chance NI becomes the place to get TFs through the Irish Republic, I could be your friendly robot dealer  

 

Seems that way, or maybe they are hoping that Alibaba and Ebay will work it out for their users, so they can easily sell to the UK.

All in all it does sound like it's gonna be a right pain in the ass.
(Or the smaller sellers might get a free pass and the government will just focus on the big players. You gotta have some hope.)

Thanks Bre*iteers, Thaxiteers.

Speaking on shipments, anyone else still waiting for their Breakdown/Vehicon set? Mine was supposedly posted on Friday 9th by RM48, and it's still not arrived, here's hoping it comes tomorrow.

 

Locally at least and because only one RM member can be out, they've been letting stuff build up for a few days then alternating between letters and parcels when they've had to. RM aren't helping one bit, and when a simple cold means you can't come in...

 

This morning saw a squirrel sat on a fence with his tail up his back and over his head like a hat, nibbling on a full piece of bread.

Saw a few squirrels bouncing around through the day.

Just saw a fox trotting casually down the road outside my house.


It's been a day.

 

/From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking step into the sun
There's more to be seen than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done/

 

When all of a sudden an old suscriber from a channel terminated more than 2 years ago send you this:
"As for you, I hold a great respect for your contribution to this platform... stay safe during this quarantine and thank you for everything you've done for us."

 

For the simpletons amongst us where has this £135 number come from? Everyone in here has been stung for customs on items *well* below that... 

 

I think it's because the number of tax applicable items will surge, because everything from the EU will be taxable. But rather than processing it here (meaning significantly more work) they would rather put the onus on foreign companies ('Amazon.com add taxes at point of purchase!' they'll bleat)... but of course, most won't.

Which gives them a lovely excuse to fine us, or charge a Brexshit admin fee. Or some kind of extra levy (ala the Parcelfarce 'admin fee').

This is IMO of course.

*sigh*

It's like the fates are conspiring to stop me buying plastic robits.

 

Yeah, it’s not like we’ve got high unemployment, with lots of people who would jump at a chance for that kind of work.
If, and that’s a big if overseas companies will still sell to the UK, there is no point asking them to mark things down, the £15 threshold has been removed.

 

It does indeed, so I ordered one yesterday afternoon!

Set up a large scale TF cabal that raids Hasbro shipments and taxes Smyths a £1 for every TF they stock. If someone want TFs in NI or the UK, they come through you.  

 

Morning all,

I went with Fansproject LER Severo for my Grimlock, but I often wonder if I should have saved up for Vulcun. Certainly Vulcun has a better T-Rex mode. How tall is he in robot mode? Got a photo of him with any CHUG (or similar)?

I thought it was fine, disposable popcorn entertainment. Didn't hate it, liked most of the characters (especially Holtzmann). Six out of ten. I didn't like the trailer implying the movie was connected to the original when it wasn't!

Back when it came out, the problem was *any* opinion expressed on the film was dismissed by halfwits as either women-hating or white-knighting, preventing any discussion. I noticed some actual women-hating of course, because hey! The internet! but I also saw reasonable conversations descend into slanging matches even quicker than normal :-D

Anyway. I'll probably never watch it again, but if the movie rights holders take inspiration from the IDW comics and do a multiverse Ghostbusters crossover, I'd be fine seeing that team turn up  

Couple more ebay sales went through at the weekend. That's the last of the Heroquest Zavvi order saved for, plus enough for another 3P Transformer. Considering X-Transbots Klaatu to represent Cosmos, I believe he will look well among my CHUG as part of Arcee's team from IDW1's exRID comics... although I could do without the slavish G1 stylings. Are there any other big Cosmice out there that look a bit better?

 

Pretty sure there is a Zeta Cosmos as well but he's a little bit smaller than the XTB one

 

You know damn well I'd keep all the stock   

 

leas' we got our independence m8

 

'Streak's paintjob is Premium that much is obvious from the additional details you mention to the fact that even his biceps are painted for colour correction, it just goes to show that even a Premium release is subject to the minor variances of mass production that can lead to the wonkiness of any other mainstream regular retail figure. Congratulations on your QC Lottery win!
I shall hopefully be rolling that dice again today as Blue II's due, and Hothouse too!
A nice frisson of tension to Monday after the first fast-talking gunner was ninja-secreted on my front doorstep, I shall be on my toes!

 

I still function! Greetings all. Given that last weekend essentially kicked my arse, I wanted to return here to commiserate with the fine threadizens. Maybe it would also help you guys to know that it wasn't just the UK that got screwed. I am here in Singapore, where TFs were supposed be plentiful..... But we are almost exactly on the opposite side of the globe to the US, so I woke up on Saturday morning to find the announcement of Thrust and Runablackone, and that TF Source had already sold out with prices at 150% of regular. I managed to preorder the Dirge/Ramjet set here locally - although it hasnt arrived yet - and got Runawhiteone from TF Source, and I am somewhat of a Conehead and Battlecharger fan, so these remaining two are kind of important for me. We essentially have three good online stores here, but they are usually a bit behind the US, and Gigawatt only made it to two of these stores, about 10 days late.... I ordered from Kapow because I didnt want to risk him not showing up here at all.

So I held out and hoped that at least one of the stores here would get these in. In the end, OhMyPrimus came through, and I managed to grab both there, but Thrust was available for a total of about 30 minutes before selling out entirely.

But this entire experience has soured me more than it really should. I think its because its just the latest issue in a queue of issues. From Unicron not initially available outside the US, to so many store exclusives that make it difficult, to HasCon being only available to US customers despite being an online event (congrats Hasbro, you found a way to make exclusive toys LESS accessible than SDCC exclusives!), and then this. Honestly, I need a break. Its just not worth the stress for toys. The first thing I did over the weekend was go through my 'shopping list' and removed anything that I dont really, really want. I wont now be getting the Studio 86 line beyond Scourge and maybe Hot Rod. Kingdom had limited appeal to me anyway, but Warpath is the only one left from that line that I will pick up.

I get that exclusives have to happen, but to make them tier three (ish) characters just sucks, and to make them the 'team gaps' just stinks. To sell Runawhiteone as a regular Deluxe in a regular release and then make his partner a US store exclusive, to sell a two pack of the Coneheads and leave the third as another store exclusive.... It used to feel that Hasbro just didnt give a damn, but more and more it feels like this is deliberate.

A lot of 3P stuff has also come out recently and its been relentless, and I will probably focus more on 3P key releases and cut back on everything else now. I have come to terms that there will never be a 'good time' to cut back on these robits, but I am just not getting the reward that justifies the process any more.

I did get the Selects Generation space fighter/tank Megatron which is objectively not a good figure, but just so crazy and fun that you dont notice, and the GCreation Dust (and Rebel rerelease now also preordered).

TL R - I have spent too much and Hasbro are making it difficult, so its time to scale it all back drastically.