Thanks, just canceled my order from Forbidden Planet because these are earlier and slightly cheaper!

 

Everyone knows it’s spend fifteen quid or over at Smyths this weekend get six quid off with a voucher from their website, yah?

 

Found this fella pictured below in Great Yarmouth Kerrison Toys today. Plus the Bumblebee and Ratchet.
Also, PotP Rodimus Prime, Grimlock, Starscream, Jazz and Dreadwind.

Bad really that I can find new stuff in a little toyshop while the big chain supermarkets in my area have had none of it.

 

Made it to forbidden planet London today.

Potp rippersnapper in abundance.
Potp dreadwing in abundance.
Absolute shed loads of potp legends class (except slash)
TR fortress maximus, blackshadow, and overlord, hotrod and twinferno.
Potp leader Optimus and voyager grimlock and star scream.
Studio series series 2 in abundance, deluxes but no leaders.
Also have mp artfire and grapple for £150 each

Orbital didn’t have much either. TR wolfwire, shattered glass mp10, Takara trypticon. In the cabinet..... the last mp artfire, kiss players convoy, about 8 of the target master hotrod, reissue blaster and some minicon sets.

 

Did they have Studio Series voyagers?

 

Starscream was all I saw

 

I see the laughable translations for recent figures at Amazon Germany are also spreading to Amazon UK. Elita-1 is not a Voyager, but a... "Travel"?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078213RDD

 

Amusing but, Damn, I do wish her armour/feet came that unpainted pink though!

 

I made the trip to Notts store this morning for that very reason. Very small Transformers section at the mo, only primes they had out was 1 X Dreadwind and a whole load of Starscreams. I asked if they had anymore, and they found me a Grimlock, so I took that with my £6 off.

 

Forbidden Planet Cambridge had Blackwing, Moonracer, and Overlord along with the standard UK stock.

 

I wish the two different forbidden planet chains had different names so I don't get my hopes up, all the decent stuff appears in the .com stroes, but not much at all in the .co.uk stores.

(Ironically the .co.uk chain has a store in the USA but the .com one doesn't)

 

Isn't the .co.uk chain the scottish arm of the business, whereas the .com is the english arm. Weird that they have a store in america for the .co.uk

 

We did this back in January

The FP situation is complicated & confusing for historical reasons which you can read about on Forbidden Planet's Wikipedia page

The London store is the original company, and they have other stores round the UK. They are the holders of the .com web address and are good for getting TFs at.

Forbidden Planet Store Locations

The Scotland store became Forbidden Planet International - but confusingly have the .co.uk domain name and also have other locations in the UK, including Manchester. They are generally not so good at getting TFs at.

Forbidden Planet International Store Locations

 

Rodimus Unicronus in stock at Kapow

Transformers Power Of The Primes Leader Rodimus Unicronus - Kapow Toys

Primemasters w3 Pre Order at IDToys

Transformers Power of the Primes Wave 3 Prime Masters Set of 3 Megatronus, Quintus Prime & Solus Prime - In Demand Toys

 

Sold through already. However Kapow now have them at the same price

Transformers Power Of The Primes Prime Masters Wave 3 Set of 3 - Kapow Toys

 

Anyone else getting the sinking feeling for mass release/UK Retail and POTP. A trip round the usual Supermarkets and the Wandsworth Entertainer this morning and there is nothing going on. At all. Even the Battletraps have gone so there's pretty much nothing current to be had.

Kapow/ID are going to end up being the only option I've got.

 

Yup. It's a desert out there.

 

I've completely given up on PotP, I missed all the preorders and so can't be bothered. Now I'm going after Studio Series instead.

 

Already thought they were tbh, I've got all of Wave 1,2,3 of POTP while retail is still lagging behind. Also cheaper.

 

The Entertainer Cardiff had a lot of Seasprays and Battletraps, a few lingering wave 3 TR deluxes, one Starscream and one Grimlock and then loads of the PotP Optimus and Rodimuses. All priced just a bit too high for comfort (despite being "discounted").