United Kingdom Transformers Sightings

Discussion in 'Transformers Sightings' started by payres, Jul 10, 2003.

  1. MrMark

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    I just prefer Robot Heroes to be in Robot form. The vehicle mode isn't working for me personally. The pack with the fallen is nice but i will wait on that one.

    £6.99 is a bit steep for each pack really the Universe one's were only £5.99 i think.

    I think a pack with devestator is coming out as well but that contains Vehicle mode Skids and Mudflap. I guess that will be a similar price as well.

    After all the money i have spent on the blind packs (mostly before the drop to £1) and ebay to get Matrix Prime, Snarl and Gnaw to spend £40 on two boxsets isn't going to happen. I have finally completed the G1 Robot Heroes which in my opinion are much better than the Movie/ROTF ones.
     
  2. Omnius

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    Animated Swindle finally turned up at Darlington Asda. Also got assaulted by one of the checkout staff (not joking :( )
     
  3. DieMaus

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    Well, I've had an irritating day. There was bugger all in the Warrignton shops as usual, so I rode the bus all the way out to the Trafford Centre looking for The Fallen in John Lewis, and they'd only bloody gone and sold out of him; nothing even in the back after the guy kindly went and ripped open the boxes for me. At least I got to go and see Harry Potter, or else today would have been one of the most colossal wastes of my time in recent memory.

    I'll get you next time, Fallen. Next time.

    Please elaborate...? :confused: 
     
  4. tootsmendozer

    tootsmendozer hairy giant

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    second you cant say that and then not tell us why
     
  5. oddsey

    oddsey Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?

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    Just your average run of the mill assault, or was it sexual?!! :eek: 





    Sorry...couldn't resist. :eek: 

    I assume nothing too serious though?
    I hope you're gonna go all American on 'em and get some compensation....Maybe a trolley dash in the toy and electrical departments would suffice?
     
  6. ninety

    ninety NERDS!!

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    Asda at the B.O.Dee in Aberdeen have restocked with some more TFA Voyagers, they've got Grimmy, Blitzwing, and Lugnut for £15 each. They had cleared all their stock in a couple of days for a tenner (I missed out on the twins :( ), £15 seems ambitious to me.

    I'm off to TRU tomorrow (Sun) looking for a £20 SB Megs, I'll have a look, though they've not had any recently.

    Good it all worked out.

    ?!?

    Hopefully nothing serious, they'll have CCTV if it was reportable or to aid oddseys' idea..........

    Try for the booze and fags counters as well.
     
  7. Omnius

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    Well I was getting served just after a change-over on the checkout - the woman who had just come off wanted to get past so instead of saying 'excuse me' she grabbed hold of me, rammed me into the checkout and shouted "How dare you get in my way while I'm trying to shop!" while laughing! It's amazing how growling "What the FUCK do you think you're doing?!" can kill laughter.

    I went back with my girlfriend about half an hour later (she wanted to get some wine) and complained to the store manager, who said it wasn't the first time a customer had complained about her. By this time she was back on the checkout. A moment later said manager escorted her away.
     
  8. Faxon

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    Well they do say retail makes you bitter.
     
  9. tootsmendozer

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    sounds like some one needed a tiger uppercut
     
  10. Erector

    Erector I ruined the Hall of Fame

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    Or a falcon punch.
     
  11. tikgnat

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    Anyway Smyths Borehamwood has new deluxes, Chromia, Skids and Wheelie. Picked up a Chromia for myself, and despite Skids looking quite cool I left him... gonna wait for HA Skids instead methinks.
     
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    you know, I'll go in England in 2th September. I will stay in Reading, which is not far from London. I know there is a Toys R Us there. Does Anybody know hat ROTF toys can I find there? Or the other Toys R Us around London? Cuz I really want to buy Sideswipe Deluxe Class.
     
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    You'll probably find Wave 1 and 2 of Scouts, dunno bout Deluxes and Voyagers

    Thats about what nearly every TRU has just now
     
  14. ninety

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    Chojin power, Fire Guts!
     
  15. oddsey

    oddsey Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?

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    If the Reading TRU is anything like Notts TRU, then you will probably be OK to pick up a Sideswipe. It seemed like a whole wall of him and Sideways with the odd Rampage.

    It's a bit hard to say what they will have in six weeks time, but I'm sure you will find a Sideswipe somewhere.
     
  16. Erector

    Erector I ruined the Hall of Fame

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    Having said that, Oddsey-boy - there's hardly any Sideswipes at Manchester TRU... or any Deep Desert Brawls :(  soz!!
     
  17. oddsey

    oddsey Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?

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    Tesco have put the price of the blind pack RH back up to £1.99.(The store near my work at least) :mad 
    Thought I'd mention it in case anyone was adding 'em to your shopping basket every time you pop into Tesco like me and hadn't noticed! The sneaky little b'stards. :( 


    Cheers Ninety.

    :cry 

    Thanks for looking anyhoo!
     
  18. JAYSCREAM

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    got H/A bumbblebee yesterday. i have just 1 complaint......chair arm kibble but when i think of alternators/binaltechs (fondly) this is a very small price to pay. i had to read the instructions tho......... oh the shame of it foild by 2 fold out wheels :dunce  the car is great and the robot is fantastic. got some great poses out of him and i think some one said already the human figure is very M.A.S.K. cant be arsed with all the little bobins and bits for the humans tho. hope the line expands past baracade/frenzy.........but whats left?
    plenty of humans. lenox,simons and leo to name a few. what bots tho mudflap (cmon hasblo), sidways with alice maby (think that was sugested)
    jolt............. ironhide,ratchet,prime........all to big unless they bring out a bigger class.
    on the sightings front tesco transitway.......... robot heroes blindpacks mostly opened and figures missing (still need movie jazz got some swaps or cold hard cash) and that was it not a single R.O.T.F. figure!!!!!! they either sold all there alocation or it got moved to 1 of the 2 bigger stores in the area......... plymouth sucks for brand new stuff anyway only spoted inferno in toymaster 3 weeks ago!
     
  19. DieMaus

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    Thanks to a very kind tipoff from DEATH OF PRIME, I was able to score a Voyager The Fallen at Warrington Toys 'R' Us today; to sweeten the deal, I did so by stealing him from a child! :D  Well, not quite; I'd been looking for The Fallen and couldn't find him at all, so I went to have a look at the other TF shelf when a mum came up to the shelf with her son, who had The Fallen in his hand, but was talking about how he wanted Starscream because none of his friends had Starscream yet. I noticed there was a Starscream right in front of me, so I handed him that and offered to trade it for the Fallen he had...and he agreed to it! :)  Mum and son headed off quite happy, but I still felt vaguely guilty, so I went back and combed the aisle again, eventually finding another Fallen which I put prominently at the front of the display in case some other kid wanted one. So I feel like I'm OK karma-wise now. :) 

    As for the toy itself, it's not bad; he has a really cool sculpt, but he loses a lot of points for his worthless altmode and lack of particularly useful articulation. He really, really should have come with his staff from the movie, too, because that really would have completed his look. Still, I'm glad to have him there looking in my "tall and imposing Decepticon" section with Megatron and Devastator. :) 
     
  20. ninety

    ninety NERDS!!

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    Oddsey: No joy I'm afraid, but thinking about it, (paging) PLYMOUTH was looking for one up here. Any joy yourself plymouth, if so did they have two?


    Sledge: Got this link from SydneyY:

    Kappa - River Imp (Kami) in Japanese Shinto and Buddhist Traditions

    Depthcharge isn't a zombie, he's a Japanese water monster!


    Got myself TFA SB Megs, and the Jet twins, both half price at TRU, I knew waiting for SB Megs would pay off :D