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Necare
1st July 2013, 07:44 PM
As was suggested in post I made a few days ago, I am introducing myself here.

My wife grew up in Kingsford. We soent some time in Coogee then in the Boston area for several years. Now we are back. Looks like we will be in Randwick for the foreseeable future. Brought the dog (Siberian Husky) and our 16 month old boy so we are here to stay.

I've been a member of TFW2005 for a while but now that I am here, I thought I would join you all! It's definitely different being in Australia collecting, then in the US, $$$$$ mostly. Though luckily my collecting has evolved from collecting one line, then everything to now select items that I really want.

Alas, my beloved collection is still sitting in Salem, MA waiting to be shipped/broight over. We are renovating our place so there isn't any place to put them now. Our first trip back though will be Transformers priority.

Just before our move I purged a lot of the collection, sold off my Animated line, Beast wars line, some encore and many Bayformers. Now my collection is mostly Classics (Gen, univ, etc), Alternators, many 3rd party figs, and some Yamato Macross vehicles.

Pretty much limiting myself for the rest of this year to, MP Soundwave, Metroplex, rest of FP menasaur, and TFC Uranos.

Sad...even limiting myself, it will still be an expensive year!

So where do you all order your third oarty figure from? BBTS? TFSource? RK? Would be great to get a TF online store in Aaustralia, though not sure the market is big enough here.

liegeprime
1st July 2013, 07:54 PM
Mabuhay and Welcome to the forum!!
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Yep collecting TFs here is indeed quite different than the US. A lot of figures we get are at times delayed, we get skipped some waves too. Online wise I personally go for BBTS. A lot of the people here get from Robotkingdom (RK), Amiami, HLJ and the usual suspect evilbay :p. Im sure there's a lot of other sources that some have not mentioned. After all there are the G1 collectors still that do get to buy some of the more expensive and obscure Jap figures still, so I am not sure who or where their sources are.

When I migrated here as well back in 2005, I only had 5 figures with me - 4 minibots and Energon Tidal Wave. Dunno why they were my choice to bring. After 2 years I was able to bring my remaining collection here. Hope it will be sooner for you. Until then, hope you enjoy your interacting within the forum. When your collection does get here, we hope to see it in lotsa pictures hehehehe :D

lancalot
1st July 2013, 08:44 PM
Hi there and welcome.... :)

Trent
1st July 2013, 08:56 PM
Hi and welcome! Be sure to get to the Parramatta Fair when it's on. A lot of the Sydney folk have a meet up and talk stuff. Mainly TF stuff.

Chimungmung is another good online shop.

Anyway hope you can get your collection out here soon. :)

Sam
1st July 2013, 11:14 PM
Welcome to the forum, enjoy your stay!

Regarding your question, I am one of the few members that do not actively collect - mainly due to space issues. I know I could rent storage, but I don't want to go down that path. :)

Kazza
2nd July 2013, 12:31 AM
Hiya, welcome to ozformers. Hope your collection gets here soon, can't wait to see photos of it. A few of us here are also selective collectors. I for one collect mainly mp/leaderclass/big TF's.

CHILENO20
2nd July 2013, 04:46 PM
So where do you all order your third oarty figure from? BBTS? TFSource? RK? Would be great to get a TF online store in Aaustralia, though not sure the market is big enough here.

Welcome to our side of the transformer world! :D to answer your question I usually go Captured Prey, BBTS & transformerland. ebay is ok every now & then, though you can get some great stuff of the folks on the forum here.

Megatron
3rd July 2013, 09:24 AM
Hey there, welcome to Oz and the forum!

GoktimusPrime
4th July 2013, 03:47 PM
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happy independence day too. :)

crankcase76
7th July 2013, 10:48 PM
welcome fellow cybertronian...:D:D

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Hursticon
27th November 2013, 10:55 PM
WELL Overdue! :o

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Greetings and Welcome to OZformers! :D
Glad you've decided to join us. :cool: