QLD Transformers Sightings.

[Sinnertwin]

Just looking at all of that chocolate is making me feel ill
:p

[Ravagecat]

3 packs, 1 full set with an extra Starscream. Guess I got real lucky (for once).


I hate you... :p

Bwah HA!HA!HA!HA! ;):p

[griffin]

Managed to duck over to Garden City just before the stores closed, and Coles have heaps of wave 1 Legends, so are not likely to get wave 2 any time soon.
They also still have quite a few of the Kreo Customs (wave 1 of Movie and some wave 1 of the Gen1 series), plus about a dozen still of the Beast Hunters Legends... including a Rotgut and Windrazor (which is coincidentally the same two left of the last wave at the Sunnybank Woolies).

That reminds me - the Coles at Pinelands Plaza no longer stock toys. I was there the other day, and couldn't find their toys (it's been about 3 months since I was last there). I asked, and they said that they've cut back on their range of stock... including their toy section. It is a smaller store for Coles, but was a good backup for the smaller toys for me.

Anyway, back to Garden City tonight...
Still no Evolutions Optimus set at TRU. There were boxes everywhere in the store in the closing 10 minutes of the day, as they were just unloading a delivery. They mentioned that they didn't see any Transformers in the load, but are currently "behind" with their stock schedule (because I asked why Aspley already had it).
Apparently a big delivery is arriving Tuesday night, so Wednesday morning might have some new TFs items.

As for BigW, I managed to get a couple good photos of the Kinder Surprise display.
I've replaced the file of the photo above (and left below), and took a second photo of the other display case (below right). While I was at the register buying some more, I saw a THIRD display case at one of the far registers. Hundreds of these things at the one store... but doing quite well, as there were two layers sold in the last day on that display case located in the queue area.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014bigw14.jpg.http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014bigw15.jpg

A closer shot of the header board...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014bigw16.jpg

As a follow-up to my post from yesterday, it took me another 18 eggs to finally find the remaining two I was missing. :(
That was 48 eggs just to get a complete set of 8.

The final numbers from 57 eggs...
Starscream - 11
Bumblebee - 11
Ratchet - 9
Soundwave - 8
Bulkhead - 6
Megatron - 6
Optimus - 4
Arcee - 2

That just defies logic.
Since the most popular/significant character (Optimus) was the second-rarest for me to find, it doesn't seem likely that figures were made in different ratios. So it is expected that each figure was produced in similar quantities, to give the same odds - 1 in 8, or 12.5%.
Statistically, the larger the sample becomes, the closer the result should get to any pre-defined ratio or odds.
But as you can see in the numbers above, Arcee ended up being a mere 3.5% (a quarter), while Starscream & Bumblebee were each just under 20% (almost double).

After all that, I only ended up with one spare set to sell or trade (to Americans who didn't get them), as incomplete sets won't be worth anything unless I have a lot of Bumblebee fans wanting just that figure. :p

[Sinnertwin]

I can't believe you went out and bought more chocolate. Now that's dedication to the cause :D :p

[Krayt]

Interesting.... I'm 5/8 after 5 eggs, including an arcee.... But even bigger odds, I got a Double EGG!!!

[jazzcomp]

3 packs, 1 full set with an extra Starscream. Guess I got real lucky (for once).
Time to get a lotto ticket. :)

[PhaseWave]

Just swung into TRU aspley and they seem to have found some old stock, I couldn't believe my eyes when I found a Transformers Prime voyager Bulkhead! I snatched him immediately, it was a hard choice though. They've still got 2 Prime voyager Starscreams and a Prime Voyager Optimus. I also noticed a voyager beast hunters talking Bumblebee(black scheme) and a voyager beast hunter Prime (green). They otherwise had still plenty of aoe Grimmys and wave 2 of the voyagers (heli drift and slog) also saw at least 2 evo bee sets and the predacon rising abominus sets. So happy with Bulkhead, i may do a review on him soon!
http://i.imgur.com/Y6dDP0A.jpg

[Oberon Sexton]

Just swung into TRU aspley and they seem to have found some old stock, I couldn't believe my eyes when I found a Transformers Prime voyager Bulkhead! I snatched him immediately, it was a hard choice though. They've still got 2 Prime voyager Starscreams and a Prime Voyager Optimus. I also noticed a voyager beast hunters talking Bumblebee(black scheme) and a voyager beast hunter Prime (green). They otherwise had still plenty of aoe Grimmys and wave 2 of the voyagers (heli drift and slog) also saw at least 2 evo bee sets and the predacon rising abominus sets. So happy with Bulkhead, i may do a review on him soon!


Same. I was lucky enough to grab, from what I could see, the last voyager Bulkhead from the Garden City TRU. I didn't mention it because it looked like the last one.

[Sinnertwin]

Same. I was lucky enough to grab, from what I could see, the last voyager Bulkhead from the Garden City TRU. I didn't mention it because it looked like the last one.

Looks like they've found some dead stock at their warehouses or elsewhere. The same wave of figures are also available in a few stores down in Sydney.

[telljoolz]

I saw two new models of Transformers at Sunnybank Kmart: Drift and Slog

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/transformers/2014/aoem17.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj232/Dreadnaught8321/Transformers/Slog_zps7e00f06f.jpg

Note: These are not actual photos I took at the store. I've found these images on the web to show what I saw at Kmart

[Sinnertwin]

Rescuebots Optimus Primal (the big dino version) at Myer. $69.99

[reillyd]

I just got an email from Mr Toys saying that Generations Jetfire is retailing for $89.95, but when I clicked on the show catalogue link, it wasn't in the catalog. I'm guessing a glitch, and it was a tease preview but not yet in stock. My toyworld doesn't have them yet

[telljoolz]

I just got an email from Mr Toys saying that Generations Jetfire is retailing for $89.95, but when I clicked on the show catalogue link, it wasn't in the catalog. I'm guessing a glitch, and it was a tease preview but not yet in stock. My toyworld doesn't have them yet

I often see Tranformers in the shelves but not on the website nor website's scan of the paper catalogue, at various stores. Kmart and Target are just some examples that come to mind.

[trawler]

Mr Toys Queen St had one Generations Leader Jetfire as of this lunchtime.

I was very tempted in picking him up, but just couldn't justify the $89 pricetag. :(

[griffin]

TF4 Evolutions Optimus 2-pack just arrived at Garden City TRU just before they closed today, just in time to get the Abominus set for free. (not for me, but for someone else)

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014tru8.jpg

They still had about 20 Abominus sets in the over-stock shelves, but none on the shelves. Instead, in the empty spot that was supposed to have the Abominus sets, was two ripped open toys with things missing. That's pretty ballsy to pull that scummy move in such an open, well lit store, that's rarely empty.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/c180.jpg

Nothing else new there though, but they were still unloading the delivery when the store closed.

Back at BigW, I saw that they had moved all three Kinder Surprise stands together.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/c179.jpg

[griffin]

Still none of the catalogue stock at the Sunnybank Reject Store today.

[Ravagecat]

Called into garden city reject shop yesterday and they had 1x BB drill, 1x Smokecreen Ship, 1x Breakdown Suit in the Beast Hunters Vehicles ($20). For the Constuctbots they had multiples of Crankcase, Silverbolt, Deadend and Cliffjumper, Bumbleebee and Blitzwing. Also if people are chasing them I noticed this store (GC) and the Victoria Point store (last weekend) had series two of the 30 Anniversary Mini figures.

Unless they put more stock out today they are now minus the Bumblebee BH Vehicle Set :D;)

[Ravagecat]

Saw AOE optimus with trailer + sideswipe $299 and Autobot 5 pack $249 at myer garden city today.

http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/20141009_161450_zps9gnmkdaz.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/20141009_161450_zps9gnmkdaz.jpg.html)
http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/20141009_161803_zpsexymbsvj.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/20141009_161803_zpsexymbsvj.jpg.html)

At these prices they may be shelf warming for a while. ..

[reillyd]

Toyworld Runaway Bay now has two leader Jetfire @ $89.95

Target Runaway Bay has Spundwave Voyagers on clearance @ $39
They also have the second wave of HeroMashers (Heatwave, Rodimus) in stock for $16, but none of the advertised Hero Mashers (Electronics, and Bumblebee/Swoop)

[Oberon Sexton]

http://i62.tinypic.com/nq77lt.jpg

These kid's night-lights are at North Lakes CostCo, and they also have Covenant of Primus books for $38.50

[griffin]

I couldn't find the kreo bucket at Coles Sunnybank. But they did restock their legends, with all 6 now on the peg.
Reject shop has all three of the Beast Hunter vehicles now, but one of each. And no construct-bots. They had both series of Goldie figurines.
Kmart had Stomp and Chomp Grimlock for $129.

[griffin]

Saw AOE optimus with trailer + sideswipe $299 and Autobot 5 pack $249 at myer garden city today...

Ah, Myer is now open at Garden City.

[griffin]

Garden City ToysRUs have restocked their TFPrime Voyagers (I saw Starscream and Megatron at the front, but Bulkhead & Optimus could have been there as well).

All their Evolution Optimus boxes are still in the over-shelf... none are on the sale shelves for customers to see or buy (to know that they are even there).
I told one of the staff there (along with a wrongly displayed price for something else), but she didn't seem too concerned, and walked off to the dolls aisle to check something there.

BigW had Christmas merchandise - the Calendar and lolly stocking that Paulbot posted in the news section, plus a tin lunchbox with cookies and a giant "chuppa chup" filled with 15 lollypops. (photos to be posted in Paulbot's news topic as soon as I get them uploaded)

[griffin]

That reminds me. TRU had a solitary MP Sunstorm at the store tonight for $130.... just a day before the 20% off coupon starts, which would have brought it down to $104.
(sigh... I imported one for $121 from Texas, to save money and because it wasn't at this store since the day it was released)

[Oberon Sexton]

Went to Aspley TRU today. Grimlock's back.
http://i57.tinypic.com/vpke2u.jpg

Also, they have a butt ton of TF Kinder Surprises.

[griffin]

Woolworths and BigW have the Kinder 3-packs on sale for $4 (from $5) this week, as the Woolies near me at Sunnybank had both single and 3-packs arrive this week.
That means a 3-pack gives you a free egg, when going by the single egg price ($2).

I bought three packs (to see if I can complete more sets by hoping to get Arcee and Optimus while on sale), and wouldn't you know it.... I get a set of 8 and a spare. :rolleyes: Why couldn't that happen 50 eggs ago with my FIRST three packs.
(and it still leaves me with the same number of incomplete sets)


Some photos to go with recent sightings I've posted.

Sunnybank Kmart.
Stomp & Chomp Grimlock at the lowest regular price I've seen it at - $129.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014kmart8.jpg

And heaps of Rescue Bots.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014kmart9.jpg

ToysRUs Garden City.
MP Sunstorm - $130
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014tru9.jpg

Coles Sunnybank.
Selling both single and 3-pack Transformers Kinders. Same price as everywhere - $2 and $5.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014coles3.jpg

The new Myer at Garden City.
Being new, they didn't have the older Platinum Sets, just the Autobot 5-pack and the Trailer/Sideswipe one. Both were all locked up with security devices, preventing people from being able to see the bling, to encourage them to drop $300 on a coloured box that has inaccurate product images on the back.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014myer4.jpg
.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014myer5.jpg
.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014myer6.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014myer7.jpg

This item caught my eye, but only ended up being a sticker and activity book set with a mini-poster that forms from folding out the box. I didn't remember to look at the price, but probably about $20.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014myer8.jpg

Photos of the Christmas stuff at BigW will be posted in the news topic (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19551) to limit the length of this post by duplicating it.
The items though...
Advent Calendar - $3
Cookie lunch-box - $9
Lolly stocking - $8
Giant lollipop container - $5
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2014xm4.jpg

[TypeTnT]

Hi folks,

The Casheezi pawnshop at Logan Central has a TakaraTomy MP Grimlock (in the black cardboard box) for $199 as well as a knockoff MP Red Alert for $39. Not sure if anyone's interested but thought it was strange seeing them in such a store.

[kovert]

Went to Aspley TRU today. Grimlock's back.

As of today, Sunstorm is also available. Just the one. A few units of MP Prowl too.

[Oberon Sexton]

CostCo are up to their ol' tricks again. This time it's AoE's turn for the leader class Bumblebee. This is CostCo North Lakes, and they cost $35.99.

http://i62.tinypic.com/28me0qt.jpg

If anyone wants to check it out but isn't a CostCo member, shoot me a PM and we can probably work something out.

[Megatran]

The giant lollipop thingy sucks. The best thing about it is the actual lollipop stand with the artwork. I asked if I could take the stand. Answer was NO. :(

[christalcase]

TRU Garden City had 3 MP Grimlock, 2 MP Sunstorm and something like 14 MP Prowls. Spread out between the actual TF section and front counter.

[griffin]

TRU Garden City had 3 MP Grimlock, 2 MP Sunstorm and something like 14 MP Prowls. Spread out between the actual TF section and front counter.

Another 14 Prowls?
They already had about 20 last month... and after an early rush, it took them about 3 weeks to finally sell the last ones.

So many of the one people wanted least (due to cost), and so little of the other two. :confused:

[Facepunches]

Picked up the Gaia Unicron Voyager set from Myer Northlakes for $38.00! You gotta be happy with that!

[reillyd]

I went to TRU Garden city today but couldn't find any sun storms, only Grimlock and prowl


Big W Runaway Bay is. Pulling a switcher oo. The Kinda Surprise display was for Transformers, and it's only once I brought three packs home I noticed they were the no TF kind ones. Bastiches

[griffin]

Picked up the Gaia Unicron Voyager set from Myer Northlakes for $38.00! You gotta be happy with that!

That is great value for two Voyager class toys - cheaper than a single Voyager.

I'm so tempted to buy that just for the shiny packaging... but it is still way too similar to the Japanese versions for me to spend money on "duplicates".

[Caffinetron]

Picked up the Gaia Unicron Voyager set from Myer Northlakes for $38.00! You gotta be happy with that!

Were they on sale or did you get a discount of some description?

[jaydisc]

Were they on sale or did you get a discount of some description?

I think this is the deal:


Optimus prime and Gaia unicron 2 pack is on clearance at Myer for $41.97 with their 30% off clearance toys and $10 off every $50 spent on toys at the moment

But I couldn't find any in Maroochydore in case that's where you were gonna check.

[Facepunches]

I think Myer had 50% off clearance stock in store yesterday...so i checked their website and it as listed at cleatance $79...so instore it was half that. I dont think its 50% off today, but it would be worth checking if either deal is still on. Btw Northlakes looked to have about 5 more in stock (bottom shelf of the TF table).

[Caffinetron]

Oh, well thanks for the check.

[griffin]

Nothing really new to report at Garden City today.

Coles have the 3-pack Kinder Surprise on sale, and cheaper than the price last week at Woolies/BigW. $3.80 for a 3-pack (from $5), but their sale week ends on Tuesdays, so probably only two days left on that price.

BigW have NOT got in the new One-Steps or Deluxes that have been found in other stores... and they are sitting on so much stock that they aren't likely to get them in for a while.
They also wouldn't hand out any catalogues before the day of the sale, as I didn't have one arrive in the mail yet, so asked if they had it yet.

Kmart have a big wire bin of Stomp & Chomp Grimlocks near the central registers, away from the toy section... so you need to look for them if the single one sitting in the toy section gets bought.
(I bought 6 DVDs from their catalogue sale while I was there, and three of them I already had... :( )

Target have moved their Transformers to three different shelves, and I couldn't find the Kreo Microchangers they had last time I was there. Maybe the case is near the registers as a cheap impulse buy.

Myer still haven't done anything to show off the contents of their Platinum Edition sets, as one of the people in charge had said they would.
The blue box activity set (scroll up to one of my posts with photos) is priced at $17, and is in the next catalogue for 25% off if you buy 2 or more kids "books")
They have the best customer service I've ever experienced in this country. I asked for a copy of the latest catalogue, and it took a couple people to find one out the back, even though I assured them that it was okay, that I'd come back another day when they are put out. Then walking back through the store looking at the catalogue, someone else asked if I needed any help.
I thought I was in another country.

I didn't bother going into TRU, as a couple people had just been there in the last few days, and I wasn't expecting anything new that I wanted.

Today was probably the hottest day since the new section opened up, and I don't think they installed enough air conditioners to cope... or they were being really cheap with the air conditioning. Usually these big shopping centres are nice and cool on hot days... but I was sweating just walking from TRU to BigW, before I had even bought anything to carry. Once I did buy some things, I just wanted to get out of there fast, as it was really uncomfortable carrying bags with me.

There are so many Asian themed stores now open in the new section, which is still not fully finished yet. I counted 5 different Sushi stores now in Garden City, a MOS Burger, an Asian Supermarket now next to Coles, and a small "food lane" of 15 small Asian food cubicles/outlets.
I like having different foreign food outlets, to sample different types of foods, but it looks like all the new themed food outlets are just Asian, and it's not just a couple either, but over 20. No European, Middle-Eastern, Central American, or other more obscure nationalities seem to have opened up since the expansion. A bit of a strange imbalance I think.

[Krayt]

Myer still haven't done anything to show off the contents of their Platinum Edition sets, as one of the people in charge had said they would.



That's funny.... I went to a Myer THursday night, and they had the SDCC Boba Fett with Carbonite Han in spiderwrapps on a display.... Nice levely Black Box with no idea whats inside, and most of the writting hidden by the security....

24 hours later, someone had opeened one and "flipped the lid" to the back so you could see the contents....

[Soundwarp]

TRU Aspley has had a restock, im not sure about the stuff there as i've not watched any of the new series, but you can see whats there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/soundwarp/IMG_1295_zpsdaa7c5be.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/soundwarp/media/IMG_1295_zpsdaa7c5be.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/soundwarp/IMG_1296_zpsa16b71e0.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/soundwarp/media/IMG_1296_zpsa16b71e0.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/soundwarp/IMG_1298_zpsdf947d04.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/soundwarp/media/IMG_1298_zpsdf947d04.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/soundwarp/IMG_1299_zps6af1a020.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/soundwarp/media/IMG_1299_zps6af1a020.jpg.html)

[Oberon Sexton]

TRU Aspley has had a restock, im not sure about the stuff there as i've not watched any of the new series, but you can see whats there.



Duuuuude, Soundwarp you champion. I was going to go to that TRU today to see if they had anything I wanted. Looking at ur photos, I think I just saved myself a fruitless trip. Cheers.

[phealey]

Toys R Us - Garden City have Prowls and Sunstorm, but no more Grimlock, damn missed him again....

[Oberon Sexton]

Toys R Us - Garden City have Prowls and Sunstorm, but no more Grimlock, damn missed him again....

I'm at Aspley TRU. They've got MP grimlock back.

Edit: Asking a guy at TRU Aspley wanting to get stock of MP Sunstorm transferred to here, they said they can (ended up finding stock in their storage). But if you ask someone at G City TRU about Grimlock i'm sure they could do the same. The problem with Grimlock earlier this year, i think, was they had no stock in AUS at all but now they have stock so there should not be any trouble in transferring.

Edit 2: As for MP Sunstorm, their system said they had 10 of the in stock but couldn't find any, so they said as soon as they find one they'd call me :(

[phealey]

I'm at Aspley TRU. They've got MP grimlock back.

Edit: Asking a guy at TRU Aspley wanting to get stock of MP Sunstorm transferred to here, they said they can (ended up finding stock in their storage). But if you ask someone at G City TRU about Grimlock i'm sure they could do the same. The problem with Grimlock earlier this year, i think, was they had no stock in AUS at all but now they have stock so there should not be any trouble in transferring.

Great, thanks for the tip, I'll try, i noticed you can order again online as well...

[philby]

Hi, I'm passing through Toowoomba, does anyone know of any toy or comic shops there? Cheers

[griffin]

First day of the Myer toy sale, and the Garden City store is out of the Autobot 5-pack, and has 2 of the Trailer/Sideswipe packs.

I grabbed the last Autobot 5-pack and asked if they had anymore out the back (so that I could post here for others to know if it was worth bothering going there for one). They said that more "should" come in and were taking names and details... so if they do get more in before the sale ends, you can reserve one and they'll chase you up. Otherwise, try a different store first if you can.


(I forgot my Myer One card... but wasn't going to go back home for it, as there was someone else there wanting one, so I couldn't risk saying that I'd go back home for it and come back to find it sold to someone else.)

[Nonalyth]

TRU Garden City had a few MP Wheeljacks when I was there earlier today (I counted 4) and about half a dozen Prowls in case anyone doesn't have one yet.

Also saw TF4 Voyager Hound and Slog, Prime Voyager Bulkhead and Starscream, and the translucent Abominus legends set.

[Megatran]

First day of the Myer toy sale, and the Garden City store is out of the Autobot 5-pack, and has 2 of the Trailer/Sideswipe packs.

I grabbed the last Autobot 5-pack and asked if they had anymore out the back (so that I could post here for others to know if it was worth bothering going there for one). They said that more "should" come in and were taking names and details... so if they do get more in before the sale ends, you can reserve one and they'll chase you up. Otherwise, try a different store first if you can.


(I forgot my Myer One card... but wasn't going to go back home for it, as there was someone else there wanting one, so I couldn't risk saying that I'd go back home for it and come back to find it sold to someone else.)

I was told by the Saleswoman/Cashier that these TF toys were on special & hence no further 10% discount with the Myer One card. But you do get the rewards points.

[Mr_K]

TRU Garden City had a few MP Wheeljacks when I was there earlier today

Ooooo.... How much each?

[Sinnertwin]

Ooooo.... How much each?

$100

[Mr_K]

$100

Thanks ;) hopefully they'll have a sale on it like prowl at some point

[Caffinetron]

TRU Maroochydore has opened and has been since Wednesday. They have their grand opening tomorrow. Get down there if you can as they have everything there. MP Grimlock x 4, Sunstorm x 4, Wheeljack x 5 and Prowl x 1. They did have 6 Wheeljacks but I grabbed one. Also off topic they have an impressive Black Series Star Wars range, figures and the Speeder Bike and Endor attack set. I am trying to post a couple of photos I took but not sure how.
The store is only open till January at this stage. Hopefully it will stay open. It was very refreshing to go to one without driving an hour.

[jaydisc]

WHAT?! WHERE?!

[griffin]

A temporary store? How weird.

It's on their website now too (http://www.toysrus.com.au/www/732/1001127/displayarticle/1181272.html?pub=1&pagemode=2&mode=loadstores&state=QLD&storeid=8044211).

Shop 4, Sunshine Plaza
154-164 Horton Pde
Maroochydore QLD 4558


That's two new stores this year, which only offsets the ones they recently lost (Mackay, Gold Coast).
I wonder if they have any more new stores on the horizon.

[jaydisc]

I can't fathom where it is in the plaza. Gonna head down after work.

[Caffinetron]

It's where the original TRU was. Outside of the plaza area next to Teds camera house in the Woolworths centre.

[jaydisc]

Ah, the old Sam's Warehouse. Awesome. Will check it out tonight. Thanks!

[griffin]

So it's not actually in the Plaza (the address on the TRU site), or does Plaza Parade count as part of the Plaza?

[jaydisc]

There's a walk that connects the two buildings, but they are separate with separate parking. However, it does seem that those buildings at Plaza Parade (Woolie's, Teds, TRU) are officially part of Sunshine Plaza.

[Caffinetron]

Yeah it is pretty sweet, especially seeing every figure there.

[Nevac]

I'm at Aspley TRU. They've got MP grimlock back.

Edit: Asking a guy at TRU Aspley wanting to get stock of MP Sunstorm transferred to here, they said they can (ended up finding stock in their storage). But if you ask someone at G City TRU about Grimlock i'm sure they could do the same. The problem with Grimlock earlier this year, i think, was they had no stock in AUS at all but now they have stock so there should not be any trouble in transferring.

Edit 2: As for MP Sunstorm, their system said they had 10 of the in stock but couldn't find any, so they said as soon as they find one they'd call me :(

Bought a MP Grimlock at Aspley at 4pm on Wednesday 29th they had 1 left on the very top of the shelf on it's side you'd need a ladder to get it down. They may have moved it by now since there were none in easy reach.

[Caffinetron]

WHAT?! WHERE?!

Yeah I know I was stoked when I found out through the Facebook group Oz Transformers collectors.
Also found today at the Big Buys clearance site AOE voyager $20, set of 5 30th Ann figures $15 and a bunch of other stuff. Worth a look if you are at all interested.

[griffin]

There's a walk that connects the two buildings, but they are separate with separate parking. However, it does seem that those buildings at Plaza Parade (Woolie's, Teds, TRU) are officially part of Sunshine Plaza.

It might make for a good meet location around Christmas time, while the store is still there (for a dinner, or if there is a park nearby for a picnic lunch). Get all the lurking Sunny Coasters together. ;)

[jaydisc]

As always, I'm THRILLED to host a meetup here on the Coast. I just didn't think there was enough of us here. I'm assuming you'd be willing to come up, and there's Caffinetron. Anyone else?

[Caffinetron]

That sounds like a stellar idea.

[Jet Li]

How much is MP Wheeljack at TRU?

[christalcase]

As always, I'm THRILLED to host a meetup here on the Coast. I just didn't think there was enough of us here. I'm assuming you'd be willing to come up, and there's Caffinetron. Anyone else?

I'm willing to come up, have access to a car now :D

[Caffinetron]

How much is MP Wheeljack at TRU?

$99.00 and not a cent more, until tax is added.

[Jetfire in the sky]

My brother has just informed me that there are two MP Wheeljacks at Townsville TRU $99

[popculturepooka]

I got the last Wheeljack at TRU Garden City this afternoon.

[Holdobot]

Picked up Slog from Myer Pacific Fair. There was also another one left and as per Myer sale was $39.
They had all of the Myer exclusives available.

[Holdobot]

Helensvale Westfield has wave 3 AOE deluxe. Picked up snarl saw Lockdown and Bumblebee but no sign of hotshot.

Edit: Target was the place

[philby]

Hi, I'm passing through Toowoomba, does anyone know of any toy or comic shops there? Cheers

bump...

nobody in the toowoomba area or nothing to see there? cheers

[griffin]

Probably best to do some google searching for applicable search words, as we don't have many Toowoomba members here (I can think of one, but might not post here often enough to see this request).

[Facepunches]

Don't know how helpful this is but a heads up anyway, saw 2 voyager Slogs and 2 voyager Drifts at Mr Toys in Queen Street Mall. $50.00 though :eek:

[lfpnrg]

bump...

nobody in the toowoomba area or nothing to see there? cheers

Gday mate, honestly not much to see here ...

Facebook link to a local comic shop: Kaboom Comics (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaboom-Comics/115137808869), but I've never been in there myself to see what is available ...

In the way of toys, we have a Mr Toys Toyworld that isn't much to write home about, otherwise I usually get anything from Myer, Target, Big W or Kmart (un-conviently in three completely different "shopping centres" - using the term loosley).

[DELTAprime]

I don't know if anyone has found this anywhere else yet but I found in a basket at Big W Gladstone with a ton of $5 Movie Legends figures in it. I noticed Prime and Stinger.

[Oberon Sexton]

At Auspost, they have AoE Transformers silver coins. They're like $115 each, and comes in a display box that kinda looks like the allspark from 2007 first movie.

[Ravagecat]

Spotted these little guys at kmart toowong today.http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/20141107_161519_zps8eb3b4p3.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/20141107_161519_zps8eb3b4p3.jpg.html)

[reillyd]

I was at Garden City Big W, and was surprised to see a Hasbro rep (she had a shirt saying 'Team Hasbro' and a portable suitcase) taking inventory of the Hasbro Marvel and Star Wars lines and swapping some items, which seemed an odd thing to be doing. Maybe they like to know what toys are peg warmers?

Also, a lot of the Transformers Angry Birds were gone, but scored a Bumblebee. They're really cute little things.

Also three MP Prowl left at TRU

[christalcase]

Wave 3 AOE Deluxes at Sunnybank Kmart for $29. Only 2x Hot Shots and 1x Bumblebee left.

You can try and pricematch to the current TRU sale price of $24 but annoyingly, you will need a physical copy of the catalogue.

[Major_K]

If anyone is still looking, there were 3 MP Wheeljacks at TRU Maroochydore yesterday.

[philby]

Gday mate, honestly not much to see here ...

Facebook link to a local comic shop: Kaboom Comics (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaboom-Comics/115137808869), but I've never been in there myself to see what is available ...

In the way of toys, we have a Mr Toys Toyworld that isn't much to write home about, otherwise I usually get anything from Myer, Target, Big W or Kmart (un-conviently in three completely different "shopping centres" - using the term loosley).

Cheers, I found that comic book shop and went in but they didn't have anything transformers related. The guy said they sometimes get the trade paperbacks but no single issues any more as they don't have the demand for it. Some other brand t-shirts and action figures and stuff though.

[DELTAprime]

Big W Gladstone has Angry Birds Telepods $10 each. Also all AOE Voyagers from all Waves are currently in.

[griffin]

At Kmart Sunnybank, I saw today...
- the Angry Birds telepods single packs (6 different ones) and 2-packs (2 different ones) at $9 and $19
- AOE Deluxe Bumblebee (2), Hotshot (2), Lockdown (1)
- Rescue Bots mini-dino wave 2 Chase & Boulder for $9

[jaydisc]

It might make for a good meet location around Christmas time, while the store is still there (for a dinner, or if there is a park nearby for a picnic lunch). Get all the lurking Sunny Coasters together. ;)


That sounds like a stellar idea.


I'm willing to come up, have access to a car now :D

OK Coasters! Let's do it!

http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?p=444286#post444286

[reillyd]

Angry Birds Bumblebee Bird Bath was 39.95 at Toyworld Runaway Bay. No singles (but Big W DOES)

[griffin]

Angry Birds Bumblebee Bird Bath was 39.95 at Toyworld Runaway Bay. No singles (but Big W DOES)

Bird Bath?

or Bird Blast. :p

[griffin]

Woolies Sunnybank had a box of the second wave Legends (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showpost.php?p=436041&postcount=930) for $8 each. I only saw Grimlock, Strafe and Bumblebee left though.
Coles is cheaper though at $7.

[griffin]

Kmart Sunnybank had the licensed trackset that is housed within a giant Optimus truck & trailer for just $20.

ToysRUs had them for the Movie, along with the other trackset (they are not produced or released by Hasbro).
$20 is REALLY cheap for something that is the size of the Rescue Bots Optimus Trailer box, and comes with two nicely sculpted cars (Bumblebee & Lockdown).

[reillyd]

WoolworthsRunawayBay has Steeljaw in the toy isle.

[reillyd]

Myers Pacific Fair has the platinum "Dinobots Unleashed" for $249. There are two sets that I could see, plus a few Autobots United. Couldn't see Optimus and sideswipe though

The new target has Hot shot/ tracks in stock at 30% off.

[griffin]

The new target has Hot shot/ tracks in stock at 30% off.

A catalogue sale, or just a promotion for a new store?

[reillyd]

A catalogue sale, or just a promotion for a new store?


It was in store, so not sure if it's general or specific to the new store. Nice to see new stock though

[miles_prower]

At Supanova were multiple tables that sell transformers figures including 3rd party ones like the Boosticus and Quantron. As well as some takara tomy prime figures.

[Megatran]

A catalogue sale, or just a promotion for a new store?
It appears to be a sale for Target stores. My local Target at Highpoint (VIC) has the 30% sale tags littered all over the place for TFs. Excludes DVDs.

[Oberon Sexton]

Quite a number of over priced taktomy mp figures at Supanova, plus a couple encore fort maximus for about $430 each :(

[Ravagecat]

Kmart garden city yesterday had at least 2x snarl, 3 x hotshot and 1x bb yellow camaro generations AOE line @ their regular price ($29 i think) and Myer had at least 1x galvatron and 2x steeljaw 1 step changers at around $16 (on sale from $20.50). I also noticed TRU still has a few MP Prowls (end of TF isle at top)

[griffin]

Myer Garden City also had six of the Platinum Leader 2-packs, and 3 of the Optimus/Sideswipe sets... but no Dinobot sets yet, or Breakout Battle (which is on sale this week).

Kmart only has a single Hotshot and Snarl left.
Target has single pack Telepod Angry birds at $11 each (the most expensive source so far). They also have heaps of those One-step six-packs and Silver Knight/Grimlock 2-packs. They didn't have the last wave of Deluxes though. :(

[Bruticus_88]

Toyworld kawana has still got a few of the rts moulds left hiding on the shelves. They still had perceptor and bee that I could see.

[griffin]

As I had expected, and hoped, the newly expanded Westfield Garden City (http://www.westfield.com.au/gardencity/hours) will join Westfield Chermside (http://www.westfield.com.au/chermside/hours) in having an all-day shopping day before Christmas. Usually it is the Thursday before Christmas, but since it is a full week before this year, they have moved it to Tuesday 23rd. The stores open 8am Tuesday 23rd and close 5.30pm Wednesday 24th... if they want to participate (smaller stores often close between midnight and 9am).

I used to go to the Chermside one for a few years, just for a bit of novelty fun of shopping till dawn... something some southern states can do all year round with 24 hour Kmarts, and America has too with a lot of their big retailers.
This year I want to do Garden City from about midnight, if I'm still in Brisbane on that day (I have travel plans for the Christmas weekend, but yet to book flights), in case anyone is interested in meeting up.

[MayzaPrime]

As I had expected, and hoped, the newly expanded Westfield Garden City (http://www.westfield.com.au/gardencity/hours) will join Westfield Chermside (http://www.westfield.com.au/chermside/hours) in having an all-day shopping day before Christmas. Usually it is the Thursday before Christmas, but since it is a full week before this year, they have moved it to Tuesday 23rd. The stores open 8am Tuesday 23rd and close 5.30pm Wednesday 24th... if they want to participate (smaller stores often close between midnight and 9am).

I used to go to the Chermside one for a few years, just for a bit of novelty fun of shopping till dawn... something some southern states can do all year round with 24 hour Kmarts, and America has too with a lot of their big retailers.
This year I want to do Garden City from about midnight, if I'm still in Brisbane on that day (I have travel plans for the Christmas weekend, but yet to book flights), in case anyone is interested in meeting up.

Yes, I have been caught out by the shops closing early in QLD a few times... Such a backwards state, no daylight savings as well. :p

[griffin]

Not a sighting, but only applicable to those near a Mr Toys Toyworld, and isn't a sale price anyway... so probably not worth a news posting.

The current Mr Toys catalogue has the single Angry Birds packs for $13 each (compared to $9 at Kmart, $10 at BigW and $11 at Target).

They also have the Cararra slot-car set (Bumblebee Vs Lockdown) for $129... which I think someone saw at TRU, which would probably be cheaper anyway.

[jaydisc]

20% anyone item at Sunshine Coast TRU:

http://www.toysrus.com.au/i9833780

[christalcase]

Found the AOE Wave 2 and 3 Power Battlers today at City Target (Scorn, Slag, Galvatron, Drift).

[griffin]

Kmart Sunnybank restocked their Deluxes, which means Snarl is back in stock (along with Hotshot and Bumblebee).
They also have all three of the final Flip & Change toys - Drift, Lockdown, Bumblebee.

[miles_prower]

Toys R US Garden City had Legends RiD Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Strongarm and Steeljaw for $8 each, one of each cept for 2 Optimus's. Very surprised to see these honestly.

[griffin]

Tomorrow (Tuesday 23rd) is the all-day-all-night shopping at Chermside and Garden City.
Anyone else going to either one during the midnight hours, just for the fun of it?

I was planning to go to the Garden City at around midnight and do the once-over of the toy sources (and some other stores), so will probably be there for about 3 hours if on my own (probably longer if I had company). Since this isn't something anyone else has ever really been interested in, I didn't bother with a proper meet topic (it's hard enough getting people interested in a "normal" meet here)... but I can meet up if another member going wants to. Just let me know beforehand, and if you want me to bring anything "current" to look at that I recently acquired - RID 3-step changers, MP Bumblebee, Gaia Unicron, GEN Brainstorm, Platinum Dinbots, Angry Birds, Deaths Head, JP Sentinel Optimus Pen.

The website says that they don't charge for parking if you arrive after 6pm and leave before 6am... so at least that's not an issue.

[Caffinetron]

20% anyone item at Sunshine Coast TRU:

http://www.toysrus.com.au/i9833780

Ahhhh here it is. I was looking for this post.

[reillyd]

Toys R Us Mt Gravatt has no MP Bumblebeeonthe shelf, and some asshats for employees. Told me it was sold out, or never was in stock, but that they don't have any managers in the floor.... And they didn't know how to find one. And they didn't know the store number to ring for one, it was in their phone and they would have to go back to get it. I was polite and courteous, and they made me feel like crap just for asking.

Infuriating. Eventually found one who said that no more stock was arriving until January on the phone, but didn't have the time to look it up on the computer to find out if they had received any ready to put out on shelf.

I miss my old Gold Coast store, that actually had time to be helpful to customers. It would have been an awesome gift, and while it's in stock on TRU au website, wouldn't arrive in time.

[Caffinetron]

Sorry to hear about your experience. I just got mine from the Sunshine Plaza store. There are 5 left and with the 20% of voucher makes it really reasonable.

[griffin]

Midnight Garden City shopping.
I got there at 12.30am and there was still a healthy number of people, and very few shops were already closed. For the next hour, it looked and felt like it was just a regular day. The noticeable difference though was how stripped/trashed the toy sections were in each store. Particularly the Transformers sections.

Kmart, ToysRUs and BigW were an absolute mess with their Transformers sections, while Target and Myer were significantly stripped compared to a week ago when I was last there.
A good sign there, that most stores have had a big dent out of their Transformers inventory, to warrant new stock soon (like Generations and RID). It's one of the few times I was actually happy to see empty pegs or shelves, particularly at BigW which had been clogged with at least a hundred gimmick toys since the Movie in June.

TRU - Just like BigW, there was significant empty spots on the shelves, and NOTHING in the over-stock area. Even their Kreo/Construct-Bots section was half empty, which had been sitting untouched even when they were on sale. They still had several Leader Jetfires and heaps of the various Evolutions packs and Voyager Galvatrons though. No RID or Masterpiece anything. The only new things I noticed were the Flip&Change Drift, the final wave One-steps (Prowl/Rollbar/etc), and cheap little novelty disc-launchers by Tomy.

BigW - nothing new that I could see, but a lot of empty pegs and shelf space... so fingers crossed on new (non-movie) stock soon.

Target - ALL the One-Step 6-packs appear to be gone. They had about 10 a week ago, and now, none! I must admit that they'd look like a great "giftset", being quite a large box with 6 toys... so would have been the most tempting item to look like an expensive gift to their kid.

Myer - despite the prices and several cheaper options in the same shopping centre, there was a noticeable dent in their Transformers selection. Unfortunately, the expensive Platinum Editions appear to be "walking" now that they don't have security tags on them. :mad: They were missing two Autobot 5-packs and one Dinobot 5-pack, and probably missing some of the others as well, but those were the ones I asked about. I hope that they aren't losing too many of these things, as the Platinum series looks to be continuing after the Movie ones, and when they go on sale at Myer, the do become rather affordable compared to importing. (and even cheaper than importing when on clearance)
They still had a single Trailer/Sideswipe set, a single Breakout Battle set and four Leader 2-packs.

Kmart - the only store in the Centre that had more than one Deluxe (they had about a dozen, including a single Hotshot). HEAPS of Rescue Bots (way too many), as well as the newer items Flip&Change Drift and final wave One-steps.

Most stores had massive amounts of those Hero Mashers, either being restocked in huge amounts, or are just not being bought at all. Target had more TFs Hero Mashers than all the other TFs toys combined.

A couple of the independent novelty stores had the three Movie head wall-lights (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19891), as well as one near the Myer end having a variety of licensed mugs (including a giant "mega mug" that can hold 850ml - almost a full litre!!!)

Then there was one of the central kiosks selling radio control cars, selling a KO TF3 Ultimate Optimus, in the KO flame packaging that the oversized Leader toys had in some Asian countries a couple years ago.


A couple of signs I saw last night (this morning actually), worth noting, but both expire today... so not much time left to utilise them.
Target had signs up saying that they'll price-match competitor's catalogue prices until December 24th (they are the one store chain that doesn't have a consistent policy, but will have a policy during one or two sale periods each year).
Myer had a sign up, saying 30% off Transformers (not applying to sale prices).


I left at about 3.15am, and the numbers had dropped off a lot to look like a (non-christmas period) weekday morning crowd. The Myer end from BigW to the end was the most active, with a lot of the small stores and food outlets staying open and a decent number of people, but the TRU end, especially the lower level, was a lot quieter, with most of the smaller retailers closed after about 1am.

[griffin]

BigW Calamvale was similarly almost stripped bare when I was there yesterday. Hardly anything larger than a Deluxe.
They must have restocked really recently though as they had the last four Deluxes (Hotshot, Snarl, Bumblebee, Lockdow) at $28, and an endcap of One-Steps at $19... at least 50 of them including the final wave, so it looked like you could probably get a complete set of all 17 of the general release figures.
They also still had a fair few of the christmas stocking and lunchboxes, but the lunchboxes were not discounted like christmas items, because they could sell at any time of year.

[PROVOST]

n00b question -

Anyone know if the Combiner Wars single card figures will be @ retail in AUS?

[Oberon Sexton]

n00b question -

Anyone know if the Combiner Wars single card figures will be @ retail in AUS?

Legitimate question mate. I don't think anyone can answer that though. The likelihood is that the Australian majors will pass on Generations, and focus on RiD due to RiD's media backing with cartoons and games. Honestly, I'm waiting for the TakaraTomy releases coz tfidownunder have wholesale connections with them so it'd be cheaper than normal Hasbro Aus retail anyway. I know the dude from tfidownunder is trying to establish a wholesale link with Hasbro US, but apparently the main thing holding him back is his lack of a store front (being purely online right now)

[Zommael]

Legitimate question mate. I don't think anyone can answer that though. The likelihood is that the Australian majors will pass on Generations, and focus on RiD due to RiD's media backing with cartoons and games. Honestly, I'm waiting for the TakaraTomy releases coz tfidownunder have wholesale connections with them so it'd be cheaper than normal Hasbro Aus retail anyway. I know the dude from tfidownunder is trying to establish a wholesale link with Hasbro US, but apparently the main thing holding him back is his lack of a store front (being purely online right now)

They will almost certainly be out in Feb/March. This has been confirmed by Hasbro AU to Griffin here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19917 . The reason we didnt get the last two years of Generations is for the reasons you said above but since then Hasbro AU seem to be pushing the line harder.

[Oberon Sexton]

They will almost certainly be out in Feb/March. This has been confirmed by Hasbro AU to Griffin here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19917 . The reason we didnt get the last two years of Generations is for the reasons you said above but since then Hasbro AU seem to be pushing the line harder.

Sweeeeeet. Being as egocentric as I am, I rarely am happy to be proven wrong. Welp, Oberon happy. :D

[PROVOST]

Legitimate question mate.

Thanks :)



They will almost certainly be out in Feb/March. This has been confirmed by Hasbro AU to Griffin here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19917 . The reason we didnt get the last two years of Generations is for the reasons you said above but since then Hasbro AU seem to be pushing the line harder.

Ooh cool!!! :)


Sweeeeeet. Being as egocentric as I am, I rarely am happy to be proven wrong. Welp, Oberon happy. :D



Provost Happy too!!!! :D:D:D

[Ravagecat]

Toys R Us Mt Gravatt has no MP Bumblebeeonthe shelf, and some asshats for employees. Told me it was sold out, or never was in stock, but that they don't have any managers in the floor.... And they didn't know how to find one. And they didn't know the store number to ring for one, it was in their phone and they would have to go back to get it. I was polite and courteous, and they made me feel like crap just for asking.

Infuriating. Eventually found one who said that no more stock was arriving until January on the phone, but didn't have the time to look it up on the computer to find out if they had received any ready to put out on shelf.

I miss my old Gold Coast store, that actually had time to be helpful to customers. It would have been an awesome gift, and while it's in stock on TRU au website, wouldn't arrive in time.

Sux you had a bad experience with them. They can be hit and miss. One of the managers their really went out of his way to look after me when the online tru mucked up my order but then you'll get staff on the floor that don't really care. Anyway incase you're still looking, tru mt gravatt had four mp bumblebee yesterday arvo @ $99 each

http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/20150101_141918_zps64de582f.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/20150101_141918_zps64de582f.jpg.html)

[Akky82]

4+ MP Prowl still at Aspley TRU, and a sunstorm in a trolley near the front in the wire with a dinged up box, looks like trolleys maybe full of returned stuff. Other than that... Lots of AOE, a prime starscream (didnt check which one just saw rhe box) and a few Jetfires.

[Oberon Sexton]

Aspley TRU had 3 MP Sunstorms on the shelf.

[Tfiguy]

Toys R Us Mt Gravatt has no MP Bumblebeeonthe shelf, and some asshats for employees. Told me it was sold out, or never was in stock, but that they don't have any managers in the floor.... And they didn't know how to find one. And they didn't know the store number to ring for one, it was in their phone and they would have to go back to get it. I was polite and courteous, and they made me feel like crap just for asking.

Infuriating. Eventually found one who said that no more stock was arriving until January on the phone, but didn't have the time to look it up on the computer to find out if they had received any ready to put out on shelf.

I miss my old Gold Coast store, that actually had time to be helpful to customers. It would have been an awesome gift, and while it's in stock on TRU au website, wouldn't arrive in time.

Hey mate, sorry to pull out my salesman hat, but if you still want mp bumblebee we have plenty at Tfidownunder.com free pick up At Brissy :)

[griffin]

I couldn't find this one in the sightings section at all, but I'm sure someone has sighted it. (I thought I had mentioned it by now as well, but it doesn't look like I have).
The Angry Birds Optimus Trackset appeared at Kmart Sunnybank and Garden City in/by December, for an unknown amount (probably $40-50-ish).
It is supposed to be a Kmart exclusive here.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/transformers/2014/ab11.jpg

[popculturepooka]

In case anyone is still searching for the last wave of AoE deluxes (Lockdown, Snarl, Hot Shot and Bee), Toyworld on Queen Street Mall has a HUGE amount of each figure for $19.99 each. On a glance, Lockdown and Snarl seemed to be the most numerous too.

[Holdobot]

Gold Coast.
No sign of Combiner wars Legends @ Toyworld Runaway bay and the new one at Helensvale Homemakers.

Will keep checking the one a Helensvale as I live nearby and keep you informed.

[Deonasis]

First wave of the Combiner Wars legends @ Toyworld Townsville for $16 and the first wave of Flip n Change RiD figures @ Toyworld Townsville for $21

[Cassa]

Neith Aspley Hypermarket Toyworld or Mr Toys Toyworld in Lawnton had combiner wars stuff, very annoying. Aspley Toyworld has loads of MP Bumblebee's and Prowls for $99 if anyone was in the mood though.

[Tfiguy]

any combiner wars in Brisbane?

[Jetfire in the sky]

Toys R Us Mt Gravatt has no MP Bumblebeeonthe shelf, and some asshats for employees. Told me it was sold out, or never was in stock, but that they don't have any managers in the floor.... And they didn't know how to find one. And they didn't know the store number to ring for one, it was in their phone and they would have to go back to get it. I was polite and courteous, and they made me feel like crap just for asking.

Infuriating. Eventually found one who said that no more stock was arriving until January on the phone, but didn't have the time to look it up on the computer to find out if they had received any ready to put out on shelf.

I miss my old Gold Coast store, that actually had time to be helpful to customers. It would have been an awesome gift, and while it's in stock on TRU au website, wouldn't arrive in time.

You should write a very well worded and detailed letter of your experience(s) to head office, you will be surprised at what the outcome may be, at best perhaps a voucher, at worst (but still good imho) an apology.

[Akky82]

Neith Aspley Hypermarket Toyworld or Mr Toys Toyworld in Lawnton had combiner wars stuff, very annoying. Aspley Toyworld has loads of MP Bumblebee's and Prowls for $99 if anyone was in the mood though.

Ooh a north sider (i live 3 blocks from lawnton Mr Toys and am in Aspley hypermarket almost every day cos wife works there).

No combiner wars in virginia or mitchelton mr toys yet either.

[Oberon Sexton]

Nothing really new at indooroopilly shopping centre. Their kmart have a few last wave AoE deluxe figures if anyone is looking.

[Cassa]

Ooh a north sider (i live 3 blocks from lawnton Mr Toys and am in Aspley hypermarket almost every day cos wife works there).

No combiner wars in virginia or mitchelton mr toys yet either.

Woo North Side, best side.

No combiner wars at any north side toy shops. Didn't try the major chains but not hopeful.

[Akky82]

Woo North Side, best side.

No combiner wars at any north side toy shops. Didn't try the major chains but not hopeful.

Tried all of chermside, nothing new, kmart quite bare, didnt see any MP Bee left at aspley, but mr toys in the city has a ridiculous amount of AoE voyagers (hot shot, lockdown, snarl) and alot of construct-bots. I'm just hunting for a powerglide, was going to pounce on CW deluxes and silverbolt when they hit stores but now I'm waiting for TT boxed sets.

[griffin]

Garden City Kmart still have a BUTT-LOAD of Rescue Bots convertible bots, mostly Bumblebee bikes... not gonna see a restock of later waves without going on heavy clearance first. :(

Taget had several of their exclusive Silver Knight 12inch Titan, on clearance for $10.

(plus a couple of other items posted in the Clearance Pricing topic in the sightings section)

[Jetfire in the sky]

TRU Townsville has four MP22's $299 and about seven MP 21's $99.

[Major_K]

Big w morayfield has rid hero mashers but nothing else new.

[Zommael]

Toy World Rocky has ARID Warrior, One-Step, and Legion now, but no longer has any CW legends - looks like i bought the last two on Friday and they haven't yet restocked the line.

K-Mart have AOE Generations on clearance - Voyager $29, Leader $59, and Bumblebee $49 (iirc).

[Defcon]

Toyworld in the Mount Gravatt area has Robots in Disguise Strongarm, Sideswipe and Underbite for $26.99
No combiner wars

[Oberon Sexton]

YAY! RID have arrived! =D

[popculturepooka]

Toyworld in the Mount Gravatt area has Robots in Disguise Strongarm, Sideswipe and Underbite for $26.99
No combiner wars

Sideswipe? Wasn't he just shown at Toyfair?

[Zippo]

One Steps

[Jr Prime]

Wave one of combiner wars voyager, deluxe and legend figures as well as RiD warriors at indooroopolly and Jindalee Toyworlds.

Also found leader megatrons at Toys r us Mt Gravatt.

[jaydisc]

The manager of Toyworld Nambour and Noosa informed me they have stock of CW. Nambour had one case of each class, Voyager, Deluxe and Legend/scout. I took most of it at Nambour leaving behind Prime, Drag Strip and Thundercracker.

Mr Toys in Kawana had RID Warrior ($35!!!!) and 1-step.

The Plaza including TRU had nothing new.

[Defcon]

Kmart Garden city, has tickets up for generations, but no stock yet. Probably soon over the next couple of days. The section is half empty. Prices are Deluxes $29, Voyager $49, Leader $89.

Also not related to toys :) for some extra info there was a sign up saying Kmart will be closed at 5:30pm due to adverse weather conditions. I did ask about this, and will probably apply to several stores.

[JustOwen]

Toyworld CBD. Combiner war Legend Bombshell, Powerglide, Windcharger and Thundercracker $19.99. RID Wave 1 Warrior $34.99, Legend $9.99 and 3 Steps Changer$24.99 sighted

[reillyd]

TRU Garden city was cleared of cW deluxes (single Dragstrip) and no sign of Leader Megatron at the sale price :(
Plenty of Legends class, some Rid one steps, and a full case of Marvel Legends including Scarlet Witch

[MV75]

Ooh a north sider (i live 3 blocks from lawnton Mr Toys and am in Aspley hypermarket almost every day cos wife works there).

No combiner wars in virginia or mitchelton mr toys yet either.

Ha, nice. I drive through the hypermarket car park most days as I work just up the main road from it now. Sadly I don't actually go in to check tru much at all though. But I might seeing how the new toys seem to be out now.

Speaking of Lawnton, I bought a fall of cybertron soundwave they had on special from $49 to $29 yesterday. They have a lot of them.

[Burn]

K-Mart Innisfail has tickets up for Generations figures as well.

[Stug]

(Sorry, I could have posted this much earlier...) Late last Friday Mitchelton/Brookside Toyworld had legend, deluxe and voyager CW.

[miles_prower]

Toy World Macgregor has Voyager Combiner Wars Optimus and Silver Bolt for $50 each, and also Warrior RID figures for $35

[ProphesizedFunk]

Just went to Garden City Mt Gravatt.

No sign of Combiner Wars at Target, Kmart or Big W.

Toys R Us had about 2 each of Optimus and Silverbot. 1 Deluxe Dragstrip and about 15 or so of various Legends figures.

They also had a stock up for RID.

[MV75]

I managed to get to tru Aspley this arvo, they had when I left, 1 silverbolt, about 5 optimus and a few legends cw figures. I bought silverbolt and alpha bravo, which was the last deluxe of anything they had. I also bought what looked like the last mp bumblebee too.

[Caffinetron]

Had a look around the Sunshine Plaza area today in Maroochydore and found absolute bugger all. Really disappointed. K-Mart, Target, Myer and Toys R Us all had nothing new on the shelves. Myer had clearance priced all the Bayformers but only by marginal prices, probably 20%. K-Mart was the worst performer with bare shelves and little rubber animals stuck to the ceiling. I'm hoping the bare shelves mean CW figures are not far away.

[jaydisc]

How far are you from Noosa? That Toyworld is owned by the one that owns Nambour and Nambour had some. The owner told me a week ago that they both should. Nambour prices were good ($25 & $40). You should call Noosa if it isn't too far for you.

[MV75]

I found out yesterday that both the non Aspley tru stores are getting more cw stuff soon. I was planning a road trip Saturday morning to the sunshine coast to check it out. If there is stuff, yay, if not, then I gave the hoon a decent run. :)

[Caffinetron]

Yeah Noosa is an every day run for me as i drive around alot for work Jay. I only really want Dragstrip so i can wait. I'd be giving them a call before driving up here to the Sunshine Coast TRU. Their shelves were already pretty stocked, where they are going to put CW etc is beyond me.

[jaydisc]

I didn't want Dragstrip so as of last Thu, there's definitely one of those in Nambour.

[ProphesizedFunk]

Went to Sunnybank Plaza in Brisbane nothing at the Kmart there.

[Pig's_A_King]

Tags up at Kmart for all Combiner Wars but no stock.
Went to Mr Toys... What Are you on about? Would you like a Jetfire? Come back in afew days as we got boxes of TFs at the back.... But dunno when we'll get to them.... Would you like 3 year old Kreo combiners? WTF?

[Akky82]

Picked up Dragstrip and Powerglide at Aspley TRU sunday, was still plenty there of each deluxe/voyager and an armada megs... But went back today to get an alpha bravo to play with and they're pretty cleaned out. Couple of thindercracker and windcharger, and 4 primes. Still one MP Bee and a Prowl. Will check aspley kmart later tonight.

[miles_prower]

Mr Toys CBD has combiner wars voyagers $50, deluxes $27 and legends $20, went and picked up the entire set of deluxes, so got 4 limbs to my Superion, when I checked they only got Firefly and Skydive, I grabbed the last Alpha Bravo.

[Akky82]

Mr Toys Lawnton has CW and RiD. Didnt take notice of RiD but as for CW they have legends, 2 of each deluxe (1 alpha bravo left, i took the other), 2 of each leader, but they havent put the voyagers out yet.

[Pig's_A_King]

Capalaba has voyagers and Legends CWs... I got silverbolt, 2 bombshell, 2 powerglide.. No deluxes or leaders

[Pig's_A_King]

Mr Toys Toyworld that is... Also have RID

[Defcon]

Toys R Us Garden City, has Combiner Wars deluxes, and voyagers, looks recently restocked. Robots in Disguise deluxes for $29.99, including Grimlock, Bumblebee, and Strongarm.

[Deonasis]

Ayr Toyworld has the CW leader (Armada only) for $99, voyagers $49, and deluxes $25. Generations Jetfire $99 and the leader AoE figures also $99. And the 1-step RID figures.

Bowen Toyworld had no CW figures :( only HeroMashers and the teeny tiny and 1-step RID figures. Quite depressing.

[The Collector]

CB Wars Deluxe $25
Voyager$42.50
Leader $100
Looks lIke they have everything in stock as of 9am this morning

[griffin]

As of this morning, Target Garden City doesn't have any Generations yet.
TRU Garden City had everything with GEN & RID, but were sold out of their Leader Megatrons.

Target did appear to have a restocking of some Movie items since the Christmas clear-out, as they now had about 6 of the One-Step multi-packs with Silver Knight Optimus, which they had none in the week after Christmas.
Their Silver Knight Titan 12 inch Optimus were on a clearance table for about $6 each.

[jaydisc]

Nothing at Sunshine Plaza. Forgot to check TRU though.

[The Collector]

When I bought CB Wars at Toyworld Ayr on the 20th of February the price I paid was $24.99 D $42.99 V $99.99L when I had a quick look this morning it looked like they had restocked ill recheck prices next week if they have changed I'll let you know.

[Caffinetron]

Nothing at Sunshine Plaza. Forgot to check TRU though.

Still amazes me that they have nothing there.
Kawana Toyworld only had RID deluxe for i think $35 the other day, no CW.

[MV75]

Mr Toys Lawnton has CW and RiD. Didnt take notice of RiD but as for CW they have legends, 2 of each deluxe (1 alpha bravo left, i took the other), 2 of each leader, but they havent put the voyagers out yet.

I went there today, they had plenty of each of the deluxes, like heaps. They had two of each leader megatron. But of the smaller ones, heaps of the red car guy, heaps of thundercracker, a couple bombshells and zero of the ones I actually wanted. :( Err, blackjack and powerglide. Bummer.

So I picked up dragstrip and the two jets. :)

[Facepunches]

Hey man, Powerglide is always gonna be a hard one to find, but as for Blackjack, he's wave 2 and that won't be out for a while – postpone the hunt! :P

[MV75]

Thanks for the reminder there. I just looked at the toy wiki again, yep, just gotta find powerglide. :)

[Deonasis]

"Toyworld in Ayr"
CB Wars Deluxe $25
Voyager$42.50
Leader $100
Looks lIke they have everything in stock as of 9am this morningWell you either own the store or I must have just missed you. Whichever it is, welcome to the board! :D

All the department store chains in Mackay had no signs of RID or Combiner Wars yet.

[Facepunches]

I saw CW OP and Silverbolt in Brisbane CBD Target...no other CW lines.

[Jetfire in the sky]

TRU Townsville has CW Prime, Silverbolt, Megs, Thundercracker, Powerglide, Bombshell, Sky Dive (if that's his name) and I think one more small one.
The Transformers display is a dogs breakfast so look around for the items, some aren't with the corresponding price tag.

[The Collector]

Well you either own the store or I must have just missed you. Whichever it is, welcome to the board! :D

All the department store chains in Mackay had no signs of RID or Combiner Wars yet.

Don't own it just walk past there most mornings tf section is barely 20 feet from the foot path so im usually in and out pretty quick but thanks for the welcome

[griffin]

Costco are in talks with Logan council to open up a store in Logan city... which will be good for those south of the river who don't want to drive all the way to the store on the north side. (for the occasional large-size Transformers toy they sell by the pallet for cheap)
Will be at least two years away though, but something to look forward to.

[ProphesizedFunk]

Target at Carindale had Combiner Wars in pretty much had everything Legends, Deluxe, Voyager and Leader classes today at 4:00pm.

Looks like they may have just put them up grabbed my Megatron and walked out a super happy man :)

Didn't check any of the other stores at Carindale though sorry guys.

[reillyd]

Target Runaway Bay has Combiner Wars Deluxes, Voyagers and Legends, but no leader Megatrons. I couldn't get them to scan on the price check machine (they all locked up when I tried). It might be fixed by the sale time.

[Caffinetron]

TRU Maroochydore has CW Leader and Legends class figures. Leader ones are Megs and Armada Megs. Still no deluxe or voyager.

[Akky82]

Me Toys Indooropilly still had plenty of CW legend/deluxe/voyager but no leader. Target Indooropilly put out their delxues (2 of each) and legends (4 of each) yesterday, but no voyager or leader (there were no tags or empty spaces either). Kmart didnt have anything (not even tags).

Killin' me seeing these nearly every day but i've pre-ordered TT superion and not going to double... Bah just wanna play with combiners... hurry up package with my wave 2 stunticons/blackjack

[MV75]

Target Strathpine has a healthy cw range. Except I got the last megatron tonight. :) About 5 armada ones there. They had loads of primes and silverbolts and a good go of deluxes and actually two powerglides left. I bought one. So I'm currently up to where I want to be. :)

Sale is good, I got the megatron and powerglide less than the megatron regular price.

[The Collector]

Willows target Townsville CW 2 ammetar megatrons left 3V OP and SB 14 d
D a heap of ledgens left

[The Collector]

In Toys R us Townsville MP prowl \6 Mp Bbee\7 Jetfire/3 Mp sandstorm /3 CW silver bolt /6 MP ultramagnus out the back have to ask for it

[The Collector]

Willows target Townsville CW 2 ammetar megatrons left 3V OP and SB 14 d
D a heap of ledgens left

Target Casletown Townsville CW nada
AOE dusty

[Mr_K]

Went to Target Indooroopilly and they had no Generation Leader Megatrons
Called Capalaba Target and they said they didn't have any either.

Called Target Carindale this morning to see if they had any Leader Megatrons (I was particularly after Armada version) since someone on the boards said they got one from there earlier in the week, and they said they only had White Knight Optimus and a Drift. Well I knew this wasn't true since they must have at least some Generation figures since they're in the catalogue, and I'm sure not all the Generation figures would have sold between Monday and now.

Well my wife had to go that way anyway and so she dropped in for me. TOTALLY scored one! She says there are a few of each Megatron still there.

Go. Go. Go.

(PS: Never watched Armada but like the colours much better and we all can guess that Takara are going to do another MP Megs so I'm holding out for that over this IDW G1 tank version)

[tinyJazz]

Target Mt Ommaney has two leader silver megs on the shelf.
Plenty of other CW stuff, no wave 2 Deluxes or Voyagers.

[Zommael]

Nothing new in Target Rocky. I can't believe even TOWNSVILLE gets stuff before we do. What, do they only stop here on the way back down or something? :confused:

[kovert]

Target Chermside. As of 1800 on 6 March, there was plenty of Prime and Silverbolt (I counted around 20). Either four or six of Megatron: half green, half silver. Plenty of deluxe class for your arms and legs.

[TAAUBlaster]

Nothing new in Target Rocky. I can't believe even TOWNSVILLE gets stuff before we do. What, do they only stop here on the way back down or something? :confused:

My theory is that Rocky (and Central QLD) are still considered to be "out in the sticks" so we are never high on the distribution list. I don't know if you were here back when the original RID came out, but it was pathetic at best :/
And even though Central QLD has exploded in the last few years, not much has changed , distribution wise.

[christalcase]

Target CBD and Target Springwood had no CW Megatrons :(

They had Wave 1 of everything else in plentiful numbers though.

[Zommael]

My theory is that Rocky (and Central QLD) are still considered to be "out in the sticks" so we are never high on the distribution list. I don't know if you were here back when the original RID came out, but it was pathetic at best :/
And even though Central QLD has exploded in the last few years, not much has changed , distribution wise.

We do tend to get everything, just way after everywhere else.

[sideswipes brother]

Target Strathpine had heaps of everything except G1 Megatron and Powerglide. They had about 5 Armada Megs there. My son bought bombshell. That is one awesome figure!!!

[MV75]

Target Strathpine had heaps of everything except G1 Megatron and Powerglide. They had about 5 Armada Megs there. My son bought bombshell. That is one awesome figure!!!

Yea, I bought the last megatron there last Thursday night. :) I did leave two powerglides though. Ah well.

[Defcon]

Toys R Us Garden City has restocked combiner wars again, deluxes, voyagers and legends are all full again. I didn't see any leaders. They really are making an effort, its good to see these are selling quite well. I don't know for certain, but I have a feeling Toys R Us has been quiet successful in moving stock compared to the other retailers.

[griffin]

They did have an introductory sale to help, to coincide with the impulsive purchase of new toys.

[Oberon Sexton]

We do tend to get everything, just way after everywhere else.

Uuuuugh. I used to live in rural central QLD during my whole high school years. I think you might find a little luck if you ask the bigger stores like target if they could transfer curtain products from the city chains. The worst they can happen really do is they say no. :P

[Burn]

Nothing up my way. K-Mart still have empty spaces with the tickets. Target is still trying to off load AOE stuff. TRU only got in CW Prime.

I've had a couple of crappy weeks, I just want some CW plastic crack. :(

[Perceptor]

Target Cairns Central has CW but I took one of each legends and deluxes.
I didnt see for Leader Megs, but they had OP and superion

[Burn]

blargh. Hate going there, make me validate my parking, plus it's so much further to drive. :(
Though I was actually in the city yesterday, should have ducked in.

[Deonasis]

Target Casletown Townsville CW nada
AOE dustyTarget Castletown now has their CW stock in. I got a G1 Megs but walking out I couldn't help but think how it would have been a more exciting purchase on my road trip last weekend.

[Pig's_A_King]

Target Capalaba has only generations CW Dragstrip and Alpha Bravo Left, all the legends are there, & plenty of O.Ps and Silverbolts... I bought the second last Drag Strip & Alpha Bravo, & the last Air Raid and Firefly, at 20% off it came to $96. NO LEADER MEGATRONS!

I managed to pick the last G1 Megs at Capalaba Toyworld for $90. Still one Armada left, on the floor though... Thats where they were... 2 O.Ps, No Silverbolts, Legends Windcharger and Thundercracker still haven't moved..... Some R.I.D... Heaps of old AOE, DOTM, & Prime there... No CW Deluxes.... One Jetfire Leader available...


Kmart Capalaba only has Tags up for CW, been like that for 3 wks or so now... AOE, Rescue Bots, & Angry Birds are not moving there

[Zommael]

Target Rocky has CW, at last! They only appeared to have voyagers and leaders on display, though. Plenty of both Voyagers and Armada Megs, but fewer of silver Megatron. It makes me wonder if he is shortpacked as some have speculated, though I tend to lean towards him just being popular. Anyway, I took a Prime and Armada Megatron, but may yet go back for G1 Megatron and Silverbolt if I feel like it.

[Sutton]

Target Rocky has CW, at last! They only appeared to have voyagers and leaders on display, though. Plenty of both Voyagers and Armada Megs, but fewer of silver Megatron. It makes me wonder if he is shortpacked as some have speculated, though I tend to lean towards him just being popular. Anyway, I took a Prime and Armada Megatron, but may yet go back for G1 Megatron and Silverbolt if I feel like it.

Silver Megs is definitely not shortpacked - leaders are distributed in cases of 2, and this one is 1/1 with Armada.

Reckon we'll all be able to pick up a $30 Armada Megs in around 12 months time...

[Zommael]

Silver Megs is definitely not shortpacked - leaders are distributed in cases of 2, and this one is 1/1 with Armada.

Reckon we'll all be able to pick up a $30 Armada Megs in around 12 months time...

Heh. Armada Galvatron customs coming in 5...4...3...2...1....

[Oberon Sexton]

Heh. Armada Galvatron customs coming in 5...4...3...2...1....

Should be easy enough to fudge a G2 style megs custom. :p

[Zommael]

Should be easy enough to fudge a G2 style megs custom. :p

It's literally just a matter of swapping the heads and then flicking some purple paint at it.

[Akky82]

Target chermside has 2 g1 megs and 3 armada, oodles of voyager/deluxe/legenxs (sale atm too). Will edit/update if i go anywhere else.

Kmart - nothing rid or CW
Mr Toys - Rid warriors and 3 steps, CW voyagers and deluxes, 4 shelfwarmertron, no legends
Gametraders - encore dirge

[griffin]

Target Capalaba has only generations CW Dragstrip and Alpha Bravo Left, all the legends are there, & plenty of O.Ps and Silverbolts... I bought the second last Drag Strip & Alpha Bravo, & the last Air Raid and Firefly, at 20% off it came to $96. NO LEADER MEGATRONS!

Targets at Forest Lake and Browns Plains are not stocking Leader class either (at this time)... which makes it even harder to track down the Gen1 Megatron if a lot of Target stores aren't even stocking that size class. :(

[Defcon]

Leader Megatrons are instock at Toys R Us Garden City. Looks recently filled, counted at least 3 of each. Armada and G1. Sighted late afternoon just before close time. They have those security thingies attached though. No Combiner Wars yet at Garden City Kmart. No leaders at Target, some Legends and deluxes, heaps of voyagers.

[Sutton]

They have those security thingies attached though.

Wow, didn't realise this was a board giving tips for people planning to do a runner! :p

[Defcon]

Wow, didn't realise this was a board giving tips for people planning to do a runner! :p

lol for the record NO! :o just mentioned it because they do sometimes leave annoying indentations around the boxes. But I don't know why I care about the boxes, because usually they get binned as they take up space.

[griffin]

lol for the record NO! :o just mentioned it because they do sometimes leave annoying indentations around the boxes. But I don't know why I care about the boxes, because usually they get binned as they take up space.

I agree... it's not to suggest anything criminal, it is just to alert people who collect mint packaging or sealed toys, to not bother going there as those security strappings damage the boxes.

[Bowser The Second]

Spotted wave 1 of the RID Warrior class at Toyworld Southport. Unfortunately they're kinda pricey at $35.

[Ravagecat]

Still nothing worth mentioning at TRU yesterday when I was there :rolleyes:

[Zommael]

Target Rocky now has no silver Megatrons, only two Armada Megatrons left. They had multiple wave one deluxes left, but I think I may have grabbed the last Drag Strip. They still have plenty of voyagers.

[griffin]

Myer Carindale has the three smallest size classes of Gen toys now... and several Platinum Edition sets on the clearance table (but they were cheaper during the sales).

BigW Carindale had barely 5 Transformers, and a whole heap of empty pegs waiting for the 2015 stuff. Heaps of Easter items that aren't at other stores, which I'll add to the Easter items topic in the Oz news section.

Target Carindale had all the Generations toys except Gen1 Megatron. They also had HEAPS of the Silver Knight Optimus Titans.... which are going nowhere.


And I didn't realise until the other day that the Mt Gravatt Central Target actually closed down for the Garden City one to open.

[Ravagecat]

And I didn't realise until the other day that the Mt Gravatt Central Target actually closed down for the Garden City one to open.

I mentioned it indirectly here (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showpost.php?p=435960&postcount=1978) a while back. Guess someone wasn't paying attention :p

[Facepunches]

While picking up Shelfwarmatron to complete CW wave 1 I noticed 2 G1 Leader Megs and a few Armarda Megs – Target Chermside.

[reillyd]

While picking up Shelfwarmatron to complete CW wave 1 I noticed 2 G1 Leader Megs and a few Armarda Megs – Target Chermside.

Sorry, but who is shelfwarmatron now?

[Facepunches]

Armada Megs

[The Collector]

CW leader megatrons 3 of each in ToysRus Townsville if anyone's still looking

[The Collector]

CW leader megatrons 3 of each in ToysRus Townsville if anyone's still looking

Willows Target one of each leader megatron still left at 3:30 pm

[PROVOST]

Target North Lakes had some good TF's today,maybe already been reported but I saw these:

http://s11.postimg.org/52es2uuxv/20150323_153246.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/8m0psnxnj/full/)

http://s11.postimg.org/cjnzi2kgz/20150323_153302.jpg (http://postimage.org/)


As well as two Armada Megatrons.

[christalcase]

If anyone's interested, JB Hifi has Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark on PS3 down to $15.

[Handsprime]

If anyone's interested, JB Hifi has Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark on PS3 down to $15.

If the ps4 version was $15, I would be rushing to JB Hi-fi now

[Caffinetron]

Big W has the XB1 and PS4 for $30. Still not worth it at 30 though.

[kovert]

For those who collect Myer One points: Transformers Combiner Wars sighted at Myer Chermside. The small (don't know the class) and Deluxe class carded figures are available as are the boxed Voyager class. Voyager class was $49.95, same as the other retailers.

[jaydisc]

For those who collect Myer One points: Transformers Combiner Wars sighted at Myer Chermside. The small (don't know the class) and Deluxe class carded figures are available as are the boxed Voyager class. Voyager class was $49.95, same as the other retailers.

Myer Maroochydore too. Deluxes $29.95. Myer has good sales though, and often around school holidays.

[MV75]

Decided to drop into Toyworld at Lawnton after stopping at supercheap just up the street for a look around.

Saw a bunch of the legends red car guy and thundercrackers and a reasonable pile of wave 1 deluxes. I couldn't see any leaders or voyagers though.

[The Collector]

Only CW wave "1" at Myers Townsville on sale didn't see any leader Meg's

[Facepunches]

Myer Brisbane CBD wave 1 CW...no leader figures though.

[Ravagecat]

Only Wave 1 CW at Myer Garden City too. First 3 sizes and no leaders as above.

Also saw some AOE Quick change/draw figures at the reject shop. Scorn, Stafe, BB, Crosshairs and Hound (I think). Must of just put them out as no price but can probably assume they'll be $10-15 ea

[MV75]

Went to Myer Northlakes tonight. Only got a heap of shelf warmer optimus, couple of silverbolts, one drag strip and a few of the legends including about 2 powerglides.

I pointed the wave two pictures out in the catalogue to the lady there and she said they had sold out of those, (blackjack and something else), and said another shipment is due Monday, but may not have those in it.

I ended up picking up Lego Ecto-1 though at 20% off $69.95. :) They had at least one more there.

[Defcon]

Kmart and Big W are really dragging their feet, no sightings of Combiner Wars?? please can someone correct me if I'm wrong. Its April now and they should of had these out by March. Very disappointing. I know we can get these from ToysRUs, and Mr Toys Toyworld, but only sparingly at Target and Myer. Supposedly at my local Myer they were supposed to have these, but I just couldn't see them. I have wave 1 already so I'm sorted, but to be honest I'm annoyed at the lacking support, only ToysRus and Mr toys seem to have reliably stocked displays. So when Kmart and Big W finally stock their shelves lets hope they are putting out wave 2, however unlikely. The later they put out wave 1 toys, we may have to wait even longer before we see later waves.

[Burn]

K-Mart Cairns Central had no sign of Combiner Wars, K-Mart Innisfail has had the tags up for over a month (with "Item currently unavailable") but nothing.

[Taco Prime]

Combiner Wars now at Myer Brisbane City

Currently on sale until April 26

Voyager Optimus Prime and Silverbolt $29.95 each.

Deluxe Alpha Bravo, Fireflight, Skydive and Dragstrip price not listed

Legend Powerglide, Windcharger, Bombshell and Thundercracker $12.95 each.

[griffin]

Went to Garden City this morning to get some half-price easter junk.
All that licensed Easter junk is half price now, and considering the massive amount I saw left over this year, it should end up taking them a few weeks to clear it all out, and ned to be discounted a lot more.

But as for toys...

Target had a small selection of GEN & RID.
RID 3-step, 1-step, Warrior & Legion.
Gen Voyagers only.

Kmart had the new GEN & RID now.
RID Warrior, 3-step, Legion, & 1-step.
Gen Deluxe only.
(they still have HEAPS of Rescue Bots toys that they are never going to sell - over half of the Transformers section is Rescue Bots toys)

BigW still have nothing new.
I did see in their "Drop Zone", six of the giant Rescue Bots Epic Optimus for $20, from $48.

ToysRUs seem to be slow restocking, as they were light on the RID & GEN toys.
GEN Leader, Legends only.
RID 3-step, Warrior, 1-step.

[griffin]

Photos to go with the text above...

Target.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tg01.jpg

Kmart
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015kmart03.jpg

BigW
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015bw01.jpg.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015bw02.jpg

ToysRUs
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tru01.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tru02.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tru03.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tru04.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2015tru05.jpg

[Ravagecat]

Just spotted aoe stinger at TRU garden city $30 eachhttp://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/20150416_164308_zpsby6nuqip.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/20150416_164308_zpsby6nuqip.jpg.html)

[Perceptor]

Cairns Myer has Combiner Wars Wave 1 and at sales price
roughly at least one of each figure apart from leaders no sign.

[griffin]

The Reject Shop at Sunnybank has also got in those cheap Movie Power Battlers for $12 - Scorn, Drift, Crosshairs, and Strafe.
Plus a restock of the Goldie Anniversary figurines, both waves, for $4.


Just spotted aoe stinger at TRU garden city $30 each

Five left today, after I bought one. (thanks to the tip-off by Ravagecat)

One of the staffers was stocking the shelf while I was there, unboxing a case of flip-n-change Movie figures (the big ones that you spin around to transform)... which are really old to be just getting in a new case today.

[reillyd]

For those interested, Supanova is running all weekend at the Gold Coast, and quite a bit of TF merchandise. Toynkdownunder and Tfidownunder both had stalls.

Toynkdownunder

Masterpeiece items were grossly overpriced and Toynk, and if you were balking at TRU prices you should see them! Even with the low dollar, their merchandise was overpriced, and I saw they were still selling the Encore Devestator from last year. Nice range, but a quick check of ebay might save you a bundle. If you're desperate for an impulse buy, well you get to play the same day.


Tfidownunder

When I saw that they were participating, I was quite surprised and made sure to stop bye. I had noticed the enthusiasm with which it was promoted here, and have to admit being quite skeptical it would last given how competitive online pricing is. The range of Masterpiece stock there was cool, even the ehobby Green Convoy (was it bathing ape?). There was also quite an assortment of third party stock there in a giant Diorama, with Takara Grimlock being mauled by three sharkticons (if you remember from the movie). There was also on display Fans Toys Swoop with glorious chrome wings next to Grimlock, and he looked gorgeous. If you're going to the con, at least take a look at the diorama. I wish I had had a camera on me to show it off.

I ended buying a Takra Go Green Lion Prime (Thundertron) as an impulse buy, and stopped to chat to the store owner. He seemed a really nice, genuine guy. After talking to him for a bit, I quite revised my opinion if the store actually. He's really passionate and enthusiastic for toys, and I think what people might have perceived as "hype" in the testimonials might just be his contagious enthusiasm. I think he's going very hard on customer service, and that his putting all his energy into making it a success. Best of luck to him.

Also I did see a number of stores selling licensed logo Autobot and Decepticon hats around, and there's an artist store of ironwork characters that had some Prime figures as well. Anyone else see something that caught their eye?

[griffin]

They were both at the Brisbane one last November... I even took photos of their stock and posted them somewhere here.
(I can't be bothered to find them... :p )

[Megatran]

For those interested, Supanova is running all weekend at the Gold Coast, and quite a bit of TF merchandise. Toynkdownunder and Tfidownunder both had stalls.

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Tfidownunder

The range of Masterpiece stock there was cool, even the ehobby Green Convoy (was it bathing ape?).

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There was an authentic Bathing Ape MP-10 Green Convoy? :eek:: Me wants.

[phealey]

Garden City Toys R Us had Leader Class megs and some combiner wars.
Garden City Target had the cheapest combiner wars sets wave 1 and 2 for $24, plenty of stock on the weekend.