Holy cow, I hit the mother load of finds today (well, considering that my findings of legit TFs have been so far and few between) -- I went to a department store called "New World" in Beijing and they just had similar to what I found at the department store near Renmin Uni station, although they also had Sons of Cybertron and Alternity Ultra Magnus, but they were like $66AUD -- bit rich for me. I saw Sergeant Kup there and asked if the had Scourge in, she said no. I asked if he was just sold out or whether or not they'd ever gotten him in, cos I'd expect them to be in the same assortment since the bottom of Kup's blister shows Scourge. She said that they NEVER got Scourge. This seriously disheartened me.

So then I went across the road to a smaller shopping centre called SoShow that a student at Renmin Uni recommended to me... though I was skeptical as she wasn't so sure herself. So I checked out one level labelled "toys" and couldn't find anything legit there. I was about to leave until I noticed that the next level up was labelled "cartoons" or "animation" or something like that, so I went up to have a peek. Holy cow - an entire floor full of collectable stores!

Interesting finds (not from the same store) include:
+ DOTM Voyager Optimus Prime (looks very meh)
+ DOTM Voyager Megatron (looks nice, though not hard considering how ordinary the first 2 movie Megs look )
+ DOTM Voyager Sentinel Prime - I tried to play with the "Try Me" gimmick to see if he sounds like Leonard Nimoy, but nothing happened. Maybe I wasn't doing it right... didn't want to break anything
+ DOTM Deluxe Bumblebee
+ Raiden - loose and boxed; don't remember how much
+ Metalhawk - boxed (approx AU$300)
+ Black Zarak - loose; didn't see a price tag
+ Loose G1 Star Sabre - loose, couldn't see his sword - approx AU$100-something
+ MOSC United Wheeljack and Scourge -- AU$43 each! Ouch.
+ Various boxed G1s, some even looked legit!

Like a kid in a candy store, but with only AU$29 on me! (cos I was hunting for any of the Deluxes I was needing, which usually cost AU$18 here - but of course, these are specialist stores). I'll post what I actually bought on the acquisitions thread.