February Acquisitions.

[dirge]

the browning looks lovely

Dirge, did you try taking pics on an angle to the safety display unit? the flash reflection is generated due to the mirror concept

Yeah I did. The acrylic reflects flash no matter what angle I try

[Pulse]

Tiby, it looks like you've bought one of everything. It must have been one HUGE box to pack all that stuff in it.

Atleast you're only buying one of each TF, unlike Sami from NY http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x41/SamiWCP/ who even picks up happy meal toys & rubbish like that.

[Tiby]

Pulse, it ended up being TWO huge boxes! I stumbled my way back to the car peering around the side of them...

[roller]

picked up spotlight optimus crime the BlackWhitecover for $10

[1orion2many]

Two G1 items I have been waiting for finally showed up in the mail today,
they were Targetmaster Quake complete and Pretender Submarauder complete. Just a litlle side note about people buying overseas instead of off the shops in Australia, I actually enjoy the hunt around trying to find that harder to get hold of TF. I get satisfaction and a mild sense of accomplishement when I finally do find that figure I've been looking for. I know it can be time consuming as well as petrol wasteing but if you were really worried about petrol you would pick up the phone and ring the shop instead. We could just be cutting our nose off to spite our face as the old saying goes, i don't think Hasbro would really notice a small group of collectors buying from overseas but say if it did make a slight impact and there was less demand for TF's, we would then get even less on the shelves and complain even more. I know we are over charged for our TF's but we must make an allowance for shipping, because of the smaller numbers of items being shipped here I would think there would be a higher amount to pay per item for making the trip to Australia. Maybe I should have posted this somewhere else. Almost forgot , my Cybertron DVD's showed up today in the mail as well, a big thank you to a certain person for those.

[Soundwarp]

Two G1 items I have been waiting for finally showed up in the mail today,
they were Targetmaster Quake complete and Pretender Submarauder complete. Just a litlle side note about people buying overseas instead of off the shops in Australia, I actually enjoy the hunt around trying to find that harder to get hold of TF. I get satisfaction and a mild sense of accomplishement when I finally do find that figure I've been looking for. I know it can be time consuming as well as petrol wasteing but if you were really worried about petrol you would pick up the phone and ring the shop instead. We could just be cutting our nose off to spite our face as the old saying goes, i don't think Hasbro would really notice a small group of collectors buying from overseas but say if it did make a slight impact and there was less demand for TF's, we would then get even less on the shelves and complain even more. I know we are over charged for our TF's but we must make an allowance for shipping, because of the smaller numbers of items being shipped here I would think there would be a higher amount to pay per item for making the trip to Australia. Maybe I should have posted this somewhere else. Almost forgot , my Cybertron DVD's showed up today in the mail as well, a big thank you to a certain person for those.

*Cough*

Pics

[1orion2many]

*Cough*

Pics

I will try and borrow a camera from work as mine is cactus.

[Bartrim]

Two G1 items I have been waiting for finally showed up in the mail today,
they were Targetmaster Quake complete and Pretender Submarauder complete. Just a litlle side note about people buying overseas instead of off the shops in Australia, I actually enjoy the hunt around trying to find that harder to get hold of TF. I get satisfaction and a mild sense of accomplishement when I finally do find that figure I've been looking for. I know it can be time consuming as well as petrol wasteing but if you were really worried about petrol you would pick up the phone and ring the shop instead. We could just be cutting our nose off to spite our face as the old saying goes, i don't think Hasbro would really notice a small group of collectors buying from overseas but say if it did make a slight impact and there was less demand for TF's, we would then get even less on the shelves and complain even more. I know we are over charged for our TF's but we must make an allowance for shipping, because of the smaller numbers of items being shipped here I would think there would be a higher amount to pay per item for making the trip to Australia. Maybe I should have posted this somewhere else. Almost forgot , my Cybertron DVD's showed up today in the mail as well, a big thank you to a certain person for those.

Pretty good score there especially those Cybertron DVD's

[Paulbot]

Moved the discussion about importing vs toy hunts to a new thread...
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=528

[JuzMel]

Oooh, nice, Mel. New scouts and Stockade. Guess you won't have to worry about hitting the shops for a few waves now. lol The 2nd volume of the MTME book is very difficult to find. They're (both) highly sought after and in recent times have attracted some ridiculous prices ($45-65 USD each). I picked mine up way before the stock levels for this dwindled

Your best bet is to keep checking every so often but even then it's unlikely to come cheap. Most comic shops that hold inventory don't have them either b/c to fans they're literally bibles with awesome art of favourite G1 characters.

You can always chase down the individual issues of the MTME series which has a BWs twist. They don't come cheap either though. Probably $10 an issue.

Here's one; but I doubt anyone will be buying it now anytime soon.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Transformers-...QQcmdZViewItem

Ermm not all I guess cause I only spotted Stockade and still have to wait around here for the other new deluxes and voyagers.. plus I couldn't get Evac cause of $$ and baggage constrictions..

And I'm sad about the MTME book now, means I probably won't have Vol2.. Anyway can you PM me where you placed your pre-order for the Encore Minibots? The usual site we go isn't out for pre-orders till march or april.