UK Transformers Sighting Round Up

Monday, July 22nd, 2019 12:51PM CDT

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Greetings Seibertronians! We've got a round up of sightings for those who live in the UK. Courtesy of fellow Seibertron user, blackeyedprime, we've learned that all of the Bumblebee Greatest Hits Toys featured in the Argos catalogue and its online store has received price cuts! This means that you can grab the repaint (and slight retool) of Titans Returns Soundwave for just £19.99! Also the set featuring his three legend sized minions and the one step Bumblebee is now just £8.99. More bargains including price cuts on Power Charge Bumblebee can be found here

On the Cyberverse front, the range of Spark Armour figures is also available including Ark Power Optimus Prime (who is listed at being £47. Currently Starscream with Construction Vehicle is the only one at the £16 price point, with additional listings for Elite Optimus Prime With Jet Armor (for £24) and Elite Bumblebee with Battleship armor (Also £24)

On the Siege front, a listing has appeared for Springer on Symths.con, retailing for the normal voyager price of £23.99 and due for release in August.

Yours truly has also found a listing on Amazon.co.uk for the forthcoming Transformers War for Cybertron Siege Fan Vote 3 pack, featuring Autobot Mirage (with different head and cast on blue translucent plastic), Autobot Aragon (a redeco of Weaponizer Cog with new head) and Decepticon Impactor (with a new IDW inspired head. The set is listed for £65, and means UK fans won't have to miss out getting these figures.

Are you a UK fan who is planning on jumping on one of these? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

Credit(s): blackeyedprime and ZeroWolf from Seibertron, Argos, Symths and Amazon Uk

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Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2030934)
Posted by Cybertronius Primus on July 22nd, 2019 @ 1:23pm CDT

Mpm Megatron is in forbidden planet stores and online for around £140 as well

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2030939)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on July 22nd, 2019 @ 1:34pm CDT

All three of the wave 3 siege deluxes have had their listings updated on the Smyths website. They are listed to arrive in stores between 23-30 of August.
Red Alert - https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toy ... /171374010
Refraktor - https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toy ... /171374012
Brunt - https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toy ... /171374013

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2030966)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 22nd, 2019 @ 4:20pm CDT

Greetings Seibertronians! Hot on the heels of the UK sightings earlier we have more UK news to share with our fans based in the United Kingdom.

The first is a sighting from fellow Seibertron user, blackeyedprime and concerns Movie Masterpiece 08, Transformers 2007 Megatron. Forbidden Planet stores are now stocking him and he's available from their website for the price of £140.

Looking for Siege Wave 3? Then fellow Seibertron user, CyclonusG1 has you covered. According to him, several listings have been updated for wave three on the Symths website, announcing that they'll appear in stores in mid August, so those hunting in-store won't have to wait long to get their three Reflecktors. Each costs £16.99. Check the listings below:

Red Alert

Brunt

Reflecktor

Have you been waiting for MPM-08? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031069)
Posted by Sjeng on July 23rd, 2019 @ 4:31am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Also the set featuring his three legend sized minions and the one step Bumblebee is now just £8.99.

Is there anyone in the UK that lives near an Argos who could pick up this set and send it to The Netherlands? I'd be very greatful!

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031174)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on July 23rd, 2019 @ 2:30pm CDT

So, for those of you interested, Kapow has preorders for the animation colours of Optimus Prime and Megatron listed at £27.97 each. Also, according to their facebook post, these figures will be exclusive to their store in the UK.

Megatron - https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformer ... lours.html

Optimus - https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformer ... lours.html

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031175)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 23rd, 2019 @ 2:40pm CDT

Interesting

Thanks CyclonusG1!

Personally I fall into the category of not going from cel shading decos as a fixed light source base deco doesn't really work when displayed in other light sources :lol:

but it's worth spreading the word for any UK fans who want these. Though will we now start to see an increase in UK exclusives between the few retailers we have?

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031361)
Posted by blackeyedprime on July 24th, 2019 @ 12:51pm CDT

Lancers ID toys exclusive, guessing the retail stores dont want them o.O

https://www.indemandtoys.co.uk/product/ ... nt-option/

The painted wheels really dont go with her set mates but I'd still need the other two from a mold I'm not that in to.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031363)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 24th, 2019 @ 1:41pm CDT

This is interesting, so Lancer is exclusive to in demand toys while Kapow grabbed the cel shaded prime and megs...Question is who will grab the Seeker set.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031474)
Posted by blackeyedprime on July 25th, 2019 @ 3:54am CDT

Bluestreak is ID exclusive too

https://www.indemandtoys.co.uk/product/ ... nt-option/

Pros: It's £20 so its cheaper than Lancer and not costing much more then a retail deluxe.

Cons: alt mode still looks like a suppository on wheels.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031475)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 25th, 2019 @ 4:30am CDT

Does this mean it's likely that Soundblaster is a InDemandToys exclusive as well? A bit weird that they'd split the 35th Anniversary toys up like that

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031479)
Posted by blackeyedprime on July 25th, 2019 @ 5:45am CDT

Still waiting to see where sound blaster ends up and the price on it, I've pre-ordered Lancer though she's more expensive than the other selects deluxes (bluestreak/Ricochet) despite being the same size class, mainly from liking her colors.

Bluestreaks probably going to sell a lot more units than she does as he will go with the other carbots and doesnt have any out of place colored panels like some of the other cars do, as well as not being a niche character.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031482)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 25th, 2019 @ 7:04am CDT

Who ended up getting greenlight?

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031485)
Posted by ThunderThruster on July 25th, 2019 @ 7:54am CDT

I've got Greenlight, she's currently serving her role as left leg of Orthia.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031525)
Posted by blackeyedprime on July 25th, 2019 @ 1:40pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Who ended up getting greenlight?

I dont think anyone had exclusitivity and Kapow/ID just imported them rather being uk stock which would hopefully explain the inflated £33-£35 price tag on her.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031538)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 25th, 2019 @ 3:07pm CDT

I see

I checked both sites and saw they both had Red Wing yet if seemed that was import only more or less.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2031887)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 27th, 2019 @ 7:39am CDT

Just found this on Argos website
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9337774, a listing for Cyberverse Spark Armour Ratchet. Asking price £16.99

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2032895)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 2nd, 2019 @ 7:50am CDT

CyclonusG1 may have already mentioned it, but listing for Siege Jetfire on Smyths website at £79. I reaaaalllly miss the £ being 1.5 dollars.

********hunt alert siege voyager optimus at £10 clearance or missprice at smyths (not that the ones near me have any*********

Sideswipe £1
Soundwave £10 (cheltenham instore 2 at time of posting))
Cog £5 (barnsley instore 2 at time of posting)

final edits, and this is why paying £79 for a jetfire is freaking nuts, if stores actually stocked figures and sold them a bit cheaper in the first place then they wouldnt have to do crazy clearance prices on ranges (which are damn current)that they are no longer supporting.

Another edit:
Omega listing at £140 too

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2032904)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 2nd, 2019 @ 8:16am CDT

Why do Symths do these things when I can't get toy them! Argh!

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2032905)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 2nd, 2019 @ 8:21am CDT

Even worse, why sell a figure for £10 like soundwave when most of the stores haven't even had them in

its money wasted on ordering them from the supplier and they wont have got the slight discounts per order size too. Toysrus may be getting some company in the years to come.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2032906)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 2nd, 2019 @ 8:23am CDT

Can we get amazon to price match? Never done that before.

*Amazon would likely just laugh anyways:P

Enjoy the hunt for all those that find any goodies

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033287)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on August 5th, 2019 @ 11:20am CDT

So, I bring you news on how to save some money on Transformers at Smyths, just in time for Jetfire's release next week too! Smyths currently has a promotion for £5 off for every £20 spent on Transformers. This promotion lasts up until the 19th so let's hope that Jetfire comes in before then.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033295)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 5th, 2019 @ 12:09pm CDT

Nice, if its £5 off every £20 Jetfires £60 if bought with some botbots (or a £1 sideswipe...something cheap and transformery anyways). weirdly worded but hoping thats the case as wave 3 of siege is likely in soon too.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033301)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on August 5th, 2019 @ 12:27pm CDT

True but good luck getting that Sideswipe because I don't think anywhere has it anymore. We all just have loads of Skytread. Unfortunately, the wave 3 will be coming in after the promotion ends (unless they appear early).

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033414)
Posted by Sjeng on August 6th, 2019 @ 1:12am CDT

blackeyedprime wrote:Nice, if its £5 off every £20 Jetfires £60 if bought with some botbots (or a £1 sideswipe...something cheap and transformery anyways). weirdly worded but hoping thats the case as wave 3 of siege is likely in soon too.

I think they mean £20 or more. You get £5 off once.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033419)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 6th, 2019 @ 2:23am CDT

Sjeng wrote:
blackeyedprime wrote:Nice, if its £5 off every £20 Jetfires £60 if bought with some botbots (or a £1 sideswipe...something cheap and transformery anyways). weirdly worded but hoping thats the case as wave 3 of siege is likely in soon too.

I think they mean £20 or more. You get £5 off once.

Yeah that was my understanding as well

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033422)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on August 6th, 2019 @ 4:02am CDT

No, it does stack. I served someone yesterday and the tills set the leader class Shockwave down to 36.99 from 46.99. It is a bit awkwardly worded though.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033451)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 6th, 2019 @ 10:58am CDT

Asda sighting, energon igniters cliff jumper (red vw bee) legends sized figure £3.50

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033454)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 6th, 2019 @ 11:15am CDT

Asda near me stopped selling tfs other than botbots a while ago.

@symths shouldn't the wording be "For every twenty pound worth of Transformers, get five pound off"?

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033456)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on August 6th, 2019 @ 11:44am CDT

It would be so much easier if they did word things clearer. But, unfortunately, whoever is at head office writing up these promotional slips is probably half chimpanzee and just hopes that they make sense. As store employees we're supposed to just leave things up to customer interpretation.
An attitude like this is why my time at the company is limited.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2033730)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 8th, 2019 @ 10:22am CDT

Leeds forbidden planet is pants at getting anything in, so no siege despite it being in the Cambridge stores.

hotukdeals has a posting sighting bumblebee greatest hits leader soundwave at £11 in sainsburys (worth picking up as a base if nothing else for that price) and some of the cybervers legends at half price.

website only has single pack botbots at £2.25 instead of £3

Entertainer had cyberverse armor skybite and same sixe class wave mates in (but they, like asda, just mainly store cheap generic robots like mars converters etc). I'm on the hunt for a scraplet or whatever they were called from Prime.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034319)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on August 13th, 2019 @ 6:11am CDT

So, yesterday, Kapow put up a post on their Facebook page discussing delays from Hasbro UK. It seems like we won't be getting Jetfire or Springer until nearly September. Considering Smyths also gets their stock (mostly) from Hasbro UK, I'm expecting the same delays there even if their website still says that Jetfire will arrive in stores by next Monday. So, unless they've imported some stock like they did to get Leader class Overlord, we're probably looking at September too.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034321)
Posted by Loopstah on August 13th, 2019 @ 6:16am CDT

It's so frustrating as a retailer trying to source stock when not only is availability incredibly spotty in the first place for an independent store but things randomly get delayed all the time. It's part of the reason we never put Transformers up for pre-order. For example Omega Supreme originally had a date of Yesterday for the past month or so, but is now showing as unknown.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034326)
Posted by ThunderThruster on August 13th, 2019 @ 7:41am CDT

I have a bad feeling about that. We might have to start thinking about importing Springer & Jetfire.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034341)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 13th, 2019 @ 9:36am CDT

The UK distribution is a joke, something I have to keep reminding others across the Atlantic when they complain about not finding one figure amongst a sea of waves we don't get :lol:

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034346)
Posted by Sjeng on August 13th, 2019 @ 9:54am CDT

I'm still waiting for Red Alert, Brunt, Impactor, Ricochet and Shockwave...

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034399)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 13th, 2019 @ 1:57pm CDT

If jetfire misses the nice Smyths money off offer, a UK website has him instock and a fiver cheaper than smyths too (so if anyone did preorder with Smyths they might get smyths price promise). Doesnt include postage tho.

I've ordered from their ebay once (item was cheaper on their website

) and I think from their website once. a little bit weird how their business names are different/have changed and dont match their facebook name either but the ebay feedback is good and they were reliable.

********EDIT for those that take website security in mind, their website is not secure, not sure if payment is secure*****

Instock:

http://omegalock.co.uk/war-for-cybertro ... &results=7

****they have Unicron on their TF Express website at £599.99 plus £10 postage****

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2034515)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 14th, 2019 @ 7:31am CDT

Not sure what price forbidden planets are doing artic ugly megatron for, but Indemand has him at £25 (and yes I bought one)

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035026)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 19th, 2019 @ 11:15am CDT

Might be old news but:

Smyths bot it's renegade arcade pack £30 (£25 if bought today in store, last day if £5 offer)

Bnm mighty morphers 6 figure pack £6...two variant color packs to choose from.
2x KO Cosmos different colors
1x KO brawn
1x plane
And the best (or worse) ultra magnus.

Looks worth it just for the cosmos

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035040)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 19th, 2019 @ 3:21pm CDT

The bnm near me have upscaled Fall of Cybertron Combaticons for sale, with combining function intact.

So the arcade renegades have landed in blighty eh?

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035042)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 19th, 2019 @ 3:33pm CDT

Yeagh, shame they left all the siege stuff back in the warehouses

how hasbro can miss supplying shops with new stock over the school hols is a mystery to me.

Will keep an eye out for the KO combaticons to have a look at although I'm not sure if KO colors could be as bad as the real ones.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035046)
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 19th, 2019 @ 4:08pm CDT

I'll have to take pictures next time I'm there, blast off is blue if u remember right. I've got a feeling that just like power of the Primes, Siege will miss the bargain shops (leaving random Bumblebee movie toys or TF5 voyagers to resurface)

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035049)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 19th, 2019 @ 4:51pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:I'll have to take pictures next time I'm there, blast off is blue if u remember right. I've got a feeling that just like power of the Primes, Siege will miss the bargain shops (leaving random Bumblebee movie toys or TF5 voyagers to resurface)

It doesnt look like they are sending enough stock over here for it ever to go discounted. I picked up shockwave with the smyths offer and it feels like i've paid way over what its worth. The figures barely voyager at a push (other nitpicks aside, purples too dark and no smooth parts). It's been awhile since I've seen/can remember proper discounts (other than the £15 TR leaders which is what I'm hoping to pay for hasbro overlord at some point in the far future).

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2035989)
Posted by Crumplezone on August 27th, 2019 @ 9:08am CDT

Hi guys. Has anyone else recently been having order issues with Indemand Toys?

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036000)
Posted by blackeyedprime on August 27th, 2019 @ 9:58am CDT

They had some website issues going on to actually get to the webiste a bit back but no problems with orders as yet (received retro wave 2 he-man motu a few weeks back)

I've not bought anything instock to be sent asap and awaiting orders (which I believe to be down to suppliers more than ID as Kapow had the same delays with Super7 and now with Hasbro)

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036561)
Posted by blackeyedprime on September 1st, 2019 @ 8:14am CDT

I must have blinked and missed it, but ID had soundblaster listed as £40!!! sold out (compared to the £28 cell shaded voyagers at Kapow).

Amazons out of stock but will deliver when in stock, the Siege Autobot firestormer set (G2 sideswipe, grandslam, target master) for a reasonable/should have been price of £35

couldnt find the decepticon set unfortunatley.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036623)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on September 2nd, 2019 @ 6:51am CDT

I've ended up just getting the Decepticon Phantomstrike set from Amazon US. It ends up being about £60 including p&p and import fees. Still a bit much for the set but considering that we might not get it at all, it's a necessity for the third of the seekers.

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036689)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on September 3rd, 2019 @ 3:10am CDT

Don't know what's going on here with Amazon UK but they have greenlight currently listed for £3.05. It is temporarily out of stock but they say they'll deliver when they get more.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-E ... way&sr=8-2?tag=seibertron075-21&

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036694)
Posted by ZeroWolf on September 3rd, 2019 @ 4:33am CDT

Drat misses out as I'm not getting a price now

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2036695)
Posted by CyclonusG1 on September 3rd, 2019 @ 4:37am CDT

Yeah, seems they have noticed their mistake. I'm curious to see if anyone actually got it at that price (I brought mine from Kapow a few months ago).

Re: UK Transformers Sighting Round Up (2037171)
Posted by blackeyedprime on September 6th, 2019 @ 7:11am CDT

Jetfires now instock at smyths for home delivery or collect instore, nothing on the shelves at the mo (yesterday) tho but might be worth a visit next week

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