Generations Cyber Battalion Line Found at UK Retail for a Great Price

Shockwave might tempt me for £12 or less but surprised The Entertainer is selling anything at a good deal cos their Titans Return deluxe figure price is way too high (£23 as opposed to usual £18). They've ripped off many a poor parent and child that way.

I only check the entertainer to see what deals they have as I can vouch for their expensiveness. I will keep an eye out for good ole shockwave though

Yeah I saw these on Friday in my local store.

I searched for Shockwave but no luck

Knowing how The Entertainer works it could be highly likely that this is a one time 'lost' shipment sold off cheap to the best bidder.


I did manage to get all of PotP wave 2 legends

Saw these yesterday in the Manchester Arndale Centre Entertainer.

They had Battleslash too - first time I've seen him. *Almost* tempted, but their Legends are priced at a ludicrously expensive amount.

Easy Tiger wrote:Saw these yesterday in the Manchester Arndale Centre Entertainer.

They had Battleslash too - first time I've seen him. *Almost* tempted, but their Legends are priced at a ludicrously expensive amount.

The PotP should be £11.00 each for some reason the Titans Return are £13/14 (Cosmos & Seaspray) if the Battleslash was on a £13/£14 peg then is was displayed in the wrong place.

So the entertainer has potp legends wave 2? Might be time to head to Middlesborough

FYI, Cyber Battalions are usually $16.99 USD or $17.99, depending on the location if the Walgreens. This is the same price as a deluxe.

Caved and picked up a jetfire (no Potp wave 2 legends at my local).

The box feels like a cereal box and in some ways is pleasing because it is not using precious plastic up for packaging. Not being able to see the toy inside, choose a better paint job or avoid visible QC issues is a big negative compared to other ranges. The image on the packaging shows the toy to have defined panel lines, elbow joints (woop) and some surprisingly nicely sculpted fingers/hands. Hollow legs are obvious but in genuinely looks a nice figure & the two holes on the top of the jet looks like it could potentially have been made with a fastpack in mind.

Comparing it price wise to £14 Legends or £7 Decoy suits, it comes across as good value for money ( I honestly thought the leader class combiner wars mold looked cheap and priced at £30-£50 was never an option for me-I'm yet to get the takara legends version but hoping this jetfire will do & at half the price).

Upon opening the box and bracing for disappointment, I'd opened it the wrong way and a huge cthru plastic square was taped to the back, made me think why?? So much for saving the precious plastic and there was a lot more plastic ties holding the figure down than what seems needed but not in any places that would rub the paint. The panel lines weren't dark or shaded as they looked to be on the box art but at £12 I'm not too worried about trying to use a gundam marker on it.

Robot Mode:
The fingers/hands are well done and are not as intricate as they appear to be sculpt wise on the innerside of the fingers whilst giving a great look to the hands compared to closed fists (or lack of as in the cases with some deluxes like CW Rook). What would be ugly nonfunctional fake wheels on the knees don't stand out as being so which is surprising, they just look like a raised detail. Shoulder joints are stiff but no fear of breaking where as the elbow joints feel a bit loose. The fake knee joints make the legs look articulated which complements the figure. The back of the figure looks bland and is mainly for function tho they have put panel lines/markings in the wing hollows, and the back of the feet are detailed as they form the top rear of jet node. The leg joints are surprisingly nice and solid ratchet joints. In general it is fairly nice in robot mode and nothing stands out as ugly or having to go to extreme lengths to hide the hollow parts from sight (unless he is put in a surrendering pose or doing some aerobics)

Jet mode:
The nose doesn't tab in place which is odd but lowers the chances of breakages and its not a rubber monstrosity like on the seeker reissues. The tab hole on the cockpit which is cleverly photographed angle wise on the box unfortunately ruins the cockpit when viewed from any above angle and the two potential fast pack holes are just deep set screw holes that make you feel the jet is missing something -the guns do fit in there even if it doesn't look good with them in. I had some slight paint rub on a rear fin but nothing major. The swing wings are designed to be pegged into the arms and are not designed to swing as such in jet mode. They can be fixed in two positions tho by the different pegs on the wings which is neat. The forward wing formation reveals more of the hollow arms which can be used to peg in the guns (in either wing formation) to help hide them when viewed from above (Note, one of the hands on mine does not like to fit the gun by upside down means) or to differentiate from its mold mates in jet mode rather than them all having under wing guns (either by the wing holes or shoulder holes).
The Front fake wheel can be hid but was a bit stiff on mine so I chose not to, and the feet do look a bit silly underneath the plane but I don't think there is many transformer planes that can be appreciated from the undercarriage view due to all the kibble they usually have. No convincing Gerwalk mode due to the lack of knee joints and the wings (it looks a bit pop n twin beeish/characturish) but its not really a big deal.

Display wise it fits in well with TR Megatron in jet mode and the classics seekers, I wouldn't want the Starscream version of this as it is noticeably larger than TR Megatron in jet mode. If I wasn't displaying TR Megs that way I'd happily pick this up as Starscream (and likely still will, though I'm dreading feet snapping off of classic/RTS seekers to be put off from ever transforming them to robot mode). In the end a really nice figure with a few slight faults but clearly outshining the others in its range & no disappointment to be found.

Thanks for the review I do like the look of jetfire but their is a certain allure to starscream.

blackeyedprime wrote:Kapows added some more transformers stuff to its sale:

https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/sale.html

The White & Nerdy Weird Al at £18 is the stand out piece for me tho as much as I want the Hasbro TR Overlord (£35) I'm waiting for cheaper even though to my knowledge it has not been in any stores here as yet.

POTP Leader Optimus £36.97!!! GET IN

So Very.co.uk have the studio series in, £20.99 for the deluxes

The Entertainer currently have a decent set of discounts on Power of the Primes including Roadtrap / Battleslash for 8.25 each. Optimus himself is 39.99 if you didn't manage to bag a cheap one from kapow.

http://www.thetoyshop.com/action-toys-f ... 963_battle

http://www.thetoyshop.com/action-toys-f ... 33963_road

*sees the 8.25 price...cries*
If only I had seen that price earlier...

crazy, I just picked them up on Friday (had to order delivered to store as they are mainly trying to get rid of Baynus toys and Tf's shelf space is getting smaller n smaller), more proof that every transformer I buy gets reduced as soon as I have bought it!

And the Jetfire is £9... the releases really are blink and miss them tho as they dont seem to get restocked in the stores.

blackeyedprime wrote:crazy, I just picked them up on Friday (had to order delivered to store as they are mainly trying to get rid of Baynus toys and Tf's shelf space is getting smaller n smaller), more proof that every transformer I buy gets reduced as soon as I have bought it!

And the Jetfire is £9... the releases really are blink and miss them tho as they dont seem to get restocked in the stores.

What Jetfire, the simplifies voyager sized one? Thats a crazy good deal on those toys. Its a decent display piece and a good size.

ok not strictly transformers

but it looks like b&m stores have oversized fake Streetwise, First Aid & Rook

The one near me had fake hot spot as well. Had they been cheaper I may have considered them but 40 quid for a ko isn't that good to me

william-james88 wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:crazy, I just picked them up on Friday (had to order delivered to store as they are mainly trying to get rid of Baynus toys and Tf's shelf space is getting smaller n smaller), more proof that every transformer I buy gets reduced as soon as I have bought it!

And the Jetfire is £9... the releases really are blink and miss them tho as they dont seem to get restocked in the stores.

What Jetfire, the simplifies voyager sized one? Thats a crazy good deal on those toys. Its a decent display piece and a good size.

Voyager sized one from the cyber battalion line. Tho its showing out of stock online and my local entertainer hasnt restocked them since I purchased mine within whatever amount of days it was from first sight of them.

Regards the Cyber Battalion line.
That sounds like the entertainer one big shipment and that's it.

they still have Jetfire and Optimus in my store

Seeing as there is a news article it only makes some kind of sense for it to be in here
POTP Nemesis Prime on Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-E ... dpSrc=srch?tag=seibertron075-21&

and not in the news articles or sightings as such, the exclusive studio series thundercracker (nitro zeus repaint, titan master compatible) is up for pre-orders at kapow (I.D toys already had stock in/sold out at £40) for £33

https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformer ... acker.html

Really tempted for nem prime...would love uni rod to go with him as well

Not sure if it is still hard to find over here or not, but my local Smyths had some TLK Nitros in, all be it at £33. Sadly I was almost tempted o.O

Just wanted to say, I ended up buying POTP Optimus and Battletrap from the Entertainer, altogether came to about £56 as shipping was free, bargain if you ask me! I love these two deceptiboyfriends and also loving POTP Optimus/Orion. He really shines in full on Prime mode, basically acting as an MP-proportioned Optomus for my decidedly non-Masterpiece wallet

I also came up with a base mode, will take a pic and find the fanmode thread lol

Cool i'm picking up the nemesis version at some point, happy to stick with my TR Orion and then try to find a voyager sized prime (other than my TR G2) for my 'toy' transformers. I figure hasbro will never do POTP Rodimus in junkion colors so I have opted for the expensive route of Unicronus rodimus and the botcon evil junkions just to fill out my decepticons a bit more.

Smyths transformers shelve space is quickly diminishing (although I had to ask where the playmobil section was to even find playmobil, so maybe it's the same with most toy lines -I'd spotted the real ghostbusters in a different non local shop a few weeks back and was hoping they were in more stores and not £18 each), they had studio series starscream, ratchet, stinger, berzerker (not sure if that is studio series or not) and a nitro in -different store to the one I last went to. £22 for deluxes and £33 voyagers make it cheaper to get the high quality KO Mps at this point!. On the plus side I've found out I get can discount from Entertainer through my works reward schemes

I'm praying my son doesn't notice the real ghostbusters or the ghostbusters 2 playmobil sets. He went bonkers over the first releases so naturally ended up with a full set.

I would love to get some of the studio series but at those prices it won't be happening yet

Wave 2 Prime Masters are being spotted in ASDA. I'm going for a look.

Smyths are currently doing a "£5 off if you spend £20 on Transformers" if that helps anyone.

Thanks eltawater, picked up Nitro with the Smyths money off (£28) still pricey but a nice figure.

Hello ODBs, anyone seen a PotP Darkwing(Blackwing) yet?

Been pretty dead for sightings recently, no wave 2 onwards potp to be seen anywhere near me, Entertainer has Grimlock and Starscream now at £19.20 Each.

All my local Tesco and Argos are still clinging onto TLK and RID for dear life. Even Smyths and Amazon appear to have given up after POTP wave 1.

Sadly, I think the only way we're likely to acquire anything decent in the UK is from In Demand Toys and Kapow Toys.

In Demand Toys? I've never come across them before, what are they like?

Fairly similar to Kapow and even in the same county.

Sometimes they're cheaper than Kapow, sometimes more expensive. They have a free delivery threshold of £50 as opposed to £100 though.

I've had good service from them last year and they were even nice enough to drop some faction stickers in the package

Thanks , I'll give them a look in

TR Trypticon £69ish at Tesco Direct

Many thanks, just bought with a load of tesco clubcard vouchers

Potp in Smyths crown point Leeds today. Only saw deluxes but voyagers have been spotted in other stores apparently.

Nice find!

No Wave 2 Voyagers in the Kirkstall one either, went there in case I decided to pick up all 4 deluxe dinobots at the same time (was waiting for them to hit sales) and picked them all up. Not transformed them yet but my Moonracer has a minor QC issue with her right wheel peg has a bit missing/snapped off but the wheel still holds firm.
No wings for Slag is a bit disappointing and Sludges are a bit low on his body but all nice figures even Snarl...though he could be called Screwl...suffers from screws on display like Dragstrip did. Ripper Snapper is awesome and one of his Decepticon symbols seem like a nod to the heat rub stickers

you guys are so lucky finding wave 2 prime masters and deluxes. shelves are either baren or stuck with wave 1 where I am.

Picked up submarauder and landmine prime masters from Asda. Still hoping the toys r us exclusives (arcee, grotusque) and up in a sop over here :/

blackeyedprime wrote:No Wave 2 Voyagers in the Kirkstall one either, went there in case I decided to pick up all 4 deluxe dinobots at the same time (was waiting for them to hit sales) and picked them all up. Not transformed them yet but my Moonracer has a minor QC issue with her right wheel peg has a bit missing/snapped off but the wheel still holds firm.
No wings for Slag is a bit disappointing and Sludges are a bit low on his body but all nice figures even Snarl...though he could be called Screwl...suffers from screws on display like Dragstrip did. Ripper Snapper is awesome and one of his Decepticon symbols seem like a nod to the heat rub stickers

I'm based in the midlands but travel all over the south east. If these are hitting the stores now in the north then I'll keep my eyes peeled, may well become a lot more active on this thread as I'v been waiting for several months for Sludge and Snarl now to make some legs before starting on the Terrorcons.

Absolutely naff all from Wave 2 in Milton Keynes smyths. Still Jazz/Dreadwind shelf warming along with Stryker/bumblebee/starscream Studio series.

I'm staying in Ilford this evening so on my journey home I'm going to try Loughton and Luton Smyths to see if anything other than Perceptors and Dreadwinds are available.

Smyths Loughton had barely anything.

Smyths Luton look to have Rippersnapper, Sludge and Snarl for wave 2 but nothing else.

I need to check portrack Lane smyths, I'm actually hoping that they have a mix of wave 1 and 2 so I can grab all dinobots

Hi all!

I checked out Smyths here in Glasgow, up at Glasgow Fort shopping centre. Similar line-up to what was reported above:

POTP Deluxes £16.99
All 4 dinobots
Moonracer
Rippersnapper

POTP Voyagers £23.99
Starscream
Dinobot

TR Trypticon: £99.99

Studio Series deluxes £21.99
Ratchet
Crowbar
Decepticon Stinger

Voyager (I can't remember the price sorry)
Optimus Prime

Lots of RID stuff, but mainly some Deluxes for £15.99
Twinferno
Soundwave
Drift
Windblade
Strongarm


There was also a re-issue of Leader-class Optimus from the 1st movie for about £70

I also went into A1 Toys in Glasgow City Centre today:

Prime Masters £5.99
Liege Maximo
Vector Prime
Alpha Trion
Alchemist Prime

POTP Deluxes: £17.99 I think (sorry bad memory)
Jazz
Swoop
Dreadwind

Voyager: £23.99
Starscream

On Sale:

CW Voyagers £19.99
Onslaught
Scattershot

TR Deluxes £13.99-£15.99
Krok
Quake

Other:

Platinum Edition (G1 Reissues) £19.99

Insecticons
Astrotrain & Blitzwing
Seeker Squadron (Coneheads)

So I went to symths today at portrack Lane, and discovered...that they had no potp deluxes at all. No spaces for them even, they had the studio series, and had starscream and grimlock but that's it. I was very disappointed, guess it's online only for me this week, if I can find deletes somewhere for a good price.

Those are some incredible deals on the platinum sets, did you guys get any? And if you have a pic, we could news it too, unless of course this is all old news for those prices.

Toys-UK

I saw
Snarl , Sludge & Rippersnapper

now have wave 2 for Power of the Primes