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Russ J said:

Ha Ha ...modern is a slippery slope Scruffy :lol: you'll be in Smyths Toys before you no it steaming into the £2.99 Force Awakens figures :wink:

I'm not keen on the Mashers line but at such a cheap price its hard not to say no,same goes with the Hot Wheels cars,at £1.99 a pop thats a bargain 8)

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Cheers fellas. I feel like I've fallen off the wagon after 20 yrs away from modern (like of of us I was there in '97 as well!). And as for Smyths.....been there done that, Russ!

No way!!!!!
Asda have the latest wave in but the price is back up - bugger!



No Ackbar of Finn but plenty of Han and Rey and I noticed one of the Solos was sporting a new grey hair paint job (not the one in the picture) so I've hidden it at the back as I'm thinking treating myself to a double

A lot of the stores have put their prices back up with the exception of Smyths (well up until last Tuesday when I popped in after work)..

I only need Ackbar to finish off the complete waves 1-3 (if I'm being anal I suppose there is the Phasm with silver pouch)...

If your Asda do have more than the one Han gray hair in could you pick one up for me please mate

I've always found that Asda never have a good selection in but Asda Living do .....strange

Post a pic of han solo with grey hair --- not seen them in this line -- but have in the black series ....

He's gonna buy it first before he puts up photos otherwise we'll jump into our cars and go to his Asda to swipe it before he does :lol: saying that Scotland is a big place .....which Asda was it in know :wink:

Russ I've send you message -- check inbox --
Been trying ring you all day - phone off

Pm'd you back matey :wink:

I'll have to do sneaky (flying under wife radar) trip to Asda later tonight.
Looking at my Han figure I got last month I don't think it's a change more just heavily applied grey tints - but definitely looks better. Only saw one but if they other one is similar I'll take both and send you pics to see if you want him. I'll grab pictures of all stock in case there are any others people want

Are you sure your Asda is open after 4pm today.Yeh Asda is 24hrs but only from Monday morning (opens 7am then closes Sunday evening at 4pm) the stores in Leeds do anyway Scotland may be different with their opening hours .....

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The C3-PO...R2-D2 set is only the second one ive seen in stores (the first i saw a few weeks back had a really tatty box so I passed on it)

Super collection mate :lol:

What outstanding now in this line---- ??

In the 2 Pack line I need...

Darth Vader...Ahsoka Tano
Snowtrooper Officer...Snap Wexley

Both easy to get hold of Nav 8)

Picked this up off Ebay...I couldn't find this anywhere in any stores at all so a good forum friend saw this on Ebay and sent me the link (Cheers Nav )



£14 posted which I thought was a good price compared to a lot of other ones i'd seen on Ebay....

super nice box --- no mark --- good corners. super buy mate.
not seen these anywhere - been to leeds/bradford/birmingham and even manchester - seen none.

Seems like a hens teeth item mate....the same goes with the Ackbar figure (an Ackbar figure sold on Ebay earlier...The auction ended at around 6.30pm this eve and the figure eventually sold for £36.00 with £2.95 postage WTF :shock: its a modern figure the fcuks sake not a vintage figure :roll: ...I had my eye on it but when it got to £27.00 i were out....ballax to that

The link...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Admiral-Ackbar-3-75-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Figure-MOC-Hard-to-Get-/291828067145?hash=item43f24eeb49:g:vmcAAOSwRgJXlkvG

sheesh that's a bloomin lot for a basic figure, I've been out today to tru and didn't find anything apart from a yoda and R2 two pack I needed a loose yoda for my modern empire shelf, also went to home and bargains and got a few hot wheels bits,

Russ J said:

Picked this up off Ebay...I couldn't find this anywhere in any stores at all so a good forum friend saw this on Ebay and sent me the link (Cheers Nav )

£14 posted which I thought was a good price compared to a lot of other ones i'd seen on Ebay....

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Nice score, Russ. I picked one up about 6 months ago from Sainsburys. It was on clearance at a fiver and the ONLY piece of modern 3 3/4" I'd bought up to that point but you can never go wrong with Fett and I love the box art. Didn't realise they were so hard to find.

And as for Ackbar, Jesus! I was in Florida in April and picked him up from the Disney Store in Downtown Disney (Disney Springs). I resented paying $2 over even the TRU price at the time but I loved the figure and thought he was OT so that was good enough an excuse for me to buy him. I was expecting to see the shelves full of them over here when I got back but not seen one! At £36 I may just have to flog it and wait until he turns up in numbers! What gives? How come he's not widely available?

Great pick up, Grinchy. As I've said before, I love the HW range. the vehicles are great fun but the package art is first class. Just a shame they always seem to be held together with tape! The HW vehicles are classy too. Anyone want to fill their boots on these get down to Home Bargains: £1.99 for single cars, £3.99 for double packs and £2.59 for the vehicles. If you're stuck for some LMK and I'll pick some up for whoever needs them, at cost + postage, of course.

Those Hot Wheels are super cool grinchy 8) ...nice one mate 8) .

The Falcon looks way nice (my favorite SW vehicle) 8)

Scruffy I would have bought loads at $2 a pop :shock:

The States is way cheaper than her in the UK....me and my wife were in Las Vegas in 2010 for my 40th and I popped into the Adidas store on the strip...the Adidas Gazelle trainers were £15 cheaper then they were back in the UK and that was with the taxes added on at the till (at the time they were £55 in the UK and just slightly over £40 in the States....needless to say I bought 3 different colour pairs :lol: )

The problem with these figures line is the poor sales of wave one in the UK!

I spoke to many sale's staff from various toy store's and asked them why they didn't have full range of wave1/2/3 for sale... They informed me we get sent the toy's from our head office. Until we sell out a specific toys line e.g wave one figures, the company wont invest in purchasing wave 2 or 3.

Wave one toys in these range have not been selling well in the UK - as result wave one figures dominate the market. Thus promotion sale hike recently seen in many store's to get rid of stock.

Oh....loving the R2 figure grinchy

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