They seem to have had a major re-stock of Sideswipe/Silverstreak/Acidstorm/Galvatron/Ironhide. The store I went to (West Bridgford in Notts) had a few in their usual spot amongst the toys marked down to £6, as well as an 'end cap' display with 10-15 of each figure.

The 'end cap' ones were marked as full price still, but they do ring through as £6.

Happy hunting!

Odds!

Thanks to Sven for sending in the following report of Buy One Get One Free at Sainsburys

Hi all,

Did the weekly shop today and ended up having to go to Tesco and Sainsburys. There are some great offers running around:

Tesco

Animated Rollout Optimus Prime half price at £24.98

Animated Leader Bulkhead at £19.98

Animated DVD double pack at £10.00

However the offer that caught my attention the most considering how often Universe items are missed out of store offers:

Sainsburys

Universe Classic Deluxes £12.99, buy one get one free. (Shame my local only had Acid Storm and Sideswipe in stock)

Also of note that the Tesco Extra (Cradley Heath) had the Universe Voyager versions of Dropshot, and Leo Prime plus "Exclusive" Animated "Deluxe bundles" featuring a yellow Ratchet with two activators at £20.

You've probably seen the term AFA graded when looking into buying Transformers online, or even just browsing through the various Transformers forums and websites on the internet.  Some of you may not know what AFA actually stands for (Action Figure Authority) and others may already own some AFA graded Transformers (or other toys).  A few of you may be collectors of these highly priced, usually vintage, and extremely well kept toys.

Well if you're an AFA novice or an avid AFA figure collector then you may be interested to knwo that AFATransformers.com has now officially be launched.

AFA Transformers is a website completely dedicate to these highly collectable items.  Created with the slogan "Condition Counts", AFA Transformers comprises of a huge database of official AFA information obtained directly from the Action Figure Authoriry, and presented to you directly - with no need to create an account or sign up.

So what can you find on AFA Transformers? 

1. Well for one you can find a complete listing of AFA Graded Transformers (1250 to date) which the authority has on record.
2. AFA Graded information - you can easily search for a toy and retreive all the information on the figure - from it's highest graded version, to how many of those toys have been graded
3. Price Guide - probably one of the most important areas, and ambishious projects of the site.  This price guide is linked into eBay for AFA related Transformers auctions.  As soon as an auction ends it's final price is update to the site, ensuring you have the most up-to-date and accurate information to hand.
4. Handy auction links - links direct to ebay to give you a quick-link to the hottest AFA Transformers items for sale.
   

The site's look is designed with speed in mind.  It doesn't look pretty but enables you to easily access the information you are after as quickly as possible.  The graphical layout of the site will be improved over time, but we feel the key to our websites are in the contents not the design.

AFA Transformers was quiet a project for us, and seemed to be a natural progression after Lucky Draw Transformers.  The information on the site is  focused in a way that collectors of these prized pieces finally have somewhere to go to easily keep track of the trends of sales, and find information on items.  If you're thinking about getting items AFA Graded then it's a great place to go to find if the items have been graded before.  The site also contains information on the Action Figure Authourity although is no way connected to them.

The disucssion area for AFA Transformers is currently not open, but we'll be looking to finalise that later this month.  Bookmark the site now.

PrintRoomDan has send us the following information regarding a sale on at Tesco's where Leader Class Transformers Animated figures are 1/2 price.

I was in a Tesco the other day in Ashford, Kent and I saw a Leader Class Bulkhead for £19.99..... Thats £20 cheaper than almost everywhere else!

And this thing is huge as well, easily 16 inches high!

And I'm sure that the Leader Class Prime was same price! Damn if I wasn't still cleaned out from Christmas I would grab a couple of them.

Oddsey just posted this on the news thread:

http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1002

A few reduced items over at Kapow.
If you haven't ordered owt from 'em yet, get over there and have a nosey around!
Orders always arrive well packed and usually the next working day!

[quote="Kapow Toys"]
UK Sale !!!!!!!!!!!
Bonjourno Guys and Gals, its bye bye to 2008 and we're offloading some great deals which you can see below.............

1) Encore Jazz - £14.99 down from £21.99
2) Encore Thundercracker and Skywarp £32.99 down from £37.99
3) Henkei Silverbolt £29.99 - down from £33.99
4) SDCC Rodimus £23.99 - down from £33.99
5) Revoltech Hotrod £10.00 - down from £13.99
6) Revoltech Starscream £10.00 - down from £13.99
7) Binaltech Meister £24.99 - down from £33.99
8) Binaltech Bluestreak £24.99 - down from £33.99
9) Gears of War Marcus £6.99 - down from £9.99
10) Universe Prowl £8.75 down from £12.99
11) Universe Sunstreaker £8.75 down from £12.99
12) Universe Galvatron £9.99 down from £12.99
13) Universe Acid Storm £9.99 down from £12.99
14) Universe Powerglide £17.99 down from £24.99

Also check out our G1 vintage range and watch out in 2009 for a great range of Star Wars products including legacy and Clone Wars.

Thanks to all you guys who have used the store in the last 4 months, have a great Xmas and a happy new year.

Andy [/quote]

Thanks to Break for letting us know Wave 3 of Transformers Universe are now in stock at Toys R Us UK/  Wave three includes Silverstreak, Sideswipe and Ironhide who are on the shelves along side Acidstorm and Galvatron.  Break points out that he does not know if Bluestreak has the blue face or the corrected silver one.

Also look out for a special offer later this week on a on a certain UK Exclusive 2-pack.

TFW2005 members have spotted the 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime for sale in Utah Texas in Walmart.  The 25th Anniversarry of Transformers is in 2009 (1984-2009), so it is quiet funny that the figure is released early.

Toys R Us UK have started getting in the new Star Wars Transformers Crososvers figures, reports Break. The first assortment consists of General Grevious, Tie Bomber pilot, Anakin and a Clone Pilot. He appoligises that he can not remember the names of the spaceships they become but does point out that the Grevious and Tie Bomber are new molds whereas the Anakin one looks like a remold. The Clone pilot looks the same to me as a figure from a while back (the transport type ship at the end of ep.2 but with a mounts painted on).

Thanks once again to Break for the report.

Thanks to Matt (Break) for letting us know about the latest Transformers Animated figures to come in at UK Toys R US stores.

We have just had the Animated Bumper Battlers in at Toys R Us. Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet and they are £9.99 each. Also had some of the earlier 3" Titanium figs in - G1 Optimus, WW Optimus, G1 Bumblebee, Predaking, Op Primal, Cybertron Megatron, Energon Scorponok. These are priced at £5.99 each.

The Transformers Movie line continues its releases in the UK with the Toys R Us exclusives, Inferno and Mudflap now been spotted. Both toys are in regular European packaging style which substitutes artwork for a photograph of the toy in its robot mode, and are recolours of Cybertron Mudflap and Armada Red Alert.

Credit TFWorld2005

The latest update to the Transformers At The Moon Transformers toy gallery area is the non-official Clear G1 Optimus Prime toy which has recently been released (limited to 200).

The toy is our second clear Generation One toy, with the other being the Takara clear Convoy, often listed as Lunchtime Special Clear Convoy. We will be adding comparisons between the toys at a later date.

Arcee, who made her debutin Transformers Animated in episode 7 Thrill of the Hunt, of which you can watch every scene featuring Arcee in the Video section, is featured for the second time in a Transformers Animated Wallpaper, available exclusively on Transformers Animated.com.

The new wallpaper can be found at the bottom of the Wallpaper page, but here is a small preview linking to the 1024x768 version.

The wallpaper is available in 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 resolutions.

Snakas has picked up on an article on the blog of Japanese Idol Mei Morishita. On the blog she reveals that one of TakaraTomy's Wonder Festival exclusive toy will be a Transformers Movie Arcee G1 Color Edition (repaint of the Deluxe Movie Arcee).

These will be exclusively sold at the event on February 24, 2008 at the TakaraTomy booth and limited to 1,000 pieces.

Be sure to check Transformers At The Moon around the time of the WinterWonderfest, as we'll be looking to add to our unrivaled Japanese Convention gallery area.

There have been tons of auctions for Transformers Animated figures on online auction sites over the last month and a bit, both carded and loose. The auctions have bought us new images of the toys, from various different angles. Now TFWorld2005 member PlanetJacker has shared some images of one of the Transformers Animated Starscream toys which he won.

You can see his images here