The battle for Transformers had begun…
These few days had been the toughest and frustrated one indeed, I didnt realize the transformer toys launch was actually scheduled during school holiday season and public holiday, damn I was pissed off with so many people….I mean I didnt realize that they were so many collectors out there scrambling for the few pieces of transformers. You can count the number still available as minutes go by, I stood by one store in One Utama and I can see Optimus prime figure went from 5 to 1 in just like 10 minutes. After Prime is gone, then followed by the good figures, Blackout top on the list, followed by Barricade…..by the end of the battle which is Monday 5 pm, I think you can hardly find anymore good figures in KL & Penang major departmental store. What left are those sorry figures like swindle (not even in the movie), bonecrusher (second ugliest in the movie) …damn even scorponok is gone (the ugliest), I think people just dont care about the look anymore, it has been an epidemic, you just want to grab some figures on your hand. After these tiring 3 days, I managed to get most of the figures but I missed out on Blackout…..I actually saw that figure in front of me, but I just missed it….dont ask me why, now you can hardly find it anywhere. Blackout is rated 5/5 from most of the reviewers, I thought I could get it like 1-week later after the dust had settled, but looks like the dust settled in 3-days and Blackout has gone.
This is crazy, still I had managed to get some real good figures especially from robot heroes, those were cute G1 non-transformable figures meant for display purpose. I found 1 which is hard to get, Megatron + Ultra Magnus, luckily I didnt have second thought when I grabbed this one.
I have Prime, Barricade from Penang (location undisclosed ..hehe), Brawl, Bumblebee, Ironhide (from Toy R us midvalley), Starscream, Ratchet, Jazz from 1 Utama KL. What I am missing now is Blackout, I trying to skip Megatron, Scorponok, Bonecrusher if possible coz these figures are ugly, unless I have extra $$$ to spare or I want to do business, can do real good business with Megatron.
These few days are indeed tiring, nothing comparable to few weeks ago when I was searching for G1 Ultra Magnus Titanium (you can hardly find this, trust me) on web, manage to buy it from a cool ebay seller in Malaysia. My luck.
Hope that I will be lucky enough to find Blackout.
By the way, the movie aint starting July 4th in Malaysia, it is earlier. Take a guess when? do you homework! :P I hate people and queue….shue! shue!
