Stores selling US Packaged Transformers in BC?

[choomama]

Besides comic book shops, are there any stores in BC that sell Transformers in US packaging?

Every time I've gone to Zellers or TRU it's always Bilingual - brief bio and no tech specs at the back of the box.

Btw, anybody else out there who only buy Transformers in US packaging?

[Hobbyist Prime]

Can't speak for the first half but as for buying the US packaging, I will buy whatever I'm able to find but if I have the choice between bilingual and US I'll pick US every time!

[Supernova]

As nice as it is to have the "proper" packaging, I'll settle for the multilingual stuff if it's sitting there right in front of me.

For what it's worth, though, the new figures in Generations wave 5 (i.e. Thunderwing, Skullgrin, and so on) have slightly longer bios (though still truncated from the US editions), and Hasbro has put the tech specs back in, too!

[Dragon Knight]

The only place i can think of that might sell US Packaging is probably local hobby and comic book stores...

[RNSrobot]

Originally Posted by Supernova

As nice as it is to have the "proper" packaging, I'll settle for the multilingual stuff if it's sitting there right in front of me.

For what it's worth, though, the new figures in Generations wave 5 (i.e. Thunderwing, Skullgrin, and so on) have slightly longer bios (though still truncated from the US editions), and Hasbro has put the tech specs back in, too!

I'd love for them to put the bio & tech specs back together as a 'file card' to clip out. I'll never keep entire packaging, but I have tons of GI Joe and Beast Wars file cards. The overall back packaging is so boring the way they do it, too.

[Supernova]

Originally Posted by Ryan Ro

I'd love for them to put the bio & tech specs back together as a 'file card' to clip out. I'll never keep entire packaging, but I have tons of GI Joe and Beast Wars file cards. The overall back packaging is so boring the way they do it, too.

That would be nice. Or something like on some of the Japanese figures where the card is included inside along with the instructions. As long as Hasbro is going to lump all the non-English languages into one packaging variant, it's likely never to happen though for a lack of real estate.

I think the compromise that worked best for me was the fold out poster in the Universe 2.0 figures that had the full bio and specs on them, and was big enough to accommodate all the languages.

[Sun Swipe Prime]

Toy trades out in Langley carries transformers with the us backing. They're an independant store so they're stock goes fairly quick on the popular figures.

[Shepp]

I've actually found random US English only packages in random Wal-Marts, Zellers, etc. from time to time on shelves.

At first I thought it was some random returns, but then the figures would be more random. Seems like they get a box of them instead of the tri-lingual packages since its usually isolated to one assortment. Doesn't seem to be isolated to a specific class though, as I've seen batches of Legends, Deluxe, and Voyager figures. Mostly movieverse ones.