remote control interactive dalek tesco's £20 (merged)

MyUserNamesTaken

lkalka wrote:

Are you sure? I thought mine was but it is encased in the plastic part of the packaging.

Totally sure. I searched high and low for it. It definitely wasn't in the box.

zelnik

MyUserNamesTaken wrote:

Totally sure. I searched high and low for it. It definitely wasn't in the box.

I know how you feel, we searched for 20 mins thinking the front wheel must of fallen out of our one.. but nothing!

Going to see if i can get a replacement today

jellyhead

me nephew's dalek had a missing antenna, a bit fell off and even one of the gold bobbly bits fell off, it's clip on clip was broken. that was a tesco one, mine was from argos. is it a particular shipment that has problems?

vickijh32

lkalka wrote:

Are you sure? I thought mine was but it is encased in the plastic part of the packaging.

We thought ours was missing too, after searching high and low, checking the box several times, we finally found the antenna hidden by sellotape on the inside of the plastic part of the packing that sat underneath the dalek.

Fleago

Us too; I had to delve into the bin to find the antenna that was sellotaped to the plastic bit :eek: Plus, in his enthusiasm to exterminate me and the dogs, OH crashed it into a box and it's sticking out thing on it's head fell off. I then accused him of breaking it already when he'd only had it 5 minutes :rolleyes: but the thing slotted back in ok after he had guiltily fiddled about with it for a while!

Fleago

zelnik

Just been to the entertainer toyshop to replace mine and I wasn't the only one their opening time today was 11am and i turned up at 11:15 and there were 4 people ahead of me wanting to exchange their Daleks for missing parts or none working lights.

I can confirm there has been a product update of sorts, I don't think the actual robot or controller has changed but there is more "updated" documentation concerning the eyes and blue light at the front which are apprantly detachable and sometimes need to be reseated or pushed in further for them to work, there is also a sticker mentioning this on the front.

I'm just hoping the other 3 that i bought as presents are ok and i don't have to go replacing those also

MyUserNamesTaken

Went back to Tesco today about my missing antenna. Luckily, I phoned them first thing this morning to ask them to put one by as a replacement. By the time I got there (11am), all their new stock was sold out apart from the one they'd put by for me. There were other people in front of me returning non-working daleks. I managed to get an antenna from one of the other ones returned and just bought the other dalek they'd put by for me, as my son's friend already had the DVD I bought him for Christmas. Another friend of mine bought her dalek from Toys R Us - the box is different. The dalek I bought today operates on 40mhz whereas the one I got works on 27mhz. Now managed to test my son's dalek and it seems to work ok. Here's hoping the other one works too. Can't understand why the Tesco stock has a different box (different plastic packaging) to the Toys R Us stock.

cuffie

Anyone had any trouble with the battlepacks? The lights on top of one of the daleks doesn't seem to work (the other one seems ok)...

podsbird

If anyone is still looking for a dalek, Tescos by me had end shelf full of them for £19.99, and they are now a discontinued item LOL - the irony of it all.

Zeldazog

MyUserNamesTaken wrote:

. Can't understand why the Tesco stock has a different box (different plastic packaging) to the Toys R Us stock.

The one my Mum got from the Entertainer had different plastic to the one I got from Debenhams. One was all sort of moulded to the shape, and the other was just a square box of plastic.

As far as I can tell they are exactly the same otherwise, certainly there was nothing different on the box (never opened the Debenhams one to find out if anything different inside, but seemed the same).

Without checking, I couldn't tell you which one we kept, packaging wise.

Perhaps different manufacturing batches?