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What are your earliest memories of Transformers?
Jmd
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My earliest is the Marvel Comic, so I got in at the very beginning. The first issue came out at the end of May and the cover date's September, so my parents or grandparents very likely bought it for me sometime in the summer of '84, which would've put me at either six or seven years old. I quit reading around issue 40, not too long after the Headmasters mini-series (by that time I'd long-since "graduated" to the X-Men, the New Mutants, X-Factor, the various Spider-Man titles, the Hulk, the FF, and Savage Sword of Conan).
The toys followed soon after I started the comics, followed by the cartoon and the Find Your Fate books. Some of my earliest memories are playing with the '84 and '85 toys and reading the Marvel series with my dad. I'm lucky that none of my toys or comics were ever tossed out (my G1 toys are in rough shape, but they're almost all complete and unbroken, sans a lot of stickers).
In college, I fell back in love with Transformers due to Beast Wars toys, and I've been casually collecting the toys ever since (I've probably bought on average half a dozen Transformers toys every year for the past 20 years).
So -- when did you get started? What are your earliest memories of Transformers?
The toys followed soon after I started the comics, followed by the cartoon and the Find Your Fate books. Some of my earliest memories are playing with the '84 and '85 toys and reading the Marvel series with my dad. I'm lucky that none of my toys or comics were ever tossed out (my G1 toys are in rough shape, but they're almost all complete and unbroken, sans a lot of stickers).
In college, I fell back in love with Transformers due to Beast Wars toys, and I've been casually collecting the toys ever since (I've probably bought on average half a dozen Transformers toys every year for the past 20 years).
So -- when did you get started? What are your earliest memories of Transformers?
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Remember I got it some time in 2005/6 and I found the beginning scene with unicron to be terrifying!
I knew the name Unicron before I knew what a unicorn was, so whenever people talked about unicorns being cute I thought they were bloody insane, because I would think of a planet devouring monster.
Recently got back into transformers around April 2017, but what I always remembered in the time when I wasn’t into transformers was the whiteish gray dude (megatron) falling from a building, the scary voice man (soundwave) and the death of poor Optimus Prime
Loving seeing OG transformers fans. Mine was a toss up between getting a Japan Reflector set, then swearing they were GoBots knockoffs.
The very next year, with a Takara P38 and F15 cradled underarm, i saw transformers for the first time.
And was inconsolable that all my toys were baddies.
My Dad brought transformers to my life, bless him.
The same dude who finds Bayformers utter piles of crap.
Ps- i carried tech specs and the inbox brochure to school from ages 4-11.
Now that's dedication.
But like my PREVIOUS attempt to connect to TF Fans, i worry it'll just get removed despite no terms being violated.
I wonder if they even care what FANS like.
Personally, it's a great opportunity for the admin to pillage ideas from, to keep the game interesting.
(Also i love how he transforms, spreading a bots legs apart and putting their arms above their head is always the best transformation)
Cosmic rust affects the best of them. Almost as legendary a killer as Gold Plastic Syndrome.
Sigh.
Haha yeah that is the first thing i thought though i’ve never really payed any attention to what it is. At least it didn’t happen to my Ironhide though, if it did i probably would’ve had PTSD to Dark of the Moon.
It's ok.
AliExpress is your friend for CHEAP, QUALITY KOs of bots from MV1-4.
You could get them ALL for around $60!
Later was Beast Wars in 1999, only first season (and you know how it ends), but on other channel and they mess up with translation badly, almost broke all connection that it was actually Transformes. (Like, Optimus Primal was named King Kong, and Cybertron - Cyberon, lol)
And after that was Internet and all other series and FINALLY, the original voiceovers.
Later, not long before first Bay-Movie, there was a new wave of popularity, and first movie burst it up.
I’m so glad to see all you G1 fans 😀
I love G1 and the new series too. However, the Unicron trilogy and the bay verse films didn't catch my attention.
With Wazzzpinator in the mix (Primal, too), an edgy, dumb cool kid reboot of Beast Wars would be retitled
BEAST WARS: DAT ASS*
@ScarredArachnid333 , this is why we can't have nice things
*Look what they've done to Thundercats and She-Ra
And throwing a tantrum (not that one) for opening 10 PBC and getting an army of 2* rockstars.
But Robert Walsh has passed away.
He of G1 music.
Here's a gift.
http://www.thetfcog.com/transformers
I cannot remember my first Transformer. I wanna say it was Bumblebee, but a red one because at the time yellow ones were rare.
Bluestreak came soon after and I loved him. Actually I have a big Bluestreak tattoo on my left leg.
I lost Interest when Optimus because a gorilla.
Trukk not monkkey
Imma angry boi now.
Even though Optimus Prime is superior to Optimus Primal.
See what they did?
They turned monkey to flying space truck in BM!
With guns!
Soon after started collecting the toys, and then bought the dvd set of G1!
I’ve been into Transformers ever since! Lol!
And after all these years finally got the beast wars series and suddenly realize why people love it so much!
These two are definitely my most favorite series!!
Kinda still feel that way today
Your mom is kewl, mate.
I would've gotten red ears if asking something similar.
That woman was the bane of my transformers collection!
I'll say it, i love Dad more!