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Stormer wrote:

Screamfleet wrote:See, at this point I may still agree with the sentiment that Marvel can do it and Transformers cannot. The Marvel characters are getting to be 50 years old soon.

WOT!!!!! Sorry, just couldn't let this one go - probably because back in 1984 I was 13 and I'm nowhere near 50 yet!

I've never personally met a G1 Hater, but there are plenty of people nowadays who only have the Michael Bay movies to reference from. So, I would imagine, based on the designs of the figures being vastly different from the bricky, boxy, blocky originals from 1984, recent TF fans may find older series and figures as archaic and cheesy. If said newer fans care to explore the past, I think they'd appreciate the older stuff as the foundation of something that's grown into what it is today.

I would say a G1 hater would be a person who only knows the MB movies and TF Prime and who doesn't care enough to find out where this all started by going back and giving the past a chance. Which is fine. They will never know what they're missing.

^This.

Oh, please! Just because you can't see my facial expressions over a post doesn't mean I'm really mad! I was just poking at you! I guess the whimsically offensive sentence just wasn't clear enough for me - thanks for setting me straight. After all, I'm old...

Dang, some crowds are just so darn sensitive these days...

Well, you did leave a facial expression in your post. One of these guys . It seemed like a "hey I'm upset" post. I don't know who I'd offend. I mean, is peter parker going to start posting here that I'm talking about his age? It's funny though, you're still coming off as upset, maybe you're not, but, I know old people tend to get grouchy easily. You read what I said wrong, it seems like you're still reading it wrong too. You were the one coming of as sensitive, I mean...you really are. You jump to saying how you're not near 50. Which really baffled me, I'm referring to fictional characters. Maybe you are a fictional character, in which case...well, I apologize. If anything, that seemed like a freudian slip on your part that you are sensitive about your age.

Screamfleet wrote:

Oh, please! Just because you can't see my facial expressions over a post doesn't mean I'm really mad! I was just poking at you! I guess the whimsically offensive sentence just wasn't clear enough for me - thanks for setting me straight. After all, I'm old...

Dang, some crowds are just so darn sensitive these days...

Well, you did leave a facial expression in your post. One of these guys . It seemed like a "hey I'm upset" post. I don't know who I'd offend. I mean, is peter parker going to start posting here that I'm talking about his age? It's funny though, you're still coming off as upset, maybe you're not, but, I know old people tend to get grouchy easily. You read what I said wrong, it seems like you're still reading it wrong too. You were the one coming of as sensitive, I mean...you really are. You jump to saying how you're not near 50. Which really baffled me, I'm referring to fictional characters. Maybe you are a fictional character, in which case...well, I apologize. If anything, that seemed like a freudian slip on your part that you are sensitive about your age.

I'm really not mad, and not that I've read the your post a little more closely (the eyes are getting a little bad these days...) I understand what it was saying. It was my poor attempt at humor. Plus, did you see that I posted other stuff too? I actually included a post subject reply. That was supposed to be the segway between me being pretend mad and getting down the the subject at hand. The only Seibertronian I've been real mad at is Shadowman....and even he's forgiven!

I thought about being sensitive about my age. Maybe, I'm turning 40 next Friday. I don't feel that age, I'm in pretty good shape, I got carded for booze the other day, and I got only one gray hair that stands on the top my head and waves at passersby...There's no way that I'm gonna be depressed about my age, and if disappointment slips out once in a while during a failed attempt at humor, well, point it out so I can be better.

Now, you just have to watch out for those really grouchy old people who really were 13 years old when Peter Parker first started snapping pictures!

I think we're both being tongue in cheek now and we're on the same page. It's just alarming to see someone seemingly get upset over something I didn't say, but we worked it out old timer.

Stormer, happy birthday in advance, I'm closing in on you! The gym is what keeps me young, I have a lot more aches & pains than in my 20s.

cagey wrote:Stormer, happy birthday in advance, I'm closing in on you! The gym is what keeps me young, I have a lot more aches & pains than in my 20s.

Awww, thanks! I agree - going to the gym or just going out for a walk around the neighborhood is a great way to stay young! I love hiking too, and with the snow piling up in the surrounding mountains, gonna be time to break out the snowshoes!

Screamfleet wrote:I think we're both being tongue in cheek now and we're on the same page. It's just alarming to see someone seemingly get upset over something I didn't say, but we worked it out old timer.

Yep! We're good!

Stormer wrote:

cagey wrote:Stormer, happy birthday in advance, I'm closing in on you! The gym is what keeps me young, I have a lot more aches & pains than in my 20s.

Awww, thanks! I agree - going to the gym or just going out for a walk around the neighborhood is a great way to stay young! I love hiking too, and with the snow piling up in the surrounding mountains, gonna be time to break out the snowshoes!

Screamfleet wrote:I think we're both being tongue in cheek now and we're on the same page. It's just alarming to see someone seemingly get upset over something I didn't say, but we worked it out old timer.

Yep! We're good!

OK, I have to ask...have you noticed that as the years go by and you spend more time on this site that you feel like the one Transformer that you relate to more than any other is Kup? Not poking fun seeing as how I'm in the same boat age-wise as you are but just saying that I seem to be experiencing this particular thing happening to me and was wondering if it was just me or if maybe I found someone I could commiserate with.

Anywho...as to the subject of G1 haters, as folks before me have mentioned it is likely the younger crowd that came in long after G1 times that is most likely to dislike everything about G1. My oldest boy used to have quite the fascination with it but that wore off fast. He's part of the "high-tech, instant gratification, no respect whatsoever for anything that came before" generation and therefore anything like the G1 toys, cartoons and comics that doesn't have the cool designs, massive amounts of articulation or most jaw dropping, realistic appearance is deemed crap and of absolutely no use to him and has no right to even exist. The number of kids today that think along these lines is just appalling but if you want to find your true "G1 Haters", that's the place to find them. Turbo revvin' young punks is what they are...

Do there exist G1 haters?

Yes. Their names are Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Michael Bay.

Haha. Word.

Should we throw Ehren Kruger in there too?

cotss2012 wrote:

Do there exist G1 haters?

Yes. Their names are Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Michael Bay.

Okay, I laughed.