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Thought itd be fun to see how people got interested/hooked on transformers. Im sure there are tons of different stories.

For me, well i remember being outside playing and my dad coming to the door and saying hey come here and check out this new cartoon that is on. I went in and it was the first episode of Transformers G1. i was hooked after only a few minutes. when G1 died off it kinda fell to the back of my mind untill i was in target one night and came across G2 in the store. well that got me back and i got all that i could with the little money i had.

when beast wars took over i lost interest. kinda felt like they were trying to be something they wernt and ignored the series untill i caught the show then i had to get them as well.

Wish i hadnt ignored the BW line in its early stages since there are still alot of them i dont have and want.

Got my first waaay back, G1 minibot Cosmos.

What I had access to: Ladybird books, and tapes, and occasionally the marvel(uk) comic book.

What I could get from the local "toy store", were mainly minibots and combiner limbs, so I would have adventures of Bumblebee and the minibots taking on their best counterparts, my major battle was Bumblebee, Warpath, Outback, Powerglide, Seapray and Cosmos, taking on the combaticons, in an imagined scene with the special teams battling, so that Defensor( who I didn't have) could take on Devastator (Again, not having).

The first transformers animated adventure I ever saw was a cinema release of Transformers: The Movie.

In school, there were more people intersted in Star Wars and Action Force (GI Joe) so Action Masters and Beast Wars fell by the wayside ( Local toy store had closed down by that stage anyhow). revisited Transformers during Robots in Disguise, and stayed a fan again since, having my own source of income at the time helped also.

It was probably Simon Furman's ( Marvel) or John Grant's (Ladybird) stories that really brought them to life, and for anyone who decides they were simple reads, they were simpler times, phones were in boxes, mobile was a thing you dangled over the bed of a child, and Autobots were ignorant of the world around them and needed human help. heck your pocket phone now probably has more computational power than Teletran 1.

I was actually into Robo Machine, they used to have a great strip in the Eagle comic I think it was. My parents were looking for toys for a birthday, and picked up some Transformers instead, and the rest is history.

When I was a kid I watched some beast wars re-runs and alot of Armada, then lost interest until the live action films came out then I got back into it.

I remember being hooked on Transformers during Armada. Watched the series,collected the toys,etc. But then I starting following stuff like Halo and other stuff and almost totally forgot. Then the Movies came out and I just saw it as a movie. The thing that got me OFFICIALLY hooked back into the franchise was War For Cybertron. I saw my friend playing it one time and I began to slowly and slowly become a fan for the franchise again.

To this day I will always praise High Moon Studios for making me love Transformers again.

I could sit here and sing an opera and put on a play about how I got into Transformers...

...but you can't do that over a forum. So, my friend told me about it in grade school. The rest is history.

My vague reasons are explained in my collection thread, here.

The short version: was mostly into Beast Wars, being a child of 1989, then ignored most stuff until the films arrived. I was knee-deep in plastic crack by the time DotM came out.

It's vague, but I remember green robots, a sandbox in the schoolyard and WHAT THE CRAP DID THAT T-REX JUST TURN INTO A ROBOT.

My earliest memory of TFs are watching G1 reruns on tv. I was really little though, and can't recall anything other than the first season. Then I got a couple G2 toys. My very first figures were Ramjet and Optimus Prime, both with the soundboxes, and Snarl.

Hey, all. I'm a new person on these forums. I was just posting that I found I was enjoying the Transformers Prime cartoon ridiculously more than a man my age probably should. And I found it brought back fond memories and washed those awful live action movies out of my head.

I remember the Transformers when they came on the scene because I had never seen toys with such detail and complicated moving parts before. They were very exotic and Japanese.

I received Hound and Thundercracker as a gift when I was young. Those were the mostly metal first generation toys, too, which I'm sure are prized by collectors nowadays. In my memory, though, they were also very loose-jointed, and the paint wasn't the best quality. I probably sold them at a yard sale years ago. I see that some people think the toys they make nowadays are of lesser quality. I see the toys nowadays and wish I had them when I was younger. They actually look like the cartoons for one. (Does anyone else remember that the original toy versions of Ironhide and Ratchet just sucked?) Also, injection molded plastic has come a long way since I was a kid.

I remember those old toys ran hot and cold. Some were very cheaply made and disappointing. Some of them, such as Optimus Prime and Trailblazer, and Prowl were made with a quality that no other toy lines were at the time. Soundwave was probably THE hottest toy from the 80s as I recall.

A lot of the mini toys, and the combiner toys after the Constructicons, always felt a little too cheaply made. I took note how some lines had very articulated joints and hands, while others did not, as though they were being made on cheap after Transformers became popular.

I loved collecting toy robots, and still do. I had every wind up gizmo from Taiwan I could find, as well as Star Wars droids, etc. The Transformers line was great fun. I still have the Macross-style Jetfire and the Dinobots somewhere. As well as an original Optimus Prime I repainted in a burst of tinkering.

All the best,