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I was 7 years old and wanted a comic book, any comic book, so my Grandma picked up US Marvel G1 issues #13, "Shooting Star" and #14, "Rock and Roll Out" from the post office when she went to mail stuff, and I've loved TFs and Bruce Springsteen ever since. It's probably the reason I root for Megatron more than Optimus.

Actually, from the first commercial, although in Fort Worth, the GoBots commercial came first. When I saw those commercials, I wanted those both of those toylines. I am still not a GoBots hater to this days.

First TF, G1 Starscream. It just confirmed my passion. Still a great looking toy (mine is not great shape, my childhood friends were toy breakers!) despite the short arms and easily lost fist and landing gear. My friends (actually in the nerd catergory) in college (I still U of I) made fun for liking a "outdated" toy line so much. I was right, and they like so many Illini on so many subjects were wrong!

also had TF #1 too! Probably lost it, although the cover was separated from the rest of the comic since the mid 80's.

Started out by renting the 1986 movie from a local video store when I was like ... four or five? This would've been '94 or '95.

Blew my mind. From there I rented every other G1 tape they had, which was a decent smattering of Sunbow season 1 episodes.

Beast Wars hit shelves very shortly after that, and, although I actually didn't realize they were related to Transformers yet, I thought they looked cool and had my parents buy one. (Razorbeast)

Then the cartoon hit the air, I quickly realized it was a sequel to Transformers, which was awesome, and I watched it through to the end with my friends each week, explaining any of the references I could.

I built up a pretty sizable collection of Beast Wars figures, which are still sitting in a tub in my parents' garage, and actually got my hands on some old G1 toys as well, which were always kind of mysterious to me and a huge treat.

I don't remember when or how I got back into it again as a late teen/early adult, but like most things from my childhood, I found I still got a huge kick out of it, and I've been eating up the fiction (though not the toys) since.

I got into them watching the G1 cartoon with my brother. We were hooked. We didn't have a lot of the G1 toys, but between the two of us we had enough for some pretty epic battles.

My earliest memory in the TF world was an older neighborhood kid playing with a Starscream and Thundercracker (G1) and I had to borrow some of his in order to be able to play Transformers with him.

Then I quickly started getting my own. My first was a Constructicon. Slowly but surely, everyone in the neighborhood pretty much had their own little collection of Transformers and every once in a blue moon a lot of us would get out to play at the same time and have a "war". Otherwise it was usually just a smaller affair with 2 or 3 of us getting together to tell stories with our toys or play out what was the 2nd-3rd grade equivalent of LARP'ing.

All the while, the original toon was part of the Saturday morning block of cartoons that got our imaginations fueled up and ready to go. It was probably on before and after school at varying times, too. They switched programming schedules all the time.

I remember watching the original run of the G1 cartoon after school when I was really young. This kid in my class had a G1 Blitzwing and I thought it was the coolest toy I'd ever seen. One Christmas I got a haul of G1 figures and from there I just never stopped loving the franchise.
I was totally lost during the Beast era until Beast Machines came along. In subsequent years I've rewatched the BW series and really taken a liking to it, but I'm a G1er all the way. A part of me will always love G1 not for Geewunning, but out of respect of where the brand came from and for being something new and different. I scratch my head when people screech that the movieverse is somehow innovative but the original series is some type of derivative, as the original series was....the...original series. If anything, being a part of the online fandom has just reminded me that I don't have to like everything TF, I just have to like the TF things that I like.

Hard to remember exactly what, but it might have been something to do with watching weekend morning cartoons on a Finnish television channel and one of the cartoons being Transformers: Energon. Afterwards I kinda stumbled upon the rest in the net. But the idea that really got me was that they were ROBOTS who turned into VEHICLES! How cool was that!
And I was twelve...

The rerun of the first episode of Beast Wars on Fox Kids. I became obsessed with the notion of animals that can turn into robots. The rest is history... until I started watching RID (they can become cars too!) and then the rest truly became history.