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by **RhA** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:58 am

I know we think TF's are awesome, but what drives us to go out and collect these toys all the time? Why do we have such strong opinions on childrens toys and hoard 100's or even 1000's?

I'm not being a smartass here, I'm interested in what you think! Share your thoughts.

News Credits: 68 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:19 am

I collect Transformers because I like having the stories in my hands and on my shelves. I know there are more elaborate ways to put it, but that's what it boils down to.

News Credits: 1 · by **Amelie** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:13 am

It was the G1 cartoon and Marvel UK comics that got me into Transformers as a kid, but as I grew up and developed a fondness for art and model making, the original (read Diaclone\Microchange) figures took a new angle.

I love the original Transformers because they're quirky, fun toys\models that I used to love as a kid.

by **OptiMagnus** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:03 pm

Hmm...that's actually a hard one.

Well, my friend was a real TF freak starting in the Beast Machines days, and he just came more of a fanatic as we grew up, but I never really got into it until he got me a minicon set for my birthday. But I was just a "sort of kind of I guess" kind of fan. That was until 2007 came along...

Nuff said.

News Credits: 11 · by **It Is Him** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:12 pm

I love Transformers. Do I need a better reason?

News Credits: 9 · by **robofreak** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:11 pm

Seems like a rather silly question. Have you read my username? I'm robofreak for a reason. Robots fascinate me and Transformers fit the bill perfectly.

The story and the designs of the figures have always been appealing to me and I doubt that will change anytime soon.

Now if I could have a wallet that never ran dry...

News Credits: 4 · by **SlyTF1** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:14 pm

Because it gives me purpose.

by **JetOptimus23** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:25 pm

It Is Him wrote:I love Transformers. Do I need a better reason?

This is the answer. And this plus 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, Everything, & Women!

by **Godzillabot Primal** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:48 am

You make a good question I must say,

really it’s the idea you have a world to make your own, you can have a war raging and stop it with a finger tip.
When you try to imagine the character you never get the feel of the toy, the silkiness of the plastic still slightly chilled from never being touched out of it’s packaging from a store outlet and walking to the car looking more normal then any other person and when you get in the car…you become a beast hungering for the figure and when you touch it…you become calm, one with the transformer and nobody can take that from you

And so you have it we spend our money on the things we love

News Credits: 68 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:15 am

SlyTF1 wrote:Because it gives me purpose.

You are more than the sum of what you consume.

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