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Fri May 08, 2009 8:00 pm

Happy bday to the Transformers Franchise... bring on the next 25 years. I'd be 55+ still buying toys, collecting the comics and DVD's.

Proudly I have no shame.

Fri May 08, 2009 9:05 pm

Happy Birthday Transformers. My first very first transformer was Gears and it has been one heck of ride since then.

News Credits: 1452 · Fri May 08, 2009 9:40 pm

Woot! Happy Birthday Transformers!

News Credits: 12 · Fri May 08, 2009 9:41 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I got Optimus when i was 5 at xmas in 1985...Isnt ther 1981 or 1982 transformers?

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 08, 2009 10:49 pm

nemesis-prime wrote::o) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I got Optimus when i was 5 at xmas in 1985...Isnt ther 1981 or 1982 transformers?

Diaclone has been around since before 1984. The original core group of "Transformers" were (and here's a big shock)
repaints of the original Diaclone figures from Japan. #-o

In Sunstreakers case, I think it was an improvement but that's just my opinion. This 25th Birthday is for the actual "Transformer" name brand. I think some of the actual Diaclone original molds have actually been around as early as 79/80 and the MicroMan series that seemed to tie-in with it had it's origin even earlier, but I wouldn't quote me on that and I'm tired and rather uninclined to browse for the whole background right now. Somewhere in my vast TF archive on my portable hard-drive I have pics. of the original Diaclone figures with their original paint schemes but that would be Gigs of info to sort through to find them. Someone else on here could probably point you in the right direction faster than I could.

What's cool is that beofre today I hadn't really known the EXACT date. This is going to be insanely easy to remember for me now. It is exactly 1 week after my own birthday. So Transformers are now twenty-five and I just turned thirty-...something...again...yeah *cough* ummm...right. :roll:

Fri May 08, 2009 11:08 pm

Here's to another 25 years! I hope to see my grandkids oplay with Transformers too. :grin:

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 09, 2009 6:54 am

i'm late to the party --but I wanted to wish the Transformers a happy birthday!! I made an energon cake, but the insecticons ate it in 2 seconds --sorry. Thank you for all the great memories over the years!! I have an original comic I bought some time in '86 somewhere. Gotta find that one.
Btw --wth is Gears doing on the cover?? half-transformed...attempting to shoot Laserbeak I guess, while Prime goes godzilla!!! 8-}

Sat May 09, 2009 11:57 am

Much time has passed... indeed! Though I was first abducted into their world via the TV show and much later the comic books (issue where Prime died non the less), this is still very significant to me.

I still remember those first days, so many cybermoons ago, though those recollections are distorted and fussy visions that are hard to retrieve from my not-so-good databanks. The joys I had back then though limited were enjoyable.

Its hard to believe a quarter of century has passed already and they're still here. I would have never dreamed about that back then. Who would have guessed the invasion would last this long!

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Here's to another 25!

Sat May 09, 2009 12:39 pm

Wow, I can really smell the nostalgia wafting out of the monitor. Happy 25th anniversary! It's a pity none of us could witness the possible 100th anniversary though, here's hoping the distant future generations will continue to be as captivated by sentient giant transforming robots as much as we are!

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 09, 2009 4:17 pm

Warbreaker wrote:Wow, I can really smell the nostalgia wafting out of the monitor. Happy 25th anniversary! It's a pity none of us could witness the possible 100th anniversary though, here's hoping the distant future generations will continue to be as captivated by sentient giant transforming robots as much as we are!

Trust me, 75 years from now EVERYTHING will be transforming. Our cars, portions of our homes, the majority of our gadgets, anything that can convert or perform multiple functions in an effort to save space/time will be a huge deal.
There are already cars capable of condensing to conserve parking space and then expanding once they are on the open road for stability and handling. These toys are just the tip of the iceberg. Of course this is provided that mankind is still capable of trekking forward tecnologically. Personally, I think we are just about due for a huge "reset" and I firmly believe that within the next 75 years, some nut-job is going to do something to send mankind back to the tecnological stone-age and society will degrade to anarchy and barbarism. At which point my Leader Class Movie Prime
will be moved several stages higher on the technology ladder and I'll be a happy camper carving out a life on my own heavily defended, hard-fought-for piece of land. Just me and my kids and our TF's.

News Credits: 332 · Sat May 09, 2009 5:12 pm

Warbreaker wrote:Wow, I can really smell the nostalgia wafting out of the monitor. Happy 25th anniversary! It's a pity none of us could witness the possible 100th anniversary though, here's hoping the distant future generations will continue to be as captivated by sentient giant transforming robots as much as we are!

But we will. We will all be one with the Matrix.

Sun May 10, 2009 4:15 pm

I know... I know... I am a few days late on this subject. But, better late than never. I am thrilled to see Transformers making it to the quarter century mark. And, thank Primus too, as it could have been worse... we could be celebrating 25 years of GoBots. Yuck!

I have read many postings on this event. And, some have been rather amusing, specifically, those involving what we might be like 25 years from now when we tell our kids or grandkids what it was like for us to have Transformers. And, as one who has experienced the whole of Generation One, I wholeheartedly agree.

A little story for those who want to know. I first experienced Transformers prior to the release of the brand while I was in Germany in 1983 (my father served in the US Air Force). I was about 9 years old at the time. The base was having a celebration, which was called a "bazaar", which also included something similar to a flea market of sorts. One toy vendor had a yellow car behind him and something about it just struck me with curiousity. I inquired to look at it, to which, I was told "no" by the vendor for fear of my accidentally breaking it or something. But, he showed me it was a transforming robot. Later, after I returned stateside, I discovered that that robot had been Sunstreaker.

I came back to the US on my 11th birthday in 1984. And, we arrived in Pennsylvania. A few hours of travelling later, we wound up at an Air Force base in New Jersey, where we stayed at builleting (kind of like a hotel for families arriving, leaving, or in transit from one base to another). The next morning, which I believe was a Saturday, I watched the TV and there was the Transformers cartoon. I became instantly hooked with the concept of alien robots that transformed into trucks, cars, planes (especially, the planes), and guns. And, as you pretty much guessed, I wanted one after seeing a commercial for one of the figures during a commercial break.

I received my first Transformer a few days later while I was visiting my grandmother in Maine (before we were to report to our assigned base in Texas). It was Windcharger. And, out of all the toys I had on hand during my long ride to Texas from Maine, this was the only toy I desired to play with over and over. Interestingly, today- in 2009- I still have my Windcharger. It's limbs are loose, but intact. And, one day, I hope to pass it and all the TFs I have collected over the years to my son when I reaches the age of understanding sentimental value over financial value.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 10, 2009 5:59 pm

Thanks NostagiBot. Like you said better late than never. In case it wasn't offered up on your first posting, Welcome to Seibertron. We can't offer much in the way of spare parts but we do have plenty of "loose screws" around here.

After doing the math I can see that you are right close to my age (I probably only have a few months on ya) and I can tell you first-hand it is definitely a rewarding feeling the first time you hand down that special G1 TF when you feel your son has come of age. I sold my entire G1 collection when my first son was barely a year old but I kept in touch with the shop owner and re-acquired a few pieces over the years and took both of my boys there to purchase G1 stuff of their own and it's a very cool bonding time. Be ready though cause the little buggers absorb info at lightning speed and they'll bug you for more info on this stuff than you may have stored in your memory banks.
Thank Primus for the Internet and the fan community.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 10, 2009 6:11 pm

Happy 25th birthday, Transformers!

PrivatePoop wrote:Now wait just a minute here! This thread says May 8 and I see on that comic book scan it says September 1! What gives??

Technically, Transformers #1 was published in May, 1984.

Sun May 10, 2009 9:33 pm

Congrats Transformers!!!!

this is history in the making peplz. May all of you have many more years of transforming fun!!! CONGRATS! CONGRATS!CONGRATS! Seibertronian's I solute U!! :APPLAUSE: