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can you childern or anyone in your family that has small childern age of 5 - 10 can transform any transformers animated figure that you give them?

some of the figures transformations may be little complex to some childerntwis & turn that on one leg three or 4 differnt times thses are made for childern i was wandering anyone child may had trouble with one figure or not.?

& no i have no trouble with it this situation

i've seen the younger ones damn near break them. 8-10 year olds can get the simpler ones.

hell the ones from the unicron trilogy i had troubles getting them right, without a picture or the instructions.

great, now people are gonna make fun of me

a five year old, probally not. I would imagine they would get broken with a child under the age of 8 or 9. I am forever putting arms and legs back on my daughters dolls and she is not near as rough as some of the other kids I have been around.

While I don't have kids of my own, I have a nephew and two nieces. They're pretty rough with toys (though they're all ages 4 and below). What baffles me about this is that I distinctly remember having no trouble with my G1 TransFormers when I was 5-6. Submarauder, Technobots, DogFight, Getaway, PowerMaster Prime (though Prime's gun handles often broke off in his arms, but thats not a transformation trouble).

I have a 7 year old nephew, and a nine year old niece, I took them both see transformers when it came out, which I later got them toys of them which some were the easier to transformer variety and others he would have alot of trouble transforming. I started buying more of the heroes version since they are just ready to play, and less likely to get busted. For now I think those probably get played with better than true transformers do.

Savage wrote:What baffles me about this is that I distinctly remember having no trouble with my G1 TransFormers when I was 5-6. Submarauder, Technobots, DogFight, Getaway, PowerMaster Prime (though Prime's gun handles often broke off in his arms, but thats not a transformation trouble).

same here. either

1)we have warped memories, clouded by age.
2)transformers are harder to transform than when we were kids
3)kids are't as sharp as we were at that age

Now people always say their kid is soooo smart, but really who's gonna say their kid is stupid? I'm not saying they don't have the capability to be smart, i'm saying the education isn't there.

I have noticed this youngest generation doesn't have the same intelligence found in children 10 or 15 years ago. I am the oldest of 9 kids and i've seen what kids are capable of. i honestly blame childrens programing. it has been dumbed dow significantly over the years. No more mr wizard or even bill nye, but plenty of dora the explora. DIOS MIO! we cant learn to pop corn with a magnifying glass but we can say butterfly in spanish.

television taught me alot as a kid, especially the public programming shows like Mathnet, a dragnet parody about math taught me simple things about basic algebra like, and 321 contact, which amazed my parents when at age 6 i explained about the sperm meating the egg in the filopean tubes. Good luck finding that kind of information in kids programming now at days. Uno is one. Uno peso.

Name_Violation wrote:[
Now people always say their kid is soooo smart, but really who's gonna say their kid is stupid? I'm not saying they don't have the capability to be smart, i'm saying the education isn't there.

I have noticed this youngest generation doesn't have the same intelligence found in children 10 or 15 years ago. I am the oldest of 9 kids and i've seen what kids are capable of. i honestly blame childrens programing. it has been dumbed dow significantly over the years. No more mr wizard or even bill nye, but plenty of dora the explora. DIOS MIO! we cant learn to pop corn with a magnifying glass but we can say butterfly in spanish.

television taught me alot as a kid, especially the public programming shows like Mathnet, a dragnet parody about math taught me simple things about basic algebra like, and 321 contact, which amazed my parents when at age 6 i explained about the sperm meating the egg in the filopean tubes. Good luck finding that kind of information in kids programming now at days. Uno is one. Uno peso.

I would definitely have to agree. And it gets worse than Dora the Explorer, even if you stay with "educational".

On average I would say most of the Animated releases have been of a higher technical level for transformations than the early G1's from some of us were much younger. I can only really remember getting pissed off at trying to get Prowl and the others like him to fix their arms properly in Altmode.

That said, my 7 year old nephew is developing quite the animated collection, and he is pretty good at changing them. It does take him a bit longer with some of them but nothing to to point of fustration.

Um... I was able to Transform G1 Jazz when I was 4 years old and I think he's a bit more complex than ANY of today's toys.

BTW how can you have trouble with an Armada figure? They're no harder to Transform than a GoBot but they look a hell of alot better. Unless you're refering to getting Overload to stay on Prime's back then I totally agree. So many pegs and I can't get any of them to clip in with looseing some somewhere else.

Saber Prime wrote:Um... I was able to Transform G1 Jazz when I was 4 years old and I think he's a bit more complex than ANY of today's toys.

BTW how can you have trouble with an Armada figure? They're no harder to Transform than a GoBot but they look a hell of alot better. Unless you're refering to getting Overload to stay on Prime's back then I totally agree. So many pegs and I can't get any of them to clip in with looseing some somewhere else.

it was some purple and white jet. also unicron, too many twists and turn,rotate, ect.

Name_Violation wrote:

Saber Prime wrote:Um... I was able to Transform G1 Jazz when I was 4 years old and I think he's a bit more complex than ANY of today's toys.

BTW how can you have trouble with an Armada figure? They're no harder to Transform than a GoBot but they look a hell of alot better. Unless you're refering to getting Overload to stay on Prime's back then I totally agree. So many pegs and I can't get any of them to clip in with looseing some somewhere else.

it was some purple and white jet. also unicron, too many twists and turn,rotate, ect.

My main problem with Unicron is that his wings pop off durring transformation. Actully I have alot of issues with his wings. The Planet Shell just hangs off them and looks like crap no matter how I position them. I can see why they weren't included in the original movie design.

My 4 year old can transform some of them, like Armada Hotshot, but mostly he can only get about half way through them.

My Daughter is only allowed to touch the Throttlebots lol. Everything else is off limits

Protective Alligator

I have an 8 year old and really I don't let her play with them unless I am right there, she does alright with them but isn't willing to try to transform them because I'd have a cow. Of the ones she has tried she hasn't got one completely transformed yet.

My 4-year old can handle the legends and the G1 minibots and such...He does fine with activators and so-so with fast action battlers...

Anything beyond that he can start but needs help finishing...