Across generations

Nope! Not a thread about the various incarnations of TF's (though it does come into play a little), but rather how Transformers, being 25+ years old is now spanning multiple generations.
See, I was 9 ... 10 or so when Transformers first came out. So I was in that age group where the little blighters were aimed solely at kids like me. The fact i'm here is a good indication they got me hook line and sinker.
I've seen younger folk join the forums, brought here by a rekindling of interest in TF's after they were exposed to Beast Wars, or young folks joining up because of the movies.
But there's another generation out there that I want to discuss. The kids of us old farts.
Now I don't have any kids of my own, though I have a four, nearly five year old nephew who's lived in the same house as me for all his life.
Suffice to say, he's had exposure to transformers for as long as he can remember.
I haven't forced G1 onto him though. No, his first real exposure came from the first movie. Once that was released on DVD it was watched numerous times each week. Heck, he dragged it out just last week to watch it again!
His first trip to a movie theatre was to see RotF. Now my sister and I were worried that he wouldn't sit still. By the time those big ass robots hit the screen though he didn't shift one bit. Though he got a little fidgity towards the end.
He's seen all of Animated, his first few TF's were Cyber Slammers and Bumper Battlers. He's since moved up to Human Alliance figures (does a damn good job of trying to transform them too) and is always waiting for me to get home to find out what's in the box for me that turned up in the mail (generally it's a new TF so he wants to see it).
I'll pick up some junker G1's, clean 'em up for him. They may be missing parts but he doesn't care, they're Transformers and his imagination fills in for the missing parts.
So at the age of four and a bit, he's had a massive exposure to Transformers, in part to me, but a large part is his own interest.
I love sitting there explaining who my new TF's are to him, they're names, showing him how they transform. I love giving him the old G1 figures and telling him who they are, and my reaction when I was a little older than him when I got my minty version.
Now that's my story, I want to hear from you guys, whether you've got kids of your own, or they're your nephews or nieces, I want to hear stories about how you're introducing the next generation to Transformers.
See, I was 9 ... 10 or so when Transformers first came out. So I was in that age group where the little blighters were aimed solely at kids like me. The fact i'm here is a good indication they got me hook line and sinker.
I've seen younger folk join the forums, brought here by a rekindling of interest in TF's after they were exposed to Beast Wars, or young folks joining up because of the movies.
But there's another generation out there that I want to discuss. The kids of us old farts.
Now I don't have any kids of my own, though I have a four, nearly five year old nephew who's lived in the same house as me for all his life.
Suffice to say, he's had exposure to transformers for as long as he can remember.
I haven't forced G1 onto him though. No, his first real exposure came from the first movie. Once that was released on DVD it was watched numerous times each week. Heck, he dragged it out just last week to watch it again!
His first trip to a movie theatre was to see RotF. Now my sister and I were worried that he wouldn't sit still. By the time those big ass robots hit the screen though he didn't shift one bit. Though he got a little fidgity towards the end.
He's seen all of Animated, his first few TF's were Cyber Slammers and Bumper Battlers. He's since moved up to Human Alliance figures (does a damn good job of trying to transform them too) and is always waiting for me to get home to find out what's in the box for me that turned up in the mail (generally it's a new TF so he wants to see it).
I'll pick up some junker G1's, clean 'em up for him. They may be missing parts but he doesn't care, they're Transformers and his imagination fills in for the missing parts.
So at the age of four and a bit, he's had a massive exposure to Transformers, in part to me, but a large part is his own interest.
I love sitting there explaining who my new TF's are to him, they're names, showing him how they transform. I love giving him the old G1 figures and telling him who they are, and my reaction when I was a little older than him when I got my minty version.
Now that's my story, I want to hear from you guys, whether you've got kids of your own, or they're your nephews or nieces, I want to hear stories about how you're introducing the next generation to Transformers.