The Energon Pub

[Terrorsaur_85]

a thread about your childhood christmas involving TRANSFORMERS! i'll start.

it was i believe 1995? 1996? ya know the begining of th BEASTWARS TV series. it was like, the baddest ass of all transformers show at the time. yeah, i watched the original series as a kid but i didn't pay much attention to it as when i was a kid i had other things to do.

but at that time i was 9 or 10. when the toys came out i...didn't buy much. i had the prime bat and megatron crock two pack. but didn't get much. anyways, mom asked me what i wanted from 'santa' i said- BeastWars Toys! i cant remember who i wanted. as far as mom could tell she just got whatever. unless i did asked..i think i might have. anyways. christmas day.....i got Megatron! and Optimus Primal! and a surpirse....SCORPINOK!!! i was happy as heck! those were my first beastwars toys and i was friggin' hooked!!

years later after beastwars ended and the filler 'ROBOTS INDISGUISE' came out. the cartoon wasnt very good. but i watched. i got the prowl figure and...damn he was a hard thing to transform. i collected the repaints of the combaticons and maybe a few other toys.

i remember christmas morning i held this long huge box. i wondered what it was. and as i ripped open the wraping paper....BAM! Optimus Prime the red fire truck!

=OwO= - i never known a prime that was a vehecle. and he was soooo cool. the chrome chest plate, the blue shiny paint on his head...that neat chrome yellow eyes. he is my favorite prime even today he holds up something speical. ^w^ i thanked my mom of course.


now...whats your TF Christmas Memories Of ChildHood?

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I remember getting G1 Metroplex and being COMPLETELY stoked when I got him.

[Galvatron X]

The one that immediately comes to mind is the year I got the Devastator gift set. I still remember putting him together...it was AWESOME!

I have an embarrassing picture of me holding the set somewhere; I've been meaning to post it. I say it's embarrassing cuz I've got droopy long-johns in the picture and a huge bowl-cut hairdo!

[Cyber Bishop]

Let's see..
Sets the way back machine to the day after Christmas 1985..

I had received around $400 in Christmas cash and asked my grandmother to bring me to Kmart for the after Christmas sales..

They had TF's on sale and to this day I remember picking up

I picked up
Metroplex
Omega Supreme
Hoist
Grapple
Red Alert
Tracks
Inferno
Astrotrain
Blitzwing
Skids
Perceptor
Warpath
Beachcomber
Seaspray

And because they were still on sale I still had some $$ left over.

[El Duque]

Let's see..
Sets the way back machine to the day after Christmas 1985..

I had received around $400 in Christmas cash and asked my grandmother to bring me to Kmart for the after Christmas sales..

They had TF's on sale and to this day I remember picking up

I picked up
Metroplex
Omega Supreme
Hoist
Grapple
Red Alert
Tracks
Inferno
Astrotrain
Blitzwing
Skids
Perceptor
Warpath
Beachcomber
Seaspray

And because they were still on sale I still had some $$ left over.

Damn! $400.00 in 1985, that's big time right there boys!

[Ejector]

It was 1986, I got the insecticon Shrapnel. It's one of my first christmas memories, it was beautiful. I was hooked on transformers from then on.

[Lapse Of Reason]

Old school Christmas haul, huh?

The list:
Omega Supreme
Devastator gift pack
Ironhide
Ratchet
Mirage
Hoist
Grapple
Prowl
Smokescreen
Red Alert
Jazz
Tracks
Wheeljack
Skywarp
Bumblebee
Gears
Cliffjumper
Seaspray
Beachcomber
Powerglide

Needless to say, I was a very lucky boy. It is possible some of these were birthday gifts, or that I am combining two Christmases. They kind of lump together into one memory. Wish I had pics. I do remember another Christmas when I received Ultra Magnus and Blurr. Funny enough, I never owned Prime, Megatron, Starscream or Soundwave.

[El Duque]

Let's see:

Optimus Prime
Omega Supreme
Devastator Giftset
Ultra Magnus
Galvatron
Blaster
Metroplex
Scorponok

from 1st to 4th grade.

[Screamfleet]

I remember getting some beast wars stuff one year. Tigatron, Snapper, polar claw and scorponok. It was kind of cool getting 2 ice related guys for christmas.

[Mykltron]

Getting G1 Hound for Christmas changed my life!

I remember subsequent Christmases when I knew I was getting Metroplex and the next year Scorponok. I was so excited I couldn't eat my breakfast!

I'm going to feel very childish again this year cos I know that my parents have bought me a transformer!

[Samsonator]

Armada Unicron.
A lot more recent than some of these, but a memory that sticks out no less... I was like 20, a time when there were no big TFs under the tree for me anymore, maybe a scout or deluxe, but never anything big, I could always get them on my own. Kicking around this site and others while the proto pics of Unicron were surfacing I had been so stoked about the figure, and due to my relative distance from anything I'd call civilization, thought there was no way in hell I'd ever get one. That year there was a huge box under the tree for me, massive! I opened that sucker up and there he was, the big bad, the planet eater. It was a good christmas.

- Sam

[Stockade]

Well, let's see, hmmmm...

Christmas in 84/85 I remember getting:

Soundwave
Shockwave
Prime
Constructicons
All the Dinobots
Metroplex
Thrust
Stunticons
Areialbots
Omega Supreme
BB
Cliffjumper
Warpath
Tracks
Combaticons
SilverStreak

Thats all i can remember and i know theres more and i still have 90% of these Transformers, but the down side is, some are missing parts, but still tracking them down.

[--B--]

Ahh, Christmas 1984.

Santa brought me Hound, Thundercracker, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Huffer, Brawn, Skyfire, and Bonecrusher, maybe a few others, but I know those for sure.

Grandma got me Pepsi Prime that she won in the raffle at Woolworths.

Got a ton of GIJoes too, I remember that my dad yelled at me when he found Ace and the seat from the Sky Striker with the parachute attached stuck around the star on the top of our Christmas tree .

[SJ21]

I remember getting Snapdragon for Christmas one year. He was the coolest thing ever. My brother got Apeface that day. We played with those so much. Those are still some of my favorite figures. If only I could fine them at my parents' house...

[3.8TransAM]

I got Megatron and Soundwave in x-mas 84.

Only ones I'm pretty sure on.

Show's I'm an old fart since u could still get toys that looked like real guns.

[Roadbuster]

I remember one christmas getting Trypticon, which I never asked for. he was awesome though it was a pain int he butt to keep up with his parts. Also Bolt. Also got a bunch of Mircomasters. Most of my TF purchases were post cartoon era or during the year. Plus there were several other franchises going on during that time which I was a fan of (TMNT, Ghostbusters (both), Captain Power (yes I had the jet), GI JOE, Thundercats, Dinoriders), so I had to sort of get a little bit of each.

Had I only been born in 78...

[Cyber Bishop]

Let's see..
Sets the way back machine to the day after Christmas 1985..

I had received around $400 in Christmas cash and asked my grandmother to bring me to Kmart for the after Christmas sales..

They had TF's on sale and to this day I remember picking up

I picked up
Metroplex
Omega Supreme
Hoist
Grapple
Red Alert
Tracks
Inferno
Astrotrain
Blitzwing
Skids
Perceptor
Warpath
Beachcomber
Seaspray

And because they were still on sale I still had some $$ left over.

Damn! $400.00 in 1985, that's big time right there boys!

Yup, once I hit 13 all my relatives gave me money and I come from a large cajun family too.