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News Credits: 4 · Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:12 pm

3.8TransAM wrote:.... I got Gears from Sears....

haha, this rhymed

Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:21 am

Mine was G1 Ravage

News Credits: 3 · Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:28 pm

G1 Soundwave with buzzsaw

Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:00 am

Star Saber and Powermaster Optimus Prime - I don't know which came first, they've been in the toybox since, well, beyond my capability to remember.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:39 am

G1 Hound, back at Christmas 1984. I was 7 years old!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:04 pm

Umm...RID Optimus Prime, I think. Not positive, because I would've been 5 at that time. He got sold in a garage sale. :-(

Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:17 pm

Mine was, Believe it or not, was RID Optimus Prime! :grin:

Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:16 pm

You all may not believe me, but my first TF was...EVERY YEAR ONE CHARACTER!

Well, maybe Bumper, but how I got them all was that I saved a lot of money for a charity (not to mention, B-Day money and finding lots of cash). But when said charity was cancelled in the same day the commercial of the Marvel comic was aired. And that gave me interest, making me get said characters in the toyline, with spared money used for the Year 2 characters.

FYI, I knew that they were Diaclones at first, because I went to Japan in '83 (a year before Takara and later Hasbro announce the TF's).

Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:31 pm

I think Skywarp back in 84. I still have him.

Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:34 pm

holy necro-bump batman.

Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:24 am

Perhaps, but it's a legitimate topic.

As for me, I certainly can't remember offhand! But it would have been either G2 version G1 Optimus Prime, G2 Jazz, or G2 Sideswipe.

Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:42 am

Hey everyone, I'm new here, collector from Savannah, Georgia. Anyways my first transformers toy was pretty much all of the g2 gobots. The ones they carried at the dollar store way back when, but the first one I remember was the color changers deluge.

Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:49 am

Bozziusmaximus wrote:Hey everyone, I'm new here, collector from Savannah, Georgia. Anyways my first transformers toy was pretty much all of the g2 gobots. The ones they carried at the dollar store way back when, but the first one I remember was the color changers deluge.

Deluge is pretty great, mine's a tad beat up now, haha. He got a lot of play and his color-changing parts are all faded.
The Rotor Force is another subline I remember fondly. Which reminds me, I really do need to try to find Voyager Powerdive.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:52 am

My first transformer was either G1 Ramjet of G1 Warpath. I was too young to remember which I got first.

Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:53 am

Indeed, my deluge has long since been lost, but at SavCon this past summer I was able to grab a gobots from that line, could be better, could be worse, but for $4, it's worth the nostalgia.

News Credits: 4 · Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:34 am

First for me had to of been Armada Optimus and Armada Hotshot. Got them for my birthday back when Armada was the latest Transformers series.

But the first one I actually bought for myself was WFC Soundwave

Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:09 am

G1 Optimus Prime ^_^

I would not accept any others as my first, he HAD to be the one- so I saved up and got him at Walmart. ^_^

Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:25 pm

Mkall wrote:G2 Motormouth.

I lost his gun on day 1 and never found it again

G2 Motormouth was my first one too, but i didn't lose the gun at all. Instead he just vanished along with the gun after 3 long years and i never found him or that gun ever again

News Credits: 2 · Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:32 pm

BW Scavenger, who was, as I've been told, a major shelf warmer.

Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:33 pm

G1 Smokescreen, shortly after he came out. I was actually disappointed, as I wanted either Bluestreak, Sideswipe, or Jazz, and none of them were on the shelves - so I had to settle for "Almost" Bluestreak as I called him.

Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:58 pm

I can't recall if I already posted in this zombie thread, but I'm not about to check the whole thing to see, so if I've already said this before, oh well.

My first actual Transformer was G1 Megatron, but I also previously had a Diakron pre-transformer blue pre-Trailbreaker.

Actually before that one I had a red pre-Sunstreaker, but took it back due to a flaw that made me think it was defective (turned out both of my actual TF Sunstreakers wound up having the same flaw, though) and exchanged it for the pre-Trailbreaker.

First Autobot was G1 Brawn.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:30 pm

G1 Optimus Prime when I was 6. My uncle knew I liked trucks, so he bought me what he thought was just a toy truck for my birthday. He was in shock when I took it out of the box and started to 'break' it and I turned it into a robot (look ma', no instructions and no one told me it was a robot, I did it by myself

!).

After that, I was hooked.

Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:44 am

I was big into dinosaurs, so my parents got me this strange robot anatomically inaccurate Tyrannosaurus called 'Grimlock'. It was many months before I realized he could transform into a robot, and when I performed the action, I discovered a whole new world.

I needed someone to go up against this 'Autobot', so I found a rival in the form of my first 'Decepticon', the unusually large space gun with the awesome name: Shockwave.

Ever since, they have been my favorite characters and I go out of my way to get whatever molds they release.

Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:26 am

i got my first TF - a G2 clench when i was 5..then i got couple of KO transforming robot over the years..but the 1st TF i bought for myself was energon starscream

Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:07 pm

My fist transformer was the Generation Two Optimus Prime when I was 5. My dad collected during the eighties but had to sell his collection. When he saw that they were bringing back some of the G1 molds he didn't hesitate to buy me Optimus Prime, his first transformer. I've been hooked since. The first transformer I bought myself was the yellow G2 Mixmaster.