A Very Special Day: Transformers Turns 25!

Truely a special day, now to turn it into a holiday.

Happy Birthday!

I remember when that first issue came out. One of the best days of my life

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??

How ironic i get my encore trailbreaker today from the mail--the day it marks 25 years..kinda has meaning doesn't it?

Happy 25th birthday Transformers!

Every time I see that Transformers are 25 years old it makes me feel extra old.

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??

The date on the comics is when the comic stores are supposed to pull the unsold comics off the shelves, not when they are released.

And here I am today, on my day off, watching my vehicle Voltron dvd. Well, I am playing with my TF as I watch.

I wonder what the next 25 year will bring...

...we'll be the new versions of old men with their model trains in 25 years.

omega666 wrote:...we'll be the new versions of old men with their model trains in 25 years.

In my day we had transformers that were made with metal and if they broke there was no, "oh just snap that leg back on" we didn't have ball joints, they were all blocky, and some didn't even look like they did in the comics or show. and those shows were hand-drawn and the colors weren't always right, and the stories were silly. And we liked it, We loved it.

So you can have your computer holographic series where the toys look indentical and are easily fixed because they are made of space-age materials, because as flawed as ours were, they were better, because they were first.

Are you kids still here? Get off my lawn!

Yeah! That's an awesome bit of trivia!

Happy birthday to all Cybertronians- Decepticon and Autobot alike, here's hoping in another 25 years we can all celebrate with real giant transforming robots.

Who would've thought that TF would live this long? I bet there wasnt a single person in the 80s that thought it would survive 5 years let a lone 25. So should we consider this a unofficial holiday or a birthday? Either way ill have to have a drink later in honor of this remarkable mile stone. 25 years damn i feel old. Well any way happy Transformers day to all(except my stalker).

I neglected to honour the occasion.

However, given that a toy-selling franchise has lasted so long, I can safely bet on reaching the next round number to honour the occasion!

Wow...a very special day indeed. 25 years now. This would be a good thread for our first Transformers. Mine was Mirage, way back in 1984. He was one of the few Transformers that had...(gasp)...elbows!

A perfect picture for this thread would be if Ryan could dig up a picture of Meg and Optimus shaking hands...

Here's to another 25 years!

Editor wrote:In my day we had transformers that were made with metal and if they broke there was no, "oh just snap that leg back on" we didn't have ball joints, they were all blocky, and some didn't even look like they did in the comics or show. and those shows were hand-drawn and the colors weren't always right, and the stories were silly. And we liked it, We loved it.

So you can have your computer holographic series where the toys look indentical and are easily fixed because they are made of space-age materials, because as flawed as ours were, they were better, because they were first.

Are you kids still here? Get off my lawn!

Oh yeah...and I remember we had to WALK to the store...uphill both ways! And we had to work for them becuase they didn't have money back then! We worked for 22 1/2 hours a day just for a tiny figure! We had to sell our organs to get figures like Grimlock and Soundwave! And don't get me started on Fortress Maximus...just look at my prosthetic legs! ANd it was SNOWING when we were walking to the store and it was 500 below absolute zero Kelvin with a 220 mph windchill...

I think my Depends needs to be changed...

Anyways, I shall raise a glass of Chivas 18 in honor of the occassion tonite! Then I shall raise one glass in honor of each character..

Happy Birthday Transformers!!

I still enjoy those original comics. Got every single issue too (except the ones w/ G.I. Joe in them). My first issue purchased was #24 from a 7-Eleven on the way home from school (no, there wasn't any snow but I did walk up hill).

Transformers. Yes the mighty and awesome Transformers. To me The Transformers means the world. If they never would have existed my life would have definitely been altered in the negative. Thank you Transformers, for being there when no one else would. The Transformers. Happy Birthday!

This is very cool, and very sad that we're remembering it, and I'm a bit misty eyed too because I'm remembering all I've loved and lost over 25 years. Lets not forget the gentleman who had the idea to create a truck that became a robot. HE is the father of Transformers.

I just want to say Happy Birthday to the franchise that gave me so many fond memories, so many good friend, and many good times. I am who I am today because of TF's and Optimus Prime. Here's to 25 years, and to 25 more great years to come.

A round of energon for everyone on ME!!

Tripredacus agent wrote:Happy birthday to all Cybertronians- Decepticon and Autobot alike, here's hoping in another 25 years we can all celebrate with real giant transforming robots.

Yes! That would be awesome!

I may not have lived back in the eighties, but I have seen the G1 episodes and I am grateful that I ever became interested in Transformers. My first figure was Hotshot, but sadly I lost him , or so my dad tells me. The first series I ever saw was Beast Wars. I'm glad I was curious enough to buy one, otherwise I wouldn't be here today, collecting TFs, eager to collect more, playing HMW, or be waiting impatiently for the movie. Happy Bithday Transformers!

First-Aid wrote:Wow...a very special day indeed. 25 years now. This would be a good thread for our first Transformers. Mine was Mirage, way back in 1984. He was one of the few Transformers that had...(gasp)...elbows!

A perfect picture for this thread would be if Ryan could dig up a picture of Meg and Optimus shaking hands...

Here's to another 25 years!

Editor wrote:In my day we had transformers that were made with metal and if they broke there was no, "oh just snap that leg back on" we didn't have ball joints, they were all blocky, and some didn't even look like they did in the comics or show. and those shows were hand-drawn and the colors weren't always right, and the stories were silly. And we liked it, We loved it.

So you can have your computer holographic series where the toys look indentical and are easily fixed because they are made of space-age materials, because as flawed as ours were, they were better, because they were first.

Are you kids still here? Get off my lawn!

Oh yeah...and I remember we had to WALK to the store...uphill both ways! And we had to work for them becuase they didn't have money back then! We worked for 22 1/2 hours a day just for a tiny figure! We had to sell our organs to get figures like Grimlock and Soundwave! And don't get me started on Fortress Maximus...just look at my prosthetic legs! ANd it was SNOWING when we were walking to the store and it was 500 below absolute zero Kelvin with a 220 mph windchill...

What sucks is that I have lived all my life in the Pacific Northwest AND my house was in a valley. So I REALLY DID have to walk uphill...both ways...in crappy NW weather to get my ass to a TRU. Just to get Transformers. These young punks today don't have ANYTHING to whine about. They bitch about Jetfires having a cane...I'll show them how to fight with a cane. Just throw one of the little whiners my direction...

It's cool that they posted a pic of the first comic book. I still have the original six issues bagged and boarded.
And my first figure was Starscream (a birthday present) and my 2nd and 3rd figures were Wheeljack and Huffer which I purchased at a Jafco store. (Anyone else remember those?) I can't remember what the next figures were. The orderly forgot to bring my Alzheimer meds this morning. At least I think those are what those pills are for. I am supposed to get pills, right? Guy next door get's pills, I durn well better get 'em too...shove this walker right up his...

happy birth day transformers

Oh my G1 youth. How I miss thee Happy 25th Gotta watch some old skool G1 TF eps tonight!

since transformers live long wouldnt be their 25 millionth birthday?

Irken17 wrote:since transformers live long wouldnt be their 25 millionth birthday?

Technically, that would make them 4,000,025...

Wow...this is my childhood right here. I remember way back in Kindergarten in winter, when mom made me wear a turtle-neck, I'd always pop the neck up over my mouth and pretend I was Optimus Prime. Never would've thought that I'd still love these figures today.

What really amazes me is to hear kids talking to their parents about, "I want bumblebee, mom!" Stuff like that. Kids talking about the stuff that I grew up with. It's really cool :3

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.

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

Woot! Happy Birthday Transformers!

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

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. 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.

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

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!!!

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!

Here's to another 25!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!