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My first was the movie repaint of Energon Signal Flare.
The 2007 film was what got me into Transformers, and I was keeping an eye out for the toys afterwards. All I could find for ages were robot replicas and all that ancillary stuff. Then one afternoon I found Signal Flare, Hardtop, and Elita-1. I didn't really fancy Elita-1, so it was a decision between Signal Flare and Hardtop. I thought Signal Flare was cooler, so I ended up getting him.
I loved the cartoon as a kid and had a particular love for Prowl. My Nanna was nice enough to observe thisandgot me him and Mirage for christmas. They lasted about 10 months but didn't survive the car trip to Surfers Paradise on a family holiday. I got back into Transformers when my wife (gf at the time) were in "Blockbuster Video" at Broadway and on friday night and waiting in the lengthy cue at the counter I saw it and grabbed it. My (poor uni student) girlfriend said "You know thats not a rental? You have to buy that" My response (nodding like someone who has just discovered a wonderful addiction again) "Oh yeah I know":D
"My First Transformers" are perfectly legit Transformers! They were reissued in 1993 too -- I'm sure my Airplane one is an original, but I know that my Dump Truck is a reissue.Quote:
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Man I hate kids who break their toys. It was something my brother and I frequently had to be on guard for -- other kids who'd come over and break our toys. We tried to be vigilant, but things happened. (-_-) So the most of our broken TFs were broken by other kids, not us. Thankfully our vigilance usually paid off as the most of my childhood Transformers have survived and now comprise the bulk of my G1 collection to this day.
Soundwave was in production for a jolly long time (1984-86), so it's little wonder that he endured on shelves for so long. Sounds like you lucked out with getting some of those other early toys later on though. Possibly left over stock. We know that Hasbro had a fair bit of leftover stock of early figures as they later sold them as mail-aways. I got my Sunstreaker, Wheeljack and Thundercracker through the use of robot points. :)Quote:
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the first transformer i ever had was Optimus Prime, got him in christmas of 93.
dont remember what happened to him i was 6 years old when i got him.
my first transformer of my current collection was origional 96 Dinobot. dam i love that toy. bought him from toys are us liverpool.
second toy in my current collection, transmetal rattrap, followed by transmetal tarantulas. then transmetal cheetor and transmetal optimus primal. from there the next 250 odd get a little fuzzy on the order i got em haha
Mixmaster and Scavenger wrapped back-to-back for my eighth birthday, followed by Optimus Prime soonafter on the same day. I don't think there's been a year that I haven't bought a Transformer since, so I guess I became a collector then and there.
2007 movie leader Optimus Prime
after seeing the 2007 movie i was hooked on tf. although it was a very long time till i got my first transformer. after first seeing transformers on youtube i wanted to buy myself an optimus prime as he was my favourite transformer. so i had no idea where i would be able to buy a tf from, then my second oldest sister was in empire in the city and saw all the transformers. so i called them and they said that they mainly had tf's that you keep in the box and dont play with(and that they were also very pricey cos they mainly only had g1's) so i asked where i could buy them cheaper and the loverly woman told me about the quarterly nexus fair. so my parents said that i could buy a tf from the fair for my birthday present(january 2009... or was it 2008. wow how can i not remember that... well whatever that is unimportant). so yeah i went to the fair and had a walk around with my oldest sister who kindly enough drove me there( she was not having a very good time as noting there interested her :P). and sitting there in the middle of a table surrounded by dozens of other tf's was tfm2007 leader optimus prime missing his gun(though i did not know that then). he cost my sister $35 which i was rather happy with.
so it was that day that i transformed my first transformer. and since i had no instructions it took me several hours to figure him out. but i loved andstill cherish every moment of it!
I think it might have been Dirge.. it's the only one I have early photo with.
But might also have been either Misfire, Onslaught, Menasor, Broadblast, Outback, Wheelie or Tailgate. I'll say Dirge.
I have no idea. It could have been a couple of G2 figures.
The first figure I remember having though would be BW Snarl, the "Tasmanian Devil" one (even though it looks nothing like the devil)
He was lost during the dark ages. Did have to go out of my way to get another though. I do remember the mould fondly
Now that I sit down to think about it I cannot honestly remember what my first Transformer was. It may have been the Technobots' Afterburner and Lightspeed. The first figure I purchased with my own hard earned pocket money was a G1 reissue Snarl, which I believe pretty much emptied my bank account.
I can also recall one Christmas being highly disappointed in getting an Actionmaster Over-Run. :)
Sideswipe 1984.
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showth...ight=sideswipe
Majority of my childhood was spent in a very small country town (Barcaldine -- google-maps it!). Every Xmas we would make the trip to the 'big smoke,' usually Rockhampton or Bundaberg. There were these wonderful shops there with funny names like 'Target' and 'K-Mart' which sold all sorts of wonderous treasures and curiosities. One year there was all these trucks, planes, cars, etc that changed into robots. After much deliberation, I choose Sideswipe for his cool car mode. And was a hooked from then on.
I did however stop for a number years and missed the whole G2, RiD, Unicron Trilogy thing, but did manage to watch season 1 of BW. Got back into BW around 2004 (when someone lent me S2 and S3), then and discovered that people were selling TFs on this electronic auction website thingy. Bought a Depthcharge and havent looked back.
So Sideswipe started me off, and Depthcharge bought me back to collecting after a hiatus.