If you had to sell your entire collection…

Mmmmm There would have to be a reason to be selling all of the collection, so in that case, none.

I'd either start up again later, or not at all, move to something else.

Hhmmm. Probably G2 Hooligan. It was my favourite as a kid - as kids do I lost it at some point and would spend entire weekends searching the house for it (storage box after storage box, etc).

I went to the trouble of getting a new one off ebay a few years back. It holds a special place in my heart.

This is after selling anything else that we didn't need right?????(like our car, house, excess body organs:p)

Classics Jetfire

Okay, I've mustered up enough courage to come back to this scary thread. As cliché as it may sound, I'd keep my 2000 reissue of 1984 Optimus Prime.

Some people have spoken about starting up again... I think if I ever sold (or lost) my collection, I wouldn't start again. Because for me, I never consciously became a Transformers collector as an adult. I'm simply a kid who never stopped playing with my Transformers and buying more of them to keep playing with. As such, the greatest value of my toys is the sentimental value. Once I sell or give away or lose a toy... I don't want to replace it with another one because it's not the same.

As some of you know, 5 years ago I was burgled and had my childhood 1984 Optimus Prime, G1 Ultra Magnus and G1 Galvatron stolen (as well as my original 1984 G1 Megatron, though that wasn't a childhood toy). I have no intention of repurchasing those figures. Now sure, part of that reason is because I do have reissues of all of them - but the reissues aren't the same (especially with Galvatron who has a different face sculpt and electronic gimmick). But the main reason is because even if I do replace them, the replacements will NOT be the same toys that I grew up with. It's really as simple as that. I since received another original G1 '84 Optimus Prime as a gift from someone... but yeah... it's just not my Optimus Prime. :(

So if the worst ever happened - and as Bartrim said, by that stage I'd have to be totally homeless and short one kidney - and I had to part with my TF collection... I don't think I'd start again.

My Transformers are like my childhood friends. I could never part with them. And like I said, whenever I look at the original '84 Prime on my shelf, it's like looking at a stranger. At best a new friend, but not my old friend.

Add me to the 1984 Optimus Prime list.

Not my first TF (maybe fourth or fifth), but the most memorable to me. Best Christmas morning I ever had !

i would have to keep my tf 2007 movie leader prime. he was the first transformer i perchased. i can still remember my excitement when i got him at the perth nexus fair january last year for an early birthday present. transforming him for the first time is one of my fondest memories! :D

My G1 (reissue) Ultra Magnus. That figure was very high on my 'want' list as a child, but I never got it. 'Going back' to get the figures I wanted but never owned was the reason I started collecting in the first place.

Beast Wars Optimal Optimus Primal.

bought him with money from my confirmation. was my fav toy as a kid. this toy went everywhere with me. on holidays, to my grandparents, family drives...everywhere!

i remember taking a day off school so i could stay home and play with it the day after i bought it. the amazing thing about this was because it was an amazing feat to get a day off school, full stop! i was in 6th grade, and i kid you not, my mother would never let me take a day off school unless i was dieing of plague. right up to year 12!

i dont know how i faked the best sickness ever, but i did, and i got the day off.
ah memories. :D

My original Flash is the worst example around, but he is my only surviving transformer that wasnt given away or donated by my mother! The sentimental side of things is spot on guys...He is mine and i wouldnt want to see him go.

I stumbled across another flash which i had to buy!

My personal fav as a kid....dinobots and OP all the way....