What were you doing when Transformers came out?

[Skullcruncher]

Playing with GI Joes! I dont remember the initial run of the cartoon but I remember watching the reruns - 8am or 8.30am on tv3 in nz which must have been around 1990ish or maybe later.

My friend had a couple of videos we always put on whenever at his house - he had a suitcase full of transformers - when I say suitcase I mean 2 or 3 of everyone I ever saw in the cartoons apart for megatron, his parents didn't like the gun mode

[UltraMarginal]

hmmmm 1984, I was starting Primary school and that Christmas I got Skids and ThunderCracker, though I can't remember which one I unwrapped first.

I remember the cartoon being on but the movie never came to my home town, I do remember seeing it on Tv years later and thinking it was incredible.

I also remember paying $10 for a really cheap crappy VHS bootleg of the movie when I was at uni because I could never see it being released on DVD. how wrong I was!!

[GoktimusPrime]

Where did you grow up? Cos Transformers The Movie was definitely out in Sydney. My dad took me, my brother and my cousin to watch it in July 1986 at the George St Hoyts ... which is now Event Cinema.

Ironically in 2007 I watched the live action Transformers movie for the second time at George Street Event Cinema -- the same place where I'd first watched Transformers The Movie in '86!

[liegeprime]

Well you younguns aint born yet ei ? hehehe. I was on elementary, grade 4. BUt Transformers started airing early 1985 in Philippines and back then Gobots was shown Saturday mornings- Channel 9 (along with a lot of Hanna Barbera Cartoons, Fraggle rock, Smurfs etc.) When Transformers started being aired (channel 13) I missed the first episode coz I was fighting with my brother for the control of the TV ( black and white ) , but being the younger I got my way heheheh so I got to see the 2nd and third of MTMTE weeks later which was hard coz Channel 7 ( in Phil) was airing He-man at the same timeslot and I kept on switching channels during commercials just to catch up on both shows.....

Got my first toy for my birthday of 1985 - Soundwave with Buzzsaw ( which I pretended to be laserbeak) from my aunt here in Australia when she went back to Phils for a holiday, which ironically I migrated that figure back here with me when I came here hehehe. it's a bit loose on the thigh now but still stands well ( with some posing necessary) and Im quite happy it has survived my childhood since we cant afford any more Tf toys, I made my own from craft paper, until I was able to save up more being a Uni student and started to grab any Tf I can buy with my meager allowance saved....

[VERT]

I was in year 4 at the time. 10 years old. My wife was in Pre School at the time hahahaha

I remember that was the time I stopped collecting Masters and SW and TF became my world

[Decepticon]

I was 9 at the time. Was more into motu I think. Can't remember! Spool long ago!

[gdmetro]

Didn't exist until the year that Optimus Prime, wheeljack, windcharger, ironhide/ratchet/prowl died. "Such heroic nonsense"

My experience with g1 were the g2 re-runs in the early 90s..

[Sky Shadow]

My experience with g1 were the g2 re-runs in the early 90s..

I can still remember just how progressively disappointing the Transformers: Generation 2 cartoon was:

1 second: Squee!
2 seconds: Oh my god, amazing computer animation!
100 seconds: Oh - they're doing a summary of what happened in the old cartoon... that's nice for new viewers, and a good nod to the original series.
200 seconds: um... this is just the old cartoon.
300 seconds: what the #@(* is up with that stupid cube thing?
400 seconds: #@(* this, Transformers, you have disappointed me for the last time! I won't be back!
24 hours: Maybe the second episode will be more Generation 2ish?
24 hours and 400 seconds: #@(* this, Transformers, you have disappointed me for the last time! I won't be back!
48 hours: I wish I had willpower.

[kup]

I was 4 years old so I have no idea what I was doing, , probably pre-school. I do remember watching cartoons as my more vivid memories from that time, Gobots and MOTU being a couple of them.

[GoktimusPrime]

I remember the first time I watched Transformers Generation 2 on TV one Monday morning in 1993. After watching I went to school, and during roll call was talking about it with my classmates, the conversation was like:

"Hey, did you see that 'Transformers: Generation 2' cartoon this morning?"
"Yeah... did you notice how it was a lot like 'Generation 1'?!"

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Teacher: "Sshhh!!"

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