What were you doing when Transformers came out?

[GoktimusPrime]

i.e. What were you doing in 1984?

May is apparently the month when Transformers debuted, presumably in the US. Australian release would have been several months later - I don't remember/know exactly when. So let us now take a trip down memory lane to the very first time we got into Transformers!

For me it was some time in late 1984. Up till then I'd been playing with Machine Men (Go-Bots)... I remember in 1983 I had a bout of food poisoning and was in the Camperdown Childrens Hospital for a while. One gift I got was Helicopter Man (Cop-Tur), which kept me amused while I was sick. Fast forward to 1984, my mother was taking my brother and I to watch a piano concerto (a guaranteed thrill-a-minute ride, right? ) so on the way we stopped by HobbyCo and mum bought Brawn for me and Huffer for my brother. From that moment we were hooked and between us we built a fairly mean G1 collection. After the end of G2 and dawn of Beast Wars, my brother went all "Trukk Not Munky" and lost interest in Transformers, so his collection got absorbed into mine. So while I got Brawn and Huffer on the same day, technically Brawn was my first Transformer.

[Hursticon]

Doing the impossible, apart from Universal Singularities: Existing in 2 places at once.
(Sorry, had to do it )

This thread should be an interesting read I reckon.

[1AZRAEL1]

Doing the impossible, apart from Universal Singularities: Existing in 2 places at once.

Same as him, but in 2 different places

[Deceptic_Optic]

i just got born in januray of that year dude!

[Bartrim]

My first association with transformers was the cartoon that I didn't see until 1985 when I was in kindergarten. I remember sleeping in on a Saturday morning and my brother waking me up urgently because this awesome new show was about to start. Never looked back.

[Mr Ed]

I remember watching the cartoons.

My parents bought me G1 Seaspray (which I still have to this day!) That was really my only TF.

However, I have memories of playing with my friends G1 Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave and Powerglide!

[janda the red]

i only vaguely remember the cartoon coming out... i know i instantly loved it, but cant recall much more than that. ( i wish i remembered as much of my early years as you do Gok! )

i do remember getting O.prime for my 7th birthday though... ( 1985 )
no other present has come anywhere near.... i was soooooooo excited.

janda

[Golden Phoenix]

I wasn't around at the time.
Wouldn't be until 4 years later.

[canofwhoopass_87]

Well I wasn't yet graced with the gift of life at the time, but I do remember quite fondly being able to watch G1 re runs in the late 80's / early 90's. Unfortunately, I didnt get the chance to see any of the original Hasbro's in retail stores - only bucketloads of G1.5 Euros and gold box classics in later years

For me it was some time in late 1984. Up till then I'd been playing with Machine Men (Go-Bots)...

Blasphemy!

[Firestorm]

I didnt exist back then
and didnt exist until 7 years later

so cant say i have any fond memories from 1984.