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