Greeting to all!

[Stompy]

Hello all. New to the boards although have been visiting the forums for quite some time now for local news and sightings.

Melbournian here, from the western suburbs. Been a fan of transformers since the 80's with the G1 cartoons, unfortunately, could not afford any toys and made do with going over a friends place who had almost every single G1 toy there was and was envious of his Soundwave, Blaster and all the cassettes. Mind you we abused the toys as we were little and had no clue to the monster of a community it is now.

Eventually I got ahold of a used complete G1 Constructicon set from a local Trash N Treasure market back in 1990 and sadly was all the TF I had. Videogames piqued my interests and have been where most of my funds went to (and still is). TF toys just weren't in my interests anymore and cemented by the fact that I was not keen on Beast Wars and thought the toys looked hideous with their daylglo colours and life-like animal alts.

Come the movie, a friend interstate kept insisting that the engineering on the toys are just phenomenal. (Side note: I love great engineering and complicated conversions on my figs). I dabbled in a few of the movie legends and eventually bought my first deluxe... Final Battle Jazz. And then the plastic addiction just didn't stop from there. Bought 95% of the movie range, hunted down (oh gosh is the hunt so good) any Cybertron figs I can find, missed out ont he first wave of Classics but managed to get Rodimus, Cliffjumper and Astrotrain + all Voyagers. Also started an Optimus Prime collection which is going ok. Animated figures have been all bought and am awaiting future waves of it and also Universe 2.0.

That's it for my rather short and young TF history. Been watching these forums for a good year now to keep up with releases and news and hopefully can now contribute something back.

Cheerio!