Australia might be a bit unique in that the G1 cartoon was still airing reruns all the way through to... 1995ish? Although at some point it become the G2 version. The gold-box Classics meant that we had a good selection of G1 toys around through to the early 90's. What I'm trying to say is that when I was about 5/6 (1991/2) I can vividly remember being able to watch G1 on TV and getting toys like the "Classic" Stunticons for Xmas... so us "younger" folk can be authentically G1 and not have a receding hairline (yet).