When did you start collecting Transformers?

[GoktimusPrime]

Started re-collecting with Movie Ironhide in 2006...

That's pretty amazing considering that the movie only came out last year. ;p

Meeeeemmmooorrriiieeeess.. (yeah, most of you have seen these photos before )

1986

1988

1989



1997 (TF shopping)

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

[kup]

Your Megatron cosplay always cracks me up as I picture you riding on a crowded bus wearing it!

[griffin]

For those of us who were first exposed to, or collected TFs from the early years, I feel like a late starter. With my first one given to me in November 1985, the toys were out in this country for over a year already. Makes me feel like a noob compared to those who got one in 1984 or early 85.

[Pulse]

For those of us who were first exposed to, or collected TFs from the early years, I feel like a late starter. With my first one given to me in November 1985, the toys were out in this country for over a year already. Makes me feel like a noob compared to those who got one in 1984 or early 85.

Yeah but for a so called "late starter", You've really gone above & beyond most others who began in '84...

[liegeprime]

Hmmm, well coming from a different country where TFs are really pricy toys, I received my first official TF ( which I still have) Soundwave with Buzzsaw in 1986 from my aunt who was on holidays from ironically - Australia back to Phils. Ironic coz now I am living here and had to migrate the toy back here. Wasnt able to collect at all coz as Ive mentioned these toys are considered more of a "luxury"... food first is my parents motto. MOm always said " you can buy all these toys when you're already earning your own" which is what is happening now. So for the meantime I diverted to getting the Marvel TF comics instead as its cheaper and I still get my fill of TFs and also getting GiJOes - well cobras actually.

Also to bide my longing for real tfs I fostered my creative side by making my own figures from craft paper basing it from Catalogues I got from my classmates who didnt want them.... see pic below for sample of these craft paper TFs( i believe I posted this before somewhere in the forum) til G2 era


Started really collecting when G2 came out. I only started getting the figures I liked. I saved my allowances so I could purchase for myself a constructicon set (the orange one I have now) then a reissue God ginrai and so on and so forth until I got 123 figs ( G1 and G2), TFs are still very pricy there but I was only getting what I wanted anyway. I skipped BW, but watched the Series non judgementally, but didn't get any of the figures. Still went about buying ol comics of TFs as well.

Fast forward, migrated here 2005, Got most of the Cybertron small figures first then discovered Ebay ( a boon and a Bane) from 123 figures left back in Phils collection swelled in 2 years to 500+. Migrated the first 123 here last March making my collection finally one and all here. Currently have about 760+. Mostly collect G1s ( even though some of the figs are dreadfully rolling bricks - as most of us here would say I DONT CARE ), Some BW, some.... veeery few Armada, select Energon and of course Cyb and most of the current lines now.

[kup]

For those of us who were first exposed to, or collected TFs from the early years, I feel like a late starter. With my first one given to me in November 1985, the toys were out in this country for over a year already. Makes me feel like a noob compared to those who got one in 1984 or early 85.

As far as I know, I could also be a late starter as I can't remember the exact year I begun with the toys. I do remember getting story books and stuff first and then the cartoon aired and I begun pestering my parents to getting me the toys. As a kid, I collected based on the characters I saw on the cartoon so I too could have started in 1985 although I started first with 84 toys. I had very sporadic access to the comics back then so as a kid I never fully enjoyed the Marvel story.

I also had a few Gobots like Crasher, the Helicopter dude and Leader One. I used to use them as canon fodder when playing with Transformers similar to the generic bots you see getting wasted in the comic and sometimes the cartoon.

I can't remember how I got my first Transformer as I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time but if I had to guess, it would have been my birthday.

[i_amtrunks]

You guys can stop whining about being late starters, I was only born in '85!

I got my first figures of my own in '89, Breakdown and the Air Patrol Micomasters. Transformers were always on my want list, but I was more of TMNT kid, so I got those instead.

Then bought myself some Turbomasters and Predators in 1992, and they were the last figures I bought until a Uni mate of mine got me really interested in Transformers in 2002, and I started collecting in late 2003.

[Thanatos]

I was only born 1989, I'm a later starter than any of you.

Also, I'd like to point out I had no idea what year we were in, so Movie Ironhide in 2007 :P

[roller]

I was only born 1989, I'm a later starter than any of you.

Also, I'd like to point out I had no idea what year we were in, so Movie Ironhide in 2007 :P

you just missed the plague!

I would have started collecting earlier, but in the eraly 90s i never saw any tfs on the shelves. Though i had 3 growing up, i remember searching for the other G2 Aerialbots to go with my Airraid. So withhout tfs i had to make do with thomas the Tank

And i never ever saw a tf at the school jumble sale or church jumble sale or garage sales.
No one in my year group in primary liked tfs, or thomas the tank for that matter I still dont understand why i, 1 out of a year of like 100+ people was the only one to like tfs. G2 was still on tv at the time, i assume Actionmasters and G2 toys were around, but not in my area. And everyone but me had bigger brothers to get hand me down toys, my cousins got theres that way. Hand me downs from their cousins.

[jaydisc]

I was into Transformers from their US inception up to about 87ish, during which I virtually had them all (Dad was awesome!) I lost interest then and got pre-occupied with the same stuff Digger did. When I was sixteen my mother unbeknownst to me gave all my toys away to the equivalent of a Salvation Army. About six months after the movie came out, I decided that I just had to have at least one figure and hunted down Voyager Prime. Then I decided to expanded to just the cast, and then it became full blown.