When did you start collecting Transformers?

[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.