Stop collecting/watching/reading Transformers?

[Tober]

... I am just baffled by how they could've left the fandom in the first place.

G1 Season 3.



The '86 Movie was the hilight really. Megs finally got to be the bad-ass we wanted him to be.

After that it was downhill, I couldn't really maintain interest in the cartoon the toys no longer interested me either. I saw bits of Beast Wars and lamented what they had dome to poor Optimus and didn't bother watching it for about another 10 years.. the animation and rendering were awful to me even back then. Beast Machines went under the radar. Later I saw bits of RID and didn't care for it either.

The advent of the BINALTECH and Masterpiece lines called me back to what I liked about Transformers in the first place - interesting toys with interesting characters in a decent storyline. The DW/IDW storys are mostly good too.

[jaydisc]

I started collecting TF's when they were first introduced in the USA. I started drifting away around the Target/Headmasters era, only getting a few Headmasters/Monsterbots. I was just into other, non-toy things (MTV and girls) and Pretenders were the final straw. They just defied everything a Transformer was to me. I returned after the movie, and backtracked to Classics and other select figures. As I look back between 1987 and now to what I missed, I'm not sorry about it at all. There were many dark (and some light) times in there.

As I look to the future, I can't blanketly say I'll never stop collecting again. If Hasbro enters another [what I see as a] dark age, I won't just accept it. I've got plenty of other things to spend money on.

So, as long as they keep making what I like, and I have money, I won't stop. But should either change, I will.

[Robzy]

If Hasbro enters another [what I see as a] dark age, I won't just accept it.

So, was Beast Wars a "dark age" in the Transformers history? Uh-oh... "DUCK!!"

[Lint]

I can easily stop collecting anything. Though some would say i'm not really a collector at all.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I stopped getting TFs when I wanted to start having sex, ironically I didn't start getting any until I got back into TFs

[heroic_decepticon]

G1 Season 3.

The '86 Movie was the hilight really. Megs finally got to be the bad-ass we wanted him to be.

After that it was downhill, I couldn't really maintain interest in the cartoon the toys no longer interested me either. I saw bits of Beast Wars and lamented what they had dome to poor Optimus and didn't bother watching it for about another 10 years.. the animation and rendering were awful to me even back then. Beast Machines went under the radar. Later I saw bits of RID and didn't care for it either.

The advent of the BINALTECH and Masterpiece lines called me back to what I liked about Transformers in the first place - interesting toys with interesting characters in a decent storyline. The DW/IDW storys are mostly good too.

Ditto ditto ditto and ditto.

[Pulse]

I was just into other, non-toy things (MTV and girls) and Pretenders were the final straw. They just defied everything a Transformer was to me.

I remember that pretender-period too. Back in '88, To me Pretenders looked nothing like what a TF was supposed to (as though they belonged in MOTU). These days, I know that sounds silly but that's how I saw them as an 8-9 year old.

[genechan]

I remember watching it as a kid and getting one of the Hamburger Transformer from Hungry Jacks...but I didn't get really interested into the series until Armada, and when that series sorta died on Cartoon Network, so did my interest. That was until last year when I heard about the movie That sparked my interest all over again, then I began watching G1, learning all the names and toy etc etc and so I started buying the toys - even though I must admit, I brought my Classics Starscream sometime between last year and Armada So yeah my interest never died ^^

And I'll shut now...I am just rambling xD

BTW: Beast Wars and Beast Machines didn't do anything for me...I remember watching that...I hate it now.

[griffin]

Okay, the interesting question is, do you see yourself still collecting Transformers when you're retired in your 80s as a wrinkled old prune? If an octogenerian collecting kids toys sounds absurd, and you can't see yourself being one, at what age would you call it quits because of your age?

[valkyrie_76]

At least collecting Transformers is alot better than some of those 'males' on Japanorama who were collecting the different types of dolls from sex ones to dress-ups.