I told my girlfriend I collect Transformers...

[GoktimusPrime]

I think my gf found out after she kept seeing my room start to fill with more and more, she doesn't mind though

Like Tiby and many others, my TF collecting long pre-dated my interest in having a relationship with a significant other, after all, it was 1984 and I was knee-high to a Hobbit.

The second date I had with my guy he bought me Metroplex and Soundwave from cybertron. I think that's when I knew he was a keeper. He loves that i get Transformers and I've bought him a couple of Battlestar Galactica figures as well. He loves them, or at least says he does to humour me...

Awwwwwwwww, that's so sweet! (^O^)

[Golden Phoenix]

The second date I had with my guy he bought me Metroplex and Soundwave from cybertron. I think that's when I knew he was a keeper. He loves that i get Transformers and I've bought him a couple of Battlestar Galactica figures as well. He loves them, or at least says he does to humour me...

God I wish my girlfriend would do something like that....

[Tiby]

When i first met my wife 5 years ago she encouraged it and even bought me a few but now that i have 2 kids and mortgage she hates it and wants me to stop. Like Hell!!!

Ah yes. The old: "It's okay. He'll change or grow out of it"! The futile hope that women have clung to since the beginning of time!

You can count on us for support!

[Autocon]

Some Perth users here would've met another one of my ex-gfs who's a Transfan herself, so that was absolutely no problem. At the time we were dating she had 100+ TFs in her collection. We would actually go on TF hunting trips as part of our dates and even attended a Nexus Fair fan meet together once.

huh? who is she??

im not looking into a gf at present, still havin ma fun so it doesnt really bother me yet

[turtle boy]

It was finding out about my TFs addiction that got her interested in me in the first place, so there was no fear of having to tell her about the 'hobby'.
Yes, toys are a chick magnet...

Very true. My ex from 2 relationships ago, thought my liking of tfs was lame untill she saw my room. Then she wanted them, before we broke up she was collecting, as far as I know, she stopped collecting, but still has the toys.

last ex, didn't care, not one bit.

The one I'm seeing now, said "your not all geek, you have posters of girls on your walls and can fix my car, ride a skateboard and do other things"

But they were all interested in the fact that I wasn't scared to show off my child inside me and have my collection on show so every one can see them.

[GoktimusPrime]

huh? who is she??

Someone you probably don't know. Long-time Perth fans know who she is.

[JuzMel]

stares at JuzMel...does Yong remember Transformers?

Hehehehe funny, I just bump into this thread today... Interesting... Yeah he does bro, he even told me he used to have G1 starscream, optimus prime, bumblebee etc and was gonna go home and scout the storage for me. But I think his mum cleared and gave them away some years ago.
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Anyway on my part, I didn't have to "break" the news of the collection, my BF basically went with me to Kmart to look for Legends Movie Bumblebee. I promised to only buy one, but then Kmart started their sale and then I bought another and another and the rest was history. He used to sit down with me to play and transform the figures with me. But then nowadays, there has gotten to be too many of them that even I myself haven't had time to open all.

But when I do open them and I have difficulty transforming them, I usually pass it to him to try. I know I know it's embarrassing that a TF fan doesn't know how to transform a TF herself. (But it rarely happens ) And he does buy me TF stuff that I want too sometimes. - like he got me Masterforce DVDs.

I guess it's not so much a huge issue with your partner, if they love you they should accept you for who you are. I know friends of mine who shake their heads in dismay when they see my collection as well. It's like they don't understand why I love TFs and want to buy so many of them. Unless a person has their own collection hobby of their own, its hard for them to understand.

[heroic_decepticon]

I've been with my better half for almost 4 years now and she still does'nt know about my toy collection... But I've slowly been getting her use to the idea of my transformer obsession... So I think I'll be holding off telling her for a while yet about all my figures.

you might like to invest in body amour now for when you are finally going to tell her... and stay away from the kitchen and anywhere sharp objects are readily at hand...

[Hereticpoo]

Hypothetical

Riddle me this;

Your well into the relationship, its serious.

She says "I don't want you to buy anymore TF's, its me or them"

Do you:

A) Stare at her blankly, then casually pick up your phone, call Kyle and say "Do you want to go TF shopping and then maybe a strip club"

or

B) Give up your TF's, Arc weld a shackle to your neck, and ask her to take you shopping for groceries.

Only the tough questions around here!

so i told my girlfriend about the whole TF thing today

she took it better then i expected

She said she knew there was a live movie and that was about it

and she asked me why i loike em
i said it was the whole nostaligia thing from my kiddy days

and she was ok with it, she made a joke later on about action figures

So, im super interested in how you broke, or didnt to your special friends about yer super best hobby, i promise im interested, i wont fall asleep

[TheDirtyDigger]

at which point she mentioned that for a guy who drives a really nice sports car (since sold *sniff* ), goes clubbing (haven't been in while *sniff* ), and goes shopping all the time, I sure had some "unique" hobbies. She thought that I didn't look like the typical comics/toy collector type and that I hid it really well.

Haha Fungal you sound like a Canadian dude we read about a while back. Did you ever enter a TF trivia contest?