Talkin' Bout Your Transformers Generation!

[liegeprime]

Now this was confronting, Ive always considered me self a Gen1 fan , but looking at the listing description... Im Gen 0 Although I have seen Microman on the toy shelves back in Philippines, its TFs that really got me drooling and always wanting to be left in the toy section while my mom and brother are about the whole department store. Works out fine for them I guess, keeps the annoying youngster (then) from getting into trouble and acts like a pacifier by keeping me in that section ( I wouldve stayed all day heheheh) and picking me up AFTER theyre finished with their boring shopping, since there are loose samples displayed which you can fiddle with and dioramas in glass of all the more popular toys at that time... I couldnt buy em and I understood that, we don't have the spare cash so I like fiddling with the samples so I can later make my Craft Paper TF versions a bit more accurate ( well for me heheh) with the detailing I remember from the originals .....ah gone are the days of toy dioramas/spare sample displays in stores..... dag nabbit young ones stealing toys nowadays, cant trust em....

[optimus1]

I'd like to consider myself as Gen 1 since that's what I first remember, BUT I'm probably more Gen 2 as most of my original childhood TFs are from this era. I fully got into transformers properly between the time when the Euro G1s where finishing off and G2 relaunched the line. Although I can remember the last lines of G1 - micromasters, late pretenders and action masters. I only like the micromasters from these and only the G2 figures got me hooked properly

Plus G2 cartoons/comics are what brought me up

I miss the $2.50 price for the G2 comics at the local newsagent!

[kup]

I was still in school during both G1 and BW (I was 16 in 1996). Does that still count as growing up?

With G1 I was old enough for be conscious of them in 1986 (season 3) but reruns of Seasons 1-2 were continuously happening and toys back then had a much longer shelf life so I still had several of the 1984-1985 toys still available to me as well as the TV series.

[SilverDragon]

I grew up around the time BW was on, but it wasn't a part of my childhood at all. Transformers only really came into my life around 2007.

So I picked protoform, because that's the most applicable thing.

[k.wong23]

Born in 88, watched Gen 2 on cheez tv with Ryan and the other random guy. But most G1 toys were from my brothers who were born in 82-83!

[Sky Shadow]

+ Generation Zero: Grew up in the mid to late 1970s and/or early 80s with precursory Transformer toys like Microman (Micronauts)... maybe even DIA-KLONNN!

+ Generation One: Grew up in the 1980s and early 90s with the original generation of Transformers.

+ Generation Two: Grew up in the early to mid 90s with G2.

+ Generation Beast: Grew up in the mid to late 90s with Beast Wars and Beast Machines.

+ Neo Generation: Grew up in the early to mid 00s with Robots In Disguise and Unicron Trilogy.

+ Protoform Generation: Still growing up with Classics, the live action movie franchise and Animated!

Surely if anyone on this forum had ever grown up, they wouldn't still be here.

(I was seven in 1984, so I'm well and truly Generation 1.)

[Eruntalon]

I'm simply in between G1 and G2.

[tinyJazz]

Generation Beast represent!

I say I "grew up" with Beast Wars and remember it with great fondness as one of the BEST shows on TV after school. In reality, I only caught about half of season 1, and owned one beast wars toy, before my family moved to the UK for three years. But I still loved Beast Wars!

One of the most enduring images from the show was the season finale cliffhanger.

yeah.

Optimus Primal, trapped in a stasis pod, exploding in space. Credits roll.
No one ever died in Insektors! That was a pretty terrifying way to go too. I spent the next 10 years wondering if he ever survived, or at least if his death was quick because he really was a swell guy.

The best thing about missing seasons 2 and 3 as a kid? Watching them now as though my favourite 90s show just got new episodes.
I'm half way through season 3, so no more spoilers please!