Talkin' Bout Your Transformers Generation!

[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!

[liegeprime]

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

whoa, comics are that expensive here always?!? Comics back then were 30 pesos full price, less than a dollar ( back in Phils) ... now that price would be when they're getting rid of old stock, and I mean really old stuff hehehe, other wise sale comics prices are 50-60 pesos now which is about $1.10 or $1.20

G2 comics got me in the nostalgic mood when I first saw that Prime face with lotsa bullets, sigh.

[SGB]

Generation 1.

[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.

[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!

[Hursticon]

I suppose I would be G1? I was born '85.

Like 1AZRAEL1 I was born in '85, albeit 36hrs before 1AZRAEL1 so I'd like to say G1 as that apparently was the first cartoon I responded to in my protoform years (1-5) - at least that is what my mother tells me...

But I'd have to also say that I watched G1-G2-Beastwars in succession so would that make a difference?

[1orion2many]

whoa, comics are that expensive here always?!? Comics back then were 30 pesos full price, less than a dollar ( back in Phils) ... now that price would be when they're getting rid of old stock, and I mean really old stuff hehehe, other wise sale comics prices are 50-60 pesos now which is about $1.10 or $1.20

G2 comics got me in the nostalgic mood when I first saw that Prime face with lotsa bullets, sigh.

I remember when comics were 12 cents each, anyone need their diapers changed

[Bartrim]

I remember when comics were 12 cents each, anyone need their diapers changed

Was that when they were engraved onto tablets? I was born 2 months into the 80's so I classify myself as Gen1

Although my wife would say that I haven't grown up yet so would be classified as Gen Protoform