The new generation of TF fans.

[5FDP]

My daughter loves Transformers. Her favorite (for obvious reasons) is Arcee. My son is a bit too young for Transformers (he's only 15 months), but because he is the youngest of the family he got spoiled for xmas. Seriously, he's haul for the month was larger than mine was for the whole of 2011.

[sideswipes brother]

My daughter who is 5 is not remotely interested in Tfs. My 3yr old son is definately into Tfs. I do not force it onto him though. He still likes stuff like Ben 10, Beyblade and Bakugan. When we go toy hunting he will not always pick a Tf. He will get what he wants and im cool with that.

[klystron]

Cool thread.
A bloke I work with has got a 4year son who seemed to wake up one day and decide he wanted an Optimus Prime. (Parents not 100% sure where this sudden desire came, but they suspect a toy catalog). Dad had to brave the nearly-xmas-time shops and managed to find the Prime/Comettor 2-pack for $30.
(Yeah, I dont know how he did it either...?)
He made mention of it at work, so I told him how much of a bargin that set is, and that I had some (ok, all) of this flash new Transformers cartoon. So I gave him the first 10 episodes.
Apparently his son watched the first 4 on repeat for a whole weekend. He knows all the words. Crazy, right?
So I gave him the rest, along with all of TFA, which are all being rationed out in order to make them last. The kid now is fully obsessed and changes which character he is pretending to be depending on his current mood and what situation he is in.
He has also watched ROTF, which he loved.
Over the Xmas break, he has acquire 4 or 5 more Transformers, inc some of those activator (?) ones that pretty much transform themselves, which is good cause his Dad is sick of changing the battle-blades OP. His first attempt on Xmas day took him 40mins and was followed by an irrate SMS to me! A house rule was put in place stating that Optimus is only allowed one transformation per day.
We've had a few laughs about this ongoing saga during the last few weeks, but the funniest thing, which still makes me giggle, is that his son keeps calling the skinny plane bad guy "Ice cream" instead of Starscream!
Cracks me up.
So I like to think I have helped to create a new potential TF fan.

Unfortunately, my daughter has just discovered the collection of Disney princesses, so all hope might be lost on that front.

[jena]

Haha, ice cream, kids are too cute with the things they say.

Don't write your daughter off yet, as a kid my favs were Disney princesses, my little pony, barbie and transformers and ninja turtles. Girls are lucky, we can play with girls and boys toys without it being weird, it's the best of both worlds.

[Doubledealer]

lol that's classic klystron. I scream, you scream, we all scream for Starscream!

[Cat]

Haha, ice cream, kids are too cute with the things they say.

Don't write your daughter off yet, as a kid my favs were Disney princesses, my little pony, barbie and transformers and ninja turtles. Girls are lucky, we can play with girls and boys toys without it being weird, it's the best of both worlds.

My GIJOES used to love chillin' in my sisters Barbie spa.

[Hursticon]

Yeah, that is definitely a good story Klystron - TFs will be sticking around with that kid for quite some time to come, even if he forgets it his parents sure wont.

[MindsetOverhaul]

i got a son, turning 10 this year, and a daughter who has just turned 6.
Cylas started sneaking into my studio when he was close to age 2 and i'd find him studying some of my alternators (which were MISB at the time) and energon toys that were scattered about the place. skip to now - he has roughly 150 toys from armada, energon, cybertron, re-issues and micromaster repaints, titanium, universe, classics, generations and RTS, and a few random movie toys amongst the lot. He's also mad into starwars lego, bionicle and hero-factory.
Layla looks up to her brother (ofcourse) and wants to do everything he does. it bugs the sh-t out of him when he finds her in his room mucking about with his toys. last year she got her first transformer for her 5th birthday (hasbro re-issue Tracks) and she loved it. i think G1 toys are perfect for young kids because they're durable and far less complex than post machine wars lines of toys. this christmas she got the exclusive reissue Seacons gift set. her being such a girly girl, the colours of the toys jumped out at her and her face lit right up, she finally had a transformer that came in a big box like the ones her brother gets, and it's a gestalt!
i LOVE watching them play.
seeing her terrorize polly pockets and my little pony's with her seacons and making all the voices and sound effects takes me back to my childhood and the many apocalyptic events such as cyclonus and scourge performing routine raids on my sisters' she-ra cloud castle.

transforming robots are rad and the concept won't gro old anytime soon.

[Hursticon]

That's awesome Mindset; they sound very much like the sorts of things you'd want to catch on camera, be it either the motion or still variety.

[Slag]

My GIJOES used to love chillin' in my sisters Barbie spa.

If I was a G.I.Joe. That's where i'd want be .... with barbie,