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  1. #1
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    Default Remember when...

    Classics was first being announced and information was only slowly, slowly trickling out - it was 2006, and I was in a comp lab in the IS building and I was looking at the old Don Figoera sketches...

    *side note: where on earth does that gun come from? The bumper? :S
    Awesome stuff...
    Then when they were finally released, I know I had to try hard to chase down a Jetfire for myself... that said, I ended up getting bumblebee and rodimus off casefresh's website... heh-

    How'd you get into classics?

    It's my predominant line now - and I am not really intending to collect much else other than to 'complete' it ...

    Just thought it'd be interesting to discuss your first reaction to classics, and then the followup of Universe 2.0 - I only just now found this image of Sunstreaker/Sideswipe:


    Did you see it sooner? (heck, anyone still got those concept drawings? Cause I *love* concept art )

    What an utterly exciting time in toys Now, I'm eagerly awaiting Classics 3.0 news...
    Last edited by lcz128; 29th December 2009 at 10:09 PM.

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    I got back into collecting after I watched ROTF and was disappointed by what M.Bay had done to my beloved childhood characters! (I mean, Jetfire was now a geriatric old dude?)

    I thought I would get some TF toys to display to help preserve my childhood memories of the characters as opposed to what Hollywood had done to them, so I went in search.

    Because I had been out of it so long, I wasn't aware of all the releases over the years - Armada, Energon, etc, so I did a bit of research into the various lines.

    I wanted something that reminded me of my G1 toys as a kid, but slightly better engineered since I wasn't too keen on brick like articulation and no poseability.

    And that's how I stumbled across the Classics/Universe 2.0 line - it was love at first sight!

    I was like 'wow', here were faithful interpretations and re-imaginings of my classic G1 toys but with modern engineering and articulation - totally cool!

    I think in my first month I bought something like 20 of the Classics/Universe range and haven't looked back since.

    They are the core of my collection, even though I have slightly branched out into other lines (Cybertron, Energon, etc), but for me, they have a very special place in my heart since they're what got me into collecting TFs again.

    I can't wait for Universe 3.0 either... hopefully HasTak won't continue the Bayverse character designs and end up stuffing them up!

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    I love the Classics range, their not quite the same as we remember them being from gen 1 but how they should of been.I suppose we have some of the Gen 2 and Beast Wars toys to thank for the advancements in poseablity.

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    You have some late G2 toys and the overwhelming majority of Beast Wars to thank. I saw photos of the toys online first which piqued my interest, and yeah, grabbed them as soon as I saw them on toy shelves at Target and Kmart.

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    I wasn't looking at the online sites at that time and it was only by looking at my local Kmart that I saw them for the first time - Voyager Optimus Prime and Megatron
    No 2nd thoughts for me, I got them straightaway!

    - Prime - A red truck (not a fire truck )
    - Megatron - A gun! Not a tank, T-Rex, hover jet, car, etc, he's a gun!
    I didn't mind the colours, since he was grey enough for me and he had no gimmicks other than to transform
    - Plus they had rubsigns! since i was a kid, i only ever saw rubsign transformers as 'true transformers' since they were what I saw in the original cartoon.

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    I unexpectedly stumbled onto the Classic toys by pure surprise at a Target. I was looking for Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toys and there I saw what were faithful representations of G1 Starscream, Hotrod and Bumblebee!

    At the time I was only after G1 and Beast Wars since I never got into any of the post 2000 cartoons or lines (RID/A/E/C) so finding these was like..WOW!!

    I bought one of all the Classics characters Target had and then I went into the hunt for more from other retailers. I was a total noob at collecting back then with a collection that could fit on top of my computer and I was yet to join OTCA. I think that due to my excitement of this new toy line directly representing G1 characters that I decided to look into Australian related Transformers activities online. I stumbled onto a Aussie Fan convention announcement but I was a week late!!

    However that announcement although obsolete, pointed me to this community and here I am. How Classics helped me to find OTCA

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