Average age of your Transformers Fan/Ozformers Member

[llamatron]

Australia might be a bit unique in that the G1 cartoon was still airing reruns all the way through to... 1995ish? Although at some point it become the G2 version. The gold-box Classics meant that we had a good selection of G1 toys around through to the early 90's. What I'm trying to say is that when I was about 5/6 (1991/2) I can vividly remember being able to watch G1 on TV and getting toys like the "Classic" Stunticons for Xmas... so us "younger" folk can be authentically G1 and not have a receding hairline (yet).

[Trent]

I do scrape into Gen-X

Amusing to see all you old Gen X fossils feeling your age

Good idea Trev. We can get an idea of who will be soon be selling their collection to fund their retirement

[Shirokaze]

Surprised to see a few in the under 25s bracket which I guess could be attributed to the movies bringing people into the fandom.

I remember when I began collecting 10 years ago there was only one bloke around my age.

[DELTAprime]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics lists Gen-X as 1965-1981 so I just get in too... but I think we are on opposite ends of the spectrum

Oh darn, I'm not Gen X. X is the cool letter.

I'd also like to take this time to object to Hasbro calling this the 30th Anniversary of Transformers. I was born in 1984 and I'm 29 god damit. I'm not 30!!!

[griffin]

I too don't like them using the "30th" label so early... but I guess with the total disappointment that was the 25th anniversary (thanks to the second Michael Bay movie taking up all their resources), I guess Hasbro wanted to at least commemorate the feat this time in some way, BEFORE the movie line takes over retail shelves and (fan) media attention from April to November.
That only leaves a couple months at the start of the year before Retailers start cutting back on all TFs product just to clear shelves in time for their big launch of Movie toys. And it is unlikely we'll see retailers restocking before the end of the year (if the last three years have shown us anything).

I think Hasbro will try to push out as much Generations stuff as possible next year, but they will get a lot of resistance from Retailers, who just want to focus on the Movie toys throughout most of 2014.
We could have had some really nice commemorative stuff too, if it weren't for the TF4 movie, as the 20th Anniversary gave us a couple things (before the Brand was big enough to warrant too much fanfare). The popularity now could have had some big things for the 25th and 30th.... but now we will just have to wait for the 40th Anniversary, and hope we don't have Michael Bay's "TF27 - the Prime Revenge of the Dark Age of Bumblebee" getting in the way of that one too...

[Bidoofdude]

Australia might be a bit unique in that the G1 cartoon was still airing reruns all the way through to... 1995ish? Although at some point it become the G2 version. The gold-box Classics meant that we had a good selection of G1 toys around through to the early 90's. What I'm trying to say is that when I was about 5/6 (1991/2) I can vividly remember being able to watch G1 on TV and getting toys like the "Classic" Stunticons for Xmas... so us "younger" folk can be authentically G1 and not have a receding hairline (yet).

We had reruns for most of the 2004-2008 period as well.

[Starscream77]

I am 36 so I guess that makes me 'middle aged'

[Hursticon]

Bloody hell, 4 years late to the Gen-X party myself and it sucks because Gen-Ys are always looked upon poorly - I guess I can at least say that I existed for the back half of the 80s.

[MayzaPrime]

Im just in the 26-30 range

Next year I wont be though

[Jetfire in the sky]

Bloody hell, 4 years late to the Gen-X party myself and it sucks because Gen-Ys are always looked upon poorly - I guess I can at least say that I existed for the back half of the 80s.

I wouldn't sweat it Hursti, my brother was born in '86 and has two siblings who are gen x-ers and guess how he turned out. He can't stand the "typical" Gen Y-er. In my previous line of work I saw a big difference in the two generations but the date they were born was very blurred.