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When time began...

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:28 pm
by Elita-One
Who was more than 5 years old or knows someone that was when transformers first began???
I'm not as knowledgable as some of you, it'd be nice to hear from some people that can actually remember!
Cheers
EO

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:51 pm
by trance
I was *hangs head*...yep, I'm that old :)
I first got into them the 2nd year they were out...I was about 8 I think, in 2nd grade. Transformers were pretty much my only hobby...that and Nintendo, :lol:

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:27 pm
by Bumblebee
i was 8 also use to run home from the bus stop to watch it on tv :roll: im gettin old.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:23 am
by Piranacon
i too would run home from school and watch TF he-man then GIjoe then it was off to wrestling practice lol (i was 5 when TF started in the US)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:41 am
by Rodimus Prime
damn, you had to ask this. It got me thinking and I counted it up. the show started in 84, so I would have been about 8. DOH!

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:03 am
by Ultra Magnus
Iwas was in fourth grade, and 10 years old.

The show had all of the boys talking, and everyone was trying to be the first on the block to get them all.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:07 am
by Razorclaw
Rodimus Prime wrote: the show started in 84, so I would have been about 8. DOH!
I was -1 :lol:

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:52 am
by Kup
I saw the reruns in 89-90 when i was 4, and till date today i still play my Nes ...

still need to beat Zelda... and another 200 cartbridges or so...

subject

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:51 am
by Menasor
i was 11 when the series started DAMN

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:46 am
by Minerva
I was 4 when the series started, but unfortunately I didn't get the chance to watch it until my parents got a vcr and a couple of Transformers videotapes... I think it must have been in the late 80's or something. (I still kinda miss the Swedish dub... it brings back memories :) )
As far as I know TF was never aired by Swedish television, but I think Cartoon Network had some Cybertron episodes not too long ago.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:27 pm
by Roar
Well, if the series started in the fall I was 12. I stink at math so its 11 or 12 for me when the series started. But between then and now I still think its pretty hot stuff! :wink:

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:54 pm
by Arcee
I would've been a year old, but I was far more interested in Masters of the Universe and Rainbow Brite as a kid. I didn't get into Transformers until about two years ago, for which you can thank Rodimus and the Commander...

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:02 pm
by optimusprime
i do believe i was 8 when my fave toons began to hit the tvwaves and thus i still watch them to this day :wink: :P

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:50 pm
by Ultra Magnus
Roar wrote:Well, if the series started in the fall I was 12. I stink at math so its 11 or 12 for me when the series started. But between then and now I still think its pretty hot stuff! :wink:
There was a five part mini series (More Than Meets The Eye) that aired first in the spring, then in the fall, there was the full series.

GI Joe did the same thing in 1983.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:18 pm
by Devastator
i didnt turn 5 till the end of 1985 but i remember it all very well. i remember christmas in 85 like it was yesterday.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:40 pm
by Galvatron
I remember the good ol' days of the early 80's
I was about 9 or 10 when I first of my future hobby.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:20 am
by Commander Megatron
I was seven, not as old as some but older than others. There was an explosion of toys, comics, books, cartoons all at once!! Ah, sweet memories.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:07 am
by Elita-One
well i didn't mean for it to be a bad thing, i think its awesome to have been old enough to remember seeing the first toy and the first series, i wasn't even born so i feel very left out...

then again i have always been an outcast (hehehehehe)

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:53 pm
by sto_vo_kor_2000
Ultra Magnus wrote:
There was a five part mini series (More Than Meets The Eye) that aired first in the spring, then in the fall, there was the full series.

GI Joe did the same thing in 1983.
correction....It was a 3 part mini.

WOW so far I was the oldest when it started.I was 13 when it all began.I feel so old :evil:

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:34 pm
by Ultra Magnus
They added the next two in the series to it as well.