TF Views

How many members here got a TF toy in 1984 at a store.

Not me,I got my first transformer toy in 1988 & it was a awful one called Siren.

Yo. Windcharger, followed pretty quickly by Sideswipe.

I'm generally confused by the purpose of this thread, but considering I didn't exist in 1984, I can safely say I did not.

Scourge, you just have a thing for red cars at the time?

I think I actually bought my first Transformer, which was Brawn, from a fellow middle-schooler. I'm not sure what my first store-bought Transformer was. I remember buying Powerglide at Wilson's 5 and 10c store, so that may have been it. I had little to no money at the time obviously, so most of the Transformers I got were either birthday or Christmas presents, or begged from grandparents, or cheap mini-bots bought with whatever money I could earn or scrounge from doing chores.

BWprowl wrote:I'm generally confused by the purpose of this thread, but considering I didn't exist in 1984, I can safely say I did not.

Scourge, you just have a thing for red cars at the time?

He's checking to see who the old fogeys around here are? I dunno, but I'll play along.

Apparently I did, huh? Sideswipe was actually a Christmas present, but still.

Bumblebee, at the TG&Y in Derby, KS. Followed shortly thereafter by Huffer, and his Minispy! I decided the Minispy was named Takara, since that was embossed on his body, and he had no other name. And of course, at the time, I had no idea what a "Takara" was.

I was born the following year, so unfortunately(?) not.

I also inherited all of my older sibling's G1 Transformers, so I didn't *have* to buy my own until G2, and I'd "grown out of TF" by BW, so technically I only ever bought two Transformers in my youth: Hurricane and Pyro.

Nope, I was too young having been born that year. Don't think I got my first Transformers until around 1989, when they introduced the Micromasters.

Gonna hit you with my cane if you keep asking personal questions.

But, yeah, I got a few 1984 figures when the came out. I got the tapes, Windcharger and Bumblebee. (Actually BB might have been in 1985.)


Dom
-is that old.

I didn't like TFs as a kid. I got a couple, like Starscream, but I never played with them, and they were usually put in the toybox never to be seen again.

I didn't buy TFs at all until G2, and then just a few.

I didn't REALLY get into them until Beast Wars. Robots that become vehicles? That's kind of cool. Robots that become animals? I AM IN.