Transformers Memories! (H - L)
My first transformer was the one and only optimus prime. It was around a month before the show started and me and my mom were in a kabee looking for gijoe tanks. I saw the coolest lookig toy ever and begged for it until she agreed
to buy it. When i was 6, a kid broke my optimuses arm off so i whiped him roayaly and took his optimus. In total I have had 8 optimus primes.....4 old ones,1 Power master,beast wars ape, beast wars bat, and the disapointing machine wars optimus. My worst memory was looing all over 2 cities for a Hotrod. I only found one he was complete mint but he had been opened and my
parents wouldnt let me buy it. But my best tf memory was earlier this year when I traded the oprimal meg 2-pack for mint complete hotrod, rodimus and ironhide it took me 11 years but i finally got my hotrod.
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My first Transformer was a red Bumblebee. I saw him in the toy section of JC Penny. He was really neat. Poor little fella's in pieces now... My favorite Transformer is Ironhide. He was great fun in the show, and I got the figure for Christmas in 1985. The weird part of the story is this: I was in the Christmas pagent that year, and every night after mom and dad dropped me off for practice, they went TF hunting. They finally found Ironhide sitting on a shelf in Zayre's, the last one in the whole store. Apparently two little old ladies saw him at the same time. Dad got there before they did, and I got Ironhide. Prowl was the next car. And the search for Spock was nothing compared to the search for Prowl. Summer 1986. The year those new TF's hit the market.
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My dad buying my 1st Transformer "Soundwave & Buzzsaw". Getting Hot Rod, Astrotrain, and Ultra Mangus for my 11th
birthday, and Beechcomber, Tracks, and Jetfire for Christmas. Seeing Transformers The Movie, which my dad fell asleep after
the first 15 mins. Most recentily I bought Bombshell,Yellow Cliffjumper, and Megatron at the Flea Market. Goin back to get
some more.
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My greatest transformers memory would have to be the Machine Wars. I got a Machine Wars Optimus Prime to replace the pieces that remain of my original Optimus, Mirage and ..Megatron. The orginal bots are back and better than ever!!!
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My greatest TF memory was at Christmas when I was about 4 or 5. I don't remember anything about that Christmas except
when I got the almighty Metroplex and my favorite Transformer of all time: KUP. I LOVED KUP. I thought he was the
coolest looking toy. I loved his colors.
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Well, I think my best Tf memory was when I got Metroplex for my 9th birthday. At that time, Metroplex and Trypticon were
the Tfs you would get for b days and Christmas. I spend 3 hours and the kitchen floor tranforming him over and over. My
worst Tf memory is still one that haunts me to this very day. I kept all my tech specs, books, cataloges, mail order forms, robot
points, etc in a huge yellow folder in my desk. One day my mother felt that I was getting too old for these "silly toys" and threw
the folder out. Now at age 19, as a serious collecter, I am still struggling to mend those lost specs and books. If you have Tfs
now, DO NOT THROW THEM AWAY!!!!!!!
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This isn't a good memory but I remember when I was about 12 I had a hard time picking up my toys. So one day my mom threatened to throw all my transformers away if I didn't clean them up. I didn't, so she put them in a garbage bag and put them in the basement to scare me. But when she went to get them, my dad had already gotten to them, thinking they were trash, and took them to the dump. They spent 2 hours looking around in the dump for them with no luck. I had so many. After that I never layed my eyes on another transformer until just the other day when I found a beat up, 1st generation Ramjet.
You could point to any of the hundreds of Transformers in our collection and I bet I could tell you a memory I associate with the toy. Like where we found them or a family trip that I took them on, a Transformer War we had or a particular time/location that we played with them... something like that! I've got oodles of memories. I remember one time, we were driving to my grandparents house. It was early in the morning and my bros and I pestered Mom to stop at a store so we could find the newest TF's. At the time, the latest and greatest were the Combaticons and Protectobots. They had already been in the shows but we hadn't seen them in the stores yet. So we were searching frantically. Mom pulled into a K-mart parking lot which hadn't opened yet. I remember there was a line at the door. Which I thought was pretty wierd. We got in the line and waited for a minute or two before they opened the doors. When they opened, I remember all these adults literally running in and thinking I was "too big" for such non-sense. Well, it turned out that many of them were running in for the latest shipment of Cabbage Patch Kids. But to my surprise, many were after the same thing I was. I broke into a light jog and by the time I got to the Transformers isle, all I could do was frantically scoop up a few remaining treasures. I managed to grab a Brawl, Swindle, Blastoff, Streetwise and Groove. I was so mad. If only I had run a little faster, I could have had the the whole set. Ugh. I had to settle for just 3 Combaticons (the Protectobots were my brother's). After we got to Grandma's house we must have called up every other toy store in Buffalo looking for the others, but to no avail. We did find them a few weeks later but the lesson was learned. Next time, I would RUN!
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The first is 14 years ago when I was 4, and first received Optimus Prime. It was one of the greatest days of my life. I mean me, owning the greatest TF ever. Unfortunately, he would be sold a few years later in a garage sale, BUMMER! The other memory that I hold dear happened just a few weeks ago. I had ordered my favorite TF, Springer, from a toy store in Texas. The 2 weeks I had to wait was worth it when I opened the box. He was complete, in his box, and in PERFECT condition. I spent half an hour just starting at him. Well, there are two of my most fond TF memories.
I remember being about eight years old, living in New Zealand. My Canadian uncle came to visit and brought us all a million gifts. Two that I received were what he called "TransFormers". Being a big matchbox car nut at the time, I loved them because they were bigger and had better detail. Oh, yeah, the changed into robots, too! The following Christmas, TF hit New Zealand hard! I was psyched because I already ha a jump on everyone else. I lusted after the thought of owning an Optimus. I got one. It cost over $75.00 in New Zealand, and that was new. I then wanted Soundwave BAD. I would stare at the catalog that came with Prime for hours. A few months later, my family moved to Canada. TF's EVERYWHERE! The cartoon, which was banned in NZ for being too violent and never aired, was my favorite show. I had tons of the toys. I had three cousins close
to my age and we would get all our TF's together and have HUGE battles.
I remember the feeling in my stomach when I saw the ad on TV for the movie for the first time on a Saturday afternoon. "Does Prime Die?" the narrator said. I called all my friends and recited the ad for them. I remember watching TF: The Movie in the theatre. I remember pining for the original series days of the show during the post-Movie seasons. The episodes weren't as good and became harder to find on TV. I traded my TF's for WWF figures, or sold them. Others broke. I still have my Prime though, I'll never part with it. I often get together with my cousin and talk about the "good old days" when toys
and their shows had longevity. Transformers and GI Joe were both great shows. Robotech was exceptional. I'm glad I can relive such a major part of my life here on the web. The memories of my TF days are golden.
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Most of my childhood memories seem to revolve around Transformers, but a few stick out more than others... I recall first
seeing the show soon after it aired and I was hooked. Soon after, I got my first Transformer, Optimus Prime! What a way to
start! :-)
I was in the hospital for a couple weeks, and thought I was cool when my Mom brought in my Thundercracker toy, although
to my dissapointment, no hands. However, my roomate soon topped me by receiving Jetfire. Grrr....
Of all the Transformers I came to know, none drew my loyalties as much as the little geologist, Beachcomber. I bought him,
Seaspray and Cosmos at the same time (earth, sea and air as I later realized) and carried his toy everywhere I went. The only
thing that excited me more then when he starred in his own episode, "The Golden Lagoon", was when he appeared briefly in
"Five Faces of Darknes". I was upset, thinking he had died in the movie, and flipped when I caught sight of him in that later
episode. Much to my later chagrin, I called most of my friends with the news! They humored me. ;-)
The worst memory is the fact that my Stepfather was tossing all my toys, for years, behind my back. I would spend hours in
the basement, searching for certain toys, not realizing that he was slowly disposing of them, even when I was still little. I still
don't know why he did it, but I managed to save a few and still buy them to this day. :-)
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Well.. My childhood is hazy, even if it wasn't /that/ long ago. With a recent infatuation with anime, I've come around to look upon my Transformers (The few that remain), with a smile. I still have my absolute favourite one, Jetfire, though he's seen better days. I never really gave away my toys, like him and others, I was just terribly rough on them. He's sitting in what would equate to Gerwalk mode up on my shelf, if you take into account his Macross origins. Left leg bare of paint, his nose scuffed down to its white layers, his arms in the box of his parts because the screws long rusted and the springs lost. However, he's still the best toy I ever had, and they don't make 'em like that any more. And then I think about how much I played with those transformers, Optimus, Prowl (My first TF ever, for my 7th birthday, I think). I wish I still had most of them, but they've disappeared over the years. A present from my now-departed grandmother, I could never part with Jetfire, and with a reading of most of these memories, I think I've come to a point of perhaps beginning my own collection anew (And maybe getting Jetfire into better shape, if I can /ever/ track down some parts ;)
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Eleven: Wow, I remember my fifth or so Christmas, when Mom and Dad bought me nearly all the G1 TFs, meaning Prime and first-wave Autos, Soundwave and Starscream (I still have a picture of my wide mouth with the TFs on a table!)...since then, I kept on getting them at the rate of about one per week, oh man, I had *ALL* of them, from the Movie ones to the Micro/Head/Target/ActionMasters! But they could not survive the test of time (or me in my infantile rages, smashing them against the wall!) Cliffjumper has survived, though, and I just bought a G1 Jazz, my fav. I have Scorponok, too. The cartoon, despite its many problems and sometimes poor animation, is still my favorite by far. Mom and Dad would tell you that I would never buy any other toy but the TFs (even though they sometimes slipped in a Go-Bot! Agh!)...soon adolescence made me forget about them, but I'm 16 now, and something brought me back to them...I wish I could go back to the times when they were available, to when all was innocent...
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I cried the first time I saw the Skyfire episode, I think it was Fire in the Sky. Then they resurrected him so easily for that one in
the temple (Fire on the Mountain?) it seemed like they cheated him. I had the choice of seeing one of two movies, E.T. or TF,
when I graduated from 1st grade. My teacher was SO cool. Of course I chose to see the TF movie. I cried that day.
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Dude, this is the best site I've come across. I almost began to cry because the Transformers were my best toys. When I was five i got up to watch transformers on tv. Well anyway, the first transformer I got was Omega Supreme, the one that turned into a rocket with the little train that circled it. The movie was the bomb i would rent it all the time. I was really sad when the video store didnt have it anymore. I am now in search of the original movie copy that came out in 1986. This is a cool site thanx for bringing back those memories.
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