Transformers Memories! (M - O)
One Transformer memory I have is when my Big Brother Boomer introduced me to the show. The episode we watched was S.O.S.Dinobots...and I loved it. I also remember my first Transfomer....It was Optimus Prime. I got him for my Birthday from Boomer because he knew I loved S.O.S Dinobots so much. It was a a really neat toy
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My Transformer memory took place when I was 5 years old. The new 1985 toy line had just come out and there on the shelf
sat Hook. When I looked at the package I saw that all six Constructicons were now availible. So after months of trying to get
all the pieces to Devastator, Christmas time rolled around. I only needed one guy, Mixmaster. On Chistmas morning the last
gift I opened was the Constructicon gift set that included all the Constructicons. So now I had a total of 11 Constructicons. So
I played with the new ones while the others were collecting dust in my toy box. One week later when I was shopping with my
grandmother at Kiddy City I saw Mixmaster sitting on the shelf so I begged my grandmother to buy it for me and she gave in
and bought it for me. So I had 2 complete Devastators as a kid. When I played with my TFs I called my 2nd Devastator
"Demolisher" who was Devastators brother. Hey when you are a kid you make up the story.
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to my hero,
First of all, thank you for the transformers page. Throughout my childhood i absolutely loved transformers, but i think i actually have stronger feelings for them now that i've gotten older and appreciate them more. My first one was sideswipe and many many soon followed. and i
remember i did something bad and my mom grounded me without any tv for a day--the day that the final part in the optimus prime-resurrection series
was on. Needless to say, i tested my mom's authority for the first time that day. I did get to watch the episode, but she wasn't too happy about it. ha ha. While i enjoyed playing with the toys though, the ultimate is THE TRANSFORMER MOVIE--the one where everyone dies. I still get that queasy feeling when i picture prowl and ironhide getting shot and killed in
the opening spaceship-hijack sequence. Then when prime and megatron's fight led to optimus' death i almost started crying, and believe me that that's not any small feat for me. But dammit, it's like someone put it on the spacebridge and sent it to cybertron.
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I can't thank you enough for getting me started with the Transformers. Even though I'm your girlfriend and best-friend...that doesn't mean I had to love the transformers like you do. However, I am a very open-minded individual and after you showed me your collection I too fell in love with them. Most girlfriends probably would tell their
boyfriends that Transformers are dumb and childish. But, those girls need a slap in the face because they don't know when they see a great thing. Thanks to Chris I have a wonderful knowledge of almost everything about them (and a pretty cool collection too)!
I love "Generation one" and will always appreciate them like Chris does. It took a long time for us to even consider "Beast Wars" because we were so stubborn and wanted things the way they use to be. However, "Beast Wars" have
their own unique style and need to be appreciated too! I really, really like "Beast Wars" (especially Rattrap...he's so cute!!). I love looking forward to watching the new "Beast Wars" episodes with Chris. It gives us something unique to share. I do wish I could have seen more "Beast Wars" stuff at Botcon than I did. Thanks for listening to my story and thanks to my one and only
Christopher Bucci.
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I was sad when Optimus Prime died. I got Fortress Maximus for $6. Hound was my first Transformer. Favorite
episode....probably Call of the Primitives. I think I have it on tape somewhere. Shockwave would've been a good leader.
Remember the Space Bridge? They were the best toys of the 80s.
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As memories go nothing can beat the time my brother, two friends and I took a saturday and had an all out war outside with these things. My brother and his bud were the Autobots and they got to use the house as a base because we had a back porch with screened windows which had a cat door cut out of one of the walls. The cat door led onto a small deck and the opening was large enough for him to roll even his largest Autobot, who I think at the time was Sky Lynx, through. I.E. he got the base that looked the most like the Ark from the TV show. My partner and I set up an elaborite Decpticon Fortress in the back corner of the yard and for the next several hours we waged war on each other. I remmember my friend putting all the small accessories, cassette weapons and plane hands, under his hat and flipping them out as we yelled "time out to transform!" It was a blast, and if we thought we could get away with it now, we'ed probably do it again.
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In all the transformers I have bought, there is only one that I have a special memory for, and it's not one of them. I was about 4
or 5 when I first remember seeing him on the show, which I had watched since I was 2. Soundwave. The name was cool to
me, I had always loved the tapes and their players, and Soundwave was definitely the best of them. his synthesized voice, his
unquestionable loyalty, and the fact that his tapes could more or less beat the *** out of almost anyone addicted me on him.
Much later, when I was about 8, my dad and I were driving out to go get him a new suit and I popped him a question to see if
I could get him. He had missed my birthday that year while looking for a job, so he agreed. After getting his suit, we took off
for the nearest Toys R' Us to find him. when I found none of them on the shelves at all, I was confused. We ran all across town trying to find Soundwave, or any TF, for that matter. At the last toy store in town, I asked the clerk about them, and he gave me the truth, pure, simple, and hard. They weren't being made anymore. I cried the whole way home, knowing that I would never have him in my collection, and I still look for him in garage sales, on the web, anywhere he might be. I still do, and I won't stop until I find him.
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This is not a fond tale about being 6 and watching the old tv show, or waking up to find Optimus fighting decepticons underneath the Christmas tree, although both those things hold true for me personally and probably most of my friends too.
This memory is from last night (Friday March the 20th). What happened was I decided to have a few friends (guys and girls) over to chill and watch movies. One of my friends brought with him my copy of the Transformers movie he had
borrowed months ago.
For lack of anything better and on a whim we popped in the transformer movie. I think everyone in the room thought themselves to jaded and mature to enjoy such childish nonsense.
We were very wrong. One moment I was trying to act cool, laid back, and suave, the next I was singing along with all my friends to the Transformers theme song (the theme song of all our childhoods) , 100% embroiled in and,
intrigued by the age old intergalactic struggle between good and evil, autobot and decepticon, and a very large and unpleasent shit disturber called 'Unicron'.
We had an amazing night and thourougly enjoyed ourselves. I remembered my hero Optimus Prime who had embodied so many glorious virutues and stout heroism, and when he died, I felt the very real sadness I did when I was 6 or
7.Transformers was awesome............is awesome and finding so much cool online stuff about it was great.
I will never forget Tranformers ever again.
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Some of my favorite Transformer memories aren't much of a reflection on my character at the ages of 8-11. The year was 1985 and I remember staying home from school one friday and watching all the best programming on Chicago's channel 9 on cable--Mask, GI Joe, Wheeled Warriors and finally Transformers. After Transformers was over I ran around the house pretending I was Prowl fighting solo against hordes of energon-hungry Decepticons. I didn't have any Transformers yet though I knew what they were from the cartoon series and my friends and their toys. Mother interrupted my play to send me to the supermarket for butter or something. Anyway I added this to my mission. It was especially exciting since we lived next to an active small-plane airport which I needed to cross in order to get to the store. I battled and struggled my way across the airport and through the isles of the store to bring back the much needed butter for the rest of the autobots when *BAM* There he was right in front of me. Powerglide. He was spectacular and I had to have him....but I had not enough money and if I came home without the butter Prime....er uhhh...Mom would have me killed for sure. So what did I do?....I peeled away the blister bubble and slipped the plane up my sleeve. Granted I am ashamed for being a thief but the hours I enjoyed with my first Transformer were priceless. Years later my desperate thieving days weren't quite over when, in another state, I saw Rumble in a two pack with Ravage( I think) and I had to have him. Rumble was one of my favorite Decepticons. So yes, I again peeled away the blister bubble and slipped the small tape into my sleeve. I feel bad but again, what countless hours of fun I have had with him. I'm 22 now and I still have a strong passion for Transformers...Of course now I have some money and can afford to pay for Transformers if there are any worth buying. I may have given up my thieving days but I haven't given up my passion for Transformers.
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All my youngest memories of the Transformers are similar to the ones described in the other stories. The memory that sticks in my mind is the memory of a X-mas long ago when I recived a Megatron and broke the pistol tip. I began to cry and everytime I would try in vein to reassemble the tip of the gun as I would play with it I would get a lump in my throat. I still have all my transformers. I packed away my transformers except the constructicons. I still play with my constructicons. I'm 19, and I want transformers back on the market in hopes that some day my children and my childrens children will be able to go out on christmas day and pretend to blow up his or her neighborhood with their brand new Megatron.
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I'm only 14 but i love the tf. I remember getting the Prime. The tf's are the greatest of cartoon and toys in history.
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