Transformers Memories! (S - Z)
My TransFormers memorie was watching the cartoon series when it came on Saturday mornings in 1984 that told the story about Optimus Prime and Megatron battling for control of Cybertron, Earth and the universe! Each time the Decepticons tried to take over the world the Autobots defeated them time and time again with Megatron retreating vowing that he would return to take his revenge! Optimus Prime kept vowing to protect earth and humans and one day return home to bring peace and justice to Cybertron.
When the series continued from 84 all the way to 1987 (I think that's when the series ended) newcomers or recruits on both sides of good and evil carried on the CIVIL WAR between the Alliance and Empire. I used to name the Autobots and Decepticons after World Wrestling Federation WWF Superstars such as Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, etc. I never saw TransFormers The Movie so I didn't know Prime died at the hands of Megatron, nor Megatron becoming Galvatron!
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Here the story of how i got into TF.......it was when i was in 5th grade........i was sick and my mom took me to Toys R us.......i saw the transformers on tv the day before...i had 100 dollars from my mom and i saw a WHOLE WALL OF GENERATION 2 TRANSFORMERS!!!!! i was so happy...i bought OP...megatron......grimlock......all the constucticons....and a few others...i was so happy that day.........it just brings a teat to my eye =Þ
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I was ten years old when I discovered the Transformers. I got Jazz for my birthday and instantly....my interest was jolted! This thing was excellent!! I instantly started collecting anything with the TF logo on it. Eventually I had almost every Transformer ever made, every comic, and anything else I can find. Unfortunately (over the years)...I lost everything...except my JAZZ! Long live the Transformers and thanks to everyone for the memories :)
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One of the earliest things I can remember was watching an episode of transformers. It was sunday I think and my mom wanted me to sit down and eat sunday breakfast. I whined and complained because I was missing the show. I also remember seeing the movie. I didn't see it in the theatre which was sad, but I saw it immediatly once it came out on video. transformers and all the 80's cartoons are better then the ones' now.
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I remember being in first grade and getting a call from my friend telling me about a show called, "Transformers" on TV. I instantly fell in love. I really wanted one of these. At the time I was 6 and didn't have much money and a meager allowance. The one I wanted the most was Soundwave. I thought it was cool, this cassette player. Finally on my 7th birthday I got Soundwave from my grandmother. I instantly called my friend and told him to bring his Starscream. Unfortunetly I got sick and wasn't able to play. However through the following years I got all the tapes, Constructicons, Megatron and so on. Since those days I have got other toys and them I grew up and stopped playing with them. However when Generation 2 came out I had to buy some. To this day Transformers will always hold a special place in my heart.
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I remember alot about transformers and miss everything about them i just wish some company would buy the molds and re-run the whole line i wouldn't care if they were all plastic just as long as i could have all the coolness back again. i probably don't have to tell you that i broke and traded and just plane old lost just about every transformer i ever had and i could kick my ass for it. the main mems i have with my transformers was going to school with them; we all did it how else could we show them off. but everyone had one they were like gold we would pretend to be them and everything. i was a bad kid as far as christmas goes i screwed up my cousins christmas. my aunt and uncle wanted to hide my cousins gifts over at my parents house one christmas and i found them and claimed them and was playing with them way before christmas. of coarse i got busted but i still got my Omega Supreme!!!!
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Unlike a very large percentage of Transformers' 'fans' now who are being raised on the Beastwars (yuck) I have been there from the beginning. I'm only 19, and I was as immpressionable as hell when I was 7 going on 12, let me tell you! My biggest memory of Transformers (besides making them fight my GI Joes...heh heh, right!) was without a doubt,
TRANSFORMERS: The Movie. I was about 10, and it was 11 years ago. My mom had a job that was right next door to the theater and she watched me everyday during that summer. She used to give my brother (who is 6 years older than I am) a couple of bucks to go to the movies. EVERY day I would go see the movie. Sometimes several. A couple of friends of mine were big fans and after each time, I would call them and tell them something new I had found. They were never as excited as I was...never.
Whether it was Galvatron destroying Star Scream (seems like almost everyone in the movie was either killed or busted apart,
eh) or Ultra Magnus uttering what I believe to be the first cartoon 'dammit' I was there. I CRIED when Optimus Prime died.
Hell, I even got into the music by Vince DiCola!
When the movie came out on video, I was first in line to rent it and tape it. The tape, which was watched EVERY day for
about a year, eventally was lost in a jumble of things as I grew up. Like Transformers, I aged...and soon forgot.
It wasn't until last year that a small, secret dream that I held came true for me. While skipping work (ssh...don't tell) I decided to check out the music store, Strawberries, for a new CD for a friends birthday. I was cruising the racks when I noticed it...in a badly wrapped CD with horrible artwork and the price marked DISCOUNT, I saw it for the first time in 10 years:
TRANSFORMERS: The Movie Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
...at $11.99. I bought it. I walked home with a skip in my step and raced to my room, popped the lid to my Playstation and put the disc in. I was trembling. I had NO idea how much I wanted this disc myself. I had done some half-hearted searches for it in the past, but never any successful. I pushed play.
The first song, 'You Got the Touch' came on, booming all around me courtasy of Dolby Surround Sound. Images as clear as
yesterday of Optimus Prime battling Megatron came to me: The music MADE the movie. Without it, my memory wouldn't be
there as much. The rest of the CD played, much to the annoyance of my parents, until it was finished. Only one of my friends who I grew up with (and traded the Transformers with) was around. I told him of the find in the music store. He seemed less than thrilled. This dissappointed me at first. Was I truly the only one who still cared? Did Transformers matter to anyone anymore? Sure there was Beastwars, but to the TF purist like myself, that was (and remains) a joke. The next day my friend came over and listened to the CD. He immedianly asked me to sell it to him. I smiled and thought: I guess I'm not the only one.
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When I went to see the TF Movie, I was amazed by all the new TF's such as Hot Rod and Kup, and I can remember at the
moment Optimus Prime died, my mother bursts into tears! Even being 6 years old, I was so embarassed, my mother was the
only one who cried!
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I remember when transformers had first come out. A friend had told me about them and before I had even watched my first episode, he had me acting out the part of Trail Breaker while he was Sideswipe in my mom and dad's back yard. He told me that the cartoon came on on Saturdays and I should watch it because its so cool. I got up the very next saturday morning and watched it and I was hooked. I have never seen anything so outrageously COOL in my life. I watched for years and years. I cried when Optimus died and rejoiced to see him return. I found my favorite to be Hot Rod from the later years. I remember when they came out Metroplex and Trypticon. I had to have that big dinosaur that turned into a city. I begged and begged my dad to get it for me at Christmas and sure enough on Christmas morning....I saw the box wrapped up underneath the tree and knew exactly what it was. Ever since my childhood I have collected toys and shows from the original series. I don't think I'll ever outgrow the Transformers as long as I live. I was eight when they first came out and now I'm 24 and I still get emotional when I watch the movie. Thanks for reading!!
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I've read a lot of the memories on this site, and many of them revolve around getting the toys on Christmas morning, birthdays, Rosh Hashanah, what have you... =) I never had very many of the original Transformers. My family couldn't afford them, so I had a couple of minicars, and some of the less expensive ones, but there were one or two of the biggies. My favorite animated movie, like most people who posted out here, was Transformers. I was one of those little kids crying when Optimus died, and one of them who got all excited when he came back. My parents used to rent the movie for me every year for my birthday (and I used to try for any other time I could too.) I'm 21 now, and still feel that the Transformers were the best toys ever invented. I finally tracked down my Optimus Prime and my Megatron (though I'll have to restore him), and some of the other TFs I never could get as a kid. I have my own copy of the movie, and I'm well on my way to having seen it 100 times. I even have a couple of the Beast Wars toys.
What's my point? I don't know, really. Just that the TFs were
something special, and they're gonna be around awhile longer! Let's hear it for them!
And Bah weep granaagh weep nini bong to you too.
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My most favorite that I remember from the movie is when Galvatron told Hot Rod, "First Prime, then Ultra Magnus, and now you. It's a pity you Autobots die so easily....or I might have a sense of satisfaction now!" Then Hot Rod grabbed the matrix from Galvatron's chest and opened it up. Then he turned into Rodimus Prime and threw Galvatron out of Unicron. Then Unicron was destroyed by the matrix!! Wahooo.
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I supose my best TF memory is when I got MixMaster, My first TF, I was 2, none of the adults could transform him(ha!), so naturally I did it first off. I still have him somewhere- when I find him,I'm gonna frame him.
My worst TF memory was when,me and my best friend
were playing Transformers,ShockWave was sitting 9' up on
some ivy,and unfortunatly my friend saw him,
(he was always the Autobot),ShockWave was hit by
a double barrel Plasma cannon. He sufferd 5 shots
to the head, 3 shots to the head,and 20 shots to the chest.
Unfortunatly he fell from the ivy and snapped his arm and chest plate off(he was anihilated by BumbleBee!!!!!).
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I remember the time at Christmas when I got my Optimus Prime. My mother being smart bought the thing in October, to avoid
the Christmas rush. When going to other stores after purchasing mine, several retailers offered her $80 and more for my
Optimus. She told them that her son is far more important than money and on Christmas, I got one of the most sought after
toys of the year: Optimus Prime
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Ah, it's been a long time since I last bought any TF's. I remember back in the mid 80's, around 86-89, when I really went out
and bought them I have three brothers, and we were all into them. At the height of our 'collections,' my oldest brother had a
Jetfire, a Skids, and Dirge. He was nine or ten at the time, and didn't really play with them. I did, and I broke both his Jetfire's
arms. (However, i repaired them last week after finding out how popular it is). My other two brothers, twins, had between
them the three Insecticons, all the parts for Bruticus, all the Predacons, Skorpinok, Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme,
Perceptor, the Insecticons, Starscream, and another plane...the all blue one. Optimus bit the dust next to a radiator one night.
Onslaught lost his left arm, too. However, Omega, Skorpy, and the Pred's are all still in great condition, minus a few pieces.
Skorpook lost his left hand, but I fixed it last week for display. The pride of my collection had to be the Dinobots, and the
protectabots. At one point I had all the Dinobots. Unfortunately, I broke Swoop the first day I touched him Christmas
morning! :( Slag vanished. I remember building up Defensor for the very first time--he was cool! But I soon lost Blades....Or
so I think. I can *sense* him lurking in my basement somewhere, just waiting to be found ;-) My worst memory has to be of
those stupid Micromasters. What a waste of money. 'least I didn't stick around for the Action masters. Goodness. If only they
hadn't gotten so greedy, and had released more of those *AWESOME* G1 cars.
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I remember back in 89' or something on my birthday ( I turned 7), my parents got me a Powermaster Optimus Prime. I was thrilled! I opened it and played with it for HOURS. Then my grandparents came over and gave me a present, it was the SAME THING! Whoa! TWO Powermaster Optimus Primes! I made them fight each other for hours, for weeks. Then I started to lose their parts and they broke....but 8 years later, I still got BOTH trailers! and one head. So I am looking to complete my power Master Optimus Prime.
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The first Transformer I had ever seen was Optimus Prime. I had never seen the cartoon, and didn't know who he was. All I
can remember is walking into the store and seeing that big, red box. Hey, when you're two, that can be an awesome sight.
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