I hope I get to have that kind of experience when I'm grown up and have kids of my own.
That sounds so great, and I love your son's names of the old songs. "The Rodimus Song." Awesome.

BTW, I'm guessing you showed your son the version of the movie without Spike's, "Oh (crap)!What are we gonna do now?!" line, right?

 

I brainwashed my son as well lol...

 

My daugher (3) and son (almost 2) love to watch it when daddy throws it on. They are both very intense on music and just get a kick out of the music. I laugh because I draw a lot and have some pieces up in our place and my daughter asks if I did it for the movie!
Also, we have Comcast and Thundercats is always on demand and they REALLY love to watch that show too!

 

Kids always come up with funny names for things.  
when I was 2 I called transformers "bombers"(according to my family) cause I couldn't quite pronounce transformers yet. the next best thing was coming up with a word that was associated with the show, and that was stuff blowing up.  

 

Thats magic mate

I got my godson the movie a couple of years back when he had chickenpox. We watched it about 10 times then and plenty since. He loves the music (especialy dare and Instruments of destruction). He can also do a great Wheelie impression.

The G1 movie is so much better than the bayverse one. Maybe its just nostalgia talking, but every kid I know prefers it.

 

It is a bit slow in the middle section of the movie BUT I would never call it painful!!!

 

QFT

This thread is pretty cool. I used to think of those songs as Rodimus's song and Hot Rod's song too. Still do.

Cool Hot Rod Dare vid

Cool Rodimus Touch vid

 

Some people are odd aint they?

I love the 1986 film, love it, love it, love it by brother has seen it and enjoyed and my father has watched it quite a few times too and throughly enjoys it and he doesn't care in the slightest about Transformers.

Its just a perfect film you can chill to...while reciting all the amazing quotes  

 

It was said in jest.

I think the animation holds up very well and is still better than the g1 series itself and a lot of the other series that followed but thats just I  

 

That is awesome dude. Glad to hear your boy really enjoyed it. That movie has something for everyone in it.

 

My son is four and a huge transformers fan. My husband recently broke out his old transformer cartoons and that is all my son wants to watch. I was surprised by how much he loved them since he had been watching the movie and the new cartoons. It's a great father/son bonding moment (Dad is Optimus and son is Bumble Bee). I'm learning quite a few things too. ( I have to keep up) Anyway I was wondering if anyone here knew where I could print off or get a letter from a transformer. My son's preschool class is filled with a new generation of Transformers fans. They have the sound effects down and everything. They also have a "mailbox" and get so excited when they get "mail" I was hoping to find something "authentic" and "official" for them. Any ideas would be great. Thanks

 

I'll never quite understand why movie critics panned the movie so badly. It's an excellent piece of animation and very well written. It's not 100% perfect but what movie is?
A big part of my childhood was going to the theater to see it with my late nephew back in the summer of '86.

 

I think many of the critics were focusing mostly on the movie being a feature-length animated toy advertisement, and ignoring positive aspects beyond that. It ain't high art, but I think it's just about the top of the heap as theatrically-released toy ads go.