you know you're too much into TF as a parent when you: - instead of 'truck' and 'monkey', you teach your kid to call em 'optimus' and 'primal'. - when you change their diapers you go 'MAXIMIZE!' - afternoon you put the kid to 'stasis nap'. ok, your turn.
check my avatar and profile picture.... when your first purchase for a child in the womb is Softimus Prime. When you use G1 Season One to calm a crying newborn. When you hang said Softimus from the handle of a car seat to distract newborn on long car rides. I did draw the line at purchasing custom TF onesies, though. The prices were ridiculous for the amount of use I would (not) get out of them.
When you buy a softimus prime, put it in a plastic bag, and store it away for your first unborn son/daughter years before you even plan on having a child.
When your driving down the road and a tiny voice, in a car seat behind you says "Boadblast"! You look over to see a silver Scion.......and you well-up wth pride and praise.
I took my kids to target for toys and my daughter who is five picks out fab bumblebee for her toy. Not any girl toys but a transformer! I was so proud!
I get all giddy when I point to my G1 Prime, ask him what it is, and he says "Optinus Priiiiiiime Daddy"! Atta-boy!
When every Transport that passes that looks like Optimus IS Optimus! When every Car Transport truck IS Utra Magnus! I know my 9 years old son is a G1 fdan like his "old Man"!
you take your four year old to the store and she tells you to hurry up and look at the transformers so that we can go look at other stuff.
-When they pass the boring pink aisle up to get to the hasbro crack aisle. (a son should do that automatically) - When you say Im your real life father, and Prime is your cartoon dad - when they make the tforming sound when they stand up -Opmus Pime - Be a good girl and Ill let you watch tformers when you go to bed. (put a dvd player in her room) - Getting her out of the diapers, and into tf underoos Lately , the woman has been breathing on my back in the toy aisles, watching my money, but with a kid, I can get rid of her now. Just roll a big ball across the store. kid chases ball, mommy chases kid, yay!
I'll have to try that with my wife once the baby's born. All these stories are great, you folks are REALLY making me look forward to my first child's arrival (Due August 19th, the ultrasound says it's a boy, Yay!) As for me, I just HAD to buy G1 on DVD so my child could grow up with Cullen's Optimus Prime like I did.
My son gets it through the constant watching of TF episodes and the movie. He is getting ready to turn 5 and every time he sees the only Pontiac Solstice in town, he swears up and down it is Jazz and tries to talk to it. Trucks are Prime, jets are Starscream.
