TRANSFORMERS Appreciation Thread 2009

Lunar_wolf · 06-30-2009, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by LordOptimus

Welcome all Transformers Fans alike! This thread is for all of you who grew up with Transformers all their life or most of their life. All who are newer Fans are welcome too, but before posting, there are a few select rules to follow (below). Here is how this thread will work:

1) Tell us why/how you became a fan/what got you started/what you began to like or love about Transformers....if it started with Diaclone, a toy, TV episode, comic, or anything Transformers.
2) Then, tell us who your favorite Transformer character is, and WHY, and if you were a Transformer, who wouldnyou be, and WHY (you may be your favorite or a different character).
3) Then, tell us which faction you like better, Autobot, Decepticon, or Neutral, and WHY.
4) Then, tell us what you would do with Transformers, whether it be making new or making changes to comics, TV show, toy line, or movie, and WHAT about any of it you would change.
5) "(my Favorite character) Transform! "

1. It all started once the 2007 film was announced, so it was somewhere in the summer of 2006 I became a fan. I thought this would be the best time to come aboard. I was 19 at the time, 22 now. I guess it's the fans the play a big part of being a fan. I always found TF fans to be the best kind of fans. Since 2006, I've been collecting the toys, watched all G1, 2007 and 2009 films, Animated and I'm in the middle of Beast Wars now.

2. Favorite Transformer is Starscream. I find him interesting, funny and I love his scheming ways. If I were a real life TF, I would be Rodimus.

3. Autobot. I would want to help people, not destroy things around me.

4. I would never let the Japanese to get their hands on Transformer tv shows again.

5. Starscream, Transform!

Unfall · 06-30-2009, 04:35 PM

1) My cousin got me to watch the original movie and I've been hooked ever since
2) My favorite transformer is also the one I would want to be and that is of course Grimock, why? because "me Grimlock am badass"
3) Autobots all the way
4) I would fire Michael Bay and get someone else to direct the 3rd movie. Then I would bring back the classics line.
5) "Dinobots Transform! "

Elita · 06-30-2009, 08:01 PM

LordOptimus · 07-01-2009, 11:24 PM

LordOptimus · 07-02-2009, 04:49 PM

Anyone else appreciate & Love Transformers like I do?

mentat_emre · 07-02-2009, 05:17 PM

1) G1 aired in my country when i was 9. I am a fun since then. Robots transform into car, it is epic.
2) Wheeljack is my favorite. Becasue he does not get the all attention like optimus prime. Also he is genious in some way.
3) Decepticon, they have solid goals. Autobots are just anti-decepticons.
4) I wanted to clarify transformers reproduction. It is the biggest plothole in all series.
5) "Wheeljack Transform! "

newguy · 07-02-2009, 05:30 PM

When i was a wee little lad (2 or 3) my dad would watch beast wars with me, so it was imprinted in my mind. One day i turned on the TV and Armada or Energon was on. I said, " ooo Transformers"

My fave is Ironhide. Im not sure why, but i just like him. If i was a TF i would be Bumblebee because he turns into a bug (I'm a Volkswagen fan)

I like both factions. not sure why

If i owned Transformers i'd sell it back to the guy that owned it before me

I dont get #5. what do you mean Transform. If your asking what I'd transform into it would be a Volkswagen Rabbit truck

Takara_destron · 07-02-2009, 05:56 PM

1) I got into Transformers properly during Beast Wars, I'd seen bits of G1 and knew it vaguely but I was little when Beast Wars hit stores so I remember it well. I've loved that and G1 ever since (the other series' took some getting used to).

2) Favourite character is, and always will be G1 Galvatron. Especially before he went insane. He is the ultimate badass in the 86 movie. If I were a Transformer I'd be him, but with his Universe alt mode...because tanks are cool.

3) I'm 100% loyal to the Decepticons, because the bad guys ALWAYS have the most fun.

4) If I owned Transformers I'd let the people running it now to continue what they're doing...they seem to be doing a pretty damn good job of it!

5) "Galvatron, TRANSFORM!"

prowl26 · 07-02-2009, 07:42 PM

I have been playing with Transformers since I was four and five years old. One of my oldest memories was dropping what I thought until I was older was a random hot wheels car in a lake while fishing, my dad many years later said it was a little yellow Transformers car, the Bumblebee mini-car. That was back in the mid 80's. I guess I just literally grew up with them.

favorite character is a hard one, Warpath always comes to mind but I have to go with Optimus, when I was little all the way through to now he has always been the ultimate leader. I think I have owned Optimus from every series except A/E/C. Although Prowl from Animated was wicked.

Autobots myself, I like helping people

Running Transformers to me would likely just mean no matter what to keep working on classics as a supplement to the main line. There is a lot of history and nearly limitless potential to create figures.

Prowl Transform, like a ninja

Hand Of Omega · 07-02-2009, 08:16 PM

Hm, cool, ok;

1) Tell us why/how you became a fan/what got you started/what you began to like or love about Transformers....if it started with Diaclone, a toy, TV episode, comic, or anything Transformers.

Well, it started when I sitting in the living room, probably with my brother, many years ago, and seeing a show where a truck changed into a robot and talked and started shooting at a plane that also changed into a robot - I was hooked.
Plus, it was around the time of Robotech and all that stuff as well. Both TF and Robotech became instant favourites and Robotech especially has remained relevant today and I pick up different things from it as I am an adult now that were inconsequential as a child. Some elements of the original series, retroactively called G1, also make more sense or have double meanings, intentional or not, now.
The original series has remained my favourite series, I've seen some of the others, but that spark, look and feel just isn't there. I gauge almost everything TF on the original series.

2) Then, tell us who your favorite Transformer character is, and WHY, and if you were a Transformer, who wouldnyou be, and WHY (you may be your favorite or a different character).

Prime and Megatron are cool, but Starscream was by far the best, he was fleshed out more than anyone else except maybe Prime himself.
He was devious, caniving, fun and even garnered sympathy a few times. Also, who could forget that cool voice.
I was more crushed by his death in the '86 film than Prime's!

3) Then, tell us which faction you like better, Autobot, Decepticon, or Neutral, and WHY.

Autobots are good guys, but the Decepticons often had cooler characters or alt modes. They also seem to be more memorable, Soundwave, Megatron, Starscream and especially the original combiner - Devastator. So, I'll go withj Decepticon.

4) Then, tell us what you would do with Transformers, whether it be making new or making changes to comics, TV show, toy line, or movie, and WHAT about any of it you would change.

My only real changes would be to reintroduce the original G1 series continuity. It was essentially a cliff hanger we got. Sure there is 'Japan continuity' for G1, but I would have the next animated project be a faithful continuation of G1, both in style, feel and characters. After so many reboots and retellings, I think we should get back to the originals.
The second change would be to have a live action movie that has great action, effects, but also a solid narrative. Not a reboot, by any means, but just a fresh take on the silver screen versions.

5) "(my Favorite character) Transform! "

"Starscream, Transform!"