Sometimes theres too much negativity here and I contribute to it unfortunately, so I wanna turn it around and talk about positive stuff. Whats are your happiest reasons or moments to love transformers? It can be about anything whether its the movies or comics or shows or toys whatever, just what makes you happy with transformers?
Watching old episodes of Prime and Animated always makes me happy, theres always a little thrill buying a new or old toy and transforming it for the very first time.
When I completed (well almost completed sans the Dinobots except G1 Grimlock) my G1 Season 1 and 2 TFs. Almost scoring G1 Hm both Cybertron and Destrons (no Scorponok) When I completed my G1 TF animated series 98 episodes. TF86 Movie. Plus the JP Hm,Masterforce,Victory and Zone(wish the JPs had a better resolution though (Dang you Toei!) Never realizing that the Diaclone Trainrobots were actually worth something! Picking up Metalhawk(theoriginal die-cast one) mint from a flee market warehouse(wished I could have gotten the other 5(didn't have a job yet back in 1992) When the MP line got released(especially the later years one) After 10 years managed to get an MP09 (not broken yet) MP Arcee released Warts and all but Siege,Earthrise and Kingdom. (Thanks to this line now have Both completed Autobots and Decepticon headmasters, Skyfire etc etc) Eventual release of HL Victory Saber Viz Comics release the translated JP manga Scoring the tome tankobon whose name must never be mentioned( the singing idol group band ) Scoring TFC#0 3rd Party Phoenix(common, admit it, it is awesome)
How'd I get into Transformers? I was browsing through a fancomic site and was looking through the T tag. For some reason the Transformers tag stuck out to me, and so I was reading most of the comics on the TF tag. After I was done I got some fond memories of watching TFP when I was little and I went, "hmm I should really watch TFP, hadn't watched it since I was a wee lass, maybe I should see what I'm 'missing'" and a day later I did. I ended up falling down the TF rabbit hole and look where I am now. Oh, and Knockout was in about one third of the comics I read (there were about like 34). The first series I checked out was Prime partially because of that and Knockout's one of my favorite characters. He holds a special place in my heart since he was technically contributing to me getting into the franchise
Finding a figure I want at the store (bonus points if it's a store I wasn't expecting to find Transformers in). Also, I have come to enjoy making photo comics, it gets me back into playing with Transformers rather than just taking them out of the box and putting them on a shelf. Thanks to the members here who make photo comics and inspired me to give it a try.
Going into my local Walmart and beating the living hell out of all the kids in the toy aisle for my 8th kingdom tracks. The hype and speculation for RoTB and the upcoming movies are pretty fun as well.
When they were filming Age of Extinction a mile from my house. Meeting Wahlberg. Seeing Bay on set, They had 2 Bugatti Veyrons that made the most wonderful noise. Both my parents were still alive and thought I was an idiot for being damn near 40 and going there everyday to watch a movie about transformers being made. Calling me an idiot was just as good as an I love you. they both went with me a few times. that was good times.
A random memory, but I remember being about 4 or 5, and my family took me with them to Walmart to go shopping. I went to look at the toys section, and there I saw Cybertron Crumplezone on the shelf. I had been collecting Transformers for a bit at that time, I had other figures, but this is one of the ones I remember the most. I remember picking him up, and walking with him with my family as we headed to the checkout, the hustle and bustle of people since this was around the time school starting up, and also just your general grocery shopping needs. I remember the smell of the store, that very "department" store smell, and holding the figure and just marveling at him inside his package. I have other figures who I have a bigger relationship to than this, but this is one moment that sticks out in my mind as a reason to love these things, even if it's probably more of a, "God, I remember loving being a kid" memory.
