My dad grew up with G1, and one night when I made robots from blocks that I remade into planes, my dad sensed the connection, and introduced me to Transformers Prime the following weekend. That Christmas I received Cyberverse Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Bumblebee.

 

Was around 4 or 5 when I was channel surfing on the TV, and I saw a show that had animals turning into robots. I wanted to flip through channels, but I watched that show to its end. That show was Beast Wars, and the rest is history. Beast Machines was after, and after that, I got hooked on RiD2001, and that cemented my entry into TF for the rest of my life!    

 

It's hard to remember. I think I saw a commercial for the G1 toys back in the 80's, or maybe in that year's Sears catalog. Also watching the show when I came home from school. But, I think it was really the toy ads that hooked me.

 

I've watched some of the G1 episode re-runs when I was really young and caught Beast Wars on TV probably during elementary school.

Beast Machines followed soon after but at that time Transformers wasn't really that big for me since there weren't enough fans at my school to talk about the show and I couldn't even find the toys.

That changed when the first live action movie came out in 2007, I liked it and this time I had the power of the internet to help me get into the fandom through articles, fansites and toy reviews.

 

I live in Thailand Most of the animated TV shows are from Japan. We've never looked at transformers, but there are items from China for sale in the local store.
We don't really care much about transform vehicles because the toys we have are transforming warships. Transfiguration Dinosaurs, Dragon Ball, Senseiya, and Super Sentai

Our local store has a toy that’s look like optimus prime and the other characters from the transformers that I knew when I was in high school. I just got cable TV for the first time in my life. And there is one channel that re-runs G1 in 2007.

Surprisingly I was like 17 at the time but G1 still made me rush home and watch it every day before I did my homework (yes, Asian homework was heavy)think I just got the touch from Transformers now
not for long There was a michale bay movie coming out, but it wasn't what I expected. But it's still amazing

yes that’s how I became TF fans

 

I saw the original g1 toon when it premiered.

 

Walked in on my dad watching it as a maybe ten year old, got curious, and since he's all about that geeky stuff he was happy to start it over with me. It basically blossomed from there and now I arguably know more about the franchise than he does, haha. Led me into the glory of Robotech, too.

 

From the first episode of the original G1 TV show. Been a fan since 1984.

 

I grow up watching Beast Wars and Armada on tv.

 

When I was a kid I was into all the boys toys/shows heman, gijoe, gobots ect ect.
Transformers was actually mid tier for me at the time. My dad was stationed in japan and we moved. One day I was flipping through channels and caught an episode of master force and was like I KNOW THIS!!! Watched that and all of victory before we moved back to the states. So transformers was just always there.

As what keeps me a fan today. Honestly no clue. Transformers/Robots in general always interested me so theres that. But I also love see all the different takes on characters as the years past.

Thou burnout and funds may keep me from the collecting aspect. The different lores, designs, and characters will keep me in love with the franchise.

 

Kinda stumbled into it by finding some used toys, I've always loved robots, it got me like walking into an opened manhole on the sidewalk

 

I learn of transformers by YouTube more specifically from coolarite leader of the prime targets and my curiosity got the best of me and that was history

 

It was interesting. Honestly it was 1996 when Beast Wars came out that piqued my interest. I loved the show and had a couple figures. But it wasn't until partway through summer 2000 before I entered 9th grade that stuff really took off. My older sister had a roommate who was a big TF fan and became a good family friend. He utilized his collection of G1 Marvel comics to help me with my angst on reading assignments as I was complaining about it. That year he'd also gotten me a BW Inferno figure and showed me the 1986 animated movie. Then RiD2001 came out and it's been downhill from there. Though granted I did skip out on a majority of Armada which I managed to fill out on the secondary market during Energon.

 

I was 7 when Transformers toys first started showing up in 1984. I think the first one I ever saw was Prowl…some girl in my 2nd grade class brought him to school. I had a few GoBots, but TFs were next-level stuff that seemed pretty magical to me. I was given an Ironhide for my 8th birthday in August of that year, and the G1 toon started airing shortly thereafter. It became my favorite childhood cartoon and toyline. I’ve come and gone from collecting and the fandom a few times over the years, but I keep coming back because it keeps expanding and getting better.

 

I was born in 83 and my brother had the majority of season 1. Yes he had G1 Megatron witch I would mess around with to my surprise I never broke him. And even Jetfire. One of his DnD friends even had most of season 1 to 3. He never got the Omnibots or Reflector. I cannot remember my first Transformer, but I do remember having Seaspray, Cosmose, Wildrider, Sludge, Dogfight, Fizzle and Prowl before I got Powermaster Prime, Darkwing, Bugly and Ultramagnus. So I have been exposed to Transformers, He-Man and TMNT from the beginning. I still remember that Christmas I got 2 Ultramaguses. One with a silver face and one with a blue face. I was told many years later My dad would throw away half of the toys me and my brothers would get for our birthdays and Christmas. Made a lot more sense since I was never able to find that 2nd Ultramagnus and several other figures I never saw the day after since My attention was mostly on the Figure's I liked that week. Even to this day I can see the look in his eyes that he wants to take a box of black bags and clear out the house. But I will NOT allow it. I kept up with the line since I liked the puzzle aspect of it. I even liked the rubik's cube, even though I suck at solving it. And the story has always been with me. Even when I was watching and getting TMNT, MOTU, X-Men, Spider-man, Batman, and many others I always retuned to Transformers.

 

I was 6 in kindergarten when Transformers started, and loved it right from the outset. I knew it was make believe but didn't know how. I remember thinking they were human actors in costumes, filmed with a special camera to make them look so colorful. One day when I was sick and home from school, my parents bought me my first TF - yellow Cliffjumper. I was confused that he didn't make the afterimage-trailing-in-air effect that the toy commercials had showed; that plus his small size made me think he wasn't supposed to be a real Transformer but rather was a toy that the Transformers played with.

To anyone who wasn't alive / aware in 1984-87, it is impossible to overstate how Transformers were a universal and inescapable children's language.

 

Constant bombardment of thirty minute long animated toy commercials in my formative years.

 

I remember seeing Transformers Animated on the Hub when I was little, but I barely remember it.

As for how I really got into it, a friend on Discord introduced me to it a year back. I am a certified n00b.

 

That's so cool that you still have that Yellow Cliffjumper!

 

I was born in 85 and I guess my parents must have had the show on for me as they claim my first word was, "Twansfo'mas" - I was obsessed with The Movie when I was about 4 and rented the local VHS copy until it wore out.

I remember getting the toys for Birthdays and Holidays and I've seen some old family video opening them which has been a treat. One time my Dad and I found a box of about 100 G1 figures in a box at the local dump. I'll never forget that day.

When I got older I forgot about them until I was in college and I found out online that MP-01 was coming out and that they had figures, Binaltechs, that turned into real-world vehicles. I had to get Wheeljack as the Mustang GT was my favorite car.

It wouldn't be until a few years later I was working as a character artist at Sony and one of the other guys working there had about 500 figures in his cube, I'm not even exaggerating...He introduced me to TFW2005, and the Radicon scene. I started collecting and customizing the Classics line which had just come out. I think the first figure I bought was the SDCC Nemesis Repaint of Classics Prime and then I was hooked.