Believe it, Transformers fans! Today is the anniversary of the first ever post about Transformers on the Internet - or rather, the pre-Internet Usenet. The first ever post about Transformers was a review of the first ever Transformers comic, calling it "the worst comic of the year". You can check out the original post here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/net.comics/TuupqbD-CBc/dgMOYd_32hwJ


You can check out my full writeup here: This day in Transformers history - 1984 - Transformers News - TFW2005

 

This is possibly the most relevant and important post I've ever seen here on TFW. Wow. We need to accept our fate. "I can't believe I spent $.75 on this thing" The more things change, the more they stay the same!!

 

Awesome!  

Happy 30th anniversery Transformers. Here's hoping for another 30 years of awesomeness~

 

Frenzy:
"I will attack the Autobots using high pitched soundwaves!"

Soundwave:
"Yes?"

Frenzy:
"I'm not TALKING to you yet!"

 

"The Transformers launches in the US, in toy, comic and cartoon formats, forever ruining Transformers."

Ayup.

 

It warms my heart on many levels to know that complaining about this hobby is something that started with our internet forefathers, continues to this day, and will probably outlive me by many, many centuries.

 

The first post avbout transformers was a complaint? seems about right to me  

Not much has changed in 30 years .

 

Gotta love the first time this franchise was ruined forever.

 

Worst comic of the year? Lololololol

 

This makes so much sense about this fandom...

 

rofl...

i loved the infodumping as a kid. still do.

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I admit I wasn't a fan of the info dumping, but really--the writing for the original four-issue series was no worse the anything X-Men ever did (except, perhaps, for the "naturally occurring gears and levers" bit). Happy 30th!

 

Speaks volumes.

 

Thanks again for another cool insight.

I remember getting issue #1. I remember this panel and loving it actually. This was the kind of camaraderie that I wanted...instead of the cartoon (that came later and pissed me off in parts) that didn't show the Decepticons as loyal to megatron as the comic portrayed in the early issues.

The post should not be a surprise...I hardly think it was made by a kid reading and playing transformers. It was probably a comic guy, loyal to certain titles, that just bought TF#1 because it was something new to read.

Without being a kid, and having the toys, and Techspecs, The reader would be completely oblivious to what this panel was about. This panel shows that the comic writers, had actually read the Techspecs, KNEW the characters, and had to give a short bio on all of them, for us kids that may not have owned every toy, or read every tech specs.

Dave

 

yes...same here. I soaked it up like a sponge as a kid.

 

The greatest bit about that article...no internet slang. No lol's, rofl, no smiley faces..nothing. Just plain straight forward talk/text.

 

Naturally occurring gears sounds like pure science fiction hogwashhhhhold on:

The First Gear Discovered in Nature - Popular Mechanics

 

In my day kid, we didn't have "I see what you did there" meme's and pictures of Tobey Maguire making a goofy face to say what we wanted to say. We had to actually say it with words!!