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Does anybody remember their origional thoughts on when you first seen the toys in the stores?I remember they first time I seen the Areilbots in a box set a christmas release and I was like who are theses guys?.Th first time I seen anything with Devastater was in the commercial and it blew me away the Transformers were competing with Voltron.

The one that stands out was Ultra Magnus.This was months before I knew about a movie.My brother came by to pick me up from work.He said that he was in our local toy store called Kiddytown and they had a white Optimus Prime.I told him to drive us there.I got there and there was UM and I was like what is up with his trailer it looks funky..I didn't realize at first it was a cart carrier.I grabbed him on the spot anbd remeber paying $30 for him in early 1986.

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Yes. My first impression was how cool the artwork represented the robots and that toys were made of the cartoon I was watching on TV.

The bad thing is at that time Transformers were very expensive and for that reason I never had one of them as a gift. I was lucky to have 1 or 2 GI Joe figures a year.

I saw many of the Transformers at school and looked ok but not like wow amazing, because not all of them looked like the cartoon characters. The ones that comes to mind that looked OK were Optimus, some what Starscream, Thundercracker and others also Omega Supreme was the one to watch in toy version. Not so great (Not like the cartoon) were Ironhide (Robot), Megatron, and others...

 

Another thing was the scale of the robots that has NOTHING to do with how they look in the cartoon so you can have a BIG Soundwave robot and a more tiny Optimus Prime?

 

Comparing their(Transformers) look with GI JOE figures, a that time the Joes looked more accurate to the cartoon characters.

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Of course the Go bots came out first when I was a kid but I remembered a Marvel Comic commercial that showed a semi leaping into the air and transforming into who we know as Optimus Prime. I thought the character development was more stronger with TF then with Go-Bots.

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Of course the Go bots came out first when I was a kid but I remembered a Marvel Comic commercial that showed a semi leaping into the air and transforming into who we know as Optimus Prime. I thought the character development was more stronger with TF then with Go-Bots.

 

I used to watched a lot the Gobots before the Transformers release on TV... My mom bought me some of the figures because they were very affordable at the time. The bad thing is like Transformers the inaccuracy of the characters from cartoon to toys versions were not as close as it has to be.

 

Example Cy-Kill is not similar to his cartoon counterpart.

 

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I didn't get to go to the "store" very often when I was a lad....I guess moms knew better than to take us to the store.....we would prolly be asking for stuff we couldn't afford....I remember I was in a "Gibsons" drug & grocery store.....that toy section was even more magical than Tahiti....literally tens of tens of joes on the pegs....& then boxes of Transformers clogging the arteries of the shelves....I remember seeing "Mirage" & Optimus on the shelf....& a few of the Decepticons....man I was blown away by the toys themselves but also the artwork on the boxes.....they really caught my eyes back then, just the whole feel of the toy aisle was electric.....my childhood wasn't the greatest (who's wasn't right?) so these toys took me far away from all that.....they still do today but back then I at least appreciated them one purchase at a time.....nowadays I appreciate them but I tend to have so many I box em up & keep out the cools ones for quick display then I change things up later on down the line....I did have somewhat of an objection that the toys weren't as articulate as the show.....especially "IronHide" jeez.....I had no idea what he was exactly "sled-cyborg" or "two crappy toys in one"?....I tended to brake "legs" cause I wanted them to bend but they didn't.....one of the most sweet & damaging things I remember when I was younger was that I really wanted Optimus.....I got him years later at a garage sale but when TF's 1st came on the scene I wanted Optimus so bad I talked, slept & pretended I was Optimus....my mom raising 2 kids on her own could barely afford food let alone toys....we had garage-sale toys for the longest time....the only time I would get something new was on my birthday or Xmas....I was jealous of kids who got toys on Easter or just for the H of it.....anewayys I was upset that I wasn't ever gonna get Optimus....my older brother who was an awesome artist when we were kids drew me a giant optimus from a front view....he drew one of Optimus in vehicle mode & one in Robot-mode....He cut them out & I had a "paper-doll" of optimus & megatron & a few others....I wore those "toys" out so much I asked him to draw me more but he didn't want to.....my older brother could astonish me w/his coolness from time to time but mostly he was jerk to me.....I just remember kids bringing Autobots & Decepticons to school but never really getting to play w/them till the "buzz" died down & they started to be old hat & then I scored a few of them at garage sales....& then I got a paper route & picked up a few more....the first actual TF I bought in store was Cosmos I think.....great thread keep up the goodness...in my eyes the cartoon could do no wrong until after the movie debuted then the episodes afterward lost me....

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We all have great child hood stories about this magnificent toys we saw on TV and on the toy stores. Some of us received one or more of these figures at once but there is no denying that some of us expected something else when we opened the boxed figures... As we mentioned lot of those figures were NOT as the art of the box or had the likeness of their cartoon character.

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Man ..Back then you could go dow a toy aisle and the pegs were literaly flooded with figures.In Child World one whole side of an aisle was G1 the other side was GI Joe.I miss that time

 

I remember those time at Woolworth and Toy'R'Us.

 

Toy aisle full with carded figures. That was so amazing!

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I used to watched a lot the Gobots before the Transformers release on TV...

 

umm, pardon me but what country do you live, or lived in back in 84?

 

 

because in the US, Transformers first episode aired on September 17, 1984..............more then a month before the first Challenge of the GoBots episode that aired on October 29, 1984.

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I used to watched a lot the Gobots before the Transformers release on TV...

 

umm, pardon me but what country do you live, or lived in back in 84?

 

 

because in the US, Transformers first episode aired on September 17, 1984..............more then a month before the first Challenge of the GoBots episode that aired on October 29, 1984.

Back in Venezuela the Gobots were on TV earlier than the Transformers.

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I used to watched a lot the Gobots before the Transformers release on TV...

 

umm, pardon me but what country do you live, or lived in back in 84?

 

 

because in the US, Transformers first episode aired on September 17, 1984..............more then a month before the first Challenge of the GoBots episode that aired on October 29, 1984.

Back in Venezuela the Gobots were on TV earlier than the Transformers.

thats why I asked.

 

I heard it was the same in other countries.

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The bad thing is like Transformers the inaccuracy of the characters from cartoon to toys versions were not as close as it has to be.

 

Example Cy-Kill is not similar to his cartoon counterpart.

 

TridentsTripleThreat006.jpg

 

favtoy-gobot-cykill.jpg

I just re-read this part bof your post.

 

I disagree.I feel the Go-bots toys are much more show accurate than transformers were.

toon and toy were pretty "spot on" for Cy-kill

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The bad thing is like Transformers the inaccuracy of the characters from cartoon to toys versions were not as close as it has to be.

 

Example Cy-Kill is not similar to his cartoon counterpart.

 

TridentsTripleThreat006.jpg

 

favtoy-gobot-cykill.jpg

I just re-read this part bof your post.

 

I disagree.I feel the Go-bots toys are much more show accurate than transformers were.

toon and toy were pretty "spot on" for Cy-kill

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That face don't look so accurate to me...

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That face don't look so accurate to me...

a little bit of paint and that toy face is pretty show accurate.

 

far more thern some transformers anyway.

 

ever see toy Ironhides face?

 

That was an awful figures... That's why I loved when Hasbro released the Heroes of Cybertron line, because they look like the cartoon characters...

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That face don't look so accurate to me...

a little bit of paint and that toy face is pretty show accurate.

 

far more thern some transformers anyway.

 

ever see toy Ironhides face?

 

That was an awful figures... That's why I loved when Hasbro released the Heroes of Cybertron line, because they look like the cartoon characters...

those little pvc's were great

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With no Walgreens nearby, that line frustrated me.

Walgreens was not the only place to find thrm.

Did they show up at Rite-Aid as well possibly? Anywhere else? I just remember it was a tough line for me to collect, even though I wanted to.

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With no Walgreens nearby, that line frustrated me.

Walgreens was not the only place to find thrm.

Did they show up at Rite-Aid as well possibly? Anywhere else? I just remember it was a tough line for me to collect, even though I wanted to.

rite aid, CVS, Eckards, some local "nic nack stores" all over NYC, , comic book shops, local pharmacy's and Pathmark pharmacy

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Man ..Back then you could go dow a toy aisle and the pegs were literaly flooded with figures.In Child World one whole side of an aisle was G1 the other side was GI Joe.I miss that time

yes! i remember shopping at my favorite store as a kid (Gregory's). it was a local store...independant i think, but they always had the BEST toy section. they were always stocked with a great selection of transformers, gi joe, he-man, go-bots, star wars, voltron, m.u.s.c.l.e., army ants, rock lords, insectors, MASK, silverhawks, thunder cats, Nintendo games, micro mini machines, smurfs, care bears, cabage patch, jem, rainbow bright, popples, teddy ruxpin, get-along gang, and all the great board games and bikes you could imagine!

 

Windcharger was my very first TF. soon after that i picked up mirage and tralebreaker. ahhhh, the memories!!

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