G1 Transformers

[KnightWarrior]

Anyone's a fan of the Cartoon??

I'm a big fan..

[420GOAT]

yes it comes on qubo in los angeles.

[KnightWarrior]

I have it on DVD, But still watch it on the hub

[Nando]

Gobots all the way....

I keed, I keed.

Check out the chit chat forums, some transformers related conversations in there.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Yup, I have all the dvd's of the shows released so far(even the ones that suck beyond suck....COUGH....Armada...COUGH).  I basically have all the G1 DVD's, including the Headmasters, Masterforce, & Victory.  I just wish those ones were dubbed, that would've been nice.

[Duo_R]

Yup

[arex]

The show came out when I was in the third grade.  Transformers, GI*Joe and Robotech are my three faves.

I'm already indoctrinating my 3 year old daughter for a lifelong love of transformers.  Not sure if she'll be into G1 though.  The storybooks I read her are derived from the live action movies and Transformers: Animated.

yes it comes on qubo in los angeles.

It is??  I had no idea.  Thanks for the heads up!

[soop]

I was the biggest fan of Transformers (G1) I'd ever met.  There are probably more obsessive people on the net, but when I was a kid, that and lego were pretty much the only toys I was into, even after Transformer toys started to suck.  Still have all of them.

And I still can't believe my mum threw out my collection of around 300 transformer comics some 17 years ago.  Stupid stupid stupid.

[Joe Redifer]

Yup.  I was a huge fan as a kid and I would have loved it if the toys were the quality of today's "Masterpiece" stuff but with the prices they were back in the day.  Not sure what I'd do with the toys of today as I don't care to simply pose them on shelves and I can't really get into playing with toys like I did back then (wooosh! pew pew!).

[runinruder]

I was a big fan of the cartoon when I was a kid, but aside from a few quality episodes (e.g., Webworld), it hasn't held up very well for me.  I still own the old movie and give it a watch every now and then for all the awesome one-liners.

At this point, I'm a much bigger fan of the old Marvel Transformers comics.  They were generally darker than the cartoon (there weren't too many cartoon episodes like the string of comics that saw Shockwave blast up the Autobots, hang them from the ceiling, decapitate Prime, and seize power from Megatron by pummeling him) and made some very memorable characters out of certain Transformers (Shockwave, Ratchet, Blaster, Scorponok, etc.).

Robotech is an old cartoon I can still appreciate and enjoy. 

[GohanX]

Yup, it was my favorite cartoon growing up, as well as my favorite toy line. I've got the series on DVD, and I still have some of the old toys, as well as some of the G1 inspired newer toys.

[vestcoat]

I was a big fan of the cartoon when I was a kid, but aside from a few quality episodes (e.g., Webworld), it hasn't held up very well for me.  I still own the old movie and give it a watch every now and then for all the awesome one-liners.

At this point, I'm a much bigger fan of the old Marvel Transformers comics.  They were generally darker than the cartoon (there weren't too many cartoon episodes like the string of comics that saw Shockwave blast up the Autobots, hang them from the ceiling, decapitate Prime, and seize power from Megatron by pummeling him) and made some very memorable characters out of certain Transformers (Shockwave, Ratchet, Blaster, Scorponok, etc.).

I started buying the comics at issue #8 (five years old). I couldn't believe how they kept Prime dead/MIA for years. Looking back, it's cool the writers followed such an unorthodox, captivating storyline, but as a kid waiting an eternity to buy each new monthly issue off the newsstand, it was pure torture. Still have all eighty issues and my action figures. I think about selling the figures from time to time as I could use a cash cow and they've done nothing but sit in a box for twenty years.

[runinruder]

I was a big fan of the cartoon when I was a kid, but aside from a few quality episodes (e.g., Webworld), it hasn't held up very well for me.  I still own the old movie and give it a watch every now and then for all the awesome one-liners.

At this point, I'm a much bigger fan of the old Marvel Transformers comics.  They were generally darker than the cartoon (there weren't too many cartoon episodes like the string of comics that saw Shockwave blast up the Autobots, hang them from the ceiling, decapitate Prime, and seize power from Megatron by pummeling him) and made some very memorable characters out of certain Transformers (Shockwave, Ratchet, Blaster, Scorponok, etc.).

I started buying the comics at issue #8 (five years old). I couldn't believe how they kept Prime dead/MIA for years. Looking back, it's cool the writers followed such an unorthodox, captivating storyline, but as a kid waiting an eternity to buy each new monthly issue off the newsstand, it was pure torture. Still have all eighty issues and my action figures. I think about selling the figures from time to time as I could use a cash cow and they've done nothing but sit in a box for twenty years.

Nice!  I think #8 was my first issue too.  I remember being baffled as to why Ratchet was the only Autobot around and Shockwave was leading the Decepticons.  I think I'm missing two or three issues from the original run... I should pick them up on eBay sometime.  I didn't have too many of the toys because a lot of them seemed poorly made and way off scale relative to others, and in many cases they didn't look much like the characters in the cartoon.  The one I still have is Cyclonus, as he was my favorite in the show.   

[SignOfZeta]

I loved the toys (still do) up through Masterforce but the TV show was craparoo. The Movie is obviously awesome as f*ck, and a few episodes, mainly Call of the Primitives (bizarrely awesome, how did it get made?) but other than that it's pretty amazingly shitty. Better than Rainbow Bright, maybe, but considering Japanese were getting stuff like Zeta Gundam, Votoms, Dunbine, and whatnot...Transformers is just idiotic badly made garbage.  

The best thing about the TV show was that it made The Movie possible.

Masterforce was...decent, maybe close to Inspector Gadget (in plot, certainly not in production) but that's about all I can say.

It all kicks the shit out of Beast Wars though. That shit is just worthless.

[Joe Redifer]

I have most of the Marvel comics myself.  I used to even have issue 1 but I can't find it, so my collection starts with issue 2.  It ends somewhere around The Mechanic's second or third appearance.  It just stated getting boring and the new characters/toys just weren't very interesting.