It's a simple enough question. Pretty much all of us here are adult
collectors who buy toys so we can fiddle with them, sometimes write
reviews about them, and either display them on a shelf or stuff them
in a box somewhere.
I'm just curious to know how many people here started off as members
of the original target audience, kids who played with their
Transformers toys in the sandbox or the playground with other kids.
(Points if you still have some of the toys you actually played with
back then. Bonus points if they still have battle damage from those
playground battles!)
When I was twelve years old, my best friend from school and I had lots
of Transformers battles. We pooled our collections together and then
decided which toys were mine to play with and which toys were his in
the same way you might pick who was going to be on your school soccer
team. We played fast-and-loose with factions, with Autobot and
Decepticon characters on the same team; he tended to pick toys who
turned into military vehicles, but we both knew we had to have at
least one leader character, one medic, and one scientist-type.
Some of the stuff we came up with in the course of our games was
absolutely ridiculous. There was nothing worse than your base getting
attacked right when you were in the middle of inventing combiner
technology or transforming city-bases or something, so I spent an
inordinate amount of time on making sure my base had forcefield
technology to prevent his team from ambu****ng me in the middle of my
research and development. The only thing worse than getting attacked
was being spied on, though, so I also developed "black forcefields"
which were both attack-proof and surveillance-proof. (I liked the
idea of forcefields that were completely spherical, with half of the
sphere penetrating into the ground and thus completely encapsulating
the base, but my friend wanted his guys to be able to tunnel under the
forcefields as necessary. No wonder he always wanted to play with the
Technobots. They've got Nosecone!)
It was right around sixth grade that all my friends suddenly decided
that they were too old to like Transformers. I never really grew out
of it, which meant I ended up getting the toys they had grown out of.
Heh.
Zob
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