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I was 4, almost 5. I can't remember if I saw the actual premiere during it's original airing, but I know I watched the cartoon pretty regularly and was a fan.

A million times this. My go-to "I have birthday money to spend" trip to Kay-Bee toys used to be buying a Transformer and however many packs of Battle Beasts I could afford with what was left over. I didn't know until adulthood that they actually share the same fictional universe.

Would they, perchance, be made for walkin'?

Well played.

Mason City. Chili Bowl Mullet Man is from Springfield, though I'm in Decatur.

Unexpected find yesterday. The family and I drove a little over an hour away to a tiny little Central Illinois town to see the theater premiere of a documentary that a friend of mine made about local celebrity Chili Bowl Mullet Man (that sounds made up, but I assure you that it is true)...

Get in, losers. We're going to get energon.

Haul from an estate sale yesterday: Several of them are missing limbs or accessories (is a Wing Thing without wings just a Thing?), and Gobot Zero is too floppy for anything but a "paint me like one of your French bots" pose, but there are some good finds in there.

Love it. Powermaster Prime was my only Optimus as a kid. He was fantastic.

Well no. CLEARLY he would also need a trenchcoat.

The Fantastic Four are a big one. I don't follow modern comics, really, but from memory of the old ones I used to read, none of the FF really kept a "secret identity." They still answered to their civilian names and wore civilian clothes at times, but there was no separation of those from...

I never did pick up jet Elita. I do like how she's more similar in size to your average Optimus, but I was a strict Trukk-not-playne G1'er. I love Earthspark's take on her earth mode being a big offroad truck to give her some mass to work with.

I really do like this, but that price is a bit higher than what I had hoped. I was figuring on roughly $50ish modern Leader price. $75 for just the cab is a bit too much, I think. I think I'll wait and see if there is a more reasonably priced domestic release.

I'm just waiting for the series with the cool, laid-back captain that lets everyone just wear jeans.

The Bigfoot was the highlight of Christmas by far. And was used pretty much constantly until I didn't fit into it anymore.

Christmas 1985. Not 100% sure if this is Sludge or Snarl (leaning towards Sludge). They were the only two Dinobots I had as a kid but I'm not sure who came first.

Brilliant!

I did the exact same thing. I initially avoided the Siege Seeker mold completely, waiting for the eventual Earth jet version. But once I bought Hotlink on sale and realized how nice that mold was, I caved and bought a few more.

Just as Giant God Computer intended.

I'm being charged for arson, but that's a whole different story.