My TF Story: How do i start collecting TF...

[vader83]

Heheh..Hi guys!
Lets share our story on how/when we start buying and end up with collecting TF. As for myself, never cross in my mind to collect TF. When i was a kid, my father never bought me TF. I only get a chance to play with TF when my best friend bought Powermaster Optimus Prime. That was the first and the only chance. I even persuade him to leave his OP at my house so i can take a good care of it since his parents send him to nursery. Guess what! i slept with Optimus Prime at that night!! That was then...

So, on may 2008, i went to Terengganu by flight. Then on my way to the gate, i saw TFTM First Strike OP. I was shocked..never see an OP before. (maybe i didnt know there is a lot of TF out there, because i didnt bother about TF toys during my school days). Then i decide to wait until i get back from Terengganu as i didnt want to carry TF to Terengganu. So after 3 days, i return to KL...i walk to the store and couldnt find any OP. I saw 1 OP at the counter but the promoter said its been reserved. So i asked, why they didnt tell me about it ealier?I felt frustrated, very angry. Feel like wanna scold that promoter for not selling it to me!

On my way back home, i asked my bro where can i get TF and he said Times Square. So i asked him to drive to KL, go to Times Square because i cant hold anymore. I really want TFTM OP! hehehe...but only managed to go there the next day since its already late to go KL. Its 5pm already, might get trap in traffic jammed.....so, thats it. The next day, at 1 shop only, 1 bought my first 3 figs in 1 shot (geram sbb x dpt beli OP di KLIA, so borong abes) And now, i end up with more figs instead of first 3 figs.

How about you guys?..

[orestes]

1st started from teh excitement of Transformers The Movie.. it was then, saw all the toys at Toys R Us .. never bother to buy... just looked at them... dont know why, about several months after the movie.. im thinking of collecting TFTM .. but they already obsolete.. never released for retail market anymore... only can find in shops which they would sell it higher than retail price... so never bother...

and then there was Transformers Animated... haha.. this series of toyline came after TFTM right? therefore started to collect them.. bought all 1st wave in one shot.. that's how im starting... but already made up my mind.. wont collect too much of other series... always up to date at transformers.wikia.com to check which will come out later waves...

and now, im only gonna be collecting 2 series of their toyline .. the Universe 2.0 .. and im gonna stop after completing all the collections...

but if i can find good price for TFTM, im gonna buy too... there arent too many of them character anyways... op,bb,ironhide,jazz and ratchet.. megatron,starscream,brawl,blackout,bonecrusher and barricade.. if possible, gonna buy all of them in one shot too... then complete!

[lumhbk]

Ohh my story started just after saw the TFM Movie 07 last year.. At first i didnt really bother about the Bigger class Tfm figure (Deluxe,voyager, Leade class)..was interested only to collect TFM legends class that time coz of limited budget reason.

The first toy i got was the legend class 2pack (Bumbleebee and Scorponok) soon after that i was thinking to collect all characters from the movie since the price still affortable for me... after completed the legend class, one day, my colleague asked me to help buy him the Deluxe Class scorponok, so i helped him and kept his scorponok with me for 2 days since tat day was friday and i suppose to meet him at work on monday to pass him.

Spending 2 days with his scorponok at home, i begin to hv interest on deluxe class, i started comparing my legend class scorponok and his deluxe..found that bigger class looks cool and very detailing! Furthermore my Brother came to me and said bigger class looks even better than mine legend class and poison started to pick on me...soon after that moment..haha.. my hunting and passion for Transformers toy has began until very now...

[lumhbk]

"Gathering pals" i would like to hear from you guys too from where it started .. share with us..

[jicco]

I've been collecting stuff since school days. Only have 1 TF when i was a kid, a junior UM, which i think i still have it in box at hometown (most of my toys from kid still in box).

Thought of collecting for few years, but due to work relocation, i let the thought pass. Only started collecting around May this year. Not really into movie figure though, so didn't start collecting last year. Saw the henkei line, and started off from there.

[lumhbk]

Originally Posted by jicco

I've been collecting stuff since school days. Only have 1 TF when i was a kid, a junior UM, which i think i still have it in box at hometown (most of my toys from kid still in box).

Thought of collecting for few years, but due to work relocation, i let the thought pass. Only started collecting around May this year. Not really into movie figure though, so didn't start collecting last year. Saw the henkei line, and started off from there.

Really not into movie tf ar? Sure boh? Heard u r interested on TFM OP too previously jicco...did u buy it?

[jicco]

Originally Posted by lumhbk

Really not into movie tf ar? Sure boh? Heard u r interested on TFM OP too previously jicco...did u buy it?

Not into it until i have to get the complete set. Yea, working on the leader prime now.

I like old school tf, hehe

[New_Megatronia]

Heheheh nice story there Vader... here's mine... This is taken from my blog entry for the "My Introduction" and "G1 Red Alert toy" - HERE and HERE

Pt 1 - My Journey with TF's

OK... I guess the beginning is always a good place to start, so lets start with what got me hooked on all things Transformers. Well, like all kids growing up in the 80's "Transformers" was the biggest thing on TV!!! My love for all things Transformers was first "Sparked" by oddly enough, before the debut of the "Transformers" series. It was the less interesting "Challenge Of the Go-Bots".

That was what got me interested in Robots transforming into vehicles initially. They were cool and all, but they were lacking what Transformers have... a sense of style.. a style that stood the test of time, Something Transformers did effortlessly. of course, when Transformers debut in 1984, Go-Bots was blown right out of the water and into obscurity.



Well, everyone love the show.. even my older brother loved it and I often watch it with him when we were kids. But loving the show was 1 thing... loving the toys was quite another. I grew up in a below average income family, so such luxuries as owning a Transformers toy was out of the question...

Well, as I was saying earlier... owning a TF toy as a kid was something I never really had, well...not in the sense that it was bought for me by my parents or even an Aunt or Uncle. All the TF toy I ever had were bought by myself because I saved up like heck on my own by selling odds and ends to the kids at the marketplace or at school. Of course, that meant I could only afford the smaller TF toys.

My very first TF toy that i bought was "Red Alert"... But of course i didn't know what his function was, I just think that he looks cool and that it's a Lamborghini that transforms into a cool robot. I think I bought it just to impress my older brother hehehe, what a kid would do just to get some attention LOL . Most of my bigger TF toys were all charity project of my richer friends who would pawn them off to me in exchange for certain tasks. Some would feel so sorry for my pathetic lack of a Transformers toy, that they would just never ask for the toys back that they had borrowed me. That's how pathetic i was LOL



To say the least... I never owned a Prime or Megatron toy as a kid as these r the bigger and more expensive toy that one would have to fork out at one go.. and if a Prime n Megs toy is beyond my reach...I can kiss my dream goodbye for ever owning even bigger toys like Omega Supreme...

Well... fast forward 23 yrs later... I now have got more TF toys then i would ever imagine owning and my obsession my all things Prime n Megs have also embarked me on a quest to get all the available Prime n Megs figures I could get my hands on.

My Journey of TF collecting restarted on Christmas 1999.. My cuz bought me a Beast Wars Transmetal II Megatron ( Red Dragon ). It got me hooked and within 2 mths time..i went from having 1 figure to somewhere around 30-40 pcs LOL. I've been collecting eversince...

On a final note..i am perhaps the only Transformers fan and toy collector in my community that's disabled and wheel chaired bound... That kinda gives the whole notion of "Transform and Roll Out!!!" a whole new meaning Hahahah :p


Pt 2 - My very first TF toy...

Red Alert hold an important spot in my heart and journey with my love affair with all things Transformers because this was the very first TF toy i ever got!!! The thing is that... i got it before even knowing that there's actually a cool cartoon show about them!! All i saw was a cool Lamborghini that transforms into a very cool looking robot. But getting it wasn't easy. It was selling for about 40 bucks and back in the 80's for a 9 year old boy..it might as well be 4 million bucks LOL!!! Especially when I'm the youngest of 5 siblings coming from a below average income family of a veggie stall owner in the local vegetable market!!!

Gathering whatever savings i had, i brought em to the small toy shop at the corner and poured out my coins and whatever dollar bills that was in the mix LOL. The caretaker of the toy shop was a very surly lady that just scoffs at my ragtag clothing and my pathetic amount of scrunched up dollar bills and coins. She sat at the counter and counted whatever amount i had looking very uninterested and by the time she finished counting, she just looked up and me and said...

"You don't have enough money, ask your mother to give you more money to buy this toy"...

Yeah right... like it was that simple LOL. If that was so, would i be here in your shop with a handful of scrunched up dollar bills and a mix of quarters and pennies?? LOL

Anyhow, i ended up going back and forth from my mum's stall to the shop. Fishing out coins from my mum's change bin. Hehehe yeah i know it's wrong.. but i was only 9 and the seduction of a cool transforming toy is too much for me to resist LOL.

After going back and forth a few times... the lady from the toy shop was getting a bit annoyed with me as i was no way near the amount needed to buy the toy. Finally running out of time as it's almost 1pm and it's time to help my mum to close down the stall and go home for the day. Feeling defeated, i left the shop with my head held low and teary eyes. As i was leaving the shop.. a man walked into the shop and i could hear him asked the woman in the shop why is the boy (Me) looking so sad. She must have told him about my pathetic attempt to buy the toy, because soon after hearing their conversation... i heard the man calling out to me. He waved at me, signaling me to come to him with one hand while holding the "Red Alert" toy in the other.

I rushed back to the shop where he was standing and he told me.. "Here, you can have this toy". It was the the single most kind thing a total stranger have ever done for me for as long as i could remember. Ofcourse i grabbed the toy from his hands with glee and thanked him profusely.

But because this toy is bought with very questionable means... I had to open up the toy at an open air car park. Ripping up the box to get to it's contents and hurried back to my mum;s veggie stall to help her pack up. In an attempt to explain for the possession of this toy i told everyone that my friend gave me that toy... Yeah RIGHT.. like anyone actually believed that LOL

So, there you go... a true life story of my adventure or rather misadventure of owning my very first Transformers toy.. "RED ALERT"!!!

Hehehe... This is also the story of how i started collecting TF back in the 80's. My parents too were never able to afford buying toys for me as a kid... so TF is more out of the question LOL So i guess now i am making up for lost childhood ... collect like a drunkard :P

Cheers!!!
N_M

[vader83]

Originally Posted by New_Megatronia

Heheheh nice story there Vader... here's mine... This is taken from my blog entry for the "My Introduction" and "G1 Red Alert toy" - HERE and HERE

Pt 1 - My Journey with TF's

OK... I guess the beginning is always a good place to start, so lets start with what got me hooked on all things Transformers. Well, like all kids growing up in the 80's "Transformers" was the biggest thing on TV!!! My love for all things Transformers was first "Sparked" by oddly enough, before the debut of the "Transformers" series. It was the less interesting "Challenge Of the Go-Bots".

That was what got me interested in Robots transforming into vehicles initially. They were cool and all, but they were lacking what Transformers have... a sense of style.. a style that stood the test of time, Something Transformers did effortlessly. of course, when Transformers debut in 1984, Go-Bots was blown right out of the water and into obscurity.



Well, everyone love the show.. even my older brother loved it and I often watch it with him when we were kids. But loving the show was 1 thing... loving the toys was quite another. I grew up in a below average income family, so such luxuries as owning a Transformers toy was out of the question...

Well, as I was saying earlier... owning a TF toy as a kid was something I never really had, well...not in the sense that it was bought for me by my parents or even an Aunt or Uncle. All the TF toy I ever had were bought by myself because I saved up like heck on my own by selling odds and ends to the kids at the marketplace or at school. Of course, that meant I could only afford the smaller TF toys.

My very first TF toy that i bought was "Red Alert"... But of course i didn't know what his function was, I just think that he looks cool and that it's a Lamborghini that transforms into a cool robot. I think I bought it just to impress my older brother hehehe, what a kid would do just to get some attention LOL . Most of my bigger TF toys were all charity project of my richer friends who would pawn them off to me in exchange for certain tasks. Some would feel so sorry for my pathetic lack of a Transformers toy, that they would just never ask for the toys back that they had borrowed me. That's how pathetic i was LOL



To say the least... I never owned a Prime or Megatron toy as a kid as these r the bigger and more expensive toy that one would have to fork out at one go.. and if a Prime n Megs toy is beyond my reach...I can kiss my dream goodbye for ever owning even bigger toys like Omega Supreme...

Well... fast forward 23 yrs later... I now have got more TF toys then i would ever imagine owning and my obsession my all things Prime n Megs have also embarked me on a quest to get all the available Prime n Megs figures I could get my hands on.

My Journey of TF collecting restarted on Christmas 1999.. My cuz bought me a Beast Wars Transmetal II Megatron ( Red Dragon ). It got me hooked and within 2 mths time..i went from having 1 figure to somewhere around 30-40 pcs LOL. I've been collecting eversince...

On a final note..i am perhaps the only Transformers fan and toy collector in my community that's disabled and wheel chaired bound... That kinda gives the whole notion of "Transform and Roll Out!!!" a whole new meaning Hahahah :p


Pt 2 - My very first TF toy...

Red Alert hold an important spot in my heart and journey with my love affair with all things Transformers because this was the very first TF toy i ever got!!! The thing is that... i got it before even knowing that there's actually a cool cartoon show about them!! All i saw was a cool Lamborghini that transforms into a very cool looking robot. But getting it wasn't easy. It was selling for about 40 bucks and back in the 80's for a 9 year old boy..it might as well be 4 million bucks LOL!!! Especially when I'm the youngest of 5 siblings coming from a below average income family of a veggie stall owner in the local vegetable market!!!

Gathering whatever savings i had, i brought em to the small toy shop at the corner and poured out my coins and whatever dollar bills that was in the mix LOL. The caretaker of the toy shop was a very surly lady that just scoffs at my ragtag clothing and my pathetic amount of scrunched up dollar bills and coins. She sat at the counter and counted whatever amount i had looking very uninterested and by the time she finished counting, she just looked up and me and said...

"You don't have enough money, ask your mother to give you more money to buy this toy"...

Yeah right... like it was that simple LOL. If that was so, would i be here in your shop with a handful of scrunched up dollar bills and a mix of quarters and pennies?? LOL

Anyhow, i ended up going back and forth from my mum's stall to the shop. Fishing out coins from my mum's change bin. Hehehe yeah i know it's wrong.. but i was only 9 and the seduction of a cool transforming toy is too much for me to resist LOL.

After going back and forth a few times... the lady from the toy shop was getting a bit annoyed with me as i was no way near the amount needed to buy the toy. Finally running out of time as it's almost 1pm and it's time to help my mum to close down the stall and go home for the day. Feeling defeated, i left the shop with my head held low and teary eyes. As i was leaving the shop.. a man walked into the shop and i could hear him asked the woman in the shop why is the boy (Me) looking so sad. She must have told him about my pathetic attempt to buy the toy, because soon after hearing their conversation... i heard the man calling out to me. He waved at me, signaling me to come to him with one hand while holding the "Red Alert" toy in the other.

I rushed back to the shop where he was standing and he told me.. "Here, you can have this toy". It was the the single most kind thing a total stranger have ever done for me for as long as i could remember. Ofcourse i grabbed the toy from his hands with glee and thanked him profusely.

But because this toy is bought with very questionable means... I had to open up the toy at an open air car park. Ripping up the box to get to it's contents and hurried back to my mum;s veggie stall to help her pack up. In an attempt to explain for the possession of this toy i told everyone that my friend gave me that toy... Yeah RIGHT.. like anyone actually believed that LOL

So, there you go... a true life story of my adventure or rather misadventure of owning my very first Transformers toy.. "RED ALERT"!!!

Hehehe... This is also the story of how i started collecting TF back in the 80's. My parents too were never able to afford buying toys for me as a kid... so TF is more out of the question LOL So i guess now i am making up for lost childhood ... collect like a drunkard :P

Cheers!!!
N_M

so touching....
i think same thing happen to me, making up for lost childhood.
never being able to buy and own 'bombastic' toys like TF

So, how about the others? must have a story behind your TF

[orestes]

my 1st tf when i was a kid.. a car that can squirts water... then transform into robot with gun that can squirt water... hahahaha