This is a classic. :) I honestly never picked up any of the Original crew when i first started, i remember my first transformer being.... Fireflight! That was from Toys R Us in Marine Parade back in the days when Toys R Us had one whole building to itself... and there were just rows of them waiting for someone to take them home... and it only cost like, S$5.95 back then?
It was soon after that i started collecting the others for Superion... ah good times. Shortly after the Transformers craze sorta died out worldwide... guess it's partially due to the release of the first gen gaming consoles (Atari, ColecoVision, NES).
Transformers did come back in a myriad of forms, G2 repaints, Action Masters... all mostly badly painted looking reissues haha! Then came along Beast Wars, which was by all means unique, in that all the main characters were animals, and had a good toy line to support it. However, animals don't really cut it for me, i mean, they will always be vehicles of some form to me!
I guess at this time, Hasbro/Takara (Now Takatomy) saw the chance to pull in the older generation which had watched TF growing up, and capitalised on this by reissuing the older G1 toys in book like format, here was the chance for most of us to get back those items we missed out on in our youth!
It was soon after that i started collecting the others for Superion... ah good times. Shortly after the Transformers craze sorta died out worldwide... guess it's partially due to the release of the first gen gaming consoles (Atari, ColecoVision, NES).
Transformers did come back in a myriad of forms, G2 repaints, Action Masters... all mostly badly painted looking reissues haha! Then came along Beast Wars, which was by all means unique, in that all the main characters were animals, and had a good toy line to support it. However, animals don't really cut it for me, i mean, they will always be vehicles of some form to me!
I guess at this time, Hasbro/Takara (Now Takatomy) saw the chance to pull in the older generation which had watched TF growing up, and capitalised on this by reissuing the older G1 toys in book like format, here was the chance for most of us to get back those items we missed out on in our youth!
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