TRANSFORMERS!!

They were more than meets the eye.

Rob loved them.

Orson Welles.

What else do you need to know?

and according to Clerks II they were a gift from God!

Never got into them. Like GI Joe, they became popular toys just at the age I was finishing up with toys.

You don't "finish up" with GI Joe. GI Joe is always cool. Transformers, not so much, but GI Joe? Come on. Don't even TRY to tell me that you wouldn't want to play with some awesome GI Joe tanks. Maybe a chopper or something.

The Transformers. More than meets the eye. Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of, the Decepticons. The Transformers, Robots in Disguise, The Transformers
More than meets the eye
The Transformers.


The Transformers was an animated television series depicting a war between giant robots who could transform into vehicles, animals, dinosaurs, bugs, and other objects.

I mean, whats not to love?

For me, and my friends, The Transformers reached its absolute peak with the movie-which also forever destroyed the Transformers for us, with the destruction of Optimus Prime and the reimagination of Megatron into Galvatron. Unicron, the planet Transformer, was one of the scariest things I had ever seen.

Strangely, I had very few toys. Not sure why, but I collected He-man and Star Wars for a time, and others. I guess they were too expensive, because when I did get them, they tended to be the inferior Go-Bots.

I hated GI Joe as a kid. I hated the show, hated the toys. My mom says I cried once when I was given one. Later on I did watch the cartoon a little.

However, I still remain a patriot. I saw Rambo II dozens of times.

I do get mad, though, because to old timers, GI Joe is a big toy, but to us, GI Joe and action figures were small toys. We never bought or played with 12 inch figures.

If you didn't like GI Joe, I don't know how you can call yourself a patriot. GO Joe was "a real American hero." Those words mean something.

Come on, man, tanks! Guns! Jet planes! No kids on the cartoon!

Transformers were cool, I loved them to death, but GI Joe was clearly better.

I used to mercilessly tease my younger cousin while growing up. When he would sing the Transformers song, I would sing my own version...

Me - The Re-Arrangers - Mechanical Man Like Machines Who Like to Hide....

Him - STOP IT! THAT'S DUMB! They are NOT The Re-Arrangers! They're Transformers.

Me - Well...

Him - SHUT UP!

Me - Hold on a minute! Let's think about this together. When they transform, do they stay in the same shape?

Him - SHUT UP!

Me - Well?

Him - No.

Me - So, what do they do?

Him - Their parts n' stuff move around.

Me - Hmmmm.... Parts move around and stuff?

Him - Yup.

Me - Ok, so, you COULD say, the parts...re-arrange?

Him - ......

Me - Move around? Re-arrange?

Him - ......

Me - Right?

Him - I'm telling my mom!

Me - What? That they re-arrange? What are you going to tell her? That I'm right and that's why you're mad at me?

Him - <Throws Optimus Prime at my head - runs away and hides in closet>

Me - <While dodging Optimus Prime> THE RE-ARRANGERS....

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OK, the kid up the street had some mean GI Joe toys, and I played with them once. Still, that cartoon? Where they had war and missiles, and nobody ever died? Whenever a missile hit a plane, they drew the little guy with a parachute getting away. Terrible stuff, especially the preachy "Knowing is half the battle" things at the end.

I think this is a sneak movie preview shot.

Screw that noise. That five-episode saga that kicked off all the GI Joe cartoons was and remains unbridled AWESOME in every way, shape and form. Cobra is nothing but cool, just like the Empire. They've got that awesome facist thing going on without all the pesky genocide.

No such thing as 12-inch action figures. I don't care what the old dudes say, those are "dolls"

Transformers didn't try to give me a message at the end of every show. If I wanted that, i turned to He-man.

Word.

The best wars are where things get blown up and no one dies, warmonger. Man, we had Rambo for that.

But that battle cry! "Yo Joe". Fanboy.

Got to get tough! Yo Joe! Got to get tough! Yo Joe!

He NEVER gives up, he's always there! Fighting for freedom over land AND air!
He stays 'till the fight's won! Unlike Transformers, who cut and run!

Transformers: Marvin Eats the Pie!

Transformers stay the course you liar, no matter how long the war against each other takes

The AutoBots were totally happy to stay on Earth, millions of miles away from the Decepticons. They only got back into the way because they HAD to.

An exception is Grimlock, who was the bravest AutoBots ... and he wasn't even a full AutoBot! He was another species.

Grimlock betrayed Prime. He's dead to me.

The autobots stayed because they are real Americans. and when we were threatened, they fought hard and bravely.