It’s one of the things I enjoy about it, but sometimes they go too far

Yeah. I miss the G1 stuff. It was serious, but still fun.

I love G1

It knew when to be serious, but it also got goofy quite often

Yep! I checked out of the fandom right around Beast Wars, didn't come back until the Bayverse movies.

Except for die-hard fanboys, I hear I didn't miss much. LOL

I never got into Beast Wars, I know so many people love it but I’m just not into the idea of robots turning into animals

They’re supposed to be trucks and cars and jets and trains

That’s WAY cooler to me

Yes!

A friend of mine called Beast Wars "Transformers: Ran out of ideas".

LOL

They just needed to make more toys

Hasbro probably just thought “Hey guys, what if we had them turn into ANIMALS this time?”

Well, the originals all came from Japan, and were part of another toy line. I'm guessing Hasbro tried to make something completely new.

The first wave of Transformers toys in 1984 was mostly just toys from two different lines of toys in Japan, one being called Diaclone

Not sure about the other one

But all they really did was re-paint them and change their names

Yep. I don't remember either.

That’s why we got some weird alt-modes like Megatron becoming a gun

Spell check changed “gun” to “fun” 😆

LOL Well, depends on how you use it, I guess...

I ain’t gonna disagree with spell check, gun = fun

But I definitely think the idea for Transformers toys was a genius one

Those guys knew what they were doing back in 1984

Oh, definitely. My dad was thrilled by them. He was a design engineer back then, loved to fiddle with mine.

Hasbro's sort of killing off customers lately, though.

I see these “one-step” change Transformers at the store all the time and think “Man, kids have gotten so dumb and lazy”

You just push a button and it instantly transforms for you, they don’t even look cool

Hey, though, remember the ones from G1, though? Topspin and Twin Twist?

Pull them back, they flipped open?

Oh yes, those guys were one step

They didn't really take off, though.

Yeah, the gimmick gets kind of boring after awhile

I have a G1 Bumblebee on my desk

And an original Snake Eyes from GI Joe

I have G1 Optimus upstairs.

*nods*

I collected both.

Damn, lucky

I collected later, though, when I was a teen.