Kids Birthday Today , , , Present... ( 5 yr old ! )

[AC/DC]

So obviously I cant remember when I was 5, or what I got as a 5 year old, , but this is the coolest thing I think we could ever have given him.

ITs the official hasro Transformers Optimus Prime. ( yeah cost about $90 ).

Quality is awesome and it clicks from robot to truck very well. The reaction from a 5 year old simply cant get any better.

thinking back to the mid 70's when I was 5 I think I got a bat and ball....

Times Change..

AC/DC

[3vXT]

Thats cool

[Kenster]

:P could you get me one

[King Nothing]

Thats awesome!

I was looking through the cupboards the other day and found all my old transformers, including an original optimus prime. Wonder how much it would be worth? I then spent the next 20 minutes randomly shooting spring loaded missles at my missus! The multi-missile rapid fire ones were particularly popular. Ah, to be a kid again!

[3vXT]

Not trying to hijack your thread but does anyone remember the cartoon from the mid to late 80's that had 5 large mechanical cats or tigers? They had people 'driving' them and could all join up together to form some big human shaped thing. There was a red, blue, yellow, black and green one i think.
Anyway, i was about 5 when that cartoon was popular, got the red one for a birthday or Christmas and thought it was just about the best thing ever

[rodderz]

Originally Posted by ken2903

Not trying to hijack your thread but does anyone remember the cartoon from the mid to late 80's that had 5 large mechanical cats or tigers? They had people 'driving' them and could all join up together to form some big human shaped thing. There was a red, blue, yellow, black and green one i think.
Anyway, i was about 5 when that cartoon was popular, got the red one for a birthday or Christmas and thought it was just about the best thing ever

Voltron? Yes another one I got stuck on too

King Nothing, keep those old transformer's in good nick, last I saw start of the year original Optimus Primes were going for a few hundred I think on ebay, probably more now

[gregg_13]

Voltron

[3vXT]

Thanks.... off to ebay i go

[AC/DC]

Turning this thing from the robot to the truck is harder than a Rubiks Cube !

AC/DC

[Thornie]

Originally Posted by rodderz

Voltron? Yes another one I got stuck on too

King Nothing, keep those old transformer's in good nick, last I saw start of the year original Optimus Primes were going for a few hundred I think on ebay, probably more now

there was voltron and there was also one with cars. dunno if they called it voltron though. the orginal voltron was with the lions

[gregg_13]

They were both Voltron, different generations of it. there was also a few chinese toy ripoffs.

[XW 393]

The other one with cars etc were Machine Men. ( Gobots )

[DayTE]

Originally Posted by AC/DC

Turning this thing from the robot to the truck is harder than a Rubiks Cube !

AC/DC

Give it to the 5 year old!!!! He should be able to get it

[AC/DC]

seriously took him about 3 goes, ,and he got it....................

[Powdered Toast Man]

Originally Posted by RaTTuS

there was voltron and there was also one with cars. dunno if they called it voltron though. the orginal voltron was with the lions

The one with the cars was the original Voltron. The one made from the lions was the second generation. I had the original, made out of 21 cars I think, and my bro had the lion one. The the Power Rangers ripped it off!!! Geez what a cr@p show!!!!

Speaking of Transformers, did anyone have the complete Constructorcon set? You know the earthmoving Decepticons; one was an excavator, another a Bulldozer, one of those big mine dump trucks etc. They all went together and made that big robot (like Voltron). I think we had 3 of the 5 or something.

[normxb]

AC/DC,
Kids are amazing , I'm sure your "little fellow" will have hours of fun with it , converting these things like that makes it Sooo frustrating for us .

Long time ago , we got a computer with WIN95 , we turned it on and "Stared" at it , called out daughter in , about 8 at the time , Guess who taught us how to use it ? ? ?

Even Lot's , Lot's longer ago , Mum & Dad bought me a "Cyclops" 3 wheel Tractor for my 5 th B/day (know this because I was looking at thr Pic only weeks ago) . Sitting on the back verandah was this "Lovely , shiny 3 wheel Tractor & here I was , out side playing with a "stick" running up & down the driveway in the dirt . : (lived on a farm)

Boy , were they pi$$ed .

Norm

[Riksta]

I think its awesome all this stuff from the 80's I remember as a kid making a comeback

Pity I never really had many of the toys and stuff that could be worth something now, or considered cool now. Was at a friend's place a couple of weeks back, her partner has an original Optimus Prime (transformed to robot) standing in a glass cabinet, I was just in awe at it - I wanted one as a kid, and I want one now!

Glad to hear your 5 year old likes it, who knows, in another 25 years when he has kids Transformers could be making another comeback and he can pull that one out...... although I doubt it!

[AC/DC]

Can you imagine what 5 year old kids will have in 25 years ! ! !

Its scarey to even think about it..

[whiskieboy]

Originally Posted by AC/DC

Can you imagine what 5 year old kids will have in 25 years ! ! !

Its scarey to even think about it..

Yeah, probably a wife, morgage and kids off their own........

[bentles]

that thing is sick, as much as i wanted a transformer as a kid i never got any :(

[DayTE]

I've still got my original Optimus Prime. Well it's in a box at the top of a wardrobe at Mum and Dad's house, but it's still alive. And I can remember how to transform it! Mind you he wasn't really that hard, but some of the others were.

[r8response]

Could have bought him the closest thing to the real deal

Ebay Optimus Prime

[AC/DC]

thats the 5hit !