Hehe. Awww =)

 

My 3 year old niece is running around making jet noises and yelling "I'm Starscream!!! I turn into a robot!!! Now. I. Am. A. Robot."

She's decided that she likes Ultra Magnets more than Opamus Prime.

 

Oh and she wanted me to transform some Starscreams and Alt Mirage and promised she wouldn't touch Uncle Johnny's toys. I think I got off easy on this one =)

 

She's still a couple of years too young for Transformers but maybe I'll get her hooked one day. My friend's 5 year old is loving Animated and thinks it's really cool that I have Starscream.

 

Um I guess this thread can be about little ones and Transformers. Share stories please! =)

Absolutely great post! I'm so happy to be sharing Transformers with my kids---1 seven year old boy and 3 girls, aged 5, 3 and a newborn. The first 3 love the new show and loved Cybertron and now my brother and I are sharing the G1 episodes with them---it's been really great! I just wish there were more FEMALE Transformers toys for the girls---HASBRO, are you listening? Girls like Transformers too! They fly em around the room just as much as my son. . .

Man, that's great! I have a daughter who's almost 4, and she's only a bit into TFs and robots. I managed to get her excited about the McDonald's Animated figs, but when she saw the Littlest Pet Shop toys, I lost her. She did get a TFA Optimus Prime by mistake the other day, and she's taken to him, so there's still hope.

 

Whenever she sees something new in the house, she asks, "Does it transform?" Maybe I am getting to her. :07dance I wish she could watch Animated, but like you, I too think she's a little too young. She does know, somehow, who the bad "guys" are among my Animated toys- Starscream and Megatron in particular.

Yeah, Bella knows Starscream's a bad guy, but he's her favorite because he's MY favorite.

 

She's temporarily lost interest in favor of tortu- ahem playing with the raccoon and the kitten. My Saint Bernard is making sure no one plays too rough. Which is good if you're a kitty and the most fragile of the bunch.

 

Hopefully she won't ask me to turn Nibbles into a starship like she keeps asking me to do to other things...

My 2 year old Daughter is nuts about TFs. Ever since I got the animated DVD. She always loved Beast Wars whenever I put it on.

 

She can name the entire cast of the Transform and Roll Out. Plus Unicron for some reason... She can Transform most of the happy meal toys. (the ones she can't are the ones with arms that stick.)

 

Anybody know if they make Animated Coloring books?

 

 

The other day I went to a McD's with my daughter and when we ordered her Happy Meal, I asked if they had "any Starscream, the Jet?" (cuz we didn't have one) the Mclady behind the counter looked us over and said, very condescendingly, "Our girl toys are little pets.". I wanted to pull her over the counter, I thought my wife was gonna.

 

Gender imprint your own kids.

Prime Collector:

"Our girl toys are little pets.".

 

:grr thats waaaaay lame. Sorry to hear. My McD's kept aside 2 6 pc sets for me without even me knowing. :P

 

GREAT thread Azure! Love it. My son is 3 now, but when he was 1 yrs old he would pull on mommys shirt to "signal" he wanted to watch Transformers Cybertron dvd. Granted he only watched the intro then, but as time progressed he watched more & more. By the time the movie was on dvd he wanted to watch it with me via sitting on my lap while watching a small laptop screen. He made it through the ENTIRE thing without leaving once. The FIRST movie he ever watched (or TV show) the whole thing.

 

After that, he wanted Transformers so i gave him some 3 yr old bumper battlers type things. Jazz, Rathet, and Ironhide. Plus a few months ago i bought him a Optimus Prime Cyber Stomper. He says its his "BEST TOY EVER"

 

When he comes over one of the first things he says to me is, "i anna atch AnsOmers" *translation* "I wanna watch Transformers" ;) That means he wants to watch :animated. I bought him the whole set of McDonalds TFs for his Bday which is the 21st of THIS month. So yeah, me & the BOY have great :lov for Transformers & its a special thing.

 

Oh plus a :animated coloring book he can do whatever it is 3 yrs do with them.

My niece Katie, I taught her right away about Robots. She loves them more than all the girlie crap her mom wants her to play with. On her first day of school, she marched off brave with her Energon Optimus Prime back pack, and to this day boys in her class cry cause she's got the toys they want.

 

She's still a perfect princess of a little girl, but she isn't one sided.

 

That attitude spread as now her whole GirlScout Troop is into these figures and asks me to tell them stories about them. Every year I play Santa for them and her class and yep, Bratz and Barbie are out, TFs are in.

 

For a while parents complained about that, but with alittle time, I convinced them that a hands on interchangable toy is better then a made up hooker doll.

 

So anyhow, keep up the good work, and learn em good while ya can!

I do that kind of thing in public IRL! But people tend to give you weird stares when you're an adult doing it. :/

 

A few years ago I walked into a comic book shop with some other Transformer fans - I had Spy Streak in my hand and as I walked into the store I made jet engine/flying noises then pretended to shoot at some MOSC DC comic figures on some pegs (by making firing noises). The store manager then walked up to me and shouted at me, "GET OUT MY STORE! WE DON'T PUT UP WITH THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOUR IN HERE!"

 

I got out... but um... hello? You own a shop that sells comic books and toys. Have a reality check mate. :P Most people I've spoken with who've had frequent dealings with that manager (including people who've worked for him) say that he's a dick. :P

P-C's Daughter Translations

 

fo mers - Transformers

 

Op Pime - Optimus Prime

 

Uh tron - Megatron

 

Bum bu - Bumblebee

 

Rachet - Ratchet :shrug

 

Kee Kee - Bulkhead

 

Powel - Prowl

 

Kuh Con - Unicron

 

She can identify G1, BW, and Ani, Prime, BB, and Megs. Not bad for a 2 year old!

 

She also runs around pretending to use Sari's key. Why don't they make a toy of that yet?

My nephew Isn't a Transformers fan like I am, but he does like them. He likes both the 86 and 07 movies. Also when I got Masterpiece Megatron I left the box sitting around and my nephew opened it up to see what was in the box and he took a liking to the little Kremzeek figure so I showed him the episode on YouTube, and he thought It was really cool. :07dance