Posted: 16 August 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged

I was bought Kup as a kid by my uncle. Its really beat up now but I wont replace it.
 As a collector I first biyght Encore Soundwave. Trish had bough movie legend figures for Christmas (07) and since then the collection has grown considerably

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 1:49pm | IP Logged

As a kid (6, I think) I got Powerglide for christmas.

As a collector, I got Classics Bumblebee (Just started last year).

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 3:03pm | IP Logged

As a kid, G1 Prowl.

As a collector, G1 prowl, REISSUE!!!

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 4:01pm | IP Logged

As a kid, I really can't remember - I suspect it to possibly be one of the Constructicons, probably Scrapper.

As a collector - Masterpiece Prime - only really started collecting a few years ago.

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 4:07pm | IP Logged

as a kid i was given skywarp and grimlock

as a collecter a g1 hotrod [a few years ago]

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 5:34pm | IP Logged

well my first is :

 as kid I got Optimus Prime for christmas

 as collector I bought first Reissue Hoist and thundercracker before I buy more like Cybertron, etc.. by now. when I start at 2001 or 2002 as well when Armada come out.

Posted: 16 August 2008 at 9:28pm | IP Logged

First figure when I was a kid was Windcharger.  He was lost to the mists of time though.

My first figure from my first adult collection was Classics Jazz. 

Posted: 19 August 2008 at 12:38pm | IP Logged

my first were frenzy and laserbeak... happy days.

As a collector, Skram from the Euro G2 line (previously available as part of the '92/'93 Euro G1 line). G2 was quite hard to find up North, but a market trader at Leeds used to carry them and a bizarre novelty shop in the town of Horsforth also did a few. I got bargain basement Laser Rod Prime and Tank Megs from Jolly Giant before it went bust (ho ho ho). And I picked up G2 Optimus Prime for a tenner from er, a Pound shop (yeah, I couldn't figure that either) in Pontefract. Bargain!

Beast Wars was where it properly kicked in for me. Loved the show and was so chuffed to see Transformers back on the shelves. And, best of all, that kids dug the figures. Woolies did some good promotion for BW when it initially came out - footprint stickers on the floor and loads of instore signage.