How did YOU start?

[Gruff]

I was about 3 or 4yrs old when my dad came home from being at sea and gave me a present, I put out my hands and recieved Astrotrain!! A few more followed and on trips to visit my family in England (we lived in Scotland, waaaay way out in Scotland) I discovered the comics and the cartoons!! I was hooked and more and more followed. Every shopping into town got me a minibot, birthdays and xmas got me the bigger ones.

I sort of dropped out a little at G2, the franchise seemed to be on life support and then along came Beast Wars and I was sucked back into it. When I was 18 I had started working and discovered the internet, Yahoo auctions and then later Ebay helped me get the older TF's I'd always wanted and get the newer ones that i couldnt get in Plymouth (where we moved to in 1986). Beast Wars became Beast Machines became RiD etc etc and the internet allowed me to get everything as it came out.

I used to frequent a chat site and met a fellow TransFan who brought me in here and I will always be grateful for Brett introducing me to all you wonderful and helpful folks here at the moon.