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Post #92392

2025-12-24 17:27 UTC

The year was 1984. I received Optimus Prime for Christmas. In terms of cool factor, no gift has surpassed it since. I don't know what the equivalent gift for a child would be today, but it would have to be pretty amazing. #Transformers

Replies (8)

  • @Hundstrasse@retro.pizza 2025-12-24 17:28

    @68000 darn tooting!

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  • @nanianmichaels@tech.lgbt 2025-12-24 17:31

    @68000 I had a different version of Optimus, the one that had a MUCH more simplified transformation (and the front of the truck cab on both his front and back sides...), which would also use the trailer to become a MUCH bigger version of himself. To capture that feeling again, my bf got me the Optimus LEGO version for my b-day a couple of years ago 😀

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  • @belghast@gamepad.club 2025-12-24 17:34

    @68000 I remember it so clearly because I had this aunt who always seemed to find the next "it" toy before any of us knew about it. None of us had heard about Transformers when I got this for Christmas, and I was just fucking over the moon about it. I lived in a small town, and if it was not advertised on television or available at our tiny walmart it did not exist.

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  • @thevhswizard@retro.pizza 2025-12-24 17:43

    @68000 I got... one of these, basically like getting Boomer instead of Turbo Man

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  • @paulos@dice.camp 2025-12-24 18:08

    @68000 SAME. Best gift ever. My parents still tell the story of how they scoured the country trying to find one for me - they were sold out everywhere. They didn’t need to worry though, Santa brought me one.

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  • @SynAck@corteximplant.com 2025-12-24 19:01

    @68000 I still have mine!

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  • @triphazard@retro.pizza 2025-12-25 00:41

    @68000 This, but for Powermaster Optimus, a few years later. I did get the original Optimus at some point before that, but PMOP is the one I *remember* getting.

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  • @Naate@glitch.social 2025-12-25 01:19

    @68000 hells yeah

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