When I was a kid back in the 80s, there were a couple of years when I was really into the Transformers toy line and cartoon. Many years later when my brother Ben was a kid, he got into Transformers as well. So I thought it would be fun for us to talk about them in this episode of the Pizza Pixel Podcast! Please click on the link and give it a listen if you can!
In the comments section, let me know if you liked Transformers as a kid (or even now), and tell me your favorite ones! Later! --Cary
I must've stopped watching cartoons as soon as I became a teenager in 1980 because I don't remember seeing any of the 80s animated shows.
Like I said in my podcast, after I was into Tranformers for a couple of years, I actually stopped watching cartoons for a short while because I was sick of them all being crappy 30 minute commercials for toys. It wouldn't be until DuckTales came out that I started really watching cartoons again.
When I hit middle school, it wasn't 'cool' to watch cartoons, so I had to watch them in secret and not talk about them at school. I would've gotten made fun of if people knew that I liked Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers and such. I wish I wasn't so self conscious back then. Nowadays I don't care what people think of what I like.
I returned to cartoons with The Tick in 1995. Yeah, the years in school brought a whole lot of peer pressure.
I would hope kids today would be past all that stuff, but they're probably not. Kids is kids.