i loved Soundwave. he was so hard to get in mint condition with the little bat/panther (could transform into both in the cartoon, but only the panther on the metal /original version if i'm not mistaken. it may have transformed into both, though. can't remember) that was the cassette tape (Soundwave was a tape recorder/cassete deck/boombox?). i had one i 'tore up' pretty good. he was complete, and 1st release, but was lose in every single joint, and paint was major chipped. i finally traded a kid at lunch for a mint one, but it didn't have the cassete tape transformer (don't remember it's name). that was the only transformer i never got once i started taking care of them instead of making them fight my gi joes, and wrestle my wwf rubber figures.
i remember when Megatron turned into a gun, not a freakin' plane or whatever he is now (don't keep up). never watched the Bay movies, as i don't want to be mind-raped for my childhood memories by the BS they wrote as an excuse to show megan fox's cleavage & booty shots for 3/4 of the time x 3.
i gave ALL those (mint full gi joe collection with the 7' aircraft carrier, and the full transformer collection) all to salvation army to give to people that were less fortunate than myself. i shutter to think how they treated them, but i did the right thing. i still can't help but wish my mom taught me to be greedy sometimes

. she always believed in giving to others even though we struggled to make it. even game my perfectatari 2600/ NES/SNES & games in GREAT condition all to salvation army. maybe helped some kids poorer than me (which was hard to believe, so i was very hesitant) the chance to play videogames.
wait.... what were we talking about?