What is the Ozformers Collectors group thingy?
I’m trying to stay away from the word ‘Club’ now that there is an official Transformers Club, to avoid confusion among fans. It was started back in 1996 after about a year of interaction among local fans on the internet, to help each of us keep up with Transformers news and make contact with other Australian fans. At that time, most fans accessing the internet for the first time had thought they were the only transfan in Australia, and without a local organisation, it felt rather isolating being one among hundreds of foreign fans (in the Northern Hemisphere). Around September 1996, I asked the dozen or so transfans I had known by then if they wanted to form a fanclub, and with approval from Hasbro Australia, we had Australia’s first (unofficial) Transformers fanclub. From a beginning with 16 members, the collector group has grown to over a hundred registered members and about another hundred unregistered members on the mailing list and messageboard. The revamped Collector Group will be
