Confiscated at School

[Hero]

Tales of seized Transformers goodness...

Who took thier Transformers to school and had the misfortune of having them taken away by the teacher until the end of the day/term?

A fair few of my Transformers toys journeyed with me to school and not all of them survived. I had from time to time toys taken off me by the teachers (on sight!) and those that did'nt make it past the school gates were the ones stolen from my bag in the cloakroom.

Sometimes my TFs were not given back to me and instead handed over to my mum at a random day (or parents evening, end of term).

I took my Transformers to school to show off to my peers (but I have this place now ) and to have a bit of mascot companionship from home.

Over time I learned to keep the Transformers to myself and secretly about my person, because other kids wanted to "have a go" or a see for "5 seconds".

===KEN

[Bogatan]

I never took any Transformers to school or any other toys that I can remember, but I don't remember anyone else doing so either so I think it must have been not allowed. Even if we could I don't know that I would have. For one thing I don't think Transformers were that popular. Most kids had one or two, but they were just another bunch of toys, maybe being born in 81 made me fractionally too young to be in the same years as the kids that were part of the real Transformers craze.

[Deleted]

Only brought in toys during infants school (years R to 3). Which was when TFs were more popular, and amongst my peers, toys acceptable (from year 4, toys definitely weren't). Never had anything personally confiscated, but I had a Throttlebot Rollbar stolen by another child. Still, I frequently took back friends' confiscated toys whilst the teacher was out the way. I did similar all the way through to secondary school, with non-tobacco items, because I didn't like the fact that teachers at secondary school kept or sold on kids' property.

[The Doctor]

Never had a toy confiscated. Our Primary School was fine with bringing toys in. Transformers was a big thing in our school and so sometimes I find it hard to remember what toys I owned and what toys I played with at school. It did mean I was fortunate to have a shot at most of the line until around 1988 when most of my peers stopped getting them.

On a tangent this meant that toy-lines I never had such as Thundercats still got hefty playing from me!

-Ralph

[grahamthomson]

Never had anything Transformers-wise confiscated.

Though I do remember bringing in a jam jar into which I'd sprayed bright green silly string. It dried out and went all worm-like. I scared all the girls in the playground saying that they were radioactive worms. THAT was confiscated!

I did once bring Wheelie to school, and that was taken off me by another kid... details of that heartbreaking incident is documented in my Nostalgia thread: tmukhub.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=toysmerch&action=display&thread=3094&page=1

[Hero]

Biggest loss at School was my G1 Ratchet. Rather stolen than confiscated by an older boy 2 years up from me.

The school did nothing about it and blew it off by saying they were 'not responsible' (despite the principle of the matter that someone was roaming the cloakrooms and going through peoples bags and coats).

Weeks passed and the boy who did the foul deed and got away with it perpetually taunted me about how he smashed the toy based on my Marvel UK favourite. It came to a point where I could not take anymore (if you ever have seen A Christmas Story where Ralphie stood up to Scott Farkus, this was simular). I took the kid down and beat him good. G1 Ratchet was avenged and I can still remember watching the boy staggering off crying. Of course I got away with this being I was a younger kid and that was how the justice scales balanced out in those days (and my mum was a school governer too).

I never got Ratchet back, but I gained a boost of self-esteem.

Even after the boy left for secondary school, I also lost 2 Throttlebots to trusting the cloakroom again. Some of us never learn.

[Deleted]

Had a G1 Gears stolen from my draw when I was in the 2nd year of infant school by my ''friend'' Jamie, the sickening part was he left behind my Jazz handstamper which compared to Gears was complete rubbish.

[The Doctor]

To be fair, the Jazz stamper was astounding.

-Ralph

[dyrl]

I actually had a much worse situation that confiscation...

I took G1 Hotrod to school one day and loaned him to a friend. The next day, Hotrod was returned to me in about 15 pieces !! :-(

My friend gave me a G1 Blastoff for consolation...

That said...

My most PROUD school moment came when I took my G1 Optimus Prime to school and some kid had a brand new Headmaster Skorponok.

He put his Skorponok into scorpion mode (it had wheels on the bottom) and I put Prime into truck mode and...

we rammed them into eachother!!

Prime (no doubt thanks to the die cast metal frame) came out without a scratch.

Skorpnok's "scorpion head/helment thing" (made of just plastic) went and popped off!

Pete

[Hero]

I had the Wheeljack and Starscream stampers.

At least you got a Transformer back in return, Pete. I'm surprised Prime did'nt lose any paint in that collision.

[Deleted]

the Jazz stamper was awesome, but it didnt transform ..........................Gears did