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About TransFormers Philippines |
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About
TransFans Philippines (The Transformers Club of the Philippines) The Beginning
Transformers on TV The Transformers (Generation 1) original series was first aired on Philippine television (in English) on June 1985 every Tuesady at 7:30PM on CITY 2 (now called ABS-CBN after the Edsa revolution broke out in February 1986), and at that time they have shown the first series in chronological order from Season 1 & 2. There are times they have re-run a particular episode as "fillers", and by the height of Season 2 episodes where no longer aired regularly due to new cartoons coming out on the said channel. The Dark Ages
Re-Spaking TF interest Fast forward to 1997 where Metro Manila cable subscribers were able to watch the Japanese episodes of Transformers (dubbed in english by the chinese). The series of episodes were aired at Star Plus (now Star World), and the dubbing reminds us of those Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan action flicks. This was actually the newest Transformers shows seen by Filipino TransFans, who was treated to see the American series in a long time. The first Filipino to have put up a website dedicated to the Japanese series was Robbie Trinidad an Ateneo University grad student, who started taping every episode aired on Cable TV. The interest of forming a TF community was not originally planned at that time until after five years later. TransFan Reborn!
Acknoledgements goes to: Steve Yau, Ben Fero, Joe Navarette, Mark Santos, and Tim Villasor for big contributions to TransFans-PH's TV & movie library. To Cris Sison for sharing his collection & the updated news, and Eric Gutierrez for sharing his knowledge & ability to customize TF toys. To Mika & Goldee for just being there to support the group whenever possible. To Mike 'Gademmet' Estipona for being our resident TF info/FAQ guy, Pedgz for letting us use a portion of his well written TV history of TF here in the Philippines. To Malvin (Great Toys), Dennis (2Rats) & Ejay for the TF resources, and to our Canadian-based Pinoy correspondents if possible to cover upcoming events there in Canada. Special thanks to Paolo Jalbuena (Via-Astris the Star Trek Club of the Philippines) for the advice and support for this group. Big thanks also going to our international TF community for recognizing us, especially to TFormers.Com and to all the members who have joined this group. Namely the true and honest TransFans, you know who you are. =) |
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