Wow, for a while I thought I was the youngest guy on the forums. Haha I thankfully am at least old enough to have always classified TPM as one of “the new ones”.
I was pretty young when TPM came out, so I only vaguely remember the hype. I mainly remember all the promotions from like the fast food chains having their little promotions where you’d get like “exclusive, limited time collector toys” with your happy meal and stuff like that.