How far back does your TF fetish go?

[DragonMasterX]

Think mine started with the 1994 TAS Amazing Spider-Man. There were several changes in that show, most notably in the episode with the anti-mutant guy who falls into that pool of electrically charged chemicals that turn him into a power-hungry monster. Street Sharks added to that fuel, and then I could name a few of the ones I've seen on the rest of the thread.

I doubt though that I have any sexual attraction towards transformation. I am, however, entirely fascinated by the concept, since I love having to imagine the bit-by-bit changes that go from a simple human being into the transhuman, or metamorph as I've gotten used to call them in my own t/f based story series.

I think what strikes me the most entertaining, or amusing if you want to call it that, is the concept of inadequacy that emerges when the metamorph is forced to face the real world's scrutiny and negative overviews merely due to their physical appearance. I don't really care whether the end product looks crazy creepy or sexy, but I really love me some dramas.

Though sadly I can't seem to get into the werewolf hype that most of the people here share. ;(

[CK01]

Again 80's cartoons showed me to the way, the 80's Incredible Hulk cartoon, the Nephilia/Arachnoid stuff from the 80's Spider-man shows, cemented by the 80's TMNT cartoon. Also the primative/werewolf TFs from the Doctor Who episode Inferno...

[setsetset]

There was an episode of the "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon where the monster of the week was a giant chicken ghost(? I guess) whose bite would transform people into giant chickens. I was only 8 or 9, so all I knew was that this was something intensely interesting. Aladdin had some pretty engrossing TF episodes, too.

Then of course An American Werewolf in London set the gold standard when I later saw it.

Originally Posted by kghost74

I remember the old websites too... Werekat's Werecreatures, The Transformation Graphics Archive, etc...

i feel old now lol

Haha, wow, those old sites. Internet presence has sure come a long way since then.

[jolem]

In the Company of Wolves transformation kicked off my interest in transformations in general back when I was in Middle School, because it was never about a turn on and more about people turning into stuff in general.

I only discovered just recently that I have a fetish for it, when I found out that I can't have transformation dreams without them turning into wet dreams as well.

[Coal]

Originally Posted by setsetset

There was an episode of the "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon where the monster of the week was a giant chicken ghost(? I guess) whose bite would transform people into giant chickens. I was only 8 or 9, so all I knew was that this was something intensely interesting. Aladdin had some pretty engrossing TF episodes, too.

Then of course An American Werewolf in London set the gold standard when I later saw it.



Haha, wow, those old sites. Internet presence has sure come a long way since then.

http://youtu.be/o4IT9CeYkDY

[setsetset]

Originally Posted by Coal

http://youtu.be/o4IT9CeYkDY

Haha, yeah, exactly! Even I have to admit, that's weird.

[Ilovebe]

It sounds like transformation interests go back very far for most of us. I am the same. I can't specifically recall one watershed moment, but I know that I've always had an interest in TF and other process related stuff as far back as I can remember. A few salient instances were many of the aforementioned cartoons. One that I never see mentioned is an episode of Captain N called Wishful Thinking. Long story short, Eggplant Wizard gets a hold of a genie lamp and wishes that the N Team would become the E Team. Always being into female transformation, I enjoyed Princess Lana's transformation into an anthromorphic eggplant. Also, I was fascinated with the Toad and Piggy spells in Final Fantasy IV (or FF II as we knew it as "back in the day.").

[danielsangeo]

My first memories of transformation come from two WILDLY different sources. Might explain the person I am today, to be honest.

One was the Alphabet Song from Sesame Street:


The other... "It Came from Uranus" from Howling 3:


Did you get whiplash?

[Anahki]

For me the "big" momments were:

1) A spider-man comic. Well,the story was the typical fight with the green goblin. But, in the backside of the comic there was an ad with the she hulk image on it... I found that disturbing (I was 6 years old), but maybe that started something.
2) An American Werewolf in London movie. This was definitive. Of course. And some years after I fantasized with women suffering the same fate... does it sound familiar to you? xD.

[rakoonz13]

Well, let's see. Mine goes back as far as I can remember. First off, I always had this fascination of being a dog. It seemed so much better than humans, because humans were just boring after all. I remember movies like Rock-A-Doodle and The Sword in the Stone really striking a chord with me at an early age, as well as many movies with anthro characters like Robin Hood and such. I read Animorphs religiously and while I loved Goosebumps, I mainly would seek out anything that had to do with people becoming animals (My Hairiest Adventure, Chicken Chicken, etc). I think I was 6 when I really started having my earliest fantasies of becoming a cheetah, or a dolphin (thanks to an episode from the Fantasy Island reboot), or most common, a dog. I even remember seeing movies like Lake Placid and making up my own twist story in my head that id join them and become a croc as well. I would fantasize a lot, imagining the whole process of the change; the paws, tail, fur, and my favorites, the muzzle growth and mental change.

All that kinda continued until it became somewhat of a more fetishy thing for me, i guess, back in 04-05. The cow TF in Thats So Raven, as well many others id seen in movies and cartoons got me intrigued more and more until i finally went to the internet to seek it. I remember quite literally typing in "Half human half animal" in google and finding images from Werekatt's Werecreatures and Transfur. It completely branched out from there and I was addicted. I always had a strong appreciation for photomanips thanks to the discovery of artists like Something-Wild, LessThanHuman, and Shakealicious. The rest is history, really.

[Catprog]

I think the first TF book of mine (other then animorphs was Foxspell.)

[Ironhorse]

I'm with everyone else, '80s cartoons sucked me in, along with the infamous April Cat and Howling.