The Energon Pub

Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:51 pm

does anyone still have little battles with your figures? I don't (well at least for the past 9 years), but i would love to make a stop motion movie some day.

Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:02 pm

Yeah, sometimes. Mostly around my PC or in my room.

Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:22 pm

i almost always play with my toys. only when im in my bedroom. im almost 16 and im playing with my transformers toys. god i love being a nerd! :APPLAUSE:

Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:26 pm

Doubledealer25 wrote:i almost always play with my toys. only when im in my bedroom. im almost 16 and im playing with my transformers toys. god i love being a nerd!

I'm 31 and I play with my TFs. :grin:

Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:37 am

im 15 and i like to play with my transformers. mainly at night when im the last one awake. but as i see it if you dont get some fun out of them then why buy them

Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:56 am

I haven't had a battle with my transformers in a while, other toys yes.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:42 am

I don't have battles but sometimes I set up a battle tableau on a shelf as it looks more interesting than having them all standing to attention.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:55 am

Like Mykltron, I like to set up my figures in more interesting poses. It's great with figures possessing particularly nice articulation. I also have "cross overs". I don't have a lot of space for display so I'll have some Transformers mixed with other figures and models on display. The majority of my non-Transformers figures are mecha models and figures so at least I keep the mechanized aesthetic going.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:07 pm

I leave all the Decepticons on one side of my room, and the Autobots on the other. Distance is a good thing, because if I made my figures go to war, the Decepticons would totally crush the Autobots, it's pretty much a 4-1 ratio of Deceptions.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:07 pm

I've got two boys, 5 and 3, so there is a toy battle everyday in my house. Just this morning it was Universe Treadbolt doing straffing runs on Lightning McQueen and some other cars. Unfortunatly for Treadbolt the cars started crasing into him in midair somehow and he got pretty much pwned 8-}

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News Credits: 2 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:35 pm

--B-- wrote:Unfortunatly for Treadbolt the cars started crasing into him in midair somehow and he got pretty much pwned .

Looks like the cars learned some tricks from the Stunticons, hehe.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Dec 12, 2009 7:02 am

Convotron wrote:Like Mykltron, I like to set up my figures in more interesting poses. It's great with figures possessing particularly nice articulation. I also have "cross overs". I don't have a lot of space for display so I'll have some Transformers mixed with other figures and models on display. The majority of my non-Transformers figures are mecha models and figures so at least I keep the mechanized aesthetic going.

Dude, have you noticed how we always say the same thing? I think you're my US twin or something.

Convotron wrote:
--B-- wrote:Unfortunatly for Treadbolt the cars started crasing into him in midair somehow and he got pretty much pwned .

Looks like the cars learned some tricks from the Stunticons, hehe.

Didn't you hear? FP did an anti-grav upgrade kit.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:00 am

Mykltron wrote:Dude, have you noticed how we always say the same thing? I think you're my US twin or something.

I'm in Canada but close enough! I think we have a mind meld going across the Atlantic.

Mykltron wrote:Didn't you hear? FP did an anti-grav upgrade kit.

So that's how they get funding...future tech!

News Credits: 3 · Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:32 pm

All the time :grin:

Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:13 pm

I still do on occasion, but more often than not it's the time-consuming clean up part afterwards that discourages me from getting a more than 2 or 3 bot campaign going. You know, chasing down stray missiles, putting everyone back in their shelf poses, etc, etc...

News Credits: 9 · Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:11 am

Convotron wrote:
Mykltron wrote:Dude, have you noticed how we always say the same thing? I think you're my US twin or something.

I'm in Canada but close enough!

Oops! You're all the same to us Brits!

Convotron wrote:
Mykltron wrote:Didn't you hear? FP did an anti-grav upgrade kit.

So that's how they get funding...future tech!

Yeah, it's reverse engineered from NBE-1 by Professor Sumdac or something.

News Credits: 4 · Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:18 am

No, I tried though but its really hard with ROTF figures and ALternity... umm so how do you play with them? I mean I only transform them.. I tried to really.. (like BB verus Grindor, haha I guess when I shoot the missle to Grindor Im like yea let's put you guys back.)

Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:16 am

freaky777 wrote:No, I tried though but its really hard with ROTF figures and ALternity... umm so how do you play with them? I mean I only transform them.. I tried to really.. (like BB verus Grindor, haha I guess when I shoot the missle to Grindor Im like yea let's put you guys back.)

Very true. It's the over-complex and fragile nature that makes me less prone to playing with the newer figures. You could use up the entire time you alloted to playing to transforming just ONE figure nowdays. Remember how smooth play went back in the day when it took approximately 30 seconds or less on average to change from robot to alt? You could even make the transform sound with your mouth while you did it. You would hyperventilate if you tried that with today's models!
Add to that the fact that parts are much more prone to cracking and stressing than they used to be and well... in robot mode forever they stay.