The Energon Pub

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .

--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.

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.

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!

All the time

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...

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.

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.)

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.