The Energon Pub

So you have your collection meticulously set up on your dresser right? Everything is where it needs to be. Every character is in his proper place for the battle scene. It took you 20 mins to get it all right. You stand back and enjoy all that transformer goodness.
flash forward a few hrs. You walk into the room (or your wife knocks the dresser while cleaning, primping or getting dressed) and because you didnt tip toe you shake the floor which causes your damn galvatron figure to fall over! Only, true to his nature on the toon he dosent go down without taking a few with him. He takes out the surrounding figs which takeout their neighbors and so on until you have a dresser top full of fallen bots.
Now you have to spend another 20 mins setting up the scene again. Anyone else experience the domino effect? I swear It happens to me at least once everyother day.
The main culperate is galvatron. That guy cant stand alone for anything.
Next wound be my new K.O. Skywarp (which sports one leg that is longer than the other) and generations prime. Those two have problems standing as well.
Who are your primary narcoleptic robots?
Take care all!!!

minicons.......... and ROTF figures. and ANY sideswipe from the movies

My display is on 2 inch thick shelves that sit on a concrete floor. A minor earthquake nor my 2 boys rampaging around the house is enough to make any of them even wobble.

I made sure that wasn't going to happen

i had this happen when my nephews ran throuh my house and into my tf room needless to say i was outside bbq'ing and heard a series of crashes looked at my wife and ran upstairs to find 200+ figures all over lying down. for me it was like one fig that started it on each section but yeah the big offenders are galvatron,rotf sideways, minicons, and classics bluestreak,silverstreak, and prowl.

now theyre on display upstairs behind a locked door (caught one of them screwing with blesser and nearly lost it!)

I haven't had anything like that happen lately but it's mostly because I gave up. I set my large displays up by character so the bottom 2 shelves were for Seekers and Jazz/Rodimi/Grimlock and the one cat would hop up on them and knock them all down. I gave up on them but my ex just moved out taking the cat with her so I guess I could set them up again. At this point, I'm just apathetic about it.

rotf sideswipe likes tthe floor, rather than the small-space-in-front-of-the-books-on-the-bookshelf...

I have mine in a bookcase. The ones that have trouble standing I place in the back or near the side. I seem to have the most trouble with Overkill and Straxus. Also, if its really bad and they just won't stand, then its alt mode time. I don't display minicons and I don't have any Animated out right now, but there are a number of them that are really unbalanced.

I used to have that problem quite a bit, but I arrange my figures so that some of the more off balance TF's are at the bottom shelf. The main offenders of this include Beast Machines Thrust, Warbot Defender, Straxus/Skull Grin, G2 Hero Megatron, and a few others. They're on the bottom shelf arranged in such a way that they won't take others down if they topple. Plus, the floor is pretty soft carpet so an accidental spill from the bottom of a shelf won't do any damage.

oh god, I hate this
human alliance sideswipe is one skinny little bastard....

I'm too good at posing them for them to fall over much. Yes, sometimes they're even left standing on one leg for weeks at a time.

Mykltron wrote:I'm too good at posing them for them to fall over much. Yes, sometimes they're even left standing on one leg for weeks at a time.

wow!?

also, the odd feeling when you notice that the same person hs been posting in practically all the topics you've been reading...weird...

Fun topic.

The one used to be on mine is Animated Samurai Prowl. So I sold him. Movie deluxe Sideswipe is in vehicle mode most of the time so he won't bother others. The one easily falls over now is classics Prowl. Yeah, Prowl again, but I'm not gonna sell him. So he is surrounded by very stable figures (two voyagers behind him and a stable deluxe, forgot who, in front of him) so even if he falls, he is only leaning on others.

Unless Unicron or Primus collapses, otherwise mine is quite stable. Plus my floor does not shake, so it only happened when my son tried to take one out from the lot and accidentally knock one down but usually he is very careful about it.

I slam the doors to my cabinet after setting them up so I'll be sure they won't topple over by accident. For ones that are more prone to it (like some cassettes) I just sticky-tack them to the floor. Problem solved.

yeah For me it's Movie 1 Barricade. the Ankle ball joint's are lose on mine so it ends up toppling all my Deluxe figures. However I always put my least Favorite characters around him so at least it'l be fun to watch.

When placing DOTM Barricade on my DOTM shelf 2 months ago, I acciently knocked down the damned unstable Ratchet, which made Sideswipe fall down and pull a 180 on Bumblebee, and then, once Sideswipe was done spinning, and after I put them all back up, Crankcase fell, which made Starscream fall on the floor >_<

alternator77 wrote:caught one of them screwing with blesser and nearly lost it!)

I got irritated just reading that. I would have sent their asses home.

I don't have display isues with Transformers because most of them sit in vehicle mode. However, it's the Gundam models that give me some trouble. Especially AEU Enact Demonstration Colors. They're on top of my manly, overfilled clothes dresser so it's really a miracle those models don't fall down more often.

Mine will tumble on occasion when one of my wife's cats slip in past me.

My G1 Galvatron does that once in a while and takes out a good number of figs.

Just last night i was fartin around with my Shockwave who is just beside Soundwave who has Ratbat precariously perched upon his shoulder with wings fully splayed.

As i went to put Shockwave back i must of breathed or somethin and knocked out Ratbat which knocked over others which fell behind the shelf to the ones below and then knocked a bunch of them over and too the floor.
G1 Swoop took the worst of that deal. I kept putting him back up and he kept getting knocked to the floor. I was totally shocked he wasn't broken.

I was very frustrated. I really need to get a bigger shelf system. I'm starting to bunch figures up and i hate that. Plus it's catastrophic cause of the "Domino Effect".

For a guy like myself who has a bit of a curator style of collecting, it's very nerve racking.

I was running into that for a while. Wall to wall shelves and I still had TFs on the floor six deep all around the perimeter of the room. It didn't take much for one to tip backwards taking down everyone behind it. I have since packed away two seasons worth of Power Rangers and have transferred all of Energon and Cybertron to the giant shelving unit the Rangers had occupied. I then laid 12 inch deep shelving sections on the floor end to end around the whole room's perimeter, thus giving the ones still on the floor (Animated, Generations, Movieverse) more stable footing. So far it's worked out well.

headsortails wrote:Mine will tumble on occasion when one of my wife's cats slip in past me.

It's nice to someone else distance themself from the cats. Awfull creatures.

My TF's don't submit to gravity anymore, I have a separate room for them now.

BeastProwl wrote:oh god, I hate this
human alliance sideswipe is one skinny little bastard....

Really? I always thought he looked chunky and chubby.

ArmadaPrime wrote:

Mykltron wrote:I'm too good at posing them for them to fall over much. Yes, sometimes they're even left standing on one leg for weeks at a time.

wow!?

also, the odd feeling when you notice that the same person hs been posting in practically all the topics you've been reading...weird...

I know this is a bit off topic but I am usually no fan of any figure that isnt of the classics style but I had my eye on side swipe reguardless. As I read your responses to this thread I saw that alot of you owned him despite the fact that he is, according to most of you, a terrible narcoleptic.
Knowing that alot of you own him I thought "what the hell Ill buy him" To no supprise he is infact a "skinny bastard" and hard to balance. He is also IMO missrepresented by the pic on the back of his card. I cant put my finger on it, but I was disappointed with him. Not only does he not look right to me the hood piece that ends up on his back wont stay attached to him. The two small protrusions on either side of the hood are supposed to fit into the holes on the piece that it attaches to but the holes are so far appart that the hood wont stay in.
The only other movie figs I have bought have impacted me the same way. Iron hide and ratchet.
I am glad I went on and bought him though as I know for sure I should stick to classics from now on.
All that said he really is hard to keep standing. Luckily I dont fancy him enough to keep standing. He will be among the "fallen" bots in my lil display.

Many, many times. Take a peek at my collection (link's in my sig) and just try to imagine how long it took to get all that set up :X

After a while though, what I started doing was after getting a shelf set up how I wanted, I'd give a light tap to the edge of the bookcase or shelf. Not hard, just enough to give a light jostle, and then adjust from there. It'll add an extra five minutes per shelf, sure, but once you get everything to the point where it can withstand a light smack it'll usually be able to take just about anything it'll encounter sitting on a shelf. And it'll save you the extra 20 minutes, times however many times it happens, it'll take to set it all up again if you let them all fall down again.

if everything fails I pose them in hand to hand combat, like galvatron battling it out with prime and such. this way the hold each other stable, and do not topple easily ^^
its just about the way you pose them

Mizuno wrote:if everything fails I pose them in hand to hand combat, like galvatron battling it out with prime and such. this way the hold each other stable, and do not topple easily ^^
its just about the way you pose them

LOL! Yes I too have tried the ol hand to hand combat trick to help add some stability and have come home several times to find that the figures who were once locked in mortal combat had reconciled and decided to lie down and make the bot with two backs.
Tis a terrible sight indeed to come home to find cybertronian prime and galvatron on top of each other makin all sparks.