I buy em, unpack em, set them in a pose, get out my drawing pad, draw said pose and then stick em on the shelf.
I love the mechanical side of the robots and how they *could* work if real life, compared to the natural look of Beast Wars.
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I buy em, unpack em, set them in a pose, get out my drawing pad, draw said pose and then stick em on the shelf.
I love the mechanical side of the robots and how they *could* work if real life, compared to the natural look of Beast Wars.
Ooops forgot to vote, had to go with fiddler
80% Fiddler
8% Player
8% Curator
8% Artisan
or something like that anyway.
I think I'm like the opposite of Lithium in a way. Lithium said that playing with toys makes him feel silly, but for me I would feel silly if I didn't play with my toys.
To me buying a toy and not playing with it is akin to say buying a car and not driving it or buying food and not eating it. A toy is meant to be played with, so I see no point in buying a toy and not playing with it. I would hate to think that I've spent a quarter of a century and amounts of money that I don't even want to think about, building a big collection of Transformers only to not play with them! That's like collecting lots of books or comics and never reading them.
JMHO; this is of course just my own personal standards/values. I'm not saying that other people are silly for spending loads of time and money buying toys only to not play with them, but _I_ would feel silly if I didn't. :)
How about a new category - the obsessive compulsive!
You claim that you will only buy a couple of ROTF figures and then end up buying everything released. And keeping it MISB.
You check the plastic bubble of Deluxe figures to find the one with
A. No flap crease
B. Clearest plastic without scratches
You will sort through 10 figures on a rack to find the best MISB example.
You can't rest until you find that Ice Cream Truck.
You threw up and then swallowed a bit of vomit when you read the MISB opening thread.
Nothing like me at all! :rolleyes:
That would be the "Curator." :)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...pe_curator.jpg
i guess im the player, but also fiddlish lol, but i like to fiddle at times, but definitaly player, lemme just find my players shot i took last year while looking for inspiration for my art thing lol
Is that the correct arm for Defensor? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Man, I've got similar photos as a kid. Just different people in the photo. :eek:
That's Afterburner from the Technobots. :p Half the fun of playing with the Scramble Gestalts was mix 'n' matching their limbs! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeTnT
I thought you were re-enacting the episode where First-Aid buggers off and Defensor's "Only got one arm". :p
From now on, whenever I feel like I'm getting a little obsessive compulsive with Transformers; I'll just re-read this post :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetfire
im a fiddler. i'll transform and pose them when i get bored with assignments or study, break up the monotony of it....and im easily distracted when im bored...like now...suppose to be assignment-ing :P
me being a player i think il fil in the gap for this one, those whom dont have the IMAGINATION or the FUN designed into their brains that dont KNOW the meaning of having a GOOD time PLAYING with their transformers, this may help you a little and may get the ball rolling for all the types of noises or sound affects you c an use when trying to get back into playing or whatever. NOW without FURTHER adue i show you the list of noise affects you can make when playing with your transformersQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam
pew pew pew [pronounced pew pew pew or puew puew puew] (normal childish noises when pretending to do voices)
whoosh [pronouced with a small blowing sound continued with the oosh, can be used when you have one of the transformers fly in from above.
KABLAMOOOOooooo!!!!!!! [prounouced same as the way its said but with AN EPIC VOICE OF SOMESORTS] (when theres epic explosions)
BOOM!!!! [PROUNCED LIKE ABOVE but with a quiter voice of some sorts] (smaller explosions)
boom boom boom [prounced like its said but in a deaper voice and quiet like]( footsteps of something huge, like devastator or omega supreme)
reeeeeeeeeee [sound like a chainsaw] (for chainsaw things, i dont know whom exactly but well take it your own way)
[deranged coughing noise] (for the very old transformers)
[tishue noises] (for when you need to blow your nose)
[small scratchy noises] ( for when you need the impression of the toy climbing a rocky surface)
ytwquiryoiuqwrywjdkaysdjfhlsdkfjhsdkhfskdlhf [yell that out loud i dare you] (some alien gibberish that may be handy if you want the illusion of an allien race talking)
[robot voice] (self explanitory)
all we need now is the story line
squish [say it with all the oozyness you can muster] (for when some [people get squished or technorganics, you decide]
random characters, random scene and random moments
inferno {beastwars} was walking down the street when he heard omega supreme fly overhead [whoosh], transforming mid air the giant robot when [robot voice]" STOP PREDACON I MUST DESTROY YOU" so he started chasing him, [boom boom boom] when he came across a weird alien of some sorts ["ytwquiryoiuqwrywjdkaysdjfhlsdkfjhsdkhfskdlhf"] but omega supreme tripped, fell on the alien then exploded [boom[kinda louder]squish then KABLAMOOoooooo!!!!!]
simple
oh and yes i do have ALLOT of time on my hands lol
I'm a fiddler... in the nicest possible way.
Suddenly RotF Jetfire appeared [deranged coughing noise], transformed [chrk chrk chrk CHRK CHRK], and [pffft!] farted out his parachute...:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by kuzzy
I'm so starting a chain story thread on this - to the creative stuff forum!:D
The story thread's here.
I play with mine. Mostly i take them all off the shelves and transform back and forth but sometimes i'll fantasy play.
The way i see it i collect toys and toys are supposed to be played with.
+1 QFT! :D Yeah! :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by LordCyrusOmega
Im a fiddler!
Fiddle, with the ocassional vocal sound effect added.
I'm a fiddler.
Being a teen in today's society, I'd rather not make any sounds.
If any of my friends saw me doing that, they'll only have one question to ask; do i know you?
I know it's rather sad but that's how it is.:o
I understand 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by OrionPax
My friends were like that all the way up until Year 9. It was weird... for my entire life up till then, I'd been ridiculed for liking toys; even in 1984 when I was in primary school, other primary schoolers would accuse me of being childish... like HELLO? We _are_ children?!? (-_-) Unfortunately my school was full of kids who pretended to be teenagers. Then in Year 9 a few other boys in my year, whom I never knew were comic or toy collectors, started crawling out of the woodwork. Suddenly I had classmates bringing TMNT toys and playing with them in class! And we'd read comics together in the playground!
But before year 9 it was horrible. When I was in year 7 a boy took my Skalor and scratched the paint off his nose. The same kid also tore up my Slog's tech specs card. Grraaaarrrrggghhhh!!
But by Year 12 I was having religious discussions with classmates; with the conversation entirely revolving around Transformers theology!! :D
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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
see highschool was much much worse for me
before i started enjoying transformers i was into things like bionicle, crash bandicoot etc, i was made fun of for all that stuff, i had things stolen from me and was eliminated from so many groups (even the nerdy groups) just because of what i liked, not the person i was. Sigh, then came beast wars, i got into it because i loved the times i had playing beastwars with friends from my old school ( i moved to the blue mountains at the start of highschool), and thats how i got back into transformers lol, ok before i spill anymore energon beans on what happened over the next 2 years, ill stop here so then i can collect myself and play with some more tfs lol
Kuzzy, you'll always be loved for who you are here.
(groug hug!)
Save it for the fair and we'll have a proper group hug:)Quote:
Originally Posted by dirge
200%Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartrim
haha this is not an auction :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetfire
Yup. That's what toys are for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat
My daughter really isn't old enough for cooperative play yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat
My daughter isn't allowed to touch any of my Transformers without my direct permission and supervision except for my PlaySkool and Plush Transformers. One of my former colleagues had an interesting policy with her boys -- never play with a toy that's older than you are. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat
To me, what's the point of collecting toys if I'm not going to play with them? Just as I collect books to read and food to eat, I collect toys to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat
And it's not as if I made a conscious decision to play with toys as an adult -- I've just never stopped playing with my toys since I was a kid. I started playing with and collecting Transformers in 1984 and I've been continually doing so ever since -- and I have no intention of stopping any time soon. :)
My play pattern has changed since I first started though -- during the 1980s it was all just action driven ("Let's fight!"); by the 1990s it changed to becoming more story and character driven; by time I was in senior high school I started playing out entire story arc-campaigns that would last weeks, sometimes even months! There was one time when I spent over a year playing out a single campaign (ahh, when I was young and had more free time).
Nowadays it's more or less still the same thing, only that my campaigns are shorter because I don't have as much time as I used to. Depending on how much time I have, I might revert back to just action-packed play campaigns (Michael Bay'd!), but if I have a bit more time, then I'll try to make it more character/story driven. This usually happens when I'm on holidays. :D
If I ever lost interest in playing with my Transformers, I'd sell 'em. Thankfully that's never happened and I don't imagine it ever will. I've stopped playing with some other toylines (mostly because I have little spare time to play with toys, and whenever I do get the time I almost always choose Transformers) -- and I have sold a lot of those toys that I don't play with anymore. Others I've clung onto, but I'm thinking about selling in the near future. I've never thought about selling off my Transformers collection.
like to fiddle and do the action poses.
For me, it would have to be 'fiddle play' - every now and then I might reposition the limbs or transform a figure, but for the most part they're kept as static display figures.
I'm a fiddler as well, I like to pick a figure up and play with poses. I like to find an image and try to copy the pose. For example, I tried my best to get my masterpiece Optimus into this pose. I certainly don't get them all out and have an epic battle.
Though I wish I could create a display that illustrated parts of Transformers: The Movie. I'd love to have a couple of Gnaws giving Hot Rod and Kup a hard time. Stuff like that. Too bad I don't even have a single Gnaw, or Kup for that matter.
Like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by jena
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...prime_pose.jpg
:)
I do! It's epic fun! :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jena
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...lebeedance.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by jena
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=2800
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=2843
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=2922
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=3092
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...umperdance.gif
I love picking up a random transformer that I haven't transformed in a while, switch modes, switch it back then pose it back for display, and regularly change modes on some for display :) I find it so fun playing with them, I haven't started sealed collecting yet, don't know how I would cope. :P
I'm not sure, should I vote Fiddler or Other?
The majority of my collection is MISB, but I do have lots of loose toys as well so that I don't miss out on the fun. I hate actually transforming them because most of the time, I find it too hard! Takes me too long and I always need the instructions so kinda takes the fun out of it. Unless it's a Maccas toy or one of those Legion class ones. :D I do love making Photo Comics with them, though, and displaying them around the house in various action poses.
In terms of what type of collector I am: 80% Curator, 20% Fiddler. I do have aspects of the Player, but not so much with toys. I would much rather immerse myself in fan art/fiction and RPGing as a way of expressing my creative side/need for escapism, though as I mentioned above I also do this with Photo Comics and the like where the toys can be used.
I used to play (and I spose I was a lot younger) but then a few years ago the hip broke on my Sludge, simply as he had been overused and not designed to last 20 years. So I tend to touch my G1's as little as possible, and have a fiddle with the rest
From what you're telling me, I'd say vote for "Don't play." As I said in post #32, we're really looking at a spectrum, and as such I'd say most if not all of us have elements of all the different collector types in us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatron
I'm mostly a player, but I do also fiddle when I don't have time to play, and I do have a few sealed toys in my collection, and I have customised a few toys... but I most strongly identify myself as being a Player. So go with whichever you most strongly identify yourself as being -- what you "most" are. So as you said, if you feel that you're "80% Curator," then go with the "Don't Play" vote. :) But I don't think I've come across anyone who's 100% only one kind of collector -- I'm sure every sealed collector has at least one loose toy in their collection. ;)
That's the fun of it! :D One of the core parts of the play pattern of Transformers is that it's both a toy and a puzzle. :) It's so much fun exploring how a Transformer changes from one mode to another, especially when it's well engineered and you can see all the clever things they do to make parts shift etc. The carded figures (Commander, Scout, Deluxe) are easy enough to transform. Even most Voyagers these days are getting simpler to transform too (many feel like oversized Deluxes). Leaders and above can get tricky ('cept Combiner Class Devastator who's simpler than some Maccas toys :rolleyes: :p).Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatron
A difficult transformation isn't too bad so long as it's still an intuitive transformation. The kinds of transformations I don't like are those that are either far too simple that it's just no fun at all (e.g. Supreme Cheetor), or those that are too complex in a counter-intuitive sort of way (e.g. BT/ALT Grimlock & Wheeljack).
As one of the TV commercial slogans said, "The challenge is in the change!" :D
Sounds good. And yes, my collection wouldn't be complete without a few "escapees" in the mix. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
True enough... the first time transforming a toy is like sitting down to do a puzzle, but it can take time and a lot of patience, when sometimes I just want instant results! That's when I "hate" transforming them, but hate is probably the wrong word... it's more like, can't be bothered... I'm the type of Fiddler that once I've transformed a toy the first time (or two), I can't be bothered doing it again, and will usually leave them in robot mode. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
I tend to transform figures once, pose them and then stick them on a shelf.
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Originally Posted by Megatron
That is what I'm like now. I suppose in part it's because we are adults (for the most part) and we have too many other demands on our time, and we probably also don't set up as many battles like we used to when young.Quote:
Originally Posted by nofacej
^This!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by nofacej
I fiddle with them a bit, but sometimes I like flying my seekers around with a WHOOOSH!!!!:p