Quote Originally Posted by Bidoofdude View Post
I'm the exact opposite. I would love getting something like Megatron that I could interact myself with as a kid. It would be worth the sacrifice IMO. I guess that's why I've always wanted a G1 Shockwave, because it would be totally rad to have a lights and sound laser gun based off a favourite character.
I agree. Shockwave was never released in Australia, but I grew up playing with "Shackwave," which I absolutely loved. Ditto Soundwave, Blaster and the cassettes, as well as the Insecticons (who did mass-shift in the G1 comics). I used to pretend that these toys had shrunken down in their alt modes and that I would be some unwitting human that stumbled across them and used them, and through me, gain access to certain places. e.g. I'd pretend that I was a scientist, and say I'd "find" Soundwave and carry him with me to my "lab" etc. And I did exactly the same thing when Real Gear Robots came out. I quite like role play Transformers. But yeah, they're certainly not interactive with other Transformers.

But honestly, during my toy-to-toy play, I would just use my imagination when they "transformed" to their shrunken down forms; kinda like what Peter Jackson does w/ human-sized actors who play Hobbits and Dwarves; IRL they're not smaller, but I would imagine that they were to scale w/ each other. e.g. transform Soundwave to alt mode and put him to my left, pretending that he was inside say the cockpit of a Decepticon Jet, while on my right I'd have say Skywarp in jet mode and imagine that he was flying with Soundwave inside the cockpit. But in my imagination Soundwave was inside Skywarp. But this was nothing compared to when I played Robotech! The only Zentraedi soldier that I had was a "Micronised" one (did they ever make a bigger one?), so for example, when I'd have Max Sterling running away from my Zentraedi soldier, I'd put the Zentraedi right in front of my eye to make him look bigger, with the human at arm's length to make him seem smaller and "super impose" each other when they interacted (e.g. Zentraedi picking up the human). Okay, sure, they'd never both be in focus with each other, but hey... I made do. And heck, even with the larger toys (e.g. Breetai), they still weren't exactly to scale to the 10cm human figures, so I still had to do some "super imposing" (just not as bad as w/ a 10cm Micronised Zentraedi ). And I would do the same when I played G.I. Joes w/ Transformers too.