How long do you play with your toys for?

[SamLoi888]

There are different kinds of play. I prefer full on fantasy play, but when I'm short on time or just tired I'll just fiddle-play. I think in reality most of us switch between being kinds of players depending on certain factors. For example, I have a few toys that I keep sealed (they're all doubles ). And sometimes I like to fiddle play, but I really love to fantasy play - so I predominantly consider myself a fantasy player.

According to the "How do you play with your Transformers?" poll:

75% of us fiddle play
The Fiddler

13.25% of us don't play with our toys
The Curator

8% of us fantasy play with our toys
The Player

...and 4% selected "other" (e.g. kitbashers etc.)
The Artisan

That's funny!

I try to do a bit of all four of Goki's stereotypes there to different degrees. The fantasy 'Player' in me makes up short stories with whatever is laying around the desk or room at any given point in time. e.g. Heroclix Joe Fixit Hulk in mob clothes is standing cross-armed adjudicating a battle between Lego-type Halo minifigs with one side led by the Hayabusa Spartan and the other made up of Covenant Elite. Meanwhile...on another part of the planet, an unlikely group of stranded refugees made up of a Lego Mech/Bot Type Thing, Cute Anime Girl in Underwear, Decepticon Orange Minicon Tiger and G1 Reissue Hoist attempt to trek the wasteland and find a way back to some sort of civilisation. Tempers are short and Decepticon Orange Minicon Tiger is starting to look at Cute Anime Girl in Underwear like a piece of meat.
G1 Reissue Hoist, ever the pacifist, is starting to worry about the situation quickly deteriorating while Lego Mech/Bot Type Thing is pretty much an emotionless drone who is along for the ride.

[heroic_decepticon]

Just long enough to get them out of the box and put them on display

this is more how i do it!!

I'm pretty much like that, unfortunately. It's not my preferred mode of play, but it is unfortunately all the time I have after spending time on other things, amongst them hunting for more toys!

Goki's 'passion' disturbed me at first but I have grown used to it

I would like to play like that too and it would so remember me of how I used to role play with my brother - battle scenarios, stories, using the boxes to built make shift bases for the TFs and all that. I just don't seem to be able to do that and have not been able to for more than 10 years - The last active role play I had was with MOTU figures when I bought my vintage Snake Mountain.

I have this notion that they get up and play at night when i'm asleep.

Your notion has been been made into 3 highly sucessful animated movies. Any more notions to clue us in on?

Trust me when you spend too much on 1 figure that shouldn't cost that much you'll feel sore too

You'll feel much better after reading my experience here.

I realised that I don't spend enough quality time with my TFs which is why I set up my blog, now I have begun enjoying them for their poses and articulation as well as reviewing them too... Plus the posing and photographing is now a bit more constructive with somewhere to publish them.

I'm with you there, which is why I have my blog!

[Tallestblue]

I'd say I do the fiddle play with my toys but in my head it's more a comedy set in my apartment ala Wayward's Insecticomics. Or someimes it's Crisis on Infinite Cybertrons.

[gdmetro]

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You'll feel much better after reading my experience here.

Wow... what a story.

Epic blog HD- such an enjoyable read-shall endeavor to read more !

[SkyWarp91]

8% of us fantasy play with our toys

Caption: When TFs take revenge on Gok after being kept in his toy room...

I mostly fiddle play, usually leaving a new toy out on my foot tool in front of the telly and playing with it on the couch.

I realised that I don't spend enough quality time with my TFs which is why I set up my blog, now I have begun enjoying them for their poses and articulation as well as reviewing them too. The reviewing side of things has made me assess the reasons why I like a figure so much, wheras before I would just go "yep, ots optimus. Cool." Now I sit there and think 'Good colours, articulations is cool, nice moulding' etc etc. Plus the posing and photographing is now a bit more constructive with somewhere to publish them.

A blog eh? What an interesting way to spend time with your TFs that can cost alot of money

That's funny!

I try to do a bit of all four of Goki's stereotypes there to different degrees. The fantasy 'Player' in me makes up short stories with whatever is laying around the desk or room at any given point in time. e.g. Heroclix Joe Fixit Hulk in mob clothes is standing cross-armed adjudicating a battle between Lego-type Halo minifigs with one side led by the Hayabusa Spartan and the other made up of Covenant Elite. Meanwhile...on another part of the planet, an unlikely group of stranded refugees made up of a Lego Mech/Bot Type Thing, Cute Anime Girl in Underwear, Decepticon Orange Minicon Tiger and G1 Reissue Hoist attempt to trek the wasteland and find a way back to some sort of civilisation. Tempers are short and Decepticon Orange Minicon Tiger is starting to look at Cute Anime Girl in Underwear like a piece of meat.
G1 Reissue Hoist, ever the pacifist, is starting to worry about the situation quickly deteriorating while Lego Mech/Bot Type Thing is pretty much an emotionless drone who is along for the ride.

That is one wild imagination you got bud!

You'll feel much better after reading my experience here.

Did you get Overlord back (and those other TFs) again?

[heroic_decepticon]

Wow... what a story.

Epic blog HD- such an enjoyable read-shall endeavor to read more !

Thanks!
Hursty seems to enjoy, I hope you do too.

A blog eh? What an interesting way to spend time with your TFs that can cost alot of money

yup, its odd. But then again, not so odd. I can't speak for everyone, but I think the joy is in the journey (read - the toy hunting) as much as in acquiring the toy. I almost exclusively collect G1, so I don't transform them much because I don't want them to become loose.

Did you get Overlord back (and those other TFs) again?

Yup. In the end I did get back a MIB Overlord in 2008 from Hong Kong.

[5FDP]

13.25% of us don't play with our toys
The Curator

Wow, that's exactly the face I make

Life's pretty straight without Twisties Gok

[LordCyrusOmega]

Your notion has been been made into 3 highly sucessful animated movies. Any more notions to clue us in on?

What movies are they? i'm so uninformed.

I have a notion that they feel trapped and cry when they are locked in boxes or, as they are at the moment, bound tightly in bubble wrap.

[heroic_decepticon]

What movies are they? i'm so uninformed.

animated movies.
erm.... Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

I have a notion that they feel trapped and cry when they are locked in boxes or, as they are at the moment, bound tightly in bubble wrap.

they sort of do all that in the movies too.

[LordCyrusOmega]

Of course those movies.

I also think that when i single one out and play with it more then others the others will gang up on it out of jealousy