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    Well I do have a Unicronian faction group.... a whole shelf load of em fanatics of Unicron. Sorta like a fourth faction - Autobots, Decepticons, Minicons, Unicronians. Though I still take into account their personality traits in the fictions Ive read, yeah I do get certain personality vibes on some of the figures I have just by looking at em... sorta like your imagination running wild on an older age - remember when you were a kid how you imagined things like a"toy story" way. hehehe
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    Quote Originally Posted by liegeprime View Post
    Well I do have a Unicronian faction group.... a whole shelf load of em fanatics of Unicron. Sorta like a fourth faction - Autobots, Decepticons, Minicons, Unicronians.
    Isn't that your mass collection of Cybertron deluxe Unicron figures?
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    This is a great thread

    I do find that certain toys lend themselves to great individuality. I find that even where I'm not looking to, certain toys develop personas of their own in my mind which is laregely the result of the fact that I have no context for these characters. A good instance were the Cybertron toys. I had no understanding of the show, couldn't care about the characters or fiction but particularly like discovering modern toys compared to what was mostly G1 and MP/Binaltech to that point.

    My 1st three pick ups were Cybertron Defence Hot Shot, CD Scattershot and CD Red Alert. To me, their alt modes and their team just made sense. Military vehicles, armed to the teeth. It was pretty cool. However, they were devoid of personality. In posing them, I soon formed the idea that Hot Shot was the tough, hard nut with anger issues. Scattershot was the smooth operator b/c his figure was so balanced and elegant and his colour scheme so placid. Red Alert was the powerhouse that didn't want to be the powerhouse because of all the little medical tools that came with him and the fact that his rocket always seemed to overburden him. Unfortunately, Hasbro's ravaged those molds and memories a lot with repaints but to me nothing still compares to the original 3 b/c of the imposed distinctions that formed in my mind in relation to them.

    More recently, the Animated toys come with full personality already in their poses and sculpts that I really haven't had to. Not to mention that I did at least follow the 1st two seasons of Animated. It was probably more relevant in the movie lines and I'm sure it will be again this time around b/c the characters aren't as fleshed out.

    Longarm, Landmine were among my favourites. Longarm was always my reluctant sharp shooter with that massive gun of his. Landmine was mean, in and under brawler just b/c of the jeep, the colours and the head mold. But that's only the surface of it really as lots of differnt toys resonate to me differently b/c of their colour schemes. Sometimes the colour schemes changes an identical pose that you've had another version in. A great example is probably Henkei Prime v Classics Prime. Same character, same generation but totally different feels and individuality in certain poses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roller View Post
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    there names and personalities are dictated by the fiction
    Well, to an extent, that influences how I see the toys as characters.

    Animated Voyager Starscream, for one, used to be the leader of the Decepticons in my room since there were no Megatrons. But then I got Robot Heroes BW Megatron, who kicked him out. However, as a Robot Hero, he can't transform, so Universe Overkill is his body.

    And Starscream now schemes against him.

    Also, Sunstreaker. It's not so much the bio on the back of the card that influences how I see him, it's the revelation that Dreamwave Sunstreaker was gay. Due to that, Sunstreaker in my collection is now exceedingly camp, not through any overt homophobia or anything, but simply because it means I can have him say funny things.

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