Did you create different characters/stories for you figures?

[acrovader]

Say, the Time Travelers fought alongside some other figures- Tron and Flynn, but Tron and Flynn weren't the same as the ones in the movie? Or perhaps Mazinga was Karza's righthand man. But Mazinga wasn't the Mazinga of Shogun Warriors fame, but some other character? Maybe Black Hole's Pizer and Holland flew Eagle One. Crystar lived in the same fantasy world as the Arco Other World figures... I loved coming up with my one story lines. But my action figure adventures were like movies- with a beginning, middle, and climatic end. I'd have an ongoing series of stories of RAH G.I. Joe figures as some sort of futuristic fighting force, ala Megaforce. Or I'd have a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy, that the AD&D Ogre King had a 'army' of robot soldiers (that being the 'black knight' from Dragonriders of Styx).. etc.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Oh yeah. My 3 3/4 Luke Duke became my own Eagle Man thanks to silly putty making him a mask and wings. In later years my Super Powers figures were joined by GI Joes and even Transformers with an offshoot team called "The Power Company". Mego Super Heroes teamed up with MOTU figures. You name it, I mixed it!!!

Chris

[4NDR01D]

When I was really little, my Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Micronauts and Clash of the Titans shared the same universe. When I got into Gi Joe in '82, that's when I stopped "mixing lines", I just wouldn't do it. For some reason I thought this was a sign of maturity.

[MIB41]

All the time. Here's the amazing part. I was using Shazam as my Peter Parker figure long before I ever knew about the Secret Identity figures. I actually didn't know anything about them until the late 80's. Shazam was actually used for many a figure. He became a Robin Teen Titan. He also became one of my favorite customs as a kid... Nova. When I was playing with my monster figures, I loved pulling my bed sheets over the side and pretending that was an ice/snow flow with Frankenstein buried in it. The adventures went from there.

[Falstaff13]

My main play area was a tabletop with Castle Grayskull at one end and Snake Mountain at the other. It was, obviously, a MOTU setup mostly, but then I added the Hall of Justice, and a little castle set with knights, etc. I combined the lines I had, with He-Man and Superman taking on Skeletor and Lex Luthor. MOTU worked well with merging lines, since it already had both "magic" and "science," so adding in Dungeons & Dragons and a few Star Wars were easy, and I just decided that some time scoop was used to bring my Legends of the West figures to Eternia (with Jesse James, of course, on the side of evil). And once Indiana Jones got there, it was an adventure for the ages.

[Splitty]

... I loved coming up with my one story lines. But my action figure adventures were like movies- with a beginning, middle, and climatic end. .

I would do the same thing too! And couldn't rest until I completed the storyline, even if it meant going to bed really late. They were all the usual. Underdog, quest, impossible odds, mystic villains, overthrow victory.

...umm, almost all I could get my hands on were Barbie Dolls. I managed to snag only a very few boy toys, that I'd sneak in there as midgets and creatures, but I could mostly only get my hands on girly stuff, so I made do. I only ever played Sci-Fi or Fantasy storylines. Never modern day. And I never had any other girls to play with, because they all wanted to play families and babies.

For sci-fi, since I had no boys around with toys to steal guns from, I got a steak knife & whittled toy space guns out of wood & painted them. I went through catalogs and cut pics of VCRs, electronics & sci-fi balls out and glued them to pieces of cardboard so I'd have electronic space walls. I stole small metal things often from the garage for gadgets.

For Fantasy....um maybe I don't know you guys well enough to talk about this. Ah heck, I'm already here. I punched ALL off my Barbies through the forehead so I could put an earring in there, so they'd have a mystic gem in the forehead. I made clothes. I whittled (with the knife again) simple rustic wooden props. I'd.....I should stop now. I'd cut the end off and whittled clear colored toothbrushes into pointy swords, attached hilts with washers from the garage, and gems and chains. Gem swords!

Oh gawd, I can never come back here again.
meh, I'll just edit it later.

[4NDR01D]

Oh gawd, I can never come back here again.
meh, I'll just edit it later.

too late, I already took a screen cap.

[Splitty]

too late, I already took a screen cap.

DOH! Foiled!!

*plots epic storyline with new dastardly villain '4ndro1d'*
Revenge.

[HardyGirl]

When I was a kid, I really didn't know how to play action figure games, even though I had Big Jim and Action Jackson. I tried though...a Kleenex box for a pursuit car (I tried to copy GIJoe's ATV, to no avail), and Big Jim and AJ and my Sesame Street finger puppet were like the father and sons Adventure Team. But, I didn't have any challenges to overcome, b/c I didn't know how. So eventually, I did use them to play house. But a lot of my games were kinda like soap operas. There was dysfunction, jealousy, child relocation. Big Jack was the strong, sexy man who protected his American Indian wife, and said, "Love ya, baby" a lot. I did watch the soaps w/ my mom sometimes, so I guess that came out.

[mazinz]

Say, the Time Travelers fought alongside some other figures- Tron and Flynn, but Tron and Flynn weren't the same as the ones in the movie? Or perhaps Mazinga was Karza's righthand man. But Mazinga wasn't the Mazinga of Shogun Warriors fame, but some other character? Maybe Black Hole's Pizer and Holland flew Eagle One. Crystar lived in the same fantasy world as the Arco Other World figures... I loved coming up with my one story lines. But my action figure adventures were like movies- with a beginning, middle, and climatic end. I'd have an ongoing series of stories of RAH G.I. Joe figures as some sort of futuristic fighting force, ala Megaforce. Or I'd have a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy, that the AD&D Ogre King had a 'army' of robot soldiers (that being the 'black knight' from Dragonriders of Styx).. etc.

Ditto and I really like this post