Post by Blackbird 13 on Nov 26, 2008 17:18:20 GMT -5
I know it's been asked before, but of those of you who play with your figures, how in depth do you go? I know some of you collect MOC, some of you just display loose, and I'm sure some of you display loose but occassionally run a match. I know some of you keep title records as well. But I wonder if anyone else on the board goes as "in depth" as my brother and I do with it?
For me, playing with them is a good stress reliever, and a way to live out my second "dream job" of being a booker/writer.
For those who don't know, I've got almost everyone ever released in RA or TTL format (missing Ultimo, Sylvian, Jannetty, Neidhart, and no more than six others *cough*tradespost*cough*), and around 20 customs or fixups (Sting, Candido, Gerald Brisco, Nick Patrick, AJ Styles, Daniels, Shelley, Aries, Rocky Romero, Chad Collyer, Juventud, and Stevie Ray come to mind, but there are more). So there's a lot of workers to choose from! Oh, and no one's dead, everyone's either in his or her prime, or in whatever condition we're using them as (i.e. Rick Rude is basically a manager, Freddie Blassie is more crazy old man manager than wrestler).
My brother and I play with my figures together.. and we've split the roster into six federations. Not only that.. I've got an Excel spreadsheet with a salary cap for each of the six rosters, a system for injuries with accumulating points, and a complete champions list and such. The contracts last for a year (with me randomizing the first expiration dates after our "draft"), at which time any of the feds can bid for the worker. We do shows with full entrance music and everything. Also, we're making this as real as possible (if Vince sold the rights to his companies), so trademarked names can't be used across feds (Yokozuna is "Sumo" in TNA, Ken Kennedy is "Keith Kennedy" in WCW). Also makes it hard coming up with new music for a worker (i.e., I just signed Kofi Kingston in WCW, but can't use his WWF music). The two of us half-@ss commentate.. and occassionally throw in "signature lines" of our commentators at the time, but usually just call the action.
NWA is mine, and AWA is his.. and they're viewed as our indy feds. We rarely do shows with them due to time constraints. They've each got a Heavyweight Title and Tag Titles. They only get one PPV a year (Clash of the Champions for NWA, and SuperClash for AWA). AWA has like 6 million, NWA like 4 million. My brother's got Shelton Benjamin under contract with the AWA for like 2 million. Seriously.. one third of his budget. He was bidding against TNA.. and now he's locked at that price till the contract expires. Pfft...
NWA Champion: Barry Windham
NWA Tag Champions: Warlord and Barbarian
AWA Champion: Nick Bockwinkel
AWA Tag Champions: Micheal Hayes and Terry Gordy
NWA Top Stars: Barry Windham, Mike Mizanin, Steve Corino, Kenzo Suzuki, One Man Gang, Demolition
AWA Top Stars: Nick Bockwinkel, Curt Hennig, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Freebirds
Our mid feds are ECW for him and TNA for me. They get eleven PPV's a year, missing only the one for the AWA and NWA. Ten matches per PPV, 12 for Bound for Glory and whatever the big ECW show is. ECW's got 8 mil, TNA has 10 mil. ECW's got an angle right now where Vince is disputing Heyman's right to own the company. It's kinda like a WWF-ECW Invasion angle, but not crappy. ECW's also been home to the only three injuries we've had since we started, Sabu, Terry Funk, and Little Guido. Funk's out an entire year too. Tsk, tsk.
ECW Champion: Sandman
ECW TV Champion: Tommy Dreamer
ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Candido and Bam Bam Bigelow
TNA Champion: AJ Styles
TNA X Division Champion: Christopher Daniels
TNA Tag Team Champions: Afa and Sika
ECW Top Stars: Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk, Sabu, Tazz, Shane Douglas, Dudleyz
TNA Top Stars: Kurt Angle, Mick Foley, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Sumo (Yokozuna), Monty Brown, Abyss
And there's our main feds, WCW and WWF. Twelve PPVs a year, and allowed ten matches per PPV, and15 matches for WrestleMania and Starrcade. Starrcade is this month, big main event is Hogan vs. Rey Mysterio for the WCW belt, as well as Sting and Luger vs. Hall and Nash. My brother's WWF roster is STACKED, but he's also at like 19.8 mil of his 20 mil cap, whereas my WCW is at like 16 mil. Speaking of which, our salary caps for the two are WWF at 20 mil, WCW at 21 mil, but WWF has Triple H as an unsackable worker. (Bischoff, Heyman, Vince, and Jarrett are all unsackable as well).
WWF Top Stars: John Cena, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Bret Hart, Shawn Micheals, JBL, CM Punk, Taker
WCW Top Stars: Hogan, Sting, Luger, Flair, Raven, DDP, Nash, Hall, Goldberg, Kennedy, Harlem Heat
WWF World Champion: Triple H
WWF IC Champion: Cody Rhodes
WWF European Champion: DH Smith
WWF Tag Team Champions: Batista and Randy Orton
WWF Women's Champion: Stephanie McMahon
WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Austin Aries
WCW World Champion: Hollywood Hulk Hogan
WCW United States Champion: Diamond Dallas Page
WCW Television Champion: Lord Steven Regal
WCW Tag Team Champions: Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
WCW Cruiserweight Champion: Syxx
WCW Women's Champion: Michelle McCool
While we don't usually cross-promote that much, WWF and WCW will occassionally grab workers from the AWA and NWA for job matches, or like I did with WCW to fill out World War 3. TNA and ECW occassionally bring champions from AWA or NWA on their shows, much like the actual TNA and ECW would work with smaller companies. AWA and NWA cross-promote a bit more, as they're smaller companies.
Raven is the highest paid worker at or just over 3 million in WCW. ECW ran up the price, and probably understandably so. In contrast, Undertaker is at 200,000, Bobby Eaton at 150,000, and Hogan at 500,000. CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, Shelton Benjamin, and Arn Anderson are also all at least 1 mil. Strange how that works out huh?
We're following a timeline, and while it happens to correspond at the moment (we're in December 08 with our figures, and it's almost December 08 now), we've agreed that after we get the PPV's for each month done we can move on. So, if we get all four PPV's for December done (WCW, WWF, ECW, and TNA), we can move to January as soon as that's over. As far as referencing events that happened since October 08 (when we restarted all this after my other laptop was stolen).. we have an ambiguous "if the shoe fits" policy. So.. while what happened at Halloween Havoc 08 in our storyline is canon.. if Cody Rhodes wins the World Title in real life next month, he'll still probably be referred to as a former World Champion. It's not perfect, but bleh.
I keep saying I'm going to make a website for our "figure universe", and probably will eventually, posting the upcoming cards, results, pictures, as well as a place for people to send in "house show results", with or without photos, using thier own figures with our storylines and angles. It's hard though. I'm 25, I have a wonderful girlfriend, a blossoming career, and it's difficult to have the time to play with action figures, much less do a website on it! But, it's still a thought, if the interest would be there for people to check it out.
So, would there be an interest in a website following our "figure universe"?
And what about you, do you play with your figures, or do you only display them? And if you do play with them, how deep does it go?
For me, playing with them is a good stress reliever, and a way to live out my second "dream job" of being a booker/writer.
For those who don't know, I've got almost everyone ever released in RA or TTL format (missing Ultimo, Sylvian, Jannetty, Neidhart, and no more than six others *cough*tradespost*cough*), and around 20 customs or fixups (Sting, Candido, Gerald Brisco, Nick Patrick, AJ Styles, Daniels, Shelley, Aries, Rocky Romero, Chad Collyer, Juventud, and Stevie Ray come to mind, but there are more). So there's a lot of workers to choose from! Oh, and no one's dead, everyone's either in his or her prime, or in whatever condition we're using them as (i.e. Rick Rude is basically a manager, Freddie Blassie is more crazy old man manager than wrestler).
My brother and I play with my figures together.. and we've split the roster into six federations. Not only that.. I've got an Excel spreadsheet with a salary cap for each of the six rosters, a system for injuries with accumulating points, and a complete champions list and such. The contracts last for a year (with me randomizing the first expiration dates after our "draft"), at which time any of the feds can bid for the worker. We do shows with full entrance music and everything. Also, we're making this as real as possible (if Vince sold the rights to his companies), so trademarked names can't be used across feds (Yokozuna is "Sumo" in TNA, Ken Kennedy is "Keith Kennedy" in WCW). Also makes it hard coming up with new music for a worker (i.e., I just signed Kofi Kingston in WCW, but can't use his WWF music). The two of us half-@ss commentate.. and occassionally throw in "signature lines" of our commentators at the time, but usually just call the action.
NWA is mine, and AWA is his.. and they're viewed as our indy feds. We rarely do shows with them due to time constraints. They've each got a Heavyweight Title and Tag Titles. They only get one PPV a year (Clash of the Champions for NWA, and SuperClash for AWA). AWA has like 6 million, NWA like 4 million. My brother's got Shelton Benjamin under contract with the AWA for like 2 million. Seriously.. one third of his budget. He was bidding against TNA.. and now he's locked at that price till the contract expires. Pfft...
NWA Champion: Barry Windham
NWA Tag Champions: Warlord and Barbarian
AWA Champion: Nick Bockwinkel
AWA Tag Champions: Micheal Hayes and Terry Gordy
NWA Top Stars: Barry Windham, Mike Mizanin, Steve Corino, Kenzo Suzuki, One Man Gang, Demolition
AWA Top Stars: Nick Bockwinkel, Curt Hennig, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Freebirds
Our mid feds are ECW for him and TNA for me. They get eleven PPV's a year, missing only the one for the AWA and NWA. Ten matches per PPV, 12 for Bound for Glory and whatever the big ECW show is. ECW's got 8 mil, TNA has 10 mil. ECW's got an angle right now where Vince is disputing Heyman's right to own the company. It's kinda like a WWF-ECW Invasion angle, but not crappy. ECW's also been home to the only three injuries we've had since we started, Sabu, Terry Funk, and Little Guido. Funk's out an entire year too. Tsk, tsk.
ECW Champion: Sandman
ECW TV Champion: Tommy Dreamer
ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Candido and Bam Bam Bigelow
TNA Champion: AJ Styles
TNA X Division Champion: Christopher Daniels
TNA Tag Team Champions: Afa and Sika
ECW Top Stars: Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk, Sabu, Tazz, Shane Douglas, Dudleyz
TNA Top Stars: Kurt Angle, Mick Foley, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Sumo (Yokozuna), Monty Brown, Abyss
And there's our main feds, WCW and WWF. Twelve PPVs a year, and allowed ten matches per PPV, and15 matches for WrestleMania and Starrcade. Starrcade is this month, big main event is Hogan vs. Rey Mysterio for the WCW belt, as well as Sting and Luger vs. Hall and Nash. My brother's WWF roster is STACKED, but he's also at like 19.8 mil of his 20 mil cap, whereas my WCW is at like 16 mil. Speaking of which, our salary caps for the two are WWF at 20 mil, WCW at 21 mil, but WWF has Triple H as an unsackable worker. (Bischoff, Heyman, Vince, and Jarrett are all unsackable as well).
WWF Top Stars: John Cena, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Bret Hart, Shawn Micheals, JBL, CM Punk, Taker
WCW Top Stars: Hogan, Sting, Luger, Flair, Raven, DDP, Nash, Hall, Goldberg, Kennedy, Harlem Heat
WWF World Champion: Triple H
WWF IC Champion: Cody Rhodes
WWF European Champion: DH Smith
WWF Tag Team Champions: Batista and Randy Orton
WWF Women's Champion: Stephanie McMahon
WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Austin Aries
WCW World Champion: Hollywood Hulk Hogan
WCW United States Champion: Diamond Dallas Page
WCW Television Champion: Lord Steven Regal
WCW Tag Team Champions: Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
WCW Cruiserweight Champion: Syxx
WCW Women's Champion: Michelle McCool
While we don't usually cross-promote that much, WWF and WCW will occassionally grab workers from the AWA and NWA for job matches, or like I did with WCW to fill out World War 3. TNA and ECW occassionally bring champions from AWA or NWA on their shows, much like the actual TNA and ECW would work with smaller companies. AWA and NWA cross-promote a bit more, as they're smaller companies.
Raven is the highest paid worker at or just over 3 million in WCW. ECW ran up the price, and probably understandably so. In contrast, Undertaker is at 200,000, Bobby Eaton at 150,000, and Hogan at 500,000. CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, Shelton Benjamin, and Arn Anderson are also all at least 1 mil. Strange how that works out huh?
We're following a timeline, and while it happens to correspond at the moment (we're in December 08 with our figures, and it's almost December 08 now), we've agreed that after we get the PPV's for each month done we can move on. So, if we get all four PPV's for December done (WCW, WWF, ECW, and TNA), we can move to January as soon as that's over. As far as referencing events that happened since October 08 (when we restarted all this after my other laptop was stolen).. we have an ambiguous "if the shoe fits" policy. So.. while what happened at Halloween Havoc 08 in our storyline is canon.. if Cody Rhodes wins the World Title in real life next month, he'll still probably be referred to as a former World Champion. It's not perfect, but bleh.
I keep saying I'm going to make a website for our "figure universe", and probably will eventually, posting the upcoming cards, results, pictures, as well as a place for people to send in "house show results", with or without photos, using thier own figures with our storylines and angles. It's hard though. I'm 25, I have a wonderful girlfriend, a blossoming career, and it's difficult to have the time to play with action figures, much less do a website on it! But, it's still a thought, if the interest would be there for people to check it out.
So, would there be an interest in a website following our "figure universe"?
And what about you, do you play with your figures, or do you only display them? And if you do play with them, how deep does it go?
sig credit to Focalin
But.. like I said, my career is going good.. I've got an awesome girlfriend and an awesome relationship.. just one of my hobbies, y'know!
), but that's a big if and I don't think I would have the interest to start up another one after so many failed attempts in the past. 
Ruck Fules Yo.. The Champ .. is .. here ! 
