How do you play?

[Ninjinister]

Okay, I admit it. It's been at least two years since I've actually really played with my TMNT figures - or at least it was prior to this weekend. My brother was staying over, and he wanted to play with the TMNT figures. After much coercing, I caved in. Since we were in my room, and the living room was where half of my toys were, we only used the latter half of my collection that was in my room, using other figures for proxies when the others were unavailable (or just have not been made).

We started off with the big simians - my brother had Bigfoot, and I, the Yeti (from the Raphael vs. Yeti 2-pack). I wanted to do sort of a "Street Fighter"-type thing, where two characters faced off, one wins, then we pick two others (or stay with what we had), and continue. He wanted to do a "story".

So thinking off the top of my head, after my Yeti was slain by the Bigfoot in a seven minute battle, I brought in Shredder (standard 2003 version) arrived with five Foot Soldiers (2003 versions) and two Foot Tech Ninja, and proceeded to fight and eventually capture the Bigfoot.

Back at Foot HQ, Karai (2007 version) approached Shredder, and he ordered her to capture the other Thirteen Monsters. The Foot had already captured all of them other than Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, and Spider Aracknor prior to the game's events. Someone (undecided at that point who) had unleashed the monsters once again, and according to legend, if someone else returned the Monsters, they could steal the immortality from the one who let them escape. Shredder's plan was to do so.

Control of the Foot went to my brother, as I used the Jersey Devil. I added an Elite Foot to my brother's forces, as they were continuously attacked and attempted to chase down the lil' bugger. Suddenly, Hun came in, attempted to summon the Purple Dragons (and then, he made a meta-reference "Oh yeah, they never made any!), he made an effort to capture the Jersey Devil. Ultimately, Karai and the Foot beat Hun and captured the Jersey Devil.

Meanwhile, in the sewers, Don, Raph, Mike (all 2003 Mutations) and Leo (standard 2003) prepared to make their way into cyberspace to rescue a piece of Splinter (1987 version). Serling stood by making wisecracks (and since I can't do Marc Thompson's Serling voice, he sounded more like Sean Connery, and ended up saying "You'll rue the day, Michelangelo!"

In Cyberspace, the Turtles battled Cyber Shredder (actually Toon Shredder), and rescued another piece of Splinter. Back in the sewer, the Spider Aracknor slipped its way in, and Hun bounded into the lair to capture it. The Turtles were fighting off Hun, when the Aracknor constricted itself around Mikey....

And my dad called, saying he was coming to pick up my brother.

The point is, I forgot how much fun it was playing with action figures.

Do you still play? And how do you normally do it?