You can't take the boy out of the man...

While I was of the generation who first played with Star Wars action figures, I was always somewhat dismayed at their lack of posability and their constraints on my youthful imagination (mainly because they were the products of George Lucas's mind and not mine). You couldn't do wild and wacky things with them because each figure already possessed a back story that was pretty well defined by the movies, as well as all the resultant cultural baggage that was attached to this saga (e.g. Luke Skywalker was a good guy, Greedo was not).

However, I didn't feel the same restrictions with another action figure line called Micronauts. While there were clearly defined good and bad guys, the figures were a bit more non-descript, they were much more posable than other figures, they had little "cultural baggage" and, in my mind, they were a hell of a lot more fun than Star Wars figures. Whenever I would play with the two, the Micronauts would nearly always win, taking over the Millenium Falcon and inihilating the Star Wars people, good and bad (since the Star Wars people would have to ally themselves together to meet the onslaught of the Micronauts!) Then, the Micronauts would have an internal struggle over who would hold supremacy over their race, leading to an intense afternoon of political intrigue, murder, and epic battles across the living room, ending just in time to watch Battle of the Planets! And that was just last week at my apartment!