>>10426518I never had any "Toy Story"-esque fantasies about my toys, but I did have intentions of making a Photocomic story based on a long running "play time storyline" I've been working with since I was a kid. Nothing really came out of it other then some short story outlines and a few scripts I never utilized. But I did manage to develop a long running lore as well as an epic storyline based around a squad of toys chosen to be peacekeepers between the various factions to maintain a fragile truce in the collection.
The story was centered around a team known as the Special Action Police Squad, which was formed shortly after the collection arrived in a new land after the previous one fell to ruin in a great destruction. They'd patrol the lands between factions resolving conflicts before they escalate into larger disputes in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the last collapse. Even the "evil" factions were a part of the truce, on paper anyway, as none of them held the same amount of power they did before the destruction. Instead, they each plotted and schemed in the shadows, while playing along with the truce in public.
All figures and characters had their "canon" powers, but figures who were "Favorites" or who were "trained" often (i.e. were played with more) were much more powerful then normal. The SAPS team were a group of favorite figures, so each one were formidable fighters on their own. But as a team they were nigh unbeatable in combat, which in and of itself was a great deterrent to keep the more malicious factions at peace.
Sadly, peace only lasts so long, and another great upheaval occurred.Though not as violent as the previous one, it still resulted in most of the collection being sent to storage for near a decade now. But one day soon (hopefully within the next few years, renovating a basement is expensive) the collection will once again be free to discover new lands, form new alliances and face even greater conflicts and new, larger threats.
