To decal or not to decal?

[GUNSLINGER]

I haven't used any of them, but I do like them included - gives everyone the option and can also make the multiples of the same figure look different.

And if you paint your figures, the stickers can give you a template or reference to go off of. Course, if you paint the figures, you probably have enough imagination to create details without any reference!

[the sliFt]

i haven't used any and don't really plan on it. i think they look better without them alot of the time. some of the face stickers seem kind of akward and i don't want my guys permanently making some face that i only kind of liked.
i also don't mix-and-match parts. i'll put some in different locations on the same guy, but overall, i like mine pure

[GUNSLINGER]

i like mine pure.

;D

Heh! Me too! Mixing parts between species kinda makes me feel like I messed up the way "it was intended" to be. But I'm weird like that!

[the sliFt]

i guess i'm weird that way, too. and i think some of the recombinations [even those shown in the booklets they give you] just look bad. i can understand some, like some sledge parts on some alpha rangers, but i don't think it's really worth it for most of them.

[GUNSLINGER]

The cool thing about Xevoz is you can do what you like. Mix and match, clash, anything's possible. Now how cool is that!

But, alas, Slift and I are a couple of Xevoz "purists."

[CJK Toy Bay]

I'm with you guys on being a purist...I've mixed and matched during "play time" but everything always gets put back where it belongs

Amazing...they give us a line with completely interchangeable parts that we can arrange however we like and we're still putting them together the recomended way

[GUNSLINGER]

Heh, when I was a little kid playing with my Legos, I HAD to put them together the way the directions called for. If I created something else, I'd keep it for awhile, and then put it back together the "correct" way!

Guess some things never change! (Obviously, I'm STILL playing with toys! ;D)

[CJK Toy Bay]

lol...for about 10 years now I've had a lego Pirate ship sitting in my basement because I put it together according to the directions and somehow managed to misplace the directions. Knowing that I cant ever put it back together the way it's supposed to be I refuse to take it apart ;D

[GUNSLINGER]

;D lol

[DVD]

I leave the decals on the sticker sheet. I tried to put some on my Alpha Ranger(my first Xevoz) when I got him, but the face I put on the reg. head didn't want to stay on. I put a mouth on the helmet head, and that's still there. I dunno, though. The rest of my figures are as is. I think it gives them more attitude when they're not all stickered up.

[CJK Toy Bay]

I think I'd be more apt to use the decals if they didn't give you choices, I'm very indecisive so giving me a bunch of different stickers with no exact location is kind of a draw back.
That and like I said before some of the stickers just seem way to gaudy if you're going for the more attitude look like DVD mentioned.

[Grayfox]

I suppose I'm a purist as well then cause there is no way I can transform a Transformers figure the first time without the instructions. I have to do it exactly as it's shown hehe.

As for Xevoz, I don't mix and match parts either. doesn't sound right in my head.

Plus I think kids might be mixing and swapping parts while us collectors just enjoy the figures as they are,

[DVD]

I think that's the major marketing idea behind the line. Giving both the collectors and the kids something they'll enjoy. I have no idea how kids are taking to the line, but it's obvious that the collectors are into it. If I were a younger kid, I'd want to put a bug head on a different body, just because it'd look cool. Now I want to do it because I think, "Well, what if they're a type of vampire like bug that bites their victim, eventually turning them into a bug."

I usually don't mix and match either, unless it works out in my head, like mixing Neo and Bio Mecha parts.

[the sliFt]

oh man, i had these robin hood type legos that i lost the instructions for a LONG time ago. everytime my brother and i got it out, we'd re arange stuff and loose stuff and then we came up with a pretty cool totally original design.

i'm fine doing that, but when it comes to having a bug head on a skeleton body... i can't go for it.
i do like that you get to choose between different parts for the same character [i.e. i much prefer the plain skull to the cyborg-like skull and i prefer not to use the peg leg or hook]