To work or not to work, that is the question

Weapons will work in a very particular way in the Army Men Toyverse. They will work normally in the worlds they come from, but will stop working in other worlds, or will be nerfed at least. This way we ensure that the seemingly weak plastic weapons can compete against the new metal weapons. And we also make sure that you must use swords, axes, hammers, bows, arrows or your fists, in the Medieval World. So in every world you must behave “in-universe”.

That is, the world you visit is influenced by you and your elements (external elements), breaking its nature and rules. Therefore, this world you visit will seek to correct that anomaly in some way, by nerfing or disabling you and your weapons or equipments.

Functionality and materiality, not composition

The materials composition are not modified, but the shapes of some objects are, as is the case of Vikki and her bow in Portal Runner. These unique and exceptional cases allow us to make visual skins change, depending on the universe being visited. But it’s not discarded that in some way the materials may also change in the future, or that some world may produce this effect.

Composition is the proportion of the different constituents of the material (chemically and physically different). Structure, on the other hand, refers to the spatial distribution, orientation and association of the constituents. Characterizing a material is determining the parameters necessary to identify and describe it. In simpler words, it is impossible for a world different from where a weapon comes from, to transform its plastic into metal. But you can modify a banana-shaped plastic weapon to an apple-shaped one, always maintaining the same composition and proportion. The characteristics for the most part, although this can change radically to the point that, for example, a bow becomes a bayesta (which is almost the same, just seen differently by the Army Men).