What's the worst thing that ever happened to your Mego?

[MegoNinja]

Hello everyone,

I have broken a few Mego since I started collecting, nothing major though. I broke the knee pin's of my Fonzie mego after about 10 seconds of owning one, as soon as I opened the parcel and took him out I heard some bit's of plastic fall on the floor and I checked to see it was his knee pin's. Aside from that the only other real damage I did was my Potsie mego (Happy days must be accident prone) fell in my fish tank by accident.

I havent broken any thing too valuable yet, but my question is has any one caused some serious damage to their collection? Such as accidently sitting on a carded figure? Or accidently ripped the cello from a boxed Mego? Or worse yet broken the mask of a RM robin?

[toys2cool]

The worst that happened to me was when I received my kiss Peter his arms were bent,I tried to straighten them out and bam!! both broke

[palitoy]

elastic superman + leak = new kind of mouse trap

[saildog]

Well, I was a kid when this happened and even though it was 30+ years ago, I still remember the incident. I tied a string around the chest and under the arms of my removable cowl Batman. When it was secured, I began swinging him around as if he were flying. Had a blast swinging him and spinning myself around and then, "WHACK!"...Batman hit the swing set and the elastic snapped. He feel to pieces. Didn't know he could be repaired and he found his way into the trash and I moved on to the T2 Batman. Wish I would have known to at least keep the parts.

[kresge1]

i had the same problem as Brian.My elastic plasticman expolded from the intense heat in my toyroom a few years ago

[The Bat]

It's funny...Ya know, just Yesterday...I was re-arranging My Star Trek Mego's on the Shelf...while holding a Cup of Coffee. Well...Scotty took a nose dive, head first right into My Coffee Cup! I quickly ran down Stair's with Him...and put the old Dish washing liquid to Him FAST(Coffee Stains!)! Anyway...I looks fine this Morning.

[GSPUSA]

The memory that stays with me clearly is a brand new Micronaught that my mom bought for me, I remember picking it out in the store and asking for it. First thing I did when we got in the car was open the package, after attempting to point the head straight it broke off at the neck. Great quality I have to tell you. My mom got mad about the money wasted and I was equally disgusted. I think that was my last Mego purchase ever. More than likely the same quality control engineers for Mego later joined ranks at CTVT.

[cjefferys]

Aside from that the only other real damage I did was my Potsie mego fell in my fish tank by accident.

I won't even ask how something like that happens.

[VintageMike]

A few months back I laid out my loose Megos for a friend we went would and we wound up going "old school" with them.
Thank god the Supergirl I had the time was repro was her arm got cracked and her hand broke. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it provided boith reason to geta real Supergirl and I wound up using on of her feet on a broken Invisible Girl I purchashed. Got a great deal on I-Girl and she's all original save that foot. Even reusued the orginal Mego pin.
As far as childhood, no one incident stands out. There were plenty of horrible moments when I knew someone's knee pin gave way or their leg broke. As far as abuse, my Trek figures took most of it. I'd pile them into this blue Jeep, and proceed to run the Jeep into a tree, "Captain, we're gonna crash!".

[Meule]

I've been fortunate enough to never have anything break. The worst thing happening so far is having to box 'em all up and not having them on display anymore