Busted at School

[Dave Mc]

Hulk is now waiting for his Superglue to dry. Hulk no longer can move head or right arm, but Hulk intact.

[Hulk]

Hulk UNSMASH!

[Dave Mc]

He got a "warning" from the teacher, he got a lecture from his Mother (that is plenty of punishment if you knew his mother).

From me he got a "let's see if we can fix that Hulk"

[mego boy CA]

Great Story! I Hope My Son Likes Megos As Much As I Do Some Day!

peter

[megozilla13]

great story. I wonder how much all the stuff that was taken away from me by teachers in 1st through 5th grade would be worth now on ebay.


mikej

[Meule]

Off topic here, but I just noticed certain smilies not working anymore, what gives?

[Marvelmania]

My dad would've told me the Hulk being trashed was my punishment. GLad to hear you fixed him up. You're a pretty cool dad Dave.

[palitoy]

Your son and I now have something in common, I was busted for the same offense with the same figure in 1979. The next week my Vincent and Maximillian were taken away, I never learned.

[johnmiic]

Okay, I'm glad schools are enforcing a little discipline, but I just wanted to make sure the toy wasn't broken by the teacher.

Maybe I was in some bad schools, but when I was a kid, teachers confiscated toys and comics. Some were thrown away or destroyed. Some were kept and never returned. I had a math teacher who had a drawer full of comics (including 1 or 2 of mine) in fifth grade. Many teachers in the 70's still subscribed to Wertham's theories about comic books. This hostility often extended to anything dealing with sci fi, fantasy, and horror.

It seems there were still remnants of this until I got to college.

JamesD

Same thing happened in my school when I was a kid. We used to fill our lunchboxes with Star Wars figures, and Mego Pocket Heroes- I had a HULK too when I was young, and the Nun's wanted to take them away. We were afraid they would take them away from us permanently so we stopped bringing them in.

One kid brought Famous Monsters to school when were were young, and when we saw him pull it out we all went, Ohhhh, what's in it? Within seconds the Nun would take it away. All we did was glimpse it-gone! Not sure he ever got it back. Come to think of it it was the same Nun in the same class.

She's long dead now.

That thought warms me all over.

[Hulk]

He got a "warning" from the teacher, he got a lecture from his Mother (that is plenty of punishment if you knew his mother).

From me he got a "let's see if we can fix that Hulk"

That sounds exactly the opposite of what would have happened to me. My mom would have been the one trying to fix it, and Dad would have been giving the lecture.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I don't think I ever had a toy confiscated permanently, but I can remember getting yelled at by teachers for bringing my Mego and Star Wars figures to school. But I was smart enough not to be messing with them during class, I always waited until recess. But we used to get in trouble for that too! I have great memories of playing on the school playground with those figures, though

I'm glad I went to a public school, I had friends who'd tell me horror stories about the nuns at their school taking their toys away or throwing away their comics! That infuriated me to hear about it then, and still does today!

[huedell]

Interesting story--

------it's funny as there are many teachers around our
age in the school system...it wouldn't surprise me if one of the "2nd
generation Mego kids" got caught with a classic toy by a very nostalgically
approving teacher who marevelled at seeing a 30 year old toy... by surprise
in a modern kids pocket

Can't say the ruling on "toys in school" because like um... "the other subject"
many things/variables come into play---but man, I don't know if you
guys ever experienced "teachers who FREAKED if they felt they were
being overshadowed in class by anything"

Case in point: A friend and I in 4th grade were playing that game
where you kinda flick your pencil to "shoot" asteroids on a piece of paper
while a teacher was talking---and---like a flash----this teacher picked up the
both of us by our shirt collars, threw us into the printing room, and
held us up against the shelves (again) by our shirts and seethed at
us never to do that "game stuff" while he was talking to the class--
--yeah---a bit over the top---but we never tried to play "Asteroids" in class again

[batgirl]

What a moron. Talk about how to crush a kid in one eassy lesson....
Its should be mandatory, all kids must bring at least one toy to school ( for socialisation skills, of course)

[batmanmc]

great story dave. good way to keep the mego love going. mike