Worst Thing You Did To Your Megos

[Wee67]

My best friend George Rafferty lived with his grandmother on the top floor of the apartment building. We used to try and fashion parachutes out of cloth napkins and then chuck our heroes out the window.

It was only three stories, but we did learn about the importance of the weight of the material your using.

I think that was worse than buring or submerging them (though the pool chlorine probably wasn't helping any)

[thomasjo_2093]

We used to tie them to the ends of our kite tails and fly them way up into the air. Sometimes our knots were not so good and away they would fall never to be found again.

John

[JDeRouen]

I once created a little house out of cardboard, put a T1 Spock in it, and set it on fire. I had some string attached to the top and Spock's hand, so it would hold him up, imagining that the fire would burn down the string and catch him on fire. I think instead the whole thing collapsed. The smell of burning plastic was nasty.

I also shot them with BB guns, threw them off buildings... and once buried a Big Jim who "died" in my front yard and forgot all about him. I went three years later (we had since moved) at two in the morning with a shovel and tried to dig him up, but he was mysteriously gone.

[kerowack]

Megos were almost like stuffed animals to me. I never put them through hell...probably the cloth outfits. Now G.I.Joe's and Super Powers figures....they all ended up swimming in the pool at some point.

[JDeRouen]

Oh, I also froze Thor's hammer and helmet in a tupperware container filled with water in the freezer. The idea was that he had to break them out to get back his powers. They were never the same after that..

[MIB41]

I had a Scotty figure I had to remove a marker stain from with some turpentine. Well I didn't have any luck getting it off. In frustration over my failure (and the sense that the figure was ruined anyway) I pulled out a pack of matches and lit up his head. Instant Torch! Too bad I didn't have a camcorder in those days. It was the most fun I ever had watching a Mego go down for the count.

The figures that got the most abuse though were actually my AHI monsters. I lost count how many times I stuck my Frankenstein or Wolfman figures into the freezer face down in a bowl of water to recreate the scene from Frankenstein meets the Wolfman where their encased in ice.

[alex]

You Guys are sadistic sick puppys

[Earth 2 Chris]

I drove my Mego Batmobile (with Batman and Robin inside) off our back deck, which was about 7 feet off the ground. I also put my Mego Spock's head on a regular Type 2 body and with a pair of shorts made Namor. I threw him from the deck into the kiddie pool quite often.

I never tortured my Megos. The only toys I remember destroying on purpose was a few GI Joe: RAH figures I didn't like ( I lit their heads on fire and used the swivel arm grip to stick their hands in the molten goo and pull part of their face away) and Golden Pharaoh from Super Powers. I hated him so much for being released over Nightwing or Blue Beetle I blew him up with an M-80. I don't like to be reminded of my "Sid from Toy Story" phase.

Chris

[z3zep]

Let my nephews play with them... broken hands, legs etc...

[MegoAddict]

ouch reading this makes me cringe..lol

[VintageMike]

My Trek crew would endure regular abuse being loaded into a toy jeep and sent crashing into trees. Hands down Dr. McCoy took the most abuse. As the last Trek survivor he was my answer to early attempts at customizing. No Joker? Paint Dr, McCoy white and throw and G.I. Joe Jacket on him! Spidey's arm broke? Replace it with one of McCoys!
When I wanted to change him back I had to stick the head in boiling water to get all the paint off.
His head and outfit and survived to this day and were eventually rewarded with a new body.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I was very gentle with all of my toys. I would really freak if one broke. My CS spidey as a child lost a hand when I tied thin wire around his hand to make him swing from a web. I was so upset. To this day, his hand is still taped with the white medical tape that my mom used to put it back on. I would re-attach emblems if they fell off, etc. Even my Evel Knievel didn't off-road all that much. Most of his stunts were in the house where there was soft carpet for him to land on

[Iron Mego]

I would take my Aquaman figures in the pool. The stringing would always fall apart. On one occasion my handyman uncle restrung one for me. Just like new.

[Megospidey]

Worst thing I did to my Megos...

Let my mother talk me into selling them in a garage sale so that I could make money to go buy the Saturday Night Fever album.

[hedrap]

So when I was uber young, 3 or 4 at most, mid-70's, I remember my older brother's birthday party and how he kept shoving me to the end of the table for his friends. He ended up getting, like three pairs of Batman & Robin and some others. Later on, I was sitting on the floor dectonstructing them and popping the heads off. He freaked out and I was paranoid careful about them ever since...

Until the French FF popped up at TRU. I bought them because I never had 'em but hated the Invisible Woman because it was a straight arm Barbie body. Sooo, my best friend brought over the camcorder and we decided to enact a few "What If's...", like What If The Invisible Woman Sold Out The FF And Got In On With Mr. Mxyz. Torch, with the help of a can of my father's hairspray and a bic lighter, went supernova on Sue and Mxyz. In retrospect, it looked like something from Carpenter's The Thing.