Worst Thing You Did To Your Megos

[MegoMonk]

When i was 11 I had become a Marvel zombie and had no use for my DC Megos. My father had a grinder in the boiler room/tool room. I grinded Robin's face off. Luckilly I did not do that to my other DC megos, some of which I still have.

[AcroRay]

Cornelius and Zira fell to a hail of B-B fire, as did the small plastic Charlie Pizer and Harry Booth. Harry had joined COBRA, and donned a S.N.A.K.E. battle armor to become the evil "BORG-9", so he had to be destroyed.

[AcroRay]

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.

Disco... baaaaad! Mego.... gooood!

[sprytel]

I was at my grandmother's house. Her next door neighbor was a young married couple. The husband comes over and sees me playing with my Star Trek figures.

"Cool. Let me see play with Mr. Spock for a minute."

I was tentative and he could tell.

"It will be fine, trust me."

So I hand over Spock... and watch in horror. He stuffs his shirt with dog treats, and then unleashes his miniature pug on him. The dog goes crazy.

Spock is being thrashed about in the dog's jaws. "Oh no, the alien's got me," the husband says. He thinks this is hilarious.

But eventually, he realizes how traumatic this is for me, and rescues my figure. He was a giant mess of slobber and jerky and bite marks.

We put the uniform in the laundry, which helped remove the jerky smell... but smell or no smell, Spock was pretty much ruined. The hands were all chewed, scratches over the torso, and the uniform was torn to shambles....

Poor, poor Spock. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human...

[Doc]

Buried them in land slides and quick sand pits... Dropped them from tree houses. LAunched one with a model rocket....

[HardyGirl]

Geez! After reading all of these, I think the only one I would have played w/ as a child is Underdog! You guys are SSSIIICCCKK!

[cjefferys]

I was usually pretty careful with my stuff, but one time I treated a Mego badly. After watching Dawn of the Dead, I had the inspiration to try a gory special effects shot with my Little John. I carefully cut the top half of his head off, filled the head with ketchup and reassembled the head. I then set him up, took my pellet rifle and tried to replicate a gruesome, bloody gunshot to the head like what happened to the zombies in DotD. It didn't quite work as well as I hoped. I'm no Tom Savini, that's for sure.

[ScottA]

Draw emblems with marker on Superman, Batman and Robin after I lost them. I hate myself to this day for doing it as I still have the suits. There is no way I know of to get rid of it.

[JimCem99]

The only figure I ever tortured (or torched for that matter) was a GI Joe Sgt. Slaughter. I took some model glue, doused him with it and lit him up

[beartex2000]

None of my original apes survived being burned at the stake while the other megos looked on! We also had a few GI Joe suffer combat wounds from having firecrackers tape to them and then exploded!

[kryptosmaster]

The worst thing I recall doing was trying to turn my AHI hairy-chested Wolfman into a human (Landon, I think) for my Planet of the Apes set. I remember not liking him as much as my Megos due to the limited articulation. I chopped up his feet so they would fit in Dracula shoes and put holes in his chest to accept sword blades. Also I think I used marker or something on him (hard to tell and I don't recall exactly) as there are stains on his head and body (Yes, I STILL have him!) and the tip of his nose is nipped off. Amazingly I still have his original clothes and just discovered his shirt had been on my Peter Burke for the past 30+ years.
Currently looking for some replacement legs for him so at least his feet will be restored. Sounds worse than it is and would have no qualms putting him on display once I fix his feet.
Rich

[Meule]

Man, you guys were brutal as kids

[AcroRay]

I was usually pretty careful with my stuff, but one time I treated a Mego badly. After watching Dawn of the Dead, I had the inspiration to try a gory special effects shot with my Little John. I carefully cut the top half of his head off, filled the head with ketchup and reassembled the head. I then set him up, took my pellet rifle and tried to replicate a gruesome, bloody gunshot to the head like what happened to the zombies in DotD. It didn't quite work as well as I hoped. I'm no Tom Savini, that's for sure.

That's customizing, not vandalism!

[J.B.]

Back in '75 I had a Batman and Robin. I was playing with both of them in the front yard and for some unknown reason, I grabbed Robin by the ankles and started B-Slappin' the large palm tree in the middle of the yard with him. I kept doing it until there wasn't much left of the Boy Wonder.

[bgrimm77]

The worst I ever did was take em swimming with me when I was little..... Now they just sit on the edge of my tub when I take a bath.