Worst Thing You Did To Your Megos

[Doc]

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

[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...

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[MegoAddict]

ouch reading this makes me cringe..lol

[z3zep]

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

[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

[alex]

You Guys are sadistic sick puppys

[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.