In your years of collecting, have you ever accidentally broke a rare toy?!

[The Nawd]

Yes. I've accidentally broken a rare toy.

There, that was easy to answer.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Yes. Happened a few times 'cos my figuires get played with a bit. I can usually fix them tho9ugh. I don't look for mint ones, and I have no problem customizing them.

Don C.

[drquest]

It hurts and yes I've had it happen several times. One notable, I had a Captain Action jump off his shelf in the middle of the night, broke a leg and took the complete mint weapons arsenal with him. I stood there with the broken pieces on the Weapons Arsenal in my hands and thought, this thing has lasted 40+ years without being damaged, until it came to me....

Another Captain Action one wasn't my fault. Many years ago I had a Silver Streak, Captain Action's vehicle, shipped to me and it was packed poorly and basically destroyed. I was ill when I opened the box as those aren't exactly growing on trees....

[4NDR01D]

Unfortunately more than I care to admit. But I think leaving my mint Stretch Armstrong out of it's box overnight and snapping his now hardened leg off his body when I picked it up in the morning takes the cake. And this wasn't when I was a kid, this was like 2 years ago. Felt like being punched in the gut and kicked in the balls at the same time.

[DaBillmann]

actually, funny but true story, when I was 7 or 8 I got the Ideal robot guy for Christmas, the one that was a Star Wars knockoff and went with Knight of Darkness. what was his name Zem? anyway, took him out of the box, arm was stuck from the chrome paint and I snapped it right off trying to move it. the adults all got a laugh out of it at the time

That figure was a piece of crap. The same exact thing happened to me. the other two figures in the line were nice but that one was too fragile.

[Godzilla]

I have a Stormtrooper mask pulled from the mold used for the original Star Wars. I dropped it a year ago and completely cracked it. It's totally useless now, but I can't bring myself to throw it away.

[cjefferys]

My 1978 sears exclusive Shogun Zargon.

Oh, I thought you were talking about a jumbo. Man that sucks, the Zargon/Gaiking is a great toy and not easy to find.