Did someone ever destroy your favorite childhood toy?

[Gorn Captain]

My all-time favorite toy as a kid was a Snoopy hardvinyl figure in an astronaut costume. The outfit was white cloth with plastic parts, and a hard plastic helmet. I think he was like 10" tall?
I think it was this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Snoopy-Apollo-Astronaut-Doll-/261442067218?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdf295b12#ht_136wt_900

This was the only toy I kept in the living room (on the mantlepiece), because I just loved Snoopy and I loved astronauts.
One day, as I came home from school, my parents had had my nephews over.
When I saw my toy, there was little left of it. Helmet and outfit were destroyed. To be honest, he looked raped, I can't think of another word.

The only comment from my parents was "toys are meant to be played with" and "you shouldn't have left it out".

One of these days, I'm going to have to get my Snoopy back...

[Earth 2 Chris]

That sucks. There is no defending that, in my opinion.

I had a similar situation with a cousin. My cousin would come over during school to talk to my mom, and would leave her young son unattended, and he'd wander off into my room, every time. By the time my Mom got back there, he'd always have wrecked SOMETHING of mine. I remember saving up some money to buy the Transformer Prowl (G1, first edition). The very next day, my lil' cousin trashed it. We never could find another one.

I also had a jealous "friend" grab my GI Joe Skystriker and throw it off a bank. Needless to say after it landed, it was never the same. Another toy I had saved up some money for. Little #$%^!

Chris

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I had a friend who set my Mego Capt. Kirk on fire. I don't know why I stood by and let him do that, he convinced me it would look "cool". About two seconds into the whole affair I was freaking out and put him out but the damage was done. Not to mention it was incredibly stupid to be playing with fire like that, we were about ten or eleven years old at the time. That kid was a bad influence, my parents eventually forbade me from playing with him not long after this. I think him showing up at my doorstep dressed like a ninja with nunchuks and throwing stars was the final straw, lol.

A different incident that happened when I was an adult......I'd given my buddy a second set of KISS Megos that I'd come across when I was a teen, because my friend was a big KISS fan. I didn't see him much for several years, he got married and had kids and was really busy. I stopped by his house one day to see how they were all doing, and the kids had their toys all over the place. I smiled at this until I noticed a Gene head lying amongst the pile, and as I looked closer I saw that all four Megos had been completely dismembered and were now amongst the toy rubble in the living room. When I asked my buddy about it he said, "Oh yeah the kids got their hands on 'em, but y'know they're just toys anyhow." I gave them to him, they were his to do what he wanted with, but yikes I did get a bit light-headed when I saw those Megos in pieces. Just seemed a shame.

[HardyGirl]

Well, there were 2 instances:

1) When my half-sister was little,(she was 5 and I was 13), she came up to Oakland w/ my dad to visit. When I was at school, she got a hold of my Mattel talking piggy bank and gave him a bath. I had pulled off his flower stickers, and he had some dirty spots on him, and I guess she thought he needed a bath. He never talked again. (I still have him)

2) This wasn't a destruction, but a throw-away. When we first moved to CA, we were living w/ my brother and his wife. We had a lot of our stuff in their basement. I don't remember what caused this, but one day, she threw a hissy fit, and started throwing our stuff out. A lot of my mom's snapshots got tossed and a couple of my toys I'd saved from childhood. One was a really old Tiny Tears doll that belonged to my older sister when she was little, and another was my Winnie The Pooh stuffed bear from when I was a baby. My mom and I were both really mad.

[piecemaker]

I suspect my brother in the disappearance/destruction of the Land Adventurer G.I.Joe i got for my birthday one year.
He was notorious for destroying things and when i first got it,he was trying to trade me his G.I. Joe which was basically a torso and head with coat hanger wire arms and legs taped to that.A "mini Joe".He tried every Used Car Salesman trick in the book to convince me how great it was.I was 4 years younger and he apparently thought i was 4 years dumber.There was no way i was making that trade.I had it a couple weeks maybe,then it just disappeared one day.

[TomStrong]

My sister broke the arm on the last Mego Batman I had when I was about six. I'm still not over it.

[Werewolf]

My sister went through a phase where she thought she was going to be a hair stylist. Long story short, she cut the hair off my Bionic Woman doll. We laugh about it now but I wasn't too happy about it at the time.

[monitor_ep]

My brother and I when we were little had to come inside in hopes that the rain would go away. We put our Mego Batman, Robin, Batmobile and a few other Megos in out old treehouse that had become our English Bulldogs dog house. When the rain went away, we ran outside and discovered a C.S.I. crime scene. All the megos were chewed beyond hope, and my Batmobile quickly became a landspeeder since the tires were missing. It took 2 months of chorus to get to rebuy the Megos.

[LadyZod]

I had a SuperStar Ken, which was my favorite doll. My sister was maybe 2 at the time, and got a permanent marker and went Picasso on his face. No amount of washing would remove the stains on his face.

If she had given him a beard or mustache or just colored his hair, no problem... but she squiggled all over the head!

[piecemaker]

But now that i think about,in the short time i had him,he did wreak a little havoc on my sister's Barbies. A couple were discovered to be Enemy Spies.The suspect list grows.

[Gorn Captain]

I have to admit to some destruction myself.
My friend had a big train track set out in the basement, with houses, mountains, trees, etc.
A friend and I came to visit, he wasn't home, and his Dad let us in the basement to play.
We thought it would be cool to have the "town" invaded by alien soldiers. We took a bunch of soldiers and all the farm yard animals, cut off the heads and interchanged them. We now had mutant soldiers with cow's heads, etc.
We set these out, marauding the village. It was super cool!

My friend and his Dad disagreed.
Sorry, guys....

[Actorman]

Not toys, but I had a large collection of the Disney Wonderful World of Reading book series that I really loved. It was one those subscription deals where they sent you 2 hardcover books every month or so. I got them for 4 or 5 years and probably had about 50 of them before they stopped. I read them all the time and most of my exposure to classic Disney movies and characters came from those books since this was way before any sort of home video.

As far back as I can remember, my father instilled in me that books (and records) were to be treated with care and kept nice, something that I am obsessive about even to this day. However, when my dad married my evil step-mother (kind of ironically Disney, huh? LOL!) apparently that rule no longer applied to my nasty new little step-sister. The books began getting thrown all over the house, banged up, written in, pages torn and who knows what other blasphemous things.

A year or so later, they were moving into another house and when I went to get the stuff that I had at the old house (this was the house I grew up in) I tried to "rescue" the books which caused a huge meltdown by my step-mom because I was "stealing" (my own property) from her daughter. I lost the battle in the end. I still hate that f------ b---- to this day. This was only one of the many examples why.

[EMCE Hammer]

I had smuggled my Mego Robin on the school bus, and my best friend/sometime bully asked to see it and immediately started dangling it out the window. On purpose or not, he dropped it, and I thought it was gone forever. I COMPLETELY flipped-out, and punched him right in the eye. We laughed about it for years, only because a girl on the bus walked up the road and and got it for me and brought it back the next day. If it had been lost for good I don't think I would have ever forgiven that *******.

[Gorn Captain]

a girl on the bus walked up the road and and got it for me and brought it back the next day.

And you didn't marry this girl???
This was Mego love!!!!!

PS: marry her at a legal age, of course....