Here's one of mine that drove me to start this topic. One day as a kid, my brother and I each got a Transformer. He got Tentakill from the Seacons group, and I got Rippersnapper from the Terrorcons group. I didn't like Rippersnapper's stubby arms, and my brother had some problem with Tentakill so we traded. It's hard to look back and say how long it took but it was probably the better part of a year before we had both completed our sets. I played with Piranacon an insane amount. It was the only combiner I'd ever had and to me that was the coolest thing. Fast forward a couple of years, and my family was having a garage sale. For a reason I still can't figure out, I put all six Seacons, with all their weapons included, into a box and sold it for ten bucks. I don't remember what I did with the ten dollars but I know I couldn't have gotten enough out of it to warrant selling Piranacon. I kick myself to this day for that.
Your Dumbest Toy-Related Decision
#1
Posted 01 July 2003 - 02:06 PM
Here's one of mine that drove me to start this topic. One day as a kid, my brother and I each got a Transformer. He got Tentakill from the Seacons group, and I got Rippersnapper from the Terrorcons group. I didn't like Rippersnapper's stubby arms, and my brother had some problem with Tentakill so we traded. It's hard to look back and say how long it took but it was probably the better part of a year before we had both completed our sets. I played with Piranacon an insane amount. It was the only combiner I'd ever had and to me that was the coolest thing. Fast forward a couple of years, and my family was having a garage sale. For a reason I still can't figure out, I put all six Seacons, with all their weapons included, into a box and sold it for ten bucks. I don't remember what I did with the ten dollars but I know I couldn't have gotten enough out of it to warrant selling Piranacon. I kick myself to this day for that.
#2
Posted 01 July 2003 - 02:18 PM
I can only think of the most painfull thing that happened with me with toys, which was pretty dumb. When I was REALLY little (about 6) I used to play with my GI joes, G.U.T.S. et-al all over the floor. But I would also use the plastic swords and umbrellas (appatizer toothpics) because they worked with them sooo well. One day I steped on one and it broke in my big toe. Nice!
I dont have anything Ive sold when I was little because I always liked toys. I would snatch the good deals off the ignorant kids like trade marshmellows for a mini transformer, I still remember who I got it off of and still have the toy, A mini green tank about the size of a muscle. I also kinda wihs I got something on ebay, but its no biggie.
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Posted 01 July 2003 - 10:44 PM
#4
Posted 02 July 2003 - 07:34 AM
One year around Christmas time, when I was shaving down my toy collection by donating it to Toys For Tots, I decided in a bout of utter stupidity to donate Ultimate Godzilla. It was, after all, one of my largest toys, and donating it would free up some much-needed space.
I regretted donating it afterwards, but I was comforted by the fact that at least a kid would get to play with the coolest Godzilla ever!
Unfortunately, Toys For Tots was robbed that year, with some scum-licking a-holes making off with all the toys. So basically I donated about a fourth of my toy collection (including my beloved Ultimate Godzilla) for absolutely nothing! GOD DAMN IT!!! It was like rubbing salt in the wound! I hope they found those dungballs and put them to death...
Anyway, I've been searching for that Godzilla for a while now, but it's very difficult to track down, even on Ebay. Anybody got any leads?
-Nathan
Edited by Tortle, 02 July 2003 - 07:41 AM.
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Posted 02 July 2003 - 07:42 AM
#6
Posted 02 July 2003 - 07:59 AM
the thing is, when i had opened the package, i realized that the arm was broken at the elbow, so i spent a few hours re-working it to a decent, manageable state, and then just lost the dang thing.
i felt smart. haw.
#7
Posted 03 July 2003 - 08:17 AM
There's some other big stupid mistakes, but I've gotta go; maybe I'll post it all later.
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#8
Posted 03 July 2003 - 09:14 AM
my mom gave them all to a friend of her's kid. i have like, one from when i was a kid. other than that, i had to completely restart my collection.
i could have saved some of them...
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#9
Posted 03 July 2003 - 03:14 PM
Now an up to date dumb thing was when vaccuming my room a year ago (well coulda be earlier this year, I forget) I had one of my Seekers landing geer wheels on the edge of my computer desk, well I stopped to move my chair and what do I hear something getting sucked up into the vaccum and then getting grinded up, now either my Thrust or Ramjat can't be turned into jet form because nothing to hold the front end up.
Edited by Liokaiserbf, 03 July 2003 - 03:18 PM.
#10
Posted 07 July 2003 - 12:15 PM
You see... that's why I hang on to everything, even if it's broken!i didn't hide a stash of my old m.u.s.c.l.e.s.
my mom gave them all to a friend of her's kid. i have like, one from when i was a kid. other than that, i had to completely restart my collection.
i could have saved some of them...
One dumb decision... not bringing my gift certificate that day I saw the Swedish Chef action figure playset.... damn... can't find it!
2 Sometimes I over pay for used PVC's and Happy Meal toys...
3) I found perfectly good Monsters Inc. Happy Meal toys (the Yeti and Randal) in a candy store and gave it to the counter because some dumb kid lost it... and where was my good Karmatic reward?
4) Not being interrested much in M.u.s.c.l.e.s. as a kid! I am soooooo stoopit!!!!
5) Not buying the ren and Stimpy action figures or Eek the cat plush when they went on sale
And the worst... Opening my Nightmare before christmas toys and practically breaking them... If someone told me they'd be worth like 200 bucks, I would have bought more and put them in a safty deposit box at the Bank!!!
#11
Posted 15 July 2003 - 11:22 AM
No, but really. This story starts out happily enough, I got an excellent Shockwave off of eBay for $30 ($30!!), his electronics worked (save for his lights), he had his battery cover, but he was missing his gun barrel. I had him for about a month, then one day he took a dreadful fall off the side of a cupboard--resulting in a really weird breakage.
The screw tubes holding his body together broke.
So, his chest became unattached to his back and his head fell off as a result. Well, I managed to do some extremely harrowing surgery and fixed the screw tubes (his head went on fine). Then I took him to an art class with me, where he took another fall, this time an even longer one. Not only did the screw tubes break all over again, but his arm cannon also broke off and dissapeared. I never found it. Now he sits, headless again, at the bottom of my "junk" Transformers bin.
If anyone wants him, I'll trade him for MUSCLEs!
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Posted 16 July 2003 - 09:17 AM
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#16
Posted 02 February 2006 - 06:30 PM
During a garage sale in 1988 I had a glass piture filled with 98 GI Joe figures and a price tag of 75 cents. I went into the house for one minute and when I came out my mom had sold the entire piture full and handed me 3 quarters. And I gave away my entire Star Wars collection (which was huge) because by then no one cared about Star Wars anymore. In fact, during that garage sale I got rid of near complete collections of Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, Transformers, Star Wars and much more. My profit at the end of the day was around $100.
#17
Posted 02 February 2006 - 08:49 PM
2. Selling my Huge GiJoe Base stations at the fleamarket.
3. Selling my Childhood muscles at the fleamarket.
4. Selling half of my childhood Heman figs including Scareglow at the fleamarket.
5. Chewed up the plastic parts of my brothers Voltron when I was teething.
6. Traded my brother all my bad guy Ninja Turtles for his Goodguy Ninja Turtles.
7. Let my entire Food Fighters collection stay in storage until they were Worthless.
8. Lost my Wolverine Cyborg Alberts arms at a friends house. (detachable arm)
9. Got a water squirting Sentinel toy from the xmen water wars line, and got excited while playing with him, then my parents called me from the other room, and when I was running back in a hurry to enjoy my new toy I tripped on my carpet and fell. I had one of those metal shop fans and I fell on the top of the leg that had a sharp point on it and it stabbed me in the back of my leg.
10. Broke my Mekanek figures arm socket off while trying to remove the arm.
11. Left my Ram Chariot on the floor and my brother stepped on it and broke it.
12. Passing up that bag full of Super Rares the other day cause I was broke.
13. Broke then sold my Blaster transformer.
14. Sold a big Base with tons of these little PVC robots I had at the fleamarket.
15. Seriously I could continue this for years, but that's probably enough.
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Posted 03 February 2006 - 11:55 AM
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#22
Posted 05 February 2006 - 06:27 AM
You can still find them on e-bay. They are pretty cheap.NOT buying all the awesome Ultimate Muscle figures (the big articulated ones)














