Best Ways to Destroy Childhood Toys

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In every kid's life, there comes a point where your action figures and dolls and whatever stop having all the much valus as plain toys, and you grow more interesting in dissembling this toys in an interesting or entertaining way possible.

ah, my summers as a 13 year old, blowing up GI Joes with firecrackers, or making them face the firing squad of me & my friend Scott with our BB Guns, or trying to make Boba Fett fly by strapping two bottle rockets to him, then strapping him to a GI Joe jeep to see how fast he'd go. Of course, there was the time when the Ewok Village was torched by the forces of COBRA, too.

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how did you go about it? what were your favored means of decapitation, f'rinstace?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was about 5, I 'executed' my Action Man by throwing him out of the bathroom window, his head fell off. I was sickened by the violence, and have been very careful not to destroy toys since that day. My dog chewed up some of my Star Wars figures though.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine were llways sent of secretivly to a Good Will or Salvation Army where I assumed they were gassed and then cremated.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The first of these I can remember was being out in Red River Gorge with my family & our friend-family (kids about our age) when I was about 6 years old, and me and my buddy Will found a small cliff that was just begging to have hotwheels leaping off of it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't destroy things like that! It's just so ... cruel!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hotwheels were my victims of choice for a long time (my favorite was the volkswagen-in-the-vice-grip), but eventually action figures of all kinds (except of course for the Transformers ie the sacred cow of boys' toys) stepped in. The first real big breakthrough however was discovering what lighters did to cheap Hasbro plastic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I took my M.U.S.C.L.E. men and amputed all their heads and limbs with an x-acto knife so I had a collection of little pink hands and heads and feet.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

scarlet fever bonfire

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

also, a warning to parents of young children: army men and a lighter & hairspray/mousse do not make the best playthings for your 12 year old, tho he will gleefully try to use them any.

"dude! mousse burns! time for some napalm to go with that flamethrower!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, they just disappeared. Hung onto the Atari stuff through 1992, though, then gave it to friends.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i had this toy vaccum with a clear plastic dome on it filled with small mulitcolored plastic balls. i was utterly positive that those balls were gumballs. i once had an uncontrollable craving for sugar, went into my dad's toolbox, grabbed a hammer, and pulverized the vaccum. only to be disappointed. the despair turned to fear that my destruction would be discovered. i gathered up the shards of plastic and through them into the well. (i lived on a farm.) i was always paranoid that if i turned on the bathtub it would fill with evidence!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to chew and break my toys over time, but I didn't really go out to damage my toys, it was just that I tended to be pretty rough with them. However I did once rip the head off of my He-Man action figure and sellotape it to an empty coke can, and pretended it was an iron lung/hovering machine thing. Also I would freeze any plastic toys in glasses of ice in an attempt to recreate what happened to Han Solo.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

However I did once rip the head off of my He-Man action figure and sellotape it to an empty coke can, and pretended it was an iron lung/hovering machine thing.

this is great! "Lookout! Skeletor has infected He-Man with the Polio! Run!"

i did the freeze thing, too. only i used the little diecast miniatures, which fit so well in the plastic things that 35mm film comes in

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― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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