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Have you ever looked back on your childhood and thought "Wish I hadn't done that dumb thing to X action figure, that as a really dumb thing to do"? Well, I have a couple times, and was wondering what was your "dumb thing" story? And it can include any action figure too.

My first "dumb thing" involves poor G1 Pipes. I actually remember doing it, and I'm not quite sure why. I ripped the front wheels off. Now I cringe a little every time I transform the poor dude(his wheels have since been replaced with little round pieces of plastic, but do a really poor job). What stinks even more is that he's one of my favorite figures.

My other "dumb thing" has actually been corrected a little bit as of yesterday. Years ago I found a yellow Cliffjumper at the Flea Market. After a while, I decided I didn't like the yellow color, so I took a black maker and started coloring. I stopped about a forth of the way cause it wasn't working too well. I then decided I wanted a Red Cliffjumper after all, and attempted to do the same with a red marker, the results were even less successful. So he sat under my bed for a few years, and then I got into Gundam models. With some dark red/burgendy paint, I paitned Cliffjumper, and the results were decent.

However, I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something wrong, and I wanted a REAL Red Cliffjumper. When it was announced that the reissue keychains had been found at Wal-Mart, I was excited(and I could get a G1 Bumblebee too boot, and Windcharger). But the keychains had not surfaced anywhere around me, until the other day. An old Wal-Mart had closed, and a new Super Wal-Mart opened last week in it's place(supposedly the biggest on the Easter Seaboard). I had a feeling that they were bound to have the keychains, but I couldn't go check. Luckily, my brother was able to go, and he called to tell me he found me a Cliffjumper, but no others.

I dont' have it yet, but since I knew it would be in my possession soon, yesterday I cleaned up my yellow Cliffjumper. While not perfect(still some red/black spots in the grooves, some scratches too), I now have my yellow Cliffjumper again. Whew, that was longer than I thought it would be.

So anyway, what's your "dumb thing" story?

when i was little i had a choice between buuying transformers or jurassic park toys........ i chose the dinosaurs....... im kicking myself for that one

Cujo wrote:when i was little i had a choice between buuying transformers or jurassic park toys........ i chose the dinosaurs....... im kicking myself for that one

I loved Jurrassic Park stuff when I was a kid . I dont' regret not buying Transformers personally, cause if I did, I probably wouldn't be collecting it now. And the Command Center is one of my all time favorite playsets. I still have it, and it's actually mostly complete I think. That's pretty amazing .

Little game I played called lets see which airplane Transformers would fly the farthest... I was a dumb little kid.

When I was younger I sold off all my transformers except BB, Includeing a good condition slag I wish I could get them back somehow.

My parents let me and my brother play with fireworks at a very young age. We destroyed so many G.I.Joes than I can remember. Joes and their fighter jets exploded in midair with the sound of booms and gunfire(firecrackers). Surprisingly they are pretty hardy, until they catch fire that is.
Ah, the look of a melting Conquest jet and the pilot to burn with it after the seat fail to eject. Not to forget the ground casualties, But there was something about strapping an explosive to something and launching it at the right time
so it will blow up in the air.
When I think of what I could get for these brave soldiers
and their vehicles on ebay today I cry a little, but those were good times and I'd do it all over again.

DISCHARGE wrote:My parents let me and my brother play with fireworks at a very young age. We destroyed so many G.I.Joes than I can remember. Joes and their fighter jets exploded in midair with the sound of booms and gunfire(firecrackers). Surprisingly they are pretty hardy, until they catch fire that is.
Ah, the look of a melting Conquest jet and the pilot to burn with it after the seat fail to eject. Not to forget the ground casualties, But there was something about strapping an explosive to something and launching it at the right time
so it will blow up in the air.
When I think of what I could get for these brave soldiers
and their vehicles on ebay today I cry a little, but those were good times and I'd do it all over again.

Me too. "Take that Flint!" That's all I remember. Kinda sad aint it.

Taking my transformers to school when I was in grade one and being a very sharing child. What a douche bag move that was.

DISCHARGE wrote:My parents let me and my brother play with fireworks at a very young age. We destroyed so many G.I.Joes than I can remember. Joes and their fighter jets exploded in midair with the sound of booms and gunfire(firecrackers). Surprisingly they are pretty hardy, until they catch fire that is.
Ah, the look of a melting Conquest jet and the pilot to burn with it after the seat fail to eject. Not to forget the ground casualties, But there was something about strapping an explosive to something and launching it at the right time
so it will blow up in the air.
When I think of what I could get for these brave soldiers
and their vehicles on ebay today I cry a little, but those were good times and I'd do it all over again.

My friends used to do that with Lego men, granted Lego men haven't changed in 20 years and are easily replaced. We did build them a burn unit later out of the "Town" themed Lego's.

Duke of Luns wrote:

Cujo wrote:when i was little i had a choice between buuying transformers or jurassic park toys........ i chose the dinosaurs....... im kicking myself for that one

I loved Jurrassic Park stuff when I was a kid . I dont' regret not buying Transformers personally, cause if I did, I probably wouldn't be collecting it now. And the Command Center is one of my all time favorite playsets. I still have it, and it's actually mostly complete I think. That's pretty amazing .

The Jurassic Park toys kicked ass. I have both command centers and most of the toys. They were great back in the day but now they just sit in boxes.

Down_Shift wrote:Taking my transformers to school when I was in grade one and being a very sharing child. What a douche bag move that was.

I bet you are a better person for learning how to share so early in life...(Nelson Simpson's--Hehe)

ouch...this brings me back

i stuck a G1 Outback in a car ashtray and got him stuck in there

if that wasn't bad enough, i was scared to tell my mom and dad for some reason, so he never got out and a couple of months later, the car got hit by a bus and was totaled. i never saw him again

Here's something truly retarded that I really want to kick my own ass for every time I think about it.

When I first got into TFs, it was when G1 was starting to die, and get toys that weren't as cool, namely Action Masters, Micromasters and Pretenders.

My mom used to go to a lot of tag sales, so she managed to get a lot of cooler TFs used. (Once I got Trypticon at a tag sale for $15... SCORE!!) Anyway, my first "real" Transformers were G1 Optimus Prime and G1 Dreadwind... one of which I still have.

A couple years later, G2 came out, and lo and behold, there was now a new Optimus Prime, one that made sounds, and had HANDS. Christmas came along, and I got a brand new G2 Optimus under the tree. No longer needing a poor, handless, gunless, rollerless Prime, he got sold again. d'oh!

3 "dumb kid" stories...

one is when I was a kid and I had the beast wars figures. I figured out that their ball-joints made it easy for their limbs to pop off and pop back on again. so, when the maximals and predacons had their battles, the maximals would normally end up tearing the arms and/or legs off their predacon enemies. Because of that, many of my predacon flipchangers have loose joints.

Dumb kid story number 2:

When beast machines came out, I said "What happened? that's not Optimus Primal! he looks stupid!" and so I only bought 1 BM toy (jetstorm) and quit transformers until RID came out.

Dumb kid story number 3:

(Similar to no. 2) After the end of Armada, I was about 13-14 and there was a lot of peer pressure and bullying going on at school about how I was that old and still playing with action figures. so, I quit collecting for about half of energon, and then I realized that what other people think shouldn't get in the way of my interests, so I started again.

am i the only one that used to twist g.i. joes to make them "punch" and always seemed to break a coouple in half?

In our old home, my bedroom used to be on the back and facing the backyard, I also had a huge open window. That was the day I killed several transformers by knocking them out the window and onto the concrete paving slabs below...no survivors

I also buried some transformers under the yard when it was being returfed

Gutter Bunny wrote:am i the only one that used to twist g.i. joes to make them "punch" and always seemed to break a coouple in half?

I don't know about GI Joes but Masters of the Universe were built to do that.

my toys were all played to death-i started getting tfs when i was about 2, so its kinda weird but my memories of most of the g1 toys is of a bunch of amputies! I remember playing with cup and jazz with no arms or legs.

Death by Love, whata way to go.


(its really odd is i got the toys so young i dont remember ever getting them, tfs have always just been in my life!)

Ya I would use the alastics and make those
GI Joe's punch. ALSO I would always take 'em outside and play getting them all grimy and stuff.

My first TF was G2 Space Case. I can't remember whay, but as a kid, I thought it'd be cool for him to have one red arm and one red leg. The moral of the story: permanent marker only washes down to deep pink.

I doused my GIJOE hanglider in gasoline, taped an M-80 (a very powerful firecracker) to it and flew it off the roof after lighting the fuse. The explosion was cool but my parents flipped out over the large patch of scorched grass after the groundfire that insued. I was about 12 at the time.


The worst was when I sold my 30+ figure G1 collection at a garage sale for maybe $50.

Anything I did with my Transformers as a kid I don't really regret because they are toys and ment to be played with.

And I can't wait to give my 3 year old cousin his first transformer soon.

Only tf related thin I regret was losing eagle eye's (G2 jet, not cyberjet, went by a different name outside of Europe) wings... then the rest of him... I loved that tf.

Not that Im too worried, I've since replaced him.

Down_Shift wrote:Taking my transformers to school when I was in grade one and being a very sharing child. What a douche bag move that was.

I feel your pain. I lost a Prime that way......and gined an Air Raid and Strafe. Lousy trade off

Vile MK III wrote:

DISCHARGE wrote:My parents let me and my brother play with fireworks at a very young age. We destroyed so many G.I.Joes than I can remember. Joes and their fighter jets exploded in midair with the sound of booms and gunfire(firecrackers). Surprisingly they are pretty hardy, until they catch fire that is.
Ah, the look of a melting Conquest jet and the pilot to burn with it after the seat fail to eject. Not to forget the ground casualties, But there was something about strapping an explosive to something and launching it at the right time
so it will blow up in the air.
When I think of what I could get for these brave soldiers
and their vehicles on ebay today I cry a little, but those were good times and I'd do it all over again.

Me too. "Take that Flint!" That's all I remember. Kinda sad aint it.

bwahahahahaha