What's the worst thing you've done to a dinosaur toy?

[Funk]

Looking through my old toys to find stuff to review, I've come across some figures that have been rendered very non-photogenic and therefore unreviewable due to the antics of me and my brother as kids. Not only the inevitable breaks, but I even had a bad habit of cutting away bases so the feet of the figures were "free", but that of course also means they can barely stand up, and are not in their original state.

Here, for example, are some figures I believe were strange tie-ins to Jurassic Park, but their bases are missing...

But here's the worst offender, the Imperial Podokesaurus, which I think is the only toy of this genus, but I drew clothes and hair on it...

Today I really want to review that figure, but what I've done to it makes it impossible to photograph for the blog... Unless I remove the drawn parts with nail polish remover or something like that, but that will also remove a somewhat nostalgic modification, so it's a bit of a dilemma...

Anyone else here has done weird stuff like this they regret?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

heh heh.. I used to REALLY play with my toys. They experienced freezing in my mom's freezer, breathing fire ( via matches and a spray paint can ( don't do it! )) rock slides, and burial by sand storms.

I used to chop holes in some to make a prey item for my predators to chew on, some had holes stabbed in them by cavepeople..I'm sure if I keep thinking I'll come up with others.

My biggest regret is what I did with all that armor from my Dino-Riders..wish I still had it all.

[Funk]

Oh yeah, all those weapons, humans, trading cards etc. that came with some figures, but weren't my main focus, have largely disappeared...

[Faelrin]

@Funk First off I had no idea there was a figure of Podokesaurus even out there (I'm originally from New England, so I have a fondness for the dinosaurs in the area). Secondly, I actually adore what you did to it, haha.

The biggest thing I can remember is using a bent paper clip or tack and poking holes into my Mattel Aladar figure here and there when bored (the rubbery electronic one I think). I was like 9 then. Otherwise perhaps I fear I might have some potentially damaged electronics in some of my Mattel Jurassic figures from sitting in storage for too long (and not a climate controlled one). Not really my fault considering my current living situation and lack of space so I had no choice but to store them away there, but man I'm kind of worried they'll be damaged from the years of humidity or cold exposure.

[DinoToyForum]

I gave my original paint variant Carnegie Elasmosaurus a severe hot air treatment in an attempt to straighten out its neck. Little by little I heated parts of it over a hot lightbulb until it went soft enough to adjust, then tried to lock it in the new position by dunking it in cold water. You can compare the modified version with an unmodified swan-neck second paint version in this photo. It never worked to my satisfaction anyway, as the plastic always tends to revert towards the original pose, and the base of the neck is too thick to adjust.

[Libraraptor]

I did not do much to my dinosaur toys, as I did not own that many back then and valued them highly - but I remember me literally disassembling "Masters Of The Universe" - figures which are worth a lot of money nowadays...

[Totoro]

One of the formative events of my childhood was being taken by my father to the traveling Sinclair Dinoland World's Fair exhibit, where my dad gave me coins (quarters?) to make/buy a bunch of the wax mold-o-rama dinosaur figures.  Years later, after my folks bought me a BB gun, I nestled those same wax dinosaurs into the grass throughout our large back yard and went on safari blasting those defenseless figures to bits.  Many were messily glued back together, but the damage was done and the carnage was mighty.  I still have them, including a couple that somehow escaped the hunt.  I was blinded by gun madness.   

[Gwangi]

The worst thing I ever did to my toy dinosaurs was get rid of them. My childhood collection at least. In my teenage years I sold them all at yard sales or donated them. Tyco, Carnegie, Kenner, a lot of great stuff. Most of them have been replaced now but it's not the same as having the ones you physically played with as a child.

[Noideaforaname]

I mummified a TMNT dinosaur by wrapping it in masking tape. I don't mean a few loose fitting straps like a Halloween mummy, it was a full cocoon of tape! Understandably, mom was furious and we stayed up all night unwrapping it.

Might've been the first time I was up past midnight.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I opened a few Kenner JPS1 figures as a kid. It was during the dead period so JP toys were cheap on eBay despite being long out of production. I know I at least got the pteranodon and coelophysis mint for Christmas one year and subsequently opened them.

[suspsy]

Getting rid of my Tyco dinosaurs save for the Placerias.

[Tracewyrm!]

Oh boy, I was the absolute worst with my toys as a kid. I'm lucky the world doesn't work under Toy Story rules.. 

Granted, I'm still fairly young so I don't really have stories of throwing away Kenners or anything that would be particularly rare today. It was all either common bootleg molds or brand figures that are still fairly easy to come across like CollectAs, Papos and Schleichs, but I just had a habit of absolutely mauling whatever toy I got my hands on.
I gnawed the arms and tail tip off some poor Pachycephalosaurus, I took a pair of scissors and chopped the teeth off a T. rex (for some reason?? I'm still not sure what compelled me to do it), My CollectA 2015 Spinosaurus managed to get half its snout ripped off, though I think that was an accident because I was too rough with the softer plastic on the snout . And that's not to mention all the dinosaurs whose articulated jaws ended up going missing because I wouldn't let them be.



They're not particularly rare or expensive figures but I do wish I was more careful with them when I was a kid. I still have most of them laying around, but they're usually just sitting around in boxes since it's hard to really display them anywhere in their current condition.

[Pliosaurking]

I've dropped figures by accident and had to glue them back together, and I've accidentally broken joints like articulated jaws. The worst thing however was not me but my dog. When he was a puppy he was in my room. I left it for a few minutes for whatever reason and when I came back he had grabbed my Carnegie Triceratops off the shelf and ate its front leg off! He was fine but the figure not so much, I still have yet to replace it, I may I'm unsure yet.

[Tracewyrm!]

I've dropped figures by accident and had to glue them back together

Had a close encounter with my Aymen recently.
Left it home to go on a trip and apparently someone must have been trying to clean or rearrange some stuff because I come back and find the figure laying on the desk, missing a toe. Thankfully I found the broken piece and after that it was an easy enough fix. It's as good as new now, but it was a huge scare at the time.
I've been handling Aymen like an injured baby bird ever since then in case the glue isn't strong enough.

[MLMjp]

Whatever my 4-5 year old self did to a JP3 Animatronic Spinosaurus and unknown brand animatronic T.rex.

Multiple tears in their rubber skin, broken internal pieces, they cannot stand, and extensive paint wear all over their bodies...

They look better in these photos than they trully are. The T.rex is being supported by that Brachiosaurus and those eyes are repainted.

[Turkeysaurus]

I have realized i didn't have dinosaur toys when i was a kid despite i was a dinosaur fan even back then. I had books, magazines about them but no toys, Weird.

All I had were 80's-90's DC, Marvel & TNMT toys. Some of them would be collectors item now since i always liked odd variants instead of classic characters or suits. I have gave away all of them when i was 12 because i was convinced being an adult lol.

So worst thing i did to a dinosaur toys as an adult collector keeping them in boxes i because i couldnt arrange a display place yet.

[Halichoeres]

I had the 1993 Kenner Dilophosaurus with squirting action, where you filled it with water and then squeezed it to produce a jet of water. I dipped it in a puddle once to fill it, and it acquired an unpleasant smell that I couldn't dislodge, so I ended up throwing it out.

Edited to add: @Funk I actually really enjoy the Podokesaurus paint job!

[BlueKrono]

When I was a kid my favorite dinosaur toy, the Carnegie Spinosaurus, slipped from my grasp and shattered like glass on the driveway. It was frozen at the time because it was winter and I live in Minnesota.

[Stegotyranno420]

When I was a kid my favorite dinosaur toy, the Carnegie Spinosaurus, slipped from my grasp and shattered like glass on the driveway. It was frozen at the time because it was winter and I live in Minnesota.

Im sorry for your loss that sounds horrible 😭😭😭😭

[BlueKrono]

When I was a kid my favorite dinosaur toy, the Carnegie Spinosaurus, slipped from my grasp and shattered like glass on the driveway. It was frozen at the time because it was winter and I live in Minnesota.

Im sorry for your loss that sounds horrible 😭😭😭😭

Thank you. I was pretty broken up about it cuz it was literally my Numero Uno. But I eventually got another one.