My Zartan's v.1 laser pistol got pretty badly dismembered in a one time dispute with mom's vacuum cleaner.

Vac = 1, Pistol = 0.

My children are now 10 and 8. The following took place when they were 4 and 1ish. My v1 Zartan was out being played with by my older son, and he left him on the floor. My younger son must have found him.

He was found amputated just above the knee with no sign of the lower leg. Crotch also broken. (I really hope he didn't EAT the leg.)

Do not fret...I have a good v1 Zartan from eBay, but MY Zartan of MY youth suffered a terrible fate. I believe he now is permanently transforming into Tripwire through the right leg... lol I can laugh now, but not at the time.

And my sons are excellent with Joes right now...but they never remember to pick them up.

I have some good news
Chuckles has been found he was under my bed LOL

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Great thread!

Hmm...A piece of Tiger Force Outback's crotch (oo-er!) snapped off and went missing as I was selling it alongside TF Blizzard. I sold Outback for slightly less that day. A sad day :-(

When I was about 17 or so, I loaned my entire ARAH collection, 1982-1990, to my little cousin. After a while, I decided to be charitable and tell him he could keep it. He was pretty excited and I'm sure he got a lot of play out of it, so I guess it was worth it.

Naturally, when I got into collecting toys a few decades later, I winced a bit. After searching through a few bins of my old toys, all I came up with was a Captain Gridiron helmet, one of Darklon's lower legs, and a few assorted missiles. I do still have the Joe HQ and my MOBAT, which I think were already in storage by the time I gave my Joes away.

I have since replaced a handful of my old favorites and picked up ME versions of a lot of the others, but I still kind of wish some of them were the Joes I had actually played with as a kid. Still, though, the hunt for the replacements has been fun, so I'm come to terms with it.

(Oh, I do still have one figure, who in some ways is one of the most important: my very first custom figure, Imp. Imp was the result of a horrific Cobra experiment in teleportation gone wrong. Horribly disfigured and driven mad by Cobra's nefarious experiments, Imp escaped and became a quixotic ally to the Joes with an uncanny knack of teleporting in to the rescue just when their backs were against the wall. I have since restored Imp to his former glory and I've been contemplating tracking down the parts to do a ME version as well!)

Good story, dude.
Good luck in putting together an updated version of Imp.
Post some before/after pics when you're done.

@Savage - This IS a really good thread, man.

Thank u I am supprised no one else started this topic lol

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I had a few, though thankfully all returned rather than KIA.

I remember getting Muskrat and Tiger Force Duke and deciding to test their camouflage on an airfield where my Dad was looking at a plane, In the end we had to search for an hour or so (with me rather distraught) to find them (and iirc Duke was the hardest to find.) Not quite the quick trip out my Dad had envisioned!

I also used to have giant battles in my back garden and on a fair few occasions would realise a couple of days later that I was missing someone or other (normally Falcon, as he was usually off on solo recon and had half reasonable camo). Thankfully those MIA were not consumed by the lawnmower!

The strangest one was loosing v2 SS - I used to go everywhere with him when he was my favourite, including downstairs to the chest freezer in order to get the ice cream out after family meals. As he is a ninja, he would normally be skillful enough to sit atop the freezer lid and then slide down and balance on the lip when I opened it. I must have tipped it too far one day and he slid down the back, and I didn't realise/remember I had had him with me. We headed off to Spain the next day on holiday and I remember spending the entire 2 weeks searching and wondering where I might have lost him there or en-route.

It was probably 3 months later, after we were back, that I happened to glance down the side of the freezer and see him sitting there. I was very happy as by that time SS v2 was definitely out of the shops and it was before the days of ebay (I'd gone so far as to ask my Mum to make some mini clothes for v1 SS onto which I drew the urban camo to make up for the loss).