My missus tried to move an arm on Lord Zarak, and it just snapped. I was mortified and then vowed never to play with Headmasters, powermasters partners ever again.
No recent breaks or damage thank god. But the amount of times some figures have fallen from their perch and not broken is amazing.
Significant breaks for me:
when a young fella my mum was fiddling with my Swoop while talking on the phone, I might have been getting her help transforming it, either way, she snapped off the upper or lower jaw, and it's never been the same. She did feel horrible.
when even younger, my baby sister sat on my g1 prime trailer (it was about the right size for her to use as a chair) and the hing holding the back door on failed. the door will sit there closed but falls off readily.
My G1 mirage has one of the spoiler tabs broken off, the spoiler has been held in place with some blu-tac for over 20 years. probably nearly 30.
binaltech wheeljack has a damaged spoiler, I plan to glue it back together at some point.
I have been supremely lucky over the years.
Out of my G1 stuff:
The Green plastic seems to go brittle easy for a couple of my gestalt combiners
Sinnertwin: decided I wanted to change his position on Abominus and when moving the small robot head (even holding it as close to the body as I could) snapped in my hand
Vortex: folded out his tail section and the green inner plastic disintegrated in my hand on both sides.
Have since fixed them both with junkers
More recent TF's
Gave my son my Mint in BOX Transmetal Megatron to play with (not knowing he is known for breaking easily). I feel so sorry for my son as he came running to me within minutes sobbing with both Megs arms in his hand. The brown plastic on his chest had disintegrated
Decided to open my BW mutants and put them on display - Soudwave broke in three places just by looking at himHis jaw hinge broke, and where his body comes together chipped in a couple of places just by clicking the two haves together
Finally (sorry to bore everyone) - Decided to open some of my Beast Machines to display better. Started to unwire Nightscream and discovered the clear plastic holding his waist together had brokenso he came out of the box in two pieces
(stupid beast machines
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surprisingly as 1AZRAEL1 mentioned some of my toys have fallen from significant heights and not a mark on them. The most recent being that I was rearranging my alternators/binaltechs (which are on the top shelf of one of my display cases) Bumped binaltech Arcee an she did a back flip and fell about 8 feet to hard concrete floorwith just that tile stlye carpet (approx .5 cm thick) to break her fall. Not a mark
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My Breakages
G1:
*One of Silverbolts leg joints snapped off. Then a year later the other one did. Now to make him stand I need to use bluetack and making Superion is almost impossible
*A year ago poor old Sludges leg broke off. Was transforming him the same way I had a million times before - poor fella is just old
*Bought a Fizzle off ebay earlier this year. The front broke off the very first time I tried to Transform him. Also my Ratbat came with his ears broken off (which it did NOT show in the pic).
*My MISB Reflector that I got two years ago, someone stood on his camera barrel and it broke evenly in half. Still waiting for me to glue back together.
*My wife's idiot cousin grabbed my Gears and banged him around the monopoly board we were using him as a piece for and broke off one of his shinguards
*My mate gave me a Powerglide, a Thrust and a Jetfire out of his old toy box. Jetfire is missing an arm, one of Thrusts guns in broken and he is missing one tailfin and Powerglide had been broken some time in the past and been superglued back together in vehicle mode. But they were free so I still appreciated them
*Found a red Bumblebee, though with all the rubber missing from his tires. Still a good find though!
Energon:
*Bulkhead broke in half at the hip. Still able to stand him up if I balance him carefuly
Titanium:
*My 6 inch WW Optimus fell forward and his gun broke in half
Busts:
*My little Bumblebee bust fell forward and broke all the fingertips off one hand
Transformed ehobby Twincast after cleaning him. Next thing i know i'm holding his arm in my hand. Just snapped clean at the shoulder.
Alternators Mirage, fresh out of a sealed box. I snapped half the hinge on one of his chest/floor plates the first time I transformed him. The bit that snapped off looked like it was melted onto the next piece of plastic though. :/
Fortunately the break doesn't affect his transformation or looks, so I'm not worried about fixing or replacing.
"The Decepticons keep bad company - each other!" - Jazz, G2