I understand that, my nephew has started borrowing a lot more (and some of it has been iffy on coming back) but I figure if a figure has issues due to a kid playing, that's 'line of duty'. Like just the other week when I found that he'd written the G1 door numbers onto RTS Wheeljack. That Wheeljack's not in the best shape anyway, but I certainly didn't expect that...
Yeah, I used to have a huge room for displaying my TFs and other toys, but then I got married and had kids, and every kid saw my collection space get moved to a smaller room with less space. The room they were in last was the guest room/PC room. My shelves were just TFs at this point and was divided up by line and faction for th most part, and my G1 decepticons were on a shelf that my kids could reach. I kept the door locked when I was at work, but the wife wasn't as vigilante and probably thought what was the worst that could happen when a 1 year and a three year old get a hold of classic transformers.
All my pristine ones were damaged. My once tight complete Skywarp was dismantle and his pieces lost to the wind. Both of my Soundwaves lost their doors, and my G1 Overlord was smashed up pretty bad to the point of being beyond repair.
I still have my Autobots though, but what's left of the cons are in a rubbermaid tub in the kids playroom.
Thundercracker, though.
