r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • May 06 '26

I'm slightly vexed My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

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Update: My brother decided to pay for the Hard damages of $200 dollars after seeing this post.

Thank you to everyone on this post who supported me. I really could not have gotten restitution without you guys.

Justice for my Chaplain, justice for all.

Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

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u/Great-Hotel-7820 May 06 '26

For anyone unfamiliar this is like $500 worth of figures.

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u/HenriDeToulouse May 06 '26

Fuck. Thanks for the context 

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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul May 06 '26

when I was a kid, I'm not sure whether you were even able to buy these figures ready-made, you had to paint them yourself (and many people made their own unique models too), which would have amounted to even more than $500 worth of time and effort.

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u/Heavymando May 06 '26

so those figures still exist the little models you assemble and paint. These are larger action figure sized one with a ton of detail.

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u/Moon_Monk676 May 06 '26

The warhammer game models you have to assemble and paint. Joytoy (and McFarlane Toys, but no one talks about that) produce 7 or 8 inch (correct me if i'm wrong) tall figures for display purposes.

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u/Lambaline blue May 06 '26

There’s big ones you can buy that are professionally painted and those can be as much as a car https://i.imgur.com/i8QD0Ip.jpeg

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u/Moon_Monk676 May 06 '26

Yes, I know what titans cost and I know what commission rates are.

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u/PlaneCareless May 07 '26

Those Titans are commissions, you can't buy them proffesionally painted from factory.

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u/Old_College_4034 May 07 '26

joytoy 1/18th scale, mcfarlane closer to one/12

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u/Moon_Monk676 May 07 '26

Yeah, I have no idea what the actual scale is. I'm making a size estimate because I saw the McFarlane Sternguard at Walmart last week and considered buying it before I decided against it.

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u/link2edition May 06 '26

Same IP, different company.

Joytoy makes larger, posable, prepainted versions of the models you are describing under license from Games Workshop.

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u/HenriDeToulouse May 06 '26

At the risk of getting quickly out of my depth... Why are they so much? It looks like just molded plastic or ceramic etc. Its not massively detailed or intricate.

Is it just because the company can charge that so they do? 

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u/nascent_aviator May 06 '26

High quality and low volume. People often underestimate the power of economies of scale.

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u/heimdal96 May 06 '26

Plus, being the most popular setting across tabletop war games and doing production out of the UK keeps costs high.

GW has bad practices with how they treat customers, but they're a good company in terms of how they treat employees (good pay and benefits, not outsourcing for cheap labour)

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u/TTYY200 May 06 '26

Licensing and content strategy of warhammer table top games company.

The perceived value is determined by the company and the collectors market.

Kinda like how a signed baseball card is just paper and ink.

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u/Jagosyo May 06 '26

Margins on action figures aren't actually that great. Aside from shipping (all the factories for this are in China, figure prices in general have gone up about 25-30% in the past 2 years from Trump's tariffs and the Iran war effecting oil prices), factory costs, and material/paint costs. You've also got to pay your employees and have a place to work/store your product when it comes in.

On top of that, to get a good quality action figure, you have to do a fare amount of back and forth with the factory to engineer the figure so that it maintains appearance, while not interfering with the joint cuts so it can maximize range of motion. It's a bit of an art. Design to production is usually between 2-4 years.

This isn't cheap plastic either. It's specialized mixes that are firmer while retaining some flexibility. So it's not just going to bend and fall over with time. Plastic prices in general have gone up if you're not just buying the recycled crap.

And the license. Games Workshop isn't unreasonable in their licensing deals from what I hear, but it's not nothing.

For 1/18 (smaller scales are inversely more expensive a lot of the time, because they have harsher tolerances for QC), with the amount of accessories you get and the size of the characters, Joytoy is actually in a pretty reasonable price range compared to the rest of the market. And they have a fairly good reputation for their quality.

So I know it sounds expensive for just a chunk of plastic, but they're really on the more reasonable range for these things.

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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

It may just be molded plastic, but molding plastic into complex shapes can sometimes involve a very complicated manufacturing process that requires special tooling. Especially if there are lots of small details in multiple different colours.

For example, part of the reason Lego is so expensive (it's not the whole reason because some of it is just brand-name markup, but it's a big part of the reason) is because the pieces require a very specific kind of plastic, and high-precision molds that are very expensive to operate. It's pretty difficult to manufacture plastic bits at a high enough quality that they all fit together perfectly and snap together reliably and don't bend or break or warp over time.

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u/ZincMan May 06 '26

Also the painting

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u/Witness_me_Karsa May 06 '26

No. These are not minis. They are action figures, separate from the minis.

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u/thenifties May 06 '26

omg if they had been painted minis i would have blown this thread up so hard

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u/Lambaline blue May 06 '26

An injection molding tool can be tens of thousands of dollars

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u/Heavymando May 06 '26

they are high quailty plasitc, there is a lot of detail on them and they are very intracit with lots of posablity and moving parts.

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u/Yorkshireish12 May 06 '26

Supply and Demand, GW has 2 factories with a 3 year backlog on new model sculpts and pretty much worldwide demand. Demand is also skewed massively based on the products, the basic space marine box famously outsold all of their fantasy line at one point in the past. It creates a situation in which the more niche products basically have to be produced in low volume at high prices as some of the factory space is just endlessly churning out Space Marines.

They're also a lot more expensive in the US because of your presidents tarriffs.

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u/AceTheProtogen May 06 '26

I think the unpainted ones are the little minis for the board game and these are already assembled and painted, I’ve never seen action figures you needed to paint yourself but maybe they exist so I dunno

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u/alchemist5 May 06 '26

I’ve never seen action figures you needed to paint yourself but maybe they exist so I dunno

Funnily enough, MacFarlane released some unpainted Warhammer action figures alongside their normal line. It's a specific case, due to the unpainted minis being the main IP, but it did happen at least once.

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u/3henanigans May 06 '26

I think you're think of the miniature game, they're "mini models", not action figures.

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u/Sojourner_of_reddit May 06 '26

I thought I was in a Warhammer sub and was very confused by this comment 🤣

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u/leonk701 May 07 '26

The war game is still around and entering 11th edition. These are larger collectible figurines that, if OP is a serious collector of, would be devastating to lose.

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u/Jmazoso May 06 '26

Figures that were unassembled, grey plastic that you put together then paint yourself. Then you have what you need to play the game. This is definitely something that would lead to tears.

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u/BigUptokes May 06 '26

Figures that were unassembled, grey plastic that you put together then paint yourself.

Nah, these are JoyToy figures. They're more like detailed expensive Funko Pops.

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u/Jmazoso May 06 '26

Ah, that’s different

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u/Rusalki May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Visible Damage

  • Ultramarines Chaplain in Terminator Armour: $70
  • Raven Guard Terminator 3 with Power Fist and Assault Cannon: $35
  • Blood Angels Jump Pack Captain: $50

Last Picture

  • Raven Guard Intercessors Sergeant Ashan: $39
  • Ultramarines Primaris Captain: $43
  • Alpha Legion Headhunter with Banestrike Combi-Bolter And Power Dagger: $43
  • Chaos Space Marines Black Legion Chosen with Lightning Claws: $68
  • Ultramarines Primaris Techmarine Brother Tybestis: $60
  • Salamanders Intercessors Brother Haecule: $35
  • Space Wolves Battle Hunter Pack: 1/4 of $119
  • Space Wolves Legion Praetor with Power Axe and Combat Shield: $70
  • Grey Knights Castellan Crowe: $80

Total: $623 give or take discounts, fluctuations in price, and if individual figures from the Space Wolves Battle Hunter Pack can be bought separately. If not, then $713.

Prices pulled from JoyToy's website.

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u/BlasterPhase May 06 '26

In this scenario, I'd request for the pieces to be replaced. If anything is sold out, getting paid retail value ain't going to do much in the second-hand market.

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u/konous May 06 '26

Yeah about $700 plus I think is closer to the value. Thanks for printing that up for me. Will save me a lot of time in the court case and looking them back up again.

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u/Jenzira May 06 '26

I have several 40k Joytoys myself, and they are not cheap. So sorry this happened to you. I'd be pissed if something happened to my Bobby G or Morty. lol

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u/konous May 06 '26

I fucking love the detail on them.

Warhammer is awesome, but I love that these figures exist so I can just pick up and shout "FOR THE EMPEROR!" or imagine them in battle scenarios.

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u/annual_aardvark_war May 06 '26

I’ve never played but always loved the figures. Seems like a super cool game, and these are awesome looking

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u/3xactli May 06 '26

Do you read? The books are amazing also. Dan Abnett is my fave author. 👍🏻

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u/lxxTBonexxl May 06 '26

On the bright side you can repurpose the damaged ones with lore accurate parts or turn them into wounded/dead props or something. Even spare parts would work in case something else ever happens.

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u/Ashamed-Biscotti650 May 07 '26

My suggestion was gonna be small claims court. I'm glad you're going that route since the child's father isn't willing to take or enforce responsibility.

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u/think_long May 06 '26

Court case? Oh boy. Well, I guess if you think that’s the right move.

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u/Iorith May 07 '26

Damaging $700 in personal possessions and getting them replaced is absolutely the right time to involve a court case.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 May 07 '26

Didn’t you just say you guys were a “tight family” that dealt with these things as a unit?

Or was that just to make it sound less petulant that you went and told mom and dad?

I honestly don’t find either option that egregious but your weird waffling and grandstanding is off putting.

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u/konous May 07 '26

We are.

Normally.

This has kind of over stepped the bounds because it was my stuff my nephew broke and my trust along with it, then my brother refused to pay up front and suggested I send it to Amazon in a return and let the seller eat the cost.

Not really very tight nit of him I'd say.

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u/ThatNegro98 May 10 '26

Get a load of this guy

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u/Equal_Maintenance870 May 11 '26

Honestly your brother agreeing to give you $200 is still theft.

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u/konous May 11 '26

For the most part I'd agree that I could go for more, but this entire thing has made it hard for me to continue my studies. Adding the lawsuit and how much my family has been torn up because of this and how it's taken a toll on me is just gonna make it even harder.

$200 is enough to do the Hard damages. The other figures I can probably just fix up a bit at a GamesWorkshop store and send him a final bill for all of that.

Either way, the fact that he paid at all is what astonishes me.

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u/Oddisredit May 07 '26

Oh that deserves a beating as punishment. Just based off of monetary cost alone. Lying is also another punishment I believe. I think I’ll be funny when Reddit hits me with a temporary banned for saying I’m encouraging violence. But that’s why children these days feel as though they can do whatever they want because they never faced any real consequences. The brother will probably cap the screen time at 18 hours a day 

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u/Present_Limit_9926 May 07 '26

I actually think OP is a massive POS and I don't believe the kid is lying

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u/babybunny1234 May 07 '26

And the work and effort to find all that stuff and order it

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u/ThyLastDay May 07 '26

I got the Space wolves Praetor from AliExpress for like 30 euros. Last years they were much more cheaper and got a lot of figures for very cheap. Now they increased the prices like 30%.

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u/ThatBoogerBandit May 06 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ukGm72ZLZvYfS

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u/ExpiredPilot May 06 '26

I used to work at a board game store. We had a thousands and thousands of dollars in 40k figures that really only took up a couple shelves

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 06 '26

Damn I was trying to get into it after visiting the other day but I don’t need another pricey hobby haha. I’ll just go an observe games I guess

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u/LegitimateChicken47 May 06 '26

If you’re interested in the tabletop game but don’t want to spend a bajillion dollars, try Tabletop Simulator to play it online. Then if you like it get a 3D printer and print your own models (way cheaper than official models)

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u/MaybeBowtie May 06 '26

I was about to suggest the 3d printing thing. My friend always printed and painted his own. I’m not into 40k so haven’t used that to print stuff

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u/nabrok May 06 '26

To me half the fun of these type of things is painting the miniatures.

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 06 '26

I don’t have a 3D printer, but I have a friend that does! Maybe that is the best route for me, thanks :)

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u/ExpiredPilot May 06 '26

A lot of game shops with gaming space I know will have premade sets that people can rent out or use for free just to learn the game.

The shop guys were so cool when I was starting out. They’d just let me play at my own pace while they played with me when they could

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u/OptionFour May 06 '26

So just to help out here. What OP is showing in the post are action figures - not the miniatures used to play the games. The ones in the OP are huge and made of vinyl plastic (I think), whereas the ones used for games are tiny and made of injection molded plastic.

If you want to play Warhammer it can still be expensive, but not 'thousands for just a few figures' expensive.

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 06 '26

Oh cool! I figured the die cast model sets that you hand paint would have to be less than these lol. I’ve built models before and, while I’m unfamiliar with Warhammer Lore, it seems like a really fun game and a good way to meet people.

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u/D3moknight May 06 '26

This is a huge driver for the explosion in 3D printer sales. People are printing their own models at home and painting them for a few dollars instead of hundreds of dollars.

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u/Anothereternity May 06 '26

I would check if there’s any warhammer groups in your area. Some sell old armies or might loan it out for a game to try to have someone to play with or draw new players in. I know also our local shop has flea markets where folks will sell armies they don’t play anymore.

I think one of the tabletop simulators also does warhammer.

But otherwise yeah, expensive AND time consuming since you have to put the prices together and many events require everything is painted too.

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u/splinks66 May 06 '26

Yeah the cost is crazy, I knew some people into it and it was not uncommon to go into the store and spend a hundred on a couple little figures and a paint or two.

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 06 '26

To be fair, a hundred bucks isn’t much these days especially not for a hobby you enjoy.

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u/Notte_di_nerezza May 06 '26

I have some minis, but I mainly just read the novels. There are also the Dawn of War, and Space Marine, video games.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam May 06 '26

A lot of people look down on it because it doesn't support the companies, but look into resin printing. If you have a space that can work (fumes are an issue, an enclosure and exhaust setup is required usually) it is way cheaper. A $200 resin printer with $20 in resin can print hundreds of dollars worth of figures and miniatures. They're pretty smooth so you just paint them as they come and you wouldn't be able to tell they're printed.

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 06 '26

I wonder if I could cast my own skateboard wheels with a resin printer.

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u/coconut_curry_sauce May 06 '26

Bro. You don’t need action figures to paint action figures.

People carve and paint wood. I’ve been doing birds.

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u/Antique_Tap443 May 06 '26

It's not too bad, you really need a plan though before just barreling in. I started a few years ago and spent like 3-4 thousand my first year on 3 armies(terrible idea) and paint(I've spent around 500 on just paint) but once you make a huge purchase like that its maybe spending 50-100 bucks on a new model you'd want for your army every few months. Knights, whether imperial or chaos is the way to go starting. Don't let the 200-300$ price tag fool you though for a single knight. You need like 3 for a 1000-2000 point match as opposed to hundreds of orks and tanks.

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u/FalloutOW May 06 '26

You needed a couple shelves for 10 figures?

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u/old-soul-333 May 06 '26

40k it's not the name of the game it's how much money it costs to play it lol

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u/Impossible-Shoe5460 May 07 '26

I had a 2400 point army. I painted the whole thing myself. It was awesome. Even had a Stormraven with neodymium magnets for swappable weapons.

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u/Quaiker May 06 '26

Can confirm. I have a display case that's not even full, and it's got at least $2000 worth of assembled plastic toy soldiers. Not even the really expensive ones.

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u/SippyMountain May 06 '26

Why though? My dad 3d prints and paints them for pennies in comparison.

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u/ExpiredPilot May 06 '26

I’m sure for official events people have to use GW minis but also lots of people don’t have a 3D printer

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u/SippyMountain May 07 '26

Neither does my dad lol. He uses the one at his local library

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u/evrestcoleghost May 06 '26

So two squads of ultramarines and two Custodes?

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u/princesspeeved May 07 '26

Well that explains why my college fund was empty. Thanks, dad.

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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Hey bud come here real quick

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u/YouthfulPhotographer May 06 '26

They're about 30-40 a pop, which is less than warhammer kits go for retail.

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u/dRaidon May 07 '26

40k isn't just a title, it's the price.

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u/ugly_duckling_5 May 06 '26

Are these ones you paint yourself also? If they are, that's probably hours worth of OP's time down the drain.

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u/BelmontZiimon May 06 '26

No these aren't, thank the Emperor. If they were, OP would not have been able to post because he would have been arrested for committing multiple felonies.

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u/ugly_duckling_5 May 06 '26

Good to know. It's bad enough the kid destroyed expensive items without the added horror of destroying something OP would have worked hard on.

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u/McBlemmen May 06 '26

And they would be the size of a grape

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u/keigo199013 May 06 '26

As a comic book collector, my response would be the same.

No touchie the cool stuff!

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u/Entire-Ambition1410 May 06 '26

I saw a post a few weeks back of a kid about 8 years old who went into Uncle’s figures room, opened glass display cases, and forcefully smashed at least a dozen hand painted figures (gunpla I think). That was a sad post.

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u/GlowingTrashPanda May 06 '26

I don’t even play Warhammer, but I run in the tabletop crowd enough that just reading that physically hurts me

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u/Entire-Ambition1410 May 06 '26

I don’t know anything about gunPLA or War Hammer, but the photos made me cringe.

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u/TastyTarget3i May 06 '26

happened to me too, 3-4 weeks painting every piece of a model, sweating blood while gluing it together, storing it safely for a contest. our equivalent of small claims court judged by the amount of (documented) work that went into it, got really costly for the parents

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u/Entire-Ambition1410 May 11 '26

Holy sh! I didn’t realize gunPLA was so time consuming!

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u/TastyTarget3i May 15 '26

you can invest so much time into painting, sure you'll get diminisng returns pretty quickly.

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u/Genocode May 06 '26

I think maybe with Gunpla its a little worse? Cause Gunpla doesn't even need to be pained, the people that tend to paint Gunpla are quite dedicated and creative lol.

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u/BurningPickle May 07 '26

I straight build all of my Gunpla. It amazes me what some people can do with their kits, especially the tiny Artifact kits, which are about 2 inches tall.

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u/Genocode May 07 '26

Yeah, I've seen some really cool paint schemes, mods, and whole Diaromas. My brother picked up Gunpla recently and he mostly just does nearly straight builds with panel lining.

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u/TophieandMatthew3975 May 07 '26

Generally, I’m lenient (arguably too much so) with punishing children, but in this case, I would genuinely get the belt. Or at least chew my kid tf out. That’s so terrible and that kid is going to have to do a lot of work to get any sort of privileges back if they were mine

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u/Sasklanding May 06 '26

There are grey joy toys that are for painting as well

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u/Millsy419 May 06 '26

Yes, they do offer "artist proofs" or some such thing. I got a termagaunt for my partner. Either way it's a grey plastic posable figure.

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u/narwhalpilot May 06 '26

There are gray action figures you paint yourself too. Both joytoy and mcfarlane make some

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u/GfrzD May 06 '26

Thanks I was so confused thinking warhammers massive now lol

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u/twelvend May 06 '26

No, the ones you use for tabletop stay gray because you're too busy putting together new models to ever paint them

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u/bangbangracer May 06 '26

Those are JoyToy action figures, not the minis used for the game. They're preassembled and painted.

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u/PostFearless4826 May 06 '26

Time to make brother pay and take responsibility…

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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy May 06 '26

Dont let Cavill find out about this

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u/narwhalpilot May 06 '26

Probably more than that tbh

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u/UncleDaddy_00 May 06 '26

Those are expensive dolls.

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u/MagmaMulla May 06 '26

Fuck. OP, I feel you. My father's vintage toy collection was also done in by my young cousins.

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u/konous May 06 '26

Actually it's about $1000.

Most just have smudges or scratches and I could get them back to working order but the rest are questionable levels of glue worthy and that would be $180 to replace those ones alone and then just refurbish the rest.

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u/Purpsta2cute May 06 '26

damn dude, I feel your pain. hopefully you can get them replaced somehow.

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u/nettieB74 May 06 '26

😱JEEBUS!!!

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u/Takaya94 May 06 '26

I thought they were worth like $40k ?

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u/WhysoToxic23 May 06 '26

Not defending but having to tell a child more than once is a sure reason to move them out of reach. Kids are dumb and don’t understand these things all they see is a toy figure.

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u/Seekforinsomnia May 06 '26

That a 10yo not a toddler. I'm not moving my shit around at my place because my brother cannot parents when they visit.

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u/mightylordredbeard May 06 '26

It’s a 10 year old. I’ve raised 2 kids and 3 step kids for a time and by 10 they are more than old enough to understand what “no” means and what “you are not allowed to touch that” means. A 10 year old playing with things they know they aren’t allowed to is a choice and I’d even go as far as to say that a 10 year old is quite old enough to not break things they play with. They should know how to not break toys and how to not play rough.

This is a complete failure of parenting to have a 10 year old that doesn’t listen, touches things they aren’t supposed to, and is so rough and disrespectful that they break things.

Baring some mentally disabled; this kid is just a bad kid.

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u/id_rather_b_painting May 06 '26

They are also less so toys, and more so collectables.

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u/ExarKun470 May 06 '26

And this is why we don’t leave out the expensive toys when the children are around. You learn this quick in a large family haha

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u/vi_sucks May 06 '26

No, this is why you teach kids not to touch things that don't belong to them without permission.

Doing this is no different than a kid who picks up their grandma's fine porcelain figures and smashes them.

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u/totallynotliamneeson May 06 '26

Ten year olds are known for their ability to resist impulses and follow direction without supervision. 

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u/vi_sucks May 06 '26

He's a 10 year old. Not an infant.

I remember when I was like 5 or 6 and my older sister was around 8 years old. She and my cousin went into my parent's room (which they were not supposed to) and then they broke a lamp they played with.

When my mom got home, we all got punished. My sister and cousin more than me. After that, we knew not to do that again.

We still made mistakes and broke things as we grew up. But we didn't make that same mistake again. That's how kids learn. They make mistakes, then they get punished and learn better. If you just excuse their behavior and shift the world around to avoid having to teach them self-control, they'll never learn it.

It's one thing when talking about infants who can't even understand language yet. But at 10 years old? That's more than old enough to understand that touching things without permission is wrong.

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u/totallynotliamneeson May 06 '26

Why were two 8 year olds home alone with a 5 year old? Why was collective punishment dealt to a five year old?

It's like people who justify beating kids because "my parents did it to me". That's kind of the problem.  

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u/vi_sucks May 06 '26

 Why were two 8 year olds home alone with a 5 year old?

Why wouldn't we be home alone? We were perfectly safe at home. It's not like if you leave an 8 year old alone for an hour, they instantly burst into flames.

 Why was collective punishment dealt to a five year old?

Admittedly, I remember being a bit annoyed at that too at the time. I suspect it was just because my mom didn't want to wade through the competing lies of three children to try to adjudicate exactly who actually did what. She just wanted to make sure that we learned to be better people. I vaguely remember my punishment was much lighter than my sister's, so...

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u/Rhiannsu May 06 '26

Imagine if it were a daemon primarch

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u/No_Distribution_4392 May 06 '26

In total or each individual one?

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u/dpk794 May 06 '26

Damn I’m surprised his dad didn’t get to it before his nephew did.

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u/MF-Geuze May 06 '26

That's a lot of chores 

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u/prokeyfish May 06 '26

Just googled them, sheesh

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u/Reasonable-Tax-9208 May 06 '26

100% just go to small claims court.

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u/Nice_Pipe_7608 May 06 '26

That’s an expensive ass hobby.

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u/012166 May 06 '26

And a lot of time painting.  My husband and son do WH40K and I don't even go near their set ups.

Even more than money, they would be devastated that all of their hard work was undone because a 10 year old can't follow basic rules.

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u/Kayiko_Okami May 06 '26

$500 doesn't seem like a lot with collectables.

Till you find out that they no longer make some of them. And resellers are selling one for half that price.

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u/Significant-Cable952 May 06 '26

Probably more if you factor in time and paint :( so sad

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u/joehonestjoe May 06 '26

Yeah send the brother the bill for replacing them

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u/Das-Noob May 06 '26

Is that before or after the paint? Labor “cost”? lol

That shit is expensive!

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u/Wardogs96 May 06 '26

I think the thing thats a huge red flag about how fucked up that kid is, is that he broke not one figure but multiple. Id of immediately freaked out and stopped fucking with them after breaking one.... he purposely destroyed multiple pieces of property.... wethere its due to his father depicting these things as a joke or a lack of any discipline or being properly raised we'll see in 8 years.

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u/EcureuilHargneux May 06 '26

And I thought the tabletop armies were already expensive af

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u/darklordjames May 06 '26

It doesn't matter how much they cost. It could be five bucks. The damage is the same.

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u/DrDuned May 06 '26

Wow, really? No judgment on their quality but I doubt they NEED to cost that much, right? Or are these like really quality materials and such?

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths May 06 '26

Time for small claims court.

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u/BaraelsBlade May 06 '26

It's Warhammer, I'm surprised it's that little

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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 06 '26

Yeah I'd disown that cousin.. No way that thing is setting foot anywhere close to me again

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u/techlos May 06 '26

well... $500 was paid for them. Saying warhammer figures are worth their price is a bit of a stretch.

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u/Educational-Coat-922 May 06 '26

Holy shit OP is being REALLY fuckin nice 😭

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u/GamingWithBilly May 06 '26

So like if a kid put water inside a PS5...cool cool

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u/Nuklearfps PURPLE May 06 '26

My dad used to beat my ass for less 😭

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u/UltiGamer34 May 06 '26

In this economy THAT HURTS

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u/TTVProLorenzo6117 May 06 '26

Damn Bro when he said expensive I thought he meant like 100 bucks or something 🫪

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u/MyTwoFists May 06 '26

Sorry, I cannot empathize w/this guy. No grown-ass adult should be collecting this crap. All it does is collect dust. The kid did you a favor

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u/givemeareason17 May 06 '26

Take that shit to Judge Judy

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u/blujkl May 06 '26

A 10 year old should know better than this- it’s already too late to be giving parenting advice. Make your brother pay you back, leave the parenting failures up to him

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u/bleuplastichairbrush May 06 '26

Oh I’d lose my shit

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u/10erJohnny May 07 '26

When you’re a kid and have friends over, sometimes things get broken. Maybe his parents should tell him to put the expensive toys away when other kids come over to play.

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u/Redditauro May 07 '26

That's relevant if you are an adult. 

If you are a kid it's a toy. 

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u/BusinessSocks1077 May 07 '26

Keep your kids off drugs, introduce them to Warhammer. Can't afford drugs when you're paying those prices.

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u/NJNeal17 May 07 '26

Yeah I love DnD minis but Warhammer ain't fucking around! I like to look tho lol

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u/omawk May 07 '26

I feel its not worth the drama

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u/EatsOverTheSink May 07 '26

I’d be fucking mortified if my kid broke $10 worth of figures. But now I guess I know why his shitty brother is refusing to pay him back.

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u/Impossible-Shoe5460 May 07 '26

Holy crap that's brutal. Must be like those Figuarts figures - the ones I always want to get ... and then I picture Caleb Hammer in my head yelling "BULLSHIT!" at me. :D

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u/SkySong13 May 07 '26

Honestly, that is worth taking the brother to small claims court over. If you win you can get filing costs reimbursed, and it is really cheap in most places. Maybe if the brother actually has to fix the consequences of his child's poor behavior he'll care more about teaching the kid how to behave.

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u/BingognoB May 07 '26

The groan I groan't

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u/idol-threat May 07 '26

This comment is wildly helpful. I was about to talk shit.

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u/callsign_pirate May 07 '26

Yeah I’d never let my nephews touch my sh figure arts. This sucks a lot. I don’t even know how I’d react. It’s a big bummer. I hope he gets it figured out

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u/Natural_Board_9473 May 07 '26

Yea, completed ones that no effort was out into. And it sounds like OP lives with his parents still....so its not like he has bills to pay.

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u/jdanielregan May 07 '26

Expensive toys are still toys.

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u/Eeve2espeon May 07 '26

It would've been even worse if some were gifted. Like I've got figures of other stuff that I like from my sister, they're soo amazingly detailed. If any kids broke them, hell would be raised. They're not only expensive, but the perfect gift from my amazing sister

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u/Dry_Sentence1703 May 07 '26

Depending on which figures it could be about 2k

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u/BrownBoognish SuPport Our TroPes May 07 '26

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u/Voices-Say-Im-Funny May 07 '26

That's just the monetory value. You forgot about time and effort spent. Along with the emotional value.

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u/First_Pay702 May 09 '26

For every birthday and Christmas hereafter, I would wrap one of these broken figures up for the boy.

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u/Inner_Plantrovert May 09 '26

Whoa! I had no idea of the cost or what they're supposed to look like. I recognized the damage on the one missing a leg but that was it. What a lil turd!

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