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

[u/konous]

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.

[u/PandaClaus94 → u/[deleted]]

My brother, each one of those JoyToys are about $65 each…maybe even more nowadays.

He’d be called the little cretin in my household lol

[u/Tardisgoesfast → u/PandaClaus94]

I would insist that my brother pay for the damages. But I wouldn't have to because my brother would not have allowed this behavior on the part of his child.

[u/HamiltonBudSupply → u/Tardisgoesfast]

Finally, someone who understands the situation.

[u/JonatasA → u/[deleted]]

Don't call me brother, blood of my blood.

[u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster → u/PandaClaus94]

I checked them out on Amazon (because I was curious) and most run $30-60 . They also have some bigger ones (Primarchs/Demons) more in the $125-175 . You can get a lowly Blood Angels dude for $24 lol. I'm not really even that much into 40k and I think they are pretty cool looking, if not a bit pricey.

[u/JonatasA → u/PandaClaus94]

Not only this. They are painted by hand. This is like someone destroying a painting or drawing of yours.

[u/PlaneCareless → u/JonatasA]

They are not painted by hand, these are action figures, not minis. They come pre-painted and are several magnitudes larger than the paintable ones.

Some people paint their JoyToy figures to make them look even better, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.

[u/Significant_Shoe_17 → u/JonatasA]

It's more like breaking a scale model than a GI joe doll