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three stories all including reptiles/dinosaurs:
Story 1: I always threw away ALL the capture gear when i got new TLW dinos back in 1997/1998. On purpose, because i thought it was "cruel" for the toys. to my surprise i found almost all of it last year in a box in the cellar. i dont know who rescued it from the trash und put it there, but im very grateful. now most of my dinos are complete again.
Story 2. i sometimes removed the crests of pteranodon and the sails of dimetrodon toys with a scissor. the goal was to turn the dimetrodon into boring generic lizards (funfact: i had ACTUAL and GOOD LOOKING lizard toys at that time, thank god i have the Papo Dimetrodon nowadays) and the pteranodon into pterosaurs without crests like pterodactylus etc.
definitely toy cruelty, but the victims were mostly just "chinasaurs" i had twice EXCEPT a dinoriders pteranodon that got the same treatment and that definitely is the one i regret most. i even softened his crest by heating it with a goddamn gasoline lighter so the scissors could cut it. Funfact: i just found out that years that there exists a version of the very same pteranodon WITHOUT a crest at all. WTF, now i have this toy.
Story 3:
Last but not least, the most cringey story of all.
When i was really small i had pic related frilled lizard. i loved that goddman thing.
1999 aired some gay ass cartoonshow based on a actual good childrens- book in german television, "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver" i watched it out of pure boredom, didnt even like it that much because i liked the book/puppet show better. some crucial point in the story was, that the antagonist dragon, "Mrs. Grindtooth" was turning into a "golden dragon of wisdom" after the main characters defeated her. to make things short, for some reason i cut the frill off with the same damn scissor i tortured the dimetrodon/pteranodon years ago and painted the lizard with golden Revell Model Kit paint to have a own "golden dragon of wisdom". Terrible.
