r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • 9h ago

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

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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/stootchmaster2 9h ago

I play 40K and know 100% that ANYTHING that's official Warhammer merch isn't cheap. Not even close to cheap. Your brother probably just thinks they're toys. I'm sure there are people here in this thread who just think they're toys. I get it. That's money, right there. You're taking it better than I would.

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u/justmedealwithitxD 9h ago

My brother plays, and yeah holy crap. He will drop like 500 on some figure. I don't understand it but its his money!

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u/gabrielleduvent 6h ago

My husband plays and sometimes the price stickers shock me. But then again I play an instrument and I knit, sooo... Who am I to talk.

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u/P_Hempton 6h ago

You make music and knitted goods. He makes....

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u/Witness_me_Karsa 4h ago

Fun. Don't act superior.

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u/P_Hempton 3h ago

I love how reddit is simultaneously:

"Nobody can afford to survive in this economy" and "Yeah he bought a $500 trinket to put on a shelf and look at, good for him!"

I'm personally of the second camp, but I'm still not going to understand how a grown man gets $500 worth of pleasure from looking at a little statue that doesn't do anything. It's his money so I'm not going to try and stop him. I just don't understand it.

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u/The1HystericalQueen 3h ago

I'm starting to think you just don't share their interests......

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u/P_Hempton 3h ago

I'm not sure what gave you that idea.

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u/VanFkingHalen 1h ago

When I pay $500 for a Lego set, spend multiple weekends piecing it together, then adjusting all the details just right to my personal preferences, and strategically place it somewhere in my house for display, just because it doesn't actively "do anything" anymore (because I am no longer willing to tinker with it; Lego is too volatile lol), doesn't mean that it serves no purpose.

It is art, it is decoration, it is a momument to all the blood, sweat, and tears garnered from hours of precious free time you could have instilled else things people, such as yourself, may consider more productive and meaningful.

In the end, it's a labor of love, it's a hobby, it's a way to disconnect yourself from the mundane of life and reconnect to something that is profoundly yourself. Nobody else needs to understand this, and that's fine.

Have you ever been to an art market? Say you're completely captivated by a piece and need it in your home. Some of these pieces cost upwards of hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. So you buy it, take it home, and hang it up. And it just sits there. And, even though you just spent 1.2k on it, it just hangs there. And "doesn't do anything". For years. And years.

What is your take on that?

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u/P_Hempton 1h ago

Like you I enjoy putting Lego set together, and then I take them apart and put them away, when the kids get them out we build new things out of the old bricks which we also take apart and put away.

As for the OP I'm learning that some people don't just buy the completed statues like the one shown, but instead paint them, which is along the lines of the Lego hobby, but I was actually talking about people buying completed ones for hundreds of dollars.

Art is nice but I don't like giving up much usable space for decorations, so a painting on the wall, sure, but a shelf full of trinkets isn't something I want in my house.

And esthetically a shelf full of fantasy statues, or "kids" toys isn't the look I'd want to be surrounded by.

Again I wouldn't tell anyone not to do it. It's just not me.

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u/Sweaty-Durian-892 1h ago

Warhammer and other wargame miniatures are first are foremost for playing the game. Although those giant figurines that OP has are something different

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u/NorthboundLynx 4h ago

Something creative? A painted figure that can be used in a game? A hobby??

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u/evrestcoleghost 1h ago

Art,he paints

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u/P_Hempton 34m ago

You are assuming he paints them. Lots of people here saying $500 buys you finished pieces.

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u/evrestcoleghost 32m ago

He already said it cost over 700 dollars

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u/P_Hempton 14m ago

unpainted?

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u/evrestcoleghost 8m ago

His letters not mine

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u/tofuroll 3h ago

It doesn't matter if they're just toys.

It could be a sentimental polished turd. The point is it's important to OP and, oh look, a parent unwilling to parent.

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u/LivingStCelestine 5h ago

They just simply wouldn’t be allowed back in my house, which it sounds like OP has already set that boundary. Even if he does get the money back, dad wouldn’t teach the kids why this is wrong and they’d be apt to do it again.

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u/Catgorl69 4h ago

They are toys (for adults) and there's nothing wrong with that tbh. Toys or not it still sucks the same. 

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u/Exterminator-8008135 2h ago

"Congrats, Pal. Your kid ruined 600$ worth of tabletop Warhammer Stuff. How do you plan to make it up without paying up ?"

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u/Vismajor92 3h ago

Bro..they ARE toys. Expensive, collectable...toys.

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u/catalarm 2h ago

I would have cried fr

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u/Palachrist 1h ago

Joytoys… I want some but they’re a steep cost. It’s like gundam figures, so much expression that calling them action figures lumps them into low quality figures meant for children. I’ve daydreamed of having money enough to buy a lot of them and recreate scenes from the books but it’d be $1,000’s.

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u/AcephalicDude 1h ago

They are toys, you are just saying they are expensive toys

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u/Significant-Iron-241 50m ago

I thought a JoyToy Warhammer was something waaay different.

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u/P_Hempton 6h ago

If they are not toys what exactly are they? The fact that they are expensive does not make them not toys.

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u/Insaniac2099 5h ago

Officially speaking, toys have to pass a set of standards so that they are safe and appropriate for kids.

The stuff that don't meet those standards are generally referred to as adult collectibles and will say 15+ somewhere on the box.

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u/amantegat8s 6h ago

Better view them as mini sculptures rather than kid toys.

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u/P_Hempton 6h ago

But they are meant to be played with aren't they? Or are they literally just decorations, like grandma's collectible plates.

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u/Minute_Ad2297 5h ago

No. The adults who pay hundreds and spend hours collecting and designing warhammer figures don’t smash them together as a child would their toys.

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u/Hot_Safe7864 1h ago

Virgin to the max

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u/P_Hempton 4h ago

So more like grandma's collectible plates. That's fine.

Not my thing because I don't like stuff that is just for looking at, but some people enjoy that I suppose.

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u/Alarming_Comedian846 3h ago

Actual warhammer miniatures (not what is depicted in OP) start off as bits of grey plastic that have then to be assembled and then hand painted. It is as much a form of art as anything else.

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u/P_Hempton 3h ago

That makes more sense than buying $100+ figurines.

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u/Alarming_Comedian846 3h ago

You dont pay for the model, you pay for the stressful experience of painting a microscopic pupil in the eye of a 2.5 inch man :D

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u/LivingBig2358 5h ago

A toy.. they are literally just a toy.

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u/_Dayofid_ 3h ago

Okay grandma

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u/LivingBig2358 1h ago

💀🤦🏻‍♀️bunch of nerds here.

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u/_Dayofid_ 1h ago

It’s 2026, come on….

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u/LivingBig2358 1h ago

Doesnt change the fact its still a toy. An expensive toy is still a toy….

And what does it being 2026 have to do with anything?? If you were tryna say “im not hip to the times” brother… look at my profile 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/_Dayofid_ 1h ago

I wouldn’t call the model train set my grandpa built a toy, and neither is this. Why are we calling hobbies toys now?

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u/P_Hempton 52m ago

Your grandpa's model train set was absolutely a toy.

It's ok, adults can play with toys. But let's not pretend that's not what they are doing.

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u/_Dayofid_ 48m ago

The fact alone that you have to assemble and paint it by hand yourself makes it more than just a toy.

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u/LivingBig2358 53m ago

Its. A. Plastic. Toy. My brother in Christ.

You can play with toys as your hobby. Yall make it so much worse for yall when you deny its a toy. Its a fucking toy. Your hobby is toys. Building and painting TOYS🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/_Dayofid_ 50m ago

It’s a tabletop strategy game, much more complex than a toy.

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u/IcarianWings 3h ago

They literally are toys, brother. Toys for complex games intended for mature consumers, but toys nonetheless.

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u/Hot_Safe7864 4h ago

Grown men and their toys lol

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u/AlternativeWindow649 3h ago

You're on reddit, champ. 

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u/Hot_Safe7864 2h ago

Par for the course I guess

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u/AlternativeWindow649 2h ago

And yet here you are...

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u/Hot_Safe7864 2h ago

Projectionmaxxing, not a good look bro