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[camwyn]

I have a two-legged display shelf set in the corner of my living room. It's got a number of things on its shelves- a replica of one of the Terra-Cotta Soldiers that I bought at the Royal Ontario Museum years ago, a small red Chinese horse statue, a metallic-painted replica of Gort that I got as a Christmas gift, a Breyer model of the racehorse Cigar, some rubber model horses from Schleicher, and some Transformers. It's shaped to lean back into the corner, so it doesn't need a third leg- usually. Sometimes it gets knocked over by the cats. This morning was one of those times.

The soldier lost his head and Gort lost one of his hands. The horses are fine (kind of surprising given how many times my Breyers lost hooves in the past from simple little falls), and all the Transformers are fine, although Vector Prime's right shoulder-armor popped off. Snapped back into place without issue, though. And half of Bumblebee got knocked out of vehicle mode and halfway back to robot transformation- I'll be putting it all back to vehicle mode him up tonight.

I'm almost sure there's some kind of lesson or joke in the supposedly adult, grown-up, High Quality Things To Proudly Display items breaking and the toys being the ones to last, but enh, I'm in no mood to work it out.

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[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense to me. Something that's designed to be played with needs to be more sturdily built than something designed to sit on a shelf and look pretty.