Man, seeing those action figures brings back memories.
I remember Christmas of '75; I had some really great-looking presents under the tree, and I couldn't resist poking around to finding out what they were (I was 6 at the time). Well, I was looking at the package and "accidentally" poked a finger through the wrapping.
Lo and behold, it was the Star Trek bridge set, with the entire crew! To make a long story short, I got in serious trouble for sneaking the peek, but I still got the present on Christmas Day.
My uncles (youngest one was about 11 years older than me) used to play tricks on me with the transporter, spinning it around horribly fast and distracting me long enough to get the character out of the back (to hide it somewhere else in the house). They really had me fooled into thinking the transporter really worked (for a bit).
I don't know where everything went; I think I eventually just lost everything. I remember finding Spock at some point after I moved to Wyoming, stripped naked and missing one leg below the knee, hiding out in the bottom of the box where I kept all my Star Wars action figures. I remember giving him up to the trash can after that.
Davy Jones
"Frightened? My dear, you are looking at a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe! I was petrified."
-- The Wizard of Oz