Hi To do what you want you need to use another prop and position it where the character drops or sets it on the table and also use the one parented to the character. Make sure you are at the first frame of the animation. Select each of the props and go to the parameter dials and double click on the scale dial which will open the properties for the dial and set the Min to "0" and Value to "100" for the prop parented to the character and Min to "0" and Value to "0" for the other prop. Now go to the animation palette and change the interpolation to constant (the gray color) for both of these props.This way the nothing will happen until the keyframe where your character set the prop down Move to the frame where the character sets the prop down. and set the scale value to "0" for the prop parented to the character and "100" for the other prop. The prop on the table will become visible and the other prop will disappear. This is the only way I have got it work in Poser. Hope this helps you some. Ed