>You arrive home after a long day at work >Just want to

>>5857239
Wonder how it happened, pick up n' fix what I can.
Consider replacing shelving.

>>5857239
wonder who came into my house and filled my shelves with shit

>>5857239
>curl up into fetal position
>try not to cry
>cry a lot

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>>5857243

>>5857239
>well, now I can buy some good toys I guess

Be thankful my superior American toys are safe and know they would survive this.

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>>5857239
"Good, now it matches my Detolf"

>>5857261
>that backwards assembly

>>5857239
>spin around
>moonwalk out
>start new life without toys dragging me down

>>5857239
How the fuck does this shit even happen?

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>>5857239
CHECK IF ANY PIECE BROKE

>>5857432
IIRC that was taken from the Tohoku earthquake '11

>>5857432
too much weight.
That and/or it was incorrectly put together, like that detolf.

If i remember correctly, OP's shelf was from an earthquake.

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>>5857432

>>5857239
>swear loudly
>open wallet
>decide to condense collection down to a few items
>replace broken toys with what I have in storage
>be happy now I have some cupboard space
>down my sorrows in mountain dew because I'm a straight edge who doesn't want to become an alcoholic
>tip fedora
>jump off balcony

>>5857239
why are weeaboos with disposable income in my house

>>5857239
Move away from France, Spain or Mexico.

>>5857289
wat

Eat a bowl of eggs and 360 out of the house.

>>5857239
I am so fucking glad I don't live somewhere that gets earthquakes, jesus christ that's heartbreaking

>>5857567
If you look carefully, the supporting bars are facing to the outside. That's why the shelves fell down. He didn't assemble the case properly.

Real talk

With proper assembly, how reliable are detolfs?

>>5857683
They're pretty reliable. Just make sure you don't put too much on one shelf (as in large polystone statues or some shit).

Also, only install one magnet on the door and put 2-3 layers of masking tape on the metal part of the door. This is so it's easier to open it and the metal frames won't shake.

>>5857683
Not natural disaster proof.

>>5857239
>tape off the scene of the crime
>get a clean broom and dustpan
>pick up shelves to survey damage underneath
>set aside shelves
>sweep up the carnage
>pick out whatever's salvageable
>regret my decision in collecting Myth Cloth
>pour salvage into huge tote
>try to sell on /bst/ as zmobieboy for months
>tear down display
>build one that isn't a walmart bookcase
>rebuild life

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>>5857683
I've heard stories of Detolfs just straight up shattering randomly for no apparent reason...so there's that.

I personally have 4, and I've moved them (while assembled) 2 different times. Once from my 3rd floor apartment to a house I rented, then again from that house to my current house. Never had a problem with them breaking or cracking or anything (stuffed them with pillows and taped them up each time). Hell, I was even a retard my first time setting up a Detolf and reversed the brackets like >>5857261. Put all the shelves in the Detolf, placed a few figures in there, closed the shelf and walked away to get something to eat. While in the kitchen I heard a smashing sound and I just KNEW all the glass had broken. But when I got in there, all the glass shelves had fallen, but were still in one piece.

So yea, my personal experience is that they're pretty reliable. Mine creak at random sometimes though. I heard that has to do with the glass expanding and contracting due to temperature (which is apparently normal). Other than that, no complaints.

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>>5857239

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>>5857774
They probably only randomly shatter because of too much stress, likely caused by the user being a fat fuck who leans too hard on things or a fatfuck who puts too much crap onto each shelf.

Because of how glass is composed, you'll get no warning, as they won't show any fractures or stress marks. So it only looks like they randomly shatter, but in reality, it's because micro-fractures caused by fat fucks ham handing their furniture.

>>5857774
The won't "randomly" shatter, It's tempered glass.

My best guess would be whoever put it together has over tightened the screws holding the whole assembly together for that to even be a possibility.

For a door to one to shatter their would need to be some kind of pressure or impact applied as well.

>>5857774
Why would you put the case behind an inward-swinging door? That just sounds like a recipe for disaster

>>5858720
probably the same reason people put a hundred figures on every shelf: ITS SO I CAN FIT EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE

>>5857494
Have you heard about this?

>>5857774
>for no apparent reason
According to /o/, warm glass + sudden cold air for a number of times.

>>5858690
You could be right. But that's not just one instance. There are quite a few stories of people hearing a loud "BANG" in the middle of the night like someone just fired a gun, only to find their Detolf shattered in their collection room.

What's a good display shelf to buy for this not to happen. I'm looking for a single stack, 3 shelf glass.

>>5858742
about what

into the trash

>>5859332
Don't live in a place that has earthquakes

My son knows better not to touch my toys. Once he had a friend over while I still was at work. Came home to find out they had played with _ALL_ my toys. I don't let his friend came over anymore.

>>5857239
My guess is he had his bookcase attached to the wall but not securely enough to prevent it from toppling forward just enough that violent jostling caused the shelves to come out. There is zero chance the shelves would have failed otherwise because they look like they are in one piece and so are the metal dows.

>>5857683
>With proper assembly, how reliable are detolfs?
Wood is good, glass is ass.

I would never trust glass because it's failure is sudden and dramatic with no real signs. Wood shows signs of bowing, cracking, etc. You can get a "partial failure" with wood where it might bust through one of the dows with a super heavy load but still stay wedged up. As a 140lb kid and with 30lbs of magazines loaded onto a shelf I one time stepped up on it causing it to break through one of the dows. The shelf still stayed in place though so I could remove stuff safely. That's an extreme as fuck load for a cheap ass bookcase with a weight limit of 40lbs. Toys will never even get close to reaching the breaking point for wood, even Walmart bookcases.

>>5857566
Kek

>>5859364
You shouldn't treat your wife's son like that.

>>5859851
kek

>mfw people display their figs in a glass shef
I'd never do that, seems utterly retarded. glass is ok for display doors, nothing that keeps it under stress, but using it for structure is retarded as fuck, glass is fragile as shit, even tightening some screws a little too much can cause denting which ultimately leads to breaking
Get a real wooden shelf, a book shelf for instance, or a tv shelf thing, whatever the name is, with lots of compartments. It is a little more expensive, but it guarentees a solid shelf which won't break
Even Ikea shelves are better than glass

>>5858742
Jay Leno get out.

I live in earthquake zone, so I would never think of displaying my figures too far from ground. And certainly not in glass display cases like detolf.

I also keep some toys in boxes, but that doesn't really have anything to do with earthquake protection, just purchases I regret I'd rather forget about.

>>5860176
Cases like these use tempered glass, which is much more durable. I won't lie and say I don't worry a little, but my concern is with temperature fluctuations.

Well, that and how my new case doesn't have metal shelf supports. The shelves rest on tall, plastic caps screwed into pre-drilled holes on the glass sides. It's not like I'm putting statueshit on them, but still.

>>5860176
glass looks nice though. maybe not detolfs honestly, but for $65 each it'll do.

Does anyone know what figure is on the bottom right shelf in OP's pic?

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>>5862994
It looks like Chogokin King Robo Mickey & Friends.

>>5862999
I knew it looked familiar! Thanks anon.

>>5857239
>This is already me
>Already know reasons
>Area is/was underwater for a day due to back flooding (LouisianaAnonhere)
>Lost all but top shelf figures.
> All that remains is Alt Eisin Chogo, Superion, some unbuilt kits, Revo Stitch, Swindle and Mini Alt Nacht
>Debate continuing hobby as I now am throwing ruined things away filled with contempt and a storm of other emotions.

>>5857239
Laugh at whoever stored their shitty anime figures in my house and then go pose my far superior and much cheaper Halo figures.

>>5860176
There are people that keep sideshow premium format and 1/4 scale hot toys on standard detolf shelves. There's a pretty high chance that yours will never break if you put it to together correctly.

>>5863002
Damn dude sorry to hear that. Don't give up.

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>>5859364
Toys are for children you sad fuck. Let him have him have his friend over again. Let kids play with the damn toys like they're meant to be. Grow the fuck up you pathetic manchild.

>>5864217
Mate what board do you think you're on

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>>5863066
Halo is for faggots

>>5864542
Says the fuckin' anime weenie.

>>5863002
Shit anon that sucks. Is anything salvageable at all?

>>5857239
Salvage what I can and move on. I live in Christchurch; this shit happened like 4 times over the soace if 18 months. (Fortunately not to me though since most of my shit is in boxes at ground level and what isn't is not fragile statueshit)

>>5864554
I bet you enjoy collecting paks.

>>5864732
What're paks?

It's only weeb shit, no loss

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>>5864542
The figure I just bought is practically anime anyway.

>>5857680
The shelves are wider than the reversed wire frames. The shelves fell because the top one cracked and collapsed, cascading down.

>>5868149
New Samus Figma is fucking ugly.

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>>5868160
Don't ever talk to me or my son again.

>>5868180
>implying you'd ever breed.

>>5868180
>>5868332

Don't ever talk to me or my wife's son ever again.

>>5857239
Panic, cry, and then realize my collection is 99% transformers and most of them probably survived the fall.

>>5858788
because the tiny fractures finally gave way
the fractures that happened because they're hamhanded

>>5866405
Play arts kai figs

>>5868647
>3MB for barely a second

>>5868598
I would if they weren't so goddamn expensive, but the only good ones they ever really made were the Reach guys and the H2A Master Chief.

>>5857239
Thank Gundam-Jesus that the toys that matter weren't hurt.

>>5857239
I blame myself for being moronic enough to get my furniture at Ikea and resolve to never again undertake such folly.

I have a cat so I'm terrified of buying anything expensive.

>>5857239

I sing that Chumba Wumba song as I start picking up the mess.

>>5868697
>complaining about 3MB
fuck off, if your internet is so shit that you have to worry over megabytes, you probably shouldn't be on it.

>>5869446
I think he's complaining about how shit some prople are at making gifs.

>>5863066
>>5868149
>>5868180

Fuck off lemmings

>>5870317
No you, weenie.

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>>5857239
>sigh
>slide shelves out of the wreckage
>survey the heap
>pick the parts out one by one
>have a lot of stuff not broken because I collect cheap plastic stuff from Hasbro that won't break under its own weight
>have some stuff broken because it's cheap plastic Transformers from Hasbro
>throw away broken items
>replace some with items from storage
>fill empty spaces over time with stuff that's nicer than cheap plastic from Hasbro
>be mostly okay with all this
Pic mostly unrelated: It's some slightly less cheap plastic I have on preorder from Takara.

>>5857774
Love the x23 stuff

>>5870406
Takara and Hasbro use the exact same plastic though

>>5875810
No no, I meant that its cost is less cheap, and that it is also cheap plastic. I didn't mean that the plastic is less cheap.

>>5868647
>the fucking shelves bending under the weight of all the shit on them
I'm beginning to understand why people hate this guy so much

>>5876921
He can stomach owning Marve Legends after buying anything else. There really is something wrong with him.

Also,
>Hot Toys

>>5857239
Its okay, the gunpla are safe

>>5868152
Wrong. He assembled it wrong. That's why it broke.

>>5868647

Sauce? Did he do this on purpose?

>>5877389
Nah he's just clumsy af

https://youtu.be/9s1HdcN_N0o?t=17m36s

>>5876921
Those must be shitty ass planks of wood if they're bending under the weight of 6" figures.
Though, judging by the fact he also owns a detolf, he probably buys the shittiest quality planks too.

>>5857239
EVERY DAY THIS FUCKING SHITPOST THREAD STOP DAMN YOU FUCKING HELL NEVER AGAIN FUCKING FUCK SHIT MURDER RAPE NIGGER LABIA LSFDKJGLSDGJIOSDJGOSIGJOIS

>>5857239
fucking autistic assholes posting the same thread with the same reply's with the same thread and the same reply's and the same thread with the same reply's KILLYOURSELVES D:

>>5869443
Good post

>>5857774
Is Jason dead?

>>5877399
I was hoping more stuff would fall desu

>>5877399
the action happens around 17:30 if you didn't want to sit through this human sponge whoring himself out.

>>5877399
>the detolf didn't topple
dammit

>>5857239
shoot the dog and or cat

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Should I be concerned about how thin the gap between one of the panels and door is in the center? I had it for about a year and I did notice this when putting it together, but I was never able to fix.

>>5885010
I'm pretty sure that's normal. There should be some gaps between the panels and the door (they don't need to touch each other exactly).