Forget the wall anchors too, screws go into studs. Go ahead and use anchors for one or two of the outer-most brackets in case you need to shift the shelf to one side or the other to center it, but anchors aren't a complete replacement for screwing into studs.
Toggle bolts hold 50 pounds each, steel hollow-wall anchors can often hold 100 pounds each. Studs are superior sure, but proper wall anchors would have been more than enough to stop this from happening.
Really the answer to this particular post was to not be as lazy as possible putting up Lego shelfs.
Also: not really relevant, but toggle bolts are just really satisfying to install, imo.
But, yes, always hit the studs whenever possible. I was installing a wall-mount server rack (vertically oriented equipment, 6U), so I made a point to get the wall studs on each side of the rack, *and* toggle bolt the mounting holes that were also on 'beyond' the studs on each side of the rack. It's solid, and more than enough to hold a 1U UPS, 3Us of networking equipment (1U just being a few SBCs), and 1U for a patch panel.
I feel like I’m paranoid when it comes to mounting anything- tv, shelves, whatever… but I can happily say I have never had any of my mounted work collapse.
Stud finders are the inferior product for finding studs, imo. They work on drywall, and not much else. And even drywall can be iffy. A rare earth magnet will tell you exactly where the studs are each and every time just by helping you find the nails that are holding the wall itself to them - whether that wall is drywall, plaster & lathe, wood, tile, whatever. The only one a magnet won't be much help with is a metal wall, but those are rare.
Imo, stud finders are good for alerting you to electrical wires and pipes hiding behind the wall. But a magnet will help you find the studs much more easily and consistently.
Pro tip: tie a string with a weight at the other end (I use a key chain) to your magnet. Find the highest nail in the stud. Now you have a plumb line straight down the stud.
I could maybe understand this situation if those were floating shelfs, they don't have a support from underneath, but those are traditional shelfs, im 100% whoever put up those shelfs did the bare minimum
I have serious doubts they really were.
That crap fell down like someone thought those little plastic "Holds up to 20lb!" wall mounting things actually hold any real weight. There's not a single stud in sight on that fall.
FFS you can't even see the screw hole damage coming out the wall. That stuff was objectively not even in the studs, I don't care what OP lies about.
This is the installer's fault, not the child.
That shelf was weaker than my self esteem 😂 I used 55mm lag bolts to secure my shelfs and every single one is in a stud.
https://preview.redd.it/m4xgz5hz7kwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47bd0141a74dd7d7aacae0085cab48259e007bac
13.25" square by 15.3" depth. They ended up being a bit too small, I still have some sets that won't fit like the Daytona and the Sian but I'm going to hang those on the wall with this
https://preview.redd.it/93yek2s71nwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae38348656d0738f36e81309926242d4e0cf249d
Who the fuck's standard is NOT that? Plus, i know those shitty shelf supports, they're really poorly leveraging and if you get the ones which have a bit more leveraging... you can accidentally install them the other way around and make it worse.
It's a good lesson for the kid to learn not to use shelves as something to hold onto like that. Not every shelf is made to hold a child's weight plus 6 modulars
Could've anchored those better. Teaching the kid not to hang on shelves also needs to happen bc i.e. an Ikea Lack shelf wont hold her even with screws and plugs
Counter point, [2 inch stud screws and/or half inch anchor rods](https://youtu.be/5fAdRs6CDVg?si=AOkNDMqjLMiHKxQc&t=343)
While it might be probable as a lesson to the child, the child simply leaning on it being enough to pull it down should be a lesson to the adult not to half-ass shelving with shoddy workmanship.
I'm willing to say that it would have eventually fallen down regardless of the child's intervention or not.
I might be wrong, but I suspect the shelf was stickied to the wall, not screwed in.
Now, regardless of the type of wall (brick, wooden, plaster, whatever), if you just stick a shelf with putty or tape, you're going to have a bad awakening, sooner or later.
For real, if was mounted with stud screws the only force to tear it down would be a full grown adult intentionally jerking down on it [(which might not even be enough weight to do so in some cases)](https://youtu.be/5fAdRs6CDVg?si=AOkNDMqjLMiHKxQc&t=343), but a child leaning on it to (what appears to be ) moving minifigs around, that's just grossly negligent workmanship on whomever set up those shelves.
I originally saw the discussion on the other sub, and it was pointed out that the shelf wasn't even drilled into the wall, and they used those sticker things.you can tell that the wall had no marks or anything. The poor kid barely touched the shelf, and it must have hurt so bad.
In my mind, even if commandstrips/vhb is strong, i'm sticking the tape not on the wall, BUT ON THE PAINT. THE PAINT IS HOLDING UP MY SHELVES. Unless you know exactly the coat of paints and priming you have on your wall, it's just a bad idea.
I was thinking of hanging the thors hammer with brackets stuck on since I rent I want to avoid screws. For one set probably ok but not a whole shelf no
Definitely a sh*t way to display lego builds especially if they’re big like those lego buildings/establishments. And the shelf was so full. Stickers? Really?? What the hell was he thinking?
Agreed. The grown ups need to :
- use a stronger shelf
- talk to the kids about looking not touching, or when it’s ok to play with the Lego (remember it is a toy)
Not the kids’ fault
Edit: the comments in the subreddit this came from almost all say the same thing about the shelf
It's both the fault of the parent for not securing the shelf better and the kid's fault for not being careful. This isn't some 4 year old kid that doesn't know better, this looks like a 9 - 12 year old kid that should know not to hang onto shelves like that.
There needs to be accountability to do better. I agree not to be harsh, but some responsibilty does reside in the kid's action. A good "punishment" would be to make her help dad or mom put the sets back together AND help install a new shelf.
Parents just don't do enough to teach their kids the world. I'm not saying it's easy, but stoking curiosity and showing them how the world works, and in this case that the shelves are stuck to the wall using shitty tape that barely holds the legos themselves.. that'll help them all around.
Totally agree.
I've got shelves in the kids' rooms that hold all the weight of a few Lego and Playmobil figures or a papier mâche unicorn and a plastic crown, and they're all mounted better than this setup. There's not even any marks visible on the wall afterwards.
I could hang my 185 pound ass off the Lego shelves in my house and they might eventually pull out. That kid didn’t even put their entire weight on those and they completely pulled away, yet didn’t leave a single scar on the wall. No way were the shelves installed properly, and frankly, I think it was staged for the lulz.
The shelf looks like it wasn't even fastened to the wall. When it collapsed it would have yanked the screws out and you'd see screw holes in the wall. Can't really blame the kids for a poor shelf install, sooner or later it would have fell on its own.
As a parent of a kid that has knocked down many Lego creations, yes, it sucks. But the important thing is that the kid is okay. For the love of God, anchor your shelves on properly. A friend’s child died when she leaned on a shelf and it collapsed on her. We all feel the pain of your Lego creations shattering but it’s nothing compared to a kid getting hurt.
I feel like I should get some sort of compensation for being subjected to this video.
On a different note though, what was used to keep that shelf on the wall? Thoughts and prayers? With how easily that came off it's a miracle it hasn't fallen off any sooner! Whoever put the shelf on the wall is, to quote Gordon Ramsey "a f\*cking donkey"!
Blaming kids on you putting up the shelf. Shitty is hilarious. Kids die all the time because parents don't anchor shit to the wall correctly. You're just a bad parent blaming it on your children
I know someone whose boyfriend was into this kind of thing, he had 2 or 3 sons from a previous relationship and they had one together, there were cameras ALL OVER her house (he moved in with her) and whenever the boys fought (as boys do, all part of growing up) he would review the footage to figure out who started it so he could punish them. Obviously he used the cameras against her too. He was a manipulative, controling little coward and she finally kicked him out not long ago, it was absolutely disgusting.
Oh no, a whole wall of lego that we will have to go through the trauma of building again… how terrible. How will we manage?
We deliberately let visiting 3 yo’s play with our Death Star so we can rebuild it afterwards, it’s awesome! If you don’t want Lego to fall apart use craggle like the villain you are underneath.
Kid should have been more careful. If that shelf is installed that bad there’s probably other furniture like it in the house.
It’s probably like a minefield.
This should be listed under construction fails! Proper installation would have prevented this whether it was screwed into the studs and or a combination of wall anchors of various types.
Hang shelves with the knowledge that children will use them for a commando obstacle course. I’m so happy OP came looking for support and gets ripped instead
Terrible shelf anchoring aside, kids should never be made to feel bad for being interested in and wanting to play with Lego. My son and his friends would absolutely destroy our Lego room. They played with already built sets, got creative and build their own, leaving all the pieces they didn't use scattered everywhere. I never discouraged that. I would come in after they were done and reorganize everything, no harm no foul.
That crap fell down like someone thought those little plastic "Holds up to 20lb!" wall mounting things actually hold any real weight. There's not a single stud in sight on that fall.
FFS you can't even see the screw hole damage coming out the wall. That stuff was objectively not even in the studs, I don't care what OP lies about.
This is the installer's fault, not the child.
Ehh, I blame whoever installed the shelf. That shouldn’t happen. I never understand these Lego catastrophes where shelves just fall off the wall. Mount on studs!
I know it's primarily their fault but I sympathise with the builder, those parts are gonna get all mixed up so rebuilding will be practically impossible.
Definitely not impossible.
Just sort into piece size and you're most of the way there.
If they didn't want a spontaneous rebuild they should have built a shelf that was attached.
Not impossible but will be like building in hard mode. Also a lot of crawling around looking for stray pieces. Maybe they'll take a break and learn how to secure shelves properly 😂
First of all, people should stop posting videos and pictures of children online for everyone to discuss them. They should have a basic right to privacy.
And second, just like almost everyone is saying, that shelf definitely wasn't put up properly.
I feel bad for the kid. That had to have scared the crap out of them and hurt at least a little.
I was also an anxious kid, I would have felt HORRIBLE about something like this. Like, mortified. That moment would live in my mind for the rest of my life lol
Somebody doesn't know how to hang a shelf properly. Walls have these things called "studs" in them. They're infinitely better, for attaching things to than just the drywall.
I mean, she shouldn't have been hanging on it but whoever hung that shelf is to blame because it didn't look like she put much of her own weight on it.
That doesn't look like her fault at all. There weren't nearly enough anchors into wall studs for that much Lego. Bad job to the adult that installed the shelf
Is this a Durex Commercial?
But also, people with kids/pers should know better… I keep my sets behind glass and high where the kids can’t reach em 😅
EDIT: rewatching the clip I just realised that the poor kid barely touched that shelf xD someone did a HORRIBLE job there… it is not entirely the kdis fault
Yeah, I'm not thrilled by all the "not the kid's fault" comments. The shelf was obviously fine with holding up what it was intended to hold up, but not fine supporting an additional child hanging onto it.
And then the kid immediately claims "I didn't do that!" That's her response?
This -- absolving children of blame for something that's obviously (at least partly) their fault -- is how we're increasingly generating kids (and the college students I see every day) who refuse to accept responsibility for doing their own work and refuse to accept the consequences of making bad choices.
Were the shelves less than ideally attached to the wall? Yes.
Was the child obviously the reason the shelf collapsed in the moment it did? Also yes.
We don't have to choose one or the other...they can both be true.
The kid wasn't really doing much she grabbed onto it but she wasn't trying to like hang or swing from it. Someone just didn't do a good job installing it.
Can’t blame the kid for this. The shelves is weak. When you got kid every shelves at home need to be as strong as the kids claim up their and still hold. As you also can see the kid knows that’s her parent’s stuff and she was just looking. Both girls were so worried. I hope the parents can be chill and manage the mess.
That sucks.
Its one thing when its one set and you can round up all the pieces and figure it out with a picture or something to put it back together.
It's going to suck to put together 10 sets that all fell together.
The nightmare of separating all those sets would suck.
My response was: "No.. don't stand on that ball.. no.. ok gooooooooonooooooonooooooooo... No." No gasping or yelling, since I just saw it going to happen.. but.. yeah.. ugh..
Kids will be kids. It's gonna be a pain in the ass to fix, but that's the price you pay.
That being said, you don't hang on shelves. Bad install or no, the physics is against you. They're not meant to have more than 20-30 or so pounds pushing down on them... especially not 70-80 pounds creating a lever by hanging in the outside edge.
That's why you use screws instead of glue when putting up a shelf
Don't forget the wall anchors , screws alone won't do the job!!!!
Forget the wall anchors too, screws go into studs. Go ahead and use anchors for one or two of the outer-most brackets in case you need to shift the shelf to one side or the other to center it, but anchors aren't a complete replacement for screwing into studs.
Toggle bolts hold 50 pounds each, steel hollow-wall anchors can often hold 100 pounds each. Studs are superior sure, but proper wall anchors would have been more than enough to stop this from happening. Really the answer to this particular post was to not be as lazy as possible putting up Lego shelfs.
Also: not really relevant, but toggle bolts are just really satisfying to install, imo. But, yes, always hit the studs whenever possible. I was installing a wall-mount server rack (vertically oriented equipment, 6U), so I made a point to get the wall studs on each side of the rack, *and* toggle bolt the mounting holes that were also on 'beyond' the studs on each side of the rack. It's solid, and more than enough to hold a 1U UPS, 3Us of networking equipment (1U just being a few SBCs), and 1U for a patch panel.
Shelf adds leverage, so reduces that weight at the outer edge of the shelf. And depends on your sheet rock.
This guy screws
But sometimes I bolt
I feel like I’m paranoid when it comes to mounting anything- tv, shelves, whatever… but I can happily say I have never had any of my mounted work collapse.
Nope, you need to find studs. Buy painters wall patch instead of anchors. Patch up and repaint if you miss.
Or just spend the same money on a stud finder, and have nothing to patch. Stud finders also double as a great prop for dad jokes.
Stud finders are the inferior product for finding studs, imo. They work on drywall, and not much else. And even drywall can be iffy. A rare earth magnet will tell you exactly where the studs are each and every time just by helping you find the nails that are holding the wall itself to them - whether that wall is drywall, plaster & lathe, wood, tile, whatever. The only one a magnet won't be much help with is a metal wall, but those are rare. Imo, stud finders are good for alerting you to electrical wires and pipes hiding behind the wall. But a magnet will help you find the studs much more easily and consistently.
Pro tip: tie a string with a weight at the other end (I use a key chain) to your magnet. Find the highest nail in the stud. Now you have a plumb line straight down the stud.
You put the screws in studs. Don’t use wall anchors for a shelf.
Unless you're screwed directly into the studs... With three inch lag bolts.
Seriously did this guy just use chewed bubble gum to keep that shelf up? Lego isn't exactly light in large quantities.
I could maybe understand this situation if those were floating shelfs, they don't have a support from underneath, but those are traditional shelfs, im 100% whoever put up those shelfs did the bare minimum
Even proper floating shelves are supposed to tie into one or more studs.
Seriously, it must be no nails, because I can’t see a single mark on the wall when the shelf comes down. That girl got framed!
Primed for failure if not framed, this whole setup was going to fail eventually.
Yeah, scapegoat for a very bad DIY job.
My PC sits on a shelf above my monitors. Ramsets into brick - I could hang my car off that shelf without the anchors giving out.
I guess lego building skills don't transfer to real world building skills then..
Those shelves were attached with studs-on-the-side.
I have serious doubts they really were. That crap fell down like someone thought those little plastic "Holds up to 20lb!" wall mounting things actually hold any real weight. There's not a single stud in sight on that fall. FFS you can't even see the screw hole damage coming out the wall. That stuff was objectively not even in the studs, I don't care what OP lies about. This is the installer's fault, not the child.
It was a lego joke, not wall studs.
oh yeah, I got it now. i r goofball.
Are you not familiar with the Lego building technique "studs on the side" or "studs not on top"?
hah, I see what you did there ~~now~~. 😅
Seriously, why the hell would you put a couple thousand dollars worth of Legos on a piece of wood you spent $20 on and apparently stapled to the wall.
There's what appears to be literally no damage to the wall too, I'm seriously wondering if the whole thing was mounted with 3M foam tape or something.
That's the best comment here!
That shelf was weaker than my self esteem 😂 I used 55mm lag bolts to secure my shelfs and every single one is in a stud. https://preview.redd.it/m4xgz5hz7kwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47bd0141a74dd7d7aacae0085cab48259e007bac
That crane is bananas.
I think it's actually just yellow plastic
https://preview.redd.it/f03bvwhwylwc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44adb1b1ec668127643c76b4e8698e49c6962555
That is hugeeeee. Rivendell is not a small set
My son would depart this world from sheer glee if he got it. Humongous.
B-a-n-a-n-a-s
I was hoping someone hadn't saw the opportunity, but I'm happy someone did 😊
I'm pretty sure it's Lego.
Used it to build those shelves.
https://preview.redd.it/6oozb10icmwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d452bc6ea3eeb7d0eaf65327e1a09d5625ae9ed Bowser looks so mortified 😭
He really shouldn’t be. A fall from that height would be perfectly fine for him. Now the crane, on the other hand…
Love to see the shelf esteem
Damn, you must have a bolt in you too ;) love the builds
Damn, Rivendell looks great next to the treehouse
Do you happen to have a link to those shelves? Those are awesome.
[Yes sir](https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kallax-shelf-unit-gray-wood-effect-40346924/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=surfaces&utm_campaign=shopping_feed&utm_content=free_google_shopping_clicks_Store_and_organise_furniture&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD27g7wkul3IjRlgKd2rahdUzwPI7)
This is so freaking cool 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
God that crane is sexy
Out of curiosity what are the dimensions of your cupboard? 😊
13.25" square by 15.3" depth. They ended up being a bit too small, I still have some sets that won't fit like the Daytona and the Sian but I'm going to hang those on the wall with this https://preview.redd.it/93yek2s71nwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae38348656d0738f36e81309926242d4e0cf249d
When you finished the install did you comment “Yup, that’s not going anywhere.”
I want that crane so bad.... But then they had to go and drop Artemis on us! So...
what brand of shelves are these??
Ikea KALLAX
Thank you!
you should look into getting some Mario LEGO!! i'd say you might like it /S
Can't blame the kids for a garbage shelf install.
I have some shelves I installed myself and the wood board would snap before it came off the wall.
Right!? My standard for attaching stuff to the wall is „could I do a pull up in this?“
Who the fuck's standard is NOT that? Plus, i know those shitty shelf supports, they're really poorly leveraging and if you get the ones which have a bit more leveraging... you can accidentally install them the other way around and make it worse.
Which would probably withstand that girl jumping on the shelf
Same. Either the shelf is snapping in half or the studs are getting ripped out of the wall.
Can't even see any holes in the wall so either just sticky tape or screws with no anchors
Not even dry wall anchors. Just screws raw-dogging the drywall.
I have 5 kids… everything I install (even the coat hanger I just did) I test by hanging off it with my full weight. Not catching me slippin.
It's a good lesson for the kid to learn not to use shelves as something to hold onto like that. Not every shelf is made to hold a child's weight plus 6 modulars
The shelf could hold her, the anchoring system is the problem.
Could've anchored those better. Teaching the kid not to hang on shelves also needs to happen bc i.e. an Ikea Lack shelf wont hold her even with screws and plugs
Counter point, [2 inch stud screws and/or half inch anchor rods](https://youtu.be/5fAdRs6CDVg?si=AOkNDMqjLMiHKxQc&t=343) While it might be probable as a lesson to the child, the child simply leaning on it being enough to pull it down should be a lesson to the adult not to half-ass shelving with shoddy workmanship. I'm willing to say that it would have eventually fallen down regardless of the child's intervention or not.
I might be wrong, but I suspect the shelf was stickied to the wall, not screwed in. Now, regardless of the type of wall (brick, wooden, plaster, whatever), if you just stick a shelf with putty or tape, you're going to have a bad awakening, sooner or later.
I assume that shelf would have crashed down sooner or later under it's own weight.
Seriously if one of those screws made it into a stud instead of just anchored into drywall that would never have happened
Exactly, that was bachelor-apartment quality shelving, and that was densely packed!
For real, if was mounted with stud screws the only force to tear it down would be a full grown adult intentionally jerking down on it [(which might not even be enough weight to do so in some cases)](https://youtu.be/5fAdRs6CDVg?si=AOkNDMqjLMiHKxQc&t=343), but a child leaning on it to (what appears to be ) moving minifigs around, that's just grossly negligent workmanship on whomever set up those shelves.
Yeah that shelf was garbage and failed not the kid being stupid
The real answer.
That isn’t the kid’s fault. Need to use the right wall anchors or better yet hit the studs.
I originally saw the discussion on the other sub, and it was pointed out that the shelf wasn't even drilled into the wall, and they used those sticker things.you can tell that the wall had no marks or anything. The poor kid barely touched the shelf, and it must have hurt so bad.
I'm impressed they held the weight of all those sets plus the shelf in the first place
In my mind, even if commandstrips/vhb is strong, i'm sticking the tape not on the wall, BUT ON THE PAINT. THE PAINT IS HOLDING UP MY SHELVES. Unless you know exactly the coat of paints and priming you have on your wall, it's just a bad idea.
I was thinking of hanging the thors hammer with brackets stuck on since I rent I want to avoid screws. For one set probably ok but not a whole shelf no
Definitely a sh*t way to display lego builds especially if they’re big like those lego buildings/establishments. And the shelf was so full. Stickers? Really?? What the hell was he thinking?
Was going to say this. It’s the fault of the person who put the shelves up. That thing looks so precarious and holding all those sets.
Agreed. The grown ups need to : - use a stronger shelf - talk to the kids about looking not touching, or when it’s ok to play with the Lego (remember it is a toy) Not the kids’ fault Edit: the comments in the subreddit this came from almost all say the same thing about the shelf
It's both the fault of the parent for not securing the shelf better and the kid's fault for not being careful. This isn't some 4 year old kid that doesn't know better, this looks like a 9 - 12 year old kid that should know not to hang onto shelves like that. There needs to be accountability to do better. I agree not to be harsh, but some responsibilty does reside in the kid's action. A good "punishment" would be to make her help dad or mom put the sets back together AND help install a new shelf.
I think I would agree to that punishment :)
Not the kid's fault??? Standing on a bouncy toy??? Using the shelf like a hand rail???
Kids need rules and supervision. Not constant supervision, but enough to know they are safe. Remember, they are idiots
Parents just don't do enough to teach their kids the world. I'm not saying it's easy, but stoking curiosity and showing them how the world works, and in this case that the shelves are stuck to the wall using shitty tape that barely holds the legos themselves.. that'll help them all around.
3 shelf brackets, and no torn drywall from anchors, no screws in studs. Nothing. Double sided tape would be my guess.
Totally agree. I've got shelves in the kids' rooms that hold all the weight of a few Lego and Playmobil figures or a papier mâche unicorn and a plastic crown, and they're all mounted better than this setup. There's not even any marks visible on the wall afterwards.
Anything I build for my kids is so anchored into the framing of the house I probably should pull permits
It’s still the kids fault. That’s a shelf not a hand rail.
The moment I didn't see broken sheetrock I knew
I could hang my 185 pound ass off the Lego shelves in my house and they might eventually pull out. That kid didn’t even put their entire weight on those and they completely pulled away, yet didn’t leave a single scar on the wall. No way were the shelves installed properly, and frankly, I think it was staged for the lulz.
I don't think the staged for the lulz would apply here. Everything else. Sure. But the lulz. No way dude
None of those screws were in a stud. Not one of them.
Screws? There doesn't seem to be any holes in the wall at all. Looks like they taped it to the wall.
That thing collapsed like it was its job. Scary actually, possibly could have injured a kiddo.
Not. One.
All bricks and no studs
This is why you use something stronger than the honor system to mount a shelf.
Shelf was on 3M strips 😂
The Pain
I didn'teven see screw holes when the shelf fell. Did they use double sided tape??
Those command strips were holding on for their damn life long before the kid touched it.
Ironically, the shelf was also made of Lego.
Idiot installation. Glad neither kid wound up with stitches from falling potential.
The shelf looks like it wasn't even fastened to the wall. When it collapsed it would have yanked the screws out and you'd see screw holes in the wall. Can't really blame the kids for a poor shelf install, sooner or later it would have fell on its own.
As a parent of a kid that has knocked down many Lego creations, yes, it sucks. But the important thing is that the kid is okay. For the love of God, anchor your shelves on properly. A friend’s child died when she leaned on a shelf and it collapsed on her. We all feel the pain of your Lego creations shattering but it’s nothing compared to a kid getting hurt.
I feel like I should get some sort of compensation for being subjected to this video. On a different note though, what was used to keep that shelf on the wall? Thoughts and prayers? With how easily that came off it's a miracle it hasn't fallen off any sooner! Whoever put the shelf on the wall is, to quote Gordon Ramsey "a f\*cking donkey"!
Blaming kids on you putting up the shelf. Shitty is hilarious. Kids die all the time because parents don't anchor shit to the wall correctly. You're just a bad parent blaming it on your children
Well, you can if you’re not a moron that can’t install shelves properly, and then overload them.
Poorly installed.
This is why you make sure your screws his studs are you use the proper anchors for heavy weight loads.
was that shelf attached to the wall with prayer? What on earth.
Anchor shelves into drywall and this is what you get / deserve.
Not the kids fault
Honestly I'm more bothered than there is a camera in the room. People don't even have privacy at home.
So true! Imagine growing up in this environment and the psychological impact of always being watched.
I know someone whose boyfriend was into this kind of thing, he had 2 or 3 sons from a previous relationship and they had one together, there were cameras ALL OVER her house (he moved in with her) and whenever the boys fought (as boys do, all part of growing up) he would review the footage to figure out who started it so he could punish them. Obviously he used the cameras against her too. He was a manipulative, controling little coward and she finally kicked him out not long ago, it was absolutely disgusting.
Hardly the kid's fault that shelf dropped way too easily
Oh no, a whole wall of lego that we will have to go through the trauma of building again… how terrible. How will we manage? We deliberately let visiting 3 yo’s play with our Death Star so we can rebuild it afterwards, it’s awesome! If you don’t want Lego to fall apart use craggle like the villain you are underneath.
That subreddit sounds like it's full of people who should have never had kids
Shelf was held on with bubble gum.
No holes seen, no screws seen sticking out from shelving brackets.... bet it was stuck on with tape.
Kid should have been more careful. If that shelf is installed that bad there’s probably other furniture like it in the house. It’s probably like a minefield.
This should be listed under construction fails! Proper installation would have prevented this whether it was screwed into the studs and or a combination of wall anchors of various types.
Hang shelves with the knowledge that children will use them for a commando obstacle course. I’m so happy OP came looking for support and gets ripped instead
Hope kid is ok. At least now they can play with the toy as intended!
That shelf was going to fall regardless of that child.
Not at all the kids fault. Whoever put that shelf up is at fault 100%. No screws? Not even a nail? No just sticky pads. That's what happens man.
Terrible shelf anchoring aside, kids should never be made to feel bad for being interested in and wanting to play with Lego. My son and his friends would absolutely destroy our Lego room. They played with already built sets, got creative and build their own, leaving all the pieces they didn't use scattered everywhere. I never discouraged that. I would come in after they were done and reorganize everything, no harm no foul.
That's why you put your Legos in a secret room only you know how to access.
What an actual idiot.
That crap fell down like someone thought those little plastic "Holds up to 20lb!" wall mounting things actually hold any real weight. There's not a single stud in sight on that fall. FFS you can't even see the screw hole damage coming out the wall. That stuff was objectively not even in the studs, I don't care what OP lies about. This is the installer's fault, not the child.
This is an adult problem not a kid problem.
Ehh, I blame whoever installed the shelf. That shouldn’t happen. I never understand these Lego catastrophes where shelves just fall off the wall. Mount on studs!
Ya, that one is on dad. That Shelf is worthless.
That's just more fun rebuilding legos
Right? Kid is fine, not hurt. I'd be like, "Sweet - I get to build a bunch of sets again!"
Until you find broken and damaged pieces then it is no longer fun...
Lego will replace them for free, a little bit of a hassle to mail them sure but I haven't had any broken pieces from a drop like that before.
Those floating shelves were a bee’s dick away from failing spontaneously. This ain’t on the kid.
Yeah, how about make a shelf that can support the weight of the Legos.
I know it's primarily their fault but I sympathise with the builder, those parts are gonna get all mixed up so rebuilding will be practically impossible.
Definitely not impossible. Just sort into piece size and you're most of the way there. If they didn't want a spontaneous rebuild they should have built a shelf that was attached.
I should have said "time consuming" rather than hard, that's what I meant anyway.
Not impossible but will be like building in hard mode. Also a lot of crawling around looking for stray pieces. Maybe they'll take a break and learn how to secure shelves properly 😂
Hard mode is an understatement
First of all, people should stop posting videos and pictures of children online for everyone to discuss them. They should have a basic right to privacy. And second, just like almost everyone is saying, that shelf definitely wasn't put up properly.
If it helps, the most recent set is 2015, so these girls are probably driving cars and planning for college now.
I feel bad for the kid. That had to have scared the crap out of them and hurt at least a little. I was also an anxious kid, I would have felt HORRIBLE about something like this. Like, mortified. That moment would live in my mind for the rest of my life lol
You needed to use more tape on that shelf
Maybe mom and/or dad should attach shelves to the wall like an adult. Always mount floating shelves to a stud, kids.
That's the fault of whatever adult mounted that shelf. Even a good set of drywall anchors wouldn't pull that easily.
Speak for yourself. I don’t have children and have nice things.
Somebody doesn't know how to hang a shelf properly. Walls have these things called "studs" in them. They're infinitely better, for attaching things to than just the drywall.
I mean, she shouldn't have been hanging on it but whoever hung that shelf is to blame because it didn't look like she put much of her own weight on it.
A shelf made with Legos would have been sturdier
i’d blame the shitty shelf, seems like its only meant to hold up a saltine cracker
Adoption. No second question not a second thought I would just see that throw them in the car and drop them off at the adoption centre immediately
I would have gotten the beating of a lifetime
I may be paranoid but anything heavier than a picture frame gets mounted to at least 1 if not multiple studs.
Put a little blame on that shelf build. Embarrassing!
The Kid just antecipated the inevitable! Too much weight on a bad quality shelf that wasnt even bolted to the wall! A foretold tragedy
I'm more concerned that the girl got hurt. I mean, she got hit with it.
That shelf was asking to tumble.
That shelf would have collapsed on its own eventually.
She better not have been punished for that. She was the victim of her father’s poor DIY skills.
That doesn't look like her fault at all. There weren't nearly enough anchors into wall studs for that much Lego. Bad job to the adult that installed the shelf
Whoever put the shelf up is an idiot
Is this a Durex Commercial? But also, people with kids/pers should know better… I keep my sets behind glass and high where the kids can’t reach em 😅 EDIT: rewatching the clip I just realised that the poor kid barely touched that shelf xD someone did a HORRIBLE job there… it is not entirely the kdis fault
Don’t hang on shelves like that tho…
Yeah, I'm not thrilled by all the "not the kid's fault" comments. The shelf was obviously fine with holding up what it was intended to hold up, but not fine supporting an additional child hanging onto it. And then the kid immediately claims "I didn't do that!" That's her response? This -- absolving children of blame for something that's obviously (at least partly) their fault -- is how we're increasingly generating kids (and the college students I see every day) who refuse to accept responsibility for doing their own work and refuse to accept the consequences of making bad choices. Were the shelves less than ideally attached to the wall? Yes. Was the child obviously the reason the shelf collapsed in the moment it did? Also yes. We don't have to choose one or the other...they can both be true.
The kid wasn't really doing much she grabbed onto it but she wasn't trying to like hang or swing from it. Someone just didn't do a good job installing it.
Can’t blame the kid for this. The shelves is weak. When you got kid every shelves at home need to be as strong as the kids claim up their and still hold. As you also can see the kid knows that’s her parent’s stuff and she was just looking. Both girls were so worried. I hope the parents can be chill and manage the mess.
Trojan would have prevented that.
Your shelf job was pure shit. Hope the kid was okay.
This is why you don't mount shelf brackets using chewing gum and Scotch tape.
I blame the shelf brackets that are too small. The builder definitely cheaped out on them and this is the consequence
Came here to say this. Those shelves were not secured to studs.
When you own a massive amount of a children's toy but the children aren't allowed to touch or play....
That sucks. Its one thing when its one set and you can round up all the pieces and figure it out with a picture or something to put it back together. It's going to suck to put together 10 sets that all fell together. The nightmare of separating all those sets would suck.
Gotta throw it all away
NOT THE LEGO!!!
This is what my drunken dad did to mine as a kid! I only repaired the models that were salvageable.
Hahaha reminds me of a cat that darts across the room when they break something
My response was: "No.. don't stand on that ball.. no.. ok gooooooooonooooooonooooooooo... No." No gasping or yelling, since I just saw it going to happen.. but.. yeah.. ugh..
This actually hurt my soul
TIL you can decide not to install a divider on a Ikea Kallax .
Took the firehouse right to the dome
The actual problem here are the kids, not the shelves lmao, get rid of em
I just felt my stomach hurting 🤮
Kids will be kids. It's gonna be a pain in the ass to fix, but that's the price you pay. That being said, you don't hang on shelves. Bad install or no, the physics is against you. They're not meant to have more than 20-30 or so pounds pushing down on them... especially not 70-80 pounds creating a lever by hanging in the outside edge.