When it rains it pours...

Easter is supposed to be a great day...after all our Lord and Savior conquered death and rose from the grave!  However my Easter Sunday started off when a call from my credit union as we were walking out the door for church.  It appears that my credit card had been comprised earlier today.  I'm thankful my bank caught the charges and called so quickly to verify the transactions, but not really the way I thought the day would start out.  Could've been worse, but OK life goes on.

Then I come home this evening and while I'm gathering the trash through out the house I stop in my office/toy room and I notice a large G.I. Joe Sigma 6 gun laying on the floor as I went for the trash can.  I really didn't think much about it since I was in a hurry.  After my wife and I get the girls bathed and in bed I head back to my room to work.  Thats when I look up and see this:

...a big blank space on the wall where my G.I. Joe display rack once hung.  I re-purposed an old cassette rack to display the handful of loose Joe figures I had opened. It worked well.  Emphasis on worked.  This section of the wall is between two windows so finding available studs wasn't easy.  We had the idea of using those 3M Command Strips for picture frames.  I grabbed the largest size available and I think we used 2 packages of them.  The rack has been up for months.  It was one of the last things I did to my room before the local news crew came over to my house for my interview and spotlight on my Transformers collection.  Apparently one of the strips decided it didn't want to adhere to the wall any longer and CRASH!  Everything came down.  The rack took out a large framed poster and a few carded figures as well.

Here is what the wall / rack looked like this morning.  Here is the aftermath...

As you can see the figures went EVERYWHERE!  Behind the computer monitor, desk and sofa.  If you collect modern Joes then you'll know the figures now come with lots and lots of gear, weapons and accessories.  A lot of these said accessories are now in between the sofa, desk and the wall.  My desk is huge and very heavy.  I won't be moving this desk anytime soon.  I'm hoping that I can slide the couch out from the wall and retrieve the missing pieces.

I'm so bummed and a little upset right now and I have no plans to replace the shelving right now.  I may eventually put up a small section of track shelving like I used in the rest of the room or I may just go w/ those decorative type ledge shelves found at Target or Lowe's.  I'm not sure.  I know it could've been worse, but that doesn't help how I feel at the moment.

So, if you are in the process of displaying your valued toy collection then take a lesson from me.  Don't use 3M Command Strips!  At least not for hanging any type of display shelves.