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The subject tells all. I ask this in light of 10018 and 19 being sent to
stores.
In lugnet.lego.direct, Thomas Stangl writes:
> Jason Spears wrote:
>
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, Lou Zucaro writes:
> > <snip>
> > > And this is a pet peeve with me...please go back to the flap-and-tray boxes
> > > for larger sets!!! The current boxes are awful. That horrid thick corrguated
> > > cardboard with punchtabs is about the worst possible container for LEGO sets.
> >
> > Actually I like it. Now if someone has returned the set after opening it, or
> > worse yet, opened and plundered it at the store, there is no question about it.
> > Also those heavy duty cardboard boxes take abuse better than the old boxes
> > ever did. Look at the USC stuff, and how those boxes are always beat.
>
> The UCS sets are a rotten example. Whoever designed the UCS Tie and X-Wing boxes
> should be strangled, hanged, and SHOT. Those are the flimsiest, most useless boxes
> I've seen out of Lego. They are double the size they need to be (and at half the
> size they'd still have a commanding shelf presence), yet not large enough to store
> the models partially disassembled - the X-Wing fuselage is taller in any one
> direction that the box.
>
> I've NEVER seen a UCS box in a store that wasn't beat to heck thanks to the >flimsy cardboard and huge size, leading to dents/tears just from picking it >up from an end.
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"Jeremy Scott" <Copyright@cox.net> wrote in message
news:GutMwL.BGv@lugnet.com...
> The subject tells all. I ask this in light of 10018 and 19 being sent to
> stores.
The RBR from S@H is in the same style large flimsy box as the UCS sets. I
doubt they'd change much going to retail. Does the retail version have a
coloured picture on the box, or black & white like the one from S@H?
Dan
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