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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:07:17 GMT
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Dear LEGO
Hello. I'm a 29 year old LEGO fiend who has bought a house with a large
basement just to set up his collection that has spanned my entire life.
I am moving to this new home this weekend. I have been packing for weeks,
and I am very frustrated while I"m packing right now. I'm very very
frustrated at your boxes. You used to have such wonderful boxes. Then you
went to Good boxes, then to OK, and now, you're at the all time low of
'pieces of thin cardboard slaphazardly wrapped around plastic parts'.
Perfect examples of this are my Collectors Edition X-Wing, Collector's
Edition TIE Fighter, and the Millennium Falcon. These are sets that I've
opened, assembled, and wish to re-pack for the move because even though it
sounds fun, driving down the street with the X-Wing on the back of my
convertible really 'flying' would loose quite a few parts.
Your boxes however, don't want to have the parts go back in them, or, if
they do, they sure don't want to KEEP said parts in them. The lid does
nothing more than to show the LEGO pieces where to go to fall out of the box
and all over the inside of another box. Of course that box isn't designed
to keep your smaller, crucial and integral parts from sliding out somewhere
between my old house and my new house.
Really, the boxes from 1998 on up don't. I could really get a ranting on
the what I call 'mid to small' size boxes with the 'rip to open' parts. I
have to saran wrap each and every one of those in fear of loosing parts
during my move.
The sad part is, I have some of my boxes for the classic space series, such
as 497, 6970, and 6971. You could load them up with pieces, shake the crap
out of them, and not loose a single 1x1 flat piece or antenna. If I did
that to the X-Wing box 1000 of the 1300 + pieces would fly across the room
where you were doing the shaking.
Please move back to the better designed boxes, and quickly. Not everyone
wants to throw away their boxes when they get their sets, and has to store
some of them. Buying storage bins isn't an easy option for me, because I
have over 50,000 pieces between about 500 sets (that I'm sure I have)
Thank You
Tom Boucher
Lawrence, KS
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) I'm sorry but I have to disagree. LEGO should keep its costs down, and its primary consumer audience in mind: kids. Kids don't care about keeping boxes, as a rule; they just want to play with the bricks. Collectors of whole sets are a very (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I agree with Tom. I also appreciate the artwork on the good quality boxes. The box to me is a part of the product. I keep all of my boxes and store them in the hot hot attic while I store plastic in a climate controlled closet. I have reboxed (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I wish the boxes were as compact as they were in the late 70's and early 80's. I guess "size sells" now, so they fill 'em full of air. You go back and look at the size of a box for a 600 or a 6803, and man they are tiny! I've seen bigger (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| My favorite old box is from (URL) , the Classic Space All Terrain Vehicle. It is still in faithful use today, holding crisp instructions for my original space and town collections. When I got back into Lego a few years ago, I was torn as to what to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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