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Re: Packaging / Boxes
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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:41:53 GMT
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I'll second that.
-Suz
In lugnet.dear-lego, Tom Boucher writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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