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In lugnet.general, Danny Staple wrote:
> With some of the old sets, not only was their less dead space, but it
> was better organised. Who here remembers when technic sets came with
> some kind of part organisers, with moulded bits for wheels/gears etc?
> And when you lifted the flap on the front, instead of more marketing
> stuff, you could actually see through a cellophane window what parts
> you were going to be getting? That was cool, and often made me drool
> for a set, knowing thats what I would get when I bought it.
I hear you, Danny...! Not only technic sets, most of the medium-large sized
System sets also had the cellophane window highlighting some of the sets' parts.
Unfortunately, they did away with all this cool packaging to save costs. 9
times out of 10, it's to save money...
-Bryan
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| (...) snip 8< (...) When I bought a 4757 when thay went on sale at Wally-the-walrus-mart last year, I asked an associate why LEGO boxes no longer hav windows, she answered someting like, "Because kids would tear the windows and steal the elements". (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) At least in the case of PC's the dead space can be justified for air flow and cooling. When I received the red technic pneumatic studless truck ((URL) there were two boxes, one for the truck, one for the back end, with some dead space because (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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