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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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| (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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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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