One problem

It may raise the cost of the figure because of the money used to make more complecated packaging

 

Id like to see the boxes be like takara prime figures with a small window.

 

I would prefer the packaging to be somewhat slimmer, simply to make it easier to store.

Because some people (like me) like to keep the packages of our toys, for various reasons. Plus, card art is usually pretty awesome.

 

Too bad whenever you open the toy, there is a curve of cardboard arount said card art.

 

They should pack them in boxes again like G1.

 

It all ends up in the trash for me.

 

Open it with a sharp blade like an XACTO knife. I saw someone else suggest it a week or two ago, and have since opened about 5 toys with one.

 

Will prefer the nowadays Deluxe packaging

 

Please please, please! Blister packs are evil.

 

The cards+bubbles are most efficient. Like them or not, they pack well in a case shipment (like K said), they showcase the product well both by itself and on a shelf wall, they're mostly secure from theft (nothing's full proof), and they're about as economical for both Hasbro and the consumer as it can get.

 

Yes I'm a big fan of things like Takara's mp, bt, and alternity lines where the packaging is safe and can be easily reused as much as you'd like. It's good stuff.

 

they also were neat in the fact that there is not a giant card board flap sticking up that always seems to get bent to hell in transit to stores or from people finger shopping with their hands....

plus the cybertron boxing was more shipping friend due to it being more compact.

 

I like the way that Takara is doing the boxes for Prime. Hasbro should do that.

 

I respect nice packaging (Animated's deluxes always looked really nice to me), but most of it ends up chucked in the recycler anyways so its largely irrelevant to me.

 

I like being able to see all angles of a figure in-package. If it had that Cybertron package, I would have accidentally picked up the paint-fucked Darksteel.

 

I think the new packaging is going to have shorter cardbacks, like the Euro releases do now, that way retailers can put another row of pegs on the bottom. Probably also a subtitle change to mark it being a different year. Wave 6 is coming out a year after Prime was supposed to launch, even tho it was delayed a few months.

 

Packaging is very important. I still believe that G1 would not have done nearly as well had the packaging not been so great. Character art, battle art, tech specs, a cool detailed box, it all combined to create the greatest toy packaging we have ever seen IMHO.

I'd love to see a return to box packaging, the type that you could open to remove the toy, and then return the toy back to the box. That would be awesome. I doubt we will get that though, as the cardback packaging helps keep the costs down. I rarely display the modern TF toys MOSC because of this. I think the original G1's display the best.

 

I just throw my packaging away, so at the end of the day, I don't really care.

However, I understand the importance of good packaging to sell the product. Toys these days bubbled onto a card hanging on a peg don't feel 'special'. Stick it in a stackable window box, with nice big artwork, with supplementary material and suddenly that exact same toy feels like an event.

In other words G1 packaging was brilliant, but with the realities of today (multilingual packaging, rising costs etc) we're never going to see packaging like that ever again. The closest we got (not counting specialist Encore/Japanese reissues) was the TRU reissues of Prime/Magnus/Hot Rod... but my reissue Hot Rods box has a whole multitude of languages which kills the box.

Actually now that I think about it, the Japanese boxes are pretty amazing, single language boxes exactly how I would want them. Shame they're expensive to import. *sigh*.

 

I don't care. I always throw away the boxes(Unless it's Botcon or something) so why should I care?

 

I like the current packaging. Seeing the character proudly displayed like that really harkens back to the old Toy Biz X-Men packages, which still stand out as some of my favorites.

Besides, cutting back on the plastic is a smart, cost-effective, and environmentally-conscious decision on their part. I think no change is necessary.