Titan Class METROPLEX

I guess by packing it that way Hasbro can save on the cost :confused:

Pathetic packaging Hasbro:rolleyes:......

I'm not really bothered by it. It does the job - keeping the parts from excessively banging against each other and rattling around too much in the box. It's not as if it's a window box where you can see the actual toy inside, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Magnus

I'm not really bothered by it. It does the job - keeping the parts from excessively banging against each other and rattling around too much in the box. It's not as if it's a window box where you can see the actual toy inside, anyway.

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Ditto, otherwise we pay another $100 just for the box if you want better packing.

The way it's packaged is horrible, but they released pics of it a while ago, so I'm not sure why people are surprised by it. :o But I agree that it should have been packaged better considering how f'expensive this toy is. I don't see why they couldn't have packaged it more like Brave Maximus -- a few more bits of cardboard and a truckload of twist ties! :D (it may not look like much in that photo, but as anyone who owns a Brave Max will agree, that toy is like twist-tie king!) -- and Metroplex could still have just as many twist ties too... it's hard to judge from a simple photo (you don't really know until you start liberating the toy ;)). A few extra bits of cardboard and bunch of twist ties isn't gonna blow the freakin' roof off the budget! :rolleyes:

It only took about 5min to get him out of the box. Not much holding him in. But it did its job.

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Originally Posted by VERT

It only took about 5min to get him out of the box. Not much holding him in. But it did its job.

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lol.

I know it's not "environmentally friendly" but what was wrong with how Encore Fort Max was packaged? It took me seconds to get him out of the packaging and he was well protected.

I suspect it may cost more to make a foam tray too. Even in G1 only really big toys like Optimus Prime, Soundwave, Megatron etc. came with foam trays - most boxed toys like the Autobot cars, Decepticon Seekers etc came with cardboard trays attached by blisters.

And HasTak are trying to go for a more enviro-friendly packaging. If you look at TakTOM's TF Go! packaging, the windows now all have the recycling number on it so that waste management centres know how to sort it (Hasbro says they're going to do this too), and for quite some time now they've stopped using plastic coated metal twist ties in favour of bio-degradable twist ties (which are also MUCH easier to cut through with tin snips, yay! :)).

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

The way it's packaged is horrible, but they released pics of it a while ago, so I'm not sure why people are surprised by it. :o But I agree that it should have been packaged better considering how f'expensive this toy is. I don't see why they couldn't have packaged it more like Brave Maximus -- a few more bits of cardboard and a truckload of twist ties! :D (it may not look like much in that photo, but as anyone who owns a Brave Max will agree, that toy is like twist-tie king!) -- and Metroplex could still have just as many twist ties too... it's hard to judge from a simple photo (you don't really know until you start liberating the toy ;)). A few extra bits of cardboard and bunch of twist ties isn't gonna blow the freakin' roof off the budget! :rolleyes:

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I hadn't seen it in packaging before this. So I was suprised it was so… poor.

In my point of view, the toy is cheap for such a size and magnitude. If anything, I would have expected $400 and nothing less, thus why I am not complaining about the packaging. In fact I was surprised that is affordable unlike Fortress Max when it first released back in the days, I am pretty sure $360+ dollars was the price?

Don't get me wrong, I agree is poor packaging, is also made in China. But it is ok for me. If I am collecting though SDCC would be the way to go.