Transformers Venting thread!

[Lint]

People who do this annoy me. Just steal the whole thing you coward.

[Skyfire]

I see the hamburger wrapping... they got a Minecraft lion.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I have a BWII Thrust. I know I do. I picked it up years ago in Tokyo and kept it unopened waiting until I found a BWII Dirge to go with it.

I found a BWII Dirge in Hong Kong, and shipped it back to Oz.

Now I can't find my BWII Thrust.

I KNOW it's got to be in one of my boxes or SOMEWHERE vaguely logical, but I've looked through pretty much all of them and he's just not showing up in any of them.

[GoktimusPrime]

People who do this annoy me. Just steal the whole thing you coward.

TakaraTomy alternates between windowless boxes like Hasbro, plastic windowed boxes and windowless cardboard boxes. I understand that Hasbro has made a commitment to go plastic-free, but I would personally prefer entirely windowless boxes vs these open windowed boxes. I don't know if they're any better in theft deterrence; it could be that these open window packages simply make theft more visible/noticeable to us. But either way, I think that windowless boxes just look nicer. And if windowless boxes do help in making opportunistic shoplifting that one bit harder, then that's all for the better.

Here's an example of Hasbro vs TakaraTomy's Studio Series Blaster/Eject packaging:


Here's a photo of some Transformers on sale at Harajuku Kiddy Land in Tokyo last Friday:

You can see a combination of plastic blisters on the EarthSpark Deluxes, windowless boxes for SS Blaster/Eject, and every other toy having open window packaging.