Seasoning sometime is sold in sealed ziplock bags. You need to cut it open and then can be easily re-sealed using ziplock. So no constrains here.

^^ It can be both, as a lot of products are packaged that way, where you need to tear it open, but there is also locking.

So, OK, we get resealable bags inside the boxes.

Especially with numbered bags, how to get the right parts in the right bag? Disassembling the set with the manual in reverse order? I can't see many people doing that...

For me: I don't really care, but most boxes are sturdy enough if you want to keep them. Only the really small sets come in those very cheap cardboard boxes. And even with those, if you take enough care when you open them, are perfectly easy to keep.

As for the resale value: people know they're buying a used set, so I think most don't really care if you use the original bags or one you get for next to nothing at the supermarket. It would only really be a problem if you'd want to sell them of as new...

I agree, only the really small inexpensive sets are in the flimsy boxes. I was saving them but stopped. I do keep all the big boxes, which do have a tab to close them. I have to flatten them though, due to space limitations here. I agree that putting the parts in the original bags after building the set would be difficult at best, and a bit ridiculous... I would never try doing that. When I decide to dismantle a set, and put it back in the box, I just pour the parts into a couple zip bags I got from BrickLink orders. I think I have about 2 pounds of bags of various sizes from my many orders.

The crinkly plastic bags you get in a set are pretty fragile, get a nick in it and it will tear open easily. I don't see them changing the kind of plastic they use for the bags... are they cellophane bags? Not sure.

People genuinely answered your question about boxes and you cry youre being called a troll? Yes, people can have different opinions, but it is obvious sometimes when someones opinion comes from ignorance and not using common sense.

The majority of lego is for kids. Do *most* kids really care about boxes? No. Kids build the lego, and either store it built so they can play with it frequently, or it gets pulled apart and bunged into a big plastic tub with the rest of their lego pieces.

'Kids' and 'keeping' packaging in one piece does not go together at all. Lego understand this and utilise it by making packaging that does its job, transports the lego pieces from the lego factory-to the consumer in one set of pieces, while looking enticing with its pictures. That is all it needs to do, and that is what it more often than not, does.

You claim that TLG can easily afford to use ziplock bags, and it wouldnt cost muxh more to make better boxes... And that such a profitable company can afford to change their production lines to suit... Yes they could, but again, your ignorance is obvious here. TLG is successful because they have learned from mistakes.

They do things right, and correct it when its not, from a business perspective. If they start trying to satisfy all these little improvements that add literally nothing to the lego itself, which is the product they market;not premium packaging; then they would be eating into their profits which, yes, are paid in bonuses, and rightly so, but also enables the company to *reinvest* and pay out to get better licences for smaller runs etc, invest in new technologies to make better quality parts (which seems to be offset by the quality of abs they are currently using), make more new moulds per theme, pay for such non lego things, like the new lego building in denmark, and pay peoples wages, create shows for ninjago, friends, chima, pay for marketing, adverts etc.

A lot of that (not all) is non value added cost, which means profit doesnt come from it *directly*, but perhaps as a result of...

Not everything is so plain and simple as you make it out to be.

Id rather pay the price im paying, and the most of that cost goes into a good quality/higher piece count lego product. If i want better storage, i am more than capable of going to ikea or somewhere where i can buy storage containers without having to gimp other people out of a better lego product because while they dont care about the transportation packaging of a lego set, 'i want mine kept in pristine condition'.

Not to mention, if you want to open a box neatly, put the effort into doing so, it really isnt difficult at all like you are making it out to be. Nor are the boxes as flimsy as tou are making them out to be. I have some of these 'flimsy' boxes preserved perfectly fine, storing some lego, because i treat them with respect.

Lego ideas boxes are generally what you are talking about/requesting, but treat them with disrespect, and they'll end up being 'flimsy' as well.

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Also just thought... Most parents wont want their kids empty lego boxes laying around taking up space when there are more important things that space could be used for, rather than lots of empty lego boxes. One big storage container tucked in a corner is easier to manage than lots of oversized cardboard boxes. But the oversized boxes thing will probably never go away, because that is a marketing strategy to make people feel they are getting something more substantial than what is ultimately some small plastic bricks that when in bags, equate to what would be a tiny box worth. Only when built does the product then seem substantial to justify the cost (most of the time).

Seasoning sometime is sold in sealed ziplock bags. You need to cut it open and then can be easily re-sealed using ziplock. So no constrains here.

But who is that seasoning aimed at? Adults. Who can most of the time, correctly and safely use scissors.

Do TLG want to sell something that ultimately every single child will have to go to their parents to open up a bag simply because scissors are required? That isn't child friendly at all.

Current bag packaging is perfectly fine for the job it does, again, transport (and build section separation). How people are managing to get split bags inside the box is beyong me, theres no sharp bits inside the cardboard box. Those cases must surely be solitary, few and far between.

Edited November 17, 20159 yr by Fuppylodders

^^ It can be both, as a lot of products are packaged that way, where you need to tear it open, but there is also locking.

This is particularly true for supermarket prepackaged food items. It allows you take out a small serving portion and reseal the bag to preserve freshness without having to transfer the contents to a ziplock bag or sealing container. The bags come with perforations to help with tearing. Some times they end up ripping off the plastic reseals. Cutting with scissors can provide better results. I think using these type of bags would add to the packaging cost of LEGO.

Do TLG want to sell something that ultimately every single child will have to go to their parents to open up a bag simply because scissors are required? That isn't child friendly at all.

Current bag packaging is perfectly fine for the job it does, again, transport (and build section separation). How people are managing to get split bags inside the box is beyong me, theres no sharp bits inside the cardboard box. Those cases must surely be solitary, few and far between.

Technically speaking, Lego DID sell resealable pouches that required scissors to open, with the Hero Factory packages in 2012 and subsequent years. In fact, they won an award for that packaging design.

However, there's a significant difference in that that packaging REPLACED boxes for those sets (rather than being stored inside traditional or more durable boxes). They've also switched back to boxes for the revival of Bionicle (hexagonal boxes, but boxes nonetheless), and while I don't know their reasoning (and preferred the resealable bags, personally), I'm sure they had a good reason for abandoning that packaging style.

(I learned something!) I dont know their reasoning either, but id hazard a guess that some process in doing it, or something, just wasnt working for them, whether it be the recycling ability of it, the material cost, the packaging machine running reliability, or maybe its the fact it had to be opened with scissors initially, but if theyve changed to the 'good old reliable box' then they are probably going to stay settled with a box, and realised the resealable bag just wasnt worth it for some reason.