You shouldn't need the skills of a safe cracker to open a toy package.

[Werewolf]

Good grief.

After ten minutes of tape peeling and rubber band cutting the dolls were still stuck to the plastic tray.



I finally had to get a wire cutter, to snip the plastic wires, to get them out.

Sure, I can kind of understand for action figures which do have problems with getting swapped out and returned. But for something like this, it's overkill.

[Marvelmania]

Wow they really didn't want you to get those out. Just to add to the list that you mentioned, some figures are in such thick plastic it's hard to cut open and also the plastic is sharp as a razor.

[megomania]

Sure, I can kind of understand for action figures which do have problems with getting swapped out and returned. But for something like this, it's overkill.

You mean dolls? Haha totally kidding :-)

[Werewolf]

Wow they really didn't want you to get those out.

It probably took me twenty minutes to get them all out. I can't imagine how frustrating this would be for little kids.

You mean dolls? Haha totally kidding :-)

Lol, yeah, don't get people started on that again.

[Brown Bear]

I feel your pain. Opening toys these days is like defusing a nuclear weapon. Christmas morning can easy mean three hours spent just "opening".

[Werewolf]

Christmas morning can easy mean three hours spent just "opening".

Oh, wow yeah, I can see that being a real chore for parents at Christmas.

[PNGwynne]

One of the worst cuts I've ever had was on one of those heat-salad Emce packages. I used kitchen shears to cut around the perimeter but the clamshell was still like a razor.

I hate tape on toys and its %^$#*(#@ residue. But wire cutters are always handy.

[rche]

One of the worst cuts I've ever had was on one of those heat-salad Emce packages. I used kitchen shears to cut around the perimeter but the clamshell was still like a razor.

I hate tape on toys and its %^$#*(#@ residue. But wire cutters are always handy.

I have also had a pretty major bloodletting with an EMCE clam.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I feel your pain. Seems like it's worse for dolls with hair. I know Mattel stitches their Barbies into the backer. When Dani gets anything like that, I hand it to Cindy. She's had years of practice cracking their near indecipherable unpackaging code.

Chris

[MIB41]

Isn't it ironic that allot of the figure lines aimed at the older generation (deemed "collectors")are NOT as concerned with presentation in the box? Like anything there are exceptions, but in the ReMego division, that's pretty rare.

[Gorn Captain]

I collect Sideshow 12" figures, and some of those are insanely strapped in. One really long wire comes from the back of the plastic tray, goes into the collar of the figure, underneath the clothes, then completely around one shoulder, then to the other shoulder, around that, and then back up, out of the collar, and back in the plastic tray.
I had to strip the Invisible Man down to his shorts to get him loose. One bonus: I found out his body was see-through.
And that was just ONE of the wires.
Somewhere in China, there's a ex-factory worker in a mental hospital, and all he can say is "wires...wires...wires...."

[Gorn Captain]

Isn't it ironic that allot of the figure lines aimed at the older generation (deemed "collectors")are NOT as concerned with presentation in the box? Like anything there are exceptions, but in the ReMego division, that's pretty rare.

And all those wires really mess up the clothes, scrunching them up. Can't they leave just a little space?

[Werewolf]

I know Mattel stitches their Barbies into the backer. When Dani gets anything like that, I hand it to Cindy. She's had years of practice cracking their near indecipherable unpackaging code.

Yeah, a lot of Barbies have their hair stitched between two plastic strips which you have to pull apart to get the doll out. The Strawberry in this set was sort of like that but worse. The hair was stitched into one plastic strip that was folded around the doll's hair. I had to use a seam ripper to get the hair out.

[Thor]

That's true. I've had to use a sharp knife to cut through clam shell packaging.

[Werewolf]

I finally got one of those Shopkins Shoppies and it's in a clam shell. What the heck!? It also had one of those plastic staple like things holding her head into the plastic tray inside. I had to get a pliers to pull it out. It's gotta frustrate the heck out of little kids getting these open.