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i don't know if this has been discussed, nor if its worth discussing, but i noticed that after hasbro's 2nd wave, the card-backs on the legends figures have shrunk in size. i held off on getting the first two waves because i didn't think they appealed to me at all (crappiness of the figures aside)... but now that the figures seem to fill out the plastic more, i've been picking them up left and right!

 

i mean, they look so much better with these smaller packages. i almost don't care about the lack of paint/articulation. i'm opening them all up eventually anyway, but this slight change definitely won me over. they're so much more aesthetically pleasing this way.

 

what do you people think?

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well, i guess it is a tad weird, but its completely relevant. i thought it was a valid query anyway.

 

here's food for thought: since they changed the size of the packaging, does this mean that we'll be getting smaller BAFs? or, will we be needing to buy more figures per wave (a la fin fang foom) to build the 'larger' BAFs?

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here's food for thought: since they changed the size of the packaging, does this mean that we'll be getting smaller BAFs? or, will we be needing to buy more figures per wave (a la fin fang foom) to build the 'larger' BAFs?

 

The answer is likely both.

 

Smaller cards means mean smaller bubbles on the cards, and that means less overall space to pack in stuff into those bubbles.

This unless the packaging format drops the card-backs and goes to all acetate bubbles with paper inserts like McFarlane.

The size drop can be mitigated by going deeper in the bubble, but there's a point where that has to stop.

THe depth of the bubbles affects how many individual cards/packages can be fitted into a case for shipping out. If the case lot size decreases then it starts to affect other things, because the per-unit decreases, but overall shipping costs for each unit would INCREASE because they are sening out less items per case.

Unless they change the size of their shipping cases......

 

The size change is doubtlessly a cost-saving mesaure, and probably will not affect the product itself all that much.

Yes, BAFs might be spread over a larger number of figures again, but in doing so, they can give us a greater number of individual characters and/or variants.

There's trade-offs here, but mostly positive ones, I think---and if you like the aesthetic of the packaging because of this its just another plus.

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here's food for thought: since they changed the size of the packaging, does this mean that we'll be getting smaller BAFs? or, will we be needing to buy more figures per wave (a la fin fang foom) to build the 'larger' BAFs?

 

The answer is likely both.

 

Smaller cards means mean smaller bubbles on the cards, and that means less overall space to pack in stuff into those bubbles.

This unless the packaging format drops the card-backs and goes to all acetate bubbles with paper inserts like McFarlane.

The size drop can be mitigated by going deeper in the bubble, but there's a point where that has to stop.

THe depth of the bubbles affects how many individual cards/packages can be fitted into a case for shipping out. If the case lot size decreases then it starts to affect other things, because the per-unit decreases, but overall shipping costs for each unit would INCREASE because they are sening out less items per case.

Unless they change the size of their shipping cases......

 

The size change is doubtlessly a cost-saving mesaure, and probably will not affect the product itself all that much.

Yes, BAFs might be spread over a larger number of figures again, but in doing so, they can give us a greater number of individual characters and/or variants.

There's trade-offs here, but mostly positive ones, I think---and if you like the aesthetic of the packaging because of this its just another plus.

 

they said there will only be six figure waves.

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