Hi Sun,
I think we need to bring this up to Fisher Price attention, either people will be mutilating these boxes, or they should put numbers on the boxes or some other indicators. I may have missed but is there at least color matching? I recall them having several of each color with different engines, so you would still be getting duplicates.
True collectors will try to find way to get what they are missing, and there will always be people buying these blindly, but I doubt at this stage if there are actually people picking up these randomly. It's a slippery slope when people begin opening the boxes, and then others won't want to buy them because they are "opened".
I remember there were blind bags you could see the engines through the white area of the blind bag. It's really as if intentional that FP tapes these in a manner they cannot be checked easily, obviously we don't want people buying 100 of these, and then returning 90 by keeping 10 "rare" or ones they want to keep. That's not fair either, but at least if there was a way to tell what they were, if they are really re-sealable in a way that they can still be sold to non-collectors, it would still be OK. Sadly, they are not. So we either boycott the new way FP is releasing these minis, or have to buy the whole box and keep the duplicates. Many collectors are doing this as hobby and with Covid financial restraints, I doubt anyone wants to buy random toys, to find the one they are looking for.
I think we need to bring this up to Fisher Price attention, either people will be mutilating these boxes, or they should put numbers on the boxes or some other indicators. I may have missed but is there at least color matching? I recall them having several of each color with different engines, so you would still be getting duplicates.
True collectors will try to find way to get what they are missing, and there will always be people buying these blindly, but I doubt at this stage if there are actually people picking up these randomly. It's a slippery slope when people begin opening the boxes, and then others won't want to buy them because they are "opened".
I remember there were blind bags you could see the engines through the white area of the blind bag. It's really as if intentional that FP tapes these in a manner they cannot be checked easily, obviously we don't want people buying 100 of these, and then returning 90 by keeping 10 "rare" or ones they want to keep. That's not fair either, but at least if there was a way to tell what they were, if they are really re-sealable in a way that they can still be sold to non-collectors, it would still be OK. Sadly, they are not. So we either boycott the new way FP is releasing these minis, or have to buy the whole box and keep the duplicates. Many collectors are doing this as hobby and with Covid financial restraints, I doubt anyone wants to buy random toys, to find the one they are looking for.