[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by OGTrilogy

I just got into collecting Neca Aliens and Predator figures in the last year or so and I don't really have a routine yet. I usually just use a boxknife and cut the bubble off of the card back. I try to be careful, but it just makes me nervous.

With Predators I use a hobby knife to go around the bubble because I like to keep the cardbacks, it takes a good level of patience and steady hands but it pays off. For anything in clamshell just get a decent pair of scissors, kitchen scissors or basic craft scissors like you'd find in a school, and just cut off the edge-seal. Place the package down on a flat surface with the back facing up, coming at it from the top starting on the side that is your dominant hand (if you're right handed start on your right) and cut down to the bottom edge, you may either cut all the way down or turn the cut to keep it one piece for easier disposal. After cutting of the first side you do the same to the bottom and then again with the other side, but you do not cut away at the top where the j-hook is. You should now have trimmed away the edges and it should lift open with ease, you may now easily remove the inner bubble with the figure with no resistance and then you can put all of the trimming into the empty shell for easy disposal, just be sure to get it all because I imagine it hurts to step on that shit. That's how I do it anyway.