[darthschroeder]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

The bubbles will probably stay, since they can't just have the toy floating around loose. But there is some hope that those rubber band ties may be falling out of favor within the industry. A lot of newer Hasbro stuff (mostly Transformer-related) do not have any twist-ties or bands of any kind.

I think that they could design an outer bubble that fits the toy more snuggly so it won't flop around inside the packaging so much. That inner bubble is just a waste of resources that could go into the final product instead of the packaging.