[Lionheart]

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I prefer blister cards, so I like this Vintage packaging, which they've done before. I just wish they'd continue packing the 6" figures this way, most of their 3.75" figures I don't like at all. Or, go back to the Black/orange boxes from the first wave, the black/red boxes they use now are just super boring and shitty. I realize most people don't care about packaging but I usually get doubles, one to open and one to keep carded on display. Black Series packaging while collector friendly, is ugly shit and I'd rather they keep doing this vintage style blister cards.

On the one hand, while I agree completely about the look of blister cards and vintage packaging, I would much much rather have an opening figure box and be able to put it away again, than have to buy two and have one to display, or buy one and have to destroy the packaging to display it. Partly because I (like most people I would guess) just don't have the money to buy doubles of everything, and partly because for most places outside the US we have even poorer distribution, and pay more per figure. Plus figures are almost never discounted, and when they are discounted it's to prices that most US buyers would be 'full' price (no $10 figures for us - nothing less than $25!) So while I feel you on the looks of the packing, until Hasbro start making opening display boxes I can't get behind the vintage style cards being used constantly. It wouldn't actually make much of a cost difference to do it, but they never do.