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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I miss the packaging of old though. Toys felt more special being in fancy packaging rather than the boring, generic looking boxes we have been getting this last decade. The Power Rangers packaging is absolutely worthless.

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Oh I agree, the fancier packaging was more appealing, and stuff like Power Rangers, Black Series (at least the previous black box version), and even G.I.Joe are really boring.

I do not think Classified packaging is boring at all. I really like Classified packaging. Especially the wraparound artwork. If you have two of a figure you can display the front of the box butted up to the spine of the second box and see the whole piece. I appreciate that the boxes are compact, collector friendly and display the figures prominently. Power Rangers Lightning collection uses the same scheme.

Star Wars Black Series features fantastic artwork on their wedge shaped spines that, if you have all the figures in a wave, you can create one continuous piece of artwork. However the full art cannot be displayed effectively because of the previously stated wedge shaped spine. If the spines are aligned the boxes take up double the space they should. While the box shapes are more interesting they are also more difficult to display.