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Originally Posted by firmpulse

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.

The art work is nice, but the style and presentation of the boxes are in fact boring. They just don't stand out and I don't think they really display well at all.

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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.

They feature that now, the original Black Series boxes were black rather plain boxes that upgraded into black and red plain boxes. But I think the new boxes are a huge improvement with the character artwork and how sometimes the entire wave makes a piece of artwork.

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

Your LCS' must SUCK. That's crazy. Loose figures in my area always sell for cheaper than packaged ones.

Usually the case, but there are cases where loose figures are still selling way above retail in most areas. Although in those cases the packaged one probably isn't available at retail anymore, either.