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<blockquote data-quote="Alarian" data-source="post: 7648216" data-attributes="member: 24407"><p>Paizo has said some of the initial shipments of cases and bricks were missing the security tape on the individual boxes (I know the 1 case and 1 brick I bought were missing the security tape.) All later shipments had the security tape attached. If you got a box without it the tape, it was from the initial shipment.</p><p></p><p>All in all I was very happy with the mini's. Were there some I didn't like? (can you say Troll and Ogre which were both very cartoony) Sure, but you can never be happy with 100% of the mini's in something like this. But by and large most were great. My favorite is the Ettin. I even ordered a few extra of those on the secondary market.</p><p></p><p>As to the waste, I really don't think there is much of a way to reduce it. If they reduce the box size, it will limit the mini size and really only save a tiny bit of materials, and if they make the boxes too small, it becomes too easy for someone to stick one or two into their pockets and walk off. Plus, I'm sure they want their products to be noticed. Sticking them into tiny little packs makes for a not real noticeable product. Go into just about any store today and buy almost anything and 9 times out of 10 the packaging is excessive. The one thing I can thank Mitra on is they didn't use twisty ties and heat sealed plastic packaging on everything. That would have been a nightmare. I personally could have cared less about the packaging. My kids and I had a blast opening all the boxes. It was like Christmas in January!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alarian, post: 7648216, member: 24407"] Paizo has said some of the initial shipments of cases and bricks were missing the security tape on the individual boxes (I know the 1 case and 1 brick I bought were missing the security tape.) All later shipments had the security tape attached. If you got a box without it the tape, it was from the initial shipment. All in all I was very happy with the mini's. Were there some I didn't like? (can you say Troll and Ogre which were both very cartoony) Sure, but you can never be happy with 100% of the mini's in something like this. But by and large most were great. My favorite is the Ettin. I even ordered a few extra of those on the secondary market. As to the waste, I really don't think there is much of a way to reduce it. If they reduce the box size, it will limit the mini size and really only save a tiny bit of materials, and if they make the boxes too small, it becomes too easy for someone to stick one or two into their pockets and walk off. Plus, I'm sure they want their products to be noticed. Sticking them into tiny little packs makes for a not real noticeable product. Go into just about any store today and buy almost anything and 9 times out of 10 the packaging is excessive. The one thing I can thank Mitra on is they didn't use twisty ties and heat sealed plastic packaging on everything. That would have been a nightmare. I personally could have cared less about the packaging. My kids and I had a blast opening all the boxes. It was like Christmas in January! [/QUOTE]
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