Christmas toy packing...

[Greg]

A few years back they started using these silver twist ties on toy packing. Now they've seemed to have found an even more annoying way to package toys - these clear rubber band type things, in addition to the silver twist ties! They are wrapped around every frikkin' little piece of toy no matter how small. It took my wife and I an hour+ to unpack everything.

Merry effin' Christmas.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Aarghhhhhhhhhhhh man iremeber that kinda issue every Christmas when my kids were small -NOW however i have the SPECIAL TREAT of watching that frustration rather than particpating as they now struggle with the grandkiddo's loot

== Stick around Greg, live long, bcuz this reward is SAWEET

 

[RootDKJ]

 

[wa-loaf]

And the twist ties are all taped down as well ....

I think the toy company executives should be required to open each and every toy before they approve them for the market. There is a special place in hell for packaging designers.

Off to my SILs for dinner and round 3 of present opening. :smash:

 

[Greg]

Thanks Captain Obvious. You don't have little kids, do you? :razz:

 

[RootDKJ]

Thanks Captain Obvious. You don't have little kids, do you? :razz:

Nope, lots of nephews and little cousins though. Merry Christmas

 

[ccskier]

It is bullshat. I spent the morning pulling crap apart. Trucks are the worst,some of them even tied the twist. I was ranting myself this morning. Next year I am going to disect the packages before I buy them, twist free toys for this household for now on. The shit gets kinked up and u can't even pull it through the plastic clips.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

i spend the weeks ahead of time doing all that, taking them out of the package, inserting the batteries etc then wrapping......

 

[bvibert]

The toys I've taken out thus far haven't been that bad. Mostly just those silver twist ties, which I can quickly remove with just my fingers. For a while it seemed like a lot of toys were tie-wrapped to the packaging, which pretty much requires tools to release the toy...

 

[drjeff]

A few years back they started using these silver twist ties on toy packing. Now they've seemed to have found an even more annoying way to package toys - these clear rubber band type things, in addition to the silver twist ties! They are wrapped around every frikkin' little piece of toy no matter how small. It took my wife and I an hour+ to unpack everything.

Merry effin' Christmas.

AGREE 1000%!!!!!!!!!!! Spent about 45 minutes this AM with my mega-hyped upped kids asking over and over and over "Daddy can I play with my toy now?" as I was trying to cut those frikkin' rubber bands and practically titanium reinforced glorified twist ties off of Tinker Bell (her 2 pairs of shoes, 2 dresses and even 3 on her pony tailed hair), a couple of toy John Deere Tractors, a remote control excavator (that was a great one as after I got through the titanium twist ties the thing was screwed into a base with 4 mini phillips head screws that required a really small and long screw driver to reach them) and then don't even get me started on the stupid plasma welded plastic that a bunch of the other stuff comes in!!!

I think that next December I'm going to Lowe's and buying myself one kick a$$ pair of thin needle nose pliers with a cutting tip on them!!! Then again maybe I'll do that in the next 2 days as my son has his birthday next Tuesday and my daughter's b-day is 10 days later, and I'm about 99.9% sure that either my parents or my in-laws will have gotten them gifts restrained with those twist ties and psycho glorified pony tail holder bands!

 

[mondeo]

AGREE 1000%!!!!!!!!!!! Spent about 45 minutes this AM with my mega-hyped upped kids asking over and over and over "Daddy can I play with my toy now?" as I was trying to cut those frikkin' rubber bands and practically titanium reinforced glorified twist ties off of Tinker Bell (her 2 pairs of shoes, 2 dresses and even 3 on her pony tailed hair), a couple of toy John Deere Tractors, a remote control excavator (that was a great one as after I got through the titanium twist ties the thing was screwed into a base with 4 mini phillips head screws that required a really small and long screw driver to reach them) and then don't even get me started on the stupid plasma welded plastic that a bunch of the other stuff comes in!!!

I think that next December I'm going to Lowe's and buying myself one kick a$$ pair of thin needle nose pliers with a cutting tip on them!!! Then again maybe I'll do that in the next 2 days as my son has his birthday next Tuesday and my daughter's b-day is 10 days later, and I'm about 99.9% sure that either my parents or my in-laws will have gotten them gifts restrained with those twist ties and psycho glorified pony tail holder bands!

Don't you have some precision dental tools that would handle the job?

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

i believe Amazon only works with suppliers that do not package like that.....

 

[billski]

The absolute worst are Barbie dolls. They thread the doll hair into about a dozen slots in a flat piece of plastic and then tape the whole thing to cardboard. You don't dare use dikes or scissors or you'll ruin the golden locks. Like the twists, it takes forever to get out. It seems to be all about presentation.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

It's ridiculous how they secure the toys to the packaging. My wife and I are always cursing when we open this stuff. I usually have the wire cutters handy but I didn't put them back in the toolbox last time I used them so I can't find them. That'll teach me to put them back where they belong.

 

[severine]

WTF is with the screws anyway? I had to take out some toy for my son this morning and it was held down with multiple industrial twist ties, knotted with each other and taped down, plus 4 tiny screws. :blink: A little unnecessary, methinks.

 

[drjeff]

Don't you have some precision dental tools that would handle the job?

I've got a 2" diameter diamond grit serrated cutting wheel that spins at about 20K RPM Too bad it was 12 miles away in my office rather than in my house

 

[drjeff]

WTF is with the screws anyway? I had to take out some toy for my son this morning and it was held down with multiple industrial twist ties, knotted with each other and taped down, plus 4 tiny screws. :blink: A little unnecessary, methinks.

Agree!!!!

Atleast my dad got a chuckle out of watching me deal with the ultra restraints the toys were packaged with. He was saying to me "I'm getting some payback for all the years of assembling toys with 100+ pieces - and of course missing the key piece - now!"

 

[Trekchick]

I was helping a friend 'unpackage' a toy for her daughter, who was standing over me, staring in anticipation. I can't tell you how many times we told her to stand back so she didn't get hurt by the scissors that were necessary to unpack.
Frustrating, really, it is!

Note: even if we take the time to unpack ahead of time, there is always someone in the family who doesn't, and it seems that the toy that takes the most aggravation to unpack is the ONE that the child wants most.

 

[BeanoNYC]

The absolute worst are Barbie dolls. They thread the doll hair into about a dozen slots in a flat piece of plastic and then tape the whole thing to cardboard. You don't dare use dikes or scissors or you'll ruin the golden locks. Like the twists, it takes forever to get out. It seems to be all about presentation.

Stop playing with Barbie Dolls, Bill.

 

[frozencorn]

Got a nice cardboard slice-cut on my finger opening gifts. Thanks, Thomas!!!!!