Don Barzini
Assistant Pro
Sounds like it should be easy, right? WRONG!
My little boy's 5th birthday today. One of his presents was an Army Corps fort thing. Essentally a plastic half-castle about 3ft high, with around 5 army figures with assorted weapons and vehicles in there too.
I kid you not, it took me about half an hour to get everything out of the box and free of packaging. Each part was attached to thick cardboard by a variety of plastic ties, bands, screws and bolts. My necessary armoury of tools to get everything out succesfully was kitchen scissors, nail scissors, two screwdrivers, a set of pliers, a set of wire cutters and the brute force of my fingers and hands. And of course the most important thing - plenty of swear words!
They go on and on about plastic waste, plastic bottles etc - but it seemed like the amount of unnecessary plastic crap that came out of that box was enough to pollute the Pacific Ocean on its own!
This is not an unusual occurrence now, by the way. My eldest is 8 years old so I have a fair amount of experience in opening toys. Every one now comes packaged in exactly this way.
When I was a kid, you ripped open the box and everything fell out and you played with it. When did it suddenly become necessary to make opening a child's toy akin to breaking into Fort Knox?!?!?!?!
My little boy's 5th birthday today. One of his presents was an Army Corps fort thing. Essentally a plastic half-castle about 3ft high, with around 5 army figures with assorted weapons and vehicles in there too.
I kid you not, it took me about half an hour to get everything out of the box and free of packaging. Each part was attached to thick cardboard by a variety of plastic ties, bands, screws and bolts. My necessary armoury of tools to get everything out succesfully was kitchen scissors, nail scissors, two screwdrivers, a set of pliers, a set of wire cutters and the brute force of my fingers and hands. And of course the most important thing - plenty of swear words!
They go on and on about plastic waste, plastic bottles etc - but it seemed like the amount of unnecessary plastic crap that came out of that box was enough to pollute the Pacific Ocean on its own!
This is not an unusual occurrence now, by the way. My eldest is 8 years old so I have a fair amount of experience in opening toys. Every one now comes packaged in exactly this way.
When I was a kid, you ripped open the box and everything fell out and you played with it. When did it suddenly become necessary to make opening a child's toy akin to breaking into Fort Knox?!?!?!?!