They could have just made the window smaller to reduce plastic by only showing the figure and not the extra pieces for example the arms they can hide them behind cardboard like the extra faceplates with the same cardboard holders from inside the windowless box.
People dont tend to throw these plastic boxes away. If a good smile was really concern towards nature. Then they shouldn't produce anime figures that still made by plastics
I keep my random lego boxes LOL And all my model kit ones. I should throw them and I have no space in the basement, but I hoard them all. =___= Edit: I also collect figures and keep those too. Just using Lego and model kits cause most don't keep those iirc.
If they really cared they’d make every character with joints in the arms & legs, it would cut down on plastics as you wouldn’t need to keep making all these extra arms & legs. And Nendo’s with joints in the arms & legs are sooooo much better, they don’t fall to pieces every time I dust them, and much easier to display.
Hasbro did this a couple years ago and had Star Wars, GI Joe, and Marvel Legends in "plastic free" packaging that was just a box. People complained and even stopped buying and now we have the original plastic packaging back. If companies really cared about the environment, they would stop making plastic toys.
They also did it because people would return empty boxes or with a different figure in them with no way to verify without opening up the box. So they get scammed
the way they said with their whole chest the cardboard box is to reduce plastic waste yet return to styrofoam packaging for the figure itself despite it being flammable, toxic and non-recyclable is so ....missing the point 💀the change to the boxes is so disappointing and the plain bases...
yeah, in total it's prolly a similar amount of plastic with all the additional padding, not just the styrofoam, and the plastic they're using now is 100% stuff that's intended to be thrown out, because there's no dual use like the old clamshells being used as display cases or just storage...
Thry care about the plastic and environment the same as ali express :D "Buy more items at the same time, so we can ship everything together and help the environment"
Reduce plastic only to replace it with something you can't recycle. And that padding stuff is far more difficult to reuse for padding than just putting it back in the shell. This has "saves the company money" written all over it.
I mean, when companies give you less quality than before, hater by default is a good stand. The company is the one that needs to win over their customers, not the customers having to put up with the company.
Ever since the announcement I've been wondering what they're expecting of consumers who want to preserve their figures and want somewhere reliable to store their unused nendoroid pieces for years to come. And then I remembered those little kigurumi bodies things they sell for a cute way to store nendorid pieces... yeah they're absolutely going to start making new things like that to solve the issue they created for consumers.
I hate it, too. 100% agree that it's both to cut costs and encourage pre-orders from their site. Not excited to find out which of the Nendos I have pre-ordered will end up with the new boxes..... I've been trying to slow down on Nendos since I feel like the designs have gotten more lazy, but now I might just skip them entirely. Just doesn't feel worth it.
yeah, my husband and i have over like 50 nendos, theres a few in boxes, a few on shelves, i can tell recently theyve become more lazy and just worse quality. its funny to look at some of the older ones on the shelf vs the newer ones, its so obvious.
There is an authenticity sticker on the new box from what it looks like. My concern is more about the damage done to the figure in such a flimsy packaging that the figure is going to slide around in. So more paint transfers and damaged figures upon delivery are more than likely going to increase.
It also destroys the secondhand market, you’ll never be able to get an “A” grade again, as AmiAmi will need to open every one to check if everything in the box is correct.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- The only good part about that is scalpers are gonna go down hard. ...unless scalpers are daring enough to sneak an inside man inside GSC HQ, have them sneak out to them 100% mint condition parts in secret, then store them inside authentic boxes sealed such that it seems imperceptibly perfect, and then market them on their stores as "genuine MIB perfect condition" Nendos. ...but nah, I don't think they're *that* cunning.
Thank you for going over the new box design. When Hasbro pulled this with their GI Joe Classified line It did not last long. I hope Goodsmile learns the same lesson and goes back to the window boxes. It is pretty dirty the way they changed boxes after pre orders were placed. There are a few nendo preorders I am going to cancel over this new box for sure. Subbed!
Oof, I feel conflicted about this. On one hand, I like the idea of being able to flatten the boxes now since i live in a small place. The size is also cute like you said. But on the other hand I cringe at how much cheaper the quality is. Not just on the box but even the stands. Though I suppose that cost cutting measure could work for that. I don't really want to think of it as corprate greed but just that the economy is really effecting a lot of companies. And it sucks.
I put my nendoroid parts in a tacklebox so they're all organized. This new box would be great it can be completely flattened to save storage space. It will make things harder like spotting bootlegs.
People usually don't throw away their collection item packaging. But this packaging are designed to be thrown away immediately, which defeats the purpose of 'saving the planet’. I bet people who usually keep their boxes, now they gonna throw away these new ones.
And GSC shoots these preorders out nonstop nowadays it’s SO hard to catch the preorder window sometimes… like sometimes I -have- to buy third party you know?
@@KAYOZIACHANNEL right?? I'm a student too so I dont have much money to be able to preorder stuff as often as they come out so I usually have to wait because of that.
This is definitely just to save cost and secure first party/ official sellers for Nendos. The boxes for their pop-up parade line for one character is more plastic than 2 nendos
damn what a shame. i'm a nendoroid collector for 4 years and i'm being a hater for those boxes. nothing beats the feeling of getting a figure brand new on an amazing box. this new box is souless i hope they take a step back on this change
Oh lord that's even worse than I expected 💀 Any scrap of benefit of the doubt that it was for "the environment" vanished upon seeing the bubblewrap and styrofoam, which weren't even necessary before and CANNOT be recycled. As already mentioned, most collectors/buyers don't toss the box to begin with; the original packaging wasn't also just helpful for resale if you no longer want it, but also those clamshells were fantastic at preventing damage. I've seen some intense box damages in my 15 years of collecting, including a scale figure that was impaled by a forklift (yes, really- that was certainly a fun surprise)- and the figures themselves always still came out unscathed. I've had to move with my collection several times and even long distance- always fine. 100% Team Clam Shell here, lmao. Seeing how much those parts will scrape and bounce around makes me SO nervous. And if the box won't properly protect the figure, what's even the point? Isn't that just more wasteful? ffs, just make the front window a bit smaller and remove the ones on the sides. As for the bases- personally, I really dislike the easel ones, since they can be difficult to balance and make some poses impossible. The default base is pretty bleh, but at least easy enough to ignore since it's clear, I guess. I find usually I don't need all the extra holes aside from maybe one if there's any floating pieces (Animal Crossing Isabelle's music notes) or mascot characters (Kero from CCS) or something; but an easy solution there is the Nendoroid Petite bases, which they often include in cases like that anyway. If they're concerned about the environment- having an extra base as a pre-order bonus is just MORE plastic (the base itself and the packaging it comes in). Realistically you won't even use both, so that seems way more wasteful to me than the box that serves a significant function?? And I'm not even going to touch on how tacky and cheap it looks because that's preaching to the choir here, but that unboxing looked so sad and frustrating. I really hope they walk this back. =_= Thank you for the in-depth packaging comparison!! 🙏
Definitely. I was saying this to a friend, those boxes will become more valuable then the figure itself. I can already foresee some people making custom boxes for specific characters
I wanted to get into collecting nendoroids in the future but this box change makes me even more scared to do so ToT Even the second hand ones are very expensive for me so being scammed out of this money would be freaking tragic. Man..
If you google Japan plastic packaging, you'd see that they really are trying to reduce the over packaging problem in Japan. Now I'm sure it has to be beneficial to the company as well before they start caring about the environment. Reduced packaging = less cost = more profit, so it's a win-win situation for them.
Probably. The one example I can point to is HASBRO. For maybe a couple years they attempted to do “plastic-free” packaging. However, less people bought those and it forced them to go back to having some in plastic to (I believe) going back to all plastic. (After laying off a bunch of people) So, depending on sales (and I mean global sales) they could come back. However, you have to take into consideration that the Japanese market may or may not have issue. On one side, in Japan a lot of figures already come in plastic-free packaging. On the other side, Japan is also the biggest users of single use plastic. So we’ll have to see
Personally, I don’t keep any of my boxes, even the expensive ones, I only have 2 of them (MLP Miku and my Rin Dollfie’s box). I don’t really care about the plain and flimsy box design except for the fact that there’s no window, which as you said is important for determining the authenticity of a figure. The stands and bases, however, are absolutely ATROCIOUS!!! Even if there were a reason aside from encouraging preorders, it’s actually foul that they’d downgrade the quality of some very important aspects of the figure and still charge as much as they do.
Not keeping the boxes for expensive figures is kind of nuts, you’ll never sell it, but maybe you don’t care about that. I even keep the shipping boxes, they do take up a lot of space, especially the bigger statue boxes.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__-a lot of people buy figurines, because they genuinely wanna display them and not just to resell them later I personally only keep boxes, if they’re relatively small and are well designed, which isn’t most of them
@@mweeee I’ve never sold a figure, I don’t ever plan to sell anything, I’m just not the seller type, I tend to keep everything. But I still keep every single box, because I don’t know what will happen in the future and I might need them. I also tend to buy more expensive figures.
Their reasoning for the change gen falls flat on its face when u realize figure collectors are prob the most eco-conscious since they already are reluctant to throw away boxes and even the little plastic that wraps around the parts .. even when it comes to getting rid of them i highly doubt that throwing them away is the first thing that comes to mind. hello??? this is a second hand hobby! :
As someone who collects a decent amount of nendoroid... The recent nendoroid packaging has also been reduced in quality. The plastic tray that holds the nendo is extremely soft compared to the older ones... and now that they remove it completely and only put them in a small box like some pop marts? I think I'm going to stop pre-ordering them for a while... i hope the complaints or backlashes that they recieved will change their minds
Like they’re SO UGLY FOR NO REASON LOL I’d love it so much more if they made them like the white circle base in the video but just clear. Like WHY are they taking up so much space????
Feeling that "overgrowing out of figures" comment. The new boxes seem like they'd take up less space in storage ig, but it just seems a bit cheap looking especially for how expensive nendos are now days. Also those new bases are so ugly i swear
the problem is not them changing the boxes, the problem is lying about why, they should have said they want to reduce costs, but if they did, people would want a price reduction...
Personally, they could reduce the size of the box , it’s cute , better for storage but they could at least do a small window in the front for the figure somehow ?? Just a small side window for the figure then package the accessories however they want similar to old lps package or doll package.
This is really terrible. I keep all of my nendoroids in the box sealed, and the window packaging is important so that I can actually look at the figure I purchased lol. Its even more ridiculous that they swapped this figure's packaging after it was already revealed months ago, looks like I will not be preordering any upcoming nendoroids until this is switched back over. Thank you for the review of the packaging!
Cost saving measures ment too enrich the company and to cheapen the hobby as a whole. They will do this to pop up parade figures next just wait and see.
Def prefer the blisters with windows. I still display most of mine in their boxes and only unpack a couple at a time. Inb4 price on blister-packed nendoroids inflates when they get cheaply-packed re-releases.
Among 100 other issues my biggest complaint is them using the flimsiest cardboard on earth to put your figure in, a worthless tissue paper thin non-compartmentalized "storage" box for you to throw all of your accessories in and have them scrape against each other, and the price remains as high as ever. Like you said, this reeks of straight up greed, not any kind of concern for the environment. EDIT: I also wanted to say your VTuber is the CUTEST, I was mesmerized just watching its ears move, I love the colors you chose and how bouncy everything is
Yeah I don't like this. I own several nendoroids and I use my boxes to store my extra pieces as well as have them as storage for my figures if I need to move or arrange. Plus we got so many good special box designs with the window. It's just sad. You are going to have an easier time scrapping parts and losing them. least give like a special baggy.
just realizing my aventurine nendo preorder is probably gonna come in one of the new boxes… really disappointed bc he would have looked so cool in the original box 😭
I can't wait to see their sales plummet, wonder where they went wrong, and see them deflect blame onto us. Nah GSC you're own greed and producing subpar packaging are the reason, stop being dululu
I didn’t realize the change would appear this quickly omg. I’m highly skeptical of this change largely being for environmental reasons too. It stinks of greenwashing. I’m both a figure collector and super into environmentalism so I was super interested in the news of this change. Some of the most environmentally friendly things about figure collecting is something people don’t even really realize most often, the circularity of anime figures. The secondhand market is really strong within anime collecting community and to remove the clear window discourages secondhand sales (people are not easily able to see what they’re getting + reduced ease of bootleg detection). This encourages people to buy new (which can be difficult depending on the availability of the figure) which goes against the environment (extracting new material, manufacturing, shipment, etc.) when collectors could have bought secondhand. Not to mention the new packaging seems like it won’t protect the figure as well. Putting that many resources into producing a product to then not properly take care of it because of the lack of proper packaging (which is likely far less resource demanding than the product itself) sounds counter intuitive. Can’t say I’ll stop buying Nendoroids all together if they strongly enforce this new packaging into future releases, but I definitely feel less inclined to buy overall. Thanks for showing the new box!
GSC is already not doing as well as they used to, especially after Covid. I don’t see how this is going to help their situation. Edit: I’m glad you mentioned that this is being done in part to increase preorder sales, this is probably in conjunction with changes like GSC US’s no preorder cancellation policy and their heightened shipping fees to make sure they can squeeze as much money directly from consumers as possible. Not a good look in my opinion, but we’ll see what happens.
The only reason for less plastic is that plastic has become more expensive. A while ago they changed from saying PVC/ABS to "plastics", meaning a mixture of anything that fit in said vague category. They reduced the packaging plastic because it got too expensive and along with the yen having such low value still, it hit their profit too hard. It's just money. If they really wanted to help the enviroment they could have donated part of their profit from their figures to some organization.
I stopped collecting Nendoroids cause prize figure quality has gotten better while also being larger and sometimes even cheaper and Nendos are just so fiddly to work with. But this certainly doesn’t help lol. I would worry so much if I had to pack them and move
i preordered nendoroid #2420 and #2462 on september and while I was already so angry because of the new box announcement, now I hate the new base more than the box😣 i hope they don't send them with the new box+base..Even though i pre-ordered them from GSC's own website they also didn't have the preorder bonus base option
For overseas consumers, have fun when the shipping company destroys your boxes because now there's no protection. At least with the clamshells the figure was protected when the box was damaged. Also the idea of the easel stands are great until you realize they're always sold out
this reminds me of when burger king and alot of fast food companies (but McDonalds) stopped selling plastic toys in kids meal for "the environment" and then it became all boring stickers and cardboard cutouts
I think the biggest concern is this. The price would still be the same high price...shoot, if they made the prices more affordable with this change. I'll axcept this change lol. But my biggest concern is this, if they are changing all figure boxes down the line: ones that once had the old (better) look, ones being restocked. My goodness, so many fricken people are gonna inflate the prices of figures with old box designs now... Edit: Another rant, this type of packaging is more prone to have broken pieces when people get them now; since there isn't much protection for them. This isn't like Hasbro figures, where its more durable plastic and less paint. Made for generally kids, either way their packaging is the same bad taste... These are collector's items. I swear, bits of hair or accessories are gonna be delivered broken or chipped...
the entire appeal to them is that i like having them in a box to look at, what am i even looking at at this point, cardboard, i could literally print a picture and hang it on my wall and that would be more interesting.
Girl! Your commentary is hilarious! You got a new subscriber! You are definitely an OG anime figure collector because I see those Billy Figmas in the background 😂
I wish that it could be like the Marvel Legends new windowed packaging because it is smaller, compact, and still has plastic windows and clamp, which makes it easier to look at it and to store them without taking up a lot of space
GSC save a lot of money by not using plastic but the prices remain the same, meaning they want to make more money than before. They say they don't want to use plastic, but with the POPUP PARADE line, they are going to use all the plastic in the world.
I have over 50 Nendoroids, I actually don’t even know why I buy them because they annoy me so much, I only buy them to put beside their manga. But I don’t care about them, I only care about scales & statues.
with how much plastic they had to insert to pad the nendos, I doubt they're even really saving all that much plastic compared to before. And the type they're using now is the type that's 100% going to be thrown away, because it's just packaging and nothing else, versus the old blisters which doubled as displays and storage, and that I'm fairly certain most people kept. *And* the packaging is still worse in actually protecting the figures, with all the ways the figs can move inside of the box and with how unsecure they are. Literally the only benefit of this is that this is probably way cheaper materials wise for the company; the box is easier to assemble since its solid and cardboard, the clamshell prolly cost _something_ in comparison to this method of placing in some plastic separators, wrapping the figure, then tossing it into a cardboard box (assumedly all done by hand), the stand is a smaller amount of flimsier plastic...and not only are they seemingly keeping prices the same for this junk, but they even put an item whose preorder ended before the packaging change announcement in it... Biiiiiiiig yikes. Something's prolly changed at the company, and in a really bad way.
Obviously they intend for you to buy those nendoroid more face storage figures where it’s like an animal onesie that you just slap your extra faces onto lol. But yeah these boxes definitely feel like cutting costs over anything else.
I don't mind the idea of package reduction but the lack of places to safely put the spare parts upsets me as I keep each part in its spot in the clam shell because it's the safest spot. I even keep the plastic rap and the tape because I'm scared of damage. I don't know how to protect the parts now. The outer box I don't mind but the inner box I hate. I don't like the new stand I prefer the old one. I wouldn't mind the change if they gave you a plastic box for the accessories that is designed for them and intended to be kept.
Ah man... I mean, I get it, less plastic. But that puts a peanut 🥜 in the cog for in-box display. I probably won't be buying any NEW or re-released nendoroids now.
Jesus, that's prize figure status packaging. If they came in boxes that plain I wouldn't bother saving them. Its nice to save the boxes if you want to resell it at some point or just because they look nice and can be reused to repackage your figure if your moving out but these new ones suck. Also don't trust that it will make it cheaper for the consumer. They will use this an an excuse to cut costs and maybe reduce the price ever so slightly but inflation will bring that right back up. So you'll pay the same for inferior packaging.
Man, now it looks like a cheap ichiban kuji figure. I'm not into nendoroids, but I can't deny how hypnotizing it was on shelf, that I wanna buy one if I saw it in stores. Those now-old boxes are really appealing, even if I don't really like the concept as a whole. I do get your "conspiracy theory" there. This is definitely just a public stunt, they don't really care. I personally used to buy Gundams, and they now used some more "eco-friendly" material. But said eco-friendly material is so brittle and easily break, you're bound to buy replacement if you're a casual builder that can't modify and fix it yourself. If they want to be actually eco-friendly, should've get rid off the runners and plastic wrap, and just used the same plastic they used to since it's less likely for people to buy duplicates to replace broken ones. Do what Lego did and have the parts already separated and inside a paper bag. But no, they need to sell dem modelling tools for more money, which they do. And intentionally making some parts color inaccurate so that you'll buy paint, which are in non-refill bottles, adding more waste. The new plastic is easier to cut without tools, but that doesn't mean it's clean and requires no sanding. Those nubs are still there, and nubs could prevent parts from snapping properly. Guess you need some tools still, teehee. Plus, now they're implementing a building technique called "Fine Build System", that meant to make building model kits easier, but the engineering caused it to be brittle. Adding the new brittle plastic, you're guaranteed to break it if moving and partswaping it too much. Oh yeah, they also incentivized partswaps, since they made a line of basically blank figures with high customizability via sold-separately parts...inside a plastic bag and still on runners, more waste yay. If you partswap it too much it'll break or at least being loose. The type of joints they used are the unfixable type (c-clips joint), so you're going to need to buy a completely new one to replace it. It is considerably cheap, which could incentivized people to not mind rebuying it. Yeah...not sure if they're being genuine about eco-friendly thing. But alas, companies being companies
See I exclusively pre-order for the most part now but there are some I ordered to display in their box... I also sometimes pre-order one to display in its box and another to open and display. This announcement came way after I made some pre-orders so... what..? Are they going to waive their cancelation policy..? This feels like a bait and switch to me, I would love to cancel the pre-orders I placed multiples of because whats the point now.. you can't see them. They should have made the announcement and listed NEW releases that would have this change. Not ones with existing orders already placed.. Also, how am I going to see if there are any major defects on the figure without opening it now? Previously if a part was missing or there was major paint issues you could see it in the window. Now if I keep them sealed I could be screwing myself because how do I know there isn't a major defect or missing parts. GSC has been pretty kind with their defect warranty.. but are they going to honor that in 4 years if I decide to wait until then to open the box? I doubt they would have stock then and complain saying I should have just opened it. EDIT: I agree that the bonus item wasn't available on the US site when I pre-ordered Taiga but checking back now it shows in my order.... so they must have retroactively changed it. Guess we will see if it comes with it as it is shipping in the next two weeks.
I hate the new boxes so much... it seems like GS hired the same dumb people who changed the Hasbro toys boxes and don't see how big of a deal it was... Hasbro even start to sell less of their figs when they changed the boxes they start comming with worse QC and you cant see if the figure had problems, so i can easily see the nendos starting to come with bad QC or damaged on shipping Plus.. we are the target audience, we buy the figs and never throw the boxes, we are more eco friendly that their factories 😂, if they start changing other figs boxes like figmas or even their scales GS is going down...
To me, this feels like what they did when they changed the pop up parade Bases Still angry about that. When you get earlier ones, it's fine. But when you get later ones... This got me questioning my future buying these figures
@@worldsworstchoirboy They quite literally, just made them all circles. And the circle sizes aren't even consistent, Which is what really annoys me the most. I honestly would be less irritated if the circles Bases were transparent and thinner, Kinda like how they look like during their prototype stage.
@@KAYOZIACHANNEL I mean, I understand why people didn't like the previous pup Bases. but they at least they were consistent. The problem now is they can't. decide on the scale or color scheme. for them
I can see the intention of the box design of being universal packaging rather than making a unique plastic cover to hold the nendoroid and parts together as that cost money to uniquely design and manufacturer to which I am guessing it's no longer sustainable. I really think there is room for improvement such as the box containing the figure made out of clear plastic with a universal design which can be seen from outside of the box
Maybe a compromise where they keep the plastic window but lose the interior blisters. I keep my boxes and the blisters makes it impossible to flatten the packaging completely.
The new boxes are wasteful in their own way. What really sucks is how many people would pay the price hike to keep the better packaging, but Goodsmile likely saves a TON of money this way on top of keeping prices low. I'd even accept if they did the pre-order BS for exclusive bases (as much as I hate that), but changing the packaging is wild. So many people display in-box or keep the boxes. It just feels like the type of box a sketchy counterfeit would use.
RIP to those whose series are still getting Nendoroid's and you can no longer have matching packaging display for the entire set (This is about the remaining IDOLiSH7 nendoroids lol)
i was thinking the same thing about the i7 nendos lol. i take mine outta the box but have the boxes lined up side-view and the new difference in height and stuff would be so jarring
I want to point out that the easel stands have been out of stock for about two years now. Last year they experimentally released a round base for them but that was available for like.... a minute. You can only use it with the nendo's stand because they made the most garbage cheap one for it but the round bases were nice. I hate that all the nendos come with ad for an easel that I can't even get anymore!
New to your channel and I appreciate you walking through this fairly objectively. Saw this video under the YT recommendations since I started dabbling in collecting nendroids and some figures as an offshoot of collecting and building Gunpla and some Bandai metal build figures. As one who understands the deterioration of polycaps and posability, having these shipped in a way that could have already worn out the ability for the figure to hold certain poses is disheartening. It is interesting that Good Smile are just now they are removing plastic when so many Marvel, Transformers, and other US toys had removed plastic and the visibility for some time and finally have gone back to using plastic or open air for viewing the figure in the packaging. As far as making it a premium product (comparing to P-Bandai) they have a long way to go. But a figure that cannot be displayed in box, and even to validate the figure is there, pls it makes repackaging very difficult and flimsy... all that to say, It makes me not want to invest more in a Schrodinger's nendroid and more in the mecha. I get it cut costs, but will it cut consumer interest?
I feel it was done to save costs The same reason apple removed the wall adapter from the iPhone box Make the box smaller so more product fits into the shipping box Even just shipping them direct to customers the box is still small so cheaper shipping Cheaper packaging cuz now there's no clear plastic that needs to be molded specifically to the figure Everything was done to save a few bucks or pennies even for profit without lowering the price of course because the idea is to make more money without lowering the price to the consumer hahaha 🥴
Oof i don't know how well these boxes are gonna hold up either... i remember in my trip to japan i bought a prize figure secondhand, it started pouring when i went out, the box got wet and i had to throw it out because it became mush... it was fine because it was a prize fig, but having pretty much no plastic structure for an expensive nendoroid... i don't know how this will hold through harsh conditions
Doesn’t goodsmile also make the popup figures? I don’t have a figure from that line but every time I see a figure in person, the plastic packaging looks wayyy more unnecessarily larger compared to the actual figure. And it’s all plastic. If they really are being environmentally conscious (which I doubt) they should have considered that line first. For me, the original nendoroid packaging gives it a premium feel that sort of justifies how costly they are. Some of my figures I leave in the box bc I like the packaging design 😅
I think they said figures like Hatsune Miku would be require assembly so I assume Miku will come in the new Box but maybe headless or something like that.
I don't think raising the price on people would fix anything , especially if the quality isn't going to change but stay the same or , no extra parts will be included to justify the price.
With that packaging it really doesn't feel like you bought a 50+$ product. I also liked looking at nendos at conventions, since you had been able to see the figure, guess we won't be able to do that now.
The items scraping against each other is fucking diabolical. Put the blister back in!!!
Nice, they removed the transparent plastic case and wrap the figure in plastic anyway
They could have just made the window smaller to reduce plastic by only showing the figure and not the extra pieces for example the arms they can hide them behind cardboard like the extra faceplates with the same cardboard holders from inside the windowless box.
See that literally sounds like such a better idea at the minimum omg
True!
"we did it for the environment" is company slang for "we did it for profits"
People dont tend to throw these plastic boxes away. If a good smile was really concern towards nature. Then they shouldn't produce anime figures that still made by plastics
I keep my random lego boxes LOL
And all my model kit ones. I should throw them and I have no space in the basement, but I hoard them all. =___=
Edit: I also collect figures and keep those too. Just using Lego and model kits cause most don't keep those iirc.
If they really cared they’d make every character with joints in the arms & legs, it would cut down on plastics as you wouldn’t need to keep making all these extra arms & legs. And Nendo’s with joints in the arms & legs are sooooo much better, they don’t fall to pieces every time I dust them, and much easier to display.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- And yet all they do is waste time on that godforsaken Popup Parade line instead of making actual posable figures.
like this shit's still literally had a same price like bruh
I hold onto the boxes because they are protected while moving.
Hasbro did this a couple years ago and had Star Wars, GI Joe, and Marvel Legends in "plastic free" packaging that was just a box. People complained and even stopped buying and now we have the original plastic packaging back. If companies really cared about the environment, they would stop making plastic toys.
They also did it because people would return empty boxes or with a different figure in them with no way to verify without opening up the box. So they get scammed
Don’t leave Beyblade outta this
Didn't they go broke already? I heard a couple news regarding hasbro having financial problems :D
Oh nice a comment about a Hasbro Plastic free package. Nice I’m not alone
Oh nice a comment about a Hasbro Plastic free package. Nice I’m not alone
the way they said with their whole chest the cardboard box is to reduce plastic waste yet return to styrofoam packaging for the figure itself despite it being flammable, toxic and non-recyclable is so ....missing the point 💀the change to the boxes is so disappointing and the plain bases...
Yes i agree
They tried to reduce plastic waste but they make it worse n missing the point 😢
yeah, in total it's prolly a similar amount of plastic with all the additional padding, not just the styrofoam, and the plastic they're using now is 100% stuff that's intended to be thrown out, because there's no dual use like the old clamshells being used as display cases or just storage...
it doesn't make sense because its a blatant lie. they are 100% lying about the environmental reasons.
Thry care about the plastic and environment the same as ali express :D "Buy more items at the same time, so we can ship everything together and help the environment"
Reduce plastic only to replace it with something you can't recycle. And that padding stuff is far more difficult to reuse for padding than just putting it back in the shell. This has "saves the company money" written all over it.
“I’m a hater by default” felt
I mean, when companies give you less quality than before, hater by default is a good stand. The company is the one that needs to win over their customers, not the customers having to put up with the company.
Ever since the announcement I've been wondering what they're expecting of consumers who want to preserve their figures and want somewhere reliable to store their unused nendoroid pieces for years to come. And then I remembered those little kigurumi bodies things they sell for a cute way to store nendorid pieces... yeah they're absolutely going to start making new things like that to solve the issue they created for consumers.
More plastic and demand for something no one asked for
@@SemekiIzuio It's easy for them to pretend to care about the environment while upselling you more plastic.
@@SemekiIzuio It's always about money
I hate it, too. 100% agree that it's both to cut costs and encourage pre-orders from their site. Not excited to find out which of the Nendos I have pre-ordered will end up with the new boxes..... I've been trying to slow down on Nendos since I feel like the designs have gotten more lazy, but now I might just skip them entirely. Just doesn't feel worth it.
yeah, my husband and i have over like 50 nendos, theres a few in boxes, a few on shelves, i can tell recently theyve become more lazy and just worse quality. its funny to look at some of the older ones on the shelf vs the newer ones, its so obvious.
Yeah...I'm about done with Nendoroids if this is the direction GSC is going
I hate it omg. Ahhhh. And how is Styrofoam better then "plastic" 🤦♀️.. its also more clunky and bigger almost.. ugh
it's the fact that wanting to keep it mint will be stupid now bc you can't even look at it 😭
There is an authenticity sticker on the new box from what it looks like. My concern is more about the damage done to the figure in such a flimsy packaging that the figure is going to slide around in. So more paint transfers and damaged figures upon delivery are more than likely going to increase.
It also destroys the secondhand market, you’ll never be able to get an “A” grade again, as AmiAmi will need to open every one to check if everything in the box is correct.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- The only good part about that is scalpers are gonna go down hard.
...unless scalpers are daring enough to sneak an inside man inside GSC HQ, have them sneak out to them 100% mint condition parts in secret, then store them inside authentic boxes sealed such that it seems imperceptibly perfect, and then market them on their stores as "genuine MIB perfect condition" Nendos.
...but nah, I don't think they're *that* cunning.
A sticker will not matter if you buy them online from resellers that have no refund policies.
A sticker doesn't mean anything. I saw enough of them on bootlegs :D
Thank you for going over the new box design. When Hasbro pulled this with their GI Joe Classified line It did not last long. I hope Goodsmile learns the same lesson and goes back to the window boxes. It is pretty dirty the way they changed boxes after pre orders were placed. There are a few nendo preorders I am going to cancel over this new box for sure. Subbed!
Oof, I feel conflicted about this.
On one hand, I like the idea of being able to flatten the boxes now since i live in a small place. The size is also cute like you said. But on the other hand I cringe at how much cheaper the quality is. Not just on the box but even the stands. Though I suppose that cost cutting measure could work for that. I don't really want to think of it as corprate greed but just that the economy is really effecting a lot of companies. And it sucks.
I put my nendoroid parts in a tacklebox so they're all organized. This new box would be great it can be completely flattened to save storage space. It will make things harder like spotting bootlegs.
fuck, the new base is the last straw for me. it looks so cheap like it could break easily
People usually don't throw away their collection item packaging.
But this packaging are designed to be thrown away immediately, which defeats the purpose of 'saving the planet’.
I bet people who usually keep their boxes, now they gonna throw away these new ones.
yeah omg not being able to see the actual figure makes me a bit scared of them being authentic.
And GSC shoots these preorders out nonstop nowadays it’s SO hard to catch the preorder window sometimes… like sometimes I -have- to buy third party you know?
@@KAYOZIACHANNEL right?? I'm a student too so I dont have much money to be able to preorder stuff as often as they come out so I usually have to wait because of that.
This is definitely just to save cost and secure first party/ official sellers for Nendos. The boxes for their pop-up parade line for one character is more plastic than 2 nendos
damn what a shame. i'm a nendoroid collector for 4 years and i'm being a hater for those boxes. nothing beats the feeling of getting a figure brand new on an amazing box. this new box is souless i hope they take a step back on this change
Oh lord that's even worse than I expected 💀
Any scrap of benefit of the doubt that it was for "the environment" vanished upon seeing the bubblewrap and styrofoam, which weren't even necessary before and CANNOT be recycled.
As already mentioned, most collectors/buyers don't toss the box to begin with; the original packaging wasn't also just helpful for resale if you no longer want it, but also those clamshells were fantastic at preventing damage. I've seen some intense box damages in my 15 years of collecting, including a scale figure that was impaled by a forklift (yes, really- that was certainly a fun surprise)- and the figures themselves always still came out unscathed. I've had to move with my collection several times and even long distance- always fine. 100% Team Clam Shell here, lmao. Seeing how much those parts will scrape and bounce around makes me SO nervous. And if the box won't properly protect the figure, what's even the point? Isn't that just more wasteful? ffs, just make the front window a bit smaller and remove the ones on the sides.
As for the bases- personally, I really dislike the easel ones, since they can be difficult to balance and make some poses impossible. The default base is pretty bleh, but at least easy enough to ignore since it's clear, I guess. I find usually I don't need all the extra holes aside from maybe one if there's any floating pieces (Animal Crossing Isabelle's music notes) or mascot characters (Kero from CCS) or something; but an easy solution there is the Nendoroid Petite bases, which they often include in cases like that anyway. If they're concerned about the environment- having an extra base as a pre-order bonus is just MORE plastic (the base itself and the packaging it comes in). Realistically you won't even use both, so that seems way more wasteful to me than the box that serves a significant function??
And I'm not even going to touch on how tacky and cheap it looks because that's preaching to the choir here, but that unboxing looked so sad and frustrating. I really hope they walk this back. =_=
Thank you for the in-depth packaging comparison!! 🙏
time to quit collecting nendoroids. but at the same time means my older nendoroid value may rocket with the old box later on. LOL
We win some and lose some 😭😭
Definitely. I was saying this to a friend, those boxes will become more valuable then the figure itself. I can already foresee some people making custom boxes for specific characters
I wanted to get into collecting nendoroids in the future but this box change makes me even more scared to do so ToT Even the second hand ones are very expensive for me so being scammed out of this money would be freaking tragic. Man..
With the older ones you could stuff the box with rocks and fake nendoroids aren't common. So buying 2nd hand is a non-issue
If you google Japan plastic packaging, you'd see that they really are trying to reduce the over packaging problem in Japan.
Now I'm sure it has to be beneficial to the company as well before they start caring about the environment. Reduced packaging = less cost = more profit, so it's a win-win situation for them.
Good job Goodsmile, you made your products packaging look like a Happy Meal toy packaging.
tbh im scared of wanting to put my nendoroid back into a box like this? what's next, figmas in paper boxes like the nendoroids? i dont think so
Probably. The one example I can point to is HASBRO. For maybe a couple years they attempted to do “plastic-free” packaging.
However, less people bought those and it forced them to go back to having some in plastic to (I believe) going back to all plastic. (After laying off a bunch of people)
So, depending on sales (and I mean global sales) they could come back. However, you have to take into consideration that the Japanese market may or may not have issue. On one side, in Japan a lot of figures already come in plastic-free packaging. On the other side, Japan is also the biggest users of single use plastic.
So we’ll have to see
@@OmniJerBear Joe Hasbro's plastic-free packaging worked as well as it did: it gave consumers an "in" to pop heads off figures for free.
It's for the "environment" until the sales drop and they go back with a windowed package like Hasbro did
Wtf is this😭❗️
Bring back the original box
Personally, I don’t keep any of my boxes, even the expensive ones, I only have 2 of them (MLP Miku and my Rin Dollfie’s box). I don’t really care about the plain and flimsy box design except for the fact that there’s no window, which as you said is important for determining the authenticity of a figure. The stands and bases, however, are absolutely ATROCIOUS!!! Even if there were a reason aside from encouraging preorders, it’s actually foul that they’d downgrade the quality of some very important aspects of the figure and still charge as much as they do.
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Not keeping the boxes for expensive figures is kind of nuts, you’ll never sell it, but maybe you don’t care about that. I even keep the shipping boxes, they do take up a lot of space, especially the bigger statue boxes.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__-a lot of people buy figurines, because they genuinely wanna display them and not just to resell them later
I personally only keep boxes, if they’re relatively small and are well designed, which isn’t most of them
@@mweeee I’ve never sold a figure, I don’t ever plan to sell anything, I’m just not the seller type, I tend to keep everything. But I still keep every single box, because I don’t know what will happen in the future and I might need them. I also tend to buy more expensive figures.
I'll never buy a nendoroid ever again because that box is an insult to us collectors.
Their reasoning for the change gen falls flat on its face when u realize figure collectors are prob the most eco-conscious since they already are reluctant to throw away boxes and even the little plastic that wraps around the parts .. even when it comes to getting rid of them i highly doubt that throwing them away is the first thing that comes to mind. hello??? this is a second hand hobby! :
They should do what they did and reduce the prices
The precious packaging is similar to how scale figure looks like, and the new one feels definitely more like prize figure
As someone who collects a decent amount of nendoroid... The recent nendoroid packaging has also been reduced in quality. The plastic tray that holds the nendo is extremely soft compared to the older ones...
and now that they remove it completely and only put them in a small box like some pop marts? I think I'm going to stop pre-ordering them for a while... i hope the complaints or backlashes that they recieved will change their minds
Personally I’ve always hated the square bases, they take up so much space and most of the time they don’t stand upright and fall while tinkering
Like they’re SO UGLY FOR NO REASON LOL
I’d love it so much more if they made them like the white circle base in the video but just clear. Like WHY are they taking up so much space????
Feeling that "overgrowing out of figures" comment. The new boxes seem like they'd take up less space in storage ig, but it just seems a bit cheap looking especially for how expensive nendos are now days. Also those new bases are so ugly i swear
the problem is not them changing the boxes, the problem is lying about why, they should have said they want to reduce costs, but if they did, people would want a price reduction...
Yeah, these boxes just sucks and for this, I don't plan on buying anymore nendoroids
Personally, they could reduce the size of the box , it’s cute , better for storage but they could at least do a small window in the front for the figure somehow ?? Just a small side window for the figure then package the accessories however they want similar to old lps package or doll package.
This is really terrible. I keep all of my nendoroids in the box sealed, and the window packaging is important so that I can actually look at the figure I purchased lol. Its even more ridiculous that they swapped this figure's packaging after it was already revealed months ago, looks like I will not be preordering any upcoming nendoroids until this is switched back over. Thank you for the review of the packaging!
Cost saving measures ment too enrich the company and to cheapen the hobby as a whole. They will do this to pop up parade figures next just wait and see.
Def prefer the blisters with windows. I still display most of mine in their boxes and only unpack a couple at a time.
Inb4 price on blister-packed nendoroids inflates when they get cheaply-packed re-releases.
Among 100 other issues my biggest complaint is them using the flimsiest cardboard on earth to put your figure in, a worthless tissue paper thin non-compartmentalized "storage" box for you to throw all of your accessories in and have them scrape against each other, and the price remains as high as ever. Like you said, this reeks of straight up greed, not any kind of concern for the environment.
EDIT: I also wanted to say your VTuber is the CUTEST, I was mesmerized just watching its ears move, I love the colors you chose and how bouncy everything is
we calling companies out with this one🔥🔥🔥
Yeah I don't like this. I own several nendoroids and I use my boxes to store my extra pieces as well as have them as storage for my figures if I need to move or arrange. Plus we got so many good special box designs with the window. It's just sad. You are going to have an easier time scrapping parts and losing them. least give like a special baggy.
just realizing my aventurine nendo preorder is probably gonna come in one of the new boxes… really disappointed bc he would have looked so cool in the original box 😭
So will my Blade PO 😭 and I already own Dan Heng, they will look so weird side by side
I can't wait to see their sales plummet, wonder where they went wrong, and see them deflect blame onto us. Nah GSC you're own greed and producing subpar packaging are the reason, stop being dululu
I didn’t realize the change would appear this quickly omg. I’m highly skeptical of this change largely being for environmental reasons too. It stinks of greenwashing. I’m both a figure collector and super into environmentalism so I was super interested in the news of this change. Some of the most environmentally friendly things about figure collecting is something people don’t even really realize most often, the circularity of anime figures. The secondhand market is really strong within anime collecting community and to remove the clear window discourages secondhand sales (people are not easily able to see what they’re getting + reduced ease of bootleg detection). This encourages people to buy new (which can be difficult depending on the availability of the figure) which goes against the environment (extracting new material, manufacturing, shipment, etc.) when collectors could have bought secondhand. Not to mention the new packaging seems like it won’t protect the figure as well. Putting that many resources into producing a product to then not properly take care of it because of the lack of proper packaging (which is likely far less resource demanding than the product itself) sounds counter intuitive. Can’t say I’ll stop buying Nendoroids all together if they strongly enforce this new packaging into future releases, but I definitely feel less inclined to buy overall. Thanks for showing the new box!
GSC is already not doing as well as they used to, especially after Covid. I don’t see how this is going to help their situation.
Edit: I’m glad you mentioned that this is being done in part to increase preorder sales, this is probably in conjunction with changes like GSC US’s no preorder cancellation policy and their heightened shipping fees to make sure they can squeeze as much money directly from consumers as possible. Not a good look in my opinion, but we’ll see what happens.
The only reason for less plastic is that plastic has become more expensive. A while ago they changed from saying PVC/ABS to "plastics", meaning a mixture of anything that fit in said vague category. They reduced the packaging plastic because it got too expensive and along with the yen having such low value still, it hit their profit too hard. It's just money. If they really wanted to help the enviroment they could have donated part of their profit from their figures to some organization.
I stopped collecting Nendoroids cause prize figure quality has gotten better while also being larger and sometimes even cheaper and Nendos are just so fiddly to work with. But this certainly doesn’t help lol. I would worry so much if I had to pack them and move
I'm thinking of canceling my yoko 2.0 figure because I just do not like this box or the new base
Buying directly from the their stores also makes it easier for them to slip in defected products and blame the buyers on it. 🤦
this was a really nice and detailed video about the new boxes!! thank you so much for uploading this ❤❤
First Hasbro, now GSC. Huge y i k e s
Money saved for back-collecting their old figures from now on.
That nendoroid box storage is the stupidest thing I've ever seen what's the point? This will stop me from buying any new nendoroids
i preordered nendoroid #2420 and #2462 on september and while I was already so angry because of the new box announcement, now I hate the new base more than the box😣 i hope they don't send them with the new box+base..Even though i pre-ordered them from GSC's own website they also didn't have the preorder bonus base option
to be honest, we as anime lovers, we are paying big money on those toys because i love them and we all are expecting the best quality.
For overseas consumers, have fun when the shipping company destroys your boxes because now there's no protection. At least with the clamshells the figure was protected when the box was damaged.
Also the idea of the easel stands are great until you realize they're always sold out
this reminds me of when burger king and alot of fast food companies (but McDonalds) stopped selling plastic toys in kids meal for "the environment" and then it became all boring stickers and cardboard cutouts
I think the biggest concern is this. The price would still be the same high price...shoot, if they made the prices more affordable with this change. I'll axcept this change lol.
But my biggest concern is this, if they are changing all figure boxes down the line: ones that once had the old (better) look, ones being restocked. My goodness, so many fricken people are gonna inflate the prices of figures with old box designs now...
Edit: Another rant, this type of packaging is more prone to have broken pieces when people get them now; since there isn't much protection for them. This isn't like Hasbro figures, where its more durable plastic and less paint. Made for generally kids, either way their packaging is the same bad taste... These are collector's items. I swear, bits of hair or accessories are gonna be delivered broken or chipped...
the entire appeal to them is that i like having them in a box to look at, what am i even looking at at this point, cardboard, i could literally print a picture and hang it on my wall and that would be more interesting.
What figure collecting over these last few years has shown me is that being a Taiga fan is absolute pain.
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I wish that it could be like the Marvel Legends new windowed packaging because it is smaller, compact, and still has plastic windows and clamp, which makes it easier to look at it and to store them without taking up a lot of space
GSC save a lot of money by not using plastic but the prices remain the same, meaning they want to make more money than before.
They say they don't want to use plastic, but with the POPUP PARADE line, they are going to use all the plastic in the world.
Prize figure collectors exposed for not caring about boxes 👀
I have over 50 Nendoroids, I actually don’t even know why I buy them because they annoy me so much, I only buy them to put beside their manga. But I don’t care about them, I only care about scales & statues.
with how much plastic they had to insert to pad the nendos, I doubt they're even really saving all that much plastic compared to before. And the type they're using now is the type that's 100% going to be thrown away, because it's just packaging and nothing else, versus the old blisters which doubled as displays and storage, and that I'm fairly certain most people kept. *And* the packaging is still worse in actually protecting the figures, with all the ways the figs can move inside of the box and with how unsecure they are. Literally the only benefit of this is that this is probably way cheaper materials wise for the company; the box is easier to assemble since its solid and cardboard, the clamshell prolly cost _something_ in comparison to this method of placing in some plastic separators, wrapping the figure, then tossing it into a cardboard box (assumedly all done by hand), the stand is a smaller amount of flimsier plastic...and not only are they seemingly keeping prices the same for this junk, but they even put an item whose preorder ended before the packaging change announcement in it...
Biiiiiiiig yikes. Something's prolly changed at the company, and in a really bad way.
Obviously they intend for you to buy those nendoroid more face storage figures where it’s like an animal onesie that you just slap your extra faces onto lol. But yeah these boxes definitely feel like cutting costs over anything else.
I don't mind the idea of package reduction but the lack of places to safely put the spare parts upsets me as I keep each part in its spot in the clam shell because it's the safest spot. I even keep the plastic rap and the tape because I'm scared of damage. I don't know how to protect the parts now. The outer box I don't mind but the inner box I hate. I don't like the new stand I prefer the old one. I wouldn't mind the change if they gave you a plastic box for the accessories that is designed for them and intended to be kept.
Ah man... I mean, I get it, less plastic. But that puts a peanut 🥜 in the cog for in-box display. I probably won't be buying any NEW or re-released nendoroids now.
Jesus, that's prize figure status packaging. If they came in boxes that plain I wouldn't bother saving them. Its nice to save the boxes if you want to resell it at some point or just because they look nice and can be reused to repackage your figure if your moving out but these new ones suck.
Also don't trust that it will make it cheaper for the consumer. They will use this an an excuse to cut costs and maybe reduce the price ever so slightly but inflation will bring that right back up. So you'll pay the same for inferior packaging.
You and me both. I have been collecting for 12 years and a hater of change, especially bad ones.
What inflation done to Japanese product is horrid.
Man, now it looks like a cheap ichiban kuji figure. I'm not into nendoroids, but I can't deny how hypnotizing it was on shelf, that I wanna buy one if I saw it in stores. Those now-old boxes are really appealing, even if I don't really like the concept as a whole. I do get your "conspiracy theory" there. This is definitely just a public stunt, they don't really care. I personally used to buy Gundams, and they now used some more "eco-friendly" material. But said eco-friendly material is so brittle and easily break, you're bound to buy replacement if you're a casual builder that can't modify and fix it yourself. If they want to be actually eco-friendly, should've get rid off the runners and plastic wrap, and just used the same plastic they used to since it's less likely for people to buy duplicates to replace broken ones. Do what Lego did and have the parts already separated and inside a paper bag. But no, they need to sell dem modelling tools for more money, which they do. And intentionally making some parts color inaccurate so that you'll buy paint, which are in non-refill bottles, adding more waste. The new plastic is easier to cut without tools, but that doesn't mean it's clean and requires no sanding. Those nubs are still there, and nubs could prevent parts from snapping properly. Guess you need some tools still, teehee. Plus, now they're implementing a building technique called "Fine Build System", that meant to make building model kits easier, but the engineering caused it to be brittle. Adding the new brittle plastic, you're guaranteed to break it if moving and partswaping it too much. Oh yeah, they also incentivized partswaps, since they made a line of basically blank figures with high customizability via sold-separately parts...inside a plastic bag and still on runners, more waste yay. If you partswap it too much it'll break or at least being loose. The type of joints they used are the unfixable type (c-clips joint), so you're going to need to buy a completely new one to replace it. It is considerably cheap, which could incentivized people to not mind rebuying it. Yeah...not sure if they're being genuine about eco-friendly thing. But alas, companies being companies
I mainly buy the nendoroid dolls because I like having something to dress up. I usually don't keep the boxes unless it's for storage
See I exclusively pre-order for the most part now but there are some I ordered to display in their box... I also sometimes pre-order one to display in its box and another to open and display. This announcement came way after I made some pre-orders so... what..? Are they going to waive their cancelation policy..? This feels like a bait and switch to me, I would love to cancel the pre-orders I placed multiples of because whats the point now.. you can't see them. They should have made the announcement and listed NEW releases that would have this change. Not ones with existing orders already placed..
Also, how am I going to see if there are any major defects on the figure without opening it now? Previously if a part was missing or there was major paint issues you could see it in the window. Now if I keep them sealed I could be screwing myself because how do I know there isn't a major defect or missing parts. GSC has been pretty kind with their defect warranty.. but are they going to honor that in 4 years if I decide to wait until then to open the box? I doubt they would have stock then and complain saying I should have just opened it.
EDIT: I agree that the bonus item wasn't available on the US site when I pre-ordered Taiga but checking back now it shows in my order.... so they must have retroactively changed it. Guess we will see if it comes with it as it is shipping in the next two weeks.
I cancelled my pre-order for the taiga Nendoroid I don’t support the box change.
I hate the new boxes so much... it seems like GS hired the same dumb people who changed the Hasbro toys boxes and don't see how big of a deal it was... Hasbro even start to sell less of their figs when they changed the boxes they start comming with worse QC and you cant see if the figure had problems, so i can easily see the nendos starting to come with bad QC or damaged on shipping
Plus.. we are the target audience, we buy the figs and never throw the boxes, we are more eco friendly that their factories 😂, if they start changing other figs boxes like figmas or even their scales GS is going down...
To me, this feels like what they did when they changed the pop up parade Bases Still angry about that. When you get earlier ones, it's fine. But when you get later ones...
This got me questioning my future buying these figures
The difference is that the PUP base change was undoubtedly for the better
@@worldsworstchoirboy They quite literally, just made them all circles. And the circle sizes aren't even consistent, Which is what really annoys me the most.
I honestly would be less irritated if the circles Bases were transparent and thinner, Kinda like how they look like during their prototype stage.
The Aisaka Taiga pop up is SO CUTE but I specifically knew the base is gonna be ugly so I skipped her 😔
@@KAYOZIACHANNEL I mean, I understand why people didn't like the previous pup Bases. but they at least they were consistent. The problem now is they can't. decide on the scale or color scheme. for them
Well a fun idea. You can paint and customize those boring stands.
I can see the intention of the box design of being universal packaging rather than making a unique plastic cover to hold the nendoroid and parts together as that cost money to uniquely design and manufacturer to which I am guessing it's no longer sustainable. I really think there is room for improvement such as the box containing the figure made out of clear plastic with a universal design which can be seen from outside of the box
Maybe a compromise where they keep the plastic window but lose the interior blisters. I keep my boxes and the blisters makes it impossible to flatten the packaging completely.
OMG you have Billy Herrinton figures, that's sick
The new boxes are wasteful in their own way. What really sucks is how many people would pay the price hike to keep the better packaging, but Goodsmile likely saves a TON of money this way on top of keeping prices low. I'd even accept if they did the pre-order BS for exclusive bases (as much as I hate that), but changing the packaging is wild. So many people display in-box or keep the boxes. It just feels like the type of box a sketchy counterfeit would use.
RIP to those whose series are still getting Nendoroid's and you can no longer have matching packaging display for the entire set
(This is about the remaining IDOLiSH7 nendoroids lol)
i was thinking the same thing about the i7 nendos lol. i take mine outta the box but have the boxes lined up side-view and the new difference in height and stuff would be so jarring
I want to point out that the easel stands have been out of stock for about two years now. Last year they experimentally released a round base for them but that was available for like.... a minute. You can only use it with the nendo's stand because they made the most garbage cheap one for it but the round bases were nice. I hate that all the nendos come with ad for an easel that I can't even get anymore!
New to your channel and I appreciate you walking through this fairly objectively. Saw this video under the YT recommendations since I started dabbling in collecting nendroids and some figures as an offshoot of collecting and building Gunpla and some Bandai metal build figures. As one who understands the deterioration of polycaps and posability, having these shipped in a way that could have already worn out the ability for the figure to hold certain poses is disheartening. It is interesting that Good Smile are just now they are removing plastic when so many Marvel, Transformers, and other US toys had removed plastic and the visibility for some time and finally have gone back to using plastic or open air for viewing the figure in the packaging. As far as making it a premium product (comparing to P-Bandai) they have a long way to go. But a figure that cannot be displayed in box, and even to validate the figure is there, pls it makes repackaging very difficult and flimsy... all that to say, It makes me not want to invest more in a Schrodinger's nendroid and more in the mecha. I get it cut costs, but will it cut consumer interest?
they better be making the nendoroids cheaper if they do this cuz this feels more like a trinket rather than a collectable figure
I feel it was done to save costs
The same reason apple removed the wall adapter from the iPhone box
Make the box smaller so more product fits into the shipping box
Even just shipping them direct to customers the box is still small so cheaper shipping
Cheaper packaging cuz now there's no clear plastic that needs to be molded specifically to the figure
Everything was done to save a few bucks or pennies even for profit without lowering the price of course because the idea is to make more money without lowering the price to the consumer hahaha 🥴
Oof i don't know how well these boxes are gonna hold up either... i remember in my trip to japan i bought a prize figure secondhand, it started pouring when i went out, the box got wet and i had to throw it out because it became mush... it was fine because it was a prize fig, but having pretty much no plastic structure for an expensive nendoroid... i don't know how this will hold through harsh conditions
Doesn’t goodsmile also make the popup figures? I don’t have a figure from that line but every time I see a figure in person, the plastic packaging looks wayyy more unnecessarily larger compared to the actual figure. And it’s all plastic. If they really are being environmentally conscious (which I doubt) they should have considered that line first.
For me, the original nendoroid packaging gives it a premium feel that sort of justifies how costly they are. Some of my figures I leave in the box bc I like the packaging design 😅
My immediate concern about the new box design is that this kind of packaging can be used by scammers since no one can see the contents of the box...
Can't stand the new box because I can't see the quality beforehand. And I just loved seeing my figure and knowing if it was authentic :(
I think they said figures like Hatsune Miku would be require assembly so I assume Miku will come in the new Box but maybe headless or something like that.
I don't think raising the price on people would fix anything , especially if the quality isn't going to change but stay the same or , no extra parts will be included to justify the price.
With that packaging it really doesn't feel like you bought a 50+$ product.
I also liked looking at nendos at conventions, since you had been able to see the figure, guess we won't be able to do that now.