My son had his 4th birthday party today and it took me over an hour, i'm NOT exaggerating, to get all the toys out of the package! What is up with the 6 million twist ties that hold the toys in the package. Not to mention the plastic that is "super" taped to the box, that you have to break through to get to the twist ties. And the whole time my kid is standing there saying "have you got it yet?", "almost done?"...sigh! It took over an hour but seemed like 5 especially after a very loud b/day party....
2006-06-30 12:25:09 · 21 answers · asked by beth l 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
lol on the barbie stuff. I had a friend who said "You think boy toys are bad! Try losing a barbie shoe!"
2006-06-30 15:49:39 · update #1
Omigod! Tell me about it! It's easier to open a new CD than a child's toy and you KNOW how hard those darn things are! Why do they do that? The toy itself might not be a choking hazard, but the packaging sure is and we all know how small kids love to play with the box it came in. Is it to prevent shoplifting? Well, it works...lol. Drives me nuts too and my little guy has a 4th birthday coming up and I'm so not looking forward to that part of it. I'll let my hubby do it..:)
2006-06-30 12:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by blondeqtpie13 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is very crazy ,when the second Matrix movie came out i bought the mechs they used to shoot the robots. It took me and hour and a half to untwist all the twist ties and there where tons of them, the seem to add more for action figures esp the clear rubber band types.After all that when i took it out the box the body came out leaving the arms and legs in the box, it was twist tied so tight it was broken on all the hinges.I took it back bought another same thing. Went to manager at Kaybee we checked 3o that they had in the store and each one was exactly the same,i hope any collectors who bought that toy looked at it before they put it up,lol.
2006-06-30 12:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by fallen69jedi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think that's bad wait till you see Barbie packaging. This is the worst I have ever seen. I bought a tool for cutting through all the ties after spending hours and hours opening these damn ties on Christmas day. Best tool ever
2006-06-30 14:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a nightmare - I totally agree with you!! It's ridiculous but I guess manufacturers do that to discourage people from stealing their products. But still, it gets to you after a while - all the pulling and twisting to get a toy out of its box. It's no fun anymore. It used to be that half the fun was ripping the box open to get the toy, now, kids can't even rip open their toy boxes by themselves -- we adults have to do it for them because there's no way that kids can get those packages to open!
2006-06-30 12:33:08 · answer #4 · answered by hotmomma23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES. It's a nightmare sometimes. The boxes within a box. Then they have super hard plastic covering ALL of the toy. You finally pry that open and you have the million of twisty ties and plastic brackets that attach the toy to the final piece of cardboard. Insane I know.
2006-06-30 12:30:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES - try a Christmas morning with 5 kids!!
However, this is done not only to prevent theft - but also to prevent the toys from moving around in the box. When they're packaged so they don't move around in the box, easier to sell.
2006-06-30 12:29:41 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know especially the ones with the screws in them...We were on vacation for Christmas and we didn't have a screwdriver to open some of my sons toys it was a nightmare. I've gotten to where I'll just get them out of packaging first, then wrap the present...
2006-06-30 13:33:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know, it's awful, try this. I had a package of goggles to open and all I had were my hands and a set of car keys. I had to bend the package a gazillion time back and forth back and forth before I finally got a littel teeny tiny hole in it. Then I did that same thing another gazillion times before I could finally get the very tip of the key in it. And the whole time I was saying go faster go faster to myself cause I was on my way to a birthday party where I'd need them. Finally I got them open, but ugh.
2006-06-30 12:34:01 · answer #8 · answered by heartbroken 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to the frustration of the party you became irritable and that caused you to count ever twisty that came packaged on the gifts. Maybe you should have suggested that your child open one toy and wait until later to play with the rest, then you could have collected yourself and not been annoyed.
2006-06-30 12:33:48 · answer #9 · answered by msblackthin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear ya. It seems to me that the packaging engineers are sadistic bastards who get off on the mental anguish of people opening this stuff.
I would just love to get the person(s) that tape the dvd's up then shrink wrap them with a ballistic plastic.
2006-06-30 12:30:36 · answer #10 · answered by Biker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋