The 'Blind Box' concept is a bit of a nod to the concept of Trading Cards, you know you buy a pack, get duplicates, swap with your pals (in theory), but the point is you get addicted to getting a set and therefore odds are you buy more than you would if you could pick and choose. It also appeals to retailers because they are likely to sell their entire stock because the buyers will not just cherry pick the best items.
For some of the items out there sold like this they even carry some 'candy' in the boxes, again a nod to the trading cards with bubblegum concept so popular a few years back. Some were also sold at relatively low prices originally, the idea being to maybe sell them in mass market stores (again the candy) to kids or adults who are out shopping for something else.
If you take the ZZ Trains they also have an added bonus in that as well as the defined set of ten trains (5 power cars and 5 x 2 unpowered cars) there is also a 'secret' train that 'may' be in a factory sealed box of packs. What it is nobody knows till you pull one, but that's one reason why I wanted to get a sealed box, in the hope of pulling the 'rare' secret train
As for the opening 'high', yup can't beat it, next chapter when it arrives will be mainly PlaRail Advance plus a few surprises
For some of the items out there sold like this they even carry some 'candy' in the boxes, again a nod to the trading cards with bubblegum concept so popular a few years back. Some were also sold at relatively low prices originally, the idea being to maybe sell them in mass market stores (again the candy) to kids or adults who are out shopping for something else.
If you take the ZZ Trains they also have an added bonus in that as well as the defined set of ten trains (5 power cars and 5 x 2 unpowered cars) there is also a 'secret' train that 'may' be in a factory sealed box of packs. What it is nobody knows till you pull one, but that's one reason why I wanted to get a sealed box, in the hope of pulling the 'rare' secret train
As for the opening 'high', yup can't beat it, next chapter when it arrives will be mainly PlaRail Advance plus a few surprises
Happily collecting things all my life... 