Sweet Baby Jesus: Please kill the toy packagers!!! [Archive]

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Judge Smails

12-25-2006, 10:34 AM

If you have kids, or if you've ever opened a toy box for one, you know what I'm talking about.FUCKING TWISTY TIES!!!  All I've done today is open these goddamn things.  By the time I get them out of the box the kids have lost interest and moved onto the next thing they want opened.  In addition, I've stabbed myself in the hand twice with the pointy edges of those plastic cases you have to cut open. I just spent (no exageration) a half hour getting this Video Spy Car out of the box for my son.  This one was actually screwed into the box in addition to to having twisty ties.  I wound up stripping the screw heads and was afraid I was going to break the thing just trying to get it out of the box. Merry Fucking Christmas ya scumbag packaging engineers!

reeshy

12-25-2006, 10:36 AM

Poor Randy!!!!

angelinad128

12-25-2006, 10:40 AM

Yes!!! It really is annoying undoing about 8 separate twisty ties per toy. But what is more anoying is why are they then coverd by tape?

Sleeves

12-25-2006, 10:53 AM

Holy christ I cannot believe the diabolical relationship that has been devised between cardboard and twisty ties.

spot

12-25-2006, 11:21 AM

I don't even bother trying to un-twist them.. <img src="http://www.vicarinternational.com/images/p53b.jpg" border="0" width="226" height="258" />

FezPaul

12-25-2006, 11:26 AM

Sleeves wrote: Holy christ I cannot believe the diabolical relationship that has been devised between cardboard and twisty ties.   Serves ya right for eating all the halloween candy. <img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" width="20" height="20" />

FezPaul

12-25-2006, 11:32 AM

spot wrote: I don't even bother trying to un-twist them.. <img src="http://www.vicarinternational.com/images/p53b.jpg" border="0" width="226" height="258" /> http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/christmas-cheer-grinch.gif

cougarjake13

12-25-2006, 11:43 AM

sorry to burden you all on a christmas afternoon but its an honest job and i make a decent wagedont hate me for it

Hottub

12-25-2006, 12:16 PM

Stankfoot

12-25-2006, 06:11 PM

I want to know who is the genious is who decided that all battery compartments on toys need to be held shut with a screw?

badmonkey

12-26-2006, 10:12 AM

Judge Smails wrote: If you have kids, or if you've ever opened a toy box for one, you know what I'm talking about.FUCKING TWISTY TIES!!! All I've done today is open these goddamn things. By the time I get them out of the box the kids have lost interest and moved onto the next thing they want opened. In addition, I've stabbed myself in the hand twice with the pointy edges of those plastic cases you have to cut open. I just spent (no exageration) a half hour getting this Video Spy Car out of the box for my son. This one was actually screwed into the box in addition to to having twisty ties. I wound up stripping the screw heads and was afraid I was going to break the thing just trying to get it out of the box. Merry Fucking Christmas ya scumbag packaging engineers!No shit.  I thought the electronics stuff I used to buy for myself was a pain in the ass with the hard plastic cases but ever since my daughter was born, I too have been in twisty tie hell.  They aren't even twisty ties anymore either.  They're pieces of thick wire that has been twisted by robotic fingers attached to and rotated by an airplane engine.  Next year I'm getting bolt cutters and a chainsaw for christmas. Badmonkey

Skellington

12-26-2006, 10:33 AM

opening a brita that goes on the faucet in one of those sealed plastic hoobajoobs resulted in me stabbing myself in the gut with a pair of kitchen shears.  I think the reason why they put screws on the battery compartments now is because of the battery hazard.  Small innocent fleshbags can shove those in their drool hole and choke.  thusly, they must be secured in.  *shrug*

FUNKMAN

12-26-2006, 01:43 PM

not quite on topic but the HOSTESS 12 Donut Box.  I've never been able to open one up in my life without tearing the sideand i defy anyone to get er done without tearing it using hands only<img src="http://i4.peapod.com/c/8N/8NV3I.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="200" />

Fallon

12-26-2006, 01:47 PM

I hate the toy packers as well. Does a doll need to be that secure?And Funk, you are right on!

Jujubees2

12-26-2006, 01:49 PM

FUNKMAN

12-26-2006, 02:00 PM

Fallon wrote: I hate the toy packers as well. Does a doll need to be that secure?And Funk, you are right on!Fallon you da manalso the glass bottle of Skin Bracer or Electric Shave, there is no way you can use it without spilling it...edit: forgot to add " and i defy anyone to get er done without spilling a drop "

This message was edited by FUNKMAN on 12-26-06 @ 6:06 PM

Fallon

12-26-2006, 02:10 PM

FUNKMAN wrote: Fallon wrote: I hate the toy packers as well. Does a doll need to be that secure?And Funk, you are right on!Fallon you da manalso the glass bottle of Skin Bracer or Electric Shave, there is no way you can use it without spilling it...edit: forgot to add " and i defy anyone to get er done without spilling a drop "  Crap, I just got my first electric razor and a bottle of Lerctric Shave.

mikeyboy

12-26-2006, 02:45 PM

I was actually going to start a thread about this. I don't know how much time I wasted Chritsmas morning on those damn twisties. It all comes down packaging -- the prevalent way that toys are packaged now is so that the actual toy, and not a picture of it on the box, can be seen. As such. the damn things need to be affixed in the packaging with industrial strength metal wiring.

On the other hand, it seems like we don't have to deal as much with the "some assembly required" toys that terrorized our parents.

This message was edited by mikeyboy on 12-26-06 @ 6:46 PM

Mike Teacher

12-26-2006, 04:19 PM

Jujubees2 wrote: spot wrote: I don't even bother trying to un-twist them.. <img src="http://www.vicarinternational.com/images/p53b.jpg" border="0" width="226" height="258" /> Spot ON!sheeesh really what's wrong you folks never heard of wire cutters?Snip, clip, clip, done.Fellow guitar players know the drill.

LisaNY

12-26-2006, 06:01 PM

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....those twist ties SUCK!!!!<img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/annoyed.gif" border="0" width="18" height="18" />

Gaia

12-26-2006, 11:59 PM

Judge Smails wrote: If you have kids, or if you've ever opened a toy box for one, you know what I'm talking about.FUCKING TWISTY TIES!!!  All I've done today is open these goddamn things.  By the time I get them out of the box the kids have lost interest and moved onto the next thing they want opened.  In addition, I've stabbed myself in the hand twice with the pointy edges of those plastic cases you have to cut open. I just spent (no exageration) a half hour getting this Video Spy Car out of the box for my son.  This one was actually screwed into the box in addition to to having twisty ties.  I wound up stripping the screw heads and was afraid I was going to break the thing just trying to get it out of the box. Merry Fucking Christmas ya scumbag packaging engineers! HHHAAAAAAHAHAHA!! IT'S FUNNY CAUSE' IT'S TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is sooo fucking true. Whenever my nephews ask me to open something, I cringe. After I cut those plastic packages with scissors, I ALWAYS cut myself on the plastic that has been cut. Then it's attack of the twisty ties and cardboard, and what about the zip ties??!!! Are they shitting me??!!!!   By the way, Thats probably one of the best parts of  A Christmas Story, and that little movie/JPEG? is tits. Im going to steal it.

RoseBlood

12-27-2006, 12:59 AM

badmonkey

12-28-2006, 10:40 AM

mikeyboy wrote:  On the other hand, it seems like we don't have to deal as much with the "some assembly required" toys that terrorized our parents. This message was edited by mikeyboy on 12-26-06 @ 6:46 PM <img src="http://trus.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-3065937dt.jpg" border="0" alt="Kitchen" title="Kitchen" width="500" height="500" />Two and a half hours to put together and I only injured myself twice.  Badmonkey

FezPaul

12-28-2006, 12:05 PM

Mike Teacher wrote: Jujubees2 wrote: spot wrote: I don't even bother trying to un-twist them.. <img src="http://www.vicarinternational.com/images/p53b.jpg" border="0" width="226" height="258" /> Spot ON!sheeesh really what's wrong you folks never heard of wire cutters?Snip, clip, clip, done.Fellow guitar players know the drill. Paul Gilbert does.<img src="http://www.aerosatellite.com/guitarstars/paulgilbert/RacerXDrill.jpg" border="0" width="166" height="242" />

boeman

12-28-2006, 01:57 PM

Mike Teacher wrote: Jujubees2 wrote: spot wrote: I don't even bother trying to un-twist them.. <img src="http://www.vicarinternational.com/images/p53b.jpg" border="0" width="226" height="258" /> Spot ON!sheeesh really what's wrong you folks never heard of wire cutters?Snip, clip, clip, done.Fellow guitar players know the drill. I couldn't find either set of diagonal cutters so I got out the scissors that can cut through a penny. Worked a lot better IMO.