LEGO fans seemingly frustrated by the switch to cardboard packaging for the Collectible Minifigures are reportedly ripping open 71039 Marvel Series 2 boxes in
When I heard that were moving to boxes, I had the (I’m sure not very original) idea for LEGO to print codes on the boxes. Determined fans who wanted a particular figure could look up the code and purchase boxes based on this. Fans who wanted the full blind box experience could ignore the codes.
It wouldn’t be anything obvious like “this box contains Wolverine.” Instead, it could say something like MCMF2-3200 and fans would need to decode the numbers to tell which figures had which codes.
For a short time, it looked like there might have been codes on the packages and I was happy that LEGO did this. Then, the codes got disproved.
I still think this would work. Think of it like the alien alphabets in Futurama. That led fans to rewatch episodes over and over to decode the language. This would be the LEGO version of this - only not as complex because there would only need to be 12 to decode.
When I heard that were moving to boxes, I had the (I’m sure not very original) idea for LEGO to print codes on the boxes. Determined fans who wanted a particular figure could look up the code and purchase boxes based on this. Fans who wanted the full blind box experience could ignore the codes.
It wouldn’t be anything obvious like “this box contains Wolverine.” Instead, it could say something like MCMF2-3200 and fans would need to decode the numbers to tell which figures had which codes.
For a short time, it looked like there might have been codes on the packages and I was happy that LEGO did this. Then, the codes got disproved.
I still think this would work. Think of it like the alien alphabets in Futurama. That led fans to rewatch episodes over and over to decode the language. This would be the LEGO version of this - only not as complex because there would only need to be 12 to decode.