Step 1, build it. 2, keep the box. 3, keep the manual inside, 4 display.

Or, just think about it. Get more shelving. If you can spend $650 on sets, you can spend $50 getting shelves.

For a while I understood keeping toys in boxes for collection purposes, but now I just feel like it’s a waste of joy. Just enjoy opening and playing with them, who cares if it could be worth a couple more bucks in a decade or two

I love how these people are so obsessed about keeping them in box. I had all these "rare" sets as a kid and had so much fun playing with them, seeing them left in the box is just depressing

Not relatable at all, if you don't open the set whats even the point of the toy? Toys are meant to be played with and enjoyed.

Open them, the fun of buying something is to use it

Ah yes I love keeping a piece of cardboard with a picture of my Lego model printed on, instead of the actual Lego model that I payed for

I think I like the older ones better because back when I was little I would always look at the other sets at the back of the box that you could buy. Edit: Thanks for the likes guys!

Get them open and get building mate , I’m not bothered about the boxes as I’m never going to sell my collection, but you definitely need to open and enjoy 😊

I kinda like the newer ones, because it’s innovative

For my boxes I like to use the principle of russian matroschka figures. Put the smaler box in the next biger one and so on.

I thought this would be about Grievous at first because of the thumbnail lol

I don't keep any boxes or packaging from anything I collect. Because to me, the same toys will reach the same value at some point, whether you have the box or not, if you keep them in good condition. Its just that if you still have the original packaging, the value goes up much faster.

The old boxes are so nostalgic and are designed beautifully

I miss the really old boxes with the flip open tops and separate bins. That way you could take the sets apart and put them back to build again at another time.

I just open any set I get. I like seeing the model and I’m not fussed on how that affects the value.

Nah I love opening boxes, I even purposefully rip them open

Honestly space is a nightmare, so new

You fiddle your knife between the opening, turn it so that the glue connection loosens but the side lids do not tear and you simply fold the box forward. easy. but many didn't do this but used the thumb holes I think

I never felt the need to keep LEGO boxes. I do, however, have 50+ Bionicle canisters in my basement xD

I think I personally prefer ripping the box open and feeling like a kid, but I'm definitely behind this new design for the collectors out there

the big nostalgia for me was the cardboard smell that came from opening a new Lego box. So if that's maintained with the new boxes, I'm happy.

As an adult I don’t bother with boxes. I open them, build the set and toss the box. Idk I just don’t get the point of a million boxes

I think the new system is both cool and useful for preserving the boxes, even if the old ones are way more iconic.

As someone who still has nearly every lego box from my entire childhood, collapseable boxes is actually such a game changer. Also, having rare sets on display is even more peak than keeping them sealed, with the exception being sets you intend to sell (Which is not common for me).

Im mainly a transformers collector, but im the type to keep all boxes. I just enjoy them. I tend to use them as part of the display, laying them flat and using them as a small stage so that all the sets displayed are equally visible, a row in the back thats elevated, and one in fron thats lower

As an adult lego fan, I honestly love opening old sets.

Nah man, that could be the first Star Wars Lego and I’d open that right up

I don't keep many boxes, but I do try to keep the rare ones, even if they're just used as storage 😂

I just hope they never get rid of paper instructions. I don't want to have to use technology to build a set

I mean, I just fold up the old boxes, too. This is just better. The new ones flatten easier and don’t get as destroyed when you fold the older boxes etc.

What I do is open it up, build the model, then put the manual in a clear book arranged by model or set number, and as for the box I just cut it and keep the box art section and keep them like giant cards - I do the same with my gunpla collection

The magic is opening the box and building the Lego.

I open 'em, build 'em, store the manual, display 'em, and toss the box. I like to live on the edge bro😂

Step 1, open box. Step 2, build set. Step 3 put extra pieces in Ziploc bag. Step 4 throw away boxes.

I fully understand, haha. I feel the same way with video games, but with Lego, I love opening the boxes but keeping the empty box

I like buying second hand stuff (mostly videogames, old videogames) because I don't like them being sealed. It's like, nobody ever opened it and now it's something rare that should be preserved since seeing one in this condition is a miracle. And I want to preserve it but also play it, so to avoid that kind of dumb situation I just buy a second hand one in good condition and no problem

I almost spat my drink out when I saw what some of these older SW sets were going for. And that I had some of these at one point makes me nauseous.

I dont hate opening boxes. Thats like the whole reason i get sealed ones to have that feeling of opening a brand new set. Granted I do have a few sealed only cuz they are in very good condition

Meanwhile I just rip the boxes up like a dawg

I say life is too short to keep your toys in a box. I tape the boxes to my wall.

Lego has been making some great changes recently. On top of this, we have the paper bags that are supposed to replace the plastic ones. See, this is why I love Lego- They're actually trying to make stuff better.

I carefully break the boxes down to save space.

yeah i understand wanting to keep sealed boxes i keep boxes too but dont just leave them there whats the point of buying it if your not gonna build it just slightly cut the tape, build the set, put the manuals back inside, and just keep it closed if u really wanna keep the box

This is why Lego needs to make updates versions of these (without stud shooters or major downsizing)

Whenever i get a big set like the daily bugle i put my small boxes in there like the gunship box and then fill that one with even smaller boxes so i save room and it works out pretty well

I've been really enjoying getting Lego second hand on eBay and making a tiny city above my desk, I recommend that over having to open boxes and lose money and you save money as things are already open.

I wanted that Grievous star fighter set forever because I used to have a massive book of every Star Wars Lego set made up to about 2014. One of my favorites to look at was the MTT set that was literally perfect.

I'm more interested in the trash can system.

What my family has always done is cut up the boxes, keep cool elements of them and then make collages as a cool reminder of the things weve done that doubles as an art piece!

I always cut the glued folds open and fold the boxes in.

What I recommend is buying opened boxed sets with the bags still sealed on eBay! That way you can build the set, pay a little less than sealed, and still have the box to display. That’s how I got “8038 Star Wars The Battle of Endor” for about 200

If you're opening them, just break the boxes down flat. As long as you haven't ripped the cardboard at all, the value doesn't change if the old boxes are flattened or not.

I remember getting the collector set for Christmas back in the day. Great childhood memory

I WISH everything and everyone did this. As a collector who also keeps boxes (in case of selling or rare ones) I genuinely have no more room cuz of these damn boxes

“If I can open it I can play with the set” -grown ass man

If you plan to resell the set keep it boxed, otherwise, I’ve never understood keeping it in box and keeping it on display, it just seems like a waste of money when you could just keep the box. In the last year I finally tossed all my boxes cause they kept too much space and it finally clicked in my head that holding onto them is pointless when I care about the actual sets so much more

you can turn the boxes into posters without excess use of scissors now which is actually super cool

Being a toy collector, I think its a general problem with our hobby. The longer it goes, the less space we have for the plastic itself, let alone the packaging. On the other hand there's the anxiety about "devaluing" your collectible. Personally I don't regard my hobby as an investment, but I hate it when I have to sell something and people start looking for any excuse to lowball the price. Opened/abscent packaging is the first thing they'll be crying about. If I were big into Lego collecting I'd be happy about the foldable box gimmick. You can even frame the front cover and put it on the wall if you like it so much. Though these boxes should be made out of better quality cardboard, and maybe have a different approach to prints on them. The paint/print will start cracking and flaking off on the folding-lines over time.

Both, although the newer boxes would work if you like to collect Lego sets. 👍🏻

Like the new box system, makes it easier to store them. I have loads of sealed sets from the old system but some I don’t want to open because I feel like I’ll ruin them.

Easy solution, get a basement, then just get more basement levels.

That seems like it would go in a picture frame better and it would be kind of cool to have them displayed side-by-side on the wall

easy solution with lots of potential for money making: lego can sell a service to print selected box sizes with patterns from their catalog. since noone that keeps the box resells it with lego profiting, this would generate a whole new market and could make lego lots of money.

God the ARC-170 is one of my favorite sets of all time! So glad I got one years ago before massive price jumps

I feel like I prefer the way the old boxes open, but this way is definitely better for storing and displaying boxes

Me, a Gunpla builder, laughing with my boxes

I keep the box with the instructions/bags/extra parts inside. I’d have to figure out where to keep those other items, but a compact box seems like a fantastic space-saving idea!

If you don’t plan on reselling it for a higher price as it becomes more vintage, then there’s no point to keeping anything in a box. Plus if you open the box carefully enough, you can preserve the box for displaying. It’s even doable with blister packs that toys come in, like Transformers. I would know, I’ve done it

That's so Lego not only creative with Lego sets but also boxes

When it's something you can actually see while it's in it's packaging I can understand the while collecting and keeping it mint. Lego is an exception for me. You can only truly enjoy it once it's built. Otherwise it's just a bunch of plastic peices sitting in a cardboard box. I'd rather display the model than a box. Now yes I do keep my boxes but they just take up space in my closet.

I have both of those sets still from when I was a kid! I didn’t keep the boxes but the sets are still assembled on shelf in a glass cabinet in my childhood room!

The point of a toy is to play with it and build it! Buying something to not open it is so stupid and worthless and waste of money. I open the toy and then throw away the box because that's just the storage so the box is worthless to me. I'm an adult but I open my toys lol. That's why I loved the scene in Beyond the Spider-Verse others seemingly hated where Gwen opened Miles' toy lol.

I get keeping some stuff in the box like carded figures because you can still see the thing you spent all that money on, but a closed box like this does nothing for me on a shelf.

Meanwhile Lego: you weren't supposed to collect every set...

My mom cut up all my Lego boxes in the late 1980s, when I was about 10. I only had the front and back panels. This might be a great idea, but I'll have to see it first.

Older boxes were definitely better for display, but the new ones are better if you actually open them, but want to keep the box and manual jic you end up wanting to sell it or give it away later down the line. The older boxes had more room for the designs, and they had other sets on the back which I liked looking at while my dad built the set when I was little.

I just wish LEGO would do away with gluing shut their boxes and just stick with tape cuz breaking down the boxes can be difficult to not damage when glued, buuut then their also less secure/easy to open and steal in the stores sadly

Kinda funny how the new Lego set boxes open up like gunpla

The new ones obviously are more practical but optically the older ones were just goated

80s/90s boxes had no problem folding down for storage; they used tape and no glue.

I personally don't care too much about the new boxes, I've always just cut out the front of the boxes to keep

Episode 3 collector’s set was my first set i received for my birthday in 2005. I played with it all the time. It has since been long lost in shambles in the various boxes of legos I have. Wish I was a smart kid cuz that set is so valuable now

Actually a really smart move on Lego’s part

Ok, I actually love this idea. I keep so many boxes from Pokémon Mega Construx and various TCGs because they're such nice display items. I actually just threw away the packaging from all 4 of my Nintendo Labo kits plus the packaging to both VR expansion kits, and even that was kinda hard. I considered cutting off the covers, but the Vehicle kit's box had big tears gone from the front where it had been marked with a shipping label and stuff, so... meh. My main problem is with TCG starter decks, since I tend to rebuild those whenever I want to introduce someone new to the game. It makes it really difficult to store a bunch of (usually) empty little boxes like that. Heck, I have every V Battle deck from Pokémon (so haven't played the Deoxys and Zeraora ones), but eventually would disassemble each deck for the sake of cannibalizing the cards. I really wish TCGO had made a separate version of the Theme Deck format for those so we could easily play them online with randos. Granted, most of them had some... questionable covers for cards. Like, a lot of just... really, *really* bad cards kinda randomly inserted when there were other, significantly better versions of the same Pokémon from other, sometimes *more* recent sets (sets that already had *other* cards in the deck, so there really was no excuse). Maybe someday I can donate some of these boxes to a game museum or something idk

IMO even if you never plan on selling them you can have peace of mind knowing that your set still has decent value if you take care of the box and keep it in good condition when you open it. It might not be worth as much NIB but it's a reasonable trade-off so you can have your cake and eat it.

Get a few dozen plastic storage bins. throw in a dryer sheet too place a lawn bag on top before closing the bin. Literally problem solved. Can store them in the basement or where ever. Dryer sheet and lawn bag is to protect it from getting smelly.

Parents will never understand the innate desire to obtain cardboard boxes like LEGO kids do. It’s as popular as the sets themselves.

I live in Turkey and these boxes will get fucked up when they reached here, ever the older boxes had bruises and breaks on them... but I really liked the idea, you can showcase then on your wall now!

And with the newer boxes after you fold them down, you can keep them in a record box or a milk crate (idk I like the look of milk crates lol) If you wanna get real fancy, you could prob find plastic protectors to put over the box. Dust covers? Yeah things like that. Very cool.

Obi-wan’s red Jedi Starfighter combo pack was the one that got away… 😢

It’s insane to think that if I just kept my Lego figures from when I was a kid, I could have a whole KZfaq channel dedicated to it. Instead I totally lost all my Lego figures as I grew up

that's actually a good idea, I used to just cut out the front and back

If you don’t open boxed because of „rarity“ you don’t deserve to own them.

As a collector myself, I genuinly don't understand keeping products in the box like that, and I don't mean that as some sort of jab. I collect Transformers, I have a few rare ones worth alot of money. But if I spend money on it, like I would want to actually get enjoyment and mess with the thing as it was intended. Sure maybe try it out once then never touch it on a shelf again, but at least I tried it out once.

Since I always heavily modify my sets and change the design to my liking, i have no reason to keep boxes in general. And they waste a lot of space so I just threw away around 50 boxes from the last 5 years and 4 from 2002. I want to display the sets as I build them. I don't care about displaying cardboard full of air or setting it aside leaving it to collect dust

I like the new boxes because you can hang them up on walls now by posters if you really want to

that grievous set was my first ever lego set, still cooler than some sets today

I can´t throw away boxes as well. And as someone who has a whole pallet and a giant tower of empty boxes I really like the new design!

Of ALL THINGS, Lego Boxes literally don't even get ruined are change. It's Transformer Boxes or anything with a clear plastic display that is MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to want to open.