Altered box illustrations

[tonguello]

I was going to post this as a review but as this is more a rant than a review  I decided to post it here.

I really liked the 6150 set (Red carpet Star) when I first saw it was going to be released, so when I found it here in B.A. and could take a look at the box I didn't doubt and got it.
The set is fine, don't get me wrong, the accessories are interesting, even the new-style face seems to work, but I was very disappointed when I opened it.

This is the thing: When I saw the box illustration, but most of all when I saw the back of the box, I said: I HAVE TO HAVE IT. Look at those shiny, metallic-looking dresses!!!



I feel cheated to say the least. The material and the colors are not even close to what you see in the box, but plain pink and horrible yellow plastic (which to be honest looks worst in real life than in the pic). The plastic of the luggage carrier (is there a name for that?) is very bendy and the red carpet looks like very cheap cartboard. 



What upsets me is that the box looks different, and I wanted what the box showed me I was getting.
I understand companies have to embellish the illustrations in their products boxes for commercial reasons, but how much alteration is TOO much alteration? And how much alteration is plain deceit?

This happened lots of times. The one I always remember, and maybe the first time I noticed this issue, was when I got the truck 3817, which looks black and red in the pictures but is in fact black and HOT PINK! 

And it's not only color. It's size too. Everyone I know who got the Special 4765 (woman with lambs) would agree on the lambs looking at least twice as big in the box as in fact they really are. 

Maybe some people don't pay too much attention to the boxes, like the woman who bought the pirate ship with the "slave collar" and then complained it was part of the set, but OTHERS DO!

I also understand that a slight change of color is OK, but the question remains; how much is too much and how much is something else?

[Rasputin]

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A green goblin will attack.....

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Fully agree about all your observations and then some.......

[bonniebeth]

Wow, that is incredibly disappointing! I thought they would be shiny and metallic, too.

[Ismene]

Wow, it does look like they photographed different dresses.

[tahra]

  Yes, very disappointing.. Misleading actually.

Like the new horses - boxes showed the hooves "straight", then they have that ugly connection..

[Salamander]

If you rant like this at the pcc.....

A green goblin will attack.....

Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!

I agree that the dresses are not what you'd expect from the box. Disappointing!

[Robbie]

Wow. This deserves the label of epic fail! Very misleading!

[Rasputin]

Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!

I agree that the dresses are not what you'd expect from the box. Disappointing!

It's a very complicated and volatile subject, but that's true with in any club "persecute the non believer"

On this subject ....I am aware of a few of these misleading box images. I wonder if a list of examples such as Tonguello's above geobra could be shown.......in a rainbow way 

Chrome parts images on the box is the biggest culprit in my opinion

[Klickteryx]

Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!

The staff are very low profile but professional when they say something. They tend to the vague more than anything else.
The goblin in question is a certain member there who engages in lengthy argument.

As for the dresses, and the theatre binoculars, they're not shiny in real life which is very misleading, particularly as the dresses would be one of the feature parts of the set, a bit like some of the coins that have appeared in other sets.

[Raven]

That's a shame.  I bought a few photographic model sets, but not this one ... simply because none of the outfits seemed like something the klicky could also wear going shopping ... and I like things to have more than one use.

But I was tempted. 

There's the blue bottle of champagne for a start, and the dress/luggage carrier (luggage carrier is a very good description as it is also used - in a different colour - for the 5270 Hotel Porter's luggage carrier) which I like, and is useful.  But also, I thought, I would rather like those lovely shimmering pink and yellow dresses.  So beautiful and ideal for an expensive clothes store.

And no: not in reality.  That yellow dress looks more like some ill-fitting cheap outfit that Auntie thought was a bargain and then insisted on wearing to the party....

However - that klicky's face is nicer than it appears on the box illustration, and the stole/shawl looks nicer in reality too.