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g1immer's Super Duper Analysis on "Is it Worth it?" Collection series Part 4: Crate Crash - Mug The most expensive item in the Crash Crate - the Crash Bandicoot Mug, is the next item for us to discuss. The mug is probably my favorite item of the box, mostly due to its size and usability for me. I'm a mug hog! Maybe one day I will share all my tacky video-game related mugs to you all, like my Tales of Xilia ones, my Animal Crossing ones or my Pokemon ones... Let's get right into it then. The Crash Bandicoot mug is black on the outside and silver on the inside. It is made of stainless steel, which is much different from all my other mugs, made of porcelain. I appreciate the use of a different material to make the mug really stand out. I did some quick research to see two factors that would play into the company making a tin one versus a porcelain one. Also, what would the target audience enjoy more? 1. Which material is cheaper to manufacture?...

g1immer's Super Duper Analysis on "Is it Worth it?" Collection series Part 3: Crate Crash - Sticker Sheet We are finally starting with one of the items of the Crash Crate in today's analysis post! Part three and we haven't even really started the "Is it Worth it?" series yet, sorry everyone. As you can tell, I just love to write! In fact, I encourage you all reading this right now to put your fingers to the keyboard and write about something you are passionate about too! Feel free to advertise in my comments section at any time. Anyways, back to the post. As you can see in the picture above, the sticker sheet contains seven stickers, listed below: Crash Bandicoot logo (1 1/2 inch across, 1/2 inch up and down) Wumpa Fruit (1 inch across, 1 inch up and down) Crash Bandicoot face "extra life" (1 inch across, 1 inch up and down) Aku Aku (1 inch across, ~2 inches up and down) Basic Crate (1 1/2 inch across, ~1 inch up an...

g1immer's Super Duper Analysis on "Is it Worth it?" Collection series Part 2: Crate Crash - Packaging Strip Today's discussion is on a piece of paper. A long piece of paper. This is going to get exciting! What is important about this piece of paper is that it is the heart of marketing. A team of people at numbskull had to design this strip and probably get permission every step of the way from Activision about, mind me, their vision for the eye-catcher of their product. This strip that wraps around the Crash Crate ( see my analysis on the box here ) loot box may be more important than the products inside. Without the advertisement right on the box, some passerby customers might have no idea what they are glancing at. The packaging strip should be called the marketing strip, as it also gives customers a taste of what is inside and how much the items are worth. Alright, let's get right to it. The strip's first image is of the iconic Crash Ba...

I picked up the Crash Bandicoot Loot Box at Best Buy today! If you know me (learn from my streams -  g1immer's twitch channel ), I love love love my 90's nostalgia. I also love material things - especially ones involving my love for 90's nostalgia! Well, I was browsing twitter the other day and what popped up at me was this:  A Numskull Crash Bandicoot Loot Box . I''m usually not a fan of lot boxes, but what was cool about this one was: 1. It's from Numskull who I follow on twitter! They make so many cool products based on Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot that I've never picked u before. They also do free re-tweet contests (not sure if anyone ever wins 'cause I never see a "winners" tweet but hey). 2. Gotta love that Crash Bandicoot... 3. This loot box SHOWS you what you get, so you aren't blindly spending your money on it. I'm a huge Crash Bandicoot fan and I love that Activision is turning their game into a h...