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So in the EU all they get is a single sentence describing the character, instead of a paragraph? That kinda sucks. But I wish the US would adopt the smaller packaging as well.

Yeah, I would like the smaller boxes, but with full bios, since US releases do not require the multi language. Surely I can't be the only one who keeps the cards.

Also, I would appreciate regular cube boxes for Voyagers... It's impossible to fold and keep the current ones! So I just toss voyager boxes

Oh, Asia seems to be starting Chinese packing too... Also, Photoshop Mock-ups of the Asia Classic-verse exclusive repaints show boxes withe english and chinese.

gavinfuzzy wrote:Yeah, I would like the smaller boxes, but with full bios, since US releases do not require the multi language. Surely I can't be the only one who keeps the cards.

Nope, I keep the cards but throw away the bubbles. It is possible to fold the boxes, you just need to cut away all the sticky tape and unfold it into a large single piece of cardboard.
I know, I hate it too.

GuyIncognito wrote:So in the EU all they get is a single sentence describing the character, instead of a paragraph? That kinda sucks. But I wish the US would adopt the smaller packaging as well.

Yup. Apparently that's all we need.

Can anybody provide pics of the Canadian backing cards? I'm still curious.

Hasbro US:

Less card, more toy.

GuyIncognito wrote:So in the EU all they get is a single sentence describing the character, instead of a paragraph? That kinda sucks. But I wish the US would adopt the smaller packaging as well.

Still better than the Japanese Movieverse figures, which had only the ENGLISH text for the bios.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Can anybody provide pics of the Canadian backing cards? I'm still curious.

Sorry, I've been really busy. I can take a pic and upload tomorrow. Unless someone else gets to it first, that's okay too.

Diem wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:So in the EU all they get is a single sentence describing the character, instead of a paragraph? That kinda sucks. But I wish the US would adopt the smaller packaging as well.

Still better than the Japanese Movieverse figures, which had only the ENGLISH text for the bios.

As a European, I HATE the multi-lingual cards - everybody here speaks english, we don't need 11 other languages we don't speak telling the same sentence. I'd rather import every figure from the US.

Chaoslock wrote:

Diem wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:So in the EU all they get is a single sentence describing the character, instead of a paragraph? That kinda sucks. But I wish the US would adopt the smaller packaging as well.

Still better than the Japanese Movieverse figures, which had only the ENGLISH text for the bios.

As a European, I HATE the multi-lingual cards - everybody here speaks english, we don't need 11 other languages we don't speak telling the same sentence.

Agreed. But again, still better than getting the bios in one language that no-one speaks!

The packaging of the European releases have always had differences to that of the Us releases mostly just the lack of a bio in favour of a sentence or two in different European languages, now however the differences is a little larger.
Thanks to seibertron.com member JelZe GoldRabbit we have a nice comparison between the US and European packaging of the Transformers Prime line. The difference is a slightly different design and well, the size of the card:







This might be part of Hasbro's new attempt at being more environmentally friendly or it might be another cost saving method, which the European packaging always was. Furthermore Transformers Prime marks the first time that Russian is put on the packaging bringing the language count to a whooping 13 languages!

hey.. if this in any way helps hasbro save some money to either keep costs down or give us more stuff.. i'm all for it, do it to the north american cards as well.