The most concrete description of problem I'd like to see addressed boils down to the question, how much of a pig in a poke is the 25-bag Pop Box really? To break the problem down a bit: With six different dice sets, two of which labelled "rare" (although with no indication of what that actually means), four different dice bags, and eighteen different ship tokens, there are, theoretically, 432 different combinations of contents you can get in a Mystery Bag. With a fully even distribution of all items, the number of bags you need to buy to get one of every unique item would be 18. Then you would have got one of each unique ship token, three of each dice set including the "rare" ones, and four of each dice bag, plus a fifth of two. So, a Pop Box would give you all of the above, plus then some. With a controlled, even distribution of everything. Problem is that we know now that the distribution isn't controlled, much less even. To the point that no-one can even say what the actual distribution is. No control of distribution is likely to mean that items are collected into bags in the most natural order — as they arrive from production. And production doesn't deliver items randomly, it delivers in batches. First you get ten thousand sets of blue dice. Then ten thousand green sets. And so on. First you get two thousand black anodised Beowulf tokens. Then you get two thousand gold anodised Beowulf tokens. Then you get two thousand nickel plated Beowulf tokens. And so on. This means that as the bags are made, you are very likely to get thousands of them in a row with very little difference in content — if any. Meaning that there is also a very real risk that most Pop Boxes will contain 25 Mystery Bags with exactly, or very nearly, identical contents. I have a hunch most people forking up $400 for one of these boxes wouldn't be extremely thrilled if that turns out to be the case. I would of course very much prefer to believe that it does not, but unfortunately, current indications aren't bearing my preferences out. Therefore, I'd really like to know what the factual circumstances are, what the Creator is committing to deliver, before I myself commit to buying a single bag, let alone a Pop Box.

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