So, what with the snow delaying my shipment yesterday, I decided to stop in at my LGS this morning and get a little plastic crack fix. I noticed upon getting back to the car that all three little boxes were unsealed, seemingly from the manufacturer. This seems to me to be a bad idea for a set of minis that are: A) supposedly blind, B) released with a tiered rarity and C) already fetching premium prices in the secondary market. It just seems to be an invitation for unscrupulous shop owners to go through, pull all the "good" minis, and just sell "blind" commons, saving back the ones that they can sell openly at more than 10 times the profit.
I understand that having each miniature in a poly bag inside the box, they way many of the Japanese blind box toys come, is probably too expensive at the current price point. At the very least, though, maybe some tape over the flaps?
This was a known production problem. Lisa mentions in the product page that it was fixed part way through the production cycle, only after initial shipments were made.
I find the fact that the semi-random brick seeding resulting in consistent locations for rares in the brick to be as big a problem.
I expect both of these problems will be looked into for future releases.
Ahh, that makes sense.