Dear LEGO® Company,
I saw a number of blog postings online about the Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS. I was intrigued and then after seeing the set designer video I think I was sold. But the $299.99 price scared me away some. I wasn't sure that I was ready to pay that much for a set. After seeing it at one of your stores, I was sold. Thankfully I had a bunch of VIP points and got a nice discount.
Opening this set was pretty exciting. After seeing the care that was taken to package it up I took the plunge and carefully opened the box. The Porsche set was smartly placed inside the box with extra padding on the side to make sure it didn't shift around during shipping. The top of the box looks very dignified. The sleek picture of the car, the Porsche logo and then some of the standard LEGO® set info like that it contains 2,704 pieces. Let me tell you, my NLS is a communications designer and even she was impressed. Trust me, that means a lot coming from her.
After opening the box, once again I was blown away. It wasn't plastic bags thrown into a box with an instruction booklet packed in. Your designers really took the time to place together a high class product. Numbered boxes, an instruction booklet that contains history of the actual vehicle and the LEGO® vehicle design, and the impressive layout of the rims in the box. All very well done!
I opened the large box that FedEx dropped off and found another box as well as set 40220 - London Bus. The other box and packaging material smashed the London Bus set up quite a bit. Please train your team better on packaging. The second box impressed me. Given the price of the set, seeing the separate packaging and warning to not use a razor to dive into the box showed that you understand folks pay a lot for this set.
The details on the box for this set are also incredible. I won't spoil it for others with tons of pictures, but the sides of the box have the different sides of the vehicle. The inside of the box top has a timeline of Porsche designs. In my non-designer opinion, this packaging rivals Apple's product packaging. Who did you hire to do this work?
The contents are like no other set I have built. The elements are in numbered containers with pictures of the set on them. They look like mini-sets on their own. There are stickers again which I am not a fan of, but at least it is not a ton of them. The 856 steps in the instruction booklet that looks nicer than my manual to my car (granted I don't drive a Porsche... maybe those are nicer). The rims are displayed in the box they come in and then the wheels are inside the box with the rims on the outside. All I can say is that I am super excited to get building on this set. It's been nothing but amazing so far and I haven't even opened any bags of parts. Well done LEGO®!!!!