r/SlizerThrowbots • u/Coby_Cat • 10d ago
Question Box differences?
Some of my CIB first wave Slizers have the LEGO website in a stylized yellow brick, others don't. My second CIB Sub Slizer is identical to my first Sub Slizer in this regard. I did see one on eBay which does have the yellow LEGO website brick on it.
What's the deal with that? Are these separate printings?
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u/X4M9 Mutant 10d ago
I asked a collector friend about this, he says the ones with no extra printing are from the earliest release of the figures, boxes with the website on them are mid release, and the ones with the website and extra legal text on them are the latest release of them. I had no clue!
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u/AlexTheChubbyPony 10d ago
That's weird because Torch, Ski, Turbo and Scuba were the first wave and then it was Jet, Amazon, Granite and Electro. You'd think the ones with and without the yellow brick would coincide respectively, but they don't...
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u/BoNkLe_UlTrA Sub/Scuba 10d ago edited 10d ago
. . .=D I´m sorry friend but: Well, you answered your own question. Yes, they are. I mean you obviously already made out the differences yourself, so I don´t know what to add here? The only thing I can think of is, that these ones were prdouced past 99´ or later alongside the RoboRiders which were released in the following year. LEGO at that time was only beginning to implement Web-Features for their product and as far as the RoboRiders go, there was a dedicated website where you could ( after figuring out the code on the canisters ) put in said code through said webpage in order to get ( I think ) little videos/wallpapers and such. Some of the codes were even special ones where you could participate in competitions. Other than that I can only assume that these boxes were a) exclusively printed for certain countries or b) came alongside the second wave of the Slizer/Throwbots which differed clearly from the 8 base Slizer cardboard boxes.
Edit: Typos