[goldblade6]

Window-less boxes mean you cannot see what figure you are getting - a piece could be missing, one figure could have worse paint than another. Granted, this only matters at retail when you have a choice. If you get one Tamashii Web Exclusive in the mail, that's what you get either way.

However, I would bet that some stores in Japan order a ton of exclusives to sell in-store, perhaps at secondary market prices, and I bet those customers would like to see what they're actually buying. And for international customers getting the web exclusives, they have to open them to inspect them and thus devalue the item just to find out if it's all ok.

Figuarts must know that they have some MIB collectors who prefer to display the figures in their boxes. It just seems like an awful idea to scrap the windows, and I wonder if the Japanese fan base feels the same way.