Personally, I don't have any of the tubes for storage because I purchased Martian Chess, which came in the large plastic box. However, looking at the tubes, they seem ideal for a single stash, display well, show off the contents well and very little wasted space. They are also re-closeable and, I believe, less expensive than many other re-useable packaging systems. The plastic box for the Martian Chess set has room for another stash or two, at least, but the stashes must be "packed" into it to get them to fit well. The boxed sets (I'm assuming here) take up a lot more space then four stash tubes would. There were also the bags that the Xyloid sets came in, which are still available in the Short Run Depot. There are also directions for how to make several homemade stash boxes, which were used when Icehouse pieces were solid and you wanted to protect the tips of the pyramids from being broken off. You can also find directions for several different Icehouse boxes, most notably the Volcano board/boxes that have been produced by different people in different styles. Finally, there are the mag-light cases which Andy said would be ideal for a binary homeworlds set, but I think that those would be too much of an added expense for single stashes. There may be more long term storage devices out there that I don't know about, anyone else want to pipe in? As to packaging for sales, I think that the tubes offer the best choice for single stashes, small, efficient packaging which can be opened and re-closed to allow potential buyers to take a better look at the pyramids. -----Original Message----- From: icehouse-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icehouse-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of swandive78@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:29 PM To: Icehouse Discussion List Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Treehouse: Alternate packaging? To be honest, I never have cared much for the tubes in the first place. They look cool in the store, and display the pyramids nicely, but they aren't very good for continued storage use. What other types of packaging have you considered? -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ _______________________________________________ Icehouse mailing list Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/251 - Release Date: 2/4/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/251 - Release Date: 2/4/2006