1UP Box Subscription Box Review – February 2015

Can someone tell me where to go online to swap items form these boxes. Is there a site/blog? I’ve seen a few people mention swapping items on this board and am curious? Thanks

I think I am going to have to give this one another month or so.. I loved the shirt but I wasn’t crazy about this month’s theme.

Interesting and a good price! I sub to many boxes and my Fam wanted in on the Boxes too!lol So we did the LC for a few mos but this past mo was meh..so i subbed to the Horror Block since we all love the Scary movies and i feel they could split that one up more. I’ll be keeping my eye on this 1Up tho.

I am IN LOVE with this months box. I was so sad when I saw this review because I had actually never heard of this box and therefore wasn’t subscribed. I went online and subscribed but it said I was signing up to get the March box. I emailed them to see if there was any way that I could purchase a February box. Within minutes I received a reply saying yes they had extra and to confirm that I wanted one and they would bill me for it. I confirmed and within an hour had a tracking number. I am so excited because I LOVE the Walking Dead AND Zelda and am very pleased with their customer service.

First, I LOVE your reviews. It’s almost as good as getting the box myself 🙂 But, I think I should stop reading these geek-centric box reviews because I continue to be surprised (and kind of annoyed) that anyone would want this junk, much less would want to PAY for it!

Seriously, how many t-shirts can one person own???!!! Add that to endless stickers, pop funkos, and happy meal style toys, where on earth do you keep all of it!? I get it that, occasionally, a super fan will get something amazing that they never would have seen before, but that happens so rarely!

I guess I just can’t imagine spending over $200 for one year worth of this junk.

To be honest, this is the first 1 Up Box that I felt fell a little flat. Up until now, it has been pretty awesome, especially for a gamer nerd audience (the boyfriend). This is pretty much the first time he’s given up anything for swapping from a 1 Up Box (only because he doesn’t watch The Walking Dead). They seem to include more video game (especially Nintendo)-based items, and actually their price started out a lot lower, too. We were lucky to have locked in the original lower price (for being in one of the earlier groups of subscribers). We cancelled Loot Crate after 6 months because it seemed to be rather hit or miss. I hope 1 Up Box doesn’t go in that direction. (Just for reference, we also kept Arcade Block but cancelled regular Nerd Block, did not keep My Geeky Goodies (better for people who love getting Funko stuff in their subscription boxes) but keeping Geek Me Box for the time being. Cool New Box, F Box, and Geek Fuel seem to be similar to My Geeky Goodies. Stay away from Otaku Crate and Gizmo Crate. For the anime fan, Fanipack seems to be doing okay.)

I was considering canceling Loot Crate this month to switch to 1Up Box and decided to put it off because I’m not a Walking Dead fan. I am pleasantly surprised by LC this month, but still think 1Up might be a better fit for me since they have so much Nintendo theming every month. I hope someone puts the Zelda stickers up for swap!

I really liked it. I didn’t even realize that the “value” wasn’t there because I thought the items were so cool and the box so well-curated. I did to get the Daryl wind-up, however, so that probably helped. 🙂 I got it for just this month, but I wouldn’t hesitate to buy again if they had a theme that sounded good to me.

This was the first and last time I will be getting a 1up box.
It was VERY cheaply made stuff and nowhere near the value that they seemed to promise.

I’m not fond of this box. The grenade and the tshirt design are the items I’m not thrilled with. For a new subscription 1upbox has a good price point, that includes a tshirt. This like many of geek boxes seems to be more for men then women. I prefer lootcrate, it seems to have a little more variety. I found the last lootcrate box interesting how they showed ways that a woman can use the tie as a hair scarf. Something I did not think about before. Seems very tough to have a 1 geek box for a demographic of both men and women. I keep hoping that one day there will be a geek box more for women.

I just ordered this for the hubs, thought it would be a fun surprise. In your experience, are the T shirts true to size? I went with the larger of the 2 sizes I was debating between because it always seems like this type of shirt shrinks.

I really don’t get the appeal of the 1up Box. It’s typically a cheap t-shirt and a handful of items you’d find in a banks promotional gifts closet. Loot Crate is the same price and their items are always valued over $60.

I got the three month sub for my husband for Valentine’s Day since he’s a geek and we’re both Walking Dead fans. I think I built up my expectations too much… The box was only okay… The t-shirt is thin, and stress balls are freebies when I go to conferences (none that look like grenades but then again I guess I just don’t find a grenade shaped stress ball very interesting anyway). He got the Michonne wind up and it looks NOTHING like her…

My husband does not love all the money I spend on sub boxes, but he pretty much squealed with happiness when I gave him the Governor wind-up I got. 🙂 One thing you might mention, Liz, is that 1Up now offers t-shirts in kids’ sizes! I really don’t wear t-shirts and my husband is drowning in them because of boxes like this, so my 8-year-old son was THRILLED to get this month’s shirt!

I gave up Nerd Block and Loot Crate for 1Up and My Geek Box, and have been really happy.

I was gonna buy this for my boyfriend for his birthday but I’m kinda glad I didn’t. There’s not really a wow factor in this box which is disappointing because we both are big fans of Walking Dead.