Loot Crate Subscription Box Review & Coupon – Feb 2015

My teenage girls were most excited about the bug. It is large size – quite the hit at our house!

I get this box for my 18 year old son. He liked this one but not as much as last month. Also, he read the book and cautioned me that I would not want his younger brothers who are also teens to read it. He felt the content was too adult. In fact he wants to swap it because he didn’t care for that aspect. He did like the hex bug and I thought it was nice that they included extra batteries. But I do think they could have done a lot more with the theme of Play than they did!

Lootcrate was my family’s first monthly subscription box that we started over a year ago. My teenage boys alternate who gets the box. We thought this was a great box. We especially liked the book and card game. The box as a board game is great.

Hexbug is awesome for cats! I have a few for mine. They go crazy over them.
I also really dig that pacman poster and the fact that the box is a board game!

This box has mixed results for my children. The only thing that my teenager wanted was the book. My 6 year old loved everything else in the box especially the hex bug. Usually my older son loves all the items. I was going to cancel until I saw the March spoiler.

I received the box yesterday and read Level One and the last few chapters. I found it a little tedious which is why I skipped to the end. It felt strange because I rarely do that. However, I am not a gamer and read it more for the 80s reference.

What are the odds of two non-book subs including the same book in the same month? I’m glad I didn’t start Loot Crate this month, since I’m signed up for Naomi Kyle and I really don’t need two copies.

And if you don’t have kids, HexBugs make great cat toys.

I’ve been subscribing to Lootcrate since October 2013 when they had the adorable “ewoking dead” t-shirt. I have mixed feelings for Lootcrate, sometimes I love everything in the box, other times it’s just more junk to clutter up my apartment. I really wish they’d do more vinyl figurines instead of little random toys or medallions or quite frankly junk. In one box they had a stack of paper firefly money, unless you are cosplaying someone from firefly what are you supposed to do with that? Into the basket of random lootcrate garbage it goes. Also the quality of t-shirts they use has gone down a lot. In the beginning they would buy from places I had shopped before like shirtwoot and they were good quality, thicker shirts that you weren’t afraid would snag or get holes instantly after wearing a few times, and I would actually wear those. Now all they are sending is crappy super thin t-shirts that in my experience always roll at the base and sleeves no matter what size I get, they are also inconsistent with when they put shirts into the crate, you would think since they don’t put one in every box they would be better quality when they actually do put one in. The pirates and ninja’s shirt was so ugly I didn’t even want to keep it as a bumming around shirt, I pawned it off on one of my friends. So honestly I keep the subscription because it’s $20 bucks a month and sometimes I like the stuff and sometimes I don’t. I’m really hoping Lootcrate steps up their game eventually because lately they’ve been slacking. It would also be cool if they did a girl/boy geared crate to maybe do some jewelry, cosmetics, accessories of the nerdy variety.

This was, by far, my favorite Loot Crate to date! And, my son was equally thrilled. The hex bug and book were great surprises!

Wasn’t one of the spoilers an exclusive version of a table-top game? Where is that? Is that the packaging? That was the reason I was contemplating getting this box; now I’m so glad I didn’t.

You could cover Munny in some of those “jewelry” tattoos from other boxes and enter him in the contest : )

My cats love HEX bugs — they’re not just for kids (actually, they make a cat toy version of at least one of them). One cat picks it up and carries it off in her mouth (something she has also done — eww — with real bugs).

I still have one of the original Nintendo controllers (bottom left corner, right hand page). Doesn’t work so well anymore but I keep it for nostalgia purposes (I don’t have the original console, though, but the “updated” version).

There are so many of these kinds of boxes. It’s like I see a new one on here every day. They’re too hit-or-miss for me — personally — to subscribe. My “newest” console is a regular Wii and I don’t watch much TV (or many movies) so I probably wouldn’t get what half the merchandise was.

The little robot bug comes with a set of extra batteries.. thought that was great since they die fast. My son thought this was the best loot he’s gotten since we started the subscription 6 months ago! I liked it too.. I wasn’t crazy about the 1 up box though and canceled it… 🙁

We have had SuperFight for a few years now. It can be fun with the right people, or hard with the wrong ones.

I love Ready Player One – great book!

4″ DIY Munnys retail at $9.99 (you can see the price at MyPlasticHeart though it’s currently out of stock).