The Mystery Box

Previously, on Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods… I revealed that Little E is gettin’ a bunch of cool stuff for Christmas. He’s old enough for his first “action figure Christmas,” which, in my childhood, was just the best thing ever. I don’t have nearly the budget (or the helpful economy) that my folks had when I was growing up, but by golly, this year’s toy haul is gonna be pretty close to an “extravaganza” rating thanks to some judicious shopping.

There’s just one hitch: a bunch of Super Mario figures I got him were already opened. So how do I wrap those?

I could’ve gone el-cheapo and just dumped them in a Christmas gift sack, but that’s a bit lazy. I had a couple of boxes sitting around, nice white ones no less, so I decided that one of these would become a Super Mario mystery box, complete with question marks. It’s not a perfect cube, but hopefully the cool factor outstrips that. Heck, maybe he’ll like it enough that that’s where the Super Mario goodies will “live”. Gift wrap = done. Permanent storage = done. Oh, and check out the flipside of the box…

Cool. You know, if someone could get a license from Nintendo to make gift boxes like this in all shapes and sizes, they’d make a freakin’ killing.

In just a few days, Mario, Luigi, Woody and Buzz will be rescuing Toad and the Pizza Planet alien from… well, I dunno. Batman? Daleks? And Wall-E will get to clean up after the big battle. It’ll be the best Christmas ever.

(I can only get away with blogging this because he’s not on the internet yet.)

Merry Christmas, buddy.