Author Topic: New boxes for Carcassonne!!! (Read 4991 times)

Christianmocking · « **on:** July 03, 2017, 09:46:19 AM »

I found them today at Cundco via: https://cundco.de/en/accessories/?p=1

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3450.0

Paul · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2017, 10:23:03 AM »

Wow! This is really awesome!
As fun as it is to do them yourself thanks to members here on the forum (found in the Crafter's Guild section), it's a nice touch by the company itself to make them.

Price may be a liiiitle high, but not that much really. 5 big boxes and 10 small.

Jéré · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2017, 11:04:03 AM »

Good stuff. Thanks for the link!

How many tiles can fit in the larger one (just tiles)? It says 12 and more plus meeples but precisely?

Christianmocking · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2017, 11:15:18 AM »

You are welcome. I do not know. I ordered one...

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Paul · « **Reply #4 on:** July 03, 2017, 01:24:08 PM »

This image you can see the difference and it seems it can hold 18 tiles.

Jéré · « **Reply #5 on:** July 03, 2017, 01:29:43 PM »

Quote from: Paul on July 03, 2017, 01:24:08 PM

This image you can see the difference and it seems it can hold 18 tiles.

I think you are right. Height of small box is 31mm for 12 tiles and height of larger box is 47mm which would allow to store 6 more tiles.

Just a Bill · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2017, 02:11:54 PM »

Many of my Carcassonne sets are pretty old (I have the 2000 edition of the base game with the old 70-point scoreboard, and bought most of my expansions back when they were recently released), so this may or may not apply for others...

On average my tiles are very nearly 1/12 inch thick, or about 2.12 mm. To estimate the inside dimensions I would subtract 2mm from the published measurements (since we know the tiles are 45 mm square). Thus I would estimate the tuck box capacities as follows:

Small — 47x47x31 — est. inside 45x45x29 — est. max. tiles 13.7 (so with some sets, you might fit 14)
Large — 47x47x47 — est. inside 45x45x45 — est. max. tiles 21.2

In most cases the extra few tiles don't gain you much, since most sets are built around multiples of 6 ... but anyway there are the capacities, as best as I can predict them.

oosie · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2017, 02:58:32 PM »

I know they only just came out with these, but I would like to see them expand the variety so that we can fit a bigger expansion into a single box and a base game into a single or two boxes as well.

Whaleyland · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2017, 04:13:34 PM »

I removed your double forum post, as requested, Just a Bill.

I like the idea for these boxes, but I agree with oosie that they are quite inflexible in design. I would prefer they release a special set that can hold all the tiles from Expansions 1-10 in separate, themed boxes. That would be really nice. Obviously these little boxes can work for the promos and whatnot, but the full expansions should get special boxes.

Just a Bill · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2017, 08:22:37 PM »

Quote from: whaleyland on July 20, 2017, 04:13:34 PM

I removed your double forum post, as requested, Just a Bill.

Saw that; thank you (and sorry my pre-posting search was ineffective).

Quote from: whaleyland on July 20, 2017, 04:13:34 PM

I like the idea for these boxes, but I agree with oosie that they are quite inflexible in design.

I feel the same way, but given that the boxes feature C-II artwork I'm guessing HiG doesn't have a lot of interest in tailoring the tucks to C-I needs.

But maybe this just means we have to wait for them to catch up on converting everything to II.