Largest kit box ever?

[OldNYJim]

So, I’ve had this kit on my to-buy list for a couple of years - it’s a special release of the Revell VW Bus, but packaged for Christmas time.

Every day in December you follow a step, and end up worth a build by Christmas Day.  Now, I know this kit is pretty easily available in non-seasonal form, but I really wanted to pick one up and complete it one year.

Problem was, the shipping was always crazy expensive on them, and I never found one until recently at a decent price.  ONE of them popped up on Amazon last week at $30, with Prime delivery, so I jumped at the chance.

When it arrived, I found out why most places were charging $80 just to deliver the thing…fully grown cat for scale here:

It’s HUGE!  I was certain that they’d either accidentally sent a whole case of them, or they sent the wrong item, but nope…just a RIDICULOUSLY oversized box.

Is a 17” x 11” x 11” box the largest that a 1/25 kit has ever been packaged in?  This has to be in the running for the largest ever…

[89AKurt]

Using the cat really helped. 😹  Any fancy packaging to use for scratch-building a campsite?

[peteski]

Marketing at its best!

[SpeedAndViolence]

That's a 1/25 scale kit?!? A 1/8 Pocher Ferrari F40 could fit in that...  

[Bainford]

A triumph for packaging.

Also probably the only 1/25 scale kit with a handle.

The cat looks pretty sure there is enough room for him in there, too.

Edited Thursday at 04:53 AM by Bainford

[deuces wild]

42 minutes ago, Bainford said:

A triumph for packaging.

Also probably the only 1/25 scale kit with a handle.

The cat looks pretty sure there is enough room for him in there, too.

Yep! He er she is claiming it for itself.... So, don't throw it out!...🙂👍

[NOBLNG]

Nice alternative to having the box so small that everything has to be arranged in perfect order to get it all back in without crushing something.

[Daddyfink]

So what does it look like inside? 

 

Edited Thursday at 12:54 PM by Daddyfink

[iamsuperdan]

I think that's excellent. now I want one.

I think the biggest box I've dealt with is the Revell London Bus. And I guess the Revell Cityliner bus, as it's the same size packaging.

I have three of the London Bus kits and one Cityliner. They take up a lot of shelf space!

 

[stitchdup]

my largest box is the twin heller fergie set with the book. its the same size as 3 large tamiya gt boxes laid end to end. the next largest is an airfix spit in 1/24

[Dave Ambrose]

I was given this Wright Flyer 1 kit. This is the longest box in my stash and the next one up in my queue. Biggest box is a 1/72 scale XB-70 Valkyrie.

 

[Mark]

It'd be ironic if something STILL got crushed in there.

Maybe Revell hired a package designer who previously worked for a high-end candy maker, or a cosmetics company...

[kurth]

I think the largest box I have dealt with in terms of length and width combined is the Otaki 1978 Corvette. It is pretty hard to get it out of it's place so I do not have a picture or measurements.

The longest, most awkward box I have is the Revell 1/400 Queen Mary 2, which is similarly buried deep in a closet, but I found an old picture of the kit, it is 4 model car boxes long:

 

 

 

But in terms of Box:Content ratio, that VW Van is probably the biggest box.

The largest mass market kit box I have seen was a Hasegawa sailboat ... The box was sitting on the ground in the vendor section of a model show and I want to say the box was at least 3 or 4 feet tall. 

 

Edited Thursday at 06:41 PM by kurth

[Can-Con]

Well, it is an advent calendar so it makes sense it would be big.

Are you gonna save it for next Christmas season, Jim? That would be fun. 

Largest one I ever had was one of these when I was a kid. Unfortunately the instructions were missing so?? Hey, I was a kid so I still had fun with it.

[peteski]

6 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

I think that's excellent. now I want one.

I think the biggest box I've dealt with is the Revell London Bus. And I guess the Revell Cityliner bus, as it's the same size packaging.

I have three of the London Bus kits and one Cityliner. They take up a lot of shelf space!

 

And then you'll find out how much the built models take up on your display shelves! 

I had plenty of models in large boxes.  Of course the 1:8 scale Pocher models. Then there are 1:8 Monogram Trans AM, OTAKI 1:12 Lamborghini and Corvette, Tamiya 1:6 bikes, Revell sailing ship models like 1:96 USS Constitution, Can-Do Wrecker, AMT Christie Fire Engine, Airfix 1:72 Boeing 707, and several other ones in my collection which escape me at this point.

While all the above-mentioned boxes have larger footprint than the Revell Advent box we are discussing here, this box appears to easily beat them all in its height. 

[Daddyfink]

If I remember right, this box was no slouch! 

[Kit Basher]

18 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:

I was given this Wright Flyer 1 kit. This is the longest box in my stash and the next one up in my queue. Biggest box is a 1/72 scale XB-70 Valkyrie.

 

 

I've built that XB-70. The model is every bit as big as the box!

[deuces wild]

Was there ever a 5 foot tall??? model of the Saturn V rocket that was produced some years back, or was I dreaming????.....🤔😵‍💫

Edited Friday at 07:56 PM by deuces wild

[Matt Bacon]

1 hour ago, deuces wild said:

Was there ever a 5 foot tall??? model of the Saturn V rocket that was produced some years back, or was I dreaming????.....🤔😵‍💫

Yup… Dragon 1/72 scale kit. The kit is 154cm (5ft and change) as built, but several of the stages are a bit short, so an accurate one is even taller. The stages are multi-part, though, so the box isn’t that big. The Revell 1/96 kit (which uses styrene sheets rolled into a cylinder for the stage walls) is only 3/4 the length, but in at least a couple of versions came in a box that is big enough to function as a “travel case” for the completed model…

best,

M.

Edited Friday at 08:58 PM by Matt Bacon

[deuces wild]

Thank you Matt!.....🙂👍

[Straightliner59]

23 hours ago, Daddyfink said:

If I remember right, this box was no slouch! 

RevMon used that box for several kits! The Snake dragster/FC combo, in 1/16 comes to mind.

[Little Timmy]

At the moment I have Three Revell 1/72 scale submarines. 

The box's are about 3 1/2 feet long.

But I believe the biggest kit box I had was Monograms Golden T.

 

[Dave Van]

Revell 1/96 scale Saturn V kit box is over 4 feet tall. Not because it needs to be but it becomes a storage case after building 

[SfanGoch]

Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner! Soar Art's 1/35 scale 80cm Dora Railway Gun is packed in a 41" x 21" x 13" box which is almost as large as a studio apartment in NYC.

I bought one some years ago but haven't started it yet. I wonder why?

[Brian Austin]

I have to wonder how big the box for Renwal's Visible car chassis was.