***** Ha ha that is hilarious. Looks like it's not real shit though just something made to look and smell very similar. Is it real shit? Only the mad scientist that packs this stuff in the back room knows for sure and he wouldn't tell us, but we do know this, it really smells bad back there, he is mixing up shit, and he does visit the local dairy farm and zoo about twice a week. (We also don't want the delivery company to actually know what kind of shit they're delivering.) We can assure you that it looks nasty and really stinks. It will get the point across to your intended victim. Still funny though.
***** Wow...this is actually a real thing. A 'gag' gift thing apparently. Like those glitter bomb things I heard about, but with shit. Then again a 'shit bomb' present would be 'hilarious'.
kilroyjenkins1 I do rather enjoy his videos. Unlike most Loot Crate videos I have seen, they are actually critical of their contents. Usually I just seen endless praise about how awesome everything is.
Fly1ngShurtugal XIII Indeed. I haven't bought any shoes with laces in YEARS. Velcro every time. What's annoying is that I still encounter more shoes with laces than with velcro in stores.
Vicki Derp And the month after that they just break into your house and take things. You didn't want your house looted? Shouldn't have subscribed to loot crate.
Cherry Wallis yours weren't the gray ones? Wft you must have gotten a golden crate, mine, and everyone else i saw unbox got the gray. This crate we literally got a shirt with some random clutter.
Most youtubers: _Oh!_ A nice little ice cube tray! I will _definitely_ be using these in my drinks! Wow, thanks lootcrate. I _love_ being a huge geek. hehe :^33333333 Ashens: *AN ICE CUBE TRAY? FUCKIN SHOELACES? METAL PINS?*
groovylobster I legitimately thought that this lootcrate was alright. Not as good as some of the other ones but not terrible either. The t-shirt especially was cool.
Graeme Evans It's not *that* bad, really. Wore the shirt yesterday, and no one noticed the logos, and I got some positive comments on the overall design.
Its perplexing why people pay for this crap. Best case scenario is that you get something that you can find in a store for less than the lootcrate box. Worst case scenario...well...this..
HK FortySeven what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
Stay tuned for next month's loot crate; it's loaded with awesome goodies such as a spiderman napkin, a couple of inflatable balloons, and a used toothpick!
The vast majority of pricier t-shirts are just the logo of the brand that made it. actual designs or things declaring a liking of things are usually cheeper.
I think I remember there being much better items at the beginning. They have so many people blindly supporting them now that they don't need to give a shit.
Samuel zambie Agree,...anyone 30 or over (im 32} is going to find a power ranger shirt a bit childish....but a 20 something year old I imagine would have some nostalgia for power rangers I guess.... Give me a GIjoe, or Thundercats shirt and I would love it......to each his own on the shirt....but the rest was junk....
I've been defending Loot Crate for a while, but I'll admit, this box REALLY let me down. I like the ice cube tray, but I have no practical use for stuff like pins, stupid shoelaces, or a puzzle. I don't know, I feel like a year ago the stuff I was getting in loot crate was way higher quality, but that in the past few months there really HAS been a drop-off. My subscription is up in July and unless they start pushing the quality back up, I may switch over to something like Arcade Block, which is more expensive but seems to have higher quality items.
***** Lol surprised at the marketing gimmick of oh hey look we have interesting items for the first few _____s now we have the cheapest things possible for several months to make the money roll right in. And the best part is when people stop paying for it the quality will improve for a few more months.
buying lootcrates is like unboxing crates in tf2/csgo: there could be a small chance that its something awesome but most of the time something that worths 10 cents
ThatOneGuyCpr To be fair, the puzzle's the most interesting thing in there. At least you could get some entertainment from it if you happen to like jigsaw puzzles.
Ashens: "Fantastic. This was a huge waste of my time." Me: "You did not read my comment!" Ashens: "(sigh) Does it say you want the TF2 pins-" Me: *"Yes."*
This was a great "Poundland Special!" Could you do a followup for this to see how much of this stuff you could actually get in Poundland?/See if anyone has basically already sent you the Poundland equivalent of this stuff? I'd imagine that one wouldn't have to look too hard!
I can't remember what crate it was, but it was the last good one... The best thing was a South Park Beat's Buddy speaker, which I adore. It was so long ago I can't even remember what crate it was, and I seriously can't even fathom why I'm still subscribed to Loot Crate sometimes.
Hmm, rough guesses of retail values being generous T Shirt: $15 US Ice Cube Tray: $5 US Jigsaw: $5 US MAD: $0 - almost certainly MAD probably gave them to Loot for nothing as marketing Badges: $2 US Sticker: $2 US Shoe Laces: $1 US Comic: $5, I don't know how much comics are Total: $35 US, and I think that's very generous. I bet the cost of goods to LootCrate is about $10 per crate if that, a lot of it is probably zero cost to them and provided as marketing from the various companies.
James Sleeman thats a very high estimate of yours - tshirt is max 10$, ice cube tray 1, jigsaw 1, madmag 0, badges 1, stickers 1, shoelaces 1 and comic 2,50 - so all in all probably 17,50€ in retail price, which comes to about a third of it for loot crate, so about 6 bucks at most, if not less because most of it is probably storage overflow or promotion material - so its a 5times profit, if not more
Lol retail price? The value of that crate at production cost (which is what they get is at) is like 5 bucks. Plus, if I saw any of these things at a retail store I wouldn't buy them anyways, that's seriously a box of junk.
***** The issue with the marvel ice cube tray isn't that it's cheap, it's more that it's stupid. The marvel ice cube tray is 10 bucks new on amazon. It's actually really well built - made from good silicon and with a rectangle of perpendicular silicon reinforcing it on the bottom, something even my silicon "companion cube" ice cube tray (yes, I bought one ages ago when Portal 2 was the big new thing, no, I don't regret it) doesn't have. The issue is more: Why would you want ice cubes with 1 side that vaguely looks like a reference? Molded ice cube trays are only worth it when it's all in a design (except for the top), instead of just the bottom being a design and the rest being a vague shape. Not to mention "the thing" will never look good as an ice cube, it's way too complex of a design.
Next month: "Oh shit we need to make a loot crate for June and we have less than a week till June 1st" thinking quickly the Loot Crate personnel put a sheet of paper in a box and it says the theme is ORIGAMI and they include a book on really cheap paper showing all the "NEAT AND COOL NERDY GEEKY and other words that have seemingly lost their meaning THINGS YOU CAN FOLD THIS PAPER INTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Vash theStampede I'm pretty sure the early ones were, they actually seemed worth subscribing to. Now it feels like they've just got a boardroom of people going 'Ok, what stuff do the kids like nowadays, and how can we spend as little money as possible?'
Vash theStampede what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
This is why Ashens is basically the only channel I'm subscribed to that does anything with Loot Crate. Like everyone else in these comments are saying, he's brutally honest, and you're damn right it's hilarious.
Just watched another youtuber do an unboxing of this (some person called Aureylian), holy shit the comparison is predictable to the point of parody. Every item "Oh wow, this..is..AMAZING!!, so much good stuff XD" Ashens, don't ever change.
$30 holy shit! That's straight up robbery, wow! They should be ashamed... or perhaps that's the issue, they have no shame. I can't even wrap my mind around that it costs more than $20.
May I recommend something else for you? Check out Geek Fuel. I am not sure if they ship to the UK, though. But, at least their boxes aren't filled with clearance garbage like Loot Crate. Geek Fuel makes the price worth it.
Emer Prevost From what I seen. Geek Fuel has some form of quality controll and doesn't filter their boxes with tat from the lowest corners of the shops.
Plus, ever box has a code for a Steam game. One month, I got a code for a $40 game (twice the cost of the box), and the rest of the box was still filled with quality stuff. They really don't slack off when they put Geek Fuel boxes together.
Emer Prevost Thank you for the recommendation, I just ordered my first one! They do ship to the UK, the postage is $6 extra but it looks way better than Loot Crate tbh. If anyone else fancies one, would you mind doing it through my refer link? :) www.geekfuel.com/TtB3rm
I don't know why people waste money on this crap. Each month I watch these it just keeps getting worse and worse. One good crate doesn't justify all the rubbish in the others. Branded Ice cube tray and Shoelaces are pretty much poundland level.
Garrad3 They used to be better. I can only imagine that most people keep getting them in the hopes that some day they'll return to what they used to be and give out actually half decent things.
Neonemerld They should be getting better seeing how popular it's getting meaning more money.... Unless they just wanted to impress the early adopters and then lower the quality once everyone started buying it.
Neonemerld What you mentioned is actually a very good marketing strategy. In the future just 1 in 10 Lootcrates will be any good and only the complete imbeciles (of which there are a lot) will stay subscribed to that shit.
Garrad3 This may sound dumb but people are mindless. Most can't think for themselves. So when they see so many people on youtube saying how awesome the crates are (not realizing that they are getting they crates for free plus making money from them) they think "everybody thinks these are cool, so they must be. Take my money Lootcrate!" If all these unboxers actually gave their honest opinion like Ashens does Lootcrate's subscription would go wayyy down.
I've only just started watching these vids recently, and I know it's years old, but I just had to say that I work at Poundland and we have definitely sold the Avengers ice cube tray before.
This is the only honest Lootcrate unboxing series out there. All the rest: *Fake smile* Oh, cool, shoe laces! Ill be sure to put these on my converse after this video!
Andrew Burnham And that is when they super game you and make the next one pretty good to keep you hooked in to buy 3-5 more bad ones... God damn...I sort of like the idea in principle, but these guys really fucked it up. Personally I would take the money you are spending on that which is what, like $20 bucks or so? And buy myself a little something each month for the same sort of feeling that I would get from the box. "OOOooOOooo.. I got a new toy!" Is a much better feeling when you have some control over what it is... And if you want a random feeling from it, just buy the humbleindiebundle without looking what comes in it.
Oh wow, this really was the dregs wasn't it? An ice cube tray? Really? Shoelaces? The T-shirt looked ok, until you see the shitty logos on it. The jigsaw is just taking the piss, treating your target audience like idiots. Badges and a shitty comic and MAD Magazine advert/pamphlet. It'd be one thing if it was a genuine special edition cover of some kind, but who's going to want to collect a comic with Loot Crate logos and boxes all over the artwork? Just the drizzling shits. They actually managed to outdo that crown in terms of shitiness. I might just have a search around other videos to hear some of the insincere types try desperately to sell this shit as actually worthwhile.
Galapagos Marcus You find some expired coupons for Kroger, Junk mail, and a bankruptcy notice inside of a paper bag with LOOTCRATE sharpie'd on the outside.
Wow, they took Rick and Morty, one of the funniest shows on TV now and maybe ever, and give you a fucking jigsaw puzzle? I'm a massive fan and even I would have been pissed.
I already knew what was in this one from other people who got them. That being said I was excited to see his reaction to there being even more buttons in this one. He didn't react as much as I thought he would, but the shoelaces reaction made up for it.
Flick Originally that is what it was. It was just nerd stuff that didn't sell, Loot Crate bought the stuff at a steep discount and then sold the stuff through this program.
I assumed Lootcrate would get better over time but it is somehow getting worse each month. I hope the next one isn't just a box of crickets painted as anime characters.
***** what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
***** Yeah, if you weren't a lazy dumbass like Lootcrate users, you'd get your $30 or whatever it costs and spend it on things of your choice. The element of surprise in Lootcrate isn't worth the much lower value.
***** I think it's the idea of not knowing what you're getting. Like when you get a gift, you get all excited to see what it is. Except in this case, it's usually a bunch of dollar store quality shit you'll never use or want.
Formulka what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
Ey, that idea at the end (burning the box, and then try to figure what was inside) would be MASSIVELY more entertaining than the actual opening of the box, at least for me. And I am pretty sure nobody else has done that before on the tube, so bonus cool points... I mean, it is not like you are going to find inside anything you will want to keep to pass to your grandchildren, so the fact that you burn an ice tray is not that big of a problem anyway... and the idea is entertaining!
Basler Jones Or more likely they realised they could literally put anything in there and people would still pay for the privelage of getting ripped off. This stupid thing is so popular and their markups are so high that they're probably rolling in money, and are nowhere near bankruptcy
Petition to make Stuart STOP these fucking Loot Crate bits. We don't want to see this garbage (and even he can't deny thats what it is now more than ever)
Daniel Becker No, I'm like Stuart last video. I'd rather NOT have an ashens video (and I am a BIG fan), then have to sit through this painfully dreadful shit. I'd rather Stuart take his 25 pounds and have someone go to Poundland for him with the money and make a custom TatCrate box for him to review.
Pretty much mine and my brothers reaction upon opening our boxes. The MAD magazine is supposedly their DC comics item. When your theme is Unite and you include a DC comics item, a magazine company owned by DC comics is not good enough, especially when there isn't even a DC comics character on the cover! It was free comic book day this month, and yes you are correct; the MAD magazine is like something they give away for free. In actual fact I got *thicker* comics for free that day. Also failed to mention that the ice cube tray manufacturers couldn't even be arsed sculpting eight different molds, they just repeated the same four twice.
This series of reviewing loot crate started out like a new part of Ashens' videos. Reviewing cool random product in a cool concept of 'Loot crate' ('Loot' being the main word.. Good, wanted stuff!). Now, these loot crate review videos are just like everything else we enjoy watching his channel for. Reviewing tat. Let's face it. Loot crate is tat. Loot crate is now one of those people that sends in tat for him to review. Carry on, Ashens! And thank you for helping me avoid this crap. =D
The t-shirt looks like something you'd find in a charity shop. One of those shirts that you got for free from doing a charity marathon with a bunch of radio station logos on it and you only wear it on laundry day and when you're working on a car.
that idea ashens had to burn the box beforehand then try to figure out what each item is, thats pure genius, please do that for next month's loot crate video
Genuinely had me laughing with this one. Great video, shit haul. Ashens, you are like the young old grandfather we hate giving presents to. Grumpy and entitled to the last. Don't change a thing.
when i went to comic-con for my first time in may i was given a random plastic bag by somebody as i walked in,i didn't bother to check what was in it when i was there but when i got home there was 2 DvD's with some anime on it that i gave to a friend of mine,a teemo hat from league of legends, and a replica copy of the first superman comic,as well as the newspaper clipping from back to the future about the clock tower needing repair.I can't believe that something like that was free,but this you have to pay for.
the shoe laces were there because someone thought the theme was untie
Dyslexic workers untie. Toolcrate wants you.
Great pun!
Well if you tie your shoelaces together, you are uniting your feet with each other. And your face will unite with the ground.
Step 1: Get a cardboard box
Step 2: Shit in the cardboard box
Congratulations! You now have your very own Loot Crate for free!
***** I think you are on to something....
Is that even legal?
***** Ha ha that is hilarious. Looks like it's not real shit though just something made to look and smell very similar.
Is it real shit?
Only the mad scientist that packs this stuff in
the back room knows for sure and he wouldn't tell us, but we do know
this, it really smells bad back there, he is mixing up shit, and he does
visit the local dairy farm and zoo about twice a week. (We also don't
want the delivery company to actually know what kind of shit they're
delivering.) We can assure you that it looks nasty and really stinks. It
will get the point across to your intended victim.
Still funny though.
***** Wow...this is actually a real thing. A 'gag' gift thing apparently. Like those glitter bomb things I heard about, but with shit. Then again a 'shit bomb' present would be 'hilarious'.
AHorizontallyChallengedOrangutan i tried this and its alot better than the actual loot crate
That food costed money.
i didn't watch any other loot crates specifically to watch yours because they are always the best.
Because they overhyped this shit
Agree
kilroyjenkins1 I do rather enjoy his videos. Unlike most Loot Crate videos I have seen, they are actually critical of their contents. Usually I just seen endless praise about how awesome everything is.
Me too :)
***** *click*
Fucking shoelaces in 2015. Were are my fucking self-lacing Nikes?
ThePreciseClimber Alright... That made me choke on my food. That second sentence was just not what I was expecting to read. XD
ThePreciseClimber Fuck shoelaces. Velcro masterrace!!11!one!1qq!@11q
ThePreciseClimber the power laces are actually coming out later this year.
Nowhere to be found...
Fly1ngShurtugal XIII Indeed. I haven't bought any shoes with laces in YEARS. Velcro every time. What's annoying is that I still encounter more shoes with laces than with velcro in stores.
talk about a shoestring budget
wa-hay!!
Putting a Loot Crate logo on the t shirt is a new low.
Brian J next month the shirt will just be a big loot crate logo and nothing else.
Floydthefuckbag And the month after that it will just be an empty box with a giant lootcrate logo inside it.
Myst Lunarbane Next month it will just be a note saying "I O U".
Christopher Rapczynski And the month after you won't get anything at all.
Vicki Derp
And the month after that they just break into your house and take things.
You didn't want your house looted? Shouldn't have subscribed to loot crate.
I got coloured marvel shoelaces in mine - you were diddled pal!
Cherry Wallis yours weren't the gray ones? Wft you must have gotten a golden crate, mine, and everyone else i saw unbox got the gray. This crate we literally got a shirt with some random clutter.
Same! Oh poor ashens.. *more sarcastic sympathy*
Cherry Wallis Must've been the mega crate this month! :D
Cherry Wallis I got coloured ones too, would of preferred the grey ones cause they would of at least matched some of my shoes :s
Pear By clutter you are referring to cheap shit?
Most youtubers: _Oh!_ A nice little ice cube tray! I will _definitely_ be using these in my drinks! Wow, thanks lootcrate. I _love_ being a huge geek. hehe :^33333333
Ashens: *AN ICE CUBE TRAY? FUCKIN SHOELACES? METAL PINS?*
groovylobster ASHENS! The outer monologue for the every man's inner monologue!
AdiG1 amen!
groovylobster I legitimately thought that this lootcrate was alright. Not as good as some of the other ones but not terrible either. The t-shirt especially was cool.
Zenith Sorrowson maybe if theres some way to easily get those logos off the bottom so you're not walking around with a crotch advert.
Graeme Evans It's not *that* bad, really. Wore the shirt yesterday, and no one noticed the logos, and I got some positive comments on the overall design.
NEXT TIME: INFLATABLE SHOELACES
At least you used to get figures and pop toys. Not great but had more value than a shoelace
Its perplexing why people pay for this crap.
Best case scenario is that you get something that you can find in a store for less than the lootcrate box.
Worst case scenario...well...this..
fux yews I got a 6month sub for x-mas from my friend....i think my friend hates me.
fux yews fox new rocks, commie!!!
gary tru Yes, as we all know it's the go to media outlet for unbias and rational news and opinions, totally
HK FortySeven what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
fux yews "We have cheap plastic, and you have an obsession!"
The most honest LootCrate unboxings out there.
There was a faint hope in my heart that, with a theme like 'Unite', we'd see some Wonderful 101 merch
I am truly sorry for your lots
Sprech41 You. We should cry. Together.
I was hoping for combining robots.
Sprech41 Either that, or some wonderful Assassin's Creed merch, am i right? Am i right you guys?
Sprech41 But Wonderful 101 sucks, nobody wants merch of it.
Watching him call out these companies for their garbage merch is cathartic
Stay tuned for next month's loot crate; it's loaded with awesome goodies such as a spiderman napkin, a couple of inflatable balloons, and a used toothpick!
fucking logos on a tshirt. What is the point.
Pickle O It's not like they have anywhere else to put the logos... oh wait, tags exist.
Deafening Giraffes Yes holy shit, the print was cool, but the logos ruined it...
Pickle O BURN IT!
Pickle O So you can BUY BUY BUY PEPSI COLA!!!
The vast majority of pricier t-shirts are just the logo of the brand that made it. actual designs or things declaring a liking of things are usually cheeper.
20 US dollars for shoelaces and puzzles.
Worth it.
Tornado92 don't forget the giant inflatable fucking crown!!
Tornado92 29 dollars, actually.
Kreen Farhat You mean the fucking inflatable fucking crown.
ConnellxSilverfur Of course!
How stupid of me.
I salute them for their efforts in finding that kiosk. Such brave, charitable men.
The way Ashens is like "oh my fucking Christ" in reaction to the shoelaces makes me laugh every time
"THESE ARE FUCKING SHOELACES!" LOL
What The Actual F........!!!! People pay money for this shit?
Tux McBea I do. This crate was awesome
+Mixxed King Said no one ever.
Master Derp *Said me and multiple other people right now.
Mixxed King FUCKING INFLATABLE FUCKING CROWN! FUCKING SHOELACES! KINDER EGG JIGSAWS FOR FUCK SAKE WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU!? Oh dear, excuse me.
Meeting you was awesome Ashens! I was the kid who brought the picture of you to sign and u said it was priceless I love you sooo much!
A children's tshirt
Shoe laces
A comic
Pins
Ice tray
Puzzle
How is this still in business?
manchildren
Samuel zambie Stupid people, which is also a reasonable answer to most every question.
I think I remember there being much better items at the beginning. They have so many people blindly supporting them now that they don't need to give a shit.
Samuel zambie Because of RUclipsrs who are "Hip Geeks"
Samuel zambie Agree,...anyone 30 or over (im 32} is going to find a power ranger shirt a bit childish....but a 20 something year old I imagine would have some nostalgia for power rangers I guess.... Give me a GIjoe, or Thundercats shirt and I would love it......to each his own on the shirt....but the rest was junk....
I am calling it now: There will be a branded pop station before the year is out.
I've been defending Loot Crate for a while, but I'll admit, this box REALLY let me down. I like the ice cube tray, but I have no practical use for stuff like pins, stupid shoelaces, or a puzzle.
I don't know, I feel like a year ago the stuff I was getting in loot crate was way higher quality, but that in the past few months there really HAS been a drop-off. My subscription is up in July and unless they start pushing the quality back up, I may switch over to something like Arcade Block, which is more expensive but seems to have higher quality items.
***** The one "Play" one was alright, in my book. A book and a neat little toy was worth it, IMHO. But these last two. YEESH!
***** Last summer after Guardians with the GITD Groot. or it may have been the Joker Batman at christmas?
But its easily been 6months of shit.
***** Lol surprised at the marketing gimmick of oh hey look we have interesting items for the first few _____s now we have the cheapest things possible for several months to make the money roll right in. And the best part is when people stop paying for it the quality will improve for a few more months.
***** *Fucking inflatable fucking crown
Try nerdblock. It blows loot crate away
Ashens gets the Lootcrate so I don't have to bother. Tat through the post every month for an exorbitant price.
Wasn't expecting you here.
There used to be a time back when loot crate actually had interesting items. Now, shoelaces.
I'm confused, is Ashens sponsored by LootCrate?
It's just abnormal yet hilarious to see someone sponsored so honest about a product like this.
Project X No, he just keeps the subscription because the youtube views pay for it.
Chandler Walpole He actually gets it for free, he said it himself on reddit
***** He actually gets it for free, he said it himself on reddit
killerpoopguy
I did not know that. Thanks.
Project X Ashens is known to review awful, just awful product. I don't think LootCrate would sponsor him.
Ah how the mighty have fallen. Next month it'll probably just contain a Frisbee, some corn, and an old VHS copy of Hudson Hawk.
Even though it was two years ago, I had to give you props on the dank reference
Some corn!?! That's really expensive for them
This comment is over 5 years old, but I fucking love me some Hudson Hawk
eventually this is going to devolve into you hosing an unopened lootcrate box down with lighter fluid and lighting 'er up while cackling madly.
i'd pay more for a video of that than I would for a shitty lootcrate subscription.
FrankTheCat Probably better than the contents of most Loot Crates lol
FrankTheCat that is pretty much what he said he would do at the end of the video you troll.
FrankTheCat I'm pretty sure you added a letter "d" by mistake in your comment, careful next time :)
FrankTheCat That WILL be the one with halfway decent stuff in it. Bet on it.
It is quite refreshing hearing a review of one of those things that isn't BS
buying lootcrates is like unboxing crates in tf2/csgo: there could be a small chance that its something awesome
but most of the time something that worths 10 cents
Shoelaces.
Did someone think the theme was "Untie?"
Really Loot Crate? A fuck 300 piece fucking puzzle!
And fucking shoelaces?!?! Thank god i unscribed last month.
Yousif Ahmad why did you sub in the first place? it's always been shit...
ThatOneGuyCpr At least this time the LootCrate included over 300 items because of that puzzle. :D
ThatOneGuyCpr To be fair, the puzzle's the most interesting thing in there. At least you could get some entertainment from it if you happen to like jigsaw puzzles.
Ashens: "Fantastic. This was a huge waste of my time."
Me: "You did not read my comment!"
Ashens: "(sigh) Does it say you want the TF2 pins-"
Me: *"Yes."*
Mayor Rev Ashens: "I'll see you all in hell"
This was a great "Poundland Special!"
Could you do a followup for this to see how much of this stuff you could actually get in Poundland?/See if anyone has basically already sent you the Poundland equivalent of this stuff? I'd imagine that one wouldn't have to look too hard!
A quick glance at the thumbnail, and it looks like the Crate contained bags of weed.
An... ICE CUBE TRAY?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! AND SHOELACES?! *spazzes out*
The TF2 badges are cool tho, but I wouldn't buy LootCrate just for that.
I wore that shirt in Disneyland this past week and got recognized half a dozen times. "Hey loot crate!"
poptya I'm sorry.
poptya lol Poor Thing.
I think the TF2 badges were actually the best thing...
You could probably get similar badges on the Valve store. Or Forbidden Planet. Hell, you could probably get those designs printed and make your own.
Yeah but that is shit so the rest is even worse
Dylan Smith You're just bad at video games.
Peacock Lmao, according to who? You?
No, games are too fucking easy.
Dylan Smith You admitted to being bad at Team Fortress 2, and you have no knowledge of the meta. What games do you play anyways?
I can't remember what crate it was, but it was the last good one...
The best thing was a South Park Beat's Buddy speaker, which I adore.
It was so long ago I can't even remember what crate it was, and I seriously can't even fathom why I'm still subscribed to Loot Crate sometimes.
The shoe lace bit kills me every single time 🤣 ashens doesn’t give a shit and I love it
Hmm, rough guesses of retail values being generous
T Shirt: $15 US
Ice Cube Tray: $5 US
Jigsaw: $5 US
MAD: $0 - almost certainly MAD probably gave them to Loot for nothing as marketing
Badges: $2 US
Sticker: $2 US
Shoe Laces: $1 US
Comic: $5, I don't know how much comics are
Total: $35 US, and I think that's very generous.
I bet the cost of goods to LootCrate is about $10 per crate if that, a lot of it is probably zero cost to them and provided as marketing from the various companies.
James Sleeman thats a very high estimate of yours - tshirt is max 10$, ice cube tray 1, jigsaw 1, madmag 0, badges 1, stickers 1, shoelaces 1 and comic 2,50 - so all in all probably 17,50€ in retail price, which comes to about a third of it for loot crate, so about 6 bucks at most, if not less because most of it is probably storage overflow or promotion material - so its a 5times profit, if not more
Lol retail price? The value of that crate at production cost (which is what they get is at) is like 5 bucks. Plus, if I saw any of these things at a retail store I wouldn't buy them anyways, that's seriously a box of junk.
***** The issue with the marvel ice cube tray isn't that it's cheap, it's more that it's stupid.
The marvel ice cube tray is 10 bucks new on amazon. It's actually really well built - made from good silicon and with a rectangle of perpendicular silicon reinforcing it on the bottom, something even my silicon "companion cube" ice cube tray (yes, I bought one ages ago when Portal 2 was the big new thing, no, I don't regret it) doesn't have.
The issue is more: Why would you want ice cubes with 1 side that vaguely looks like a reference? Molded ice cube trays are only worth it when it's all in a design (except for the top), instead of just the bottom being a design and the rest being a vague shape. Not to mention "the thing" will never look good as an ice cube, it's way too complex of a design.
James Sleeman You can buy Cow shit for $15.95 but I'm not going to buy it. Just because the shit is expensive, doesn't necessarily make it good.
***** They have trays similar to it in some stores near me. They're around 10-15$
Next month: "Oh shit we need to make a loot crate for June and we have less than a week till June 1st" thinking quickly the Loot Crate personnel put a sheet of paper in a box and it says the theme is ORIGAMI and they include a book on really cheap paper showing all the "NEAT AND COOL NERDY GEEKY and other words that have seemingly lost their meaning THINGS YOU CAN FOLD THIS PAPER INTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Remember the time when Loot Crate was good? ...wait.
Vash theStampede I'm pretty sure the early ones were, they actually seemed worth subscribing to. Now it feels like they've just got a boardroom of people going 'Ok, what stuff do the kids like nowadays, and how can we spend as little money as possible?'
Vash theStampede what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
RIXRADvidz How many times are you going to make the same stupid comment?
The One Ring never leave your device or laptop unattended......stupid things happen, usually.
RIXRADvidz Please don't use that excuse. literally no one believes you (even if it's true), and it makes people hate you more for it.
Thank you Mr Ashens, for signing my brother's poster with "Hello to everyone by Ryan" he is being very smug about it.
This is why Ashens is basically the only channel I'm subscribed to that does anything with Loot Crate. Like everyone else in these comments are saying, he's brutally honest, and you're damn right it's hilarious.
Am I the only one who saw the crown and went to other loot crate videos to pick out the ones who where payed by them and got excited for that crap?
Just watched another youtuber do an unboxing of this (some person called Aureylian), holy shit the comparison is predictable to the point of parody. Every item "Oh wow, this..is..AMAZING!!, so much good stuff XD"
Ashens, don't ever change.
How much do these things cost a month? Are they less than $10?
noisyturtle Haha no, They're 30 dollars a month or if you buy a 12 month package it's $26. so it's about £17 cheapest...
noisyturtle $30 a month, worse if you are like me and live in Australia, because I'm pretty sure that's $30US, not AUD
noisyturtle Anything is too much for these crates.
$30 holy shit! That's straight up robbery, wow! They should be ashamed... or perhaps that's the issue, they have no shame. I can't even wrap my mind around that it costs more than $20.
noisyturtle Here it's $20. Well its "$14 a month...and $6 shipping/handling" like it's a late night 'be the first to call' infomercial.
The cover on the Rick and Morty puzzle reminds me of Phineas & Ferb.
And 'Unite' has to be the most contrived excuse for a Lootcrate theme yet.
9:26 The red guy in the middle is how I imagine Stuart looks whenever he notices there's been another loot crate delivery.
May I recommend something else for you? Check out Geek Fuel. I am not sure if they ship to the UK, though. But, at least their boxes aren't filled with clearance garbage like Loot Crate. Geek Fuel makes the price worth it.
Emer Prevost From what I seen. Geek Fuel has some form of quality controll and doesn't filter their boxes with tat from the lowest corners of the shops.
Plus, ever box has a code for a Steam game. One month, I got a code for a $40 game (twice the cost of the box), and the rest of the box was still filled with quality stuff. They really don't slack off when they put Geek Fuel boxes together.
Emer Prevost Thank you for the recommendation, I just ordered my first one! They do ship to the UK, the postage is $6 extra but it looks way better than Loot Crate tbh. If anyone else fancies one, would you mind doing it through my refer link? :) www.geekfuel.com/TtB3rm
Ashens on my Birthday! YAY!
He has the same b day as me 16th December
Happy birthday, bud.
Foojum Thanks!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY I LOVE YOU
I don't know why people waste money on this crap. Each month I watch these it just keeps getting worse and worse. One good crate doesn't justify all the rubbish in the others. Branded Ice cube tray and Shoelaces are pretty much poundland level.
Garrad3 They used to be better. I can only imagine that most people keep getting them in the hopes that some day they'll return to what they used to be and give out actually half decent things.
Neonemerld They should be getting better seeing how popular it's getting meaning more money.... Unless they just wanted to impress the early adopters and then lower the quality once everyone started buying it.
Garrad3 You'd think so but a lot of places seem to make crappier things once they get more popular, that or up the prices.
Neonemerld What you mentioned is actually a very good marketing strategy. In the future just 1 in 10 Lootcrates will be any good and only the complete imbeciles (of which there are a lot) will stay subscribed to that shit.
Garrad3 This may sound dumb but people are mindless. Most can't think for themselves. So when they see so many people on youtube saying how awesome the crates are (not realizing that they are getting they crates for free plus making money from them) they think "everybody thinks these are cool, so they must be. Take my money Lootcrate!" If all these unboxers actually gave their honest opinion like Ashens does Lootcrate's subscription would go wayyy down.
love that ashens outlived lootcrate
I've only just started watching these vids recently, and I know it's years old, but I just had to say that I work at Poundland and we have definitely sold the Avengers ice cube tray before.
Team Fortress is cool.
Badges are not.
They couldn't have tossed in a plushy or some shit? That at least comes with a code for an in-game cosmetic.
An all-class Loot Crate cap... I hate it allready
Jacob Hewett they shold have just thrown in a loot crate code for a ingame loot crate + key. would have been better
Jacob Hewett i feel like they missed a great opportunity to throw in a hat.
***** XD
Jacob Hewett they should of put in a hat for the tf2 thing
Do another poundland special already...
The stuff you get will be higher quality than Loot Crate at the moment! xD
***** He just did.
When?
You just watched it
***** Isn't this basically one?
To be fair, I might have actually used those TF2 pins, but otherwise, what the shit?
that "burn the box and find out what's inside" is a pretty cool idea, I support it
This is the only honest Lootcrate unboxing series out there.
All the rest: *Fake smile* Oh, cool, shoe laces! Ill be sure to put these on my converse after this video!
I'm giving this one more crate. If the next crate is shit, I'm done.
Andrew Burnham And that is when they super game you and make the next one pretty good to keep you hooked in to buy 3-5 more bad ones...
God damn...I sort of like the idea in principle, but these guys really fucked it up. Personally I would take the money you are spending on that which is what, like $20 bucks or so? And buy myself a little something each month for the same sort of feeling that I would get from the box. "OOOooOOooo.. I got a new toy!" Is a much better feeling when you have some control over what it is... And if you want a random feeling from it, just buy the humbleindiebundle without looking what comes in it.
Andrew Burnham The next crate will be shit; you might as well give up now already.
Andrew Burnham The next crate *will* contain shit
Andrew Burnham And you will say the same thing next month.
Apjooz
Nah I'm only saying next crate, because the next crate is the last one in my subscription.
- Fucking Inflatable Fucking Crown
- Fucking Shoelaces
I wonder what's next on the "Fucking X" list
Oh wow, this really was the dregs wasn't it? An ice cube tray? Really? Shoelaces? The T-shirt looked ok, until you see the shitty logos on it. The jigsaw is just taking the piss, treating your target audience like idiots. Badges and a shitty comic and MAD Magazine advert/pamphlet. It'd be one thing if it was a genuine special edition cover of some kind, but who's going to want to collect a comic with Loot Crate logos and boxes all over the artwork? Just the drizzling shits. They actually managed to outdo that crown in terms of shitiness.
I might just have a search around other videos to hear some of the insincere types try desperately to sell this shit as actually worthwhile.
Who uses ice trays anymore?
***** who the fuck breathes oxygen, anymore?!
Spencer Fletcher Who the fuck replies to comments anymore?
nobel 11 _who the fuck, anymore_
***** fuck
*****
Oh I get it. To complete the jigsaw you need to unite all the pieces together.
The 2016 Ashens box, if there is one needs a Fucking Inflatable Fucking Crown & Fucking Shoelaces.
Loot crate "something came in the mail today" edition. Everyone.....WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL?
Galapagos Marcus A loot crate?
Darude - Sandstorm?
Galapagos Marcus You find some expired coupons for Kroger, Junk mail, and a bankruptcy notice inside of a paper bag with LOOTCRATE sharpie'd on the outside.
Fucking shoelaces.
Deez nuts!
Wow, they took Rick and Morty, one of the funniest shows on TV now and maybe ever, and give you a fucking jigsaw puzzle? I'm a massive fan and even I would have been pissed.
brutforce100 me too, Ashens should go to Lootcrate and say "Show me what you got" Tiny Rick Would be infuriatdd
I already knew what was in this one from other people who got them. That being said I was excited to see his reaction to there being even more buttons in this one. He didn't react as much as I thought he would, but the shoelaces reaction made up for it.
"Bloody hell are we still doing these?"
That was my same reaction seeing this in my sub box xD
What is loot crate? You just pay someone to ship the stuff they couldn't sell at their garage sale to your house?
Flick Originally that is what it was. It was just nerd stuff that didn't sell, Loot Crate bought the stuff at a steep discount and then sold the stuff through this program.
Under 301 club
Gaha I was about to comment that lol
***** me too!
Woop woop got a notification
***** you're the coolest guy on the internet
No such club exists.
THE FUCKING INFLATABLE FUCKING SHOELACES!!!
It's nice that Ashens goes to the trouble to make videos of this for us. All the disappointment without any of the cost.
I was in stitches when he pulled out the shoe laces because of his reaction 😂😂😂
I assumed Lootcrate would get better over time but it is somehow getting worse each month. I hope the next one isn't just a box of crickets painted as anime characters.
Why is Loot Crate so popular?
It's so fucking stupid...
***** what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
***** Yeah, if you weren't a lazy dumbass like Lootcrate users, you'd get your $30 or whatever it costs and spend it on things of your choice. The element of surprise in Lootcrate isn't worth the much lower value.
***** I think it's the idea of not knowing what you're getting. Like when you get a gift, you get all excited to see what it is. Except in this case, it's usually a bunch of dollar store quality shit you'll never use or want.
When it first started it was amazing, now it's shite just free stuff they get sent.
Thank you for being honest when opening these shit boxes :P
BLOODY HELL,ARE WE STILL DOING THESE?!
2019 - does anyone still buy Loot Crates? Love watching Ashen's take on them.
These get more depressing each month...
this crap is worse than the last one, usually the t-shirt can redeem it but even that is ruined by all the logos
Formulka what a perfect ''let's end this relationship'' gift idea...Loot Crate for 6 months....here, have a few boxes of shit. because that's how I feel about us. nice....
hey look a meeseeks box
I love how the fucking inflatable crown was inside the stall just on a random pile at MCM
Ey, that idea at the end (burning the box, and then try to figure what was inside) would be MASSIVELY more entertaining than the actual opening of the box, at least for me.
And I am pretty sure nobody else has done that before on the tube, so bonus cool points...
I mean, it is not like you are going to find inside anything you will want to keep to pass to your grandchildren, so the fact that you burn an ice tray is not that big of a problem anyway... and the idea is entertaining!
Loot crate must be bankrupted, the first ones where kinda nice I guess, but the recent ones are just pure shit
Big Bob's Beepers I am tempted to do it but I don't want to get my inbox filled with dumb comments.
Basler Jones Because the first ones had novelty value, then it just turned kind of boring.
Basler Jones Or more likely they realised they could literally put anything in there and people would still pay for the privelage of getting ripped off.
This stupid thing is so popular and their markups are so high that they're probably rolling in money, and are nowhere near bankruptcy
Box full of shit. Great video tho as always!
Petition to make Stuart STOP these fucking Loot Crate bits.
We don't want to see this garbage (and even he can't deny thats what it is now more than ever)
Daniel Becker
No, I'm like Stuart last video. I'd rather NOT have an ashens video (and I am a BIG fan), then have to sit through this painfully dreadful shit.
I'd rather Stuart take his 25 pounds and have someone go to Poundland for him with the money and make a custom TatCrate box for him to review.
Pretty much mine and my brothers reaction upon opening our boxes. The MAD magazine is supposedly their DC comics item. When your theme is Unite and you include a DC comics item, a magazine company owned by DC comics is not good enough, especially when there isn't even a DC comics character on the cover!
It was free comic book day this month, and yes you are correct; the MAD magazine is like something they give away for free. In actual fact I got *thicker* comics for free that day.
Also failed to mention that the ice cube tray manufacturers couldn't even be arsed sculpting eight different molds, they just repeated the same four twice.
You know stuart is pissed when he has to change the outro to convey his feelings.
The ice cube thingy was truly... marvel-ous.
HAHAHA SILLY PUNS ARE FUNNY!
This series of reviewing loot crate started out like a new part of Ashens' videos. Reviewing cool random product in a cool concept of 'Loot crate' ('Loot' being the main word.. Good, wanted stuff!).
Now, these loot crate review videos are just like everything else we enjoy watching his channel for. Reviewing tat. Let's face it. Loot crate is tat. Loot crate is now one of those people that sends in tat for him to review.
Carry on, Ashens! And thank you for helping me avoid this crap. =D
The t-shirt looks like something you'd find in a charity shop. One of those shirts that you got for free from doing a charity marathon with a bunch of radio station logos on it and you only wear it on laundry day and when you're working on a car.
"$40+ (around £25) Retail Value in every crate!"
Right then.
THAT LAUGH WHEN READING THE BACK OF THE ICE CUBE TRAY LOL
You can use the ice cube tray for chocolate or candy or some other sort of mold like urethane or wax or something.
Those crowns were in poundland at the end of last year, someone sent one to one of my friends in Mozambique for a joke
that idea ashens had to burn the box beforehand then try to figure out what each item is, thats pure genius, please do that for next month's loot crate video
Genuinely had me laughing with this one. Great video, shit haul. Ashens, you are like the young old grandfather we hate giving presents to. Grumpy and entitled to the last. Don't change a thing.
when i went to comic-con for my first time in may i was given a random plastic bag by somebody as i walked in,i didn't bother to check what was in it when i was there but when i got home there was 2 DvD's with some anime on it that i gave to a friend of mine,a teemo hat from league of legends, and a replica copy of the first superman comic,as well as the newspaper clipping from back to the future about the clock tower needing repair.I can't believe that something like that was free,but this you have to pay for.