I love this range, I bought this one and a farm animal equivalent. They are both for stocking gifts for young kids but the large plastic box doesn't fit, so I opened them up to wrap the contents without the plastic, and was surprised to find that in both cases, most of the pieces are in a sealed plastic bag, but with one piece just loose in the box. This wouldn't normally matter, had I not needed to lose the outer plastic (although it is very odd), but it's annoying that now I will have to split the bag as well to wrap the pieces together. Still a great item though - you build the animals are you read through the book.