Big Damn Crate

First off, let me say that this was so much fun to put together, stain, lacquer, etc. I love my BDC! It hold everything in the Firefly game and the setup with it is so easy that is seriously cuts the setup time by more than half the time it takes normally! Here is a completed photo of the freshly lacquered product. We put in gold paint in the big lettering. The lacquer gave it a bit of a tarnished look, which I love.

Big Damn Crate

Exceptional build quality. Easy to follow directions.

I love this crate it makes it so much easier to set up and play this game. The quality of the kit was great everything fit together with no issues.

Love this box, but I was a bit aggressive on gluing mine together, and ended up with the lid not quite able to fit over the insert. Tolerances are very tight, make sure everything is fitting before you glue.

Looks great, holds everything, but can't handle sleeves for the story cards.

The questions I ask myself before buying an organizer are: will this make the game easier to setup/tear down? Will the ease of the use get this game to table more often?
The Big Damn Crate not only does both of those things but it's also guaranteed to make your friends jealous. If nothing else this is absolutely worth it just to have the vertical card holders that significantly reduce the table space needed to navigate the 'verse. Very fun to build and super easy to follow instructions. 10/10

Due to a recent remodel we lost our game shelf. So many games are in the garage in boxes. Not this one. I hand stained this mother f*er in the crazy hot summer of Utah. I'd take off my staining gloves and sweat pools would go every where. it was disgusting. But. It was better than what I had cobbled together using dollar store stuff for the previous years (actually 100 yen shops in Japan, but I digress). I love love love this box for it's ease. For me, I have the rolled mat. So, it's unroll the mat, shuffle the decks and P L A Y. I can put all the decks on end in the box at the end of a small table. I remember trying to play this game pre-box and it was a nightmare. So much table real estate needed. This box? very small table real estate needed for the stupid amount of decks. Get it. Stained or not. Get. It.

Great crate, not to hard to put together just takes a bit longer than other smaller inserts. I stained glued and lacquered (and put some gold foil on the lettering) for something to do over a long weekend. Looks great.

We've been looking at this for 3-4 years to buy in the UK.
The taxes were expected - cost about £63 on top of the price of the products (bought the biohazard containment unit at the same time) and the delivery.
The putting together was ok, we stained the biohazard containment unit which we think warped it slightly even though it was thinkly applied. This meant that we had to do a few shavings in places but it went together not too bad. The Big Gorram crate, we opted to leave unstained and it all went together beautifully. Keeps all the pieces in and a few extras that were bought. Happy boxes!

Putting together the ultimate Firefly gaming set for a gift and this makes it pretty much perfect.

Whoever claimed that one simply couldn't fall in love with an inert object clearly hadn't know the beautiful design of the Big Damn Crate.
After hesitating for a few years i Finally decided to splurge and go big or go home. I am very, very glad I did, and the Broken Token went for a homerun.
The materials are lovely, the design is superb and the experience of putting it all together is a joy (for people like me who enjoy puzzles and crafting).
It was all a very smooth and pleasant experience overall. The box arrived in record time, especially for international shipping (greeting from Mexico!), though I wasn't thrilled customs decided to charge their share. Then I stained the wood, which I highly recommend people do before assembling it. I was a bit scared about mucking things up and ruining it, but it was all a very straightforward process, and any mistakes or stains just give the box a special look, I think. After that, the instructions were very clear and easy to follow, all the sheets of wood are numbered!
As other have already noted, staining the wood might expand a bit the wood, which makes fitting the pieces together a bit of a hurdle, but even working that out was fun.
In the end I have this luxury item that I just love and now my favorite boardgame looks simply stunning. If you're on the fence as I was, I encourage you to go for it. I think you're gonna love it as much as I do. 5.5 out of 5!

I just spent 25 mins trying to put the first two pieces and they wouldn't fit together and I gave up - this is a huge waste of money - do not buy.

The crate isn't too difficult to assemble as long as you take your time. Holds everything nicely and looks soooooo good!

Wonderful product that I highly recommend!

Firefly was a game that to my mind deserved to be on my shelf with all its expansions. So too did it deserve an organizer that, while entirely extravagant, made it a beautiful collector's item and a treat to set up and play.

Just having a box large enough to hold all the pieces, that would have been adequate. But this goes the extra mile. The deck trays can come out of the box and sit neatly on the table for players to draw and discard from. The tokens are nested comfortably in twin trays with etched labels on the clear acrylic sliding lid. There's a nice little niche to hold the universe mat if you have it. My only beef is that it doesn't support the Big Money addon, but the trays to hold the regular cash are quite nice. To maximize the value of my investment, I stained the whole thing, and then lacquered the outer shell to preserve it.

This crate is super expensive, and patently ostentatious and superfluous. And I could not be happier with it.

The design and layout are close to perfection. It will make setup, play, and take down much easier. Staining the boards prior to assembly makes all the difference once it's assembled.

Quick delivery (from the US to Germany!) and good quality. Only downside was that some of the pieces where a REALLY tight fit. Other than that, love it!

I purchased this because I have the Firefly board game and a number of expansions. My old boxes were getting worn and it was a bit obnoxious to carry around the various expansions with the main game. This crate is an excellent storage solution and makes setup and teardown extremely simple.

The crate in theory and practice is amazing. I've seen one, I've used one. I was thrilled to order one. The concept is great. However, that being said, the suggestion by Broken Token to stain the box first before assembly is an absolutely terrible one! The stain causes the wood to swell slightly, making assembly 100x more difficult. The pieces must be cut out of the flats because the stain glues them in. All the tabs and slots have to be sanded so that the pieces will go together and then glued. It is a major royal pain. Something that should have been fun or at least interesting to assemble (like a puzzle) has become a test of sheer determination...to win. Honestly I have been to the point of throwing the stupid thing away and starting over with an unstained bare wood box multiple times. My husband and I have already spent several dozen hours working on this and we still are not finished. We finally got down to the ship holder and the 5 card tray C and discovered that we are missing sheet 5. Now we cannot even finish the box. I am extremely frustrated and angry. Now I have very pretty, very expensive kindling.

Make no mistake, this thing is huge. Make sure you have plenty of shelf room. That being said, the ease of being able to play right out of it makes it more that worth it. Well designed and saves a ton of room on the table

Awesome! My son Loved it and we all had fun putting it together.

I purchased this as a gift for my husband who desperately wanted this for all of our Firefly expansions. He's currently working on staining it. We can hardly wait to use it since we all know what a table hog Firefly can be.

This is a gift for my husband's Firefly game and all its modules. He will love it. The quality looks great and well made.

The card holders alone are worth the price of admission.

Almost finished putting it together. Very nice kit. My only complaint is that some of the joins (especially the joins in the middle of pieces) are very/too tight. I'm having to hammer them in very hard to get them to neatly join, and even then it shaves off the outer layer of wood on that join (you can't see it once it's slotted in thankfully). Maybe there was some expansion of the wood after I stained it. I can't be sure. But it's the only annoyance on something otherwise great.

Love this crate! I stained mine before assembling and it looks amazing!! Took me a couple hours or so to stain, but I’m so glad I did. Just don’t make my mistake and leave it out to dry for too long if you live somewhere humid (I left it overnight in Louisiana...oops). Humidity exposure definitely caused the assembly to take longer as everything was a very tight fit and required several hours with a rubber mallet and wood glue; but again, so worth it!! If you’ve got most or all the expansions, you’ll want this crate for sure!

I received the Big Damn Crate as a wonderful gift for Christmas! I absolutely love how easy it makes setup to play the game. The trays make it much easier when playing with limited space as well, since you can shuffle the decks and play right out of them. Everything from the base game and the expansions fits perfectly!

The box and tray are precisely cut and fit together really well. The material used is high quality and sturdy. We haven’t gotten around to staining mine yet, but I look forward to putting the finishing touches on this beautiful addition to my table and my game shelf!

This crate helps keep everything organized in such a spectacular feat of engineering. Not once have I opened it to find bits missing or out of place. Makes for setup and teardown to be much easier, and the card trays are beautifully done for playing.

The Big Damn Crate is well thought out. It's obviously been designed by people that have played the game which is big bonus. Assembly was straightforward and the end result is an attractive and very useful storage crate. Well done!

I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, mainly because it is so heavy now that I can't take it with me - it has become an at home game only. However, it looks amazing! I gave it all a good varnish, and now it would happily sit in the corner of the room as a talking piece. I can see how much quicker set up and pack down is going to take, while also reducing space required. All in all, a must have for the firefly game series!