The Broken TokenTerraforming Mars Compatible Base Game Organizer - Wood Storage Box with Multiple Trays & Card Shoe - Wooden Game Organizer

To reiterate what most people are saying, this is a really genius product. There isn't a single square centimeter of wasted space in your box. This makes starting games and cleaning up after games much quicker and avoids the many limitations of little plastic bags used to store objects, cards, etc. Everything is stored in a way that makes the game ready to play extremely quickly.One of the best features of this is the scoring boards. As anyone with the game knows, the flat cardboard scoring boards are difficult to use. One small bump of your table or board ad your pieces move all over and you don't know where cubes belong. This eliminates this and keeps your cubes right where they need to be.As others have noted, this comes disassembled. For the most part, the pieces fit very tightly and easily. The manufacturer recommends having a file to help with any edges that don't fit, but I did not need one - all of the pieces fit very well. Assembly was pretty easy - it took me about 90 minutes and I found it therapeutic, like building a puzzle. For the few pieces that didn't fit together as snugly as I would like, I used a bit of wood glue and that has worked well.Design wise it is brilliant, not just in function but in presentation as well. The first player token is a rocket ship, and the card shoe has little rockets on the side. It's a nice touch. The generation, temperature, and oxygen tokens are cute, too. They are not acrylic though. I felt like I read acrylic somewhere. Mine are wood.If I had one suggestion for improvement, I'd love to see a little color added beyond the generation, oxygen, and temperature markers. In particular, my wife often confuses heat and energy - so having the player boards show heat in red and energy in purple (plants in green, steel in brown, etc) to reflect the colors in the game would add an additional level of ease. Well, actually, two suggestions for improvement - for me, when I put the board in the box, it doesn't close fully - there is maybe a 1 cm gap between the bottom of the lid and the bottom of the box. It's a minor thing to me, but I know some other people would find that problematic.I know the organizer is expensive - I paid more than I paid for the actual game. For how often my family plays, I am extremely grateful I made the purchase. If you play this game with any regularity and you value your time, this is an excellent investment.

With a game that takes 2 or more hours for typical play, having player boards that keep the markers in place is a must. One wrong sneeze or bump and markers everywhere and a frustrating restart. This makes putting away organized and next game setup is super fast.The person(s) that designed this did a fantastic job. Every component has a purpose and fit together perfectly. The instructions are good and the pieces were designed to minimize confusion on how the pieces interconnect. Expect to spend a few hours assembling. If you have experience with assembling plastic model kits, then this should be straight forward. The instructions recommend gluing pieces for frequently used pieces but I would recommend gluing ALL pieces. I did not have to trim or sand any of the pieces but some were tricky to fit. I used wood glue and damp paper towels and damp q-tips to wipe excess glue from pieces.Before assembling trays determine if you want colored print on playing trays. If yes, there are templates on gameboardgeek site. You can print colored underlayments which would need to be placed between the tray base and top layer before assembling and gluing frame. You can also color in with colored pens.I don't think any of the components would hold up well getting wet for any lengthy time but very sturdy and really elevates the look and feel of the game.If you play this game frequently, the time saved putting away and setting up justifies the cost. One minor improvment would be to have a few more card dividers included. If you contact manufacturer, you can get more for a nominal cost.

At first, I was hesitant to purchase this. After all, this organizer costs almost as much as the game itself!However, now that I've received it, I am blown away by how great it is. Some serious planning went into the creation of this organizer. You can tell that whoever made this loved Terraforming Mars and put a tremendous amount of thought into how to organize everything. I can't even imagine the engineering genius that managed to make this all fit perfectly in the 3-dimensional space of the original box.With this organizer, there are no more bags. Everything is stored perfectly inside the storage pieces. The player tokens stay on the player boards. All the money cubes and city/greenery tiles fit into 2 organizers. Even the card holder is amazing, as it holds all of the cards even when sleeved. Personally, I play this game so often that I felt it necessary to protect the cards inside Dragon Shield sleeves, and all of the cards fit perfectly in the card box. The additional game piece tokens are also very nice. The board fits snugly into the top of the organizer when assembled.The only thing to be aware of is that you have to assemble everything yourself. When you open the package, you receive a large number of wooden boards that you pop pieces out of, and then you have to assemble every single piece of the organizer yourself. While the pieces do snap together pretty well, I would highly recommend using glue to make sure they stay together. The instructions are excellent, and there is also a video you can watch that helped me put it together. It took me a few hours to put it together.If you play this game regularly, you will absolutely love this organizer! I can't recommend it enough.