Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

In my local art store this set costs 30$ more, even with a 40% off coupon. So definitely a great deal here at Amazon. I purchased these colored pencils in January of this year. I have used them fairly often since then and I am very satisfied. The color selection in the set is wonderful. I was unsure if the larger set would have wasted colors, but the variety of hues has been particularly convenient in ensuring a solid laydown of whichever value I am looking for. Currently Prismacolor is changing the look of their colored pencils, so there are two different pencil 'looks' in the tin. The differences are just superficial in the printing on the outside of the pencil, I found no difference in quality, or performance. The tin pictured (the longer rectangular one) is the old style box I believe, the one that shipped to me was a square tin. The pencils came sharpened, but since the square tin doesn't come with a sharpener, it makes sense. The only complaint I have at all is very minor, one pencil out of all 132 was sharpened at the wrong end. This really wouldn't stop me from purchasing these pencils again.