Oh yes, I'd say the humidity doesn't do the IKEA stuff much good at all! Opening up the box to warped and swollen panels wouldn't be my idea, or ikea of fun! Small play on words there. my brother lives in FNQ and he bought a thing once...Regretted it a couple months later when it fell apart - Vowed never again. We have reasonable success with it down south though.
It's a good thing there all those optimistic-nostalgic-naïve foreigners up there huh? (For IKEA at least.)