Target had to find ways to get stuff into the online buyers hands faster in order to stop losing business to Amazon Prime 2-day shipping.  The Store-as-hub model apparently saves them tons in that regard.  Filling the orders closer to where the customer lives is apparently driving a lot of those savings.  I am sure there is probably savings in the fact that the retail store workers ($13-15/hr average) are usually getting less than the warehouse workers ($18-20/hr average).

In the case of little plastic Star Wars figures, it may not be saving them very much at all. I'm sure there probably is a better, cheaper way to service the niche "old men buying little plastic men" community, but not cheaper enough to any degree that it makes sense upsetting their giant store-as-hub strategy and $110b in sales operation.

Thanks, that really does add a lot of context outside of the action figure niche, which of course is their focus as a company, and may at long last help to satisfy my curiosity about Hasbro's switch to solid case packs (vs assortments)  in the TVC World-Building boxed figures, the Retro ROTJ wave, and the TVC exclusive figures.

I appreciate the education!

Nicklab, the theory makes sense, but how does it jibe with the stories of Target stores not even receiving full cases of some of the products at times? I understand stuff like the nonassortment packed Boba Fetts and Indiana Jones figures arriving in stores and being shipped out to fulfill online orders, but when the regular TVC and Retro figures show up in batches of 3s from the repack box it doesn't add up.

Especially considering their has to be a warehouse/DC somewhere putting together those repack boxes to ship out to the Target stores.

They allow the figure to sit on a speeder bike LIKE A BANTHA.

Fixed that for you!!!

They came and went at the same time as Short Round. He was plentiful in my area for a few weeks, then clearanced and gone. Still waiting for Henry and Sallah to show up in stores in these parts.

Too bad they didn't do a multi-pack of Chewie and his family

How did Disney miss the opportunity to do a remake with Alden Ehrenreich going to Kashyyyk to meet Chewie's family (Baby Lumpy = $$$ right?) and celebrate his first Life Day? This stuff writes itself!

I'm pretty sure Life Day is November 17th.  Now I'm scratching my head and wondering if that was the original airdate for the Holiday Special?  But that's the date where it was Celebrated in the Disney Parks last year.  A November 1st date for orders could get the figures to people in time for the 17th.

Yes indeed. November 17th 1978.

They were on display in the booth, I believe the cards said Spring 2024 availability.

Long story short, the rank badge system that was set up in ESB was not followed in ROTJ.

In ESB we see Captain Piett at the beginning of the movie, then at the end his rank badge has changed to an Admiral's badge. This final scene Piett is the figure in the 4-pack.

The Admiral Piett seen in ROTJ has the generic badge every officer in ROTJ had, which matches the Captain rank in ESB. So the ROTJ carded figure already out works for Captain Piett in the early part of ESB too.