Agreed, it's a pretty easy find here as well. But that's why I'm worried about its future availability.

The reason for my question is a worry that if this "Tarkin & Board Game" set are coming in bigger numbers later, they will probably not sell at all at other stores since Target seems to already have met demand. Couple that with my fear that Hasbro will only make "new" Retro figures in a $20 upsell format like this, and we come to a place where this is deemed a "failure" because everyone else will be left with little to no sales, which will leave Hasbro with no orders for the Sandtrooper or Rebel Trooper or Uncle Owen set that's being planned as we speak.

(I've got collector PTSD...they give me something I like, and I feel it's destined to be discontinued.) 

Watched them all over the weekend. I will hold off on spoilers for a while...

I liked it better than the second season by a little. Slow build to tons of action, but I was disappointed in the zero development of the "lore" concerning the the Upside Down. For all that was accomplished character-wise this season, it still felt like the show's spinning its wheels as far as the overarching mythology.

It would be great to see a Death Star, but the last time Hasbro talked about HasLab they were still saying the next project would be non-Star Wars.

Rob's house, two days from now...

Don't despair yet! I got that same email hours after the initial pick-up time they had promised...and at just about the same moment they charged my card and I started being able to track the FedEx shipment to the store.

I can't for the life of me figure out how they are able to botch this up so badly, it apparently has something to do with miscommunication between a chainwide website and regional distribution centers, but it is something they need to streamline out of their system if they are going to persist in the online preorder model.

Not that the brick-and-mortar model of exclusive distribution has been great for the past 20 years, either, but at least they didn't yank your purchase out of your cart at checkout and sell it to the guy in line ahead of you...

Yeah, I think they are a hot seller right now. Part of it is just straight up collectors chasing the nostalgia and doing what we have all been programmed to do. I think the other big part of the heat right now is the entire wave in one case with no duplicates, no chase figures. It's not an assortment of $10 figures so much as it's a $60 multipack. And then folks want multiples of the multipack, and store supplies dry up insanely fast.

Once Hasbro realized this (data from the Target website presell, I am guessing) they went back to the factory to do another run, and announced just prior to the line's "street date" that more are coming in the fall, which is probably as fast as they could get a factory turnaround. This tells me they knew the supply of the intial run was not going to hold out.

I have hopes for a wave 2, but I can't imagine it just being the "other 6" of the first 12 since all the heavy-hitters were already cherry picked. And the droids are a problem in and of themselves because Hasbro doesn't vac-metallize anymore. The selections could get interesting, I have no idea how to even formulate a guess as to where they will go.

I do expect retreads to knock out variations like small head Han, tan-hair Farmboy Luke, maybe even green-limb Chewie. My hope is we could get some retooled figures like removable helmet Vader, a Luke without the lightsaber built in, Sandtrooper, etc. And that is only working within the 6 figures already made.

I am also wary of Hasbro using the brand-new Retro figures as an upsell for larger items like they pulled off with Tarkin. It would be conceivable to get, say a Stormtrooper Han and/or Imperial Scanning Tech with a Death Star (extra points if it is a Palitoy Death Star, but I'd take a Kenner version too.) Cantina Band Member with the Creature Cantina, Sandtrooper with Dewback, Wedge or Biggs with X-Wing...they could really make a lot of interesting combos that the collectors would gobble up.

And really, it is only a matter of time before we get Retro prequel and sequel figures. I just hope they don't come to dominate the release schedule.

Yeah, that listing had to have been faked, the picture is the custom-made one. Hasbro may be doing one, who knows, but this isn't evidence of it.

Put your money back in your pockets, everyone.