As I've said before in this thread, while Hasbro might be able to claim that the 30AC and Legends figures are under different SKUs and therefore not a theoretical hindrance to one another, the fact remains that the 2007 Saga Legends figures ARE under the same SKU as the 2006 Saga Collection. By using the same SKU, the pegs that are stuffed full of Jerjerrods, Endor Threepios, GB Padmes, and (insert your favorite pegwarmer here), are, in fact, keeping the 2007 Saga Legends from showing up at retail.
Again, whether Hasbro will admit it or not, when a Wal-Mart stock person looks at the eight pegs allotted to Star Wars and sees them jammed full of figures, whether they're 100 different characters or 100 of the same character, they just read it as "FULL" and no restocking takes place. When Wal-Mart's computers read the SKU and see that they have 100 figures on hand, they don't reorder. So, those 100 Jerjerrods and Threepios not only keep the 30AC stuff that may or may not be in the stockroom from being put out on the Wal-Mart stock person level, but it also keeps the Saga Legends stuff from even being ordered at all.
If Hasbro wants to clear up the issues people are having with retail right now, they should:
1. Do a recall of ALL 2006 Saga Collection figures still at retail, regardless of who they are, how many of them there are, or where they are, and give stores credit for those figures (just like in the Episode I days)
2. Issue a new SKU for the Saga Legends figures that is totally separate from the 2006 TSC SKU. I realize that could be difficult at this point with the SKU still in use, but maybe change it for Wave 3 so that way retail won't have a backlog of 2006 figures and they'll be getting Saga Legends stuff.
3. Actually, you know, ship figures to stores in decent case ratios and in a timely fashion instead of letting three months pass between shipments and/or stockings.
Seriously, Hasbro, the retail situation is horrible right now for basic figures and is reaching a level (if it hasn't reached it already) that approximates the post-TPM and AOTC basic figure gluts.