I agree with Anton...
Call me a skeptic, but I think that was a slight bit of hogwash on Hasbro's part to make sure people are "clamoring" for them.
Consider this... 2004 was 3 lines of VOTC. 2007 is 1 line of VTAC. I think they will produce PLENTY of these for everyone. Just maybe not in the skads they produced for VTOC in 2006, which was pretty absurd in numbers when you look at it. VTOC was hardly difficult to find though, and a lot of what was hard to find, was hard to find because the first wave screwed the second wave.
I think what we're seeing is Hasbro's attempt at early buzz, ala the R2-Potatoo figure, so they don't linger TOO much. With all the rethinking of the due date for the Lucas Trooper figure, it's pretty obvious Hasbro was aware that way too many vintage figures were imade last year and in the pipes for a very long time. Good for us since they clearance a lot of places, bad for them and retail.
I'm not concerned and I think we'll see something like a fairly minimal difference in production numbers. Big maybe on paper, but in terms of demand for a $10 figure it'll come to nothing we'd notice much, just less clearance sales.
I can already see the people freaking out over this... People who don't know much better about ploys like that, scalpers, etc.