I got a shipping notice for my case order from EE. It turns out the case is packed as follows:
1 x ARC Trooper Jesse
2 x Din Djarin (Morak)
1 x Mandalorian Death Watch Trooper
1 x Figrin D'an (Cantina Band)
2 x 332nd Ahsoka's Clone Trooper
1 x Mandalorian Super Commando Captain
These 8 figure cases are really making collecting more challenging. I appreciate the attempt to get more characters in a single case, but this also leads a collector who finds a fresh case on the pegs to buy EVERYTHING from that case in one shot. I can see the posts now of people finding a lone Din Djarin (Morak) on the pegs shortly after this case gets stocked.
Nick - Are you suggesting that they should do everything at 2 per case, or are you suggesting there should be more repacks mixed in with the (mostly) new goodies?
I think it’s a more complicated issue. Because it involves a number of things.
-There’s the number of figures in a case.
-The number of figures that a standard retail peg can accommodate.
-The amount of peg and shelf space that retailers allocate to Hasbro for Star Wars.
-The appeal of some characters versus others that should be short packed.
Hasbro actually has more control over this than collectors might realize. Because companies like Hasbro pay retailers for shelf space. And how is Hasbro working with retailers to allocate that space? In the case of Target it appears that the new TVC exclusive figures are getting their own pegs.
The situation with this wave brings up the potential for some of the characters that are single packed to be scarce. Online retail seems like it might be meeting some of the demand for figures like the Mandalorians or cantina band members who are all single packed.
You bring up an interesting thing about repacks. Right now we don’t really see figures from previous waves being carried forward in newer case assortments. And the repack waves are nothing but repacks.
There are so many moving parts in this operation that it doesn’t seem like there are any easy answers.
