But with all of that behind us, we can say now that we have it in hand, we think it’s a pretty decent set of figures. In fact, many other great Star Wars fan sites grabbed this set right away and added it to their respective photo archives, but not even that enticed us enough to pick it up. The set didn’t really impress us at first glance. Needless to say, we were ecstatic to get these for a song.

We don’t recommend waiting for things like this, but this set was the straw to break the camel’s back for us as far as 2012 was concerned. As a result from waiting, our short-winded boycott reaped wonderful rewards and we were able to secure two sets for that price on. Otherwise, just pack them as basic carded figures. Multipacks need to have more value at the cost per figure level. (That’s a bit coincidental, no?) But because Hasbro dropped a figure (when compared to 2011’s TCW Ultimate Gift Set Walmart exclusive) and kept the MSRP the same, well, the people at this site weren’t having it. Not only did online retailers/etailers sell this, but so did. An intended Walmart exclusive, those plans were scrapped do to the glut of product that DIDN’T move in their stores so Hasbro quickly revised the plans and made it a quasi online exclusive so it could indeed see the light of day. We realize that, but a lot of our stated points directly apply to the 2012 SW Ultimate Gift Set (104th Battalion “Wolf Pack” Clone Troopers) exclusive set. (We’re sure thing swill be very different at that point.) So this is a great deal of exposition for a four pack of figures. Is that so much to ask? Hasbro says they want to sell it to us, so we’ll wait with baited breath to see if this hobby can make an upswing before the Sequel Trilogy enters our world in 2015. We just want the opportunity to buy the stuff. They have promised that 2013 will be different, but many are skeptical as the wounds from 2012 haven’t healed entirely and many more aren’t so sure if their nerves can sustain another 365 days of purse collector “you-know-what”. So stuff started arriving in November 2012 – stuff that should have been out April of that year. While conjecture exists on every topic from poor case assortments to over abundance of repacked merchandise we never wanted in the first place on why 2012 was the failure it was, it does seem that Hasbro aggressively performed damage control, albeit the end of the year, to finally get a few of the long-awaited products out to the collecting community. Then again, it’s all a domino effect so we know our friends across the globe have been equally frustrated. (Did anyone else notice that the description above makes absolutely no sense?) You would have to be living under a rock somewhere outside of the USA to not have an inkling what an utter debacle 2012 was for Star Wars collectors.

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