[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Frank Richards

I absolutely agree about the frustratingly inconsistent distribution, but how can you claim that the character selection for the Black Series is bad ?

Granted, it took far too long for Hasbro to give us a well-rounded lineup (largely due to poor choices, like including only four characters in the initial waves), but these days, not only are the OT and new movies well-represented, we even have a nice selection of characters from the Rebels animated series, as well as EU characters like Revan and Jaina Solo.

Until recently, the only glaring absences I could think of were the remaining ESB bounty hunters (but a few of them will be hitting stores pretty soon, so that's no longer an issue), a few prequel trilogy characters (like Padme, Mace Windu, Dooku, etc), and maybe a few Mos Eisley Cantina aliens.

Sure, I hated having to wait FAR too long to finally get certain characters, like Ahsoka and Lando, but I think that the selection, has finally become, at worst, adequate.

I think my disdain for their character selection as of late has more to do with the characters (and multiple versions of them) from the newer movies, and some poor choices of side characters which have caused to put in plastic form, as well as the incompleteness of some of the teams.

For example, we never got Bhodi from Rogue One, but we got two different Cassian figures. There's far too many Kylos and Reys at this point. Who was Zuvio again? Rose was nice, but did we really need Finn in the FO disguise? How about making Rose in the FO disguise as well instead of her rebel gear? DO we really need a DJ? He was in 2 minutes of the movie. We still haven't gotten Zeb, Chopper and Ezra, (or any of the Inquisitors who I guarantee would be hot sellers,) and now that the show is about to be concluded, I fear we're not going to. Where are the battle droids from the prequels? And so on....

I'm glad over some of the figures we're getting...but they are taking far too long to get there at this point. My interest is starting to wane already, and we still haven't received a proper Mace, Dooku, and Grevious, yet, we have ANOTHER Stormtrooper, only this one just walked straight off the set of Pootie Tang. How freaking long does Hasbro expect us to army build troopers, because lately, it feels like that's all I've bought!