It was a decent live stream, of course as always the pipelines steal the show. The Vader obi-wan 2 pack will be awesome, same with the N1 starfighter. It makes sense to use the new Vader sculpt as much as possible. I'm not even mad about that. A lot of clones, which I don't buy, but that's just me. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of Clone army building. I would end up in severe debt. This is the 3rd army builder I've skipped. The scout helmet I'll get that.
In regards to the no preorder. My tin foil hat theory is, the retailers, namely Wal-Mart, is pressuring Hasbro to increase their brick and mortar sales. Nobody preorders from Walmart, like nobody. And toy hunting is dead. So the only one to gain anything from it is Walmart. On release day people will just show up at Walmart to see if the new wave came in. Most likely some Walmarts will get them before the release day, giving them the advantage. Not having preorders doesn't benefit us at all like they claim. The problem with preorders was the time between ordering and releasing and not having preorders for the whole wave at once. Right now I have preorders with maybe 3 different waves and the rest of the waves haven't gone up yet. That's the problem. Just release 1 wave at a time, the whole wave.
I think it's just a one-off thing they're doing to help Wal-Mart. Because they only get one or two waves a year and they sit there all year. Like the Lando wave. Anyone who wanted one preorderd it, and few people need more than one. That's my take on it.
