>>6576965The 5" legacy line had the most asinine distribution I have ever seen in my 30 + years of action figure collecting.
It started with cases of straight Zedd, and it seemed like stores were getting two or more cases of him, so that was 24+ Zedds without any of the others to balance him out. The follow up to that was Jason, both Tommys, and... Zedd again... for some insane reason. Finally came cases of Kim, Billy, Trini, and Zack. The Kim and co cases were initially pretty limited. It seemed like stores only got a case or two and then they were gone for months as people bitched about not being able to find them. Perhaps Bandai underestimated demand? In any case, they did eventually get more of them into stores, only this time they were arriving in dedicated cases like Zedd initially did.
Now in theory this wouldn't have been terrible if stores were getting a case of each Ranger, but that wasn't what happened. The cases weren't distributed in any sensible manner, and stores were getting cases of nothing but one Ranger. Some stores only had Billys, others only had Trinis, others only had Zacks, it was a mess. Pic related shows a store that only got Billy cases.
Despite all this incompetence the figures eventually managed to sell through (in most places at least), and they apparently sold well enough to get a wide re-release a year or two later (they were initially exclusive to Toys R Us). The 95 movie figures were a bit better distributed, but they were still unnecessarily split between two cases instead of just putting the 7 figures in a single case and calling it a day.
