>>10658190likely has to do with deals in place with Disney along with retail stores.
Add in a dash of political correctness from Hasbro themselves and end result is you get characters like Lando and Aurra Sing who while they sale dont sale to the extent they were getting produced and other things like stormtroopers, clonetroopers, battle droids, easily army builder material is scattered about in a 100 different waves.
>mfw in a case of 8 you'd have 2 Landos and 2 Sings 