>>11062298I think it's a couple of things. The ships are full packages by themselves and only require a few figures to make a display, most of which come with the thing. With The Ghost you only had to purchase the Sabine and Chopper pack outside of the campaign but that was it. The Cantina is a much bigger thing that needs a lot of figure support to feel "complete". Which leads to my second point that this set requires a bit more imagination to make work and I think a lot of adults have trouble with that. Many feel like if you don't have all of the Cantina figures released so far, then it's not worth spending the money to get the HasLab when you have to spend just as much to populate it, instead of just filling it in with whatever figures you like in the meantime. This also goes into the whole thing about it not having a ceiling, floor or exterior walls too. Some people want an entire functional building even though it would basically negate the whole point of being able to see the characters all in it. That's why they made it modular to begin with so you weren't locked into one single footprint and not having exterior walls helps to add your own lighting and whatnot. Lastly, I think the biggest part of it is the audience this is geared towards, the older OT collectors, has just significantly diminished in the last few years due to the overall focus on new media in the toys and general state of the brand. It's a safe bet for Hasbro to make the next HasLab a PT related item because that is probably the much larger demographic in collectors at this point.
Anyways, what we're getting is basically an almost exact recreation of the film set architectural model which I think is pretty damn cool in itself.
