An Important Factor To Consider When Choosing Which Playsets To Make

The genesis of this article comes from THIS POST by our friends at the SWTVC Instagram page. I made a comment on the post that I feel bears repeating here:

I'm going to want playsets that help elevate displays of figures subsets that are already well represented. I don't want playsets of things that would take another decade to populate with figures.

Hasbro should take this into consideration for future environments. There was some consternation when the Navarro Cantina was announced because collectors were immediately thinking of this scene:



The campaign to get all the figures necessary for that scene would become a generational affair. A playset that cannot be properly populated is not fun. Of course collectors are now informed that the Nevarro Cantina is designed with this scene in mind:



With the exception of a Season 1 Greef Karga, we have oodles of figures to recreate that scene, so it will be an exciting release. This is mostly due to the fact that it relies on multiples of the same figures instead of many unique figures. Nonetheless, it underscores the need for playsets to be well populated to be effective, but this comes with two potential issues.

First, when it comes to playsets that could be well populated with existing unique figures, it heavily tips the scales towards the Original Trology since that source has the best representation in the line (due to being one of the few sources that could be tapped for the entirety of the modern line's existence). I personally have no problem with this. The OT will always be my favorite, but I'm sure Hasbro is rightfully eager to take advantage of newer media which has more recent pop culture relevance. Tried and true, and hot and new both have their merits.

The second issue is best exemplified by the Carbon Freeze Chamber. This is the prefect set for what I'm describing. We have dozens of figures that can take up residence on the platform, which is why I grow to appreciate that set more and more. The problem is that many of those figures date to the 2008 and 2009 Legacy Collection lines. There were many active collectors in 2020 that weren't collecting twelve years prior. So even if the required figures exist in the line's past, Hasbro needs to make sure new collectors can get access to them when a corresponding playset is released.

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