Stormtrooper Becoming a 'rarer' figure than some?

[Stevenplays]

Hello everyone, I'm not really new to the site but this is my first time posting, anyway

 

I believe that the Stormtrooper is becoming somewhat rare in comparison to some other Star Wars figures, but let me explain. I'm not saying they aren't as rare as the Cloud City Boba Fett, but my point here is we haven't seen a battle pack with just Stormtroopers ever since 2007. We've received one battle pack, with one Stormtrooper, and now it's discontinued. Heck, even the new Death Star Troopers battle pack has Royal Guards instead of Stormtroopers, making Royal Guards (Or at least this variant of them) easier to get compared to the Empire's most basic lackey. Even in the new Imperial Star Destroyer we'll only be seeing 2 Stormtroopers, and it's reportedly going to be a $150 set. I hope this trend changes soon in 2015-2016, I'ld really love to build up my Imperial Army aswell as my Rebel Army, but as of now I'll have to resort to buying them on eBay. Darn you Death Star, why didn't you atleast come with 6 Stormtroopers? It's the freaking Death Star!: But I digress.

[Guest brickcrazyhouse]

they are extremely coveted for the same reason you're seeking them out.  one jedi verse a single stormtrooper is pathetic people want as many as they can get, and hardly ever want to give them up.  all we can do is hope for the new movies to cause more to be released.  but don't hold your breath 

[glenbart]

I like the stormtroopers, the ones with pauldrons in 4501 and 8028, but the sandtroopers in 9490 are my fav's.

[Stevenplays]

I really love the Sandtroopers aswell, own a few Droid Escapes simply because I need Sandtroopers for my upcoming Tatooine display that will be completed sometime in 2014 when those new Mos Eisley Cantina and Sandcrawler sets release.

[seapotato]

There's just sth about the basic Stormtrooper, I think it's so recognizable. When I was downsizing my SW minifig collection, I sold off all the sandtroopers but kept the stormtrooper

[WTL]

I just found a couple in the box I'm going through.  Haven't found the helmets yet though.

[Grolim]

It's all about the Clone Troopers these days.  Just saw a Youtube vid of a guy with 3,800 of them and kept thinking "man that would be so much cooler if they were stormtroopers".  But hey, I'm an old school original trilogy snob 

[jaisonline]

It's all about the Clone Troopers these days.  Just saw a Youtube vid of a guy with 3,800 of them and kept thinking "man that would be so much cooler if they were stormtroopers".  But hey, I'm an old school original trilogy snob 

Ditto. I'm also an original trilogy snob. Clone Troopers don't do anything for me...

[chipbee]

I thought 9489 set was still around a few months ago?

[astroricardo]

Just saw a few 9489's at TRU this weekend.  Target had them on clearance for $10 for the longest.  Luke's Land Speeder was still available at Walmart for the longest time and it has two of them.  If you don't mind 'dirty' ones there were also two in the last Droid Escape.  Just some ideas...

[astroricardo]

Correcting myself - Luke's Landspeeder only has one!

[Stevenplays]

For myself, I only need the non-dirty, nice and clean ones. But I have to say, the printing on those are really outstanding. I'm really hoping that in the next winter line we'll see somesort of battle packs, as we never or almost never see battle packs released during the Summer line.

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

Ewok village has 2. So just spend a grand and you get 8!!!