Talking with the local game stores in my area, all of them got way less than they ordered. One store ordered 12 boxes, was informed they’d receive 8, and only physically received 4. I don’t have exact numbers for the second, but they’re completely out when normally they have a box or two on standby. The third received absolutely nothing. It should be noted that each store uses a different distributor, so the fact that this isn’t a problem with just one indicates to me the set itself was short-printed, especially since I keep hearing of case orders being suddenly cancelled everywhere.

The same thing happened with bt9 too when it first came out. Thing was out of print before even some of the older sets.

My shop is small. So, the owners have cooled on ordering new product for a while now after taking losses on multiple sets that they hadn't done their research on. Though, with only a few players that consistently bought sealed product, it hasn't been too awful with less boxes of the recent sets. We were lucky with BT16 that they'd accidently ordered more than they meant to and the increased demand showed in all the extra boxes getting bought up too.

BT 16 and 17 are full nostalgia trips, combined with AMAZING support it's too bad things happened like this. I bought 2 pail at 10 and one at 14 but Dinobee stayed hovering in until it dropped and now I'm regretting buying a set.

One of the biggest factors imo is the delays. UK stores still haven't got the product from the supplier so demand is higher than usual

I think the “problem” with this set seems to be that Bandai and lgs and many others didn’t think this set would fly off the shelf like it did. Obv pull rates and such affect prices for singles but I truly think everyone was caught off guard by just how much people wanted this set. I know personally at my lgs people that have never bought sealed product (myself included) were buying not just one box but multiple if they could. TLDR: I think A LOT of the problem with prices in this set is that Bandai releases such an insane set that everyone wants every single card so not only do people “want” more product they’re less likely to sell “extras” of things they do pull even if they’re not going to play it right now simply because every card in this set is insanely powerful and liked and sought after! Especially with how bt15 absolutely flopped

I grew up on digimon but got out of the TCG for a little while, got back into digimon TCG last set ( mainly collect Pokémon and one piece ) and wanted to open some of BT-16. Opened 1 adventure box on my lunch break and pulled the SP rare valkyriemon ACE needless to say, I’m hooked again lol !

It will be interesting to see how EX6 prices fare later this month. I know stores in my area seemingly got orders cut in half. BT17 is the hype set for me, I mostly just wanted Veemon stuff from 16, so it is disappointing knowing it could experience similar shortages as this set.

Great discussion video. This has been said before but with the unfortunate hit of apocaly and the inclusion of LM cards in bt15 the set after this was never going to be ordered at high amounts from stores because it really felt bad to open bt15. Couple that with some random distribution issues with bt16 and we got this -.- Bandai needs to chill with printing card games cause it shows they can’t handle the production for it

Great Video as always! I think the story is pretty consistent across the board. Order period to Bandai was due around RB01 plus stores getting burned with BSS product- and I think around that time there was inklings that Apocly was on the chopping block for JP meta (can't remember when exactly BT15 dropped for JP) so orders for product in general went down. I also think part of the issue is for LGS's is that there's a lot of issues in TCG land in general. MTG and Pokemon tend to still be the flagship games for most stores - magic being the largest and they are having a TON of issues mitigating the "is this set going to sell well?" problems with Wizards of the Coast. If the bread and butter product is washy - any weakness in another TCG means less ordering. Tie that into the popularity of Fusion Worlds and One Piece - many stores are focusing on those bandai games unless they have a stable local scene. Even retail products are hard to come by. Typically on release I can find blister packs everywhere for at least the first 2-3 weeks post release. Can't find a single pack within 100 square miles of where I live (outside of a fairly large city in the NE) - and the only adventure boxes I could get were one's ordered through Target online. Which is another Bandai issue - sure they print to order - but they never supply Retail either with subsequent waves of product whereas Pokemon and Magic get 1 or 2 sets behind replenishment for at least a month or two. I think if at the least - Bandai provided the retail space with some more waves of product - they wouldn't necessarily need to "over print" or build in large buffers. Hopefully seeing sales for BT16 will allow for maybe some last minute extra printing for BT17 in August - although idk what their printing capacity is like these days with so many games. I am curious - what have you heard about concerns from LGS' when unification happens? Like currently the ENG community can use the JP meta to get a barometer of how a set will do - that disappears with unification so LGS' can't use that as a tool to properly allocate. I guess the silver lining with BT16 is stores and bandai can work on building that equilibrium now - perhaps in your example of 10K cases, we can work back to 8000-9000 cases without having "foresight" into a set is the sweet spot with a 5-10% buffer? And then duplicate that with allocation to retailers. Using Target as an example - give each store 2-3 cases of 28 blisters (and Target has 1950ish stores) which puts an additional ~6800 cases of retail product on top of that into circulation. I think if Bandai moved towards some sort of allocation break down like that we'd have enough product, but not so much that it dilutes any of the collectibility of the cards.

The last few sets haven't been big sellers like this set which is unfortunate, but happens. If stores are able to do some research on future sets, that would help with Digimon sales. Also, not implying that the card game isn't doing so well would help too.

Great video as always! After opening my case, I always pick up the rest of what I'm missing in base rare regardless of the price. Sometimes if I feel like a card will be used in multiple decks. I may pick up an extra playset or two depending on the price. For EX-07 I picked up 3 playsets of Vortex Resonance just in case there's going to be a lot of Liberator decks that need it in the future (since it's relatively cheap in Hong Kong right now).

I always have my local game store put me down for a case and 1 box. If I get it I get it if not I don’t. My rule of thumb is not to trust prices till 2 weeks after street date. I try to trade off my new alts for a bunch of older rares and usually come out ahead.

😅*nervously glancing at EX06*

My stores ordered tons of boxes but all got shorted. We did buy out all the stock they got and all the adventure boxes in the area. We have a very big scene for being in Alabama. We tend to have 14-21 people ish and we have 3 local locations.

I feel sad how people are playdown BT16. It's a cool set and there ton Support for each. I currently 4 Alt Art Yolei & Kari, 2 Alt art Silphymon, 2 alt art Valkyrimon and 2 Rapidmon X Antibody

Disclaimer: I live in EU. IMO ordering on release day is too early. Buying 1-2 weeks after release is the sweet spot. Prices generally trend down for several days after release and stabilize after a week or two. After that, far less people are opening product, leaving the supply dwindling and causing prices to slowly creep back up.

I imagine a lot of this is impacted by the fact that we STILL don't have BT16 available in most places in the UK. Most people I know have basically just given up on boxes (because they don't seem to exist) and are just buying singles from places that got the initial, very limited, supplies. I've certainly never bought singles before getting a box before but it has been the only option if I wanted to play BT16 this week, and probably next week by the sounds of it (officially most places with to allowing BT16 format on Monday).

BT17 is going to be the same. BT17 in Singapore was almost sold out in Singapore in most every store. My friend brought $70 dollar per box boxes instead of $55 per box because he didn’t pre-order 😅. BT17 was overhype lol 😂

I was lucky to pick up two boxes during pre-sale for $95 each, pulled a Magna X from each box

I dont know if you see in jp market but SR paildramon double the price in single too and most off people i know own paildramon deck

Stores around my area where supposedly supplied less than they ordered.

The boxes sold out fast below $100 online

It really sucks because, I'm still tyring to find a magnaX because I've only gotten rapidX and buying a playset of magnaX, in a nice way of putting, makes me want to back flip off a bridge

I'm just waiting for ban list. I need to know what they think is ok or not

Set got short printed and spiked the price

So I should buy booster boxes and hold?

Not even had prerelease yet in the UK...

Bruh who the heck is playing sandland 😭

My Target in a big city stopped carrying Digimon